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Now, it's the only role-playing game you'll ever need." [15] Ken Cliffe reviewed the 4th edition of Champions for White Wolf, rating it 3 out of 5 overall, and stated that "I recommend this book to anyone already familiar with the hero system, and suggest the Champions game to anyone who enjoys exact, complicated role-playing. To those looking ...
Dark Champions: Modern-day Action Adventure such as non-superpowered vigilantes, military or law enforcement, international espionage, etc. Horror Hero: Stories played for fright, usually featuring normal people facing (or fleeing) supernatural evil or other Things Man Was Not Meant To Know.
The Hero System is a generic role-playing game system that was developed from the superhero RPG Champions.After Champions fourth edition was released in 1989, a stripped-down version of its ruleset with no superhero or other genre elements was released as The Hero System Rulesbook in 1990.
Besides the Hero System itself, Hero Games is also the publisher of genre books which supplement the generic system: Champions, a role-playing game where players can create and play superheroes; Fantasy Hero, where characters operate in a fantasy setting; Star Hero, which uses science fiction settings; Dark Champions, which simulates various forms of the action-adventure genre; and many other ...
Champions II is the first published rules supplement for Champions, and presents new skills and powers for characters, as well as innovations on the combat system for the game, and guidelines on how to design headquarters and vehicles, and also contains many other charts and descriptions, record sheets, and short pieces describing topics such as ordinary people, non-player characters ...
An attribute is a piece of data (a "statistic") that describes to what extent a fictional character in a role-playing game possesses a specific natural, in-born characteristic common to all characters in the game. That piece of data is usually an abstract number or, in some cases, a set of dice.
A character sheet from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. A character sheet is a record of a player character in a role-playing game, including whatever details, notes, game statistics, and background information a player would need during a play session. Character sheets can be found in use in both traditional and live-action role-playing games.
In 1981, Hero Games published the superhero role-playing game (RPG) Champions that used the "Hero System" set of rules.Hero Games subsequently published a second- and third-edition of Champions, but ran into financial difficulty, and was eventually taken over as a subsidiary of I.C.E.