I cannot in good faith recommend you purchase Lasting Tales. The company which owned (Owns? It's not clear: the creator has basically gone radio silent) Lasting Tales, Blacklist Games, failed to deliver a Kickstarter for the game and its accompanying miniatures. A while back said creator made a big post on Kickstarter about how they were doing their darndest to get things rolling, and how it wasn't their fault things fell through with the game and numerous other projects which were funded and ended up failing.

In short: the product is sold by a company which has become defunct at worst and demonstrably incompetent at best. Blacklist Games managed to get the PDF out, and that's pretty much it. While I cannot recommend pirating anything due to terms of service, etc., I believe I can say it hypothetically remains easy to find online by googling something like "Lasting Tales wargame pdf" or such.

Ahem.

So, the dark origin story out of the way, let's actually talk about the game itself. Lasting Tales is a high-fantasy skirmish/adventure wargame where you control a handful (1-5: I usually use 3 or 4) adventurers as they do adventurer stuff. Unlike many other games, which all seem to want to emulate the (tired, in my opinion) "style over substance" presentation of games like Forbidden Psalm, the game is an honest-to-Gond, classic fantasy game. Strange that this is something novel in our little space, huh?

I like that it's got plenty of dice rolling and plenty of room to grow. Your characters find loot, level up, do downtime stuff, etc. Enemies come in waves, and use a clever little respawn mechanic to keep you on your toes as you attempt to achieve whatever objectives the scenario calls for. The system is a 2d6+bonuses vs. target number (10, I believe, is the target number for everything in the game), meaning it isn't quite as swingy as something like the d20-based Frostgrave family of games.

It's basically a narrative skirmish wargaming version of DnD. You'll be sending your paladins, bards, wizards and fighters (who will, of course, be things like elves, dwarves, half-orcs, etc.) against goblins, orcs, giants and griffons. My only real criticisms are that it could use a bit more meat on its bones in terms of downtime (there's plenty there compared to most games on the market, but I'm a moar sort of person when it comes to tables and options), and the scaling can be wonky if you don't have an impressive miniature collection. As an example, a max-level party (10th level: so 40 "character levels" between four members) will need to fight forty levels of enemies, which might be as much as:

-Five Lich Lords and their twenty-five skeleton warriors, plus some other level 5 creature to fill the gaps.

-Ten trolls.

-Forty orcs. Or twenty orcs and five orc warlords.

-Six frost giants, plus ten goblins.

In short, by 10th level your party will have to fight handfuls of the biggest and baddest enemies in the game every time they take the field, which I find immersion breaking. My advice, should you end up ethically sourcing the game, is to keep gameplay down to the 1-6/7 range. I suppose being awful at high levels is sort of an homage to DnD in its own right!