Jason S.Walters

These cards are for use with Narosia: Sea of Tears Fantasy RPG's unique narrative system. Players Control The Gods To Influence The Plot The gods meddle, and the players use this set of cards to allow them to say how a specific god influences the story — if they can explain the god’s motivation. Divine Intervention Cards are used to represent both the possibility and degree of influence by the gods. These cards, with one exception, reference an aspect of a single Enaros, and possibly even the Enaros as a whole as well. This aspect reflects the type of influence the Enaros has chosen to exercise when the card is played. Additionally, each card is marked with a certain number of pips, rendered as small suns along the bottom of the card. As the number of pips increases, the amount of influence the Enaros exerts also increases. From a skeptic’s eye, the greater the number of pips the more difficult it is to deny direct intervention. A one-pip card could most certainly be attributed to luck, and a two-pip card is just short of a miracle (arguably mundane – crazy things do happen). A three-pip card is almost undeniable, and if the conditions are right the Enaros may even be seen exercising their influence. The play of a card is an opportunity for role-play. The player should assume the role of the specific Enaros singled out by the card and describe why the Enaros has chosen to interfere with these specific mortal affairs, and your character in particular. Playing a card does not represent your character calling upon the gods. It is certainly possible, especially if playing a tsverg, that you do not wish divine intervention. The Enaros are not really all that concerned with what your character believes or thinks (to a point), and they will intervene if they wish, possibly even in spite of your character. Some Enaros even have a certain amount of sympathy for the tsverg (again, to a point). So, assume the mantle of an Enaros, roleplay the god’s will, and have fun with the game. What's Included High quality poker sized playing cards 165 cards complete with names, aspects, and power level of the card Complementary download of Divine Intervention Cards in PDF format for print, cut, and play at home

Betrayal. Hubris. Punishment. Revenge. Subjugation. Salvation. Cataclysm. Perseverance. Hope. This is Narosia — a world where cosmic forces vie for control and mortal beings struggle to reclaim past glories, hordes of Fel creatures threaten to escape Deepland prisons, and demonic Voidspawn stalk the world’s wilds and ruins. Those who venture forth seek fame and fortune, courting death, honoring the profession of adventurer, and ultimately bringing hope to those without. Narosia adventures focus on competent characters overcoming larger than life obstacles with a backdrop of magic, monsters, and gods. You control your every move without getting lost in a sea of repetition, using a comprehensive action and combat system to enable over-the-top action, with called shots, grappling, and dynamic defenses. Players Control The Gods To Influence The Plot The gods meddle, and the players have a set of cards that allow them to say how a specific god influences the story — if they can explain the god’s motivation. An Entire World Of Adventure Awaits Narosia: Sea of Tears is a roleplaying game for two to eight players. Through a blend of imagination and rules the players will create the story of their heroes as they move through this world, having fun in the process. Distinct magic systems for divine and arcane powers Detailed cultures and races integrated into the story of the world Setting-specific martial arts Comprehensive skills and abilities to define any character Battle-tested system that scales from commoner to demi-god Bestiary that expands on the 300+ creatures from HERO System Bestiary Over 30 years of HERO System material to draw from (180+ sourcebooks) Ready to print GM Screen panels Whatever your interest — dungeon delving, intrigue, or exploration — Narosia provides a rich background for the legends you forge. Additional Support HERO Designer Character Pack available, include racial templates, cultural and adventurer packages, spells, orisons, and equipment. Character Sheets available for download Complimentary download of Divine Intervention Cards in PDF format for print, cut, and play at home Poker-sized cards available (no need to print and cut 165 cards) iOS App as a digital GM Screen and Combat Tracker

As is always the case, Hero Games will be traveling with Indie Press Revolution to GenCon this year. (We'll be in booth 730.) Excitingly, it looks as though Shane Harsch's massive 478-page Narosia: Sea of Tears will be there too, with copies in our booth! Narosia is a complete, self-contained fantasy roleplaying game based on the Hero System, containing all of the rules necessary to play. Look forward to seeing you all there!

In a newly settled area of the wilderness stands an old keep, strong and intact. What secrets does it hold and what terrors lie beneath it? Are you bold enough to quest into the unknown? Two Kings Keep is a nostalgic dungeon crawl with intriguing twists and a story for the curious to unfold. Two Kings Keep is a Fantasy Hero adventure from Christopher Taylor for 4-8 characters of up to 800 total combined points. This is a complete adventure with all maps, information, and notes the GM and players need.

This spell collection from Greg Elkins contains all spells for Fantasy Hero from The Lost Grimoire, The Elemental Grimoire as well as psionics from The Minds Eye in a 127 page bookmarked PDF at 50% of the price to buy all three. Also available with the Hero Designer files at the same 50% savings

Hero Combat Manager release notes V1.06 (a new version of Hero Combat Manager is out) New Features None Major Bug Fixes Strength damage is more accurately calculated Hand to Hand and Strength damage are more accurately calculated Open Issues Under a very specific circumstance HKA may not be calculated correctly. The one instance that has shown up is if a weapon is 1d6+1 and the STR Min is 6 and the STR of the character is 15. This should result in a HKA of 1 ½ d6KA. Instead it is being calculated as 2d6+1 KA.

