Challenges for Champions
super hero role-playing adventures
Challenges for Champions is a collection of adventures published by Hero Games/Iron Crown Enterprises in 1990 for the superhero role-playing game Champions.
Description
Challenges for Champions begins with advice on how to design a scenario. A collection of ten short adventure scenarios follows:
"Vanished"
"A Serpent in our midst"
"Monster!"
"Soft Targets"
"Bloody Revenge"
"Strange Things"
"Red Herring"
"Mexican Standoff"
"Fire and Ice"
"Deathtrap"
The book also includes 19 pages of new supervillain opponents, and a map for a generic hero team base.
Publication history
Hero Games first published the superhero role-playing game Champions in 1981, and then published many supplements and adventures for it, including Challenges for Champions, written by Andrew Robinson, with cover art by Paul Smith and interior illustrations by Albert Deschesne, It was published by Hero Games/Iron Crown Enterprises in 1989 as a 64-page book.
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