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Please look around! We are working hard on bringing you all the Fantasy AGE user created content we can find. We have tons and tons and tons more that has yet to be put up onto the site, but please be patient! There is so much content, and as we all have jobs during the day, there is only so much time that we can commit to building this project. The Fantasy AGE Companion provides a plethora of new rules and play options for your Fantasy AGE roleplaying game campaign. This book expands upon the core Fantasy AGE rules and provides alternative game systems so that you can build rules and characters which fit /5(11). Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder's Guide (PDF)Authors: Gary Astleford, Walt Ciechanowski, Rachael Cruz, Steve Kenson, Matt Miller, Jack Norris, Jamie WoodCover Artist: Grant GriffinFormat: page, full-color, fully-bookmarked PDF Build Worlds of High Adventure! Welcome to the Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder’s Guide, a book of advice, examples, and in-depth discussion of various elements .
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When the game came out last year it was the most demanded addition to the rulebook, which only provided ten or so sample creatures to show what their stat blocks look like. Which is really not much as a basis to easily get an introduction in how to effectively make new monsters for your campaign. Now a dedicated monster book has finally arrived. The description consists of a basic summary of the creature, usually a few paragraphs on making special customized versions of them, and three plot hooks as ideas how the creature can be used in play.
This is something that I very much approve of, fantasy age campaign builders guide pdf download. Unfortunately most of the creatures are not really interesting at all and so it all ends up being pretty uninspiring. Most abilities are stunts which the creature can activate when it rolls two same numbers on its attack roll of 3d6 if I recall correctly. Which in many cases makes a lot more sense than having them be special actions that are done instead of an attack and is one of the big features of the rules system.
The downside is that the creatures have almost entirely only abilities for combat. All in all, the Fantasy Age Bestiary seems like a book that is both necessary and unsatisfying. And like the rulebook itself it seems to be overpriced. According to comments made by Jack Norris and Chris Pramas on various forums, Green Ronin publishing is having plans to introduce a license next year that will allow others to release material for the Fantasy Age system with their official permission.
The intention is to use something similar to the licensing options for Savage Worldswhich after a quick lookover seem very similar to those offered for Numenera. You can create new rules and even have them override regular rules of the standard rules system, but either way there is no legal way to make a stand alone product.
But I already consider this very good news. Fantasy Age really feels like a system that is perfectly suited to be released to the crowds and modified and adapted to a wide variety of creative ideas. People have criticized the Basic Rulebook for being a bit too generic and lightweight, fantasy age campaign builders guide pdf download, which is not entirely unjustified.
But as a basic rules system to expand upon it really seems quite perfect. Having it be just the bare bones actually seems beneficial for that purpose, as adaptations for specific genres and settings mostly only have to add new rules instead of removing or overriding existing ones, which would be a lot easier to manage and less confusing for readers.
The OGL was a huge boost for the do it yourself crowd and small business publishers of RPG, even though in my oppinion the d20 system is really quite terrible.
Because they did just that and did their own separate things. What did they expect to happen with a license like that? The Savage Worlds and Numenera licenses are much more sensible in that way and not only require any buyer of these products to buy official rulebooks as well, but also constantly promote the main game.
The AGE system seems so much better suited as a generic system than the d20 system and also Savage Worlds, in my oppinionand I am quite excited to see what we might be getting if these plans for licensing agreements come true. I, for one, welcome our new green overlords. The big question has always been whether to make it completely system independent or to provide a section with rules specific material for some open system or another.
As I said before, Fantasy Age is very close to what I would have wanted to make if I were to make my own game and it really seems quite a perfect fit. Being able to release the Ancient Lands as an AGE system campaign setting would be a dream come true, and even if the license were more restrictive than those for Savage Worlds and Numenerait would still work for my purposed.
Trying my hands at creating some of my own custom content and seeing how the game behaves in actual combat situations and what differences different numbers make in practice. You could say I did extensive lab testing, but no field testing yet. The first set was followed up with a second one two years later but for some reason unknown to me the final third set kept being delayed for a very long time.
Being split into several sets that were released at a snails pace and being a licensed game for a specific setting probably were major factors why the game never become a huge success, but even despite these circumstances it became quite well known and pretty highly appreciated.
With the Dragon Age game wrapped up, Green Ronin decided that the basic rules system of the game is good enough to use it for other games as well. The new edition of Blue Rose will be using it, as well as fantasy age campaign builders guide pdf download new Titansgrave setting.
For which, unless I am mistaken, there will also be a Freeport campaign setting book. But I think using 3d6 for the dice part works best. The AGE system is much more small scale in that regard and you only need to keep track of a few major factors that change things in your favor or against it, instead of lots of tiny modifiers that are irrelevant by themselves and only really matter if you fantasy age campaign builders guide pdf download lots of them.
