test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Options
About time I tried this....
kojirohellfire
Posts: 2,075 Arc User
So I'm finally going to delve into the table top RPG. I have a few neat ideas for campaigns and far too much time on my hands. Anything anyone recommends that might not be on my Wishlist?
0
Comments
Mind summarizing your wishlist, so we can suggest anything else?
As for the wishlist, well there's the villain books, the Universe and Beyond book. Some materials that look like they're from 5th but detail some fluff about some groups. Also core HERO stuff for reference.
See for yourself: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2MGOH91IO5YMF?ref_=wl_share
If you're really interested in the core setting, I would suggest adding The Mystic World to your wish list. It deals in detail with the nature of magic, supernatural entities, the Champions Multiverse, the major factions and power players in the occult subculture, and how they all interact. Granted, a lot of the multiversal info is reprinted in Book Of The Empress, but that's really less than half the story. And speaking of half, like almost all Fifth Edition Hero books TMW is half its original cover price.
I'm not sure if you're aware that the Dark Champions book is a campaign genre book for running modern-day adventure games. Despite the title it actually has almost nothing to do with Champions. The NPCs in the book don't have super-powers, and their challenges are much more realistic. The most comic-bookish elements resemble Batman or the Punisher. Even though the default game setting, the crime-ridden metropolis of Hudson City, is technically on Champions Earth, practically speaking it's treated as though it were on another world. HC villains and vigilantes don't operate elsewhere in the world, and superhumans don't go to HC. The books in each line barely mention the other.
Also, be prepared for these books to go into as much detail on their respective subjects as you could ever want. Ever since DOJ bought Hero Games and started publishing for Fifth Edition, even their fluff is crunchy.
Champions Worldwide covers the superhero scene in the other countries on Champions Earth, including NPC heroes and villains, except for Canada and the United Kingdom. Canada has its own source book, Champions Of The North, while a book for the UK was planned but never written. Millennium City, Monster Island, and Vibora Bay are self-evident, of course. There are also a few published adventures and several small "niche" books.