Miscellaneous
Anything that doesn't fit elsewhere.
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THALASSENE PLAYER'S GUIDE formatted
By DShomshak
I set my last Fantasy campaign in a large port city called Thalassene. To help players get a feel for it, I wrote this Player's Guide and included a rudimentary map. As an experiment, I tried for a more "local color" style instead of encyclopedia-article facts that my players never seem to be interested in anyway. It seems to have worked for at least some of my players, so I hope other GMs can find it useful and inspirational.
Dean Shomshak
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- fantasy
- setting description
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Fuzion Base Rules
By HeroGM
This is the 4.4.3 Fuzion PDF that was given out free back in the late 90s early 2000s. It is ONLY the base rules, there is no settings or additional information. Placed here for archive reasons so that people who want to look at it can easily find it.
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Hero Games - Artist Guidelines
By HeroGM
Artists Guidelines for submitting artwork to Hero from 2002.
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Champions 2nd Edition Errata
By rravenwood
A compilation of errata for 2nd edition Champions.
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CNM Hero 4 files
By HeroGM
Fusion's Champions New Millennium characters converted to Champions 4th edition. Originally on the old Hero site. All files are .html with no graphics.
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DC Heroes for 4th Edition
By fdw3773
These are my old 4th Edition character write-ups for the DC Universe that I used years ago for various game events. They're in Microsoft Word format to easily edit and print. They are the following characters:
Aquaman
Batgirl
Batman
Black Canary
Blue Beetle (Ted Kord)
Booster Gold
Captain Atom
Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond)
Flash (Barry Allen)
Flash (Wally West/1990s)
Green Lantern (Guy Gardner)
Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)
Green Lantern (John Stewart)
Hawkgirl
Huntress
Martian Manhunter
Maxima
Power Girl
Shazam
Supergirl
Superman
Wonder Woman
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Westerlands Calendar
By lou_tennant
The Westerlands calendar for the year 5000SE. Based on the description and information provided in the Turakian Age sourcebook.
I had been looking around for one but in the end created my own. Including:
Holy Days and Wyretha (the 6th Holy Day) Moon cycle showing Full & New moons * Months names are colour coded for the seasons.
As mentioned on the calendar the Holy Days divide the year into 5 parts. When a year is divided like this a single part is usually referred to as a "Quinary" (plural is Quinaries). I imagine that having these divides in the year would be something that the populus might make use of.
* included for "The Druids" given the entry on p.206 under Almandre;
Obviously the following years will need new calendars in order to show the correct moon cycle given the Wyretha at the end of the year on every fourth year.
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- turakian age
- fantasy hero
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Robot Warriors Robot Sheet
This is the Robot Warriors robot record sheet, recreated in LibreOffice by me and exported as PDF.
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HERO Champions 4th ed Combat Record Sheet Excel
By Koop
Here is an Excel-based Combat Record Sheet for 4th edition--didn't see one currently in the downloads. I reopened my Champions folder from the '90's and was motivated to work on a throwback 4th edition game on Roll20 for a charity fundraiser to fight COVID-19.
The embedded formulae calculate and place Phases in the appropriate Segments of the Speed column based on the Speed Chart on p.139 of the Big Blue Book (BBB). For example, if Mindlock has a SPD of 5, the spreadsheet automatically populates action Phases for her in segments 3, 5, 8, and 10-12. I included other examples from sample characters in the BBB as well, but please note that ALL of the columns with segment values have the embedded formula based on the SPD column. Just insert your combatants in the appropriate rows, insert their SPD, and the chart will do the rest. You can copy-paste for more rows or delete rows as desired. An additional benefit of Excel: insert your combatants in any order, use the Sort function based on the SPD value, and your combatants will sort themselves automatically into turn order.
Comments and corrections welcomed. For anyone interested in participating in a Roll20- and Zoom-based episodic 4th edition game to raise money for charity--stay tuned! I hope to announce something here and on Roll20 in the near future.
Best,
Steve "Koop" Kuperberg
4th edition GM at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 1989-91, presently Bethesda, MD
ChampionsCombatSheet.xlsx
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- combat record
- champions
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hero 5th Hero Die Roller
By Gauntlet
Here is a basic Die Roller I created using Visual Basic a while ago. It works for Hero 5th Edition and earlier.
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Hero Fourth Edition Conversion and Errata - Mythic Greece
By Lord Liaden
I recently noticed that the late great Aaron Allston's classic Hero campaign source book, Mythic Greece: The Age of Heroes, is now for sale in PDF form from the Hero Games website store. That book was written for first-edition Fantasy Hero, before all the different iterations of Hero System were unified in Fourth Edition. However, Aaron himself created a document covering not only errata for the book, but Fourth Edition updates to a great many elements from the book: character templates (including the "basic god"), combat maneuvers, weapon and equipment game stats, and Powers as magic spells (but not the specific spells from the book). These conversions would make using Mythic Greece with any later edition of Hero much easier.
Aaron provided this file for free, both on the classic Red October BBS and on his personal website. Hence I have no hesitation to post it again here.
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The Full Scope of ARGENT
By Lord Liaden
As I read over my Champions official setting source books (for the "Champions Universe"), I was struck by the range of activities the criminal high-tech corporation ARGENT is involved in around the world -- how many pies it has its fingers in, and how viciously it digs into them. But from comments I've heard over the years, most Champions players who don't have those books don't fully appreciate what ARGENT is capable of, nor the range of uses it can be put to for villainous plots, as well as character origins and backstory. In part this is due to there being no source book dedicated to that malevolent corporation. Hero Games did plan to publish one, but the severe downsizing the company went through several years ago curtailed that plan for the foreseeable future. There's actually substantial information extant, but it's dispersed over more than a dozen books.
