The maps in the book / download have name suggestions on them, in case somebody is stuck. Also, the character creation guide contains lists of name for villages & cities, landmarks and names. So there is an assist.
You don't have two choose between two options here. You get both! So in order to gauge balance, you need to compare both Advanced Training & Loyal Friend to the Wayfinder ability Apex Predator.
Daggerheart Age of Umbra miniseries starts on May 29 from what I’ve heard. So nine days after the pre-order release and five days before the official street date.
Even if Sigil was done, which I highly doubt, letting go of the team before you have a version that runs on macOS seems like a bad decision. My online gaming group has at least two players who are not using Windows computers in their setup. And I am as GM consider moving away from Windows...
The new books will remain proprietery, Kelsey said somewhere on the Discord. Which I fully understand. Generic system is one thing, but Western Reaches contains so much world-building stuff.
You could always start out in the region of one of the Cursed Scrolls and then widen the Setting as the Western Reaches books get released. That‘s one of the options I am looking at.
It's just two ancestries in the Player's Guide to the Western Reaches. There is preview available via the KS page. For the Player's Guide there is a table to randomly roll the ancestry. So, it's the core six plus Kobold and Half-elf.
Classes are from the Cursed Scrolls and I think three (?)...
I also thought of Modes of Play. But except the Pulp Mode there is precious little in there making things easier. :D
One the other hand, Momentum Mode implies Advantage on D20 Death Timer rolls :)
Max hit points at first level are something I am going to do. Maybe I bundle things in an "Easy...
At least the Bundle of Holding seems to be a favorite sales tactic from Free League. Often parallel to a new Kickstarter for a game line or a pre-order, they run a Bundle of Holding providing the base rules. Was the same with Vaesen some weeks ago. Very sensible business decision, and quite a...