Quote from: James Gillen;837015As I said at least once elsewhere, sometimes a game needs more complexity, which is why Hero characters now have more than (say) five Skills as opposed to the old-time Champions characters.  But 6E didn't just complicate things, it complicated things unnecessarily.  And when you want a game that appeals to both veterans who liked the previous system and newbies who either didn't know about or did not like Hero, the LAST thing you want to do is complicate things unnecessarily.

JG

Exactly! I own everything Hero Games printed for 5th; it was an expansive game with a truckload of supplements and some really nice, detailed settings. Then they released 6th and it seemed like the vast majority of what they printed for the next two years was retreads of existing material 'updated' to 6th.

Personally I'd rather have continued to receive more new material for 5th. I did eventually pick up everything for 6th (yeah, I'm old school - gotta have a complete set lol) and it looks GREAT but if I were to run Hero, I'd probably stick with 5th simply because of the vast library of stuff I have for it that sticking with 5th requires zero conversion work. Or break out my BBB (with the Perez cover - LOVE that art!) and play 4th

Hero didn't really bork the game with 6e. It's just their presentation of the rules: first huge expensive books, then the Complete series which are like summary notes for experts, laid out in Word .

So sure, given that 5e revised was a solid game anyway, there's no real need to buy 6e just for the minor rule improvements.

There's still a good way in though: Basic Rules in hardcopy, with the big blue vols, or Complete (Champions or Fantasy Hero) in pdf to refer to.