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Welcome to the first installment of Breakdown.  I hope you enjoy it, and I look forward to your thoughts.  I’ll share a few thoughts of my own along the way.  I’d like to first thank everyone at High Rock Press and especially Jason Walters.  I’ve enjoyed tremendous support from High Rock as well as the good fortune of friendship with the ceaselessly diligent and caring Jason (I must add, I hope everyone is looking forward to his Symposium as much as I am).  You might wonder why this game has two settings, and why the specific two.  Why not one or three (or...

...we're back. As you may have already guessed, other work and family requirements have kept High Rock Press on something of hiatus since the publication of Champions Character Creation Cards last year. Though it had some flaws (I noticed a glaring math error after the decks were printed), I was really happy with that project, and incredibly gratified it received an ENnie nomination for Best Aid/Accessory - Non-Digital. That meant a lot to me. I've contributed to a bunch of projects that have been nominated for awards over the years; and a few even won. But that was the first...

This is the proposed text for my Champions Character Creation Cards Kickstarter project. Please feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you think!  - Jason Walters, Publisher Create your Champions character in less than one minute using this versatile deck of 54 cards. Pick one Characteristics card, one Complications card, and three to ten Abilities cards to make your point-averaged superhero! Then upload the card numbers to the Hero Designer software to print your character sheets. Electronic files will be made available through Bits & Mortar for retail store customers. Ever want to play Champions but...

The end of another year is upon us.   I always feel dispirited when contemplating the passing of a season, let alone an entire year. Maybe it's the bitter Nevada cold (I'm a Floridian by birth), or maybe just the symbolic death of the trees in Autumn. And with the passing of 2017 I feel particularly melancholy, as this year has seen the death of author Michael Satran, my friend and colleague. It seems surreal that I won't go to Gencon next year, see him, and hear all about whatever bizarre madness he is currently working on. I'll miss that....

Michael Surbrook's Ghosts, Ghouls, and Golems is over the top on Kickstarter with four days to go! High Rock Press would like to thank all of you for your support and encouragement as they work to bring another HERO System product into print.