AlHazred

So, I hate to report this, but Lee Gold has just retired from the APAzine business. Because of issues with her eyesight, she no longer sells the PDFs of A&E online. The last issue was #593, from May 2025. I'm especially bummed because I'd always intended to buy the whole back catalogue, but you can't do that anymore.

I'm running a campaign in 6th edition, updating Traveller Hero to the new edition, and I'm thinking it's going to focus a bit on the Sword Worlds. So, I'd like to know if anyone else has run Traveller Hero with Darrian TL16 starships, and if so, if they could share their statblocks. I can make my own stuff up, but I always like to see what other people have done!

A little thread necromancy here, but I was trying to find my Hero Designer file for this, and came up short. I looked in the Files section and didn't find it, so I probably never uploaded it. I wanted it for a Traveller Hero game I'm running, as an example of Tech Level 7 space technology. So, I rebuilt it from this description, and uploaded it.

Star Hero - Astronaut Gear View File I realized I'd forgotten to upload the real-world space suit I, back in 2010, worked up and posted on the Forum. I had lost the file in the intervening years and wanted to edit it for use in a Traveller Hero campaign, so I recreated it based on what I put in my post. The file includes a PDF with a simple equipment list of the suit -- it has many parts to it. The costs are $12 million for the one space suit, and $7 million for the jet pack -- the jet pack is meant only for emergency use, as there's a much more robust Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU). I should do a writeup for one of those, too... Submitter AlHazred Submitted 02/13/2025 Category Prefabs Rules Version HERO System 6th Edition  

If you want a name, that's a matter of taste. If you want to do scientific taxonomy, there was a thread on RPG.net years ago about this, let me see if I can find it... Ah, here it is. The upshot is, a lot depends on what you want to say with your taxonomy. If you want space gnolls to be related to hyenas, for example, then the gnolls could have the scientific name of "Crocota erectus." And the scientific community changes its mind as new evidence arrives -- your space gnolls might eventually be analyzed by a more reputable scientific establishment who determines they have no relation to hyenas at all, at which point another name becomes used; maybe "Pseudocrocota erectus."

No problem! Now, how about Regency Hero? Huh, nudge, nudge...

Even earlier, Dick Tracy carried his on his wrist!

I blame @Susano! He shared this video on Bluesky, which is a stop-motion animation done by Kevin Parry; it took 440 photos over 10 days. That inspired me to make this vehicle: Then I got to thinking about a character whose power is to transform mundane item into more useful items: an office chair into a racing vehicle, for example, to get away from the bad guys. Or the good guys, I don't judge, whatever makes the best story. What would be more transformations such a character could do, following the constraint introduced in the video: the item doesn't actually change shape, just gains additional functions, relevant to the item itself. Potted houseplants into animated vegetable minions? I mean, the quintessential example is the paper-towel tube that is actually a sword or lightsaber...

Motorized Office Chair View File Based on this animation produced by Kevin Parry, this is an office chair that can be driven. I've made some assumptions since the video isn't very long and doesn't really cover a lot. But it's fun! The archive file includes the HDC file, a PDF, a clip of the stats and the screenshot image attached to this post. Submitter AlHazred Submitted 01/11/2025 Category Characters Rules Version HERO System 6th Edition  

To add to the list some important additions: Victorian Web (this should maybe be your first stop when building your campaign, it has a lot of resources!) https://victorianweb.org/victorian/vn/index.html English Heritage - Victorians https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/story-of-england/victorian/ Leagues of Adventure - Triple Ace Games (a roleplaying game of thrilling exploration and fantastic feats of derring-do set in the late Victorian Age, using UBIQUITY engine from Hollow Earth Expedition) https://tripleacegames.net/en-us/collections/leagues-of-adventure Baker Street: Roleplaying in the World of Sherlock Holmes - Fearlight Games (a Role Playing Game in which the players attempt to solve some of the most baffling crimes in history) http://www.fearlightgames.com/bakerstreet.html Victorian Hero: Heroic Roleplaying in the Victorian Era - Hero Games www.herogames.com/store/product/1074-victorian-hero-heroic-roleplaying-in-the-victorian-era-bookpdfcp

