I'm working on another superhero RPG design. (I know... I know... another one...) But, I'm really feeling heroic and motivated. Anyway, I was reading through Hi/Lo Heroes and noticed the 2006 copyright. Wow! Hi/Lo Heroes is twenty years old!!
Hi/Lo Heroes was one of my most popular RPG zines.
It originally posted on the website 1KM1KT which stood for 1 Thousand Monkeys, 1 Thousand Typewriters. It was a place for hosting small Indy RPG projects and it was an awesome website!
Hi/Lo Heroes was a hit. So much so that the owner of 1KM1KT, Keaton Harrington reached out to see if I was interested in trying to monetize it. I said okay, and Hi/Lo Heroes became the first (and only) paid RPG to ever appear on the 1KM1KT website. It was for sale for about nine months. The experiment failed, and Hi/Lo went back to being available for free.
Hi/Lo even had a few fan blog sites dedicated to it! (That's how you know that you've hit the big time! LOL!) Anyway, I am reading through it now, and I forgot that it was actually pretty darn good. I'm thinking of transplanting most of the character creation stuff in Hi/Lo into my new design. If you have never read it, give it a look!
Click HERE to read Hi/Lo Heroes (or find it in the sidebar).
Happy 20 years to Hi/Lo Heroes!
Regards,
Jeff
I would LOVE a "sequel in spirit" to Hi/Lo Heroes! I likely generated more character ideas from this 20 year old game than any other random supers system other than V&V 2nd Ed :)
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