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	hero wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hero Wars is the name for the fantasy role-playing game published by Issaries, Inc.
		Like RuneQuest, Hero Wars is set in the world of Glorantha but the rules system is designed for more epic games; there is no real relationship between the Runequest game and Hero Wars except for the setting of Glorantha.
		Hero Wars uses a system that essentially involves players "betting" on the results of conflicts via an abstract system.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Hero_Wars.html (267 words)

	Hero Wars - Rules Questions
		Heroes fighting against a mastery advantage need to make low or no AP bids until they have augmented as far as they can.
		Use augments to boost one of the heroes as far as possible - with 4 people augmenting the fifth, they should be able to get ~+10 (assuming the hero also augments himself, otherwise ~+8) to his ability in one round.
		A hero with a skill of 17 against a villain with 17w who also has a couple of hero points available is in a stronger position, depending on how the narrator chooses to interpret the 'narrator decides' option of critical vs critical successes, which will be common in such circumstances.
	www.issaries.com /hw/hw_qa.html (980 words)

	RPGnet: The Inside Scoop on Gaming
		Hero Wars is true to the established materials, but still has lots of new information about the already rich fantasy world.
		Hero Wars, Roleplaying in Glorantha is 256 pages and retails for $19.95.
		Deluxe Hero Wars is a complete boxed set which includes both Hero Wars and the Narrator's Book (which are also available separately), as well as the 112 page Visions of Glorantha (fiction and mythology), and handouts, which include glossary, character sheets, sample starting characters, rules synopsis and maps.
	www.rpg.net /news+reviews/press/press.1639.html (374 words)

	Hero Wars - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hero Wars used an innovative resolution system capable of fufilling either simulationist or narrativist play with no modification.
		The game's extensively revised second edition was published in 2003 as HeroQuest; the Hero Wars products are highly compatible, and conversion guidelines are available at http://www.heroquest-rpg.com
		Evan Thomas’s John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy grounds itself on the facts of Jones’s life and accomplishments to bolster his place among the pantheon of Revolutionary heroes while also working to deflate the myths that have circulated about his name....
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /hero_wars.htm (462 words)

	What Is a Hero?
		A hero can be defined as a person who acts in a way that benefits the greater good of her society.
		Heroes understand something is missing from their consciousness, struggle until they find what it is, claim it, then share it.
		A player hero with unusual qualities, who is working for the greater good of her society, who is searching for new truths and revelations, and who has flaws that must be overcome in order to prevail, will stand a much better chance of becoming a real Hero, than characters lacking these qualities.
	www.geocities.com /doctorpeace/hero/whatishero.html (766 words)

	RPGnet: The Inside Scoop on Gaming
		The Hero Wars rpg was released by Issaries back in 2000 and a problem child from the very beginning.
		Hero Wars is the name for the all-new Gloranthan role-playing system [and in this respect successor to the late RuneQuest FRPG], devised by the well-known Robin D. Laws and developed by famous Greg Stafford, as well as Roderick Robertson and Shannon Appel, all which are known to most gamers as well.
		Due to the story-telling nature of the Hero Wars rules, the stats itself are short but rather colorful and add to the description of the NPCs, unlike the waste of space as seen in some other RPGs.
	www.rpg.net /news+reviews/reviews/rev_6924.html (1531 words)

	Hero Wars: Roleplaying in Glorantha (Hero Wars Roleplaying Game, 1101) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The stories of the gods and heroes of Glorantha were always so much larger than a game where you are tramping around like a mercenary-scavenger struggling to get enough clacks to buy a brew.
		Hero Wars: Roleplaying in Glorantha (Hero Wars Roleplaying Game, 1101) Review: Glorantha has for years been the richest, most vibrant fantasy world in the gaming scene but, in my opinion, it has been let down by the Runequest system which was good - but not good enough.
		It could not cater for the mythic depth of the world, characters who could ride lightning bolts and become the avatars of ancient heroes, dragons the size of mountain ranges and adventures which would revolve not on who was the finest swordsman, but who best embodied his god's virtues and abilities.
	www.textkit.com /0_1929052014.html (680 words)

	Idiot's Guide to Hero Wars? - RPGnet Forums
		Hero Wars is a wonderful system, but it's not well presented at all.
		The core mechanic of Hero Wars is to select an ability to what you're trying to do and simply roll under it.
		If the narrator feels that "no self-respecting hero should fail" at cadging a meal from Ferena - perhaps Ferena is known for her generosity to the poor and hungry - then she can allow Oranda to succeed automatically.
	forum.rpg.net /showthread.php?s=&postid=1024937 (1811 words)

	Hero Wars Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hero Wars has a specific setting, the utterly non-historical fantasy world of Glorantha, which is highly influenced by Scandinavian epics, mid 20th-century fantasy fiction, and classical myth.
		Hero Wars reverses this pattern, as a powerful character knows exactly what to do: Heroquest to the Other Side, joining and even influencing the stuff of myth.
		Here the goal is laid out in the Narrator's Guide: to form a Hero Band, a group of individuals and their followers who represent a unique solution to the controversies and battles that wrack the land, up to and including bringing an actual godling or god into reality.
	library.gamingoutpost.com /content/index.cfm?action=article&articleid=417&catid=73 (3650 words)

