Hero System
Hero System
Hero System Links
- Surbrook's Stuff Huge quantity of varied information. Hundreds of character write-ups (all genres), anime and manga "worldbooks" (campaign notes), and even an extensive art gallery. Most pages without images.
- Bob's Original Hero Stuff Page 6 Champions scenarios based on the original Champions Universe. Articles, including corporate teams and a diceless combat system. Champions characters. Magic and Vehicles Fuzion plug-ins. Fantasy Hero Spell Colleges. PC die roller and combat scheduler utility programs.
- Hero System References and Tables from the Hero 4 rules: Character Disadvantages; Powers Summary; Advantages Summary; Combat Manuevers; and Combat Reference Tables. Also detailed new Research and Tech Level rules.
- Kestrel Enterprises Role Playing Games Page Christopher Taylor: Hero house rules (inc 0 cost MA, skill learning); Fantasy Hero Haran campaign background zip files (Grimoire, Intro, Weapons, Equipment, Armor, Herbs, Elf Archers, Dwarves, Paladins); beautiful art sketches.
- The Hero's Adventuring Guild Currently only has The Hero's Adventuring Ring, webring of pages with resources and services for AD&D and Hero System/Champions.
- Hero Games Company Site Not only the publishers of the system, but a useful site in its own right. Order Hero Plus books and software online. Download the Fuzion system for free. The Digital Hero pages contain useful gaming articles and character writeups.
- The Official Haymaker! Homepage Haymaker! is an amateur press association magazine (APAzine, or fanzine) about Champions and the rest of the Hero System founded in 1992. It is a collaborative effort of many of Hero System's best authors, and is a proving ground for many story ideas, characters, mechanics, general rules, or whatever the contributors want to write about.
- Glomertam's Library Resources for AD&D and Hero System. Hero System resources include a few items, a bestiary, and house rules.
- Jeff Barrett: Champions and Hero PDF and PageMaker character sheets and references.
- Brian's Hero Games Pages Details of characters, campaign backgrounds, and other information for Fantasy, Pulp, Traveller, and Western Hero, with emphasis on a Fantasy Hero campaign set in 16th century Japan.
- Hero Links Sengoku Campaign - 16th century Japan, with character sheets, maps, adventure threads, background information and fiction. Gothick Empires campaign - Fantasy Hero, magic and technology in a renaissance-era setting. Characters and character art from other games. Random Fantasy Hero character generator for NPCs for Gothick Empires. House rules (mostly for Heroic-level games) also adopted by other groups.
- The Wild Hunt Ghost Archer and the Wild Hunt: superhero campaign in the San Francisco Bay area. Tribute to the Uncanny X-Men. Hundreds of character write ups, picture galleries. Tark's Fantasy Hero pages including large general store of item costs and weights. Hero System rules page.
- Red October BBS files Red October was the semi-official Hero BBS for many years. The Mactyres now host this archive of Articles, Campaign Backgrounds, Characters, Rules, and Supplemental Material. The real treasures are in the File area, but only in Zipped text, unfortunately.
- Philosopher Hero House rules, including incomplete characters, new powers, and meta-powers. Primordial campaign description.
- Champions POC List Points of Clarity (or FAQ) for the Champions/Hero System mailing list. Well written and authoritative, with quotes from the Hero authors.
- EZ Hero Online bimonthly magazine for the HERO System, covering multiple genres with characters, plots, props, and gaming advice. PDF format archives and excerpts from current issue.
- Gold Rush Games Company supporting Hero Games second only to Hero Games itself. Publishers of the well received (Astro-City-like) San Angelo, City of Heroes Champions setting; also Usagi Yojimbo and Sengoku for Fuzion.
- Game Master's Superpowered Web Site Home of: the Gamemaster's SuperPowered Companion - a DOS based program to run Hero System combat; QuickRoll Die Table Generator - will print random charts of 5d6 to 20d6 rolls that are cross indexed to a single % roll; alternative PostScript character sheets.
- The Stuff Heroes Are Made Of Home of the Champions Mailing List (4 week archive). "Justice League of Alabama" campaign site: writeups & annals. Comprehensive Hero and Superhero Amazon on-line book store. 20 package deals, 2 Fantasy Hero magic systems, 50 items, jousting. 13 comic book writeups. Cardboard Heroes jpegs. MSH SAGA to Hero conversion. LOTS of links. Great site, though some blank pages.
- Circle of Heros An exclusive ring of webpages dedicated to the best sites on the Net that are of particular interest to Hero System players and GMs.
- Fitz's HERO System Roleplaying Page Information on several campaigns (Fantasy, Space Opera, Pulp) as well as some useful charts and graphics for tabletop miniatures.
- Tarsier's Hero Pages Optional rules for Hero System, The Masked World Champions play-by-email campaign, Crystal Sun fantasy hero setting, and original art work (superhero and fantasy).
- Power Point Homepage Power Point is Dave Mattingly's column that appears in the Champions APAzine, "Haymaker!". Online articles as well as descriptions of print-only articles.
- Hero System FTP Archives The Hero System archive at ftp.cs.pdx.edu used to be the main Internet Hero repository before the Web, rivalling Red October. Still have many Champions characters, FH beasties and spell colleges, house rules, spreadsheets, and other files. Most GZip format.
- HERO System Movement and Throwing Tries to more consistently follow the laws of physics, without becoming overly complex.
- Haymaker, the Hero System Role-Playing Zine The site is mostly an archive of tables of contents, but Dave Mattingly's PowerPoint Hero rules columns are on-line, and excellent, both visually and in their content.
- WebRPG Hero Games Town Hall Web-based bulletin board that the Hero authors read and respond to regularly. Separate discussions include Champions, Fantasy Hero, Fuzion, System, and of course General.
- Unofficial Champions Home Page The first Champions Web page, Theala Sildorian's page is still worth looking at for the Hero Gossip column and Chris Avelone's Stick Figure Theater among others. It is rarely updated, though.
- HTML Hero Generate beautiful HTML table writeups for your Hero System characters. (Requires a Frames- and JavaScript-capable browser). Calculates characteristic costs, tracks character point totals, allows pasting in already generated pages for further editing. Source code available.
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