Core Rulebook, Hardcover by Hero Games
"5E Revised" will correct typos and errata from the original printing, but also features lots of new content, including an additional chapter ("The HERO System Genre By Genre"), important new Power Modifiers and Adders, more ease-of-use features, even better art and layout, and all the Rules FAQ answers we can possibly cram in.
One of the HERO System’s greatest strengths is its character creation rules, which allow you to create any type of character you can dream up and to define his abilities as precisely as you need. The basic rules in Chapter One of The HERO System 5th Edition, Revised rulebook, combined with the more advanced or genre-specific rules in various HERO System books, provide the most detailed and flexible character creation rules available.
To help your game run as smoothly and enjoyably as possible, The HERO System Character Creation Handbook compiles the character creation rules from The HERO System 5th Edition, Revised rulebook with key character creation rules from supplements like Champions and Fantasy Hero to create a comprehensive HERO System character creation reference. Additionally, The HERO System Character Creation Handbook supplements that material with new rules, expanded and clarified rules, and other information so you have all the character creation rules you need right at your fingertips!
Dice Set by Hero Games
Set of six black d6 with green numbers. Each number has a green dot underneath it apart from the six which has two dots. There is no 'One' but instead a hexagon with the Hero logo on it.
Each face measures 18mm.
No matter what genre, time period, or setting your campaign takes place in, the HERO System Bestiary has creatures & monsters for you to use! Designed for use with any HERO System game, the Bestiary describes dozens of real-world animals, fantastic beasts, an strange creatures from movies and science fiction. Each one comes with notes about how to adapt it for different types of games and player characters.
Hero System Sourcebook by Hero Games
When you’re fighting the battle of your life and the fate of the world is on the line, it helps to have all the combat rules in one place! That’s what the HSCH does: it compiles all the existing HERO System combat rules in one easily-referenced volume. Starting with the entire text of Chapter Two of the Fifth Edition, Revised, it adds information and optional rules about combat from books like The Ultimate Martial Artist, Fantasy Hero, The Ultimate Brick, and other sources. It’s the perfect one-stop shopping place for HERO System combat rules, and a book that no HERO System fan will want to be without!
Sometimes it's tough being a hero...so Hero Games has put together a few things to help you out! The Hero System Resource Kit contains play aids and gaming utilities to make your Hero System games even more enjoyable.
"Where does he get those wonderful toys?" Right here, of course! Gadgets And Gear is full of super-heroic (and - villainous!) hardware: doomsday devices; jetboots; unbreakable weapons and shields; powered armour suits; web projectors; super-vehicles; and more! It's just what you need to help you design your superhuman characters.
This collection of occult evil-doers features villain teams and solo villains for your Mystic Champions campaign. It features villain teams, such as The Circle of the Scarlet Moon and The Kings of Edom, and solo villains like Black Fang and Hell Rider for GMs looking to bedevil their players.
Most gamers are familiar with the dragons, ogres, and vampires of European myth and legend - but not necessarily the Pennangalan of Malaysia, the Oni of Japan, the Ch'ing-shih of China, or any of dozens of other monsters from the lands of Asia. The Asian Bestiary provides complete details and character sheets for these wondrous beasts and demons for Fantasy Hero and Ninja Hero.
Most gamers are familiar with the dragons, ogres, and vampires of European myth and legend - but not necessarily the pennangalan of Malaysia, the oni of Japan, the ch'ing-shih of China, or any of dozens of other monsters from the lands of Asia. The Asian Bestiary II provides complete details and character sheets for more of these wondrous beasts and demons for Fantasy Hero and Ninja Hero.
THE TIME OF THE DESTROYER
Of all the villains in the Champions Universe, the most powerful and most feared is Dr. Destroyer. Gifted with phenomenal intelligence and possessing some of the most advanced technology on Earth, he’s dedicated all of his resources to conquering the world and defeating anyone who dares to oppose him.
