In December 2021 we presented two giant new offers featuring nearly four dozen titles in the Champions Fifth Edition line from from Hero Games. These two offers joined the new HERO System 5E Megabundle that launched two days earlier. These three offers combined presented nearly 80 full-length books — a stupendous 14,600 pages! — that let you build every kind of character and campaign in any genre using the endlessly flexible HERO System.
The spectacular new Champions 5E Megabundle presented genre books, super powers, gadgets, NPCs, eight books of supervillains, and eight Ultimate character archetype supplements. And its new companion, Champions 5E Universe Mega, added setting books for two cities, a country, planet Earth, other dimensions, and the “C3X” galaxy-spanning setting of the year 3100. Together these two Champions Megabundles presented 47 titles, of which 20 were new to the Bundle of Holding.
1. CHAMPIONS 5E MEGABUNDLE
This amazing Megabundle gathered all the super powers, gadgets, and character books you need for slam-bang four-color superhero action — 4,400 pages of indomitable Champions 5E campaign material for an unbeatable bargain price. There were ten titles in this offer’s Champions 5E Core Collection (retail value $87) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the 215-page Champions 5E genre book, UNTIL Superpowers Database I and II, Gadgets and Gear, Champions Battlegrounds, Everyman, Teen Champions, and three sets of Cardboard Characters print-and-cut standup figures.
Those who paid more than this offer’s threshold (average) price also got this offer’s entire Bonus Collection with sixteen more titles — eight villain books and eight Ultimate character archetype supplements — worth an additional $161.50! The villain titles: Book of the Destroyer, Book of the Machine, Conquerors Killers & Crooks, Cops Crews and Cabals, Evil Unleashed, Villains Vandals and Vermin, Villainy Amok, and VIPER: Coils of the Serpent. The Ultimate series: Brick, Energy Projector, Martial Artist 5E, Mentalist 5E, Metamorph, Mystic, Speedster, and Vehicle.
2. CHAMPIONS 5E UNIVERSE MEGA
Super-power your campaign for a decade with the many titles presented in this new companion Universe Mega offer that ranges across the flavorful and intriguing Champions Universe setting and into its far future. It’s nearly 3,400 pages of galaxy-spanning 5E material. There were eight titles in this companion offer’s Universe Starter Collection (retail value $87), including both Champions Universe guides, Millennium City, Champions Worldwide, Champions of the North 5E, UNTIL: Defenders of Freedom, and Stronghold 5E (plus The Stronghold Files).
The Universe Bonus Collection added thirteen more titles worth an additional $131, including Dark Champions 5E (plus Hudson City, its Map, the Predators enemies book, and Dark Champions: The Animated Series); four sourcebooks of mystic superhero magic (The Mystic World, Arcane Adversaries, Demon: Servants of Darkness, and the Mystic Menaces Fun Pack); the city guide Vibora Bay; Galactic Champions; Hidden Lands; and Monster Island.
Ten percent of each payment (after gateway fees) went to these three HERO System offers’ pandemic-related charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.
WHAT’S NEW? WHAT’S MISSING?
Across eight years the Bundle of Holding has presented — let’s see, wow, okay — eleven Champions offers covering all editions from First (1981) through Sixth (2010). Yet somehow we missed 20 major books — until now!
If you bought both our September 2014 Champions 5E offer and Champions Ultimate (June 2016), you already have most of the Champions 5E Megabundle. In its Core Collection you only wanted Teen Champions (retail $9.50); in the Champions 5E Bonus Collection the five new titles (total retail $53.50) were Book of the Destroyer, Book of the Machine, Villains Vandals and Vermin, Villainy Amok, and The Ultimate Mystic. (Mystic wasn’t available in .PDF in time for the 2016 offer.)
Of 21 titles in Champions Universe 5E Mega, 14 were new to the Bundle of Holding. In the Starter Collection, News of the World (retail $10) and the 5E version of Champions of the North (retail $11) were new, though we presented the 4E version of North in the April 2017 Champions 4E Universe. The other six Starter titles appeared in our April 2015 Champions 5E Universe offer.
Almost the entire Universe Bonus Collection was new to the Bundle, except Hidden Lands (April 2015). The 12 new Bonus titles had a combined retail of $121.50.
The HERO System 5E Megabundle, Champions 5E Megabundle, and Champions 5E Universe Mega, together with two Fantasy Hero offers in May 2019, encompassed — we wanna say — just about all the major books of the Hero Games Fifth Edition era. The omissions were the licensed supplement PS238; a couple of dozen small “Hero Plus” mini-sourcebooks and scenarios not collected in Thrilling Hero Adventures, like Millennium City University and The Dragon Mandarin; and many software Character Packs for Hero Designer. The FH offers had the Atlantean, Turkian, and Valdorian Ages plus Tuala Morn. Did we miss anything big?
