Rolemancer

Hero is on its 6th edition. Could you please divide all the source material by edition? It is highly difficult to determine what belongs with what and what is old and what is new and what is upcoming listed by genre. Is there a separate place on the website doing this already that I am missing? Alphabetical order is great but please separate it further so those who are not as familiar with all these products need to sift and guess. For example: Core rule books and rule supplements should be together by edition. All Fantasy Hero latest edition sourcebooks should be lumped together alphabetically. This way I see at a glance what is available for that particular edition and genre. The same needs to be done with all other genres. 6th with 6th, 5th with 5th and so on. Also, when I click on the Fantasy Hero products link, it shows books made for previous editions lumped in with the latest Fantasy Hero book. I am not interested in compatibility and not interested in looking back. I want to purchase what is made lately and going forward. I realize some people are interested and that is fine, just separate the genre by editions all on the same link. You do not need many different links for Fantasy Hero products, just one and inside that all sourcebooks listed by edition and listed alphabetically or even with the ability to sort in order of release date (year). Is there a quick and easy place that exists for this? Please show me because I am not finding it. Everything seems quite muddled together. Thank you.

Re: Fantasy Hero 6E - initial impressions Just an impression, not a complete read through. What I liked: Hardcover* Size of the book (480pgs) Full Color Glossy Pages Layout and Graphic Design Artwork Illustrative Quotes* Handy Tables Bibliography Index What I did not like: *Like the hardcover but am concerned about appearance of adhesive binding instead of stitched, but if there is not future problem with pages falling out with healthy use of the book then it is a non-issue. *Like the illustrative quotes, but they were much overused in my opinion, anywhere from 1 to 7 quotes on every page (from what I can tell by paging through) in the first 2 chapters alone, chapter 3 is a little better, then it starts to reach an acceptable level in chapter 4, even better in chapter 5, but they are still used the rest of the way. The following wall of text will seem somewhat stressed to the extreme, but that is using the extreme as a tool to illustrate a point that the illustrative quoting was used in an extreme. I only use it in hopes that the next products will be treated with a bit more moderation in the illustrative quoting area, not to bash the entire work of Fantasy Hero 6E. I understand that the first couple chapters are about getting into the fantasy genre, but with the bibliography in the back, which is very appreciated, the quotes could have been reduced by half easily and plenty of additional Fantasy Hero material that would have direct application could utilize that space instead, like a more extensive magic college / spell list as one possible example. Even with a possible grimoire or two coming out later, I would liked to have seen more spells per college and more colleges listed in this book and this could have been accomplished by eliminating half or more of the quotes throughout the book. I see this is a popular dislike and the post about the greatest compliment received at GenCon about Fantasy Hero was the illustrative quotes strikes me as being somewhat odd because that is merely copying others' works. I would think the greatest compliment would have been about the author's work. "I got just about the best compliment I could imagine when someone told me that all the illustrative quotes convinced him there was a lot of good Fantasy reading out there he’d missed, and that he intended to correct that." The thing I like about them is that it helps stir the imagination, but that was overkill. I wasn't intent on buying a book for quotes, I was intent on buying Fantasy Hero. The bibliography with some quotes here and there, along with the italicized titles of additional sources in some paragraphs would have been plenty to show me there are more fantasy sources I need to be gleaning from. However, the source I wanted to glean from the most was Fantasy Hero itself. Overall the book is aesthetically appealing, looks meaty and invites me to read it over and over again. I really like that.

Re: Urban Hero: a new take on Bardic Music Very nice idea! So many possibilities with this.

Re: Hudson City PDF Map Which stars? Having a heck of a time finding any listed on Google and this expensive hand held GPS I bought just for that purpose is not helping. Please let me know asap. I really need to know! Thanks!

Re: Hudson City PDF Map Thank you. Wanted to make sure. Getting back into HERO. Haven't GM'd or played it since the early 90s with 2nd Edition Fantasy Hero. Our group has been pretty much D&D exclusive since then and after doing the whole 3.5, 4.0 and Pathfinder for awhile, we need a break from those systems. It will be nice to have a change of pace. Books ordered and shipped and I cannot wait to see 6th edition! Writing an Urban Fantasy Hero campaign to run. Never tried that before. Using Urban Fantasy, Bestiary, Fantasy 6th, Dark Champions, Martial Arts 6th and Hudson City with Map as source material. If there are any other recommendations for additional source books for such a campaign, please feel free to clue me in.

If we buy the map, does that give us permission to get it printed out and laminated? What are the dimensions of the map? Thanks!

Re: Urban Fantasy Hero Will there be another made for 6th Edition? Perhaps there is no need I don't know, never looked at the book, but I am very interested in this type of setting. Thanks!