The Clobberin' Times was an APA (Amateur Press Alliance) dedicated to Champions, the super role-playing game from Hero Games. This member-based/created publication ran from 1988 to 2000, for a total of 67 bi-monthly issues. 57 contributors were members of the 'Times during its years.

Clobberin' Times issue covers

The 'Times' content included Champions discussion, characters, villains, vehicles, bases, scenarios, campaign reports and histories, character fiction, art, comic stories, articles, essays, and countless pages of "mailing comments" (comments about other contributors' material from the previous issue). At its peak, an issue of the Clobberin' Times could be hundreds of pages per issue. It spawned two shared-universe fiction projects, "ConTinuum" and "Omniverse", each coming out every other issue of the 'Times as a special section. Awards, known as the "Grimmies", were voted on and given out each year for outstanding content. Clobberin' Times members would gather annually, depending on which coast they were on (and sometimes that didn't matter), at "Clobberin' Cons" set at the big comic conventions (such as San Diego and Chicago). Former members of the 'Times have gone on to be comic professionals, computer game designers, role-playing game designers, and one to even form a company and buy Hero Games.

'Times members attending Clobberin' Con '99 in San Diego

The Clobberin' Times Online is the digital continuation of the classic print publication, where former 'Timers have gathered again to talk about, write about, draw about and dream about their still-great love...Champions. Every two months, on the first of the month, contributors post up Champions-based material on a web page(s), and those links are collected and placed here in each "issue's" table of contents. This content is then discussed between issues on the Clobberin' Times Yahoo Group. Contributors are limited to former members of the Clobberin' Times at this time.