Western Hero is a 1991 role-playing supplement for Hero System published by Hero Games/Iron Crown Enterprises.
Contents
editWestern Hero is a supplement in which adventures can be run using the style of Western films or using historical recreation.[1]
Publication history
editShannon 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
editSean 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]
Reviews
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Holland, Sean (October–November 1991). "Capsule Reviews". White Wolf Magazine. No. 29. p. 53.
- ^ Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ https://archive.org/details/DragonMagazine260_201801/DragonMagazine175/page/n85/mode/2up