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  1. Sets of six specialized Hexman Hero System 6th Edition 19mm dice are available just for you. Buy five! Buy ten! Impress your friends, humble your enemies! https://www.herogames.com/viewItem.htm?itemID=274295#
  2. Sets of six specialized Hexman Hero System 6th Edition 19mm dice are available just for you. Buy five! Buy ten! Impress your friends, humble your enemies! https://www.herogames.com/viewItem.htm?itemID=274295#
  3. Sets of six specialized Hexman Hero System 6th Edition 19mm dice are available just for you. Buy five! Buy ten! Impress your friends, humble your enemies! https://www.herogames.com/viewItem.htm?itemID=274295#
  4. Cel-Maris Station BhM-1003 PDF: $5.00 Star Hero 6th Ed Great food, aliens, and interstellar intrigue! Tom Rafalski's Cel-Maris Station provides a science-fiction mini-setting usable for the entire spectrum of roleplaying, from "realistic" to "space opera." Originally built to carry a large number of colonists to the fledgling Mars colony, the cycler station has been converted to a vacation cruise for the rich, absurdly wealthy, and those with Real Money. Welcome aboard as one of the vacationers, their retainers, a crew member working off the cost of transit to a new home, or perhaps an alien gourmet chef. * A quick introduction to transit stations and notes on how to run a game using this mini-setting in both "hard" and "soft" science fiction campaigns. * A history of the station and a level-by-level breakdown of the inhabited sections of the station. * A sample price list. * Four Alien Species for use in any science fiction campaign * A GM's "Secret Stuff" section with a few curveballs. * Biographies and in-depth descriptions of seven important station personnel * A mini-module, A Playful Death, with 5 complete heroic pre-generated characters. Players have the job of bodyguarding one of the five richest humans in the galaxy. * Five pages of 100% vector-based, highly scalable station maps. * 55 pages, Acrobat pdf 8 * Hero System 6th Edition
  5. Cel-Maris Station BhM-1003 PDF: $5.00 Star Hero 6th Ed Great food, aliens, and interstellar intrigue! Tom Rafalski's Cel-Maris Station provides a science-fiction mini-setting usable for the entire spectrum of roleplaying, from "realistic" to "space opera." Originally built to carry a large number of colonists to the fledgling Mars colony, the cycler station has been converted to a vacation cruise for the rich, absurdly wealthy, and those with Real Money. Welcome aboard as one of the vacationers, their retainers, a crew member working off the cost of transit to a new home, or perhaps an alien gourmet chef. * A quick introduction to transit stations and notes on how to run a game using this mini-setting in both "hard" and "soft" science fiction campaigns. * A history of the station and a level-by-level breakdown of the inhabited sections of the station. * A sample price list. * Four Alien Species for use in any science fiction campaign * A GM's "Secret Stuff" section with a few curveballs. * Biographies and in-depth descriptions of seven important station personnel * A mini-module, A Playful Death, with 5 complete heroic pre-generated characters. Players have the job of bodyguarding one of the five richest humans in the galaxy. * Five pages of 100% vector-based, highly scalable station maps. * 55 pages, Acrobat pdf 8 * Hero System 6th Edition
  6. Re: Looking For Input On Potential New Fantasy Product Not really: they wouldn't look very good as blurbs on the back of the book.
  7. Re: Looking For Input On Potential New Fantasy Product Champions Complete has sold over a thousand individual copies thus far in physical and electronic form, with roughly 700 copies going out through distribution. The investors and I consider it tentatively to be a success. If it sells another thousand copies, then it's definately a success.
  8. Re: Looking For Input On Potential New Fantasy Product Once again everyone: extremely intelligent and interesting comments. Thank you. Here's my next question. If we create this product, we have two ways of financing it. The first is we finance it ourselves. I'm in favor of this idea for several reasons, but money is as always tight and the idea only works out if I can get some reasonable preorder commitments from the distributors. I will be speaking with them about this next week. The second way is to do it as a Kickstarter project. We'd need to raise roughly 17k if we did it that way. The problem with that idea is twofold. First, like Champions Complete this isn't a product that an experienced Hero player really needs for his or herself. (More on that in a moment). Secondly, if we use Kickstarter for this product the distributors and retailers probably won't purchase very many. (Kickstarter is the kiss of death for distribution.) And it kind of defeats the purpose of creating something for the specific purpose of getting more fantasy-oriented gamers to try the system if they don't see it in the stores. So if we used Kickstarter, we would have to structure things so that you guys could buy multiple copies of the product with the idea that you would be giving them out to players in your gaming group, friends, and so forth. Otherwise, even if we succeed at the Kickstarter, the book will fail in its purpose – and there is no point to doing it. Your thoughts?
  9. Re: Looking For Input On Potential New Fantasy Product Everybody: First of all I want to thank all of you for contributing to this thread. It's been extremely enlightening (in fact, I've been taking notes). You will be gratified to know that the investors have been reading your comments and have commented favorably to me on several of them. As many of you have already guessed, we are leaning in the direction of an all-inclusive project like Champions Complete. To be honest, it wouldn't really be a product aimed at those of you who have been playing the game for decades. Rather, like CC the purpose of the project would be to a) encourage new people to try out the system who have never played it before, create an accessible book that could be used by new or inexperienced players in a gaming group, c) develop something the brick-and-mortar retailers would like to put on their shelves, and d) create something that will sell steadily over the long-term. So here's the next step: give me three reasons why playing Fantasy Hero is superior to playing D&D, Pathfinder, and their ilk. Please try to be brief and concise. I will be compiling together all of your answers and taking them into account when and if this project gets the green light.
