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So I remember reading something about Hero Points for the older sets and how when they are earned are just used for re-rolls and resurrection.
What I can't find is how you earn Hero Points in the RotR or earlier sets?
Is it when you complete a chapter?
A Scenario?
A Scenario that only gives you a boon?
АFAIK, you only gained these in Organized Play (they were called something else). You gained them only once per Adventure, I believe - at the end of an adventure by the last rules (or possibly after your 3rd scenario? Memory's murky here). They were defined in the general Society rules and NOT spelled out as a reward for a particular scenario.
- the party could spend 3 HP to revive a dead character at the end of scenario
- the party could add ANY number of HP to a character's result AFTER the roll
- they could NOT be use for straight-up rerolls
EDIT: I managed to find an old version of the Society Guide. Here you go:
"Die Bumps: A die bump is a single-use reward usually given to characters that complete an adventure (See Earning Scenario Rewards on page 10). Your character can use a die bump to add 1 to or subtract 1 from the result of a check. Multiple die bumps can be used on a check, and multiple characters can use die bumps on a check. If a character dies, at the end of that scenario, the party may collectively use 3 die bumps to resurrect that character back from the dead. Players may not be coerced into using die bumps for this purpose. The resurrected character is no longer dead and gains rewards as if he had not died. When you use a die bump, mark it off on your character’s Chronicle sheet."
Die bumps are not hero points, and die bumps no longer exist in OP.
You can easily use hero point rules from Core in RotR. Just ignore all feat rewards from scenarios and adventures if you do as well as the role card reward (instead spending hero points on feats and gaining your role card right before gaining your 3rd power feat). You’ll have less feats overall, but the safety net of hero point rerolls and avoiding death mostly make up for it.
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This is how hero points are handled in the Transition Guide: (Core rulebook, p. 26)
When playing an older Adventure Path, continue to use the feat rewards as listed on the cards; limits on feats don’t apply in those APs. At the end of each adventure, each character gets a hero point that cannot be used to gain a feat.
So you'll earn a total of 7 hero points (for completing adventures B and 1-6, respectively), but the final hero point won't matter because the entire campaign (adventure path) will be done after completing AD6.