How is you Tales of the Valiant game going?

[Reynard]

It has been out for a while now, so i am curious how folks' ToV campaigns are going.

What kind of game/campaign are you playing? How do the new rules compare to vanilla 5E? Have you incorporated any non-ToV rules in, either from Kobold, WotC or otherwise?

 

[Elodan]

Your post title says “Tome” not “Tales” which might be confusing to some.

Unfortunately, I don’t have any actual play experience to report yet. We’re in the middle of a Pulp Cthulhu campaign as well as a DCC one. We are planning on using TotV the next time we want to play some 5E. The changes to the classes, especially unified subclasses, resonate with our group more than the 2024 ones. Other highlights for us are the addition of luck, the separation of lineage (ancestry/race) and heritage (culture), motivation instead of quirks/flaws with backgrounds, ritual spells, and their version of weapon masteries.

We wish they addressed some of the problematic spells more than they did. There were not a lot of initial subclasses (although I believe they have about 50 now, but a number are in other books).

 

[Reynard]

Your post title says “Tome” not “Tales” which might be confusing to some.

Whatever do you mean?

 

[SlyFlourish]

I’m running Tales of the Valiant for my Sunday game and we’re really enjoying it. I don’t know that I have anything remarkable to say except that we dig it. I think having weapon masteries as a trade off for damage is a good move. I love the luck system so much I’ve replaced inspiration with luck in all my 5e games. I haven’t yet used doom points but the characters are just sixth level. Anyway, it’s great fun.

 

[Marc Radle]

There were not a lot of initial subclasses (although I believe they have about 50 now, but a number are in other books).

Regarding the initial lack of subclasses in the ToV Player's Guide, be sure to check out the upcoming Player's Guide 2 Kickstarter - this book will have a TON of new subclasses!!

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[Rempelstiltskin]

Was running a campaign for a while that fizzled out (scheduling issues, game was fine). Lots of fun was had though.

Currently playing in an Empire of the Ghouls campaign using ToV rules, and it's going great. It's not a "pure" ToV game, but it's using it as its core set of rules, converting 2014 5E subclasses, and using some of the 2024 5E rules, where the GM prefers them.

Luck is actually getting used a lot, unlike inspiration in my experience. I feel like that simple mechanic replacement is a huge contribution to the whole 5E game engine. The ToV monsters when swapped in are noticeably cooler.

All in all it's going great.

Hope to start a new ToV game up.

 

[JKagebein]

It has been out for a while now, so i am curious how folks' ToV campaigns are going.

What kind of game/campaign are you playing? How do the new rules compare to vanilla 5E? Have you incorporated any non-ToV rules in, either from Kobold, WotC or otherwise?

It’s fantastic. Current campaign has been going on for almost 5 months. PCs just made level 3. It’s set in Zobeck. Mostly straight ToV, but I always liked and used inspiration, so I’m keeping it. I also home-brewed a really good true Alchemist Class for a PC.

 

[zakael19]

My game in it ended, but that was more due to “this still has separate initiative combat that I don’t like” more then anything else. Players really loved the character creation / ancestry bits.

 

[Marc Radle]

My game in it ended, but that was more due to “this still has separate initiative combat that I don’t like” more then anything else. Players really loved the character creation / ancestry bits.

That’s the great to hear!

 

[SlyFlourish]

Was running a campaign for a while that fizzled out (scheduling issues, game was fine). Lots of fun was had though.

Currently playing in an Empire of the Ghouls campaign using ToV rules, and it's going great. It's not a "pure" ToV game, but it's using it as its core set of rules, converting 2014 5E subclasses, and using some of the 2024 5E rules, where the GM prefers them.

Luck is actually getting used a lot, unlike inspiration in my experience. I feel like that simple mechanic replacement is a huge contribution to the whole 5E game engine. The ToV monsters when swapped in are noticeably cooler.

All in all it's going great.

Hope to start a new ToV game up.

Yeah, luck is a game changer. It was so fast to put it in all of my 5e games and it took a big load off of me to worry about it.

I haven't yet found a good way of communicating to people that they should use points to boost a roll by one or two. I just say something snarky like "do you want to add two luck points to that?" and they say "I don't know, should I?" and I say "Maybe you should!" and they say "Ok! I will!" and then I say "YOU HIT!"

I wonder if there's actual intended rules for this. I should go find out.

Anyway, I've used them so much in my 2014 D&D games, 2024 D&D games, A5e games, and TOV that I forgot what system they actually came from =)