Friday, February 19, 2010

The (fan-made) Heroes VS SYSTEM trading card game!

Development Continues ... NOW!
Greetings true believers! It's been a long time since official product for the VS System engine has been stopped, so I'm glad to see that fan sets have been popular.
You may also know that I've been working on a Heroes fan set for about 35 months, and I apologize for that. While we're at it though, I'm going to go ahead and let you guys know it'll easily be about another 4 months of development and crafting before the set can release - Boy, I had no idea what I was getting into at first >_>
The GOOD news however is that when all is said and done, this will feel like a real expansion - that means no new keywords, nothing too broken/overpowered, and as little vanilla and as much flavor as possible - for both constructed play and sealed play support.
Those are my goals.
I can tell you now that I've revised the set at least 5 times as I've reworked things and have been looking for art; Originally the Level 5 were going to be a team. Funny thing though, hardly any of them have been printed in an online graphic novel over at nbc.com.

One major difference between the Heroes fan set and all of the fan sets currently available at .ORG is that this expansion's biggest audience won't be the users of vssystem.org - I'm directing this project straight to the Heroes fanbase, starting with 9thwonders.com.

If you're new to card games and are curious about the vs system engine, check out vssystem.org for the basics.
If you want to browse some existing cards, check out http://www.ccgdb.com/vs/ or other sections of .ORG.
If you are unfamiliar with Heroes, go to nbc.com/heroes.

Contact me with any questions, inquiries, suggestions, etc. here, at my e-mail at alex.lloyd@comcast.net or wherever else you know me on the interwebs. I'll be looking for playtesters in about 2 months.

Heroes is BACK, baby!
- Alex "OSM" Lloyd