Quote from: Turanil;745987SPECIAL NOTE: Anyone who posted previously in this thread! You are eligible for a free copy of the digital version of Fantastic Heroes & Witchery! If you have a RPGnow/DriveThru-RPG account, and if I can get the relevant info, I will send you a complimentary copy as soon as I can. (And it would be nice if you could leave a rating and short testimonial on RPGnow about this products, on the review page.)

Quote from: Turanil;746121People who are critical aren't insulting me. They are pointing parts of the game that, perhaps, might be improved. At least, I like to know and see if it helps me do better next time. Appraisal is good for the ego and the encouragement (I like it, and it helps); while critics could be useful to fix what's wrong and ameliorate things.

And this children, is called class.

Thank you for your kind offer. I've already bought it, and now I'm damn proud that I did.

Kudos for being awesome.

I've got a review copy, and I'm really looking forward to checking it out in detail.

Quote from: TuranilThe fully bookmarked PDF of Fantastic Heroes & Witchery is ready!

Anyone who posted in this thread before! You can get a free copy of the digital version of Fantastic Heroes & Witchery if you want!

Those who posted in this thread before, I just need an email. Then, I will have RPGnow send you a complimentary copy of the bookmarked PDF (i.e. free of charge). That is: RPGnow will send you an email with a link to download the PDF.

Otherwise, you can see it HERE  

Since I am late, I will download a copy from RPGNow. I really like what I see, especially how the classes are handled, and the fact that Alignment is de-emphasized.

Quote from: Kaiu Keiichi;747620Since I am late, I will download a copy from RPGNow. I really like what I see, especially how the classes are handled, and the fact that Alignment is de-emphasized.

Besides, you only need one alignment in dnd.

CE  (Character Expediency)

Update on sales:

I just wanted to point out that the softcover POD book is no more available on Lulu (Lulu now sells only the hardcover). You can now get a softcover version on Amazon: Fantastic Heroes & Witchery - Softcover.

Amazon has its own POD service (i.e. Createspace). I got a copy: I think the paper and binding/spine quality are as per Lulu; interior pages are slightly better printed, in that all the grey shadings in the tables are now visible (which is very pale, almost nonexistent, in Lulu's version); cover art appears more crisp, but also darker, and I went for matte cover rather than glossy.

Another sale here, sounds really interesting

I am also in the camp that finds most OSR clones uninteresting, at least as compared to my heavily used originals. But this does look kind of cool! My question for those of you who have it is, how does it compare with DCC? Whatever you think of all the tables in DCC, I think the product as a whole is brilliant - easily the best thing I've seen among the OSR-motivated games. Mostly because it has its own voice and character, but also clearly gets the whole spirit of pre 80's gaming. And it doesn't hurt that the artwork is fantastic.

There are several differences between DCC and FH&W, but both games are certainly much more compatible together than DCC with 3e, or FH&W with 3e.

Examples of similarities:
-> Ascending attack bonuses vs. ascending AC.

Examples of differences:
-> DCC uses the three 3e saves (i.e.: Fortitude, Reflex, Willpower vs a DC); where FH&W use a d20 roll equal or higher than a single target number determined by class and level (that gets lower as character gains levels), to which may be added bonuses determined by class.
-> DCC proposes the traditional classes found in the older D&D, including races as classes. FH&W proposes more than 30 classes, that are independent of race; there are classes specific to certain races, to replace "race as class".
-> DCC proposes only 10 experience levels, while FH&W proposes 13 levels, plus an option to gain more levels beyond that.

All in all, I think nothing forbid to use parts of DCC in FH&W (or vice versa). Fumble and critical tables might be used, corruption effects and tables too. It might be possible to create a wizard who casts spells as per DCC in a FH&W game; but I don't know if it would be much more powerful than a regular FH&W wizard. I once thought of having certain instances where magic would be unstable or what not, and some spells might be cast using DCC tables, but of course not always. But I didn't try it. (In fact I never tried using some DCC with FH&W.)

Of course FH&W needs more classes!

So, for play in science-fantasy settings, and inspired by Eric Fabiaschi, here is four new classes: the Planet Trooper and Purple Knight (based on an old TV show: Otherworld), the Runner (based on Logan's Run), and the Sisterhood Acolyte (a Bene Gesserit class in fact); plus a new race: the Mekan (an android) with its own racial class. Then, a few skills for sci-fi play. The 8 pages freebie is for downlad on my website: heroes-witchery/downloads (scroll down to the page's bottom: #8).

When I first created FH&W, I also planned to do a supplement called Future H&W. I later abandoned the idea. But I have already enough material for a 60 pages supplement. So, now I am thinking: why not? Why should this have to be 130 pages long? I can do a small supplement just 60 pages long. This would be mostly new races, new classes, new equipment, and spells for a magitech-wizard. And this would be focused mostly on science-fantasy, not hard science-fiction. I even have all the stock-art necessary!

In any case, this not for soon. First is the Dark Albion and Blasphemous Bestiary on the anvil...

The sci-fantasy is one of the best touches of FH&W; but what's particularly good about is how modular it is; you can keep all the sci-fantasy out and have a totally vanilla fantasy game if you want.

Quote from: RPGPundit;821466The sci-fantasy is one of the best touches of FH&W; but what's particularly good about is how modular it is; you can keep all the sci-fantasy out and have a totally vanilla fantasy game if you want.

Yeah, I see it as being a bit like how Deadlands includes all that Steampunk and horror and fantasy and alt-history stuff: you can have all of that at once if you want a very gonzo setting, or if you want to focus in on a specific flavour (or get rid of the weird crap and play a straight Western game) you can. It's always easier to take a product that gives you more than what you want and trim back the bits you don't need than it is to take a product which doesn't quite extend in the directions you want it to and have to make up the shortfall.

I picked up the HB for a song with double (maybe triple) discounts from Lulu 2 Christmases ago.  It is really fantastic!  I think full price is even a fair value for the book.  Its really great.

Quote from: Teazia;821656I picked up the HB for a song with double (maybe triple) discounts from Lulu 2 Christmases ago.  It is really fantastic!  I think full price is even a fair value for the book.  Its really great.

It does. I hope that Dark Albion will end up looking even more impressive!

Quote from: RPGPundit;821948It does. I hope that Dark Albion will end up looking even more impressive!

I 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...