A question about the Revisted Villains Unlimited

[Kargan3033]

I have Villains Unlimited 1st edition and I was wondering if the revised VU is worth buying.

So if anyone has both editions of VU I'd like to hear your thoughts on the revised VU.

[The Artist Formerly]

Not worth it. They took out the parts about new powers from the white book, and replaced it with a new adventure group/hook. The basic idea was cool, but they didn't update the character builds for the core book. So you have a bunch of weird character builds, leaving the GM to either fix it him or herself, or use them as is. Exactly what you're doing right now. I was really disappointed by this half assed effort and felt ripped off.

[Glistam]

Out of all the Heroes Unlimited books, especially considering you already have the original version, I would prioritize it as the last book to buy. They didn't really do any updates on the heroes or villains from Revised to Second Edition, so it's mostly just a reprint with a bit of new material (one new organization, where the new powers used to be). Since the heroes and villains weren't updated to Second Edition stats, there was a fan project that did a wonderful job in making those conversions/upgrades. It's stickied in this forum here.

[Kargan3033]

Thanks everyone for your input, I have all the HU books save for this one and when I read the info about The Judges I thought it would be worth the time and money to buy it because of The Judges and updated/new villains.

[Kargan3033]

Out of all the Heroes Unlimited books, especially considering you already have the original version, I would prioritize it as the last book to buy. They didn't really do any updates on the heroes or villains from Revised to Second Edition, so it's mostly just a reprint with a bit of new material (one new organization, where the new powers used to be). Since the heroes and villains weren't updated to Second Edition stats, there was a fan project that did a wonderful job in making those conversions/upgrades. It's stickied in this forum here.

Thanks for the link, that's a damn good post.

[Reagren Wright]

Instead of buying that book . I suggest you check out the post Revised to the 2nd Conversions here on the
board. Cardiac and myself took upon ourselves to do the "correct" update that Villains Unlimited needed.