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Heroes Unlimited is a superherorole-playing game written by Kevin Siembieda and first published by Palladium Books in 1984. The game is based upon the Palladium Books Megaversal system and is compatible with other games that use the Palladium system.

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Description[edit]

The game features superheroes fighting supervillains in a comic book-like world. The game's introduction states that the game was designed to be a 'thinking man's' superhero role-playing game where the characters were vulnerable and could not amass an incredible number of skills or abilities. The experience point system of the game gave great awards to novel thinking and heroic sacrifice, in addition to defeating one's enemies. Characters in the game are defined by their ability scores, skills (dependent on education level), and class, which allows the selection of certain powers or enhanced skills or equipment. The classes allowed for a wide range of play-types, from super-powered beings to aliens to technology-based or special-training-based characters.

However, the character creation system was widely divergent – some classes such as robotics allowed intense customization, while others were extremely random. Some classes and super powers (such as the ancient master class or the invulnerability power) started very powerful but hardly matured, while other classes and powers had effects strongly tied to character level.

The revised edition added new powers and minor rule changes, allowed many classes to take 'minor' superpowers to slightly expand play options, introduced the option of 'crazy' heroes, and most notably added magic-powered characters to the game at the request of the players. The revised edition also included a short rules summary of the Palladium game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness, adding mutant animal character rules and a shortened selection of animals for character creation. However, mutant animals make characters that are in general much weaker than standard heroes, as the TMNT supplement Turtles Go Hollywood noted.

The second edition of the game saw something of a renaissance in the line's production. In addition to the options previously provided, and updates of the previous supplements, Palladium Books produced several supplements for the game.

Publication history[edit]

Heroes Unlimited was first published by Palladium Books in 1984.

Sourcebooks[edit]

1. The Justice Machine first printing in 1985
2. Villains Unlimited second printing April 1993
3. Aliens Unlimited first printing in 1994 (revised third printing December 1999)
4. Gamemaster's Guide first printing June 1999
5. Century Station first printing February 2000
6. Gramercy Island first printing November 2000
7. Aliens Unlimited Galaxy Guide first printing May 2001
8. Mutant Underground first printing February 2003
9. Powers Unlimited first printing June 2003
10. Powers Unlimited 2 first printing February 2004
11. Powers Unlimited 3 first printing August 2006
12. Armageddon Unlimited (first printing February 2011) ties in with the Megaverse-wide Minion War.

Related[edit]

• 'Ninjas & Superspies' includes rules on buying martial arts forms with Heroes Unlimited characters
• 'Rifts Conversion Book' includes notes on modifications to Heroes Unlimited characters
• 'Skraypers' a Rifts (role-playing game) Dimension Book (the 4th) was co-designed as a Heroes Unlimited sourcebook.

Reception[edit]

William A. Barton reviewed Heroes Unlimited in Space Gamer No. 72.^[1] Barton commented that 'if you desire hero-types like Batman, Captain America, Robotman, or Wolverine, Heroes Unlimited is a superbuy, even if you use it as nothing more than a sourcebook for an existing game.'^[1]

Heroes Unlimited was ranked 40th in the 1996 reader poll of Arcane magazine to determine the 50 most popular roleplaying games of all time. The UK magazine's editor Paul Pettengale commented: 'Superhero roleplaying for the Palladium player, but not all that easy to pick up.'^[2]

Reviews[edit]

• Different Worlds #40

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abBarton, William A. (Jan–Feb 1985). 'Capsule Reviews'. Space Gamer. Steve Jackson Games (72): 35.
2. ^Pettengale, Paul (Christmas 1996). 'Arcane Presents the Top 50 Roleplaying Games 1996'. Arcane. Future Publishing (14): 25–35.

External links[edit]

• Heroes Unlimited official discussion board at Palladium Books Forums of the Megaverse
• Heroes Unlimited at RPG Geek Database
• Heroes Unlimited at RPGnet Game Index

Excerpted from Wikipedia

Heroes Unlimitedis a superhero role-playing game written by Kevin Siembieda and first published by Palladium Books in 1984. The game is based upon the Palladium Books Megaversal system and is compatible with any other game on the Palladium system, including Aliens Unlimited and Villains Unlimited.

TheMegaversal system, sometimes known as thePalladium system, is a role-playing game system which involves roll-under percentile skill checks, roll-high d20 combat skill checks and roll-low d20 saving throws, and uses differing amounts of d4s, d6s, d8s, and d10s for damage, which is applied to Hit Points, Structural Damage Capacity (S.D.C.), and Mega-Damage Capacity (M.D.C.).

