One of the early crossovers in tabletop gaming .It was fun back in the day .

There are few systems that can do what I want, and Hero is simply top-tier when it comes to flexibility, depth and allowing any type of game the GM is willing to put the work into. Yes, there will be some work, this system is complex and packed with options.

The book is massive, and my only regret is that you cannot get this book in hardcover & color anymore. You may find book 2 in hardcover if you look hard.

Great update. The scan is good compared to the age of the product and even includes the 1st adventure.

Did you try the Amazon version? It's crystal clean https://a.co/d/fmVEvxU

First, the game. Champions 4e is in my opinion the best edition. It is the most complete since it has the entire Hero System book with it. It also avoids being over saturated the way 5e and 6e does.

Second, we discuss the POD. It’s not very good. It’s pixelated. Not just the art. All of the print is pixelated making the text blurry. It still works and will allow you to get this older game for a reasonable price.

This is a well-researched reference and setting book covering the Victorian Era. It reminds me of the HERO Settings book I grew up reading. If you enjoy Steampunk or playing by gaslight this is for you. If you’re like me, and you love the high drama of this era, popularized by Detective Stories like Enola and Sherlock Homes or Moriarty you will find much of interest in this book. Perhaps, you’re looking to run a good old monster of the week or something more cross genre like Penny Dreadful or League of Extraordinary Gentleman, this work will guide you. Do you like the 1999 Mummy? If you want to run or play a game built around any of those ideas, you have found the right source.

The book thoroughly covers the Victorian Era Including famous people, Organization and Conspiracies. It covers London of the era in detail, including locations for adventure and exploration. It also has all the useful Hero System information of how to create Victorian Characters, the Victorian Monsters those characters will face, and a lengthy list of campaigns made easy using this book. Perhaps you want your players to face an Anfac on the High Moorse of Scotland, cross blades with Spring-Heeled Jack or just meet a time traveler and his time machine from some unknowable future this book has all that and more.

Not an easy read but great content nonetheless. Edwards capture the essence of the hero rpgs with a touch of his own style.

Really enjoy and appreciate this book! I love the Hero System already, and in particular love the universal quality of the system that encourages genre mashing. This is a nice intro to an urban fantasy setting with the fantasy out in the open, not a secret world per se. I can use other Hero System supplements to flesh it out with equipment, magic etc. I in particular use the Monster Hunter International supplement with this to get a slightly more gritty feel. I would love to see more material for this as a campaign!

I'm rather new to the world of TTRPGs, but I wanted to try a superhero campaign and bought this to have some inspiration for an urban city environment. The biggest thing I feel like I should make clear to potential buyers is that it was very well-detailed, but it is DATED. I know that it is marked here as being updated in 2016, but I believe that this book was originally written sometime around 2003 - which is now going on 20 years ago!

I'm sure this would have been invaluable back then, and there's still a huge chunk of very useable source material that you can use as a base or inspiration for your own setting. But make no mistake, this is a "city of the future" as written before smartphones.

As is, it's an interesting time capsule of projected future tech - similar to the dissonant amused feeling you get from watching original Star Trek episodes, where they have spaceships and instant teleportation and yet Captain Kirk pulls out a giant brick of a walkie-talkie instead of a cellphone. Millennium City has skyscrapers littered with holographic billboards and only allows self-driving cars on its roads - but also has a healthy population of "Information Kiosks", newstands with payphones and "internet connection booths". It's difficult to not feel dated when a potential campaign hook has Mayor Biselle planning to run as "the first African American president".

As an aside, I felt like the portrayal of the police and their relationship the citizens of Detroit (which as of now boasts an 80% black population) was also a reflection of an unfortunately dated time period, as the social nuance of the last few years has come into hard conflict with the copaganda attitude that prevailed most of media in the early 2000s.

None of this is the actual fault of the writers of this book, who I'm sure did their best projections as to what the near future would appear like. But as someone wanting to do a modern campaign, I was a little taken aback by how dated the setting was. We are as far from the Y2K era as the writers of this were to the 1980s, but as long as you are aware of this going in, there's a lot to admire about the detail given to this location.

I do not know if there are any plans to make a completely updated version for the 2020s, or perhaps a new superhero location altogether, but I would be incredibly interested in it, especially if it was given the attention to detail that this book currently has. However, I feel like it falls short of what was promised as far as a modern setting goes, and I would have been more hesitant to purchase it had I known it was suited for a more retro campaign. Ultimately, Millennium City feels appropriately named, but as a relic of the millennial past instead of future I assume it initially intended.

A nice short ambient piece, with a meditative vibe. You could certainly use this as a theme for a recurring character or locale in an RPG.

This is a superbly thought-out campaign setting, based on the geopolitics of a near-future alternate Earth experiencing First Contact with aliens. It's a very original concept, well worth trying out with your RPG group.

A handy 1-pager for building starting equipment for non-supers in Champions / Hero System. Easily adapted to any other RPG rules.

Awesome soundtrack to set the tone when the big hero arrives in your RPG.

A very handy little guide for how to build all kinds of normal objects in the Hero System. Easily adapted to other game systems.

A comprehensive overview of a classic superhero role-playing game. Well edited, full colour layout (in the PDF) and confidently written with real authority. You will not find a more encycopedic book about the history of the genre or running games of this type. The provision of customisable archetypes is welcome, as it provides a quick way to get into the game which is appreciable given the compexity of the standard character generation process.

You do need a core rule book to play it, however, whether it is Champions Complete or the Hero System volumes. It is a pity the developers didn't simply expand the book to make it complete the first time round.