For late backers and the original backers, the alpha PDF dropped today and is available for download. I don't want to do a review since this is an alpha, but what I was interested in were the differences between Savage Pathfinder (SPF) and the Fantasy Companion (FC) since there was a lot of overlap.
This is a nice book, and it presents a more general genre of fantasy than the more world-specific Pathfinder setting. You get a big box view of fantasy with a super broad view of fantasy races, classes, powers, and other material pulled from open-source fantasy games rather than sticking to the Pathfinder core material. If you have a world that is more kitchen-sink than Pathfinder, or a setting like D&D 4 with dragonkin, this is the perfect book to use to convert things into Savage Worlds.
A note here, the ancestries in the Fantasy Companion are at +2 points, compared to Savage Pathfinder's +4 points. They give you an option to add two points to these to bring them up to that "heroic level." I am betting this is to keep things in line with the original rules and balance level of the established settings.
The races here are way more varied than the standard Savage Pathfinder collection, and you get a bunch of the new classics to play with, and some inspired by movies, games, novels, and even MMORPGs. If you ever wanted to play Savage Worlds: World of Warcraft, Skyrim, Elder Scrolls, Witcher, or Everquest, this is your book. You also get new racial abilities such as diminutive, dark vision, and breath weapons, so a lot more types of custom races can be created.
There are a few reprinted monsters between SPF and FC, but that is to get both games to a basic level of support without requiring the other book, and that is a good thing.
This works well on its own or with Savage Pathfinder as expanded content, so I am very happy with this. FC is more of a hacker and creator's guide to creating fantasy settings and games, whereas SPF is more of a specific game for a specific world.
More soon as this develops and gets even better.
Highly recommended and worth jumping in on.
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