The Books Of The Undead is Elvensong Street Press’s series of PDFs providing pre-generated character sheets for dozens of undead monsters. Each volume is devoted to a specific type of undead. This one, the fourth in the series, looks at ghouls — terrifying corporeal undead who subsist on the flesh of both the living and the dead! Within its pages you’ll find the Bestial Ghoul, Ghoul King, Ghoul Shaman, and much more These ghouls are the perfect minions for such villains as: Necromancers, sorcerers, Dark Lords, evil high priests, liches, and other powerful Fantasy adversaries Evil mystics and insane archaeologists in Pulp Hero campaigns Mystic supervillains and organizations in Superhero campaigns. For example, in the Champions Universe, villains such as the Takofanes the Archlich, the Demonologist, Dark Seraph, and Black Paladin might have ghouls serving them, and the Morbanes of DEMON could easily create some ghouls to further their fiendish schemes or guard valuable facilities. Additional volumes in the Books Of The Undead series cover zombies, ghosts, liches, skeletons, wights, and other types of undead.

Steve Long brings you Package Deals from Dark Champions for HERO System 5th Edition converted to HERO System 6th Edition Templates.

Superhero MMOs and similar computer games often feature two types of characters who occur far less commonly in tabletop RPGs: the Controller and the Debuffer. A Controller is a type of character who specializes in controlling the behavior and options of the enemy so that the enemy becomes completely useless and/or helpless (or nearly so). Their powers may focus on hard control (locking a target in place, putting a target to sleep, removing a target’s ability to take Actions in the game, controlling a target’s mind), soft control (“debuffing” a target so that his actions are less effective, or even pointless), or some combination of the two. A Debuffer focuses primarily on soft control powers, and often also has some ability to “buff” (enhance the abilities of) or defend a group of heroes. They may also possess powers that inflict damage on the enemy, whereas Controllers tend to have much weaker damage-causing powers (if any). This document contains rules and sample powers for creating controlleCr characters in the Hero System.

With five days left, the KS for Champions of Aetaltis - featuring fiction by our own Steve Long - is nearing its goal. An anthology of heroic fantasy adventures featuring all new stories from some of the best authors in the business. So why not click through and help it along?

This PDF expands the Superhero Gallery from pages 243-87 of Champions to add ten new character types you can quickly and easily create: —the Animal-Man, a character whose powers derive from, or are themed around, a particular type of animal; —the Caped Detective, who combines his investigative skills with various fighting abilities and gadgets to make himself a matchless enemy of the underworld; —the Cultural Mystic, whose magical powers derive from a specific mystical tradition or culture (such as Egyptian, Shamanism, or Voodoo on this sheet, though you can easily adapt it to others if you’d like); —the Elemental Powered Armor wearer, whose powered armor’s weapons and defenses focus on a specific “elemental” form of attack (such as Fire, Electricity, or Ice); —the Force character, who manipulates sheer force to attack, move objects, and achieve other effects; —the Light character, who controls light in various forms (from blinding flares to deadly lasers); —the Power Weapon wielder, who possesses a weapon of great cosmic, mystic, or technological might; —the Robo-Hero, whose artificial body grants him superhuman powers; —the Shadowmaster, who controls darkness and shadow; and —the Themed Gadgeteer, whose arsenal of gadgets are all designed or formed along some theme (such as a particular animal, holiday, or category of objects [such as “toys”]). A new product from Steve Long.

The Elemental Grimoire is a long sought after tome of magic. Compiled by the Archmage Talmar, it houses information on the spells of the elements. It is rumored to house spells collected from various Elemental Mages. Spells for Air Magic, Darkness Magic, Earth Magic, Fire Magic, Ice Magic, Lightning Magic and Water Magic are said to be found within its pages. The tome once compiled was so sought after that Talmar hid it in an ice castle that floated on a huge rock on a lake of lava deep within the earth. There it has safely resided for centuries. Now the hunt is on the tome and the spells it holds. Can you find the tome? Are you powerful enough to keep hold of it? Are you worthy of the Elemental Grimoire? A new product from Greg Elkins.

Every fantasy hero campaign needs magical treasures for the adventures to find. This series houses information on varies information on just such treasures. Wands – Every adventure wants to have wand to help them in their adventures. Here you will find over 36 wands to add to your Fantasy Hero campaign. From Wand of Fog or Wand Of Firestorm to the highly sought after Wand Of Dragon's Breathe The ZIP file includes the PDF and Hero Designer files. A new product from Greg Elkins.

Supervillains! Are you tired of your minions, agents, henchmen, sidekicks, hired goons, thugs, and other underlings suffering defeat at the hands of superheroes on a regular basis? Are you sick of spending money on “super-tech” that isn’t all that super — or that doesn’t even work half the time? Aren’t you ready for equipment, and minions, worthy of your ambition and schemes? Well, have no fear! Here at the Villain Solutions Conglomerate (VSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the International League of Evil, we’ve got just what you need to send those heroes packing: Steel Minion™ Anti-Superhero Powered Armor. S.M.A.S.H. Armor comes equipped with the weapons, defensive systems, and other abilities your minions need to stand toe-to-toe with superpowered heroes and WIN! ​A new product from Steve Long.

