... well, not really! A Google-search the other day turned up Heropress Millenium's Journal; apparently an old player's attempt to revive the game in its full-on superhero glory. He seems to have been from the Mark/Richard era, so I don't recognise his name - or the name of any of the other old players who made comments on the Livejournal site.
Sadly the site also appears to have lain dormant since September 2001 and the email address it lists no longer works - it's possible to post comments still, but what are the chances that anyone will come back to the site after five years to read them?
The author, Roy Dickel from Liverpool, starts off with a potted history of the game:
"Heropress started life as a diceless SuperHero system devised by a group of friends in Royal Wells (Kent, England, UK)(sic). As they drifted apart due to other commitments it became a pbm. As it became more widely known and popular more people joined it and the original DM became swamped. So players where gathered into other areas run by other dm's usually on a geographic basis. This got too big and collapsed under it's own weight. The concept was ressurected by a magazine called Fantasia who acted as a focal point, posted updates in it's pages and paid the DM's (don't expect that to happen again real soon) This worked really well until Fantasia committed financial suicide.Smaller groups picked up the game concept (including a very Gothic World of Darkness crew that operated out of Cardiff for a while). And that brings us to here. What I want to do is pull it back to it's 3rd period concept with multiple DM's looking after a city or country each with a group of players."
And then goes on to list all the active campaigns he can remember from when he was playing:
- "Royal Wells (England) - Where it all began
- Cardiff (Wales) - A gothic mysterious City
- Belfast (N Ireland) - Sectarian violence and Superheros
- Vandal City (Canada) - A city breaking apart with racial tensions
- New York (USA) - The big apple if you can make it there you'll make it anywhere if you can't cut it here you're dead
- San Angeles (USA) - Created to be the perfect community then all the busnesses went away
- Volgagrad (Russia) - A soviet center for superheros how's it fared since the USSR collapsed?
- Tokyo (Japan) - Giant robots, Ninjas, fire breathing reptiles. Think Godzilla vs G-Force
- Sydney (Australia) - A land down under where superheros are few and someone's keeping it that way
- Albion - An Alternative world where Camelot never fell. "
There seems to have been some fond reminiscing by a few other players who remembered the game and a brief discussion of their treasured 'source books', but the planned revival never really got anywhere.
Good grief someone remembered that, I got work outside the U.K. and lost computer access for most of a year so it died off.
ReplyDeleteIf there's an interest in these post RPol days I'd happily invest some time in trying to put things back together.
Hi Roy, it's great to hear from anyone with a connection to my old "baby"!
ReplyDeleteWhat was involved with HeroPress - were you one of the GM's that Mark appointed after I handed everything over to him, or a player?
If you look back to the early days of this blog there's more on the origins of the game, early characters etc, if you are interested!