Turanil, I really love your game. I suppose you get this question a lot, but which monster manual would you use with a minimal conversion? Official D&D or OSR.

Thanks for the kind words!

I use my 2e Monster Manual. The monster book of Castles & Crusades also works very well. Adventure Dark & Deep also has a monster book that can fit.

In all cases, to make easy conversions on the fly, I just do this:

1) BtH = HD (for aggressive creatures), or half HD (for non-combatant creatures).

2) Save = 18 minus HD. (e.g. 14 for a 4 HD creature), adding a +2 or +4 bonus to what makes sense (e.g. a spellcasting creature gets +2 to Int-Wis-Cha saves).

Other than that, a FH&W monster book is scheduled (with most of the text and art done, but not the layout), but all of this takes so much time, that you will have to wait several months more...

Quote from: Turanil;821956I think it will look better than FH&W, but I can tell you it's a lot of work. I am working on it right now, and it's not just filling two columns per page and adding a pic sometimes...

I bet! Keep up the good work!

I actually have run a few games of this, I have the Hardback of it.  It's actually not bad, even has like futuristic Pulp classes in it as Optional stuff.  The only thing it was missing was Monsters, I just used the S&W Monstrosities book for it and it worked fine, you can use old AD&D MM if you like as well.  Its worth getting and playing, we have fun with it.  I have one player who loves playing the Psychic Class (from the Weird Tales Section).

Today, two new freebies are proposed for download (here)

1) An awesome character sheet for Microsoft Excel, generously offered to the community by Arne Holzwarth. Thanks a lot! After all, we have entered the digital age, hence gifts such as these are more than welcome.  

2) A 20 pages document with 11 fantasy character classes: Agent of the Gods (i.e. cleric),  Alchemist, Cavalier, Draconic Sorcerer, Magic-using Bard (i.e. 2e bard), Shadow-Dancer, Swan-Maiden, True-Paladin, Warmage, Warrior-Monk, and Wizard of High Arcana (based on 1e DL wizards of high sorcery).
Those who have read FH&W know that most of the classes often strongly depart from the originals. For example, the bard and ranger don't get spells, and the paladin is but a set of holy powers awarded to a knight who deserves them. As such, the original classes (including some from 3e) have been converted so they look much closer to their earlier incarnations. But this is nonetheless with a FH&W twist! (For example: the 1e ranger turned into the Swan-Maiden.)

Just bought a copy from Amazon, and perusing the free PDF.  Wow!  That is some very nice work!

I did want to ask:  Will the hardback be available from Amazon at some point, or is that going to continue to be through Lulu only?

Quote from: DMK;824368Just bought a copy from Amazon, and perusing the free PDF.  Wow!  That is some very nice work!

I did want to ask:  Will the hardback be available from Amazon at some point, or is that going to continue to be through Lulu only?

Thanks!

To sell on Amazon, I must have an ISBN number. For some reason I cannot fathom, neither Createspace (i.e. Amazon's pod service) nor Lulu will allow hardbacks with an ISBN. Henceforth, hardbacks can only be purchased on Lulu (Createspace don't do hardbacks*).


(* maybe this changed lately, I will know when I release Dark Albion.)

Ah, gotcha!  Not a big deal, I'll likely order a hardback through Lulu at some point soon then.  

Reading through the free PDF is a blast, by the way.  I'm really digging the "weird fantasy" vibe...definitely looking forward to playing this.

Dom, I think that (when you are done with Dark Albion of course) your best bet for going on with FH&W would be to release products that go with that sci-fantasy weird-fantasy vibe, as it is really one of the most appealing and unique parts of your game compared to other OSR games.

You are probably right. The Blasphemous Bestiary that I will complete after Dark Albion, will include a lot of robots and sci-fi monsters (so it's already going in that direction). Then, I have a plan (and already some texts and illustrations) for a swords-and-planets campaign setting. There is also the possibility of a 60-80 pages supplement to FH&W expanding material into science-fantasy and science-fiction.

Quote from: Turanil;824827You are probably right. The Blasphemous Bestiary that I will complete after Dark Albion, will include a lot of robots and sci-fi monsters (so it's already going in that direction). Then, I have a plan (and already some texts and illustrations) for a swords-and-planets campaign setting. There is also the possibility of a 60-80 pages supplement to FH&W expanding material into science-fantasy and science-fiction.

Great stuff.  You also may want to consider doing a Kickstarter for it.  I wouldn't be surprised if you could get it funded with relative ease, not just from FH&W fans, but if it was basically compatible as an OSR product.  Your art and production values are certainly up to the quality level.

I recently picked this up, and I have to say that I'm pretty damn happy.

If it ditched the idea of spell preparation for spontaneous casting, and used a mana point system, this would be damn close to my dream version of D&D.  At least it doesn't add lots of rules to make it difficult to jettison preparation for spontaneous casting.

I also really like the Moldvay Basic homage image on the bottom of page one.  The original image of the girl dreaming of the sorceress and the guy dreaming of the barbarian is etched into my mind.  As for the new version, all I can say is GUILTY as charged!