If you check the indices, you'll note they all say 'Copyright (C) DC Comics Inc.' The contracts didn't specify anything like 'Mayfair owns the copyright to the actual game rules, while DC retains the rights to its IP' or anything similar, just 'all DCH products are copyright DC Comics-period.' This would suggest that DC actually owns DC HEROES. "1) Our contract with DC specified that DC Comics holds the copyright on every product we released. Ray Winninger, author of the DC Heroes RPG Second Edition and editorial director for Mayfair's DC Heroes line, summarized his understanding of the ownership question as follows: The new owners have stated their intention to continue the Blood of Heroes line as recently as March of 2007 (See message #39370 of the DC Heroes Yahoo Group) but cited the need to address certain issues first, including the legal question of the game's ownership. The original owners of Pulsar sold the company to its current owners in late 2003 ( ). Status of the MEGS Game System as of February 2009 Since then, nothing has been done official with the game, leaving it inactive. In 2004 Pulsar Games was sold to new owners. The setting included with the game is a 1990s-style superhero world with a heavy influence of occult and magical beings, which accounts for the much more detailed magic system included in the game.Ī subsequent edition, Blood of Heroes: Special Edition, incorporated a large number of rule tweaks as well as lots of new material, often derived from proposals from the online community.
DC-brand characters were instead replaced with new characters created specifically for the Blood of Heroes universe.
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Blood of Heroes is largely derived from the third edition of DC Heroes but without a license to use DC Comics' intellectual property. Mayfair Games eventually sold the rights to the Mayfair Exponential Game System to another company, Pulsar Games, which later released the Blood of Heroes role-playing game. The third edition, published in 1993, further refined the rules by revamping the point costs of various abilities. These materials included rules for advantages, drawbacks, and gadgetry. The second edition, published in 1989, incorporated material from the Batman Role-Playing Game and the Superman Sourcebook. While it was groundbreaking in its time, this edition of the game is now considered obsolete by the online community. As a result of this timing, both Silver Age and pre-Crisis writeups were included alongside new, post-Crisis versions of the characters. During the same time-frame, DC released its twelve-part " maxi-series" Crisis on Infinite Earths, which dramatically reshaped the DC universe. Mayfair Games published the first edition in 1985. Hero Points, which are used as experience points, can be spent during play to influence Action Table Results. The die rolling system involves re-rolling any double result (the same number of both dice), so that any result is possible. Conflicts are resolved using an Action Table and two ten-sided dice. For example, although Superman is on orders of magnitude far stronger than Batman, Batman is capable of surviving a straight brawl with Superman for a short period. The scale allows characters of wildly different power levels to co-exist within the same game without one completely dominating a given area. The game system in DC Heroes is sometimes called the Mayfair Exponential Game System (or MEGS).ĭC Heroes uses a logarithmic scale for character attributes. 2.2 Status of the MEGS Game System as of February 2009.
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