FANTASY AGE Can Now Be YOURS!

Green Ronin's Fantasy AGE roleplaying game is alive! You can now pick up the PDF version of the 144-page full-colour book, or you can pre-order the hardback. Written by Chris Pramas, Fantasy AGE is, of course, the system powering Wil Wheaton's Titansgrave show. The game uses Green Ronin's AGE (Adventure Game Engine), which is also found in their Dragon Age and upcoming Blue Rose RPGs.

"The Fantasy AGE Basic Rulebook is your entry point to tabletop roleplaying. Now you can be the hero in your own sword and sorcery adventures! This is the game played on Wil Wheaton’s new tabletop RPG show, Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana. The Adventure Game Engine (AGE) rules are easy to learn, and feature an innovative stunt system that keeps the action tense and exciting. This Basic Rulebook includes full 20 level advancement for all three classes, a new magic system, advice for players and GMs, and an introductory adventure so you can get started right away. You can use Fantasy AGE to run adventures in the campaign setting of your choice or a world of your own creation. A new AGE is upon us!"

The PDF is $15.99, or $5 if you pre-order the hardcover as well.

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In other Green Ronin news, the Blue Rose RPG Kickstarter ends in 4 days. It funded early in the campaign, and is now blasting through stretch goals, the latest of which is a GM screen featuring the art of Stephanie Pui-mun Law. Blue Rose is billed as an inclusive game of romantic fantasy.

 

[Nebulous]

What about the pdf content though, is it any good? Has anyone read it?

 

[Zil]

What makes a PDF tablet friendly? I read PDFs on my iPad all the time.

I've seen different things. Paizo has the "lite" version of their core books with the graphic depth toned down. They load a lot faster on tablets. I've seen other publishers offer different orientation (landscape vs portrait) options for the pdfs which supposedly are easier to read on tablets.

 

[JesterOC]

The contents are good. It appears to be a solid generic continuation of the AGE engine. The main problems I have seen to far are typos and typographical problems (inconsistent use of Bold text). My biggest problem so far is there is no easy way to mimic a D&D Cleric. I was hoping to change my D&D campaign to Fantasy AGE and it looks that I will have to create a Mage Priest Specialization.

 

[Nebulous]

Is there any particular reason to play FA over 5e?

 

[The Crimson Binome]

How do they fit an entire game into a mere 144 pages? What are they missing, which is necessary to play the game?

 

[Dahak]

What makes a PDF tablet friendly? I read PDFs on my iPad all the time.

Not precisely the same issue others have, but some image compression formats are not very friendly to the basic PDF readers for iPad. If you have a PDF of the Numenera corebook on your iPad, turn to page 119. You probably see a blank area to the upper right--PDF Expert and iBooks treat it this way, other readers might handle the picture better. Several older Hero System PDFs had a similar problem, and the True20 Bestiary used to come up with image reversed (though I think later versions of iOS corrected a compression problem that caused that.)

All in all, I don't think publishers in general spend that much time and effort to ensure PDF visibility across platforms. If it works in Adobe Reader on a PC, they just go with it.

 

[Nebulous]

It has 6 font

 

[Dahak]

How do they fit an entire game into a mere 144 pages? What are they missing, which is necessary to play the game?

It's actually pretty feature complete. Some of the material is cribbed from either True20, Dragon Age, or that fantasy book from M&M 2e, so it's familiar ground, but nothing essential is missing. If anything, the bestiary is a little skimpy, and (afaict) there's no mass combat rules, but that's about it. And to be fair, 144pp. is big enough for a fantasy genre rule set of that complexity level; earlier editions of Savage Worlds had the same page count and covered multiple genres.

 

[Warmaster Horus]

How do they fit an entire game into a mere 144 pages? What are they missing, which is necessary to play the game?

There are only three 'classes' available, too. Lots of hint dropping about expansions as well. This is just the backbone for whatever else they hang on it (Ashes of Valkana, et al).

 

[Barantor]

There are only three 'classes' available, too. Lots of hint dropping about expansions as well. This is just the backbone for whatever else they hang on it (Ashes of Valkana, et al).

Eh, I'll stick with 5E then and get that Primeval Thule from Sasquatch instead.