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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 8759205" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><p>They are walking a tight-rope. They want to update to a more flexible, less essentialist char gen system, while keeping the flavor of D&D. </p><p></p><p>Personally, I would like to see rules for making your own races, classes, and background. Each followed by examples drawn from the traditional races and classes. I think that could be done and still be backward compatible. Most people would just select from existing race, class, and background templates. Cool. But give tools to roll your own.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I agree, but the problem will be page count. Which is why releasing a book (or boxed set with loose sheets) with pregens would be nice. I know that the basic sets do this, but I'm talking about having a large number of options to choose from. Don't know how well a separate book/box of just pre-gens would sell. They could also be useful for GMs to for NPCs, but NPC rules likely would use monster-type stat blocks and need to have different levels, etc. I think they will leave the "pre gens" for DDB.</p><p></p><p>DDB already has the ability to make pregens. You can just one-click create one completely at random, or you can select a small number of options like race, class, and level and have one generated. Not sure that I can see them making this avaialble for free though. Perhaps my pre-gen book ideal could be released as a PDF that is made available for free as a download like the basic rules.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 8759205, member: 6796661"] They are walking a tight-rope. They want to update to a more flexible, less essentialist char gen system, while keeping the flavor of D&D. Personally, I would like to see rules for making your own races, classes, and background. Each followed by examples drawn from the traditional races and classes. I think that could be done and still be backward compatible. Most people would just select from existing race, class, and background templates. Cool. But give tools to roll your own. I agree, but the problem will be page count. Which is why releasing a book (or boxed set with loose sheets) with pregens would be nice. I know that the basic sets do this, but I'm talking about having a large number of options to choose from. Don't know how well a separate book/box of just pre-gens would sell. They could also be useful for GMs to for NPCs, but NPC rules likely would use monster-type stat blocks and need to have different levels, etc. I think they will leave the "pre gens" for DDB. DDB already has the ability to make pregens. You can just one-click create one completely at random, or you can select a small number of options like race, class, and level and have one generated. Not sure that I can see them making this avaialble for free though. Perhaps my pre-gen book ideal could be released as a PDF that is made available for free as a download like the basic rules. [/QUOTE]
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