Star Hero is a role-playing game

Role-playing game

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, published by Hero Games

Hero Games

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, which uses its Fifth Edition Hero System

Hero System

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rules to represent the science fiction

Science fiction

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 genre. Though not nearly as popular as its Champions

Champions (role-playing game)

Champions is a role-playing game published by Hero Games that is designed to simulate and function in a four-color superhero comic book world. It was created by George MacDonald, Steve Peterson, Bruce Harlick, and Ray Greer....

, Dark Champions

Dark Champions

Dark Champions is a game published by Hero Games using its Hero System rules to simulate the action-adventure genre.When the original Dark Champions book was published in the early 1990s, its focus was on dark vigilantes in a superhero or almost-superhero setting, focusing on adventures similar to...

, and Fantasy Hero

Fantasy Hero

Fantasy Hero is a role-playing game book that supports the Fantasy genre using the Hero System rules. Since the release of the 5th edition of the Hero System, Steven S. Long of Hero Games has published a new version of the Fantasy Hero book, as well as several supplementary publications to support...

lines, the genre book has been received well by fans and critics alike, and its Terran Empire setting has received positive reviews.

Like Champions, Star Hero requires the Hero System rulebook to play, as the rules are pretty similar to all other games using the system, with minor alterations to facilitate such common science fiction elements as interstellar starship battles, faster-than-light

Faster-than-light

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 travel, and alien empires.

This book was dedicated to RJM Hughes, an avid poster at the Hero Games forums, who died in August of 2002 due to complications from diabetes.

The sixth edition rendition of Star Hero is scheduled for an August 2011 release.

Hero Universe

The official Hero Universe

Hero Universe

The Hero Universe is the "official" setting for the line of role-playing games published by Hero Games. All setting books published by the company are a part of this timeline...

 setting divides the science fiction genre into five historical periods: Solar Hero (years 2080 to 2200), Interstellar Hero (2200-2300), Alien Wars (2300-2400), The Terran Empire (2400-2700), and The Galactic Federation (2700-3000).

Fifth Edition Star Hero supplements

• Terran Empire by James Cambias, 2003
• The Spacer's Toolkit by Ben Seeman, 2003
• Alien Wars by Allen Thomas, 2003
• Worlds of Empire by Allen Thomas, Ben Seeman, Jason Walters, Steve Long, and Darren Watts
  Darren Watts (Hero Games)
  Darren Watts is one of the founders of DOJ Inc. and the president of Hero Games, publishers of roleplaying games using the Hero System such as Champions, Fantasy Hero and Star Hero...
  
  , 2006

External links

• Star Hero home page at Hero Games