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At Bookfinder.com the least expensive copy of just Fantasy Hero 6th edition hardcover is $102.34. That is pretty amazing.

Bookfinder Fantasy Hero 6th edition

Thanks to the positive encouragement, mentions of Lord Dunsany, a bit of nostalgia upon reading the complete rules and an awesome bit of luck, I recently won an ebay auction for:
 

• Fantasy Hero 6th Edition Hardcover Rule Book
• Hero System Bestiary 6th edition
• Hero System Grimoire 6th edition
• Hero System Grimoiore II 5th edition (bonus)
• Hero System Turakian Age 5th edition (bonus)

For $90, which the 6th edition Fantasy Hero rulebook cannot be found used that cheaply anywhere and by the picture everything looks like it is off the shelf at a gaming store. So I am going over the Complete rules as I wait and putting together some Olde Timey style fey (working on spriggans right now) to pester my group with.

Thank you for the advice! I have never been a big fan of Vancian magic actually, I like spell pools myself, and I will admit that this system looked overly complicated when I came back to it, however it has struck a cord and I am rolling with it.

I did the old S.Q.R on the book (skim, question, read)

I love it, the game brings back memories and I really like this condensed version, basically because it is all right there for the GM and players. 

@assault-two likes, any time Dunsany is mentioned I am there. My world is a combo of things, including Dunsany and Clark Ashton Smith. Mixing the Testament of Athammaus by CAS with The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller with nuances of Idle Days on the Yann for an adventure plot.

@mhd-I am not a member of the osr nor do I participate in edition wars or even rpg wars, whatever game/edition keeps the group happy is the right game for that group. I do run a lot of clones as they are easier to pick up and run one offs and get the players adventuring, but then BoL does that too.

And I guess I should have said I don't want to translate anything too directly from any other game, just the essence of ideas.

Thank you very much for all of the replies, everyone, it is much appreciated! I am looking forward to receiving my copy of the book and shaking the players up a little bit. I remember fondly playing Fantasy Hero back in the day, I just cannot recall all of the system specifics.

I haven't played Fantasy Hero in AGES (since the early 90's) and saw the newest edition mentioned in a thread on Rpg.net and I have a few questions for the experts as I just bought Fantasy Hero Complete 6th edition to give a go over and hopefully run.

1)Has a lot changed since whichever edition that was from the 80's?

2)Just how freeform are characters? Are they similar to BRP for example?

3)I am mostly into old school rpgs and by that I mean D&D and it's derivatives. To this end, I write a blog for that particular field of rpgs with spells and monsters and magic items and gods and such (I am not here to plug it because it is not appropriate to my question, but I will say that there are some ancient vaults and possibly eldritch secrets in its title), how easy is it to convert such material to Fantasy Hero? We are talking Basic D&D level material.

Thank you for any and all replies!