Chipco’s Fantasy Rules! PDF?

[The Bibliophile]

I was hoping to pick up a PDF of either of the couple of most recent iterations of Fantasy Rules! But cannot find them anywhere. Did Chipco go out of business?

—Joe

[Hobby Services]

Their old site seems to be gone and I haven't heard anything new about them in years, so yeah, they may be gone.

[El Grego]

The PDFs are being sold directly by Curtis, as noted here:

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=89446.msg1106311#msg1106311


The Chipco Yahoogroup still exists, but has only sporadic action.

[Parkaboy]

The PDFs are being sold directly by Curtis, as noted here:

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=89446.msg1106311#msg1106311


The Chipco Yahoogroup still exists, but has only sporadic action.

What kinds of minis games are these? Skirmish? Large scale?

[Hobgoblin]

I gather that Fantasy Rules! is an element-based mass-battle game similar to Hordes of the Things. I've never seen the rules, but from reading reviews, it seems to take HotT as its starting point, but uses a d10 instead of a d6 to add more "granularity". Basing, I gather, is in square elements with 60mm edges (so, two or three HotT elements used together, depending on troop type).

As a HotT enthusiast, I'm intrigued by what I've read and may pick these up.

[Simlasa]

Like El Grego says. I was able to buy a copy of the newest incarnation of FR! from Curtis.

I like the rules a lot for big 6mm fantasy battles (I think they're originally aimed at 15mm with suggestions for other sizes). I feel like they'll let me build whatever sort of weird force that comes into my head. Right now I'm collecting figures to do some battles set in the old Leviathan setting (brutal sword and sorcery with giant monsters).

EDIT: Also, a while back I saw someone say that the FR! 3e pdf came as separate pages... that's not how mine came... though the color cover is a separate file.

[El Grego]

I gather that Fantasy Rules! is an element-based mass-battle game similar to Hordes of the Things. I've never seen the rules, but from reading reviews, it seems to take HotT as its starting point, but uses a d10 instead of a d6 to add more "granularity". Basing, I gather, is in square elements with 60mm edges (so, two or three HotT elements used together, depending on troop type).

As a HotT enthusiast, I'm intrigued by what I've read and may pick these up.

Element-based mass-battle game is correct.  The combat system is not as nuanced as HoTT, but does allow for a slightly more gradual reduction of combat effectiveness for elements.  The magic system is more detailed than HoTT, and is one of the best aspects of FR!, and magic can be used at any time during your turn or the opponent's turn as long as you have enough 'points'.  With that being said, however, magic can be too powerful especially in FR!3 IIRC, and some players would specify limits on the spellcaster levels that were available prior to play.

Simlasa, I am glad that you were able to get a copy.  Back when FR!3 was available from Saber's Edge, the rules were split into 2 PDFs + cover.