Did my own update. Linkrot has infected a lot of the links in the OP, here's what's salvageable, with a few additions that came up as I was googling around: Horatio Hornblower - The Complete Adventures (2003) (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006FD8S/103-4498404-4964630?v=glance Horatio Hornblower(1951) (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043379/ Horatio Hornblower - Wikipedia (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Hornblower Victorian Roleplaying Themes (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) https://web.archive.org/web/20071009211046/http://www.codepoet.org/~markw/gurps/ Napoleonic Wars (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars Napoleonic Era (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_era Age of Sail - Wikipedia (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Sail "Nelson's Navy" (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://www.nelsonsnavy.co.uk/ Bryan Lavery's Books (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://www.napoleonguide.com/books_nelsonnavy.htm GURPS Victorian Archetypes in a Steampunk World - Pyramid Online July 19, 2002 https://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=2892 19th Century - Wikipedia (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Century Alternate History - Wikipedia (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history#19th_century Boer War - Wikipedia (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War Castle Falkenstein - Wikipedia (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Falkenstein_(role-playing_game) Deadlands - Wikipedia (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadlands Discworld - Wikipedia (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld#Role-playing_games English Regency - Wikipedia (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Regency 20 novels that shaped the Victorian era https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2021/08/best-victorian-books-era-novels-classics Gothic Novel - Wikipedia (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction GURPS 1793: The League of Adventurers (Thanks @ShelleyCM) GURPS 1793 is a face-to-face and PBEM roleplaying campaign set in the England of Horatio Hornblower, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Jack Aubrey, and Jane Austen's novels. It is both historical and fantastic. https://mactyre.net/archives/1793/ GURPS by Gaslight (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://bill-barton-games.iwarp.com/custom4.html GURPS Discworld (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://www.byenighte.com/ Victorian RPG Resources (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://www.geocities.com/markdoc.geo/links/linksandsuch.html#Gaming Edo Period (1603 - 1868) - Japanese History (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2128.html The Meiji Constitution - Wikipedia (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_Constitution Lord Darcy (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Darcy Regency HERO (Thanks @ShelleyCM) https://www.mactyre.net/archives/regency/ Metropolitan Railway (Victorian British Railways Resources) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Railway Metropolitan & Great Central Railway Joint Committee Survey https://www.rickmansworthherts.com/metro-link.htm Clive's UndergrounD Line Guides - Metropolitan Line http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/metropolitan.html The Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire Romilly's Castle Falkenstein http://castlefalkensteinfan.blogspot.com/p/castle-falkenstein-links.html Scientific Romance - Wikipedia (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_romance Sherlock Holmes - Wikipedia (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes Space 1889 (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://www.heliograph.com/space1889/ (Heliograph's Space 1889 Resource Site) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_1889 Steampunk (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk Voyages Extraordinaires - Steampunk Victorian Adventure https://voyagesextraordinaires.blogspot.com/ The Great Game - Wikipedia (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Game Victorian Society in the Americas (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) http://www.victoriansociety.org/ (Check out their magazine, Nineteenth Century) Sid Meier's Pirates (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) https://www.piratesahoy.net/ The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana by Jess Nevins http://jessnevins.com/victoriana/introduction.html Myths for the Modern Age:Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe (Thanks @Agent 13) http://www.monkeybrainbooks.com/Myths_for_the_Modern_Age.html THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVES By SABINE BARING-GOULD (Thanks @yamamura) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5324 Swashbuckling Women of Movies, TV, Theatre, etc. (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) https://eldacur.com/~brons/Maupin/Maupin-Like.html The Mask of Zorro (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) https://web.archive.org/web/20091018194230/http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4072/zorro.html The Lady Cavaliers (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) https://web.archive.org/web/20050830123052/http://www.ladycavaliers.com/gallery.htm The Art of Terese Neilson (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) https://tnielsen.com/gallery/ The Century That Made Us (Thanks @BigJackBrass) https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/01_january/25/four_century.shtml HMS Surprise - a frigate* simulator for Windows (Thanks @TheQuestionMan) https://web.archive.org/web/20090720081900/home.wxs.nl/~pdavis/ (.ZIP file link still works!) Gaelen Foley - Historical and Dress Novelist (Thanks @Vondy) https://www.gaelenfoley.com/history-buffs.html

Can we get a 2025 update? I've got an 1868 game that may involve time travel, and still-valid Regency Era resources would be spectacular! Also, if @ShelleyCM wanted to publish a Regency Hero sourcebook for 6E, I would jump at the chance to throw money at you!

Long-time posters will remember @Lisa Nadazdy who often started threads that provoked interesting conversations. I regret to report that Lisa left us just after Christmas last year, after a difficult battle with cancer. The world seems a little quieter and less interesting today. If you wish to do so, in lieu of flowers, their spouse requests donations to the Cancer Society, the Heart Society, to your local food bank, or to any organization that works with abused children.