Western Hero

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Western Hero is a 1991 role-playing supplement for Hero System published by Hero Games/Iron Crown Enterprises.

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Western Hero is a supplement in which adventures can be run using the style of Western films or using historical recreation. [1]

Publication history

Shannon Appelcline noted that after Hero System was published as a universal game system, full genre supplements were released, "The new genres included Ninja Hero (1990), Western Hero (1991), Cyber Hero (1993) and Horror Hero (1994). Matt Forbeck's Western Hero was a notable experiment among these releases because it was a near copy of the Rolemaster genre book Outlaw (1991). By this time ICE was no longer publishing the dual-statted Campaign Classics but they still made this final attempt to share resources between the two games." [2] : 150 

Reception

Sean Holland reviewed Western Hero in White Wolf #29 (Oct./Nov., 1991), rating it a 2 out of 5 and stated that "Overall, I found that while Western Hero was strong on roleplaying and adventuring, it suffers from a great lack of historical research which ultimately cripples even its attempts at pure escapist Western adventures." [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Holland, Sean (October–November 1991). "Capsule Reviews". White Wolf Magazine . No. 29. p. 53.
  2. ↑ Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN   978-1-907702-58-7.
  3. ↑ https://archive.org/details/DragonMagazine260_201801/DragonMagazine175/page/n85/mode/2up
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