Have a game that could use more players?  While it won't substitute for the LFP thread on RPOL, you can post here where HERO fans will see for sure.
This message was last updated by the GM at 01:00, Fri 02 Aug 2019.

Imrunning a Champions game. The actual setting is a custom setting. Currently I have 14 players and I'm thinking of adding a co-GM. If interested PM or rMail me. I'm running a 6e game and this is my first go at actually running the system.

Already stated interest, dealing with some real life issues before sending the RTJ.
Can't very well do my best math if I'm exhausted now, can I?

Earth that was, got all used up.  Mankind left for the stars, trying to find a new solar system to populate.  They succeeded, finding a system with dozens of planets and hundreds of moons.  Many of these were terraformed to create hospitable environments for people to live.

The inner planets formed the core worlds and quickly became the most advanced.  Life on the outer planets is much rougher, where life and death come both quickly and cheaply.   Those core worlds quickly formed the Alliance, and wanted to bring the rest of the 'Verse under their care.  However, they did not expect the border worlds to wish Independence.

It has been 10 years since the war ended, who won is now irrelevant.  The Alliance now has jurisdiction over every inhabited planet, ideally policing the worlds and providing unimaginable comforts.  However, the reality is that not much has changed on the border, as the Alliance do not have the resources to hold them down.

Out on the rim, the laws are more felxible.  Many ships travel the darkness delivering cargo, whether it is on the right side of the law or not.



Welcome aboard the Nameless, being here obviously means you are interested in one of the currently Vacant positions on the Crew.  I am Lady Ileosa, owner of the Nameless.  Mainly my Captains are given free reign to transport and run the ship as they will, as long as I get my cut.

This is set in a Firefly-esque universe with a few changes that will be seen eventually.  It is also using the HERO 5th Edition Revised ruleset.

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This message was last edited by the player at 19:35, Sun 13 Mar 2011.

I am looking for one player for a Fallout HERO game.

In an attempt to preserve the vault society from rapidly diminishing resources and harware failures, Four shifts were created, three shifts would sleep in hibernation, one shift would be active.

ZAX computed the divison of Vault population based on a number of parameters, education, age, social standing, family structure.

Now you have been brought out of suspended animation to find the Vault in ditre need.

Told to find replacement T.H.O.R.N. chips, it appears you are to leave the Vault in order to save it.

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This game uses the HERO system 6th ed. Characters start at 100 points., 70 base with 30 points of Complications.

Traits from the original Fallout will be available.

Hello people! Old and returning Hero player and GM. I have The Basic Hero (6th ed) rulebook, and pdfs of both full volumes of Hero 6th edition rules. Looking to play some Hero system games. I am planning to do a Hero system 6th edition Champions game on rpol if there is any interest... but it will be a while before I am ready to GM  and run a game ... just in the ideas/brainstorming stage now.

Color me interested, Dieter.

I only have the 5th edition, but I'd still be interested, depending on the setting and the nature of the campaign.

Ok I will try to work out my campaign ideas a bit... thanks for the responses!

I look forward to there being a champions or other hero system game. So far I haven't had much luck in them lasting much beyond character creation

My last one got into the game, but I ran into problems with work and having too many players.

To many players can be much worse than not enough, I can remember game mastering a few sessions where I had 7 or 8 players. I prefer a smaller group of maybe 3 to 5 players, and I will maybe throw an npc into the player's group if they need help.

My typical stance is to only take 3-5 players, and never give them NPC help.  If they need that, then I should have an additional player to start with.  Usually, I just scale down to the group.

In that particular game there were at one point almost 15 players.  But I think if not for work I could have eventually managed all of them, being play-by-post.

However, with that being said, I think I'll open up a small 6e supers game.

15 players! Wow I am impressed, my brain would explode if I tried that I think.

I think I was IN that game, too.

Any games out there still needing players? Preferably a Supers style game, though I'm mainly trying to find a HERO system game so I can get to know the system better.

I got into a 5th ed hero champions game, just starting up on rpol, I will ask the gm if he wants/needs more players. If you are interested Look in the Players wanted thread for the game marked; "In an Infinite Universe (Hero 5th)"
This message was last edited by the player at 13:27, Wed 12 Oct 2011.

