> While reporting that general opinion of Hero Wars 'one year on'
>(almost) was very very good, and sales extremely healthy, there
> appeared to be a genuine sense of disbelief that this game system
> doesn't have a single scenario supplement to its name as yet.
>
True. It did, at least have 4 scenarios in the Narrator's Book, which puts it a healthy step above Nephilim...
> I can't help wondering how many new players have been put off HW by
> this lack of playable material. Can someone shed some light on
> whether there are going to be any stand alone scenarios published
> before September, when the Lunar book appears?
To be brutally honest, I think the misprints will be more offputting than the lack of scenarios to the complete newcomer. But as other people have said, Sartar Rising is the first projected "Scenario Pack" for HW, and that is due out before the Lunar Book (I don't recall immediately whether it is the next release after Storm Tribe, or whether Mark Galeotti's "Players Book" is due first. (Maybe there is a place in there for a scenario too?)
On the other hand, not considering myself a very good scenario writer, I have to admit that I always consider Scenario support to be a "good thing"! As always I expect one of the constraints is Money and the limited resources at Issaries.
>I honestly can't think off the top of my head of any
> other RPG which hasn't had scenario support one year after its
>appearance.
>
Amber? EPT? but Very few, I grant you. On the plus side, there are scenarios available on the Issaries web site, on the minus side, that's not available to everyone, and isn't necessarily somewhere you'd immediately look if you were considering the game. (OK maybe it should be, but again, not everyone has a web connection, or, even if they do, necessarily use it for this sort of research...)
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