Edsel Posted November 12, 2007 Report Share Posted November 12, 2007 Re: Western Hero Resources This is pretty cool. An auction site featuring a Colt 1860 revolving Shotgun. Scroll down for lots of pictures, scroll up for data. It's a 10-guage what a monster. I can only imagine what the dangers of a chain-fire or explosion might have been. Colt Revolving Shotgun. Don't know how long the pictures will last since its an auction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeper Posted November 14, 2007 Report Share Posted November 14, 2007 Re: Western Hero Resources I would flat-out love to write an all-new Western Hero. Unfortunately, the book just wouldn't sell well enough to be worth the effort. In the time it would take me to research and write WH -- and it's a subject that I love, so I would want to do a very thorough job -- I could write three or four other books for, say, Champions or FH that would each sell twice as well as WH would. So, I'm sad to say it's not likely we'll ever get to do a new WH, unless something changes. Well, the folks over at SJG do ebooks for things that wouldn't seem to warrant an actual print book, like Mysteries,(which is a great book, btw). It works very well for them. Might be worth looking at, I'm just saying... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Long Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 Re: Western Hero Resources Any chance of some Digital Hero articles or eBooks then Steve? Well, no, probably not; if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it full-bore. Maybe I could find a thing or two on my hard drive that I wrote for DEADLANDS that I could adapt to a DH article. Well, the folks over at SJG do ebooks for things that wouldn't seem to warrant an actual print book, like Mysteries,(which is a great book, btw). It works very well for them. Might be worth looking at, I'm just saying... If you'd seen the sales numbers on Shades Of Black, you wouldn't be saying, trust me. I have to do the same amount of work for like 1/20th the sales. No, thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princedarkstorm Posted November 25, 2007 Report Share Posted November 25, 2007 Re: Western Hero Resources You guys gave me great resources for my WESTERN HERO thank you all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted November 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2007 Re: Western Hero Resources Your Welcome Good Gaming QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted March 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Re: Western Hero Resources Another Find Weird Western Comics - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_West#Comics On another note. Matt Forbeck, author of Western Hero was also a contributor to Deadlands. Cheers QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted April 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2008 Re: Western Hero Resources Added Wizards and Gunslingers by Com Star Games http://www.comstar-games.com/csg-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=105 Thanks Shadowcat1313 - "YEEEEHA!!!" QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted April 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2008 Re: Western Hero Resources The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - The Duel Cheers QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TheQuestionMan Posted July 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Re: Western Hero Resources Added Wizards and Gunslingers http://www.wizardsandgunslingers.com/ Cheers QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mallet Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Re: Western Hero Resources I don't suppose that there are any copies of Western Hero lying around in the Hero warehouse? I'm possibly starting up a post-apoc campaign that is going to have a strong western (& mystical) theme to it and I'd love to track down a copy for some inspiration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJackBrass Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Re: Western Hero Resources I don't suppose that there are any copies of Western Hero lying around in the Hero warehouse? If there aren't then you can find copies at places such as Noble Knight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot_Nixon Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Re: Western Hero Resources learn to play Faro. No self-respecting Western Hero game can do without Faro! http://www.gleeson.us/faro/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Re: Western Hero Resources Thanks for the links, QuestionMan. By the way, if anybody is looking for plots to use in their western games, I'd suggest Robert E. Howard and D.B. Newton. The End of the Trail is an anthology of Howard's weird and straight western stories that's filled with good ideas. You can also find some of his westerns, including the humorous Breckenridge Elkins stories, at Wikisource. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Robert_E._Howard The best of them is "The Vultures of Whapeton" but they're all good stories. As for D.B. Newton, his best book is Shotgun Guard. But he's written about fifty books so there's a lot of other material to draw from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alibear Posted February 25, 2009 Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 Re: Western Hero Resources Some of the write ups in that book leave me cold, Sundance especially, but most characters really are over inflated for my taste. Other than that Western Hero is an excellent resource, one of the best imho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bschrempp Posted March 22, 2009 Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 Re: Western Hero Resources I don't suppose that there are any copies of Western Hero lying around in the Hero warehouse? I'm possibly starting up a post-apoc campaign that is going to have a strong western (& mystical) theme to it and I'd love to track down a copy for some inspiration. I did a quick search on E-bay and here it is: http://cgi.ebay.com/Hero-Games-WESTERN-HERO-New-Free-Shipping_W0QQitemZ330310837796QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0 Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted April 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 Re: Western Hero Resources Howdy Partners, how about more Resources Wanted! Thanks QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TheQuestionMan Posted January 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2013 Re: Western Hero Resources The Last Bump for this Thread The responsibility I leave to others. QM PS: Ye Ha!