	HERO GAMES Discussion Boards - Star Wars in HERO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		My GM has hinted that perhaps we are a part of the greater Star Wars cosmology, but if so the planet we are on is not a part of it yet for some reason.
		In Star Wars: Tales of the New Jedi (coming soon to a white board near you), we will follow our heroes, a Jedi Knights and his Padawan as they traverse the Galaxy; fullfilling the councils mandates and searching their souls for the true meaning, and will of the force.
		With this war over it ushers in the time of renewed faith in the republic, this my friends is your time.
	www.herogames.com /forums/printthread.php?t=16223 (3195 words)

	Hero Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is so 'overhauled' that there is no real relationship between the Runequest game and the Hero Wars game except for the setting of Glorantha.
		Runequest was the original Percentile Based[?] and Skill Based[?] rule set and ushered in an era of Simulationist RPGs.
		It uses material from the wikipedia article Hero Wars.
	www.eurofreehost.com /he/Hero_Wars.html (236 words)

	Mythology in Star Wars
		Campbell defined the Hero Cycle, a course of events that occurs as a rite of initiation in every myth, pinpointing the need for mentors, villains, elixirs and jesters along the way.
		Threshold guardians constantly interfere with the hero, whether it's the terror of Medusa, Mordred, or the Empire's stormtroopers and a conniving Jabba the Hutt.
		It may turn out that Anakin is the ultimate hero, and his Darth Vader identity is merely the low point he endures on the trail of a finer elixir.
	www.folkstory.com /articles/petersburg.html (1655 words)

	Help me with Hero Wars - Page 3 - RPGnet Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Both Riddle of Steel and Hero Wars are designed very much with protagonist play in mind(see stuff at the Forge and my articles here for more on that).
		Hero Wars scale is much, much larger, and in many ways, much more subtle.
		Hero Wars has such an open and flexible resolution, scale, and system of currency that many people(wrongly, IMHO) call it, "freeform".
	forum.rpg.net /showthread.php?s=&postid=1028610 (3149 words)

	HeroWars Resources
		Characters in Hero Wars are defined by Keywords, a broad sweeping term that covers a shed load of implications.
		Hero Wars web site - they might post something which disagrees with mine, in which case read through both and decide which best fits your vision of the character.
		Hero Wars and Glorantha are both the Trademark of Issaries, Inc., and are used with their permission.
	www.pheasnt.demon.co.uk /HeroWars/HeroWars.html (819 words)

	RPGnet: The Inside Scoop on Gaming
		Both the Hero Wars game system and the supplemental material are remarkable and perhaps even great, but Issaries is in dire need of a thorough second draft, a good writer, and better layout and proofreading before the magic can return to Glorantha.
		Glorantha, Introduction to the Hero Wars is one of the first supplements to be written for Hero Wars line by Issaries, Inc. It’s the 253-page crash course for Greg Stafford’s fascinating and complex game world — one that has existed since 1978 in various incarnations, but most famously through Chaosium’s (and later Avalon Hill’s) RuneQuest.
		The bulk of the book focuses on the continent of Genertela, as this is where the Hero Wars are prophesied to begin.
	www.rpg.net /news+reviews/reviews/rev_7043.html (678 words)

	My ALIEN WARS review. - HERO GAMES Discussion Boards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		You are not hand-held step by step through this section, but instead the major events that lead up to the political situation before the war are highlighted.
		The next part of the book deals specifically with the war which is broken down into 4 parts.
		Instead ALIEN WARS is about a disjointed-humanity that fights among itself before finally destroying the threat that faces it.
	www.herogames.com /forums/showthread.php?t=11553 (1080 words)

	RPGnet: The Inside Scoop on Gaming
		One of the Criticisms of Hero Wars, when it was released about 12 Months ago was that it lacked the Gloranthan depth that people had come to expect from Runequest.
		All these cults are presented with subcults and/or hero cults along with their place in heortling society, descriptions of their holy days and so on.
		I think there is probably enough new material here to make it worth a look for those people who still like Glorantha but don't want to use Hero Wars, although they will be on their own when it comes to converting the rules parts.
	www.rpg.net /news+reviews/reviews/rev_4375.html (396 words)

	2nd Edition Hero Wars and HeroQuest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The answer appears to be that Hero Wars 2nd Edition is "renamed" Hero Quest.
		Speaking strictly personally, I think that HQ can properly be considered Hero Wars substantially cleaned up, reorganized, and with certain rules corrections.
		Hero Quest is Hero Wars 2nd Edition it is as simple as that if you want it in brief - the reasons for the branding and the long story behind who owned the name Hero Quest when and why is another matter.
	www.indie-rpgs.com /forum/index.php?topic=2114.0 (309 words)

