Scott Ruggels

I don't think that's a good idea, with Tencent, being ye another arm of the Chinese Communist Party. On the plus side SOcial JUstice will be removed from the property, but on the other it will be nerfed to cater to Chinese sensibilities. But since having shifted the weekend games over to Pathfinder 2 I won't miss anything.

That's how I do things as well. I haven't run superheroes since high school. Now I will ply them, but running, them. no. I am too mean.

Dang it, Old Man!
 
Do _not_ force me to accept any sort of "good side" to CCGs.....
 
 
I ain't havin' it.
 
😕
 
 

Paranoia?

Paranoia?

Yes, I asked Jason Walters regarding that. He said that Hero Games does not have permission to sell it, because the rights to that book are legally unclear. That's true of the rest of ICE's Campaign Classics series, except for Mythic Greece. Aaron Alston's family did give Hero the right to sell it, because that's what Aaron wanted.

Byzantium is a cool place to base a campaign because you can really mix it up culturally.  You have Persians, Turks, Russians, Varangians, European crusaders, Italian city states, Spanish kingdoms, Asian Khanates, and African caliphates all a boat ride away.

I totally forgot the Ray Harryhausen movies.  I also remember having a grade school teacher read the Chronicles of Narnia and Pilgrim's Progress during story time.  Obviously, this was before those with certain political and philosophical views started raising a ruckus about such readings.

You are absolutely right. HERO by it's very structure only supports Hard and Rational  magic systems. it takes GMs Vast amount of work to create that "sensawunda" necessary for soft magic to seem unlike GM Fiat, especially for this system. It's mostly why I tended to run low to no magic Fantasy.  As a player, I never ran casters, because I am still math-tarded, and just run straightforward characters with just stats and a list of skills (and levels).

Not discussing wich is the best, I'm here just to tell I played a campaign in 6th century Europe, from Byzantium to the Vandal Kingdom to the Persian frontier in Armenia, with the Blue and Green hippodrome factions fighting in the streets, Huns still menacing, conspiracies, spies, and a gold mine. Years 519-535, a long run.

Ah! Found it!

Here is the armor, and here is someone wearing a recreation of said armor.

There is a good piece of source material available that can be adapted easily for Hero system usage, Chivalry & Sorcery RPG., created by two history students studying European history. It is complex, not particularly user friendly, I was a beta tester for it in my late teens. The tome has a wealth of knowledge of the customs, societies and general life in the middle ages (mostly middle age's Germany). Gives a very good overview of how to become a Knight, and how magic or at least how middle Europeans thought magic worked. I still have my copy of the original book, a gift from Wilf Bakus one of the co-creators, I always intended to get it autographed but sadly I left it too long, and he has passed. We were friends for more than fourty years I still miss him and his bombast and wisdom.

Well Electronic Dance Music is important for those speed runs in a star ship. Sets the mood.
 

Well Electronic Dance Music is important for those speed runs in a star ship. Sets the mood.
 

Well Electronic Dance Music is important for those speed runs in a star ship. Sets the mood.
 

NASA unveils X-59 quiet jet. Here’s where you can watch live:
 
 
https://www.space.com/nasa-x-59-quiet-supersonic-jet-rollout-livestream

I'm still working on my homebrew based on California as an island aka Insula Calafia (Island of Calafia), based on a legendary Amazon queen who included griffins in her forces. I'm also working on the changed geography and adding fantasy elements, such as turning California Condors into rocs. I also renamed a couple of the major cities.
 
San Francisco = Porta Aurea (Golden Gate)
Los Angeles = Urbs Nuntiorum (City of the Messengers)
 
Other details are extrapolated from this video:
 
 

I'd much rather go with that. The campaign tells the characters' stories.

Even worse, with the ease of access permitted by a wider (electronic) forum, there are non-fans with their cause-of-the-moment who..."contribute". These are folks with a passing interest in the hobby at best (even that is an extremely generous appraisal) and a knack for inflating their numbers. Folks who either cannot or will not separate fantasy from reality while they tilt at windmills and ardently attempt to convince others that they should feel guilty about chopping up orcs, gathering coin, saving princesses and whatever the **** else topic is trending in the most en vogue online article. If it's not simply a matter of individuals having precious little else to do with their time, then they are those who stand to profit - one way or another - from the faux-controversy fomented by these contrived "issues".
 
Predictably, as it gets filtered, excessively analyzed and approved through a real-world (and frequently twenty-first century Western) anthropocentric lens, tabletop gaming gets watered down a little more in the never ending quest to traverse that boundless field of eggshells.

THe oldest continuous celebration I think is Persian Nw Year, where people leap over bonfires. It was originally a Zoroastrian celebration from ancient Persia, and the muslims kept trying to suppress, to no success. Dtill celebrated today.