Is this game any good? I have a friend who wants me to run it,

Iron heroes has a lot of good ideas for a low fantasy version of D&D, but the execution is subpar. Class imbalance, excessive bookkeeping, some things that just don't work right... It's a shame.

As much as I love Tome of Battle/Path of War for making Martial characters actually fun to play in 3.PF, I would be interested to see someone try to take the principles in Iron Heroes, of more mundane yet still interesting and powerful martial characters, and make it work.

>>51209352
like D&D 5e?

>>51210985

5e Martials are powerful, but they aren't interesting. The closest they get is more inspired by PoW/ToB anyway.

>>51211081
why arent they interesting?

>>51211129

Because aside from the battlemaster, which can reliably perform a variety of dynamic maneuvers and actions, all D&D martial characters spam the same melee/ranged attack.

It's like a caster that can only spam a single cantrip.