Theros Posted October 27, 2013 Report Share Posted October 27, 2013 Are there any reviews available? I am interested from this book, but I would like to read review first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper-Man Posted October 27, 2013 Report Share Posted October 27, 2013 Nobody has done any 'official' reviews that I know of but here's a thread on the book from rpg.net: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?696601-HERO-MHI-Monster-Hunters-Int-l-I-has-it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaze9999 Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Well...I like it! A lot! Got the hardback book, PDF, and Hero Designer Pack! Highly recommend them all! Of course, I loved the books too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theros Posted October 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 I have read that thread from rpg.net, but I am looking for some rpg.net style reviews. I know that book is well written, but I am more worried about content. I will buy 2 more books to Hero System and I am trying to decide the other one from these: Dark Champions, Star Hero or Monster Hunter International. All are different, but those are the books that I am looking for currently. Dark Champions and MHI are closer to each other than Star Hero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper-Man Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Dark Champions is a good suppliment but is still quite 'generic'. A more meaningful name might have been 'Modern HERO' as it is primarily designed for a world without true super powers (the HERO version of D20 Modern). MHI has all the setting/background info for a modern world infested with supernatural stuff ready to go. It just doesn't include any premade adventures. MHI also includes the basic rules. Dark Champions and Star Hero do not, they assume that you have a version of the core rules (Hero System 5e, Hero System 6e 1&2 or Champions Complete*). *Champions Complete is the only one of the three currently in print. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper-Man Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Here is a simple analogy: Dark Champions is equivalent to Fantasy Hero (and Star Hero, Champions etc...) MHI is essentially a tweener subgenre book and is somewhat eqivalent to Urban Fantasy Hero. The biggest difference is that MHI includes the basic rules and is built around a specific detailed setting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theros Posted October 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 I have plenty of books: Champions Complete, Champions Powers, The Ultimate Base, Equipment book for 6th edition,The Ultimate Vehicle, Fantasy Hero, Grimoire, Bestiary, Millenium City, Hero System 1&2, The Book of the Machine and Crooks...(don't remember whole name). I am very interested from MHI, but I just want to be sure that book cobtains really everything without need to buy more books to get setting running well enough. I am after background information, world information, setting ideas and so on. I can make adventure to that setting by myself. It is like modern day cthulhu without insanity point of view and too serious horror theme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theros Posted October 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 I forgot to mention, as I have hero system rules already, I fear that I will pay from rules "2nd time", and I won't enough content from world for 60$+shipping costs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper-Man Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 I forgot to mention, as I have hero system rules already, I fear that I will pay from rules "2nd time", and I won't enough content from world for 60$+shipping costs. If you actually plan on running a game within the setting, then the book itself would be a good selling point to potential players as it has a artisctic flair to its layout not often seen in most other HERO products. But i can understand the financial reasons to not duplicate rules you already own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaze9999 Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Ah, well...again, if you read the novels and want to recreate the specific setting from them, MHI is a great buy even if you already have the Hero System core books (rules, equipment guide, bestiary, etc). I'd say it's over fifty percent setting specific content with all the flavor text and illustrations expanding on the setting of the novels and many characters fully statted out as NPC's, and you can save on the postage cost buying the PDF.... If you're looking for just an Urban Fantasy setting and intend to customize it heavily in any case, you might be better off building your own. That said, I am not aware of any other Urban Fantasy world setting commercially available and already statted out for Hero System. Also, here's a more generic, free setting provided by a member of this forum that you might be able to use: http://www.killershrike.com/HereThereBeMonsters/HereThereBeMonsters.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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