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R E T U R N E R F I N A L F A N T A S Y R O L E P L A Y I N G G A M E S E C O N D E D I T I O N C O R E R U L E B O O K Version: 2.01 (2.04.01) Project Leader/Editor Robert Pool Developed By Matthew Bateman Andrew Hochstetler Robert B. Reese Roger Burns John Keyworth James Reid Wesley Carscaddon Minna Leslie M R Sachs Steven Chandler George Leonard Justin Schantz Brandon Chapman Katrina Mclelan Charles Smith Jason Copen-Hagen Blair MacKenzie Wesley Smith Mark Della-crose Matthew Martin Jeff Taft Alex Devon Allan Milligan Scott Tengelin DL Jared Milnes Giovanni Tonelli Martin Drury Jr. Paul Mulka Clayton G. W Elisha Feger Myst Johnson Justin White Steve Fortson Curtis Monroe Andrew Vickery Richard Gant Peter Pearson James Zoshak Clay Gardner Chris Pomeroy David Huber Robert Pool A true list of all the people that have helped, in some way, this project over the years would be impossible to produce. This book is dedicated to them. Disclaimer: Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Saga Frontier, Secret of Mana, Seiken Denetsu, and a number of other games and their characters referred to in this role-playing game are copyrights of Square Ltd. This game should not by any means be seen as a threat to those copyrights. This has always been a product of our affection for Square’s games. Furthermore: The material presented in this role-playing game is under no circumstances to be sold for a profit aside to copy the cost of printing or the disk used to store it nor should it be duplicated or modified in any form. For more information, please refer to our web site at Http://www.returnergames.com/. 1 R E T U R N E R G A M E S I N C. R E T U R N E R F I N A L F A N T A S Y R O L E P L A Y I N G G A M E Table of Contents The Introduction Chapter Five: Equipment From the Mouth of a Madman Weapons Version History Armor What are Role-Playing Games? Accessories The Fine Art of Dice Chugging Potions The Final Fantasy RPG Glossary Chapter Six: Combat Chapter One: Character Creation The Basics of Battle Step One: Character Concept Unarmed Combat Step Two: Pick a Race Miscellaneous Stuff Step Three: Pick a Class Status Conditions Step Four: Determine Stats Map Combat Mode Step Five: Pick Skills Abstract Combat Mode Step Six: Equipment Chapter Seven: Magic Step Seven: Pick Initial Spells* White Magic Fill in the blanks Black Magic Character Advancement Red Magic Advantages & Disadvantages Ninja Magic Example Character: Andrew Mason Grey Magic Chapter Two: Races Blue Magic Dwarf Summon Magic Elf Appendix I: Monsters Half-Elf Monster Creation Process Human Monster Combat Imp Monster Powers and Weaknesses Matango Examples Moogle Appendix II: Engineer’s Manual Neko Inventions Sprite Mixes Werewolf Yeti Chapter Three: Classes Fighter Ranger Thief Engineer Bard Black Mage White Mage Red Mage Blue Mage Caller Cosmic mage Chapter Four: Skills Weapon Skills Non-Weapon Skills Master Skill List Weapon Masteries Magic of Alchemy 2 T H E I N T R O D U C T I O N R E T U R N E R F I N A L F A N T A S Y R O L E P L A Y I N G G A M E T H E I N T R O D U C T I O N In 1990, the first Final Fantasy game saw an happens, a few months later I was already starting to American release and in the eleven years since, the put together ideas for a version 1.2. This was roughly Final Fantasy has remained one of the best selling around late July, early August of 2000. As time role-playing games for each of the console game passed, the list and I generated more new ideas to the systems that it has graced. This pen & paper role- point that in December I had dropped the previous playing game, the Returner Final Fantasy RPG (often 1.2 title and changed it to 2.0. There was that many abbreviated as Returner FFRPG or just FFRPG), was new changes as you can see by the nearly page long designed to emulate the popular game series and version history below for version 2.0 or Second similar titles from the “SNES era” such as Secret of Edition. Mana and Chrono Trigger. The Introduction includes This new edition, the Returner FFRPG Second the editor’s words of ‘wisdom’: From the Mouth of a Edition, or just FFRPG2 as I like to call it, represents Madman, the revision history that lists all the a crucial turning point for the game system. There important changes made, a brief explanation on what have been many major changes to the game system a role-playing game is, how to roll dice (“the fine art itself as well as these files. I could sit here for days of chugging dice”), and the glossary of Final Fantasy and go over all of them and why we made them. RPG terminology. Perhaps the biggest changes were that to character & monster HP and character armor. Before with the older formula, you would be lucky if your fighter got From the Mouth of a Madman to see 300 to 500 HP. Now with FFRPG2, 700 or 900 The Foreword by Robert Pool HP by level 60 is not impossible. High-level characters are stronger now and have a better Since we’re going with a new edition, I figured likelihood to survive long battles. We increased the it was time to update the older foreword. From now HP for monsters as well so they would be able to live on, I’ve decided to update the foreword each time I longer and put up more of a challenge. The damage update the FFRPG Complete. Hopefully, I won’t done by monsters now depends directly on its level have to do this very often. This foreword is mostly and size, rather than just their size or by the type of my place to mouth off about whatever I feel like attack they perform. These are but the tip of the mouthing off about in terms of what’s going on with iceberg, folks. It is my hope that these new rules will the FFRPG at the time. make playing the Final Fantasy RPG more fun for I hate new editions. both new & old fans of the game alike. When I set out to create this set of documents In the past, the FFRPG Complete has been the main that are we on the Returner mailing list like to call the focus for the system’s advancement. I am cautiously “FFRPG Complete” (a kind of joke on Working optimistic that this will be the last version released Design’s Lunar Complete games, which have never for at least a year and that any other new versions been released on time), it was my hope that I could will be minor fixes and not complete overhauls like finally put to end all the long years of constant this version has been. Following the FFRPG2 will be tweaking that hounded the FFRPG’s system. So a series of different sourcebooks that will go outside when I put the finishing touches on the first edition of the basic rules you will find in this rulebook. Among the FFRPGC, I thought it was done & over with. some of the sourcebooks being discussed are a There was just one problem though…. Player’s Companion, a Gamemaster’s Guide, a A 425 page count. Vehicle Manual, and a Tome of Monsters. When That was just plain unacceptable, I thought. So a these books will surface or be completed is hard to few months later I started putting together what say, but they will happen. would become version 1.1. Version 1.1 introduced If you have any problems, comments, or the columns and smaller font that is used in this questions about the FFRPG, feel free to drop me a version as well as all future editions. In between all line or two at [email protected]. the reformatting I did, I also put in different material from the list that had been brought up. By the time I Robert Pool was finished with 1.1, there were still some things 1/27/01 that annoyed me such as the armor formula. High- level characters needed a higher Armor stat to keep them alive when attacked by monsters. So, as it so T H E I N T R O D U C T I O N 3 R E T U R N E R F I N A L F A N T A S Y R O L E P L A Y I N G G A M E • Chapters re-arranged. Character Creation is now Version History Chapter One. Introduction and Basics combined into a single mini chapter. FAQ removed since The following is a long list of all the changes it’s readily available via link from the front page that have been incorporated with each new version of of the web page. Besides it will keep down any the FFRPG Complete. The older updates are kept so inconsistencies between the “FFRPG Complete” to show newer members and nostalgia freaks at what FAQ and the “web page” FAQ.

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