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You have a High Magic Campaign where Common magics for NPCs are Shrinking & Growth (10 inches to 4 Meters), teleportation once a day up to 40 meters, and invisibility once a day. How would you defend your homes, castiles, lands, country, etc. from thieves, soldiers, etc. that would be invading, breaking in, etc? What kind of traps would you build? What type of magics would you place to keep things safe? Thanks for the ideas and help.

I haven't seen this yet. Bundle of Holding is offering two more HERO System bundles! Fantasy Hero 4E & 5E Essentials includes in its Core Collection Fantasy Hero for 5e, Fantasy Hero Grimoire I and II, Monsters, Minions and Marauders, and HERO System Sidekick, all for 5th edition; adding the Bonus Collection gives you Fantasy Hero for 4e, the Fantasy Hero Companions I and II for 4e, Asian Bestiary I and II (5e), Fantasy Hero Battlegrounds, and Map Archive I for Martial Arts and Fantasy. Fantasy Hero Settings includes in the Core Collection Urban Fantasy Hero, Nobles, Knights, and Necromancers, The Book of Dragons, and Enchanted Items; the Bonus Collection includes The Turakian Age, The Valdorian Age, The Atlantean Age, and Tuala Morn. Ten percent of each payment (after payment gateway fees) for these two Fantasy Hero offers will be evenly split between the two charities designated by Jason Walters of Hero Games, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Down Home Ranch. Thanks Jason!

Has anyone run or played in Fantasy Hero scenarios where the point is to investigate a crashed starship or other science fictional elements? If so how did it go? What source materials did you use?

D&D Beyond Like Tool for Hero Games or something like the Beyond Tool Is there an online website/service that provides something like the Online Character Tools with mouse hover links to more details about the object under the mouse. I've been using the D&D Beyond tool for the last year and my players really like the tool. Is there something similar to that for players and GM's in the Champions/Heroes rules set? It doesn't have to be an all inclusive tool but I'd definitely like something for the following: Online Character Sheet Campaign Notes Rules lookup or maybe a place to store and access PDF's. Bonus Points if there is some kind of tool to manage/store/present maps with Grid/Hex overlay options.

Greetings Fellows, I'm an old school 4th/5th edition player who left for a decade and I'm returning and I have convinced my 5th Edition D&D players to try out the Hero Mechanics. I'm looking for the following: 1) A 6th edition Form Fillable PDF tailored for Fantasy Hero Character Sheet 2) DM Screen in both Portrait and Horizontal mode. In addition I'm attempting to take the taxonomy from D&D 5th edition and translate it as closely as possible to Hero 6th edition mechanics. My goal is that a D&D player could walk into my group and be handed a character sheet with D&D terms and feel comfortable. For example if the Rogue says I'd like to take my uncanny dodge action I would in turn just say OK and handle the mechanics on my end with my cheat sheet and just give the player the target number to roll on 3d6. The same kind of thing is true for something like a Saving Throw. While these two mechanics don't have a clear mechanic in the world of Hero 6th Edition I want to keep the look and feel there but just use the Hero Mechanics instead. I've read the Killer Shrike Blog fairly heavily and I've taken a lot of inspiration from there. Can someone help me begin my journey and help me find the GM screen and Character Sheet? If you've gone done a similar road in converting D&D players please share any tips/tricks, or examples of things like how you converted the spells to match the thematic of the D&D flavor. Thanks in advance.

Does anyone run, or play in, games where ambient mana levels make a difference to spellcasting? I'm curious as to how you do it. I wrote something up a long time ago on the subject, and if I can find it I'll post it somewhere. I'd like to see what other people do. Edit to add: I found it at archive.org; it's pretty embarrassingly bad, so I'm not actually going to post it anywhere.