Hero Combat Manager has been updated from V 1.04 to V 1.05. The 1.04 version of Hero Combat Manager is still included with purchases of 1.05 because the new version has not been as thoroughly tested by the beta testers as previous versions. The following changes have been made from 1.04 in 1.05. New Features Game Master can now select the power and/or combat skill levels that a character has when making an attack. The power and combat skill levels will pre-populate the Attack Input Tab on the Attack Dialog box. This should speed up combat. The tabs on the Attack Dialog have been changed to improve combat workflow The Game Master can set the Damage Resistance for a defender and it will remain set during the combat until the Game Master changes it. Characters that are marked as incapacitated are removed from the target selection list Effects tables are available from the Attack Dialog Major Bug Fixes Continue to resolve corner cases associated with “Held Actions” Fixed a number of bugs which caused the application to ‘lock up’ Knockback distance calculation was wrong and has been fixed Open Issues Under a very specific circumstance HKA may not be calculated correctly. The one instance that has shown up is if a weapon is 1d6+1 and the STR Min is 6 and the STR of the character is 15. This should result in a HKA of 1 ½ d6KA. Instead it is being calculated as 2d6+1 KA.

Eons ago, an ancient evil was trapped beneath the village of Farcaster. Now, however, dark forces are working in the shadows of the city. Cultists roam the streets. Villagers are disappearing. Messengers seeking assistance have vanished. The city needs heroes. Can the party restore the ancient wards are defeat the mighty Maranos? The Depths of Zealotry is a non-system specific adventure from D3 Games.

The newest release for Surbrook' Stuff takes an in-depth look at haunted houses and how they can be used in your campaign. The article explores what a haunted house can be like, where it can be found, what it can contain, and why it might be haunted. More importantly, the article also notes that you can have more than just haunted houses -- towns, space ships, and even entire planets can all be haunted!

New from D3 Adventures and Michael Surbrook: Atomic Monster Hero! Thrill to the origins of atomic monsters in your campaign! Scream in terror as their powers are examined! Flee from their horrid appetites! Pray their weaknesses can be exploited! Marvel at the Atomic Wasps, Giant Sea Scorpion, and the Sentient Slime Mold (from Space)!

A pulp adventure from Steve Long, author of Pulp Hero! When the government enlists the help of Our Heroes to prevent the Nazis from obtaining a valuable Mesoamerican artifact, the PCs find themselves on an adventure that leads them to Mexico City, then to Central America, and finally to the mysterious, and potentially deadly, inner chambers of a long-lost temple! Can they survive the perils that face them — and the Nazis and tribesmen pursuing them — to return to civilization with the fabled Topaz Skull of Cozcatl Cuaxicalli? The Temple Of The Topaz Skull is a Pulp Hero adventure designed for characters built on a total of 175 Character Points or less. The optimal number of PCs is four to six, but you can scale it up or down based on the number of opponents you pit against the heroes in various encounters.

This Friday I'm going to catch a plane from Reno to Ft. Worth, rent a car, and drive to the small city of Denton. Why do you ask? Because that's where the archives of Aaron Allston's work are stored. With the help of his mother Rose, I'm going to go through those files, locate all of the material related to his decades long Strike Force campaign (including the now-famous bluebooks), copy them, and send them where they need to go so that a new Strike Force book (or possibly books) can be created. Before his untimely passing, Aaron and I had been talking about producing a new Strike Force book for Hero Games. But we were both involved with other projects, had a lot to do, and it didn't seem like there was any particular hurry to get the project done. However, now that he's gone, his family and I believe it's important that his part of his legacy be preserved by issuing a new and expanded version of this seminal work of RPG game design. I hope you all will agree and support this project when it goes live on Kickstarter sometime later this year. The new version of Strike Force won't formally be a Hero Games product. Rather, it's going to be a joint project between Blackywrm Games and Evil Beagle Games, with designer Ross Watson spearheading the editing and design of the book, and myself overseeing the development and production. (Or so Ross and I hope, as neither of us knows what I'll find down in the Lone Star State.) Using Blackwyrm's Larger Than Life: Tall Tale Adventures Kickstarter project as a model, we plan on producing versions for the Hero System, Savage Worlds, and Mutants & Masterminds respectively. So wish me luck as I brave the tornadoes. Hopefully I'll come back with something that does justice to a talented author and game designer who was also our friend. Jason Walters, Hero Games

Right now our friends over at Bundle of Holding are running a great promotion for the Champions Universe 5th Edition. Get five great electronic books for $12.95, or level up to six more books for $28.95. As always with B of H projects, 10% of the money raised goes to charity. In this case we have selected the very worthy Heifer International, which empowers agricultural entrepreneurship in developing nations as well as here in the United States.

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