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Category Jump Station
Champions: Publishers, Zines, and Resources
General Gaming: Zines, Humor, Art, and Resources
Zines: Champions & Hero and General Gaming
Superhero: Resources and Humor
Writing: References and Resources




Gaming Publishers
Hero Games' company page is the place to read about what's going on in the world of Hero.
BlackWyrm Games publishes lots of great Hero stuff.
Check out Final Redoubt and their Echoes of Heaven game world for the Hero System.

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Champions Zines

Digital Hero is the official magazine of Hero Games.
Haymaker covers the entire Hero System: Champions, Fantasy Hero, Justice Inc, Western Hero, Super Agents, and a lot more.

Gaming Zines

The Way, the Truth, and the Dice is the official ezine of the Christian Gamers Group. It features Hero articles from time to time.
Places To Go, People To Be is a general gaming zine that contains no system-specific information.
Steve Jackson has posted back issues of Roleplayer GURPS magazine.
The Oracle is for "serious" discussion of RPGs.

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Champions & Hero Resources

The Haymaker Authors page has links to all our homepages, which are crammed with good Hero stuff.
The Champions Damage Table converts all damage classes into a 3d6 roll.
Put your character online at The Champions Database.
Champions MUSH is a great online multiplayer role-playing environment.
Web-enable your character sheets at HTML Hero.
Remember the vaporware Champions Computer Game? Read all about it.
Wilson Zorn's Provisional Champions site has some great reference material.
The Champions-L Archive is a treasure trove of fantastic resources.
Bob Hall's Fantasy Hero site greatly expands on the FH sourcebooks.
Wasteland Hero ports the Gamma World concept over to Hero.

Gaming Resources

Web RPG has some good Hero forums in Town Hall, and some entertaining Top 10 lists.
You can check the Directory of Christian Roleplayers to find a Godly gamer near you.
Uncle Bear keeps up with the RPG and comic book industries, and provides several gaming articles and tools.
Lester Dent's paper on his pulp formula or Brian Stokes' Random Log-Line Generator can unclog your GM's block.
The Cyborger can turn any name into a robotic acronym.
Irony Games has several web tools for gaming, such as locale generators, people generators, adventure generators, and many more.
RPG Net has a lot of gaming information: news, reviews, articles, and more.
Who remembers the old Scott Adams adventure games? Play them over the Web.
Play a graphical online choose-your-own-adventure game at Castle Quest.
GenCon is America's largest gaming convention, held in August in Indianapolis. Be there if you can.
The Fantasy Library hosts articles and many other resources for your fantasy games.

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Art Resources

Trace your character with these templates from Steve Jackson Games.
Get your cardboard hero font.
Microtactix has some sample printable cardboard people and buildings.
You can find gobs of art at Ditto, the clipart search engine.
There's plenty of gameworthy graphics at Clipart Castle, Elfwood, Beej's Pirate Images.
If you want to be really impressed, you need to check out David Mattingly's art.
Goofy Graffix and Millan Net is great for silly stuff.
Hudson City Map Works has printable maps for your games.
Brickhouse Digital is a great source of 3-D character pics.
Make a cartoony face at Human IdentiKit.

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Superhero Resources

Remember the old Champions comic books? Flare? Icicle? Go read their continuing adventures online, at Heroic Publishing.

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Superhero Humor

So You've Decided to be Evil trains villains in all things mean and nasty.
Lee's Useless Superhero Generator has heroes aplenty.
Action Caption invites its visitors to submit funny captions based on photos of action figures -- superheroes, Star Trek, Xena, X-Files, and others.
Bruce Tong presents the Supervillain Shopping Channel, and Comic Book Science.

Gaming Humor

John Kovalic's Dork Tower pokes fun at gamers.
EvilOverlord.Com has plenty of advice on how to conquer the world. I tried it, and became an evil overlord in just two weeks!
Or check out a set of lists for both villains and heroes, henchmen and sidekicks, at the Stupid Plot Tricks page.

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Writing References

The Writer's Reference Desk includes dictionaries, thesauri, quotes, and more.
The Professional Writers' Source covers many excellent topics.
Research-It! includes a thesaurus, a rhyme dictionary, a translator, a Bible search, maps, the CIA factbook, and more.
The venerable Strunk's Elements of Style is online, along with gobs of other great works.
What do you do when the unthinkable happens? Worst Case Scenarios can tell you.

Writing Resources

Inkspot supplies news, markets, workshops, and articles.
For Writers has a ton of resources; you've got to check it out.
Writer On Line includes markets, contests, and tips for many writing genres.
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Roundtable has advice by writers for writers.
At Ask An Expert, real people answer your questions about science, law enforcement, health, business, arts, religion, and more.

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