After my concept got totally trashed and most of the powers denied/torn apart or extra costs added to them because he doesn't like time manipulation. I am not interested in that game.

I might do a different character for another game but the fact taht I could have taken a magic theme or alien race theme and gotten same powers but without the hassle (he doesn't like the special effect) means I won't be in that game.

He told me he didn't want to even deal with me in discussing my character concept, so I won't be playing in that game. I don't want to play in a game where the GM says 'I'm denying the character outright cause I don't have time to deal with it' and then posts on the Looking For Players forum again saying "I need more players."

Sorry to here that people. I can assure you that once I am ready to GM A Champions game again, I won't be treating players like that. (Even potential players, because well, that's not the way I do things.)

Hopefully you'll be ready to run one soon :P I've only just started looking at it and trying to figure it out, but of course, the best way to learn a system is to play it.

I agree that is the best way.

I saw that one, but it is a little low-powered for my tastes.

Yeah, 150 pts with 150 disads is a bit harsh. Basically 50 pts more in disads (with corresponding powers) than the low/weaker super hero campaign (150 powers, 100 disads). Corporate sponsored team is obviously not going for cream of the crop and being very picky.

Someone whose parents weren't loyal to England were disqualified by their parent's view even if it isn't necessarily their own. It was adding a complication/issue in her background. (Her parents protested and marched for Irish freedom from England though they weren't terrorists)

I'll see how it goes... I don't know how long I'll last as a player.

Yeah, I think I've decided that I'm not such a good player either.  Though, at the Encounters session last night I had a table full of less experienced players frightened of my...creativeness in dealing with things.

But, alas, I'm more comfortable behind the screen.  But it seems as I grow older the fountain of ideas in my head dries up. :(

I'm considering running a fairly generic 4th ed game.

No real special plot twists (at least at the start). Bunch of heroes in a team take on various kinds of villainy.

Standard 100+150 game. Bronze age feel.

Any interest out there?

I would be but I only have 5th edition so 4th edition would be hard to make characters.

I might be interested, but do not know if I can find my  4th ed stuff.

In reply to BurningBones (msg #27):

By Bronze age, are we talking 'pulp' heroes or Bronze-Age sword and sorcery?

I was thinking "Bronze Age" would be either very modern supers (if Bronze Age corresponds to the Golden and Silver age terms in the comics) or old time stuff like the 1920s and 30s.

I might be interested.  I think I only have a 3rd edition book.  How different is 4th?

4th Edition is pretty different in its guts.

Character Creation is nearly identical but because there are differences in the guts of the Powers and whatnot, 3rd Edition will be minorly problematic for character creation.

By bronze age, I mean bronze age comics -- 1970s to mid-1980s. I only list that because that is when I broke my teeth on comics so it is in my head as what comic books are all about. The game would still be set more or less now, but the feel would be slightly older fashioned than today's comics.

I only own 4th edition, but we probably could work out issues. I'd like people to design characters off of character concepts more than min-maxing the rules anyway.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:29, Wed 28 Mar 2012.

I'm willing to work something out.
I'd always thought the 70s was Silver Age, but maybe that's just DC.   I read lots of comics back in those days, so I'm up for it.

I'm thinking more late 70s. And again, this is just the feel. Before the gritty, bloody, and sulking heroes all took over.

*grins*  Yes, the brooding 90s, especially the XMen and others was a little heavy at times.  Fun heroes with more straight forward stories works for me.

Sounds like a job for Wombatgirl.....

Now I REALLY want to play.

Okay, well I am getting another game off the ground and then will reassess my own level of commitment to a Champions game. I already have a bare bones game created, which people are welcome to take a look at.

No promises that this will become an actual game. The last thing I want to do is start a game if I don't have enough time to run it well.

With that warning ...

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This message was last updated by the GM at 00:59, Fri 02 Aug 2019.

I think that "potential game setting" looks fun.

I have something like a nightcrawler character... teleporting martial artist who's a smart-ass like Johnny Storm.

Having trouble squeezing the concept into 250, but I'll get there.
This message was last edited by the player at 04:14, Sat 31 Mar 2012.

