Just a little part, a little Vision of the world of Eana ! Fateforge (Dragons in French) is just one of the most beautiful and interesting Heroic Fantasy role playing game (maybe THE most). Like a beautiful Dungeons & Dragons Legacy

What a greatly detailed resource, flexible enough to be adapted to your personal setting without compromising the details and surprises it brings to the table. Thouroughly excited about the full product coming down the pipeline!

If this is your first time trying 5e campaign just like me Fateforge going to be the best choice for you : )

I love the ideas involved with Geomagic - potentially having a region with so much magic that even non-spellcasters have cantrips or the various region types with less magic or even none at all - can give players a unique challenge. I'm running Fort Ardraco this week and can't wait to try Fateforge stuff out. Someone even showed interest in having corruption, so I'm excited to see how that plays out.

From the first text describing the backstory of Eana, I was hooked. Fateforge is an expansive campaign setting for 5e -- and also a standalone ruleset for the game -- that pulls together a unique and engrossing story with amazing artwork to offer players and DMs the most compelling character and world options since the creation of Forgotten Realms.

this looks like it will be a great additive to any game

There are some things I really like about this character sheet - one is the separation of traits and features into recharge frequencies: per short rest or per long rest. It seems set up to support play well. However it is long and isn't yet available as a fillable PDF. Hopefully that will come soon.

I love the illustrations in FateForge and the wonderful subclasses specific to Eana. I purchased this as part of a Kickstarter All-In for the Beastiary and spent hours engrossed in this first book, reading about the specifics from beginning to end. I like the modular system and the way it makes alternative playing options easy to adapt to the party playing. I can't wait to try out my Urban Ranger Gnome in a game with other fans of Eana.

Okay so a little big of background here. I have backed this project since this book and continued to back the project up until dearg part 1. I know i'm a bit late with this but it's appropriate. So i'll try to be thorough here and be as fair as I can. I'll start with the fact that i loved the idea of the world, the art and even the music accompaniment.

The Good

• The Art, its fantastic and evocative.
• The world, barring a few eccentricacies it is well done. Seperated into 3 kingdoms that are basically science vs religion vs tradition.
• The skill and attribute system, i liked the idea of domains. Much like a skill group you raise the entire group until you reach a certain point you put points into specific specialties. Like close combat > swords. You're good in close combat but youre really good with a sword.
• Simple to understand rules.

The Bad

• The system math is a bit quirky play. For example, roll 1d10 + attribute + skill vs Defense. Meet or exceed target number. If its a hit, weapon damage + the difference. So it ended up being something like (1d10+ attribute + skill ) - (defense) + (weapon damage) - (Armor). Realistically we just added weapon damage and armor to attack and defense and did the difference. Either way there is no clean quick way to calculate it.
• The game is incomplete, large portions of important pieces of information are missing regarding both the game system and the world. Even a basic bestiary would have been nice with templates for general npc extras like guards or knights or even horses and dogs.
• Expensive for what you get. 25 dollars for a pdf, 50 or so for a hard copy for an incomplete game and simple system where most of the answers end up being "you the game master figure it out" on how sorcery works, who fiondas are, and how to create challenges and extras.
• Here is the worst part, the kickstarters. Every book starts with a kickstarter as crowd funding. I understand they are a small studio but they manage to get a bunch of random products out while the material we actually paid for takes a backseat. I understand things happen but for example, Dearg part 1 was supposed to come out in the summer of 2017, which means i probably ordered it sometime around q3 of 2016. I just got my books in 2019. 2 and a half years is unacceptable for a paid product.

So in summary they take too long on their kickstarters for a game worth maybe about half the price its actually selling for.

This was probably one of their better adventures that can be dropped in most campaign settings. I loved the use of clue cards as the players explore the monestary. My biggest problem while running it was the players threatening to leave at the first sign of danger.

Great couple of one shots and fantastic art. The game master should be a bit experienced for some of them, particularly in running mysteries.

I really enjoy this sound track. It's a great thing to chill out to at work. Trying to speed metal your way through life can be exhausting at times. I may have derailed, lets get this back on track.

This track is an excellent pairing with the setting. A constant stream of classically based music, the contemporary and ambient sounds keep this from being a slog despite it's down tone. The soundtrack remains surprisingly fresh. I listen to this sound track in between studies of the main rule books just because it seems to exemplify and even amplify the mood of the setting so well.

I'd enjoy thick album on it's own, the fact that it is expertly honed to a wonderfully moody world makes this a rare gem. I'm not a huge user of background music in games, so I don't really have strong feeling of it's use as a background track while running the game. I don't find this obtrusive in anyway so I think it would still work great.

Not only were these pregens free, but they are also useful and beautiful. Esteren is a marvelous game and these characters make getting into the game easier and faster.

These are really good!

Encore un Espoir - This is very evocative of an epic journey, probably on horseback, through amazing sites and countryside. There's an underlying pulse that feels like hoofbeats and a grand, sweeping melody led by traditional instruments. Everything builds, feeling like there's more wonder around every turn. The ending, however, is calm, peaceful, and a bit reassuring... like finding home at last.

Manteau de Corbeau - Hardship, struggle, possibly even battle if not all out war, is coming and this track begins by rallying for it. Percussion and vocals that are often poorly used and seem to hit you are the head are actually beautifully combined here to give the listener just the right hint of scale. A little over a minute in, the focus changes and we seem to move forward, making progress against all odds. Strings and muted brass are joined by vocals and pipes to evoke determination and purpose. A short, quiet movement follows, perhaps to survey the battlefield or count the dead. Then pipes triumphantly lead percussion and some vocals in a driving beat to the amazing climax.

These tracks are very well done and gorgeously produced. Well worth a listen over, and over again.

If you're into hack and slash adventure, this probably isn't for you.