Age of Heroes 5.0.4 Released

 It's been a while, over five years in fact.

While I'm sure that Age of Heroes has been well and truly forgotten by now, my OCD prevents me from not listing this latest version: 5.0.4 is now available at Lulu here. 

This is the never ending effort to get what we played in reality into print, and correct a few things that time have shown wasn't as good an idea as I thought.

Pricing has sadly increased, such is life. The paper and printing quality are however improved.

Lulu had a new cover creation tool so there are differences there. The most striking is the cover being darker, not sure I like that. The tool doesn't reflect the actual printed color very well and as a result I got what I got. I didn't feel fixing just that was worth an entire new revision, so I left it. If anyone cares enough to hate it, let me know and 5.0.5 will change it back to something closer to the original.

So what's different about this edition? 

Unlike before, I didn't keep a running errata of the changes. And over these five years, I completely lost track.

So... in general. Some things were made clearer and easier to understand. More typos were corrected. I accepted some grammar fixes suggested by Word (and ignore others, my style may suck- but it's mine). 

And as normal for a new version, things were moved closer in some cases to how we actually play while a few loopholes where closed because things weren't fully detailed.

A few examples:

• The disconnect between how talent duration was defined and how it appeared in the spell description was fixed.
• Mounted Combat was clarified, and the mounts in the bestiary updated to match
• It was noted the Heroic Level qualification should take into account any CS bonuses from gear and the effect of magic.
• A number of the Bestiary entries were updated. Dragons for example

All in all, it's the same game, just cleaned up a bit. Previous errata likely give a good feel for the type of changes one can expect. 

If you have and older version and are intending to play it, I'd suggest getting this version to avoid some things that ended up not working or reading as they were intended.