Yes, it looks interesting.  I'm trying to think of a good character concept, though.

I've a concept that I've used before, a sort of reality-challenged mentalist, that was originally created in another system. It should fit well with the tone suggested.

I already submitted my concept for Wombatgirl, but she's kinda tough to squeeze into 250 pts. I can also pitch for Tantrum (kid Brick) or Sharpshooter (old-west gunslinger, grandson of Daniel Boone).

A 4th ed game, cool.  Are you still looking for players?  I will post a RTJ soon.

Well, I'm still debating whether I have time to run the game. But RTJ is fine.

Ok, have you considered having a co-GM?
This message was last edited by the player at 14:01, Sat 31 Mar 2012.

Go ahead and submit an RTJ.

I'm leaning toward going forward with the game.

Everybody wake up !

A Wanted - Players will be posted for a Morrow HERO campaign.

That is right, Morrow Project using HERO. 175 + 5 exp for character builds, 4 package deals
Science, Scout, MARS, Intelligence, or make up your own, GM IMO is flexible.

Really grounded, gritty 6th ed game.

Players and GM will help you with 6th ed, but really 98% the same as 5th ed.

Will repost Wnted - Players ad here after it goes up.

From Wanted - Players

BoloOfEarth
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Tue 25 Mar 2014
at 16:19


Players needed for Morrow Project Hero game

I am looking for players to join my Morrow Project Hero game in progress.  They will be members of a Recon team frozen in the early 1980s.

Characters are built on 175 points.  Character creation guidelines are posted on the game menu.

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Looking to add one player to my Dark Champions game set in Hudson city,

Notice up in Wanted Players,

Hudson City: Shards of Empire *M
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I'm looking for a total of 4 players for my game I'm reviving. I have 1 player right now.

In it you are members of the Texas Rangers in the fictional Division G with oversight ranging the state and covering superhuman activities.

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I need someone to take over my role as GM on my 6E Champions game. I have a team ready to go, but things at home need my attention more. The game has a co-GM who is working on his own team; he plans on running things in a different city, occasionally having plots that put both teams together (or have a hero or two come to visit).

So, anyone up for running Team One?

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Last HERO game I GM'd was 3rd edition. I daresay things have changed since then.

Did you already have an adventure planned out LonePaladin?

I was just getting that set up when this came up.

Someone has kindly taken over running that team for me, so now it's up to them.

Awesome, we need more HERO players on rpol.

Hope things settle down for you soon at home.

If anyone is looking for a game, JRScott and I are currently running [HERO 6e] Champion (link:link to another game). We have up to 3 spaces in Team 2.

Savage Heroes is accepting applicants.

If you enjoy the stories of Conan and want to write your own tales of glory and slaughter then this may be a game for you.

Opening up to fellow Herophiles before posting on Looking for Players.

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So essentially Fantasy Hero?

Yep, that's correct

Low Fantasy, no magic to start with.  Closest is the Divination skill.

Looking for one player to join my Dar Champions, realistic, gritty, Intrigue based campaign which started 32 months ago.

It is a different kind of Low powered emerging super powered game, in which the origin of powers is unknown and is based in a Hudson City, published by HERO, that is just breathing a sigh of relief after Crime Inc. was smashed and taken done, leaders either captured or killed.

No use of Money, a lot of House rules for flavor, all listed in Campaign guidelines.

This is not a Four Colored game, and it is dark (many applications of that adjective.)

You will be starting at the campaign start for points, but a rapid rise based on posting rate and you will start in a Solo thread until such time as paths cross with other characters.

I will ask players to post here for anything they would like to add.

If you ask me how long I think the campaign will continue, we are 2 years and 8  months in, my current players have barely scratched the surface for what I have planned, so I would say at least another three years.

I am looking for a player who has a stable life, can post at least four times a week, if not one post a day and possibly more.

I post at least three times a day for each player, depending on their rate.

I am so conversant with HERO mechanics I barely even see them, it's all narrative with mechanics acting as levers to get character work done.

Ask me anything here or in PM.

Highly recommend lensman's campaign.  Been part of it almost from the start; one of the longest running, best opportunities for character development I've had.  Great writing, great challening plot.