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted October 7, 2013 Report Share Posted October 7, 2013 I'd like to run a HERO System game, The League of Extraordinary Americans, with appearances from the Lone Ranger, Tonto, the Duke, Kwai Chan Caine, The Man With No Name, Tom Sawyer, Dorothy Gale, James West, Artemus Gordon, and more, including original characters, who may be Player Characters."What's your given name, Agent Finn?""I'll be your Huckleberry."For the first adventure, I'm thinking that the LXA (League of Extraordinary Americans) are all attending completion of the Trans-Continental Railroad in the USA, May 10, 1869, Promontory Summit, Utah. Kwai Chan Caine is driving rails. Tom Sawyer is a Union Pacific Detective, providing security.There is a big ceremony, with President U.S. Grant scheduled to appear, protected by James West and Artemus Gordon. Royal Princess of Oz Dorothy Gale is also expected, defended by the Duke and The Man With No Name. The Lone Ranger and Tonto are there on their own recognizance, looking for trouble.What could go wrong? LXA (League of Extraordinary Americans) Q & A What's the Big Picture? What's going on in this setting that makes it ripe for adventure? What's changing, evolving, declining? Become a legend of the Wild West; Lawman, Indian, Outlaw, Gambler, or any of the many possibilities. The States are reunited, and growing in power. The Confederacy and the Second Mexican Empire have fallen. What's the world's culture? What are the cultural analogs? Analogs can be taken from historical earth, current events or fantasy works. Inspired by Westerns and westerners of that period. Liberties are taken with fictional characters. Expect real events and persons, too.What's the conflict in which the characters are involved? What are the sides? What's wrong? Protect your personal and community interests. Last year, 1868, a second Fort Bowie was built on a plateau near your town of Promise City, to protect Apache Pass and Apache Spring. It includes an adobe barracks, houses, corrals, a trading post, and a hospital. What physical place does this conflict take place in? What ecology, environment, place? The Old West. What's the name of the most important place in this setting? Not the capital or any dumb $#!+ like that, but THE PLACE where all the action goes down? Promise City, in eastern Pima County, Arizona Territory, wildest part of the wild west. Rustlers are everywhere. Indians and badmen lurk in the hills. Robberies are common. This area borders southwestern New Mexico, southeastern Arizona, and northwestern Mexico's Sonara state. One of four ceremonial commemorative spikes came from here for our first adventure, The Golden Spike. a blended iron, silver and gold spike, engraved: Ribbed with iron clad in silver and crowned with gold Arizona presents her offering to the enterprise that has banded a continent and dictated a pathway to commerce. (Source:Deseret Morning News, Salt Lake City, April 24, 2007)What's the name of a faraway place that folks talk about, dream about or mutter under their breath about? The legendary city of gold, El Dorado.Who are the antagonists? Who is opposing the goals of the characters? The mad dwarf genius Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless, his accomplices the gigantic Voltaire and the beautiful songstress Antoinette, notorious outlaw John Bly and his gang, Count Carlos Mario Vincenzo Robespierre Manzeppi, a master of dark magic and leader of handpicked teams of assassins, and others. Imagine all of the characters are standing a room/ruin/field with the antagonists or their minions. What do the antagonists want from that meeting? What do the characters want from that meeting? Your foes demand your subservience or your death. Your allies want justice and mercy for all.Alternately, imagine the characters standing at the scene of some great disaster or calamity clearly caused by one of the antagonists. What's the disaster? How did it happen? What are the characters going to do about it right now? U.S. Civil War, dispute over the spread of slavery. President Ulysses S. Grant needs help to eliminate all vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery, protecting African American citizenship, and destroying the Klu Klux Klan. What type of magic exists in this world? Mostly shamanism. What character stocks are in play in this world? Which are restricted and why? Human and only human for players. NPCs may differ.What cultural traits apply to the characters of this game world? Pick three character traits for each culture. American- advanced, imperialistic, reconstruction. Indian- aboriginal, displaced, resentful.Mexican- federalist, anti-clerical, and pro-capitalist. Material world: What weapons and armor are available? Are some weapons and armor restricted to certain cultures or character stocks? What property is available? Are resources and gear otherwise restricted? Some Old West era weapons are free. Anything more noteworthy than a .45 caliber firearm costs points. Armor and shields and such cost points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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