Product Types
Publishers and gamers classify HERO System products into a few types of books:
- Rulebook: Provides some version of the HERO System rules engine.
- Rules Supplement: Provides new or optional rules (for the game system as a whole, or a particular setting), but not the core rules engine itself.
- Genre Book: Covers creating and running games in a particular genre using the HERO System.
- Subgenre Book: Like a Genre Book, but focusing on a narrower segment of the full genre.
- Campaign Setting: Describes a fictional world and/or provides parameters for a campaign.
- Setting Expansion: Offers more detail on an existing Campaign Setting, such as detailing a single city or country within a larger fictional world.
- Creature Book: Describes general monsters, animals, or similar classes of characters. For example, it might include "demons" or "vampires," but not a specific demon or vampire.
- Enemies Book: Details specific adversaries for use in adventures (villains & villain teams, individually named monsters and antagonists, etc.).
- Characters Book: Contains specific characters (like an Enemies Book), but not necessarily adversaries (allies, supporting characters, etc.).
- Organization Book: Details the structure and workings of one or more organizations (companies, agencies, criminal empires, and so on).
- Adventure Book: Outlines one or more pre-prepared adventure scenarios.
- Powers Book: Offers pre-defined powers, spells, or the like.
- Equipment Book: Details pre-defined gear of one or more kinds.
- Playing Aid: Game-assistance material such as GM screens.
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