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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 2275709" data-attributes="member: 32536">It is probably a credit to Iron Lore that not only is it the first third party supplement I have ever been seriously interested in, it is making me delurk and register for these forums. Hello ENWorld! Anyways, I honestly have no idea what kinds of fantasy the authors like Howard and Lieber write. Nor have I seen the movie Die Hard. I don't watch many movies. However, Iron Lore greatly fascinates me because it seems to capture so much about what I like in my preferred genre of fantasy: the really old stuff. Tolkien is an infant compared to the stories I like. Sigurd (or Siegfried), Finn MacCumhail, Beowulf, samurai and ninjas, chinese bandits, King Arthur, Odysseus, and countless other stories of folk legend are what interested me long before I ever read a modern fantasy novel or was exposed to D&D. And to put it bluntly I vastly prefer those kinds of stories to everything that has been written since Tolkien. Iron Lore captures that kind of feel I like. It doesn't require large numbers of magic items or even mages, neither of which are prevalent in folk tales. It also doesn't limit itself to what is strictly mundane or realistic, which matches the feel of those old stories. After all, those stories contain all manner of things such as the Irish hero Finn MacCumhail decapitating a man by backhanding him. Really, compared to the things folk heroes pulled off, Iron Lore is almost tame. Even the much talked about arrow ladder ability isn't too far fetched. I am a weakling and archery novice, but even with a mere 20 pound bow and blunt target arrow I can put an arrow deep enough into a target that it could probably support some weight. A skilled archer with a middle ages 150 pound bow and barbed arrow could probably put up a decent makeshift ladder. Maybe not into brick, but cetainly into a tree, or some other kind of medium hardness material. It certainly is nowhere near as logic defying as Legendary Shot. And who would take Arrow Ladder anyways compared to all the other cool Sniper Shot abilities? I am really looking forward to Iron Lore, and intend to convert a D&D homebrew setting over to it this summer.</blockquote>

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