Heroes of Titan

Hi David, thanks for the response. Space certainly played a part in compressing the Special Skill blocks so 2 Heroes fitted into side by side columns on each page.

For City Lore, the city will usually given in the text flavour accompanying the Hero's stats, or listed in the index at the back of the book. If not, you could decide it applies to navigating urban environments in general or pick a city depending on where your adventures/campaign is set.

For Crafting, in some cases it should hopefully be obvious from the Hero's Archetype what the craft would be, i.e. Smithing for Horgh or the Dwarfs, but again it can also be chosen by the player or their Director depending.

Have fun! :-)

Thanks for the reply ... it was mainly for new players (I have some right now) and questions were being asked as they enjoy reading rules and picking at them :)

In addition, I have come across an issue with Man-Orcs and Goblins. They seem to have more Special Skills (+2 points) compared to the default races and they do not seem to have any real compensation for this.

I can assume it is a racial package (Humans get 4 skills for example), however Man-Orcs also get a second language unlike Humans. From the looks of it Man-Orcs are receiving Awareness, Sneaking, Strength, Trap Knowledge as common skills and they are buying 6 other skills at 1 (I am assuming that no fighting skills are given out as a standard rule). With the language addition (like Dwarves and Elves) this gives them 2 extra skill points.

The same argument can be said regarding the Halfling. Since there is only one I cnnot make more than a passing analysis of the build.

Sorry to be a pain about this,...See more however I am trying to understand the build in a way that I can then go to new players and confidently state - these are 100% according to the rules - oh and look there are some extra races in here as well that might be interesting to you.

Please do not get me wrong ... I love the product and I will make the adjustments that I need to if required ... however it is way better having the source clarify things :)

Thanks again for the reply.

For the non-human builds I used the rules in the main AFF rulebook on p. 153-155. Halflings and Goblins get more skills because on balance, their stats start lower than other races. Man-Orcs are based on the Trapper in Return to the Pit (p. 14), but they do have a low-ish starting STAMINA and their Social Class should always be 0. I'm planning a future book on exploring these options in further detail, but that is some way off yet. For now I'd use all of these Heroes as is, as starting characters.

Great! Thank you for taking the time to answer my queries.

And I can't wait for the new material to hit the shelves.