Touch Combat

Though Heroic Games may run different combat rules, safety is the primary concern. Participants may only strike other players using legal boffers and may never make body-to-body contact. When swinging a boffer, it is important to swing only hard enough to touch the target and never to whip or snap a boffer. With the intensity of a Heroic weekend, this helps keep small injuries down and preserves everyone's spirits.

Magic, Gases, and Missiles

Ranged attacks are handled in most Heroic games by the use of packets. These packets are small cloth pouches filled with bird seed (no sunflower seeds, please!) and sewn, banded, or tied shut. Most colors of packets represent magical or elemental energy, but yellow packets represent projectiles such as arrows or bolts, and orange packets represent thrown gases.