Hello folks, After a long absence here because of a serious medical emergency, and a very looooooong hospital stay, I am back. This same emergency, somewhat resolved, has forcibly retired me, giving me a lot of free time. In that free time I have been with a group on Roll20.net happily playing games on weekends. Discussions with a friend, and a few players, motivated me, to take the remains fo a failed comic idea from a few years ago, and use the ideas for a Fantasy Race. So I floated the idea to the other players, and managed to make them work in Pathfinder (1), and and D&D5e. The results worked better than expected and they became an appealing choice for several of the players in both game systems. The race were "The Lupines" , a race of "beast men" based on Wolves, though their origins were obscure. We had Lupine Barbarians, Magic Users, a unique rogue, and a rather successful Paladin. Discussions lead to the possibility of making this an RPG book, with the stats a bit of write up in each system, and including example characters. Well, my first love is the Herosystem, and I wanted to include Hero stats. his leads me to some questions for those that are Herosystem experts. The current idea is to put the states and write ups for each system in their own sections, For ther Hero Section( and for prospective players), what would be most useful in a book that details a fantasy race? My deepest familiarity in the Herosystem myself, is The Big Blue Book, and before. I may own 5th edition, but it was at the tail end of my old Gaming period ( that ended in 1996) and I don't think I ever used the books. 6th Edition came out and faded from store shelves before I came to Revisit the table top hobby. Would it be acceptable to release the racial package deals in BBB format? What point levels are people mostly playing Fantasy Hero these days? In general most "racial Package Deals". would be 0-5 points, with cultural package deals around 10-15 points, or so. Other than a general descriptive text, what else would people like? We have had some successful PCs and those might become example characters (and NPCs). If so, How many? the page look, layout and formatting of Pathfinder and D&D are known and often generally dupicated for effect on Imgur, and Deviantart. These tend to be specific fonts, backgrounds and "painted" art. On the pages for D&D5e and Pathfinder, I will follow the "look" of the parent systems. That means full color digital paintings of the NPCs and example. What format for Herosystem should I follow? As it was in print in 1995? Is there a preferred formatting for the "current year"? Should I go full color? The Objective is a high quality, though probably not very long PDF. If I wanted to charge for it: Should I?, If so, How much? ($12.00 US too much?). And if I finish this PDF, what sort of distribution is there available? I have heard of Drivethrough RPG, but have never shopped there. Any hints? Hopefully my co-author, and myself will be able to put out an attractive package for Hero as well as other systems. We may use this as the cover, depicting the previous mentioned Paladin.

I'm in the (very slow) process of designing a setting for Fantasy Hero and one of the things I'm including is different fighting styles for different regions. For instance, a traditional early middle ages land might have warriors wearing chain armor or the equivalent and trained mostly in sword and shield, while another region might have developed a fighting style based on lighter armor and using a long weapon in the primary hand and a shorter one in the off hand and so on. The issue I'm facing is that I've always disliked how HERO automatically uses martial maneuvers to build fighting styles. I think it works fine for "traditional" martial arts but for something like a sword and shield style I've always wondered why not just buy bonuses to the regular combat maneuvers along with designing things like a "shield bash" attack. Other than the martial maneuvers giving a cost break, combining several bonuses (and sometimes a penalty) to a single maneuver and allowing the purchase of damage classes, all of which result in a lower cost than buying all of those individually, I don't see a compelling reason for me not to design the styles without using Martial Maneuvers. For instance a character might buy +3 OCV Only to Block with Sword or the like. So am I right? Does doing it my way mean the ability to create more customization by modifying existing maneuvers with the only drawback being that it costs more points? Thoughts? Comments? Observations? Thanks.

Norfressa Fro Wizards View File updated: Removed typo to print appearance twice Submitter dlapine Submitted 06/04/2018 Category Export Formats Output Format HTML (Browser) Rules Version HERO System 5th Edition  

Norfressa For Wizards View File 4 page Template for Fantasy Hero 5th edition. Based on the default template. Designed for two-sided printing. Prints the real costs for items in a VPP, so that spell casters can immediately see what real points each slot is using. Includes point totals for each section in the header and Total Equipment costs in SP Includes a PSL section in the combat summary Pg1 Characteristics/combat tables Pg2 Skills/Powers Pg3 Martial Arts/Perks/Talents Pg4 Disads/Equipment NOTE: use the first 2 lines of skills for PSL or leave them blank! The template will print the first two skills as PSL's Submitter dlapine Submitted 06/04/2018 Category Export Formats Output Format HTML (Browser) Rules Version HERO System 5th Edition