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6 hours ago, Christopher R Taylor said:

I really wish I had the understanding and experience to do War Hero, I really want that book to be out but I have spent zero time in uniform and have never experienced combat, even personal combat.  I'm not qualified.  But its a source book I would love to see put out and run and play games in.  I got Recon by Palladium and it was great.

 

I am in the same boat, I never served but I my father was career so military stuff was always around. I loved Recon and Behind Enemy Lines and I played a special ops campaign in GURPS long ago where  we were all a different branch of special forces. It was like G.I. Joe without the oh so good cheesiness of the villains. 

1 hour ago, DentArthurDent said:

Horror Hero and WW1 Hero.

 

BTW, I’m really enjoying Victorian Hero. We’re considering a cross-over with Western Hero as our first mini-campaign.

That’s totally cool to hear, keep us updated on that.  As far as WWI, it’s just a few years early of what I was thinking. I was a bit more barnstorming, gangbusting, and dishing out justice with some knuckles.  

I am biased to anything I’m working on of course, and hope whatever that is, I do it justice. That being said, of these I love Horror and would love to see a more investigative style supplement. 

1 hour ago, Scott Ruggels said:

It was after this, that New York Newspapers bought Pitcairn, and DeLa Cierva Autogyros for their reporters.  THough it was payroll expenses for the pilots that eventually discontinued the services, but they are markedly easier to fly than equivalent fixed wings.

This is great info. If you have any other oddities that fit that period, especially weird vehicle stuff, keep it coming. 

This is really neat, I’m going to dig into it and see if I can find some specs. I can imagine it landing on the roof of the Empire Club and a bold crime fighter stepping out. Perfect! 

On 4/4/2024 at 10:33 AM, Stanley Teriaca said:

Anyone have any ideas for another adventure?

 

On the cowboy side, some clame jumpers, a mine, and something unexpected in the mine.

Between cowboys and Victorian inventors a Wild, Wild West adventure with a ridiculous baddie and implausible technology is ripe for an adventure. Perhaps a plot to electrify the entirety of the American rail system unless the villain can be stopped. 

4 hours ago, Gauntlet said:

I am in the process of creating a funny campaign type book it is called STUPID...

 

Super

Twirps

Undertaking

Personally 

Injurious

Duties

 

It would be similar to The Tick. Characters do not have a BODY characteristic as you can only knock them out. "NO KILL YOU!"

If you don’t include a Resurrection power with a Gesture of putting thumb in mouth and blowing themselves back up i will be sad. 

7 minutes ago, Stanley Teriaca said:

Wonderland or Under Land? Not much of a difference Through The Looking Glass.

 

Which do you prefer more, the unbirthday celebrating Mad Hatter, or the prisoner of the crime he would never commit Hattra?

That is a good question, I never thought to form a preference. I think I’m going to land on Hattra, although I think it’s probably that hits a bit darker and that is the tone I have sought during the project. 

1 hour ago, dmjalund said:

I wonder if one could do a supplement to play in historic Japan?

This was brought up to me awhile back, and why I didn’t include more of the world at the time. The answer is page count, but I remember Japan coming up specifically in the asks. Western Hero: Rough and Ready Roleplaying handles that area of the United States well enough. I personally eyed a more Lost World style supplement as just more adventure area. I plan on playtesting an adventure a bit at some upcoming cons based on Alice in Wonderland for plot, but set in Victorian London. 

19 hours ago, C.R.Ryan said:

Got it, it's great. Any chance that there's an export template in the style of those character sheets in the back?

 

Edit: I use the publishable .RTF export template but I edit out a lot of the superfluous info like costs and adders. Those sheets are clean, I like them a lot.

That is a totally sweet look, and to be honest, I hand in plain documents with a few notes on my thinking of layout. I'm not sure if it is done as an export, but I can ask and see how it was done. Glad you liked the book, it was a lot of fun researching and writing. I will get back to you.

10 hours ago, Stanley Teriaca said:

I'm curious about the templates. Im sure Detective is listed, and maybe Cop, but is there Gentleperson Thief? Heir/Heiress? Steam Scientist? Doctor? Monster Slayer?

Some of the the templates are Cowboy, Detective, Inventor, Explorer, Entertainer, Doctor, Scientist, Criminal, Academic, Savage, Reporter, Occult/Psychic, Retired Military, and more. There are talents included for most of them, such as repelling the creatures of the night, knowing a bit of old knowledge to slow the scoundrel, Gadget pools (and a whole bunch of gadgets), psychic abilities that any proper Victorian would love to attend a seance and observe. Most of the talents have something that makes them unattractive to just take on a whim so while of course you can create anything, it encourages good themes to the characters. Yeah, there is a lot of stuff in there for an ocular feast. The layout and print is pretty sweet for setting the mood too.