The Book Of The Destroyer is your guide to everything Destroyer. It features:
* a thorough look at the man himself, including his personal history, his many attempts to take over the world, his personality and psychology, and detailed information about his powered armor
* complete information on Shadow Destroyer, a strange new denizen of the Champions Universe who seems to have taken Dr. Destroyer’s place
* character sheets and information about Dr. Destroyer’s followers, including supervillains, agents, and more
* descriptions of his technology, including weapons, vehicles, and his legions of robots
* details about and maps of his many secret headquarters and bases around the world (and beyond!)
* a chapter on gamemastering Dr. Destroyer, with tips on how to work him into your campaign, ideas for how he can interact with your heroes, and plot seeds
So tell your heroes to get ready - it’s time for them to face the might of Destroyer!
Champions Battlegrounds provides not only an exciting multi-part adventure that pits your heroes against some of the most fiendish villans of the Champions Universe, but also provides the Game Master with a set of detailed maps and descriptions of commonly-used locations suitable for a wide range of games.
Most superheroes and villains may live and fight in the United States, but America's neighbor to the North is no stranger to superhuman activity. Champions Of The North is your guide to the Champions Universe in Canada. Written by native Canadians and edited by Americans, it's the perfect resource for superheroic campaigning and adventure in the Great White North!
It’s been five years since the publication of Champions Universe, and a lot’s happened since then. Villains have come and gone, hero teams have gone through all sorts of changes, and more than one master villain has tried to take over or destroy the world. Champions Universe: News Of
The World takes a look at the current state of the Champions Universe setting and lets you in on everything that’s taken place.
Superheroes and supervillains exist around the world, not just in the United States. Champions Worldwide provides details about superhumans and superhuman activity in other parts of the world, such as Europe and Asia.
The first book of enemies for Champions, Conquerors, Killers and Crooks contains detailed character sheets and descriptions of nearly 100 supervillains, including old favourites like Dr. Destroyer, Foxbat and the Ultimates as well as plenty of new and exciting characters.
Not every organization in the Champions Universe is as big and powerful as VIPER or DEMON... but that doesn’t mean they’re not every bit as dangerous! Crews, Cops, And Cabals provides complete information about several organizations suitable for any Champions campaign. It includes the mutant-hating Institute for Human Advancement, bounty hunters who specialize in superhuman prey, the Metahuman Activities Response Squad of the Millennium City Police Department, laboratories dedicated to studying supertechnology, and many more.
Dark Champions discusses and describes the modern-day action-adventure genre for gaming, covering everything from costumed vigilante crimefighters, to spies, to cops, to military action stories, to weird conspiracies, and beyond. It shows how to create characters, campaigns, abilities, weapons, and other elements of the genre using the HERO System rules.
If you're eager for the thrills and adventure of crimefighting but don't like the guns and violence of regular Dark Champions campaigns, what you need is an "animated series" style campaign. Dark Champions: The Animated Series looks at the less grim side of vigilante crimebusting: caped crusaders with vigilante style but who refuse to kill; low-powered superheroes who fight street crime instead of world-threatening supervillains; "theme" villains with clever costumes and psychotic minds.
Criminals prowl the streets of Hudson City, always on the lookout for their next victim. This enemies book for Dark Champions describes these predators. It includes grotesque crimelords like Diomedes and the Kyphotic Man, cold-blooded assassins like Satan's Kiss and Andres Panthanatos, mercenary villains like Guillotine and Jackknife, vicelords like Caligular and Cleopatra, wily thieves like Chiaroscuro and Dagger, and serial killers like Siddhartha and the Shrike. Whatever type of Dark Champions campaign you run, this book has just the villains you need.
This organization book for Champions describes in detail for the first time the secret arcane cabal known as DEMON. Hungry for wealth and power, and ever seeking a way to bring its Qliphothic lords to this realm to wreak havoc and terror, DEMON represents one of the gravest threats to the Champions Universe.
Not everyone can have superpowers and fight crime. But the guy selling newspapers down on the corner, the woman working as a receptionist for a superhero team, a lawyer specializing in defending supervillains, and a superhero's kid brother - all these are important characters, too, with stories of their own to tell and lots of flavor and adventure they can add to your Champions games. Everyman takes a look at these unsung, ordinary, but all too important people in ways that can add depth and excitement to any Champions character or campaign.
