Fantasy Hero Companion

Fantasy Hero Companion is a supplement published by Hero Games / Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) in 1990 for the fantasy role-playing game "Fantasy Hero".
Contents.
"Fantasy Hero Companion" is a supplement for "Fantasy Hero" with rules for mass combat, 12 sample locations, more monsters, more magic items, and colleges of spells.
Publication history.
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.
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."