Another Hero

Another Hero is a pencil and paper role playing game for three players where you can take turns as unstoppable Heroes, powerful Villains, and the rest of the World and people that help the story unfold.

Each Hero acts to fulfill their Destiny, gifted with Resolve by a powerful being that allows them to make ceaseless progress towards their goal. On the way, they will need to navigate through Conflicts, bargaining with a combination of objects imbued with their power and the circumstances of the situation. Every action they take has the potential to not just advance them towards their Destiny, but to open them up to the Plague buried within. Should they fall fully to the Plague, they become a monster in their own right, a fitting Villain for another Hero's tale.

The game seeks to capture the feeling of roleplaying videogames where you can always reload a save and just keep on pressing ahead. It's not a game about winning or losing - it's about telling the story of a Hero and seeing what unfolds on the way. The rules are designed not to be gamed or carefully followed for maximum points, but instead to facilitate the progression of the story.

Will your Hero reach their goal? Will they give up hope and return to mortality? Or will they be corrupted by the Plague that festers within? The story is not yet told - it's up to you to play it out. Welcome to the worlds of Another Hero.

Major features:

• Diceless play
• Rules for Hero, Enemy, and Worldly Characters
• The Conflict Cycle system for resolving conflicts
• A system for quick creation of a map/setting that directly relates to the characters being played

Major inspirations:

• Polaris
• Demons' Souls/Dark Souls
• Any game with progression systems and save/continue mechanics (but especially Saint Sword)

To play you need:

• Three players (2 or 4+ is possible, but not ideal)
• One of each (-hero- + -villain-world-) character sheet (or one -all- characters sheet) per player
• A blank page (or a print out of the template map)
• A pencil and eraser