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High Adventure Role Playing Fantasy

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HARP FANTASY
- the new road to High Adventure

Heroes Wanted, No Previous Experience Required. On the Job Training Provided. Flexible Hours. Travel Opportunities. Profit Sharing. Health Plan. You Kill it, you Loot it.

Are you ready for action, excitement and adventure? Then you're ready for High Adventure Role Playing: Fantasy.

HARP Fantasy brings you all the flexibility, simplicity, and drama you crave. HARP Fantasy has everything you love about fantasy role-playing: flexible character creation, exciting combat, critical hits, potent magic and challenging foes.

Drawing upon years of actual play from the fan base, HARP Fantasy is an enhanced version of the original HARP game published in 2003 and 2004, with many improvements to the rules without compromising fast and fun gameplay.

FEATURES

  • Fast, Exciting Character Creation – choose from nine professions, six races, and seven cultures, and dozens of skills and talents
  • Combat that leaves you breathless with one roll combat resolution
  • Truly flexible and dynamic scalable spell system
  • A bestiary of diverse monsters to challenge any adventurer
  • A veritable treasure hoard of magic items, mystical herbs and deadly poisons
  • Rules for fantasy adventuring and guidance on customising the rules to suit your needs
  • Compatible with HARP SF
  • Everything you need to play in one book


WEB SUPPORT

  • A selection of HARP character creation software: Create, update, and print your characters without fuss!
  • Visit our HARP Vault, a treasure trove of free HARP downloads written by the fans for the fans: new professions, spells, monsters, adventures and more.
  • Visit the HARP forum. Find other HARP players, get answers to rules questions, or just share your HARP thoughts.
  • You can find these and much more, at the ICE website

Your journey into high adventure begins now as HARP is reborn with new sourcebooks, fantastic settings, thrilling adventures and great computer software support. Take your first step into a new world of gaming with HARP Fantasy!

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Marius B January 31, 2024 1:12 pm UTC
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A number of monsters in this book (and in the Bestiary book) have a "frenzy" skill.
However, this skill isn't described anywhere.
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George F December 13, 2023 9:50 pm UTC
Is there a GM Screen available for this?
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Jens B June 03, 2023 3:58 pm UTC
Can I still use Monsters: A Field Guide with this edition?
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Alexander B January 29, 2023 9:05 pm UTC
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Of all the systems I have run into over the years, this has to be the one that spoke to me the most next to maybe Call of Cthulhu. I have played Ad&D in it's day back in the late 80's.. I have played and liked MERP, the WOD games. And yet this simple system, with it's easy (for me it seems) math? It's the one I think i will refer to as at least a fantasy system when push comes to shove. Long live Iron Crown enterprises for putting out a game I like getting my head around.
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Sophia F December 29, 2022 2:29 am UTC
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Does the PDF not have an interactive table of contents? Mine doesn't seem to.
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Christoph D December 23, 2021 9:47 am UTC
A quarterstaff is identical to a two-handed warhammer (except weight), right?
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Scott N April 26, 2020 9:05 pm UTC
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Why oh why do they tack on the price of the PDF to the hardcopy, is ICE that F'ing Greedy, usually it comes complimentary with the hardcopy buy with most publishers....Come on get your heads out of your rear ends dudes!
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Nicholas C April 27, 2020 4:11 pm UTC
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The bundle price is less than the cost of the pdf and a hardcopy. We are not applying the full price of the pdf. However the pdf has gamer value and for many of our fans the pdf version is the only version they want to buy. Our print copies are essentially priced at the pdf price plus the cost to print - yet pdf sales outstrip print sales substantially, probably because many of our customers are not in the US or the UK and therefore face international postage costs and timeframes.

Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Scott N May 04, 2020 3:23 pm UTC
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Well considering that 90% of the companies provide a free pdf with the PODs its still IMO too costly and not worth buying the PODs. Whatever lost sale on your part, I will buy something else just as good from somebody not gouging.
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Norbert - John P November 30, 2022 1:51 pm UTC
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Scott not to be a jerk but wow man take a chill pill... allot of companies do this and its fair...Some companies are charging 5$ less for the pdf than the cost of the hard back... Green Ronin comes to mind! R.Talsorian and many others...I get it if YOU think its over priced but you dont have to be a jerk about it! HARP has been around for years and makes good product with great value. If your not a fan thats fair but you dont have to be rude! Just move on!
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Chad K May 19, 2019 2:51 am UTC
Any examples of combat? Does it have a monster book?
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Olaf B March 29, 2019 9:54 am UTC
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Since I find no other suitable place to ask this, I will put it here. What became of the "Monsters: A Field Guide" for HARP? Has it been incorporated into the core rules?
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Matthew M April 10, 2019 5:27 pm UTC
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There's a revised Bestiary in development purgatory. The design team says you can use the old one in the interim if you don't care about how they got the numbers.
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Olaf B April 29, 2019 8:45 am UTC
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Thanks for the heads-up, Matthew. Will use it if I can find it. ;)
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Chad K May 22, 2019 12:56 am UTC
The problem is that you cant find "Monster: Field Guide", in print, not even a pdf.
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Nicholas C April 27, 2020 4:01 pm UTC
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Bestiary is busy getting its artwork completed at the moment. It should be available this year.

Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Norbert - John P November 30, 2022 3:23 pm UTC
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https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/354242/HARP-Bestiary
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Olaf B March 06, 2019 3:21 pm UTC
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I'd like to know about how easy or difficult it is to use Shadow World products with the HARP game. I like the setting of Shadow World very much but would prefer HARP over Rolemaster. Am I in for a rough conversion time or does it go smoothly? Thanks.
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Nicholas C April 27, 2020 4:00 pm UTC
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I now have a freelancer working on a conversion product for Shadow World to use HARP.

Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Olaf B September 14, 2022 3:13 pm UTC
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Hi Nicholas, anything new to report on that front? Is the conversion guide still coming? Thanks for your time!
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Esmeralda B April 04, 2017 7:32 am UTC
I find it odd that supplements for HARP are available to purchase as POD, but not these Core Rules...or is it available in print elsewhere?
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Nicholas C April 04, 2017 11:10 am UTC
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We are making some minor corrections to the pdf and then to the print masters. So softcover and hardcover versions will be available again in a couple of weeks.

Best wishes,
Nicholas

Director, Iron Crown Enterprises Ltd
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Esmeralda B April 05, 2017 6:45 am UTC
Thanks for the 411!
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Ian M March 15, 2017 3:04 pm UTC
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I have owned the PDF for this book for a while now, and decided to treat myself to the softcover B&W book. It looks great, but it appears to have been printed from an old version of the PDF. The latest PDF with errata looks quite different from the print version I was sent. If the printer files are not updated then I would suggest printing out the PDF at home. There should also be a warning added to alert potential buyers. To be honest I am surprised that DriveThru do not automatically send the latest PDF files to the printer when the customer orders a title. The PDF for this product was updated in 2013, which is presumably plenty of time to sort the files out.
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Ian M March 16, 2017 12:36 pm UTC
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DriveThru and the Publisher have been very helpful. I made a mistake with my comparison by using an earlier version of the PDF. The updated PDF is consistent with the printed book I received, however it still contains a few errors that I believed had been addressed. DriveThru and the Publisher are investigating and trying to sort this out.
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Steven M March 14, 2017 2:15 pm UTC
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I really like the HARP Series do far, I've got both the Fantasy and Si-Fi. However, one thing remains elusive. A setting guide your main website talks about the setting of Cyradon for the fantasy one. Yet I haven't seen anything about that supplement yet, I'm not giving up hope a I just saw and previewed the HARP Folkways that was just released on DriveThruRPG.com. It has a tantalizing promise of some info on the setting. Any possibility of when an Atlas detailing the setting might be available for purchase and perhaps one for the Si-Fi one as well?
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Christopher S November 14, 2014 5:00 pm UTC
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First off I am a fan of the whole ICE line. Have used and collected the entire line of games, at one time or other.

This is a comment on RPGNow.

This book is the first one I have gotten from RPGNow in printed form and I have to say I am impressed by the quality of the book. At first I was skeptical of the printed product. But I now know it is good. Price seems to be on par with other POD books. Kudos to RPGNow.

Since this purchase I have ordered the other two books in the HARP 'core'.
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Michael G October 13, 2014 7:12 pm UTC
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I have the original, and from what I've seen I much prefer the original art. But, the update sounds great! I've seen some feedback that the PoD art is dark (to dark to be seen), anyone know if that got fixed?
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