List of Publisher supported games

[SD Anderson]

Some games ahve strong fan support. Both MEGS, the rules for the DC Heroes game and the original Marvel Game FASERIP have extensive online support. I believe there was a published post Mayfair MEGS game by Josh Marquardt a few years ago, blood somehthing. If it's still in Print, it should be included below.

GOO is gone. Tri-Stat/Siver Age Sentinels won't make the list.

I'm also excluding Bif Bam Pow, Windhaven's admitted he's been stuck on a getting a new skill mechanic for the rules for some years now.

Here we make a list of games where the publisher is providing active support.

V&V (barely published, but published)

Champions. Picked up by DoJ out of the wreakage of Hero Games.

Mutants & Masterminds Arguably the current leader of SHRPGs if we ignore MMORPGs like City of Heroes.

GURPS Supers (published as pdf last year, avaiable as Print on Demand book as well.

Capes http://www.museoffire.com/Games/

Truth & Justice http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=2061

Any others?

[Magnus Bergqvist]

There is a Swedish superhero-game called Supergänget (http://kaleidoskop.se/supercrew/). It is a bit humouristic and very light. The author was talking about earlier making it availible in English. Not sure if he has done so. Supergänget is the Swedish name. In English it is "Supercrew".

The rules are describes by way of a comic.

/Magnus

[carmachu]

Champions. Picked up by DoJ out of the wreakage of Hero Games.


Can someone explain what happened to Champions? I played it ALOT back 15 years or so ago. Then they went to fusion and lost me.....and then I heard 5th coming out but by then wasnt playing Champions for lack of supers group.

[AnotherSKip]

being pretty regular on the Hero Boards as well as currently running a HERO campaign 5th is close to 4th (forget Fuzion, use a brillo pad if you have to but for the love of mike get rid of it!) but has some additional rules forgotten to be published in the 4th rules set. part of the deal by DOJ was to keep 5th compatible with 4th.
in addition there is a 6th edition is coming out in 2-3 years








http://www.herogames.com/forums/

[SD Anderson]

Can someone explain what happened to Champions? I played it ALOT back 15 years or so ago. Then they went to fusion and lost me.....and then I heard 5th coming out but by then wasnt playing Champions for lack of supers group.

What happened to Champions back when was that it separated itself from Iron Crown Enterprises and started being published by Hero Games again. Hero and Hero's parent company basically sold vaporware. Really, really poor business dealings.

At one point, Hero licensed GURPS for it's Software Character Generator. All they basically had to do to keep it was pay SJG and keep them informed on sales figures. Could not even do that.

SJG pulled it's license, the Software designer pulled out to, and the GURPS modules for that software became GURPS Character Builder.

Hero's parent company fizzles completely. The Rights to the license is obscure for a few months.

Rob (last name escapes me), who wrote Champions 4th and whose promised 5th edition never saw the light of day under Hero games, got together with some money to create Department of Justice Games (DOJ Games) and has been printing Hero material. It's not getting the same attention from game stores partly (perhaps primarily) because of the D20 boom filling shelf space, and partly because after Hero Games folded, it's seen as a dead game.

[SD Anderson]

Fuzion pretty much died during the Hero Games days. Most Champions players hated it with a passion. On the board, I think Chris is the only person I've heard speak well of it.

It got some support from R.Talsorian, whose Interlock system was the other half of Fuzion, and serious support from Mark Arsenault's MTA games.

Then the owner of R.Tal decided he needed a day job to pay bills and R.Tal more or less went into hibernation except for occasional special projects.

MTA gave up on Fuzion and went to it's Action! House system and also seems to have faded from publishing. (Though Action! was OGL'd and you can likely find it.)

So, by the time Champions vanished, it pretty much had gone back to the Hero system.

[Omuraisu]

Any others?

Golden Heroes is now Squadron UK
http://squadronuk.co.uk/

I just checked and none of their links on their Products page works. :rolleye2:

Cheers,
Tim

[AnotherSKip]

Fuzion pretty much died during the Hero Games days. Most Champions players hated it with a passion. On the board, I think Chris is the only person I've heard speak well of it.

It got some support from R.Talsorian, whose Interlock system was the other half of Fuzion, and serious support from Mark Arsenault's MTA games.

Then the owner of R.Tal decided he needed a day job to pay bills and R.Tal more or less went into hibernation except for occasional special projects.

MTA gave up on Fuzion and went to it's Action! House system and also seems to have faded from publishing. (Though Action! was OGL'd and you can likely find it.)

So, by the time Champions vanished, it pretty much had gone back to the Hero system.

Not really gone (from the tone of the post it sure sounds that way) but the game really isn't in the stores around here. However in part the main rulesbook is huge, going well over 400 pages, 12+ pages of indexing etc and hitting a steep 40-50+$ so i can see only the dedicated really buying it. I wrote a nigh complete fantasy capaign off of the main book that was sweet (but now alas is all but lost) right after the main book came out. Then I only bought books that had a lot of gear writeups or were specific genres I was into. More than that and Steve Will bankrupt you since he and the gang all write like caffine powered monkies on crack there is a ton of suppliments out there.

In addition there is a move away from Champions as the flagship of the system, the Hero Toolkit is the Universal system with the GM adjusting from there as necessary. Their website if that is anything to judge from makes Criticalfumble.net look like, well a critical fumble in posting numbers at least.

for the skinflints out there if you don't mind a little loving, direct from the website is their half price book of the week that are the factory damaged books. Most are in really good shape (only like scatches on the cover, what not, so you can get yer grubby mits on them without cratering your pockets) from what i have heard.

[Imaginos]

Also, just to mention, DOJ sold the rights to the Champions setting to video game publisher Cryptic Studios for their upcoming MMORPG. DOJ is licensing the setting back from Cryptic in order to publish books for it.

[AnotherSKip]

Got that backwards Eric,
Steve Long in his guise as Super Lawyer sold the rights to Cryptic to make a MMO that used the characters from Champions, there will be NO rule interaction or other items. this merely gives you a chance to beat on the electronic form of various Champions universe baddies.

[Imaginos]

Nope, they sold the IP for Champsions. They are licensing it back to produce rpg books for Champions. My understanding was that Cryptic didn't want to worry about having rights yanked from them, plus it gave DOJ an influx of moolah (or XP, depending on how you want to view it).

See below, taken from here. (http://www.herogames.com/aboutChampions.htm)

Q: What's the relationship between the Champions Online MMO and the Champions roleplaying game?

A: In late 2007 Cryptic Studios was looking for a comic book-style setting for its next massive multiplayer online roleplaying game. Several of Cryptic's designers and administrators are long-time Champions fans, so naturally they thought of using the Champions Universe. They opened up negotiations with us, and the end result of those negotiations was that Cryptic bought the Champions and Dark Champions intellectual property from us. They didn't buy the HERO System rules, just the Champions and Dark Champions IP (the characters, places, events, and so on). Under the terms of our agreement they license back to DOJ the right to produce roleplaying game books for Champions and Dark Champions.

[RPGObjects_chuck]

We just released Supers20, which works with our Modern20 OGL rules set.

Is posting links here kosher? If so I'll edit this post.

Chuck

[SD Anderson]

If it isn't kosher here a LOT of Youtube referring posts will need editing.

Now commercial links are a bit trikier, but I think if the posting is germain to the topic it's ok, if it's either a nonsequitor or an outright ad, the mods may have 'words' wi't ya.

In your case, the thread is asking for names of SHRPGs currently being supported by their publishers or at least 3rd parties commercially. Listing yours meets the mission statement.