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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3286285" data-attributes="member: 710">I have no experience with Conan, and I only played one or two sessions Iron Heroes so far.But I own the books and read them thoroughly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />(1) The Magic using class of Iron Heroes really has a lot of weaknesses. It is best to check the Malhavoc Press Message Boards for alternate write-ups. But note that this doesn't matter a lot if you want magic out of hands of the characters. NPCs can use the standard spellcasting classes without problems. (You might want to adapt hit points and skill points to the IH system. There are a few guidelines available.) (2) Iron Heroes has little world info, and nothing of it is part of the players handbook. I think the classes are very adaptable and open for any setting, as long as you have people fighting with swords and bows.(3) Iron Heroes is fun, but one of its key features is the availability of a lot of options in combat. Depending on class and feats, you gather tokens that fuel special abilities (though you are never forced to use them). You have the options to make a lot of cool stunts to gain tactical benefits, all of them allowing you to do really anything you always wanted in combat, but usually had no idea how to do (if you want to stay in rules, and have more than flavour text). I love this approach, because quickly resolved combats without meaningful options are boring to me. Combat is not any more brutal than D&D, I think. (Though this might actually change at higher levels, as there are several combat options to remove the opponents dex bonus to defense, and this changes a lot, as the class defense bonus of IH classes also applies to that. Combined with Power Attack or Sneak Attack, this can become very deadly. not to mention all the special abilities...)</blockquote>

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