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Western Hero: Rough and Ready Roleplaying by Christopher R. Taylor is THE starting point. 
Personally, I prefer the latest edition. It is jam-packed with material. Plenty of Campaign guidelines. Even a “Ground Rules” sheet!
 
Then my personal favorite is Wild West from FGU. It is dated, in tone and rules and layout, but I still love it. I especially like the guidelines for horses (which are also well-covered in Western Hero).
 
Deadlands has dozens of really cheap adventures available. I like the “Dime Novels” but I have run into some serious formatting issues with the electronic versions.
 

I think you missed a step or two there.
 
First you have to buy your butler as a Follower.
 
Then the butler buys the Galactica, then the Galactica buys its Vipers, then the Vipers buy their pilots as followers.

I think you missed a step or two there.
 
First you have to buy your butler as a Follower.
 
Then the butler buys the Galactica, then the Galactica buys its Vipers, then the Vipers buy their pilots as followers.

Infinity stone shorts sound uncomfortable to wear.

Though there's the risk of players staring at you blankly because they don't understand any of it. Whaddaya mean the knights wear jaguar pelts and wield atlatls and clubs edged with shards of obsidian? Where's the plate armor and chainmail, steel swords and longbows? Where are the wizards shooting fireballs? Where are the elves? 'Cause I wanna play Legolas!
 
As always, know your players' limits.
 
If you think your players can handle at least a little exoticism, the idea of a bronze/iron overlap has possibilities. Maybe steal a bit from Exalted, in which magic weapons and armor are typically made of steel alloyed with one of the Magical Materials associated with the various Exalted types: orichalcum (Solar Exalted), moonsilver (Lunar Exalted), starmetal (Sidereal Exalted), soulsteel (Abyssal Exalted, a.k.a. deathknights), or jade (Terrestrial Exalted, a.k.a. the Dragon-Blooded). But let's change things up by saying only bronze can incorporate the Magical Materials -- it's already an alloy, and as assault points out there were multiple varieties IRL. Possibly common soldiers wield "democratic iron" (as Homer put it) but heroes wear and wield magical bronze.
 
Of course you'll invent your own magical materials or alloys. But for a start, Orichalcum is Latinized Greek for "Mountain Copper," which to me suggests the old concept was some kind of bronze alloy. Wikipedia tells me there was also a form of bronze called Hepatizon, for its liver-like hue. Magical bronze can give a hint of the exotic without throwing players too much of a curveball.
 
Dean Shomshak

I think the Byrne run on Fantastic Four is a great example.  Its pretty obvious that the game was mostly based on X-Men and Avengers comics from the 70s and 80s though.  Justice League and Legion of Superheroes were another good source for ideas, in the 80s and onward.  Most of the team comics by the 80s had a good Champions feel: good guys working together to face dangerous and difficult challenges.
 
As the movies and TV shows go?  Almost none of them really show the team hero effort.  Way too much splitting up, infighting, and solo focus.  I mean its easier to make a movie that way, but it doesn't reflect a game very well.

I put some of the blame on the decline in comic-book reading. That's where all the conventions of the genre were laid down. Movies, and even TV shows, can't provide the depth and breadth of understanding that comes from growing up reading a range of superhero comics, living with the characters and their adventures.
 
Mind you, I don't think would-be supers players would benefit if they actually read the majority of dreck being published today.  😖

Dr Quinzel, Medicine Woman

Nothing interesting there at all.  Random sociopathic gangster type.  Nothing supervillainous there.
 
OK, this apparently matches the New 52 continuity, but I gotta ask, who cares?
 
Then again, I'm reading Penguin's current incarnation per New 52, and my feeling about everything they're writing up is...they want me to buy this junk?

I agree. Stand your ground is often misapplied. Abbot is a clown. None of that is what I was talking about. I was merely critiquing the logic of a specific portion of an essay. I'm a pedantic sort of person sometimes, and I like to analyse these sorts of details. 

PG:  I agree that the court applied Stand Your Ground correctly.  The issue is that Abbott appears to be trying to gut the limitations of when it's a viable defense...without going through any judicial or legislative processes.  I also agree that he's interfering with the judicial process by even talking about a pardon before sentencing is complete.  One could argue that's a form of tampering, but there's no chance that would fly.
 
Yeah, the tone of the cartoon and the post are both strident, but this is also an egregious example, from the information we have.  Stand Your Ground was rejected at trial.  Ethically, a pardon can't be based on a re-interpretation of the trial's conclusion...I'm not sure you could overturn the conviction on appeal by revisiting that point.  There's limits to that.  
 
 

Read that guy's post. While I agree with him on the racism, he's wrong on the stand your ground aspects. Stand your ground laws were not misapplied in either case. Just because the governor is squawking about stand your ground laws in this case, or because the press was in Zimmerman doesn't mean the laws were really relevant. Here's the crux of both cases: Self defense does not apply if you provoke the conflict that leads to the killing.
 
