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<blockquote data-quote="NLP" data-source="post: 63484" data-attributes="member: 520">The Hero System Fifth Edition will cover all the rules, skills and powers that you will need to play the game. With this book you will be able to play in any genre, but will not be genre specific. There are hundreds of examples covering every possible game-type as well as a campaign creature section giving you basic information on various genres that you can play.Later, in August (targeted for Gen Con) will the the Champions genre book. This book will detail Hero Games' super-hero game world. It will also give information on how to create your own super-hero world. This will probably be one of the most heavily supported genre books, as super-heroes are the birth-parents of the game.So, I guess to answer your question, the Hero System book will be more like GURPS than d20, but without all the licensed material. It will have various genre books published covering, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Dark Superheroes, and probably quite a few other genres (Wuxia/Martial Arts, Pulps, Espionage-type, etc), but you'll need the Hero System Fifth Edition book (known on the Hero Boards as FREd) to play the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NLP, post: 63484, member: 520"] The [i]Hero System Fifth Edition[/i] will cover all the rules, skills and powers that you will need to play the game. With this book you will be able to play in any genre, but will not be genre specific. There are hundreds of examples covering every possible game-type as well as a campaign creature section giving you basic information on various genres that you can play. Later, in August (targeted for Gen Con) will the the [i]Champions[/i] genre book. This book will detail Hero Games' super-hero game world. It will also give information on how to create your own super-hero world. This will probably be one of the most heavily supported genre books, as super-heroes are the birth-parents of the game. So, I guess to answer your question, the Hero System book will be more like GURPS than d20, but without all the licensed material. It will have various genre books published covering, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Dark Superheroes, and probably quite a few other genres (Wuxia/Martial Arts, Pulps, Espionage-type, etc), but you'll need the Hero System Fifth Edition book (known on the Hero Boards as FREd) to play the game. [/QUOTE]

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