Showing posts with label Blackwyrm Publishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blackwyrm Publishing. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Hero Games Press Release - New Product: Larger Than Life

From the Hero Games Website

Hero Games is proud to present a supplement for Pulp Hero, Champions, and Dark Champions by Blackwyrm Publishing that is... Larger Than Life!

Heroes, villains, legends … the folklore of America features all of this and more. In this volume you can find pirates and soldiers, lumberjacks and steel drivers, mountain men and lawmen, cowboys, Indians, inventors, and eccentrics. All of whom are just waiting to be included in your campaign! And don’t let the time period fool you, just because these characters existed in the 18th and 19th Centuries, doesn’t mean you can’t use them in your Pulp Hero, Champions, Dark Champions, or even Star Hero campaigns! After all, these characters are Larger Than Life!

Thursday, March 20, 2014

HERO Games Press Release - Blackwyrm Update: Ghosts, Ghouls, and Golems in Editing

From the HERO Games Website

Not content to rest after completing Larger Than Life, Michael Surbrook has just finished up Ghosts, Ghouls, and Golems. This HERO System sourcebook for the supernatural covers all the classic creatures: ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and zombies; but also mentions ghuls, golems, the wendigo, Jack the Ripper, and a few modern monsters, such as the internet meme Slender Man. Each chapter covers a specific creature in detail, looking at its origins, history accounts, and world-wide representation. This is followed up by several character sheets, often present a ’traditional’ and ‘cinematic’ version of the creature, as well as a more detailed unique representation (the section on vampires, for example, presents Count Dracula in all his glory!).

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Hero Games Press Release - Blackwyrm Update: Fistful of Fu Being Written

From the Hero Games Website

As the name suggests, this upcoming book by Michael Surbrook will be a collection of martial artists. They will be divided by power level (Real World, Cinematic, and so on), and will represent a wide range of cultures and fighting styles. Although most meant for Ninja Hero campaigns, the characters in FOF can also be used in other genres as well, such as Fantasy Hero, Pulp Hero, Dark Champions, Champions, and Galactic Champions. And if that’s not enough, the book will also contain write ups of various fictional fighting styles.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

BlackWyrm Games Press Release - Blackwyrm Update: Larger Than Life In Layout

From the HERO Games Website

Coming this summer from BlackWyrm Games, Michael Surbrook's Larger Than Life is a guide to the world of American tall-tales. It presents more than 20 different well-known (and not so well-known) archetypes from American folklore, ranging from Blackbeard the Pirate to Nikola Tesla the Inventor. Along the way you’ll also encounter soldiers, sailors, and scouts, as well as backwoodsmen, lumberjacks, mountain men, outlaws, lawmen, emperors, and Indian chiefs.

Each archetype presented in Larger Than Life is fully written up for 6th Edition HERO System. In addition, along with the primary archetype, there are biographies and descriptions of numerous secondary examples of the archetype, as well as a template designed to allow you to build your own version of the archetype. In all, there are 22 archetypes with character sheets, 2 sidekicks with character sheets, nearly 150 secondary character descriptions, templates, a timeline, and an extensive list of inspirational media. All of which is suitable for your Champions, Dark Champions, Fantasy, Pulp, and Star Hero campaigns.

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Hero Games Press Release - It's Back! The Blackwyrm Erasable Gaming Map Project

From the Hero Games Website

The Blackwyrm Publishing Erasable Fantasy Gaming Maps project is back, and its already at 69%! In it's new, improved form the project: "....will fund the production of two useful, high-quality, and attractive erasable maps for roleplaying games, strategy games, war games, and other tabletop gaming needs: a fantasy castle (49 by 30 inches) and pirate ship (36 by 20 inches). These maps will use one inch squares to indicate distance."