1 minute ago, Stanley Teriaca said:

Any mention of the Penny Dreadfuls as a thing? Where pore innocent maidens with sausage curls hairstyles wait for the train involateringly?

Penny Dreadfuls are definitely presented. Some of the art and lots of the inspiration was from these as a source. I really got into reading them. 

45 minutes ago, BigJackBrass said:

There are always mistakes. I used to be a newspaper editor, so I'm very familiar with the concept and responsible for more than a few. This particular introduced error just struck me as amusing, that's all.

But as detective is a subgenre of Victorian Hero and I have the original manuscript, your deduction is correct. If you followed on Patreon and then bought it, I can appreciate that you like the material. Thanks.

4 hours ago, Sketchpad said:

Interested, but was hoping for a preview.

I think with the files in a zip it makes it difficult to do a preview. We can suggest a page here on herogames.com with a preview and a link in descriptions on sites maybe. Somebody on a Hero fan group on Facebook mentioned this to me about Amazon, or maybe it was DriveThruRPG. 

On 1/1/2024 at 2:48 PM, Rune said: This convention usually has a good selection of Hero Games offerings.  Worth attending if you are in the area.

I played in three really good supers games here. All had a different take on the “Champions” level, cool people, and this one dude had cool toys, gamer level up. 

I would probably do investigative horror with a fair sprinkle of action.  Let me ponder and check schedule. I am actually typing this from Dundracon, I’ve got a Champions game in about 30 minutes. What a coincidence. 

It was in a Fantasy Hero game in my homebrew setting where the heroes discovered an heir to the throne of the wicked kingdom that had plagued the land and broke in to the prison and rescued the heir. It was big stakes, one of those missions that I could make resource management a focus, as well as stealth. It wasn't the Death Star and I have had supes knock down nukes, but it seemed the biggest stakes at the table for all involved.

1 hour ago, dmjalund said:

I'd like a gritty city /space station in a universe with superpowers set in the far future.

Would you mind laying out a bit more of your taste for this. I immediately jumped to Babylon 5 or DS9 like Lord Liaden, but the superpowers thing halted me in my tracks. Do you mean something like alien races with strange abilities, like Klingons having duplicate sets of necessary organs or Vulcan's strength and mind meld? Do you mean something more like Legion of Super Heroes or Guardians of the Galaxy? For some reason this just struck my curiosity like a hammer and would totally dig what you might envision if you were setting it all up. 

7 minutes ago, Christopher R Taylor said:

Star Hero complete sounds good but my sense is that we need more adventures.  Many, many more adventures.  dozens of them for every genre.  Tons of support.

Agreed. I enjoy adventures and even if I don’t use them wholecloth I can usually reskin them to save myself time on game prep. I wonder how many Hero fans would be interested in more adventures and for what genres? 
 

Victorian Hero was a lot of delving into some dark things for me, so I personally kicked around some Mad Max/Chassis and Crossbow kind of silliness, with auto duel leagues in the cities, heavy on vehicles. Also Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers/Star Wars style fun. Also a street level martial arts type with some Adolescent Evolved Samurai Salamander with a sort of Dark Champions the Animated Series kind of tone. 

I saw a ConQuest which I think is part of the Pacificon network or some such. I am trying to hit more conventions this year and live in San Francisco so this is within reach without much hassle. I think this will go on my list of things to look into. Thanks for the head's up. Maybe I will run some Victorian Hero if I can drum up some interest.

Are you sure these dates are right? Isn’t Pacificon usually Labor Day weekend or am I thinking of something else? I will be at Dundracon in the Bay Area in a couple weeks though. 

This is just about the breakdown I would have thought as least as most spoken to least spoken. I wouldn't have known the numbers but common and uncommon is pretty easy to imagine if you have been around the country a little.

I think it isn't only power level that needs to be considered with Flash on a team, for example, versus Flash in a solo book, but also the Complications. Batman is a great example of different character sheets, the solo one has a focus on vehicles, bases, and gear with Alfred and Gordon and whichever Robin showing up more. In the JLA character sheet, Batman is a more ferocious combatant with gear and the vehicle and bases take a backseat. The Alfred, Gordon, Robin stuff is reduced and you shift those Complications into Doesn't Fully Trust Anyone and some dark secret about having files on the rest of the league and ways to deal with them. Batman has to share the spotlight so you can't have the full supporting cast and have to focus both in and out of combat on other things so other characters get their chance to share the comic.

1 hour ago, Cancer said:

 

 

 

I think not.  The token human should be either Gonzo or Animal.

You could consider switching over to having EGO function as BODY for this sequence. OMCV and DMCV could replace OCV and DCV or alternately replace PD and ED for basic defense since it is all in the mind. It also gives a boost to these characteristics which are often under utilized in many campaigns. Just off the top of my head, but I am going to ponder it further.