New Product: Mutants & Masterminds: Deluxe Champions Handbook

So is it possible we could get some more clarity on the licensing issue? It would have seem to me that using 6th or CC would have been the portal to boost the presence, relevance and sales of both M&M and Hero.

" A lot of you will ask “why not use Hero System, Sixth Edition or Champions Complete?” And that is an excellent question. One which I have no answer to. Licensing is a strange mistress and the rites must be observed."

Okay, when I read the blurb about this on the main Hero Games News page, I was excited. This is in broad terms the sort of product I've wanted for years, opening up the splendid world of M&M supers to Champions players. Now I'm just perturbed. I know many Hero gamers have a nostalgic fondness for Champs 3E, but for me its coherence and flexibility fall far short of later iterations of the system. I have to assume there are legal or financial complications involved, but I'm afraid this product went in seconds from "must-buy" for me, to "probably pass."

Check today's date... ?

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Deleted comment now that I've accepted my own stupidity.

OK...that's hilarious...I'm not even mad at you for making me nerdrage earlier

Sorry, LL,

But the same thing that makes you want to pass on it makes it the first true "must have" for me since Lucha HERO. 

Is there some sort of list I have to get on, or will it be available through the HERO store?  Anybody? 

Wow. 

That took a while. 

Well done, whoever you were.  Very well done, indeed! 

Crud! I would've bought that!

I had to reread the posts several times before I got the “check the date reference”. Dang-failed my perception roll!

A few years back I posted that DOJ had purchased WOTC...  That would have been nice.

Chris.

Man I fell for that one hard !

Just saw this, but I spotted the acronym (System Upkeep, Collaboration, & Knowledge Exchange Roundtable) right away, before I noticed the date.