Heroes Magazine

Heroes is a role-playing magazine that was published by Avalon Hill.

Contents

Heroes is a magazine in which Avalon Hill supported its role-playing games, including Powers & Perils, Lords of Creation, James Bond 007, and RuneQuest (acquired from Chaosium). Initially, it was expected to cover the company's full range of fantasy and sci-fi titles, but by the second issue, the editor clarified its focus on role-playing games only.[1]

Publication history

Shannon Appelcline noted that as Powers & Perils and Lords of Creation were failing by 1984, "Meanwhile Avalon Hill was rolling out more new roleplaying product: a magazine called Heroes. This house organ supported all four of Avalon Hill's roleplaying games, James Bond 007, Powers & Perils, Lords of Creation and a fourth roleplaying game which was then in preparation: the third edition of Chaosium's RuneQuest, which Eric Dott called the 'Cadillac' of the Avalon Hill game line."[2]: 175  Appelecline also noted that "Heroes magazine ran 10 issues before being quietly cancelled in 1987."[2]: 178 

Reception

Tony Watson reviewed the first two issues of Heroes for Different Worlds magazine and stated that "One cannot make authoritative judgments about a magazine after only two issues, but the indications are that Heroes will prove to be a valuable aid to players of AH's line of role-playing games. The magazine's appeal will be limited by the fact that it deals solely with AH products and apparently will in the future concentrate almost exclusively on role-playing games. Only afficianados of RuneQuest, Powers & Perils, James Bond 007, and Lords Of Creation will be interested in subscribing, but if AH can maintain the quality presented in the first two issues, Heroes would be a good bet for these gamers."[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Watson, Tony (May–June 1985). "Game Reviews". Different Worlds (39): 35.
  2. ^ a b Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
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