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Originally Posted by Sorloc
I don't know that HERO would be in the shape it's in without Champions. Surely MERP had a little something to do with it also. I'm betting that the situation there is much like here; There are two or three well-known settings, and a handful of minor, even obscure ones.
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Champions wasn't a setting; it was a genre. There really wasn't a coherent Champions universe for most of the life of the game. MERP was not a Hero product. In fact, Hero has never had particularly distinct settings until Steve Long got the line. Same, far as I can tell for GURPS. Its a little muddier with BESM because it had a lot of licensed products, but all evidence I had was they weren't the dominant issue with its fandom.