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I'm slowly working my way through the 6th Edition Hero Rules. Lots of front-end (character creation) changes, but very few actual game-play changes. Most of the character creation changes, while sounding really extreme, are looking like they will be less intrusive than I had feared from earlier reports. So far, no show-stoppers - so I think once my players decide they want to change I'll be agreeable.

Well, there you go. As a direct result of the scheme passed by the North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) my Associates account has been closed. So, The Stuff Heroes Are Made Of Store is officially closed.

A rather good article by Michael Chabon [The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), Wonder Boys (1995), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000), The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007)] on superhero costumes. Secret Skin, An essay in unitard theory.

As many of you are probably aware, Hero Games has decided to cease publication of Digital Hero - I guess the sales just weren't there. This is shame as Digital Hero put out a lot of nifty Hero content that would have been unlikely to have been otherwise seen. Hopefully, at some point and time, Hero Games will resurrect it's e-'zine.

I've been playing around with some of the new wigets that Amazon has created for it's Affiliates program. If you rest your mouse-cursor over some of the links showing up in this page you might see is floating box appear with a link to an a book that Amazon thinks is relevant to the highlighted text. It's kind of a neat (from my perspective) but it's not without flaws. I've already noticed a few "odd" selections popping up that I'm hoping I can correct with a little bit of fine tuning. The oddest one I've seen so far is the link it created for Champions Universe which leads to, instead of the book Hero Games has produced, something entitled How I Became Champion of the Universe - a kids book about wrestling. Go figure. (Even odder, it doesn't seem to pick out that actual book title for linkage)

I'l keep working with the widget to see if I can get more accurate results out of it. In the meantime, here a bunch of not quite random words just to see what pops up: Hero System, Hero Games, Champions, Fantasy Hero, Star Hero, Pulp Hero, Role-Playing Game, RPG, Superhero, Spoon!, Heroes, Dice, Cosmic Ju-Ju.

They (whoever "they" are) say that no news is good news. Unfortunately, No news is also dull. So, what's been going on in my gaming end of the gaming world? Not much really, although (wonder of wonders) I've once again got a regular group together and am currently running Fantasy Hero (yay!).

I've taken an odd approach to this Fantasy Hero campaign, based on the idea that (prepare yourself Herophiles, I'm about to utter a blasphemy) there are some good things in classic Dungeons & Dragons (by classic, I mean anything prior to 3rd edition). So, with this thought in mind, I cobbled together a few campaign guidelines designed to encourage my players to build characters that are reminiscent of the classic D&D archetypes and have started running sessions based heavily upon (ie. lifted nearly in whole) some of the great old xD&D modules. I'm having a blast (and the players seem to be having fun as well). I do, however, wonder if any of my players have recognized what I'm doing yet (even though I've not told the players what it is, the PCs are currently fighting their way through one of the most famous "dungeons" even published). I guess eventually one of them will mention something.