Victorian Hero released

[specks]

https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/469869/victorian-hero-heroic-roleplaying-in-the-victorian-era

Edited March 16 by specks

[Christopher R Taylor]

*yoink*!

[DentArthurDent]

Mine’s in the Cart!

 

(Discretionary purchases wait for pay day.)

[Sketchpad]

Interested, but was hoping for a preview.

[Khymeria]

4 hours ago, Sketchpad said:

Interested, but was hoping for a preview.

I think with the files in a zip it makes it difficult to do a preview. We can suggest a page here on herogames.com with a preview and a link in descriptions on sites maybe. Somebody on a Hero fan group on Facebook mentioned this to me about Amazon, or maybe it was DriveThruRPG. 

Edited March 16 by Khymeria

[BigJackBrass]

Couldn't resist for long, especially since I'd seen part of the book when I was a Hero Patreon subscriber. It's looking very good so far, although I have a sneaking suspicion that when the name was changed from Gaslight to Victorian Hero someone might have rather carelessly run a find and replace through the text…

 

[Christopher R Taylor]

Its an easy mistake to make.  But when you write tens of thousands of words, you're going to make errors, and people who've never even tried find it easy to pick on that kind of thing.  You know what professional editors say is an acceptable number of typos in a manuscript? About 3 per 10,000 words.  They say that it is basically impossible to have a perfect manuscript unless its decades old and has been gone over constantly.

 

A book like Victorian Hero has nearly 200,000 words.  It drives me nuts when people nitpick stuff like that.  Think about how many tens of thousands of errors multiple passes of editing caught, not the couple you spotted.

Edited March 16 by Christopher R Taylor

[BigJackBrass]

There are always mistakes. I used to be a newspaper editor, so I'm very familiar with the concept and responsible for more than a few. This particular introduced error just struck me as amusing, that's all.

[Khymeria]

45 minutes ago, BigJackBrass said:

There are always mistakes. I used to be a newspaper editor, so I'm very familiar with the concept and responsible for more than a few. This particular introduced error just struck me as amusing, that's all.

But as detective is a subgenre of Victorian Hero and I have the original manuscript, your deduction is correct. If you followed on Patreon and then bought it, I can appreciate that you like the material. Thanks.

[Christopher R Taylor]

Looking over Victorian Hero, looks great, nice layout, tons of info. I especially like the mentions of Carnacki, a very forgotten obscure supernatural detective. I enjoyed the short stories I read of his adventures. There were several ghost detective types but Carnacki was the best. If you liked Western Hero, this is a great companion, they both are set roughly the same time period, but from different perspectives.  I'm still going through it but great first impression and lots of great content so far.

[Stanley Teriaca]

Any mention of the Penny Dreadfuls as a thing? Where pore innocent maidens with sausage curls hairstyles wait for the train involateringly?

[Khymeria]

1 minute ago, Stanley Teriaca said:

Any mention of the Penny Dreadfuls as a thing? Where pore innocent maidens with sausage curls hairstyles wait for the train involateringly?

Penny Dreadfuls are definitely presented. Some of the art and lots of the inspiration was from these as a source. I really got into reading them. 

[BigJackBrass]

I do love a good bit of overwrought fictional drama 😁

 

 

As for Victorian Hero, I'm thoroughly enjoying it. My favourite Hero book since Western Hero, I'd say.

[Stanley Teriaca]

Who can forget A String of Pearls , better known as Sweeney Todd.

 

 

Edited March 20 by Stanley Teriaca

[Stanley Teriaca]

Some more Penny Dreadfuls.

 

Still haven't found any Penny Dreadful art of a woman tied to the train tracks. Probably a rarity because it was old hat even at that time period.

Edited March 20 by Stanley Teriaca

[HeroGM]

 

If you're looking for a something outside the norm try this one. An Alien, a Harlot, and an American Cowboy find themselves together to solve unusual crimes.

[Lord Liaden]

Did they all walk into a bar together?

[HeroGM]

Superheroes does Victorian Steampunk style.

 

[Lord Liaden]

Digital Hero #39 includes a mini-setting, War of the Worlds: Champions, set in the same era as H.G. Wells' novel, the end of the 19th Century. The difference in concept is that the toxic "black smoke" weapon used by the Martians, while lethal to the vast majority of humans, in very rare cases induces super-powers, giving humanity something of an equalizer against the Martian technology. Those powers can include super intelligence, so you also get steampunk vehicles and other weapons.

Edited March 22 by Lord Liaden

[BigJackBrass]

Print on demand copy of Victorian Hero arrived this morning, so I've been flicking through on my teabreak. Looks good so far, no printing errors I've noticed and the physical quality is higher than I was expecting. Nice large print, too.

[Stanley Teriaca]

Have to wait till all my problems with being injured and having no cash flow and probably getting into an assisted living place gets solved.

[C.R.Ryan]

Got it, it's great. Any chance that there's an export template in the style of those character sheets in the back?

 

Edit: I use the publishable .RTF export template but I edit out a lot of the superfluous info like costs and adders. Those sheets are clean, I like them a lot.

Edited March 27 by C.R.Ryan

[Stanley Teriaca]

I'm curious about the templates. Im sure Detective is listed, and maybe Cop, but is there Gentleperson Thief? Heir/Heiress? Steam Scientist? Doctor? Monster Slayer?

[Khymeria]

10 hours ago, Stanley Teriaca said:

I'm curious about the templates. Im sure Detective is listed, and maybe Cop, but is there Gentleperson Thief? Heir/Heiress? Steam Scientist? Doctor? Monster Slayer?

Some of the the templates are Cowboy, Detective, Inventor, Explorer, Entertainer, Doctor, Scientist, Criminal, Academic, Savage, Reporter, Occult/Psychic, Retired Military, and more. There are talents included for most of them, such as repelling the creatures of the night, knowing a bit of old knowledge to slow the scoundrel, Gadget pools (and a whole bunch of gadgets), psychic abilities that any proper Victorian would love to attend a seance and observe. Most of the talents have something that makes them unattractive to just take on a whim so while of course you can create anything, it encourages good themes to the characters. Yeah, there is a lot of stuff in there for an ocular feast. The layout and print is pretty sweet for setting the mood too.

[Khymeria]

19 hours ago, C.R.Ryan said:

Got it, it's great. Any chance that there's an export template in the style of those character sheets in the back?

 

Edit: I use the publishable .RTF export template but I edit out a lot of the superfluous info like costs and adders. Those sheets are clean, I like them a lot.

That is a totally sweet look, and to be honest, I hand in plain documents with a few notes on my thinking of layout. I'm not sure if it is done as an export, but I can ask and see how it was done. Glad you liked the book, it was a lot of fun researching and writing. I will get back to you.