Dark Champions: Heroes of Vengeance
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Dark Champions: Heroes of Vengeance is a supplement published by Hero Games/Iron Crown Enterprises in 1993 for the superhero role-playing game Champions
The original Champions role-playing game focuses on costumed superheroes who, like the popular comic book superheroes in the Justice League of America, stay on the side of good and use truth and justice to confront evil costumed supervillains, who are always captured alive so they can be convicted of their crimes and imprisoned.[1]
But inspired by grim and gritty characters such as Punisher (Marvel Comics), Vigilante (DC Comics) and even Mack Bolan from The Executioner novel series, Dark Champions: Heroes of Vengeance is a campaign setting in which players create morally ambiguous street heroes who seek vengeance and are not averse to killing the targets of their wrath, acting as "judge, jury and executioner".[2]
This supplement uses the Champions game (which itself uses the Hero System 4 rules set), although the combat and weapons are given revised optional rules. There is a chapter on the American judicial system, and profiles of criminal elements likely to serve as an adversary as well as profiles of various criminal organizations such as the Mafia and the Yakuza. The fictional "Hudson City" is used as a campaign setting.[3]
Three scenarios are included in the book: a medium-length scenario, a short scenario, and one intended to serve as a backdrop for other adventures.[2]