EVIL WITHIN YOUR GRASP!
As every Champions fan knows, you can never have too many great villains! But with so many Champions books in print, sometimes it’s hard to find just the villain you’re looking for without a lot of page-flipping.
That’s where Evil Unleashed comes in. It saves you the effort of carrying a lot of books to the gaming table and the time needed to look through them for the particular villain you want. It collects the villains from nearly a dozen supplements...
Champions
Champions Battlegrounds
Champions Universe
Millennium City
Sharper Than A Serpent’s Tooth
the Ultimate series
UNTIL
Vibora Bay
Villainy Amok
...and puts them between two covers so you only have to refer to one book when you’re searching for a superpowered bad guy. And for a little added fiendishness Evil Unleashed includes five all-new villains: the supervillain team Merc-Force 1; the mysterious, demonsouled supermage Josiah Brimstone; and Vixen, a swift and seductive cat burglar with other goals on her mind than just robbery.
So you’d better make sure your heroes out on patrol tonight keep their eyes open! Some evil’s about to be unleashed on your campaign....
Has your character ever been on an adventure and found himself without just the right weapon or tool for the situation? That won't happen again if you've got The HERO System Equipment Guide, a comprehensive collection of gadgets, weapons, devices, gizmos, and tools for your HERO System games. Within this virtual equipment locker you'll find:
* Swords, bows, armour, and other weapons reprinted and revised from Fantasy Hero and The Ultimate Martial Artist
* Guns, bullets, and firearms accessories reprinted and revised from Dark Champions
* Explosives and other weapons reprinted and revised from Dark Champions, including all-new material on poisons, chemical and biological weapons, and nuclear bombs
* Body armour and other modern-day gear reprinted and revised from Dark Champions
* Blasters, lasers, powered armour, robots, and other equipment reprinted and revised from Star Hero
The Champions Universe contains many places and races hidden from the sight and attention of everyday people. Whether they’re benevolent or evil, each of them may create peril or trouble for your heroes. Hidden Lands covers the fabulous undersea realm of Atlantis, the utopia of Arcadia, located deep in a temperate valley in Antarctica, the lost empire of Lemuria, which sank beneath the waves long ago due to its own evil and hubris, and other strange and secret places in the Champions Universe.
HERO Games presents the first supplement for its new Dark Champions line! Situated on the southern coast of New Jersey, Hudson City is a gleaming, modern metropolis - and a cesspool of crime, corruption, and evil. Hudson City: The Urban Abyss details this setting for Dark Champions, from its prominent citizens, to the criminals who run empires of vice and blood on the streets, to its scenic (and often dangerous) locations.
MONSTERS, MINIONS, AND MARAUDERS!
Located just a hundred miles from Japan is a strange and deadly island - a place where gigantic alien monsters battle one another for supremacy, evil entities search for artifacts of power, and villainous organizations scheme and collaborate. This is Monster Island, where even the boldest, strongest superheroes come face to face with enemies powerful enough to give them pause.
Monster Island is your guide to the entire island, including: a detailed history of Monster Island, from its creation by the alien Qularr in 1965 up to the present day character sheets for the giant monsters living on the island information on Bureau 17, the Japanese organization that keeps the monsters under control a region-by-region review of every area of the island - Wayfarer Coast; Slither Beach; Wells’ Pass; the Feral Tangle; the ARGENT Corporate Wildlife Preserve; Echinocos Shore; and Andrithal - with plenty of maps of key locations a description of the various factions competing for power and territory on the island - such as the Qularr, VIPER, the Elder Worm, and the Lemurians - including their leaders, lieutenants, and resources Inspired by and based on the Monster Island zone from the Champions Online massively multiplayer online roleplaying game, Monster Island is lavishly illustrated with screenshots, character pictures, and other art taken directly from the game. So get your heroes ready for their greatest challenge yet: Monster Island!
