Shannon Appelcline noted that after
Hero System was published as a universal game system, full genre supplements were released, "The new genres included
Ninja Hero (1990),
Western Hero (1991),
Cyber Hero (1993) and
Horror Hero (1994). Matt Forbeck's
Western Hero was a notable experiment among these releases because it was a near copy of the
Rolemaster genre book
Outlaw (1991). By this time ICE was no longer publishing the dual-statted
Campaign Classics but they still made this final attempt to share resources between the two games." ==Reception==