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Summary: Heroes Unlimited II
Review: Great both for a stand alone Supers Game, and wonderful as an addition for most other Palladium games. DM's running RIFTS will find it useful when your players are running rampant over the Techno based and Magic based NPC's. Adds spice to your Horror based games. No more seeing the players stake and cross your vampires when they have INVULNERABILITY.
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Summary: Excellent superpowered RPG
Review: Heroes Unlimited uses a range of character types (secret agents, martial-arts-masters, as well as super-powered superhumans). It covers all aspects of character generation, but has only a small list of equipment. It allows characters to be used in other Palladium games (Rifts, Fantasy, Ninjas-and-Superspies etc), or to be used in their own contemporary setting. Not as difficult as some RPGs to learn but requires the purchase of additional books to be of real use.
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Summary: Best Role Playing Game Book
Review: I love this book because it offers many different types of superheroes/villians form typical (Superman, Spiderman, Batman, etc.) supercharacters, but it also allows you to make different types of characters Bionic, Robots, Mystics, Superspies, and even Mega-Heroes. Some options for your guy are Insanities, Backrounds, additctions, and even multiple personalities. Some requirements for the game are dice: 2 4-sided, 4 6-sided, 2 8-sided, 2 10-sided, and 2 20-sided. It's a wonderful game, especially if you're an RPG fan, fun to play, plus it's a great get-toghether game, and last it's compatible with the whole Pallidium, Megaverse. And that's all I have to say about that.
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Summary: Best Palladium book for Content Ever
Review: If you want sheer diversity and excitement in Role Playing experience, then HU is for you. The Character developement and creation, is unmatched by any other RPG system of play, Speed and Simplicity down to an actual science. The rules are adaptable and can assimilate any known Ideas into Playable format.Palladium is simply the best.
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Summary: Flawed masterpiece...
Review: Palladium's contribution to the 'superhero boom' that hit the RPG industry a while ago, and one of the most durable. If you know the Palladium system, you'll find this a doddle to use, and the combat system has been expanded considerably (rules for vehicle and arial combat). The 'power category' system works well (mutants, aliens, cyborgs, psychics etc) and the skill selection system is realistic for a present-day setting. With a little imagination, the rules give the ability for almost any kind of superhero to be (re)created.Bad points. Firstly, some sections are badly worded. For example, the Robotics section is extremely confusing and the cybernetics listing contradicts itself, giving different listings for the same item. Also, despite a 'Mega-Hero' option, there are few facilities to create powerhouses on the level of Superman or the Incredible Hulk. I can see how something like that would have been open to abuse, but the option would have been nice. And the magic listing is somewhat truncated, though this is rectified in a later sourcebook. Aside from those gripes, I recommend it. It may be intimidating for those new to roleplaying or the Palladium system, but few games have the sheer possibility on offer here.
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Summary: Flawed masterpiece...
Review: Palladium's contribution to the 'superhero boom' that hit the RPG industry a while ago, and one of the most durable. If you know the Palladium system, you'll find this a doddle to use, and the combat system has been expanded considerably (rules for vehicle and arial combat). The 'power category' system works well (mutants, aliens, cyborgs, psychics etc) and the skill selection system is realistic for a present-day setting. With a little imagination, the rules give the ability for almost any kind of superhero to be (re)created. Bad points. Firstly, some sections are badly worded. For example, the Robotics section is extremely confusing and the cybernetics listing contradicts itself, giving different listings for the same item. Also, despite a 'Mega-Hero' option, there are few facilities to create powerhouses on the level of Superman or the Incredible Hulk. I can see how something like that would have been open to abuse, but the option would have been nice. And the magic listing is somewhat truncated, though this is rectified in a later sourcebook. Aside from those gripes, I recommend it. It may be intimidating for those new to roleplaying or the Palladium system, but few games have the sheer possibility on offer here.
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Summary: Heroes Unlimited revised second edition
Review: The original Heroes Unlimited was published by Palladium books way back in 1984 amidst a wide selection of Super Hero genre RPGs.. 2002 and this game is in it's third incarnation while others of it's type have faded into the past. The game is cohesive and features Palladium's universal rule system, the first of it's kind back in the 80's (yes, even before GURPS), so it is compatable with every other game in the Palladium Megaverse. Aside from covering every main type of super hero, anti hero or villian, from aliens to super sleuths; Heroes Unlimited provides a loose framework for creating the entire campaign environment, including quick roll tables for Non player characters and words of advice in how potential game masters can breathe life into thier creations.
Why buy this book?
Two words : It works!
You are buying a reliable product that is supported by Palladium Books ... with an active message board, numerous fan sites and frequent releases of supplimentary titles (such as Villians unlimited, Aliens unlimited, Heroes unlimited G.M.'s Guide and more planned this year).. HU2 is here to stay.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book was REALLY GREAT the only real down fall was the lack of selection for equipment. Namely the weapons other then that excellent book!!!
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Summary: Taking what was great and making it better!
Review: This is a must have book for any Gamer. The second edition of the great and popular Heroes Unlimited has been a long time coming! It takes you to new extremes. If you can think it up, there is a way to make it within this book. You can go from a secret agent trying to stop the end of the world, to a Super Hero saving the day. Good or bad, they are all the same in the end. The system is easy to follow, and anyone who liked the first edition will love the changes. This one has a bit more power to it, but that's where the fun lies. Get this book, plus the weapons and equipment guide, and you are set to do what ever you need to, in order to save the world, or take it over!
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