A couple of years ago I thought it might be interesting and helpful to the community to pull that info together and organize it for easy consumption in a thread on the Champions discussion forums. Whether or not one games in the Champions Universe, the corporation could easily be inserted into most superhero worlds, providing opportunities for many game sessions of villainy to oppose. It can also be an inspirational model for whatever original evil corporate foe a Game Master would like to create. That forum thread has since been archived, but recurrent interest in the subject prompted me to transcribe my compilation to PDF form and offer it here.
What follows in this document is a brief history of ARGENT; a summary of ARGENT's motivations, goals, and methods of operation; a rundown of its known organizing structure, with a little logical extrapolation based on relevant precedents; ARGENT front companies described in the books; an overview of ARGENT's extensive activities around the globe; its interactions with various superhumans and supercrime groups -- those it works with, is interested in, and its rivals and enemies; a list of official supervillains (and superheroes) who owe their superhuman abilities to ARGENT science, and how they came to be; a collection of devices commonly used by ARGENT's operatives; and a brief listing of the source books for this information. The text also frequently mentions what books specific characters and references may be found in.
EDIT: For those who'd like to view the original thread, including subsequent discussion of the ARGENT material, it can be found here.
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automatic attack Combat Tracker
By Werethunder
These are Excel spreadsheets to automatically (and randomly) calculate the results of attacks (may they be critical or not) and damage of Normal and Killing attacks, considering defenses, Hit Locations, Surprise and Damage Reduction modifiers. The sheets simulate Hero System's dice rollings.
Useful for GMs who like using computers or tablets to speed up combat calculations.
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- initiative
- combat sheet
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Champions Random Encounter Generator
By sentry0
A simple random encounter generator for use with Inspiration Pad Pro (free Windows download).
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Cardboard hero template
By dsatow
A simple word doc to create 1"x1.5" tentable cardboard heroes. Grab images off the internet or draw/scan your own to put in the template. Remember, the center line in each table will be the top of the tent and that given the size of the counter, not a lot of detail will be seen.
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Character Development Form (1984)
By Amorkca
This was from the Champions III book.
For some reason it put a blank page in front...
Enjoy
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Hero System Universe and Timeline
By Lyinggod
This is the Hero System Universe Timeline written by Steven S. Long and based on work by Steve Peterson and Steven S. Long. I found this online and noticed that it was not available here. It is a 4 page high level brief description of the significant events in the Hero System Timeline from 100,000 BC (before the Turakian Age) through the year 3000 A.D...It was written for 5th edition but it is version agnostic.
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- Champions
- Hero System
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Champions New Millennium - Hero System Character Sheets
By Lord Liaden
In the 1990s Hero Games published three source books for an official setting for their Champions superhero game. Under the general heading of Champions New Millennium, these books describe a world history, campaign city, and a large number of NPC villains and heroes. Some of the latter resemble characters published under earlier or later editions of Champions, but with their own distinctive interpretations; while others were unique to the New Millennium line.
Those books weren't written for Hero System, but another game rule set called Fuzion. However, over the late Nineties and early in this millennium, the Hero Games website hosted Hero Fourth Edition character sheets for nearly all the characters from the New Millennium line, for people who wanted to use those rules to play in that setting. Recently Hero Games has started selling PDF versions of the New Millennium books, and I thought it might make them more desirable to Hero System fans if I uploaded those 4E character sheets, which I saved from the earlier website.
This download is a ZIP folder of over eighty 4E character sheets for characters from all three books, in HTM format. These are only the game-mechanic write-ups for the characters, not including their background text and illustrations from the original books. Those books -- Champions New Millennium, Alliances, and Bay City -- are available from the website store, under "HERO System Fourth Edition (and earlier) / Champions."
Thanks to Jason Walters for permission to upload these files.
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Dr Macabre.pdf
This is an alternative way of laying out a character sheet purely for playing in a game session. The aim was to get it to fit in half a side of A4.
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Hero System Rules 4th Edition Errata
By rravenwood
A compilation of errata for the 4th edition Hero System Rules, applicable to all versions:
original Champions hardcover
Champions softcover
Hero System Rulesbook softcover
Champions Deluxe hardcover
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Monster Hunter International Character Sheets
Monster Hunter International Character Sheets
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Monster Hunter International Character Sheets
Monster Hunter International Character Sheets
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Tripsheet.xls
By dsatow
Simple XLS sheet (I downrevved the version as I have the latest Excel so that it might be easier to be usable by others (+1/4). I created this for my next game and I am amazed there hasn't been one created and in the download section of the site.
Ident is a field I use to denote villain or hero or possibly status. What you change it to will be the symbol used in speed as the example shows.
This chart hasn't been QA'd very religiously. Just thought some people might like it.
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Probabilities.XSLX
By dsatow
This is just an Excel sheet with probabilities for rolling some value on Xd6 from 1 on 1d6 to 120 on 20d6. Note the TRUE/TRUE are just self checks on my calculations. After 20d6, rounding issues appear to occur on my MacBook Air and Excel so the system only goes to 20d6.
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