Like the d20 system, or more accurately, similar to the d20 system, the game has three character classes. Warrior, rogue, and mage. This provides some useful structure during character creation and character advancement and makes things a lot easier on the players, especially new ones, than games like Runequestfantasy age campaign builders guide pdf download, ShadowrunGURPSor Atlantis. Much more important than your character class in defining your character are the nine ability scores.
However, the Magic ability from Dragon Age was removed and a major change between the two games, perhaps even the biggest, fantasy age campaign builders guide pdf download, is the addition of the Accuracy and Fighting abilities. One problem that became apparent with Fantasy age campaign builders guide pdf download Age was that it is very easy to get your Strength or Dexterity scores pretty high. If you were using a weapon that uses Strength, you both get a high chance to hit and deal a high amount of damage.
If you concentrate on Dexterity you get a very high chance to hit with your weapons and also become very hard to hit at the same time. It also meant that any monster that is really strong also keeps hitting almost all the time, which often is not what you want. Many huge monsters would best be given stats that makes them very clumsy but extremely strong in those rare cases where they do happen to hit you. Creating the Accuracy and Fighting abilities accomplishes just that. These two abilities determine the hit chance with light and heavy weapons while everything else is still covered by Strength and Dexterity.
Having tried out how the game performs in actual fights, I think this change was really an excelent idea. It will still be some time until the final book will be released.
I believe to have seen estimates of somewhere mid It feels a lot like an expanded version of Barbarians of Lemuria in many ways, being somewhat more complex but using a very similar approach to how to design and run a game. Though the options for races, specializations, spells, and monsters are very generic, fantasy age campaign builders guide pdf download, the rules and mechanics of the AGE system have really won me over.
This one almost completely slipped past me. Fantasy Age has been released yesterday. I can live with that, fantasy age campaign builders guide pdf download. And after a first reading, I really quite like it. A system. There are three classes warrior, rogue, magesix races human, dwarf, elf, gnome, halfling, orc12 specializations 4 for each class12 magic talents of 4 spells eachand only 14 monsters, fantasy age campaign builders guide pdf download.
This is meant for GMs and I fantasy age campaign builders guide pdf download so happy that they call it GM and not Timelord or something like that to take and customize according to the setting of your campaign. Which seems really quite easy, but so far I have not actually spotted a section that would guide new green GMs through the process. While characters have classes and levels, they are really primarily defined by their nine ability scores.
A mage with a high Dexterity score and the Focus for Stealth is just as good as a rogue at being sneaky. A rogue with a high Accurace score and the Focus for Light Blades can has just as good a chance to hit as a warrior. The level does not determine how high your abilities are, but how many you have.
Health and Magic Points are really the only numbers that get bigger at higher levels. With quite some surprise I just saw that Green Ronin is planing a new version of their Blue Rose setting.
There had been quite some talk about the original setting from ten years back on the RPG. And apparently, people at Green Ronin had been pondering that idea themselves for a while, so now they are actually doing it. Blue Rose is just old enough that I can say I remember the talk about it when it was originally released, fantasy age campaign builders guide pdf download. While there was a good amount of praise and excitement for the game, a great deal of it was for the then new True 20 system, which was considered an interesting new take on the d20 system.
Blue Rose is described as a Romantic Fantasy setting, as in the artistic period of the early 19th century, but based on more contemporary works like the books of Mercedes Lackey and Ursula Le Guin. Romantic fantasy is neither clean nor pretty, and can get quite ugly and brutal, but it exists in a different context. It may be a genre about knights in shining armor and fair maidens held in a castle by a dragon, but you might just as well see the knight being mortally wounded or tortured in some terribly dungeon with the maiden having to put on the armor and slay the dragon herself in grueling battle, suffering grevious injuries and and the loss of her friends and allies.
So I am quite exited to see how this will turn out. Might even throw in a bit of money if the Kickstarter has difficulties reaching its goal. Warriors get two additional groups later on. So when characters are able to take a new weapon group Focus for either the Accuracy or Fighting ability when gaining a new level, they can instead pick training for a new weapon group.
All characters can get both training and the Focus for a weapon group this way though obviously at different levels. They are simply made from superior materials and with advanced craftsmanship. Only items of the Legendary category are actually enchanted. In the Heavy Blades group, two-handed swords might be removed and the bastard sword replaced with a kopis or falcata.
When using experience points, the default way to award XP for an encounter is to judge how hard the player characters had to fight for their success. This encourages the players to not play it safe but to constantly try to do things that are entertaining and impress the GM, even if they are reckless and foolhardy.
However, an exception can be made for unusually and extremely valuable treasures, such as a gold idol or a giant ruby. Since their monetary value has very little meaning to the players, you can still use this classic element of pulp adventures by rewarding them with experience points instead.
Whenever the players manage to get their hands on such a special treasure and manage to sell it, award them XP as if they had overcome a Hard or Heroic encounter. If they somehow lose it again before selling it, they get nothing. This encourages players to still look for valuable loot and break into well protected places to satisfy their greed, and also can make for great side-adventures if they somehow happen to lose one or fantasy age campaign builders guide pdf download it stolen.
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