{"id":337,"date":"2012-05-03T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heroforgegames.com\/2012\/05\/overview-of-heroes-against-darkness\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T14:00:00","slug":"overview-of-heroes-against-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heroforgegames.com\/2012\/05\/overview-of-heroes-against-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview of Heroes Against Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;\"><i>Imagine an ancient world torn apart by primal powers.  A place where magic runs through all living things and erupts from the minds of powerful magi, where humans, elves, dwarves and orcs walk the same earth, where ancient gods fight side-by-side with mortals in an endless battle between order and chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Adventure is everywhere. This is the world of Heroes Against Darkness.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Heroes Against Darkness <\/i>is a free, fast, flexible, and fully-featured fantasy d20 RPG system. The game is quick to learn and play, while offering progressively greater options and flexibility as players develop their characters and explore the breadth and depth of the system.<\/p>\n<p>For Players:<br \/>\u2022 A game that\u2019s fast, fun and deep<br \/>\u2022 Streamlined rules system using unified mechanics<br \/>\u2022 Eleven character classes for all play-styles<br \/>\u2022 Three martial classes: Warrior, barbarian, berserker<br \/>\u2022 Two specialist classes: Rogue, hunter<br \/>\u2022 One hybrid class that combines magic and martial: Hospiter<br \/>\u2022 Five magi classes: Warlock, healer, canonate, necromancer, mystic<br \/>\u2022 Extensive character background and skill options<br \/>\u2022 Fast character building with plenty of depth<br \/>\u2022 Martial and specialist classes get meaningful combat choices through class-specific techniques that are based on trade-offs and the unique capabilities of each class<br \/>\u2022 Anima points-based magic system with five main schools focusing on each of the following; physical, healing, protection, necrotic and controlling<\/p>\n<p>For GMs:<br \/>\u2022 A system that\u2019s easy for the GM to set up and run<br \/>\u2022 Intuitive and clear rules<br \/>\u2022 Set up unique combat encounters in minutes<br \/>\u2022 A simple ability test system for non-combat challenges<br \/>\u2022 Support for long-term campaign play<br \/>\u2022 Extensive GM\u2019s Guide to help run the game<br \/>\u2022 Huge bestiary with over 80 monsters<br \/>\u2022 A framework for quickly making custom monsters<br \/>\u2022 A comprehensive world-building guide<br \/>\u2022 Appendix of key tables for GMs<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Check out <i>Heroes Against Darkness<\/i> over at the downloads page: <a href=\"http:\/\/heroesagainstdarkness.blogspot.com\/p\/game-rules-download.html\"><i>Heroes Against Darkness &#8211; Game Rules<\/i><\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine an ancient world torn apart by primal powers. A place where magic runs through all living things and erupts from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-had","category-heroes-against-darkness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heroforgegames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heroforgegames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heroforgegames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heroforgegames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heroforgegames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heroforgegames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heroforgegames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heroforgegames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heroforgegames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}