Fantasy Hero Companion
Fantasy Hero Companion is a supplement published by Hero Games / Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) in 1990 for the fantasy role-playing game Fantasy Hero.
Contents[]
Fantasy Hero Companion is a supplement for Fantasy Hero with rules for mass combat, 12 sample locations, more monsters, more magic items, and colleges of spells.[1]
Publication history[]
In 1981, Hero Games published the superhero role-playing game (RPG) Champions that used a new form of rules. In 1985, using the same "Hero System" of rules, they produced Fantasy Hero, a fantasy role-playing game. Hero Games then ran into financial difficulty, and was eventually taken over as a subsidiary of I.C.E. In 1990, Hero Games/I.C.E. published a Fantasy Hero Companion, a supplement to Fantasy Hero that used the latest update of the Hero System rules set. The 144-page softcover book was edited by Rob Bell, with a cover by Larry Elmore.[1]
Shannon Appelcline noted that when Iron Crown Enterprises began publishing Hero System genre books, that "ICE never supported these individual genres — as Hero had rarely supported anything but Champions — with the only exceptions being Fantasy Hero Companion (1990) and Fantasy Hero Companion II (1992). However, they did begin publishing sourcebooks for the Hero System as a whole, which could be used with all genres."[2]: 138
Reviews[]
- White Wolf #25 (Feb./March, 1991)
- Papyrus Issue 6 (1992, p. 6)
- Adventurers Club Issue 16 (Summer 1990, p. 4)
References[]
- ^ a b Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. pp. 395–396. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
- ^ Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '80s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-081-6.
- Hero System