Fantasy Hero Companion

Fantasy Hero Companion is a supplement for Fantasy Hero presenting mass combat rules, 12 sample adventure locations, many new monsters, additional new magic items, and 13 colleges of spells. The 142-page product outlined combat rules, unit reference material, locations with maps, a bestiary, and information on spells and magic items.

In 1981, Hero Games published the superhero role-playing game (RPG) Champions that used a new form of rules. In 1985, using the same "Hero System" of rules, they produced Fantasy Hero, a fantasy role-playing game. Hero Games then ran into financial difficulty, and was eventually taken over as a subsidiary of I.C.E. In 1990, Hero Games/I.C.E. published a Fantasy Hero Companion, a supplement to Fantasy Hero that used the latest update of the Hero System rules set. The 144-page softcover book was edited by Rob Bell, with a cover by Larry Elmore.{{cite book|last=Schick |first=Lawrence|title=Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games|publisher=Prometheus Books |year=1991|isbn=0-87975-653-5 |pages=395–396}}

Shannon Appelcline noted that when Iron Crown Enterprises began publishing Hero System genre books, that "ICE never supported these individual genres — as Hero had rarely supported anything but Champions — with the only exceptions being Fantasy Hero Companion (1990) and Fantasy Hero Companion II (1992). However, they did begin publishing sourcebooks for the Hero System as a whole, which could be used with all genres."{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons: The '80s|publisher=Evil Hat Productions|year=2014| isbn=978-1-61317-081-6}}{{rp|138}}

Sean Holland reviewed the manual in the February–March 1991 issue of White Wolf.{{cite magazine |last= Alloway|first= Gene|date= February–March 1991|title= Capsule Reviews: Fantasy Hero Companion|magazine=White Wolf|issue= 25|page= 38|url=https://imgur.com/a/PwppIu8}} He advised its utility was greater for those running a Fantasy Hero campaign versus playing in one, noting that "it's a good book, and if you need a map, an interesting magic item or unique spell, you might want to take a peek at it too". He rated it overall at a 3 out of 5 possible points.

• Papyrus Issue 6 (1992, p. 6)
• Adventurers Club Issue 16 (Summer 1990, p. 4)

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Category:Hero System supplements

Category:Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1990