I quite agree. Lots of story development, plenty of mystery.

Hey so I previously ran a Hero 6E game on the site for a while. For personal reasons, I ended up fading out of communication and then coming back and announcing I needed to delete the game. However, I'm in a better place now, I think, and after having recently rewatched some of the Marvel movies, I felt like giving a game of this a second try. I feel like there were a lot of failings last time that I'll try to improve on. One is that I kind of came up with some ideas and wanted to stick too closely to them at times, even if they weren't good or didn't fit the team... So, what I want to do is get a group of 4-6 players, and we can all discuss characters together. Once that's done, I'll make scenarios appropriate for them to run through. This does mean there will likely be a few weeks without much/any progress after characters are made as I do some writing. I hope that will be okay. I'm looking to hear from the players what kind of game they want to play, but kind of in the spirit of the Avengers, I was thinking maybe higher-powered heroes to start out with, that act as the world's apocalypse response team, as opposed to a fresh team that handles whatever issues occur in their area. But like I said, I'm looking to discuss this more with my players when everyone's on board.

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In reply to Cody Reimers (msg # 64):

It seems there are few responses to be had during holiday breaks, but I'll bite. I'm still trying to keep my game (link to another game) going, and would always welcome new blood. In addition I'm always ready to try someone else's game. Toss me some guidelines and I'll jump right in.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:49, Fri 27 Dec 2019.

If you're looking for fresh blood, I suppose I could look at joining your game, Soulsight. For my game, I'm looking to get one more player; then it will be up to popular vote what power level and genre we play. Though obviously if I feel I'm not up to something (e.g. Dark Champions) then I won't be doing that. So no guidelines as of yet. I'm waiting to get one more person then conversation will continue at my game.

I've taken the plunge and decided to try my hand at running a game here.  Let's see how long it takes for me to crash and burn.</sarcasm>

I'm looking to put together a group of 5 or 6 like-minded players, with collaborative character creation and world building to follow.

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Wish me luck.

It's a hard road your starting down. Sometimes you just gotta accept the silence.
I should know.
Yep, I would say I'm familiar with the silence.

Good luck!  You'll learn a lot and hopefully have fun.  Best way to improve

Yeah, some things you can only learn by doing.

My big question right now is how long to leave applications open, before I begin my winnowing process.  I want to give people a fair chance without dragging this out unnecessarily.  I'm planning until at least tomorrow afternoon, a nice 48 hours, but I wonder if I should wait through Monday morning.  If there is a weekday only crowd I should give a chance to.

In reply to novi (msg # 70):

I have seen your game post and while I eagerly look forward to another Hero based game
here, I think you need to give a little more 'meat' in your game listing.

In reply to novi (msg # 70):

have you tried posting your game to say the Hero boards?
and there are at least 2(1 hero games centric)super hero FB pages

I've already got at least a dozen bites.  I'm just not adding anyone until I have all my applications in.

As for the lack of meat, I don't want to commit to anything until I've gotten a sense of what the players want.  That said, there is a concentration of applicants who like like the DCAU and the MCU, in addition to a GM with similar leanings. ;)

In reply to novi (msg # 73):

cool
what point level did you want?

The Turakian Age, published HERO campaign  setting

I have started a new game using Turakian Age. 6th edition HERO system
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Narrowed to start in the Tornathian League. 225 total, 50 in Complications

This is not first come, first in.  I am looking for characters steeped in the Turakian Age setting.

Kal Turak exists only as a threat to misbehaving children or spineless, gutless, squid bellied cowards.

No greater plan for the campaign exists by me, it will be decided upon by players.

My time torun the campaign is clear for the next two years. I have still much to polish on rules I use, that will work itself out in these next few weeks.

It is a mature game, I prefer no one under age 18, and if you are in school, without a stable posting schedule, please do not apply.

I cannot promise the alchemy of players, characters, GM will work out or is everyone's cup of tea. I can say I am a long time GM and highly motivated.
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Don't know it, wish I did.

Sent Rmail

Nice to see a Hero System game.  I'm a bit slammed, don't think I can give it the attention it would deserve.

I will wait a few more days and move on to the HERO Discord
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:03, Tue 17 Jan 2023.