LordSolovar

Re: What books should I buy??? $37.50!!!This sale is so amazing. Going to stir up some money. Even if I don't necessarily use the books that often, at that price I cant pass them up. And I DO think I'd use them. With the Ninja Hero, I could do some cool Ninja-Fantasy Fusions. They'll also help me finally convince my older brother to play Hero. Thank you Lord Liaden I'm working my way through the Asian links. They'll most definitely help when i get down to creating an Asian or Asian flavored setting. Some of you have raised the question of why the Asian Bestiaries. Well my friends and I like the idea of using some really unique beasties we never heard of before. I never really thought about the normal Bestiary. Ive now gone and looked at some reviews. I'm completely torn because I'm really attracted to the templates and creature creation stuff it includes. Does the Asian Bestiary include any of that, or just creatures really? I guess I thought I could handle creating NPCs on my own because they are like any other character but not played by a gamer. The mechanics or creation are the same. The monsters seemed more difficult to me. Now that I know the Hero Bestiary has a creature creation chapter I have to look into purchasing it. So Many Choices!!! Shane

Re: What books should I buy??? Thank you for the fantasy codex and Kamarathin recommendations. They have both been bookmarked. I'm actually quite interested in both. Ill spend some time looking them over. Oh and thanks Lord Liaden for those links. They've been added as well. I have had a sudden change of heart. I am now unsure on what books I'm going to buy. I really don't want things I'll just read(I often read RPG rulebooks for fun), I want to be sure I'll use them in my Fantasy Hero Gaming. The past two days I've been fooling around with some ideas for a setting and a magic system. My new question is, what do you think is most difficult to create as a GM, skills and talents, a setting, a magic system, or enemies such as NPCs and beasts? I personally think magic, skills, and talents wont be hard. For me the enemies I think will be the worse. So I'm still leaning towards the Asian Bestiaries. Still may go for a setting, because that is kind of a mix of all of the above. Please help. Thank you all. Shane

Re: What books should I buy??? Well thank you all...I'm now in process of looking at my three books of choice online for the best deals. Ive decided to buy three books in this order: (1)Valdorian Age (2)Asian Bestiary Volume I/II Bundled Surprisingly to me at least, the Hero Store seems to be the best place to acquire the Bestiaries. 30 dollars for both seems like a steal to me. If anyone has more tips on how to delve into this wonderful world of Fantasy Hero, please share. Shane

Re: What books should I buy??? Thanks Curufea, the reviews are great. I'm looking through them right now, seeing what grabs my eye.Oh and gojira, I never really considered the urban side, I'll look into that too. I talked to one of the guys who will be playing, told him about all of the settings(other than urban since I didn't think of it)and he chose VA too. So it looks like its the winner. Ill look over urban but I think the people in my group would prefer pre-modern. Now I'm interested to see what can best complement my expected purchase of the Valdorian Age. Shane

Re: What books should I buy??? Hm...Well there is a local shop. Its just a long drive from my place. Additionally they usually don't have a wide selection of Hero there. Last time I went they had a disappointing selection. Theres another, yet its even further.I'm almost certain they'd have everything. I came to Hero for its freedom, I'm finding myself overwhelmed, needing something to get me started, hence the one setting book and two supplements I'm planning on buying. I thought of another question. Could anyone tell me the major differences between the two Asian Bestiaries? Shane

Re: What books should I buy??? Thanks for your response. It most assuredly helps. In all honesty I love High Fantasy. Ive read numerous novels. Ive role played it in an AD&D/Palladium Fantasy Hybrid and in a free form rpg format. I just don't like how it plays in the gaming realm. I like fantasy and I think S&S is the most appealing to me now because it seems human with evil and a degrading society. From my research so far Valdorian Age seems to be my favorite. I like that flavor better than the Celtic flavor of TM. I also like the detail put into Elweir while still leaving lots of the world to develop in the hands of the GM. I also like the magic system. Always thought magic should be difficult, hard, and complicated. I really was looking at VA and TM because I wanted to avoid high fantasy and the necessity of Grimories. The self contained magic system is something I desire. If I was to buy books right now it would be VA, and the Two Asian Bestiaries for some unique twists in the gaming. Sound good? I'm still curious about magic in TM and other sources to augment my setting book, maybe martial arts or dragons or the likes. Shane

Well after a long hiatus, I'm returning to these boards with some questions. The first and major one is what book to buy. It may be redundant since I'm on the board, but I'm looking for Fantasy books. I have 5edRevised and Fantasy Hero. Now I'm interested in some purchases from the sale on the online store. I want one setting book, and two or three others like the Asian Bestiaries or the Grimories to help me delve deeper in the Hero Gaming Universe. I love magic but I think I want to steer away from Epic High Fantasy. For setting books its really down to Tuala Morn or Valdorian.I don't know much about the Atlantean book so if anyone has anything to say about it I'll be open.Thanks for any help whatsoever in advance. Shane

Re: Narnia fan needed what im worried about before joining is that i will need a large knowledge of the sereis. I have only read lion, witch, and the wardrobe. is it going to be more free playing after the setting is made or will it closely follow cs lewis.

Just thought I would share my story with you. I just completed my first ever session as a GM. It was quite the experience because Im still pretty new to hero. My friends and I grew bored with Warhammer 40k's all out kill attitude and I decided to introduce them to Fantasy Hero. It was a pretty standard low fantasy campaign and went well except for one of the characters was extra stupid. He was meant to be but it made it hard to sheperd the story along. Im looking at buying Tuala Morn.

Re: Narnia fan needed I might be interested, I'll go on Hero central and check it out.

Re: Weapon Familiarity and Reality I've done karate for fourteen years and am now an instructor. Her is my personal opinion on weapon familiarty. All you need to do is place them in families. I swing bo staff, if you gave me a spear id probably pick up the art rather fast. maybe only a -1 with a spear. if you give me kamas or kali sticks it would take a little more work so -2. anything like a bull whip or knife, forget it. just take normal -3.

Re: D&D twists on Fantasy Hero Ok??? pointing out wargaming is a big help. im also a fanatical warhammer 40k player. if i just approached the maps in the same way it would work really well.

Re: D&D twists on Fantasy Hero Ok??? Glad for all your input. The hexes do make it slightly nicer because of the more organic fell of the movement, but for maps(sometimes I use D&D) squares are easier to make the rooms and buildings around. I kind of like the idea of no squares. It would really add to the realism.

Re: D&D twists on Fantasy Hero Ok??? You have less moving options, and the moves are easier to see. honestly i like hexes better. but it comes to having my friends wanting to play.

This may be blasphemy for some of you, but I like some of the touches that D&D has. The simple battles in the square maps are nice and are easier for my slower freinds to comprehend. So the basic question is: You think it is fine if I use Fantasy Hero to make very deep and interesting characters and then use the maps from D&D and the feel of the battles? I still use Hero System rules in battle, I just wanna use squares instead of hexes All the roleplaying is done off map and then for encounters, Not always in rediculous dungeouns, we hop to the D&Dish map.