Recent content by Fenris-77

We're just having a comic aside, I think...

Which is exactly what I said was the case.

Hmm no, not that’s not what’s going on in either case. The design range is a lot bigger than that. You can reskin stuff but that only covers a pat of how those design spaces function.

I understand the design ecosystem of AW and Blades, yes. All I'm saying is that neither is a universal system in the way GURPS is. Possible generic use is a very different thing from intentional universal design. I vastly prefer the former to the latter btw, I'm not 'defending GURPS here. But...

I'm happy to wait. Unlike some other kickstarters where delays make me nervous, I'm quite sure delays here will just result in a better product. I sympathize professionally with project expansion due to wanting more cool things included.

Theoretical it might be, but the game is designed around X encounters per day, and that model does fail almost immediately in almost every case.

No, it doesn't, but that doesn't mean that's not how the CR and class mechanics were designed. Hence the ... issues.

This is the issue, yes. You need to readjust this whole metric is you want things to feel different.

This seems about right. 5E has been turned to other purposes, as has Blades. Frankly, I like the Blades iterations more than the 5E ones, but part of that is that is just so much fat to trim with 5E to get down to a useful, portable system. Neither system is 'universal' as written (or even that...

That makes two of us. :D Perhaps familiarity is a barrier here? I don't know how familiar you are with the Blades mechanics or the host of other games that have purposed them in various ways.

Pardon? The core rules are not 'built for fantasy' at all (and less so that D&D is), and the downtime rules only need adjustment and reskinning to work for pretty much anything. Most games have an implied downtime phase. There's a reason why BitD turned into FitD and has produced so many...

I think you're conflating the rules and the setting. 5E doesn't have anything but the vaguest 'fantasy' setting implied, where BitD has Duskvol. Strip those both out and you get similarly useful mechanical chassis. D&D has a lot more fantasy baked into its core mechanics than Blades, which, IMO...

Yeah, no. 5E isn't remotely generic in its design and implementation. I'm not even sure why you'd say that. The underlying mechanical chassis is more that thing, but not the game as written. For both 5E and BitD we need to strip away setting conceits before we have something even remotely...

What people have used it for and what its designed for are two different things. Intentional design is a break point here. GURPS is designed to be universal while an example like FitD has been used pretty universally but wasn't designed or presented to do that job. Most base mechanics can be...

My published setting for Shadowdark does have the printing press (and firearms). That said, I haven't explored the book aspect of the setting too deeply. My current project, a city supplement, is putting the printing press front and center however. Broadsheets sold on streetcorners by shouting...