FANTASTIC EMPIRES: The Iron Age Epoch
RICHARD SINGLETON
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Fantasy role-playing games traditionally operate by giving players a menu of templates and options. That traditional method works because we’re all familiar with the standard character types. When someone says “dwarf” and “fighter”, the words create an image. You already know the character, even before you are told the character’s name. You also have a pretty good idea of how the character will develop because there’s a chart to describe that. With two words, a player outlines a character’s appearance, culture, talents, and destiny. That’s powerful.
It’s also limiting.
Fantastic Empires offers a free-form character development framework. There are no character classes or character levels. A character’s appearance has no relationship to the character’s stats, talents, or development. The choices that a player makes to define their character are independent, and they are complex, and they matter.
In short, players can build the characters they’ve always wanted to have, and then grow the characters any way they please. The Fantastic Empires 3d game engine is designed to enable creativity. The game system is dynamic and presents the players with complex choices. The game master has several options to resolve a skill check and may select a method that fits the dramatic tempo.
Characters do not have a static value to hit an armor class. Both strategic development decisions and moment-to-moment tactical choices matter.
Fantastic Empires is set in a non-Tolkienesque game world that invokes elements of mythology, history, and real-world cultures. It invites exploration of a setting that is both gritty and fantastic. And the monsters? They’re out there if you can find them. They may look just like you.
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