Urban Fantasy Hero

[Steve Long]

Here’s our back-cover text describing UFH:

MODERN-DAY MAGIC

Fantasy isn’t just wizards and elves and dragons in vast alternate worlds. Some of the most popular Fantasy tales are Urban Fantasy — stories featuring magic and other wondrous things in modern, high-tech settings. And whether your story is about vampires and werewolves fighting a war in the shadows of the city, mages manipulating historical and current events to increase their mystic power, or a world where magic and technology exist side-by-side, Urban Fantasy Hero has everything you need to create it in the HERO System! It includes:

—a thorough review of the Urban Fantasy genre, including its themes, elements, and story types

—extensive information for creating Urban Fantasy characters, including Package Deals, expanded rules for Skills and other game elements, and example spells and enchanted items

—advice for GMs about creating and running Urban Fantasy campaigns, ranging from mostly realistic Low Urban Fantasy stories to “Open Magic” games where magic is as well-known and common as technology

—a sourcebook containing four Urban Fantasy campaign settings/scenarios with detailed magic systems, sample spells, NPCs, and more

Get ready to find the magic hidden in the modern world with Urban Fantasy Hero!


DOJHERO515
$29.99 US
ISBN 978-1-58366-113-0

[ghost-angel]

My copy just arrived today - I LOVE the cover.

Quick run down: OK - so I nearly panicked when I flipped to the back, hopefully the Index gets up to the freepage section soon (panic I tell you!)

A little over half the book is dedicated to Four full settings (one is Hudson City complete with Ley Lines). The first part is genre info, I ran through pretty quickly but I like it (Musician Package Deal FTW - hey, it's an important genre element).

And, Full Review later, I've been looking forward to this book for a while so I can't wait to get into it.

[Akiva]

Just received mine today as well. First thing I noticed also was that there was no index which I found to be quite startling considering how the HERO books are widely regarded to have not only some of the best indices in the business but also some of the most functional. Other than that, so far it's tremendous. I've been waiting for this book since I got into HERO!

[ghost-angel]

Just received mine today as well. First thing I noticed also was that there was no index which I found to be quite startling considering how the HERO books are widely regarded to have not only some of the best indices in the business but also some of the most functional. Other than that, so far it's tremendous. I've been waiting for this book since I got into HERO!

Luckily, the last pages sidebar says it should appear in the Free Section soon.

[Akiva]

Luckily, the last pages sidebar says it should appear in the Free Section soon.

This is a good thing. I'd still rather have it as part of the book itself, of course.

[steamteck]

Any idea if they'll be another printing with the index in it?

[Steve Long]

No, there won't be. The index was omitted for a specific reason. When you print books, the pages are printed in 8- or 16-page sections (depending on the printer). Thus, a 144-page book is nine sections.

UFH came out to 144 pages exactly. We can't just add two pages for an index; we'd have to add 8 or 16 pages, depending on the printer's capabilities. We're not going to pay to add pages to the book just to put the Index on two of them and have 6 or 14 blank pages. That will not only cost us more money but will earn us, for our trouble, a lot of whining about "empty pages" in the back.

I'll get the Index up on the Free Stuff page as soon as I can. Flying without a full-time Art Director means some things simply take longer than expected.

[steamteck]

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll grab it up soon as I'm able then.

[Steve Long]

LOL, I just had a funny idea that I would only give the Index to people who came to my weekly chat tonight. Fortunately I am not that mean.

[Steve Long]

OK, you wacky hooligans. Fred Hicks, gentlemanly freelance art director guy that he is, has finished up the UFH index just for you. You can find the PDF on the "Free Stuff" page. Enjoy!

[Admiral C]

UFH came out to 144 pages exactly.

I'll snap up the index when I get the book but I was hoping UFH would be longer than 144. I guess it's not so bad, the average 3rd Ed GURPS book was 128 or something similar and they had lots of info and PAH wasn't overly long either.

[Lord Liaden]

The page count came out to precisely 12x12? How spookily numerological.

[Lord Liaden]

LOL, I just had a funny idea that I would only give the Index to people who came to my weekly chat tonight. Fortunately I am not that mean.

Or self-destructive enough to p!ss off your customers.

[Barton]

Or self-destructive enough to p!ss off your customers.

I vote for self destruction... Steve wants to torture us!!!
But we still love you Mr. Steve Long!

[ghost-angel]

144? My book says 200

Which is 25 8-Page Sections. I think a lot of issues regarding books in general comes from people not having any experience with or knowledge of printing processes, which is understandable really but causes the occasional complaint.

All this talk of Indices reminds me I'm behind on my Ult. Index entries.