The long out-of-print DC Heroes RPG will return next year from Cryptozoic Entertainment, who are planning to crowdfund a 40th anniversary edition of the popular role-playing game.
Originally published by Mayfair Games, DC Heroes came out during the height of popularity for role-playing games in the 1980s, debuting about a year after TSR’s Marvel Super-Heroes RPG. It coincided with Crisis on Infinite Earths, the event comic that consolidated DC’s multiverse onto one Earth, and it included both pre-Crisis and post-Crisis write-ups of various heroes and villains. It was followed by a Batman-specific version in 1989, when the Tim Burton film was released, with a full second edition coming later that year. A third edition came out around the time of the Death of Superman event in 1993.
According to the Kickstarter campaign page, Cryptozoic will publish “definitive archival editions” that reprint DC Heroes, versus this being an updated version of the game. Mayfair published not only the core books but also several supplemental sourcebooks for Legion of Super-Heroes, Watchmen, New Titans and more, so it’ll be interesting to see what all makes it into this new edition.
They haven’t announced a launch date for the campaign yet, but you can sign up for updates on the Kickstarter page.