In January 2023 we presented the Hero Plus Adventures Bundle featuring short adventures in the Hero Plus line for the HERO System rules from Hero Games. Each of these short, no-frills adventures is designed to fill one game session, and each scenario includes expansion suggestions. Whether set in the 1930s metropolis of the Midnight Brigade, on the Sunless Ocean of Inner-Earth, or way out in the pirate-infested spacelanes of Solar Smith, Hero Plus Adventures are written simply so you can run them easily and with minimal prep.
Most of the Hero Plus modules were published in 2005-2009 and written by prolific Hero Games line developer Steven S. Long. Steve recalls, “We started the Hero Plus Adventures line shortly after we published Pulp Hero. I was full of ideas for pulp adventures, and I thought there might be a market for short, easily written scenarios we could sell as .PDFs for a low price. Over time I expanded the concept of what a Hero Plus Adventure could be to include material for genres other than pulp, rules reference materials (such as expanded Damage Class Tables), conversions of older material to the Sixth Edition rules, and so forth.
“As part of the overall HERO System product line, the Hero Plus Adventures allow us to provide support material for genres beyond superheroes and fantasy, and to cover topics of interest that don’t necessarily fit any of our planned books. They often fill niches in our ecosystem we can’t afford to cover in more detail elsewhere. Since they’re relatively short, I typically write them in my spare time, so they don’t distract me from other work.”
This Hero Plus offer was a new companion to our revived February 2021 HERO System 6E and Champions 6E bundles. Each Plus adventure supports either the Fifth or Sixth Edition HERO rules (not both, usually). With this Plus offer, the Bundle of Holding nearly completed its presentation of every title Hero Games published from 1981 to about 2019. (Somehow we missed Western Hero and the first version of Ninja Hero. Someday!)
There were five complete titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $21) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including Castles & Sieges (an excerpt from The Ultimate Base), The Dragon Mandarin, and three Champions/Dark Champions supplements: The Alchemy of Love, Bloodsucker Rampage, and Mutant Madness.
This offer’s Bonus Collection added seventeen more titles, all mini-scenarios for Pulp Hero, together worth an additional $53:
- Born to Be Wild
- Captain Battle and the Science Police
- Curse of the Vulture God
- The Dordogne Zodiac
- Fangs of the Scarlet Serpent
- The Golden Idol of Sikral
- Inner-Earth
- The Locomotive Pirates
- The Malay Coins
- Masques of Mithras
- Nazi Death-Zombies of the Congo
- Pterodactyls Over Broadway
- The Radio Marauders
- The Raven and the Midnight Brigade
- Solar Smith and the Sky Pirates of Arcturus
- Tablets of Destiny
- Valley of the Spider Queen
(Note: The Dragon Mandarin previously appeared in the November 2013 Hero Games Bundle. Tablets of Destiny was in the September 2014 Champions 5E Bundle.)
Ten percent of each payment (after gateway fees) for all three of these HERO System offers went to their 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.