  10. Re: Looking For Input On Potential New Fantasy Product Yes, in most cases we do. And if we decide to include a "micro-setting," we might decide to mine some pre-5th Edition stuff for inspiration.
  11. Re: Looking For Input On Potential New Fantasy Product What Lord Liaden said Spence: extremely thoughtful and constructive.
  12. Re: Looking For Input On Potential New Fantasy Product Actually, I meant that it would have no *new* interior artwork, not that it would have no interior artwork. And the page count is all about affordable print costs, and is thus far from arbitrary.
  13. Re: Looking For Input On Potential New Fantasy Product That sums up the problem very nicely I think.
  14. Re: Looking For Input On Potential New Fantasy Product Good suggestions everyone. Some of them had already occurred to me, some had not. Please do continue.
  15. I’m *tentatively* beginning to talk to our investors about a project that would be like Champions Complete, but would be for Fantasy Hero. Like Champions Complete, this project would be a “minimalist” 240-page, softcover, $40 MSRP black-and-white book with no original interior artwork but an awesome new cover. However, there are a couple of different directions I could see this project going in, and I would like your input. Fantasy Hero Complete: A stand-alone book that contains “everything” you need to play Fantasy Hero. I've given some thought about how such a book might be crammed into 240-pages, and it would be a “very” tight fit. But I think it could be done if it were very, very crunch intensive, we removed *absolutely* everything that wasn't directly related to playing Fantasy (including some Skills, Talents, and so forth), and if we (for example) included spells and magic items as power examples, rather than given them their own sections. (Also, if we used prose as sparingly as a samurai composing a Haiku.) Fantasy Champions: We could basically take Fantasy Hero 6th Ed, compress it down to 240 pages, and replace any and all references to 6E1 & 6E2 with references to Champions Complete, making it a supplement book for Champions Complete. This would be a *significantly* easier book to do, and we could go into detail about ever so many more interesting and useful things like spells, magic items, equipment, and so forth. It would still have to be very, very crunchy. My guess is that no matter which approach we take, I would have to have the author create a pretty massive “second” PDF containing a fair number of commonly used monsters and generic sample characters to make such a book totally usable as a stand-alone game – though this could be done pretty quickly using existing material. I could bundle this document with the PDF of the book itself and include it with purchase of the book, both through the store and through Bits-and-Mortar. Which approach would you favor? Do you have another suggestion entirely? Is there something glaringly obvious I’m missing here? Please let me know. “The Management” (Note: Fantasy Hero has always been our second most popular product line, and Champions Complete has been a reasonably financially successful product thus far. Also, we've just sold out of our last copies of FH 6th Edition. So this product would seem to make sense. But the investors may very well decide that this project isn't a financially viable one, so please don’t take this an announcement that we will definitely create this product. We may not. At this point I’m just looking for input from you all.)
  16. This free zip file contains errata and other material pertaining to Derek Hiemforth’s Champions Complete in PDF format. They are: Combat Example Converting Characters (From *all* previous editions going back to 1981!) Example: Other Genre Characters (Action Adventure, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Pulp, SciFi) Talent Creation (Describes how the Talents in Champions Complete were created.) Animal Creation
  17. This free zip file contains errata and other material pertaining to Derek Hiemforth’s Champions Complete in PDF format. They are: Combat Example Converting Characters (From *all* previous editions going back to 1981!) Example: Other Genre Characters (Action Adventure, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Pulp, SciFi) Talent Creation (Describes how the Talents in Champions Complete were created.) Animal Creation
  18. We've lost all website order data from between the 8th and the 11th. I have some backup records, but they don't tell me everything I need to know. If you ordered during that time (even PDFs), please contact me at jason@herogames.com. I'll need to know what you ordered, what your shipping address is, and the last 4 digits of your credit card to verify your identity. Furthermore, all customers who have been inconvenienced by this data loss shall receive a set of six Hero Dice when that product becomes available in the near future. Thank you once again for your patience. “The Management”
  19. We've lost all website order data from between the 8th and the 11th. I have some backup records, but they don't tell me everything I need to know. If you ordered during that time (even PDFs), please contact me at jason@herogames.com. I'll need to know what you ordered, what your shipping address is, and the last 4 digits of your credit card to verify your identity. Furthermore, all customers who have been inconvenienced by this data loss shall receive a set of six Hero Dice when that product becomes available in the near future. Thank you once again for your patience. “The Management”
  20. We've lost all website order data from between the 8th and the 11th. I have some backup records, but they don't tell me everything I need to know. If you ordered during that time (even PDFs), please contact me at jason@herogames.com. I'll need to know what you ordered, what your shipping address is, and the last 4 digits of your credit card to verify your identity. Furthermore, all customers who have been inconvenienced by this data loss shall receive a set of six Hero Dice when that product becomes available in the near future. Thank you once again for your patience. “The Management”
  21. We've lost all website order data from between the 8th and the 11th. I have some backup records, but they don't tell me everything I need to know. If you ordered during that time (even PDFs), please contact me at jason@herogames.com. I'll need to know what you ordered, what your shipping address is, and the last 4 digits of your credit card to verify your identity. Furthermore, all customers who have been inconvenienced by this data loss shall receive a set of six Hero Dice when that product becomes available in the near future. Thank you once again for your patience. “The Management”
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