Please consider this a public service announcement 
For those of you who have been following the process, the new HM PHB is getting close to publication. The book currently stands at 396 pages - I believe the Development Team is going to make a concerted effort to have a publishable copy finished by the end of the month.
Therefore, at some point in the near future, the buy it and get the PDF for free offer is going to end - so if you want to take advantage of that deal, now is the time.
For those of you who have NO IDEA what I'm talking about, this is a link to the product page. (Hopefully they'll update the image sometime soon to represent what the cover actually looks like).
The PHB expands in great detail the modular rules of HackMaster Basic. All of the vacancies in the HMb have been filled (including a very detailed weapons, armor and mundane item list), while a ton of rules and options have been dramatically expanded upon.
In Basic (which the PHB is fully compatible with) there were 4 races and classes. In the complete game there are something like 11 races and 13 classes, while EACH cleric faith has different benefits and penalties associated with it, not to mention its own spell list. (In other words, clerics of the caregiver receive healing spells WAY before clerics of the house of knives, who in fact receive the ability to assassinate).
There are dozens of optional quirks and flaws, all sorts of talents and proficiencies, many new skills, more than 400 spells, rules on acquiring hirelings (not to mention training rules), and dozens of new optional combat rules (from mounted combat to the most detailed hand-to-hand combat I've ever read in a fantasy RPG).
Bottom line - I believe this is the best PHB I've ever read for any game. If you don't grab it now, hopefully you'll check it out during Con season, or at your FLGS.
And no, in case you were wondering, I don't work for KenzerCo ... I'm just a big fan of the work and want to make sure folks have the chance to grab the book. If you have any questions about the PHB, or the rules of the game, or where to get actively INVOLVED in a game online, please feel free to ask questions and I'll do my best to answer.
For those of you who have been following the process, the new HM PHB is getting close to publication. The book currently stands at 396 pages - I believe the Development Team is going to make a concerted effort to have a publishable copy finished by the end of the month.
Therefore, at some point in the near future, the buy it and get the PDF for free offer is going to end - so if you want to take advantage of that deal, now is the time.
For those of you who have NO IDEA what I'm talking about, this is a link to the product page. (Hopefully they'll update the image sometime soon to represent what the cover actually looks like).
The PHB expands in great detail the modular rules of HackMaster Basic. All of the vacancies in the HMb have been filled (including a very detailed weapons, armor and mundane item list), while a ton of rules and options have been dramatically expanded upon.
In Basic (which the PHB is fully compatible with) there were 4 races and classes. In the complete game there are something like 11 races and 13 classes, while EACH cleric faith has different benefits and penalties associated with it, not to mention its own spell list. (In other words, clerics of the caregiver receive healing spells WAY before clerics of the house of knives, who in fact receive the ability to assassinate).
There are dozens of optional quirks and flaws, all sorts of talents and proficiencies, many new skills, more than 400 spells, rules on acquiring hirelings (not to mention training rules), and dozens of new optional combat rules (from mounted combat to the most detailed hand-to-hand combat I've ever read in a fantasy RPG).
Bottom line - I believe this is the best PHB I've ever read for any game. If you don't grab it now, hopefully you'll check it out during Con season, or at your FLGS.
And no, in case you were wondering, I don't work for KenzerCo ... I'm just a big fan of the work and want to make sure folks have the chance to grab the book. If you have any questions about the PHB, or the rules of the game, or where to get actively INVOLVED in a game online, please feel free to ask questions and I'll do my best to answer.
