Fantasy Craft Follow-up Comments

I discuss why I gave Fantasy Craft a positive review but why Trailblazer failed to get the same. I also wax poetic about Pathfinder and Everstone: Blood Legacy.

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[GMCiaramella]

On your word I just bought a used copy of Fantasy Craft online for $10... looking forward to reading it! :)

[tetsubo57]

@GMCiaramella I hope you enjoy it.

[Desertpuma]

I've been a Crafty Games fan for almost 10 yrs now. They write brilliant stuff and their forums are awesome. Everyone on them is helpful, step on flaming trolls quickly and, most importantly, the Crafty guys themselves are routinely on the site (at least once a day) answering questions that those of us who live there cannot answer. There is also a PBP forum set up for games.

There is a reason FantasyCraft has the motto: Your Dungeon, Your Dragon, Your Way!

[Jeffrywith1e]

@GMCiaramella Strange. I just won a copy for $10, too. After watching tetsubo, I'm really looking forward to it arriving now!

[engbama]

Nice reviews (all three parts plus these afterthoughts)! While I'm a dedicated Fantasy Craft GM, I appreciated your honest feedback on the game and what you would / wouldn't use it for.

Keep gaming and having fun!

[azirk83]

Then waves buh-bye to everything else. No classes, levels, hit points, non-standard powers/abilities, random damage, AoO, very few feat restrictions, and introduces Hero Points, which are in fact the bread and butter of the system.

Looking back through all that, Fantasycraft has the majority of those items that M&M tosses aside. FC takes OGL and entrenches it in more minutia, that is all. But it is beautiful minutia, nearly every bit of it.

And yes, this review was better sans "Pathfinder"

[azirk83]

I'm still here. I don't stop listening to people simply because they have a different opinion about something than me. I must say this was a better review than your Trailblazer review, even if you did give it a little dig about it being "out of the sandbox". Mostly because Fantasycraft is still well within the sandbox. The game that tells the sandbox bye-bye is Mutants & Masterminds 2E, the only OGL derived game I'd ever play, to be honest. It has the same stats, saves, and skills as OGL.

[Samwise7RPG]

Like you, I have a bunch of RPGs that I have to read. I'm going to have to bump Fantasy Craft higher up in the pile. I like games that go outside the sandbox. :)