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A superhero setting like no other. A role-playing game campaign book that includes techniques and lessons from over 22 years of play. A tribute to one of the greatest creators in the RPG industry, created using Champions 6th Edition.

In 1988, Aaron Allston released Strike Force, a supplement detailing the first eight years of his superhero campaign. Noted for its extensive and highly-influential advice to gamemasters on how to run a long-term campaign, Strike Force was a landmark RPG publication.

We have now released an updated version of this classic book for the 21st Century. Aaron himself was designing this new edition of Strike Force before his untimely death, and we wanted to bring his work to life as a monument to Aaron's lasting influence on the RPG hobby. This  updated Strike Force sourcebook includes never-before-seen material detailing Aaron's multiversal superhero setting, compelling characters and villains, and updated and expanded advice from Superhero RPG veterans like Steve Kenson and Sean Patrick Fannon for how to run a campaign using "the Strike Force method."

The electronic portion of this product includes character write-ups for Mutants & Masterminds and ICONS.  


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Angelo C June 06, 2021 7:10 am UTC
For those who want a hard copy of this book there are copies available at the Hero Games store
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Daniel S January 05, 2021 6:26 pm UTC
I own the old, original Strike Force book. Besides the M&M and ICONS stats, and any changes to the Champions stuff that were only made to update between editions, is there any completely new information? Does "updated version of this classic book for the 21st Century" refer to any campaign advice or world information?

Basically, if I'm not going to use this with any system for actual play, and I already have the original book, am I better off just sticking to the new Archives book instead?
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Chad K March 19, 2020 10:06 pm UTC
Where can I get a print version? Thanks.
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Walter C November 17, 2022 10:36 pm UTC
Try the store at Herogames.com
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Kevin C July 06, 2019 6:24 pm UTC
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Which version of Hero Games rules does this use?
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Marco M July 21, 2019 9:08 pm UTC
6th
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Curt M May 02, 2017 4:36 pm UTC
Any chance of backers getting rpgnow links?
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December 29, 2016 3:44 pm UTC
Are there any plans to make this a POD on Drivethru?
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Maxwell T November 20, 2016 2:49 am UTC
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The Icons stats are here, but only in the form of a barely formatted Word file. This is a pretty weak effort on that front, and feels like it was barely an afterthought. Presentation matters. The main PDF looks great, and is packed with info and content.
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Andrew B October 25, 2016 12:52 am UTC
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Wow. Does this have complete stats on everything for M&M, Champions, as well as ICONS? Or is the ICONS part just attached to whatever articles Steve Kenson might have written up. I have to confess... Im an ICONS freak, but I am down with the M&M too. Champions is too data dense for me.

Thanks in advance for whatever clarification you can give.
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Andrew B October 26, 2016 10:32 am UTC
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I cant get any version of Strike Force's Quick Preview to work. I wanted to see some of how its laid out... perhaps the table of contents or something. Anyway I could see some of the pages of this product?
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Jason W October 26, 2016 5:14 pm UTC
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Andy,

This product contains the characters sheets for ICONS and Mutants & Masterminds (broken up into two sections) in DOC X format (readable by Word, Open Office, and Libre Office) zipped together with the PDF for the Strike Force book
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Jason W October 26, 2016 5:17 pm UTC
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Andy, it's a zip file containing four different files, which is why the preview function doesn't work. Not sure what to do about that! It's a nice looking book. I'm holding the print version in my hand right now, and it starts with a two page table of contents and end with a bunch of sketches done by Denis Loubet back in the 80's. It's full color, well organized, and the artwork is solid. Hope that helps.
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