Champions Beyond

[Steve Long]

Here's the back-cover text for CBY:

SUPERHEROING AMONG THE STARS!

Evil and injustice aren’t confined to Earth. It’s a big galaxy out there, full of threats and enemies for superheroes to battle. Champions Beyond is your guide to outer space, other planets, and aliens in the Champions Universe — worlds and worlds of adventure! It includes:

—a review of humanity’s history with aliens, including information on and Templates for the alien species humans have encountered

—a look at what’s happening on the Moon and the planets of Earth’s solar system

—a detailed description of Malva, the most advanced planet in the Galaxy, including the famed Malvan Arena and its super-gladiators

—information on the major alien menaces currently confronting humanity: the Hzeel, the Qularr, the Gadroon, and the Elder Worm

—a description of the Star*Guard, the Galaxy’s greatest defenders of justice and freedom

—the secrets of the Galaxy revealed, including information on aliens humanity hasn’t met, the secret origin of the Progenitors, the truth behind Selenus, and more

Get ready for new worlds of cosmic adventure with Champions Beyond!

Price: $34.99
ISBN: 978-1-58366-135-2
SKU: DOJHERO1106

[steriaca]

Just wondering, are the Nekojin in the book?

[Lord Liaden]

Nope, they're not an official CU race. One of the very few things about the book that I felt a bit disappointed by.

[Steve Long]

The Nekojin are not an official Champions Universe species. Therefore there's no reason they'd be in CBY. In any event, there was plenty of info on them in DH that's easily adaptable to the CU if you prefer.

[Gwarh]

Is Champions Beyond availible in dead tree format?

I ask as I don't see it in the HERO Games store availible as a book, just a PDF.
Also searched Amazon for good measure and didn't see it listed their either.

[Lord Liaden]

Nope, it's still stuck in the printing queue. Hopefully we won't have to wait too much longer -- I have a shelf space cleared for it.

[yamamura]

I am hoping it will available at GenCon. One of my friend's name is in this one and I want to get it for him.

[hartm1967]

Is there much overlap between Champions Beyond and the 5e sourcebook, Galactic Champions, or are these completely different books?

[megaplayboy]

Is there much overlap between Champions Beyond and the 5e sourcebook, Galactic Champions, or are these completely different books?

The overlap is slight. The Galaxars are described in more detail, with more examples, in CB. And the Star Staff stuff is definitely much more detailed. But CB is set in the 21st Century and GC in the 30th. I think the two sourcebooks are fairly compatible, though, for example if you wanted to run a 21st Century GC game the material could be combined with little difficulty.

[Steve Long]

GC and CBY are definitely compatible, but as megaplayboy says, there's very little overlap between them because they focus on very different time periods. Though with CBY now in hand I could easily expand GC and bring it a bit more in line with what's in CBY, for the sake of consistency, if the opportunity ever arises. I considered reprinting a bunch of GC stuff in CBY, but CBY was already large enough on its own.

[hartm1967]

GC and CBY are definitely compatible, but as megaplayboy says, there's very little overlap between them because they focus on very different time periods. Though with CBY now in hand I could easily expand GC and bring it a bit more in line with what's in CBY, for the sake of consistency, if the opportunity ever arises. I considered reprinting a bunch of GC stuff in CBY, but CBY was already large enough on its own.

Much appreciation for the clarifications. Now I need to add Galactic Champions to my collection!

[Goradin]

This book was a great one and filled a lot of question's about Hero Universe. I can see it being useful also in Star HERO as well as Champion's too.

[Volcilord]

Current theories about the Big Bang and Dark Matter can be worked into science fiction by having the speed of light slow since the Big Bang as electron rest mass proportionally increases. This allows dimensions where due to an increased speed of light and a reduced electron rest mass gold would be as rare and unstable as uranium-235 on Earth. With an even lower electron rest mass purple iodine would glow in the dark, and fission if too much were present. The lower the electron rest mass the larger thing are when compared to planet Earth, and Earth-based fuels would be unusually heavy and packed with energy compared to what the aliens would have in an early universe. The 14.1 billion year half life on Th-232 is approximately the age of the universe, and the 4.46 billion year half life of U-238 is approximately the age of the Sun. A very old universe would be infested with black holes and element 114 -304 may be stable with Jupiter mass planets fusing hydrogen swiftly and stars like the Sun having become black holes.

[ashton2]

I have to say I hate Steve Long......

I was boycotting hero products until the CVIII hardcover came out. Unfortunately, at the FLGS today I picked up Champions Beyond. It was a really good book so I had to buy it. Lots of good fluff and adv ideas, a lot of archetype like stuff (GL, Nova Corps etc deja vu) but different enough to be interesting. The Gadroon chapter made me actually interested in the Empiress book coming out. I would say the best Herogames "Cosmic" Book yet.

Darn your good writing and your little dog too....

Only negative.....it referenced CVIII for Galaxia.......
Tommy

[Lord Liaden]

GC and CBY are definitely compatible, but as megaplayboy says, there's very little overlap between them because they focus on very different time periods. Though with CBY now in hand I could easily expand GC and bring it a bit more in line with what's in CBY, for the sake of consistency, if the opportunity ever arises. I considered reprinting a bunch of GC stuff in CBY, but CBY was already large enough on its own.

I've already found lots of elements in Champions Beyond that will easily allow me to adapt many characters from Galactic Champions to the present-day CU. Not canon, but it works for me.