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Re: Heroes (1979)
« Reply #30 on Jun 29, 2012, 4:35am »

The Heroes website has gone live: http://www.ecwrpg.co.uk/

Edit to correct URL

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Re: Heroes (1979)
« Reply #31 on Jun 29, 2012, 7:54am »

This one? http://www.ecwrpg.co.uk/

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Re: Heroes (1979)
« Reply #32 on Jun 29, 2012, 10:22am »

Oops! Yeah, that's the one!

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Re: Heroes (1979)
« Reply #33 on Jun 29, 2012, 12:21pm »

Great news indeed!

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« Reply #34 on Jun 29, 2012, 5:00pm via the ProBoards Mobile App »

Anyone going to the game next weekend?
I'm sorely tempted...

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Re: Heroes (1979)
« Reply #35 on Jun 29, 2012, 7:19pm »

It's a bit far from Texas for me to travel but I hope there is a good turnout.

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Re: Heroes (1979)
« Reply #36 on Sept 14, 2012, 8:50am »

Heroes 1.2 is now on sale

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I've ordered mine, so a review will follow

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Re: Heroes (1979)
« Reply #37 on Sept 14, 2012, 4:39pm »

May 11, 2010, 7:03pm, geordie wrote:

The bleak landscape of late-70's Britain (strikes, powercuts, social disorder, bombing and the cold war) wasn't ever going to birth a shiny happy RPG.

Before Warhammer, Dragon Warriors and Maelstrom, there was the ironically-titled Heroes, written by Dave Millward (with 18 months playtesting), with art by John Blanche (artist responsible for the UK Holmes D&D cover).

I noticed that Millward has geordie's post up on the Heroes 1.2 website. I'm not very familiar with the game, but I was curious about the artwork. The original had John Blanche artwork on the cover - was there also interior art by him? In the new edition, the original cover art has been replaced - how about the interior art?

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Re: Heroes (1979)
« Reply #38 on Sept 14, 2012, 4:50pm »

Wow that's expensive. Let's hope a pdf version is released, although I haven't seen a hint of that.

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Re: Heroes (1979)
« Reply #39 on Sept 14, 2012, 8:02pm »

Mine is ordered! Besides my very own boxed set (courtesy of BHP and co-author Simon Bull), I haven't looked upon a new product with this much anticipation in a long time!

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Re: Heroes (1979)
« Reply #40 on Sept 14, 2012, 8:52pm »

I would pay $5 for a PDF of the original.

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Re: Heroes (1979)
« Reply #41 on Sept 15, 2012, 8:54am »

Sept 14, 2012, 4:39pm, Zenopus wrote:

I'm not very familiar with the game, but I was curious about the artwork. The original had John Blanche artwork on the cover - was there also interior art by him? In the new edition, the original cover art has been replaced - how about the interior art?

My copy arrived this morning

The original interior art was by an art student called Aiden which David explains, cost him a couple of pints. There is no interor art by John Blanche. Aiden's art is reproduced in the new version, alongside art by J.C.B.Knight. All very atmospheric.

There is a Trampier amount of bearded desperate ne'er-do-wells.

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Re: Heroes (1979)
« Reply #42 on Sept 15, 2012, 9:33am »

Thanks for the info, geordie. I wrote a blog post about the old and new versions, where I quoted some of your posts.

Can you tell us about the setting included in the game, The Ouesterlands? Is it set in the real world or a fictional land?

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Re: Heroes (1979)
« Reply #43 on Sept 15, 2012, 12:44pm »

Sept 15, 2012, 9:33am, Zenopus wrote:

Can you tell us about the setting included in the game, The Ouesterlands? Is it set in the real world or a fictional land?

It's Dark Ages Europe with the names changed - but Millward provides the real world names and you could play a more historical game if you prefer. The map (4 sheets of A3) is of central Europe and the northern Mediterranean, but you can have characters who have ventured from afar - anglo-saxons, celts, arabs, vikings.

It's like a greatest hits package of what you want from the Dark Ages.

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Re: Heroes (1979)
« Reply #44 on Sept 15, 2012, 10:24pm »

Thanks, geordie! Sounds interesting.

Weirdly, I just Googled "Ouesterlands" and the second hit (after this thread) was a blog from 2008 setting Portown & Zenopus dungeon in an "Ouesterland of The Five Kingdoms". This might be the result of Googling trying to guess what results I will like best.

http://tekralh.blogspot.com/2008/08/chapter-one-adventure-begins.html

Looking further it appears that the suggested starting town in Heroes is the port city of Triente.

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