Danger International by Douglas L. Garrett, George MacDonald & Steve Peterson

[james_davis_nicoll]

Hero Games' table-top roleplaying game of global adventure, spanning the post-war era from the recent past of 1945 to the distant future of TWO THOUSAND AD.

Danger International by Douglas L. Garrett, George MacDonald & Steve Peterson

Comments

[thewayne]

We played that quite a bit when I was working for Flying Buffalo as there were some company interactions with the Hero people. It was a pretty good system, at the time there was very little in the modern espionage segment.

[james_davis_nicoll]

I think Top Secret was still in print and being supported. And there was Mercenaries, Spies, and Private Eyes...

[thewayne]

Those three were about it.  I remember buying TS first edition and playing around with it - the rules weren't very good.  Flying Buffalo published Mercenaries, Spies, and Private Eyes: I helped unload the truck when the first printing arrived.

Unsurpassed in Comeliness

[beamjockey]

"Comeliness?" Someone was hitting the thesaurus, hard.

I don't think I've ever uttered the word "comeliness." Maybe it's time to start. I wonder when my next opportunity to use it in conversation will come along. I am not the sort of person who is asked to judge beauty contests.

Re: Unsurpassed in Comeliness

[james_davis_nicoll]

If I was going to change just one trivial thing in Hero, it would be to drop comeliness, which has no mechanical effect at all.

Re: Unsurpassed in Comeliness

[chrysostom]

Comeliness was also introduced into AD&D with Unearthed Arcana, which also came out in 1985. Must have been something in the air.

[roseembolism]

I have a lot of nostalgia for that game. Where GURPS went from normals to supers (poorly), DI had Hero go from supers to normals, and it worked very well. There was a lot of flexibility in that soul and trait system, so it was natural it would be ported back into Champions.