Character creation varies across the games. Players may or may not select a race, depending on the game (all characters in Ninjas and Superspies, for example, are assumed to be human; in Palladium Fantasy, they very often are not). All games share the same eight attributes, which are randomly generated and depend upon the character's race:

• IQ
• Mental Affinity (MA) - The character's personality and how well they can deal with others. Equivalent to Charisma.
• Mental Endurance (ME) - The character's willpower.
• Physical Endurance (PE) - The character's basic level of toughness.
• Physical Prowess (PP) - The characters agility.
• Physical Strength (PS) - The character's strength.
• Physical Beauty (PB) - The character's physical attractiveness.
• Speed (Spd) - The character's running speed.
• Hit Points (HP)

Most of these stats are determined by a roll of three six-sided die (D6) for humans, with other species' determined by more or less depending on how they compare to humanity.

Other stats that may be used are:

• Structural Damage Capacity (SDC) - Often used as a supplemental to hit points. Also serves as hit points to non-living objects.
• Potential Psychic Energy (PPE) - Energy commonly used for magic and other non-psychic supernatural abilities.
• Inner Strength Points (ISP) - Energy used for Psychic abilities.

Classes

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The game (and the character's race and attributes) will impact their selection of one of a few types of classes:

• Occupational Character Classes (O.C.C.), which describe skills and abilities based on a person's training.
• Psychic Character Classes (P.C.C.), which focus around psychic powers.
• Racial Character Classes (R.C.C.), which describe abilities and skills which are primarily a function of race, or are limited to members of a certain race.

Skills

Depending upon the game, skills can come exclusively from the character's O.C.C. and a related list, or can come from a character's educational or occupational background. Games set on modern Earth tend to favor the second; all others favor the first. O.C.C.s tend to be more specific than character classes in other games, with a wide number of O.C.C.s within a profession that could be made generic (such as six or seven specialized mecha pilot classes in Rifts which could easily be boiled down to a single 'Robot/Power Armor Pilot' class).

Other system variations

Each game has its own variations to make the system better suit its genre. After The Bomb, Splicers, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness RPG use 'BIO-E' (for 'Bio Energy') to purchase mutations; Palladium Fantasy assumes that non-humans will be routinely played, and so most races will use normal O.C.C.s instead of R.C.C.s; games with super-technology, like Robotech, Splicers, and Rifts use a special category of damage called Mega-Damage. Mega-Damage is 100 times more powerful than normal damage(i.e.: 1D6 MDC = 1D6x100 SDC), and normal weapons cannot damage a Mega-Damage structure at all, unless they are capable of inflicting 100 SDC or more in a single shot/burst; the archetypical example of Mega-Damage is a tank, which can only be effectively destroyed through the use of powerful weapons designed to overcome its armor.

Alignment

Palladium's alignments are described in detailed terms with alignments describing how a character acts in a certain situation; whether they will lie, how much force they will use against innocents, how they view the law, and so on. The alignments are organized into three broad categories: Good, Selfish, and Evil. The seven core alignments are:

• Principled (Good)
• Scrupulous (Good)
• Unprincipled (Selfish)
• Anarchist (Selfish)
• Miscreant (Evil)
• Aberrant (Evil)
• Diabolic (Evil)

An eighth alignment, Taoist, was introduced for Mystic China, but has not seen wide use.

Kevin Siembieda has a noted distaste for 'neutral' alignments, as used in Dungeons & Dragons. This is stated in most core rulebooks in the alignment section, and stems from the idea that a truly neutral character would not do anything particularly interesting, like fight or adventure.

The game features superheroes fighting supervillains in a comic book-like world. The game's introduction states that the game was designed to be a 'thinking man's' Superhero RPG, where the characters were vulnerable and could not amass an incredible number of skills or abilities. The experience point system of the game gave great awards to novel thinking and heroic sacrifice, in addition to defeating one's enemies. Characters in the game are defined by their ability scores, skills (dependent on education level), and class, which allows the selection of certain powers or enhanced skills or equipment. The classes allowed for a wide range of play-types, from super-powered beings to aliens to technology-based or special-training-based characters.

However, the character creation system was widely divergent - some classes such as robotics allowed intense customization, while others were extremely random. Some classes and super powers (such as the ancient master class or the invulnerability power) started very powerful but hardly matured, while other classes and powers had effects strongly tied to character level.

The revised edition added new powers and minor rule changes, allowed many classes to take small 'minor' superpowers to slightly expand play options, introduced the option of 'crazy' wild-man heroes, and most notably added magic-powered characters to the game at the request of the players. The revised edition also included a short rules summary of the Palladium game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness, adding mutant animal character rules and a shortened selection of animals for character creation. However, mutant animals make characters that are in general much weaker than standard heroes, as the TMNT supplement Turtles Go Hollywood noted.

The second edition of the game saw something of a renaissance in the line's production. In addition to the options previously provided, and updates of the previous supplements, Palladium Books produced several supplements for the game. These included a Gamemaster's Guide, a book on the Mutant Underground, and the setting of Century Station, with the nearby prison of Grammercy Island. Palladium has also published a series of supplements called Powers Unlimited, providing more character options for use in the game. A further product has been announced, tying in with the Megaverse-wide Minion War, named Armageddon Unlimited.