Golden Heroes

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Golden Heroes

Designer	Simon Burley, Peter Haines
Publisher	Games Workshop
Publication date	1982 (amateur) 1984 (Games Workshop)
Genre(s)	Superhero fiction
System	Custom

Golden Heroes is a superhero role-playing game that was originally written and published on an amateur basis in 1982. Games Workshop then published a more complete version in 1984. It was written by Simon Burley and Peter Haines and was illustrated by a group of artists who were working for 2000 AD at the time.

The game was published in a box, the rules books features fake bar codes and Comics Code approval badges.

The character generation system involves players rolling completely random characters. A character can only keep his full set of powers if he can justify them all in a plausible origins story. The system really strives to recreate comics, with the actions occurring in "frames" and a lot of classic comics assumptions being written into the rules.

The game is also now known as Squadron UK. A basic version is available for free and the full rules are sold in PDF format.