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May 21, 2026
I have only TWO problems with this tabletop RPG. it came out in 1989 to cash in on the expected popularity of the Tim Burton movie. Now, Mayfair games couldn't get the license to produce stuff with imagery from the movie. BUT the had access to the Batman IP and already had the DC Universe license including Batman. So what did they do? They made a simplified version DC Heroes 2nd Edition, stripped it was so of the power high powered abilities, advantagtes, skills and things you were unlikely to find in Gotham or with 'street level heroes' and got rid of the skill link ability and called it a day. They put in all the Batman villains that used only those modified rules, a few non-Bat heros that used them as well... then slapped in the Gotham City sections of the main book and the expanded version from Atlas of the DC Universe and called it a day.
To make things worse, I got the book in 1995 in a 2 for $5 box at a comic book store's discount room. I already had DCURPG's 3rd edition and a bunch of modules.
Other than that the system is quite usable. in fact, I find the way it frames some of the rules, not the rules themselves, easier to understand in the Batman game. One top of that there is something that made 15 year old me think he did not waste his $2.50 cents. That is the entirely new pre-made module in the back of the book. Now a day even a bashed up copy like mine goes for tons on Ebay but when I bought it... yeah. $2.50 for a week when I only had to do 30 minutes of prep time before a game rather than two hours? Totally worth it.
To make things worse, I got the book in 1995 in a 2 for $5 box at a comic book store's discount room. I already had DCURPG's 3rd edition and a bunch of modules.
Other than that the system is quite usable. in fact, I find the way it frames some of the rules, not the rules themselves, easier to understand in the Batman game. One top of that there is something that made 15 year old me think he did not waste his $2.50 cents. That is the entirely new pre-made module in the back of the book. Now a day even a bashed up copy like mine goes for tons on Ebay but when I bought it... yeah. $2.50 for a week when I only had to do 30 minutes of prep time before a game rather than two hours? Totally worth it.
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