	IMT Runequst RPG and the world of Glorantha
		Gloranthan Bestiary for Hero Wars by Jamie Revell and Greg Stafford, illustrated by Heather Bruton; with additional material by Stephen Martin.
		Hero Wars Fiction - I think a straight reprint of the Chaosium Edition; may not yet be reprinted, or...
		War drums are beating, and beacons are blazing along the Bush Range, summoning the clans to wash the blades of their axes in the blood of their enemies.
	www.i-m-t.demon.co.uk /rpg/runeqst.htm (2271 words)

	Hero Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Questlines - An Orlanthi Resource Page for Hero Wars - An Orlanthi resource site that includes extensive information of the Far Place and Sartar, Gloranthan fiction, essays, songs and poems, and a 3D gallery of Glorathan art.
		Groups: HeroWars - Official discussion of Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha, the setting for the "Hero Wars" role-playing game published by Issaries, Inc. This group focuses on how to play Hero Wars in Glorantha and is especially concerned with introducing newer players to the game.
		Benedict Adamson's Glorantha Information - Campaign background and house rules for a Hero Wars campaign based around the Fire Bull clan of the Sambari tribe in Dragon Pass.
	www.topiasearch.com /Games/Roleplaying/Genres/Fantasy/HeroWars (422 words)

	freshmeat.net: Project details for Hero Wars
		Hero Wars implements the core rules of Issaries Inc.'s RPG System.
		A problem with closing a modified hero sheet opened from a URL was fixed.
		When the bid or enhancement size are not acceptable, the "run contest" button is now disabled and the cursor is moved to the problematic field.
	freshmeat.net /releases/52377 (284 words)

	RPG Encyclopedia Entries: H
		Terra Nova is split between the North and South factions which are on the edge of war.
		A fantasy RPG set in the world of Glorantha, the setting for original for Runequest and for Hero Wars.
		This is essentially a second edition to Hero Wars with a new title.
	www.darkshire.net /~jhkim/rpg/encyclopedia/alphabetical/H.html (2406 words)

	[Glorantha]Kralorela during the Hero Wars
		The problem is that during the war against Sheng Seleris, Godunya was forced to commit utuma, ritual suicide.
		When Imolo Wen retired as War Dragon General to become Abbot of the Faithful Dragon School, the Generalissimo was the only obvious replacement.
		The Archexarch of War was forced to commit utuma in disgrace and the Generalissimo appointed in his stead as the only obvious choice.
	www.rpglist.org /pipermail/glorantha/2005-January/007409.html (1249 words)

	Gary's Games and Hobbies - RPGs - Hero Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		New scenarios, a new heroquest, several hero bands, and a narrative example written by Greg Stafford breathe life into the rules for players and narrators alike.
		Mighty and magical, decadent and dynamic, conquering and liberating, the Empire is rich and complex, a land of heroes, soldiers, and missionaries.
		This is the time to strike, the time for heroes to raise the rest of the land against the Empire, begin quests that will take years to bear fruit, and finally to aid Kallyr as she returns a lost planet to the sky and upsets the plans of the Empire.
	www.garysgamesandhobbies.com /hero_wars.asp (875 words)

	Illumination in Hero Wars, by Peter Metcalfe
		People become illuminated in Hero Wars in pretty much the same way they did in RuneQuest - through the study of Paradoxes formulated as cryptic riddles.
		This appears in the Hero Wars rules as a Strike.
		In Hero Wars terms, stabilization will mean they have to find or develop some sort of philosophy/counter.
	www.etyries.com /moonie/illumination.htm (1340 words)

	GamingReport.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Hero's Book is the handbook for roleplaying in Glorantha," says Greg Stafford, president of Issaries, Inc. "It is all you need to play Hero Wars.
		Anything else is optional." Hero's Book, Playing in the Hero Wars is a 64 page book, half rules and half background.
		Hero's Book, Playing in the Hero Wars (ISS 1002) By Mark Galeotti 64 pages, illustrated, 8.5"x11" full size format.
	www.gamingreport.com /print.php?sid=364 (188 words)

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		Heroes who step out in front of their communities face such challenges and take the first step on the long, hazardous road that is the Hero Wars.
		FOREIGN EDITIONS French Hero Wars The next offering planned from Issaries' French- and German-language licensee, Multisim, is a scenario book loosely based on "Troubled Waters" (the scenario sequence in River of Cradles, one of the great Runequest books produced by Avalon Hill during the RuneQuest Renaissance of the early 90's).
		Glorantha and Hero Wars are trademarks of Issaries Inc. and are used with their permission.
	pages.prodigy.net /chaos-digest/chaos-digest/chaos-digest-v35n02.txt (4157 words)

	Hero Wars - Rules Questions
		Finally, the finding of a new wyter for the clan, especially one suited to a specific region or circumstance (such as the nearby trolls) is itself a heroquest.
		It is thus the source of adventure for the player heroes -- perhaps they are the ones who will seek out a new story of the clan wyter, or a new meaning to an old story, and thus save the clan.
		Sometimes the clans will feud or war to stop this, so that the rival owl and raven clans might hate each other so much that the area is a battleground.
	www.herowars.com /hw/qa/wyters.html (3150 words)

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