More Fantasy Hero

 Well, I ran Fantasy Hero this past Sunday and I have to say, I’ve missed running FH.  I run it as kind of a “fill in” game when the regular GM (who is running Pulp Hero) can’t make it. Instead of running a “One Shot” I decided to start a rather long adventure. It may take all year to get thru this one, depending on how many times our regular GM can’t make it. 

 I purposely took out my own “PC” out of the adventure early on. I’m running an altered version of Wolfgang Baur’s Empire of the Ghouls and my PC is a Necromancer, so…. I just felt it would be better for her not to be there. I’ve streamlined the adventure and toned it down a bit for the points that the players are at, so I hope it will be an adventure that will last a bit and by the time they’re done they should be quite a kick butt group.

My Problem with D&D

  Just been thinking about why it is I no longer enjoy making a character/ playing D&D. I think I finally figured it out. I’ve been playing Hero Game’s Fantasy Hero for a few months now and I enjoy the control I have over what my character is like. I don’t have that level control in D&D. D&D tells me what my character can and can’t do. For example, if I want a Necromancer, I can do that in either game, but the spells I use, the skills I have are all predetermined in D&D. Not so in Fantasy Hero. If I want a Necromancer who gets her spells by eating the recently dead, cool, I can do that in FH, not so in D&D. 

D&D forces me to take such and such feat to get to the feat I want my character to have. Again, not so in FH. If I want my character to do a cleave in FH, I just buy it for my character, period.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I played AD&D for years and had fun. Have played a bit of 3.5 (recently)and found it….lacking, ponderious (booring, a bit) and too controling of my character. Looks like 4th Edition (and, perhaps Pathfinder) may address some of my issues that I have about 3.5, but my “go to” system for Fantasy (if I were to run it) has become Hero.

Just my .02