Fire & Steel

There are a lot of role-playing games for recreating the epic adventures of the most famous fantasy sagas of literature and cinema, some of them are specific and others are more generalists.

So, what does F&S bring to the world of role-playing games?

Probably nothing unless you really want to recreate the Italian exploitation movies of the 80's about "Sword and Sorcery" genre. For that it is perfect. It takes up little and costs nothing, or next to nothing, like those movies. What can a Hollywood actor do that an Italian or Spaniard calling himself Kurt Wisconsin can't do? If you look from afar, the costumes, the firecrackers and the foam rubber have nothing to envy to those expensive effects of the superproductions. It's all about the story, isn't it?

A F&S adventure consists in creating a story among all the players, most of them will play a hero, but one will have a different role, his/her function will be to present the different challenges to the others, describe the scenarios, play the antagonists and decide the consequences of the heroes' actions, that player is the Game Forger (GF). All you need to know how to play F&S is in the sheet Heroes of Fire & Steel. In the Game Forger’s Guide, you can find some help for the GF, how to create antagonists and some creatures ready to be thrown on the unwary heroes.