Response to Woas about HARP

[JoeGKushner]

Doing more PDF route eh?

Now if they do well, will we see a print version, or will you be using lulu for that ala Ronin Arts and others?

 

[Greatwyrm]

Ok, Rasyr, you got me interested. I'm a hardcore D&D DM and a HERO system fan, too. I just plunked down my last $10 (which I was saving for Complete Arcane) to d/l the basic book. I'll give it a thorough going-over during the long weekend.

 

[Rasyr]

Doing more PDF route eh?

Now if they do well, will we see a print version, or will you be using lulu for that ala Ronin Arts and others?

The Martial Arts product will be incorporated into reprinting of Martial Law in a year or two.

As for the Grimoire, we are planning on doing several and releasing them as a print product in compilation.

And, no, we won't be using lulu. ICE is in the process of acquiring its own printing/binding machine for in-house use. Once we have it in place, we will then be printing our own books (too many hassles with printers over the past year). We will only have to print the number we need (and a few extras), and thus save on costs (the cost per book is slightly less than via a printing company) for printing, and more importantly wharehousing. There is a lot of potential in our getting this... (note: only does softcovers, but the binding is better and tougher than most I have ever seen. I really abused the samples they sent us and could not break the binding.)

We also have several licensing deals in the works for third party publishers to produce HARP related products. Wish I could say more about them (as I think that they are very exciting), but until the deals are done.... sigh....

 

[Rasyr]

Ok, Rasyr, you got me interested. I'm a hardcore D&D DM and a HERO system fan, too. I just plunked down my last $10 (which I was saving for Complete Arcane) to d/l the basic book. I'll give it a thorough going-over during the long weekend.

Glad to hear it! Personaly, I think that you will like it (although I do realize that not everybody will like every system)...

HARP tries to balance flexibility with simplicity and overall, I think it does a pretty good job of it.

 

[JoeGKushner]

See dude, another sale! Slowly but surely you'll be converting the masses.

Oh wait, here's a RMSS question... kind of...

Wasn't there supposed to be some big conversion book of these suckers for d20? I've been waiting patiently to unleash those unstoppable killing machines against my players... from RMIII I'm thinking... Reavers? Argh... brain not working...

 

[Rasyr]

You mean this? http://www.ironcrown.com/vault/vaultRM.htm#RMconversion

Of course it is only from d20 to RM, but you should be able to do the reverse as well.

 

[JoeGKushner]

I don't think so.

I could've swore that there was going to be some edition of Creatures & Monsters that had like an appendix or something of d20 stats.

Not that this in and of itself isn't cool and yanked...

 

[Shard O'Glase]

so why couldn't you have posted this thread before I went to the game store, I ended up getting gurps 4E if I had read this I would of gotten harp instead. I was looking at the latest incarnation of rolemaster and what stopped me was it seemed too incomplete without all the law books and I wasn't sure if I could just use my old editions of them. And also I was physically allergic to previous versions of gurps where I'd get sick just opening the book something funky in the inks or somehting so I wanted to see what the hubub was all about. And quite frankly totally unimpressed with gurps I think hero is a much better generic system. But hey my local store(Gator games somewhere between san mateo and belmont CA I think its still in san mateo but not sure) does have a 20% discount on everything this week so I wot be loosing too much when I pick this up.

 

[Rasyr]

so why couldn't you have posted this thread before I went to the game store,

Ummm.. I started this thread on November 13th, that is two Saturdays ago...

I have been trying to keep it going and active since then....

But hey my local store(Gator games somewhere between san mateo and belmont CA I think its still in san mateo but not sure) does have a 20% discount on everything this week so I wot be loosing too much when I pick this up.

If this means that you are planning on picking up HARP this weekend (which is what it sounds like you are saying), then........ Cool!!!!!

 

[Rasyr]

I don't think so.

I could've swore that there was going to be some edition of Creatures & Monsters that had like an appendix or something of d20 stats.

Hmm... perhaps you were thinking of the HARP d20fied document that I did? In it, I took and provided guidelines for using HARP with a d20 rather than percentile dice (note: not an actual conversion, but just with things rewritten to use a 20 sided die), and included versions of the HARP monsters with their stats already converted over. If so, you can find it on this page --> http://www.harphq.com/webextras.htm

Not that this in and of itself isn't cool and yanked...