Fantasy Core RPG

FANTASY CORE

PDF of Fantasy Core Rules

Character Creation Rules, Spell Lists
Weapons & Armor, Equipment, Travel & Transport
Combat Rules
Additional Rules
Oriental Character Classes
Demi-Human Character Classes
Title Level Advancement
NPC and Variant Classes
Magic Items
Naval Combat
Undead and Demonically Possessed Creatures

Playtest 1, Playtest 2


ADVENTURES
Sample Adventure: A small tower with an evil wizard
Diamond Temple: A small dungeon
Zombie Manor; An abandoned keep with a bunch of zombies
Goth Hallow Adventure: A series of connected tombs
Endless Night: A haunted house adventure
Expedition to the Doomed Peaks: D&D meets Doom.  What could go Wrong?
Dark Continent Redux: An adventure setting into the jungle to kill an insane wizard


SETTINGS
Fantasy Ireland: Roleplaying in a mythic Ireland
Jianghu: An Oriental Setting
Southland: Australia as a big monster-filled continent
Cyber-Pulp: A cyber-fantasy set 20 minutes in the future
Robomeck: Transforming robot RPG

ALTERNATE SETTINGS AND RULES
Pulp Fantasy Core
Cyber-Pulp Fantasy Core Index 
Card Based Rules


Oh God, not another clone! Yes, it is. Let's just get down to it.

What is it?

Fantasy Core RPG is loosely based on the Modern RPG's, essentially stripped down to Old School sensibilities, with some other stuff thrown in. The characters are not superheroes, but should be a bit harder to kill and more potent than usual. Characters are not endlessly customizable, which should irritate the players. However, they are much more capable starting at first level, thereby irritating Ref's. Nobody should like this game.

What's in it?

Six classes for now, all human, and some basic rules. I'll be posting the game in pieces to allow individual critique. The classes only go up to 10th level.  This is part of keeping the game simple. Also, above 10th level, a fantasy game essentially becomes a superhero game, which should probably have a different set of rules.

So what's in this game for me as a Ref or player?

A real sense of mystery and a reawakening of the pioneer spirit. In other words, this hasn't been play-tested, so who knows how well this will work in practice in the real world. More concretely, I made this game because I didn't love any of the other versions and clones I've seen (and I've looked at a bunch of them). I wanted a game that was easy to teach and run as a Ref.  As a player, all the classes are cool right up front, without messing with making the right character build or waiting until you hit a certain level before you get good.

What's in the future?

For the most part, it's just going to be the rules and the character classes.  Some monster stats will be published with the sample adventures.  Don't expect a "Monster Manual" anytime soon though.  There may be some setting ideas. I have a listing of NPC classes that I like. I've got some Demi-human classes and Oriental-themed classes, but I haven't been happy with them to this point, so we'll see. I have a follow up game that builds on this, which I'm more enthusiastic about. It's Fantasy Core in a more modern, pulp setting.

This game is published as Open Game Content. Here's the verbiage, which following posts will refer back to.


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Authors Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Rich Baker, Andy Collins, David Noonan, Rich Redman, Bruce R. Cordell, John D. Rateliff, Thomas Reid, James Wyatt, based on original material by E. Gary Gygax and Dave
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