This was correctly applied in both cases, according to the evidence at hand. In the Texas case, given the evidence of intent and the fact that the moron was driving through a crowd, it was very clear the killer was seeking to provoke a confrontation. It doesn't matter if the victim did point his weapon at the shooter. The killer provoked the confrontation. In the Zimmerman case, simply following his victim was not illegal. Zimmerman was attacked, regardless of the size disparity, with physical evidence that supported that part of Zimmerman's story (being on his back with the victim on top of him, smashing his head into the ground. (And the weight advantage is a non-starter when the smaller guy is fit. Martin was the same size I was when I was in the Army, and I could have easily overwhelmed Zimmerman when I was that age.) The missing piece in the Zimmerman case was a witness to Zimmerman provoking the confrontation. I firmly believe he provoked the confrontation and should have been severely punished, but the law was not misapplied, nor was it "wrong." The system sometimes lets human filth loose because there are strict standards of proof. That's working as intended, no matter how distasteful the results often are.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Flat.  Hardbacks should be stored flat so that the weight of the pages doesn't stress the binding.  This is particularly important if, as is usually the case, the cover is larger than the pages themselves.
 
 

By definition, transporting someone across state lines in order to buy medical services is “interstate commerce”.
 
The US Constitution places the power to regulate interstate commerce with the US Congress, not with state legislatures. (US Constitution, Article I Section 8 Clause 3)
 
There’s over 200 years of court cases of state legislatures who attempted to regulate interstate commerce failing. Badly.
 
Even if the medical services were given away for “free”, court precedents still say that is commerce because someone had bought the car which transported the person to the clinic, someone bought fuel for the car, the clinic pays for electricity & other utilities, someone bought the paper and clipboard for the person who’s asking for the abortion to fill out her medical information, etc.
 
And, yes, court cases have gotten that specific and picky in the past when claiming the federal government’s prerogative over regulating interstate commerce. Studied some of those cases in business law class back in the early 1980’s.
 
There’s no way for a state legislature to twist things to try to claim that interstate commerce isn’t interstate commerce. There’s just been too many attempts by state legislatures to do it...and too many failures in court as those attempts fall apart.
   

By definition, transporting someone across state lines in order to buy medical services is “interstate commerce”.
 
The US Constitution places the power to regulate interstate commerce with the US Congress, not with state legislatures. (US Constitution, Article I Section 8 Clause 3)
 
There’s over 200 years of court cases of state legislatures who attempted to regulate interstate commerce failing. Badly.
 
Even if the medical services were given away for “free”, court precedents still say that is commerce because someone had bought the car which transported the person to the clinic, someone bought fuel for the car, the clinic pays for electricity & other utilities, someone bought the paper and clipboard for the person who’s asking for the abortion to fill out her medical information, etc.
 
And, yes, court cases have gotten that specific and picky in the past when claiming the federal government’s prerogative over regulating interstate commerce. Studied some of those cases in business law class back in the early 1980’s.
 
There’s no way for a state legislature to twist things to try to claim that interstate commerce isn’t interstate commerce. There’s just been too many attempts by state legislatures to do it...and too many failures in court as those attempts fall apart.
   

By definition, transporting someone across state lines in order to buy medical services is “interstate commerce”.
 
The US Constitution places the power to regulate interstate commerce with the US Congress, not with state legislatures. (US Constitution, Article I Section 8 Clause 3)
 
There’s over 200 years of court cases of state legislatures who attempted to regulate interstate commerce failing. Badly.
 
Even if the medical services were given away for “free”, court precedents still say that is commerce because someone had bought the car which transported the person to the clinic, someone bought fuel for the car, the clinic pays for electricity & other utilities, someone bought the paper and clipboard for the person who’s asking for the abortion to fill out her medical information, etc.
 
And, yes, court cases have gotten that specific and picky in the past when claiming the federal government’s prerogative over regulating interstate commerce. Studied some of those cases in business law class back in the early 1980’s.
 
There’s no way for a state legislature to twist things to try to claim that interstate commerce isn’t interstate commerce. There’s just been too many attempts by state legislatures to do it...and too many failures in court as those attempts fall apart.
   

Dude, I cant believe that Wings of the Valkyrie will never again see the light of day, and yet CLOWN is still something I can pop over to the HERO store and buy...
 
 
 
 

While I agree, its a bit of a misunderstanding of the Hero System.   Its not your fault, its the fault of how Hero has been presented.  Hero isn't a game, its a game system, and Fantasy Hero isn't the game, its how to build the game.  There are multiple Fantasy Hero campaigns out there with other names and presentations including my own Jolrhos Campaign.  
 
Fantasy Hero is what the GM buys to build his own campaign.  The campaign settings are what you get when you want a brand name or someone else's campaign.
 
As an aside, I think it all should have been "Champions" not "Hero".  So you had "Fantasy Champions" to help tie into the most popular game title.

Now I am sad....

While I get all the outpouring of 'you can't do that because you don't know when the phase ends,' if I have the high DEX, I can decide to go last. 
 
If I have a held action and count heads, I can decide to go last-er.
 
 

This is a good tip, the kind of thing Goodman would have brought up
 
 
But that would be fun