Hero System Guide - Resources for Hero Gamers

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Hero System Guide - Resources for Hero Gamers

Who needs 15 different kinds of dice? The Hero System answers "NOBODY!" with12d6 Energy Blast to the face. The only thing a d4 is good for is stabbing your foot when you accidentally step on one. Hero Gamers do it with more dice. And we LOVE it that way.

"GM: How much damage did you do?"
"PLAYER: Let me get back to you on that."

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Hero System Core Books

The Hero System 5th Edition Revised Rulebook

This is it, the legendary tome that can stop a bullet. Not currently in stock on the Hero Store, so you will have to get gouged for $75 on Amazon if you want one. Hero Games sells a PDF version on their store also.

Hero System 5th Edition (revised)

Amazon Price: $374.28 (as of 06/01/2012)Buy Now

  • The complete HERO System 5th Edition rules, revised and updated to to address commonly-asked questions, improve clarity, and make the rulebook easier to use
  • Hundreds of options for Hero gamers, allowing you to better create and define characters, abilities, vehicles, and more
  • Over 300 example powers, gadgets, abilities, weapons, and spells for all genres
  • A dozen sample characters, from all the major genres, along with guidelines about how to use the HERO System

Additional 5th Edition Rulebooks

Hero System: Combat Handbook by Steven S. Long

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...0 points

Hero System Bestiary by Steven Long


No matter what time period, genre, or setting your campaign focuses on, there are sure to be animals in it. The HERO System Bestiary provides all the information you need to use creatures in your campaign, including full character sheets for dozens of animals. It includes not only real-world animals, like elephants and tigers, but fantastic creatures such as griffons and unicorns, the strange beasts of science fiction, and lots of other great stuff.0 points

Character Creation Handbook (Hero System) by Steven S Long


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 enj...0 points

Hero System Equipment Guide by Steven S. Long


You want gear? You got it! The HSEG compiles existing weapons, gadgets, and gear from Heroic genre and Ultimate books such as Dark Champions, Fantasy Hero, The Ultimate Martial Artist, Star Hero, and other HERO System books, supplements it with additional gear, and reformats and updates it to bring it up to Fifth Edition, Revised rules and layout standards. It's a must-have reference work for any HERO System fan!0 points

Hero System Vehicle Sourcebook by Steven S. Long

A follow-up to The Ultimate Vehicle, this sourcebook uses TUV's rules to build hundreds of vehicles - ranging from horse-drawn carriages, to automobiles, to tanks, to ships, to airplanes, to starships, and everything in between! No matter what time period, genre, or setting your character or campaign features, you'll find lots of great vehicles you can use in the HERO System Vehicle Sourcebook!0 points

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Champions

Champions RPG Sourcebooks

UNTIL Superpowers Database by Steve Long

UNTIL Superpowers Database by Steve Long

UNTIL, the United Nations's quasi-military arm, ke more...0 points

Champions of the North (Champions RPG) by Scott Bennie

Champions of the North (Champions RPG) by Scott Bennie

INTO THE NORTH The United States isn t the only pl more...0 points

Teen Champions by Allen Thomas

Teen Champions by Allen Thomas

"I can't fight Dr. Destroyer now - I've got t more...0 points

Stronghold (Champions RPG) by Steven S Long, John Lees

Stronghold (Champions RPG) by Steven S Long, John Lees

Supervillains are a tough bunch. Some can lift doz more...0 points

Hidden Lands (Champions) by Darren Watts; Allen Thomas

Hidden Lands (Champions) by Darren Watts; Allen Thomas

The Champions Universe contains many places and pe more...0 points

Champions Universe by Steve Long, Darren Watts

Champions Universe by Steve Long, Darren Watts

The first setting book for Champions details the w more...0 points

Millenium City by Darren Watts

Millenium City by Darren Watts

Built over the ruins of the old city of Detroit, M more...0 points

Champions Universe II: News of the World (Champions) by Darren Watts, Steven S Long

Champions Universe II: News of the World (Champions) by Darren Watts, Steven S Long

RETURN TO THE CHAMPIONS UNIVERSE! It s been five y more...0 points

Champions by Aaron Allston

Champions by Aaron Allston

This, the first genre book for the HERO System 5th more...0 points

Vibora Bay (Champions) by Darren Watts, Steven Long

Vibora Bay (Champions) by Darren Watts, Steven Long

Located on the Gulf Coast of Florida, Vibora Bay i more...0 points

Viper by Scott Bennie; Steve Long

Viper by Scott Bennie; Steve Long

The most infamous organization of the new Champion more...0 points

Galactic Champions by Darren Watts

Galactic Champions by Darren Watts

Superheroes in space! Galactic Champions is your p more...0 points

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Fantasty Hero

Fantasy Hero Sourcebooks

Monsters, Minions & Marauders (Fantasy Hero) by Steven S. Long

Monsters, Minions & Marauders (Fantasy Hero) by Steven S. Long

What's a fantasy game without monsters and enemies to fight? Monsters, Minions, And Marauders is an enemies book for Fantasy Hero. It features not only common "generic" monsters (such as orcs, ogres, giants, and trolls), but a generous selection of named adversaries from the Turakian Age setting.0 points

The Fantasy Hero Grimoire by Steve Long

The Fantasy Hero Grimoire by Steve Long

If there's one thing a fantasy game needs more than anything else, it's spells - magic is one of the major defining elements of the genre. While the HERO System provides gamers with the unfettered flexibility to create any type of spell or magical power they desire, sometimes they don't have the time or desire to do all the work themselves. The Fantasy Hero Grimoire satisfies their needs by providing hundreds of pre-built spells for wizards and other spellcasting characters.0 points

The Turakian Age by Steven S. Long

The Turakian Age by Steven S. Long

The first setting book for Fantasy Hero, the Turakian Age sourcebook describes what Earth was like tens of thousands of years ago, when the shape of the land was different and magic ruled the world. Detailing dozens of kingdoms and lands (from the mighty Hargeshite Empire of Vashkhor, to the black and mysterious realm of Thfn, to the windswept Gorthundan Steppes), a complete magic system with dozens of new spells, an entire pantheon of exotic gods, and hundreds of opportunities for adventure, it...0 points

The Valdorian Age (Fantasy Hero) by Allen Thomas

The Valdorian Age (Fantasy Hero) by Allen Thomas

This setting book for Fantasy Hero details the epoch after the Turakian Age - a time of swords and sorcery, sword-wielding warrior-lords, beautiful princesses, mysterious magic, and dark, ancient cults. The book includes information on the realms of the Valdorian world, a complete magic system with over a hundred pre-generated spells and detailed rules for priestly magic, and enough adventure ideas and possibilities to satisfy any GM.0 points

Fantasy Hero Grimoire II by Steven S. Long

Fantasy Hero Grimoire II by Steven S. Long

This sequel to the popular Fantasy Hero Grimoire provides players and GMs with hundreds more useful and exciting spells and types of magic, including Shamanism, Rune Magic, Chaos Magic, Song Magic, Black Magic, and more!0 points

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