What's the difference...

[Doug Puthoff]

Between the FANTASY HERO game advertised in the Hero Games Store and the one on Drive Thru RPG?

[Hyper-Man]

Do you mean the Fantasy Hero source book vs Fantasy Hero Complete?

[Lord Liaden]

There are two versions of Fantasy Hero written and purchasable for the current (Sixth) edition of Hero System. The one called Fantasy Hero Complete includes a streamlined version of the core rules (not much actually omitted, just a lot of the detailed explanations and some of the optional bits trimmed out), as well as genre-emulating and campaigning advice, and various example system builds and templates. The book called simply Fantasy Hero does not contain the core rules (it was written to use the two-volume detailed Sixth Edition rule books), but has a lot more of the other things mentioned above. The Fantasy Hero book for Fifth Edition is essentially the same, but written for the previous edition of the rules.

 

Content-wise, there's no difference between the books in the Hero website store and DriveThru RPG. From what I saw their prices are also the same. However, DTRPG is only advertising the PDF version of Fantasy Hero Complete for sale, whereas the Hero store also offers the hard copy. Both sites also sell the Fifth Edition FH book.

 

There is one other difference. If you buy books from Hero Games the company gets all your money, instead of splitting it with DTRPG.

 

 

[Christopher R Taylor]

And that last bit is a key one: helping Hero Games stay around and function is a good thing for players and fans.