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High Fantasy HERO Content Conversion Documents
Statement of Purpose
Hail and well met! If you play or are interested in playing in a Fantasy Role-playing Game using the HERO System rules with a focus on High Fantasy, then this site is for you. Contained herein are many package deals, magic systems, and  material to assist a GM in the pursuance of such a goal.
How to Use
This website provides an internally consistent body of material for playing High Fantasy using the HERO System intended as a ready-made body of work for GM's, saving themselves the hassle of defining the rules paradigm in effect for their campaigns, creating a lot of basic Package Deals, detailing Magic Systems, and the like.
This material can be used in a variety of ways ranging from a wholesale adoption, to a more selective browsing. The High Fantasy Content page collects links to various sections of HERO System centric material.
A GM might also want to convert an existing campaign or adapt content from another Fantasy RPG into the HERO System, and the System Conversion page collects links to Conversion Documents detailing suggestions on how to do this.
This diagram depicts the basic idea at play here.
What is High Fantasy?
High Fantasy is an exciting subgenre of Fantasy which is particularly well suited to Role-playing games. High Fantasy's most notable defining characteristic is the sheer volume of accessible magic available to the protagonists, called the Player Characters (PCs) in gaming parlance. High Fantasy characters tend to be bigger than life and much more powerful than any normal person could every hope to be. Even "mere" sword-swinging grunts are to be feared, with particularly experienced specimens capable of single-handedly killing fantastical beasts such as Dragons. A definition of High Fantasy may be found here.
You Mean Like Dungeons & Dragons?
Yes and no.
The original Role-playing Game, Dungeons & Dragons, is the most well known example of High Fantasy in existence today; to the point that "D&D-isms" have become synonymous with the subgenre. The idea of codified categorizations of characters, referred to as classes; the prevalence of elves and dwarves and other common fantasy races as options for "PCs", the way Magic functions, the way the gods interact with mortal society etc have all become ingrained in many gamer's conceptions of how the High Fantasy subgenre is supposed to be.
However D&D is not the only example of High Fantasy; games like Earthdawn and more recently Exalted have elements of High Fantasy. Also many fantasy novels present High Fantasy settings, and the HERO System is ideally suited to realize implementations of such in RPG form.
Any progress?
Most of the work for this site has been done, but occasional bursts of new content and revisions are added from time to time as the muse strikes. Currently we are in the process of doing a massive overhaul of the layout and organization of the site to aid in ease of use, and adding examples and sample characters as needed to improve clarity. To see what is currently on the agenda for enhancement, you can check out the to-do list here.
Can I help?
If you are a GM or Player and the material herein inspires you to create further content of your own and you'd like to share it with others, by all means send it in. As long as the content is consistent with the overall theme of the existing material it will be used (though it may be edited for consistency and layout).
All work posted on the website will be credited (be sure to include the name you wish to be credited under). Send your submissions here and allow some time for processing. Thanx in advance!
Links
Here are some links to sites you might find useful.

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THE LEGAL BITS
This site exists to provide content for use with Fantasy HERO, produced by HERO Games. This is a not-for-profit fan site that does not seek to infringe or challenge the IP or licenses of HERO Games. It is intended merely to expand and assist the player base of Fantasy HERO.
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The original material presented herein is either my own creation or the creation of others where credited, intended for use with the HERO System and/or other products of DOJ, Inc. d/b/a Hero Games. This material is not official, and has not been approved or endorsed by DOJ, Inc.