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I'm personally someone for whom art never dictates whether or not to purchase a book. I'm playing the game in my imagination, not with the actual art pieces... so if the game is good, then that's all that really matters. If bad art ever stopped me, then I never would have bought the original...

Honestly, I don't think it really does anyone any benefit to relate any of these games to D&D, rather than just treat them as their own things. Once someone takes the step of saying "I'm done with D&D, so let me find this game that does this part of D&D differently"... the person is predisposed...

Yeah, 7th Sea's fictional history of the land of Theah is very much a combination of famous personages and bits of 17th century history slightly fictionally tweaked and then combined with myths, lore, and stories from books and film of those eras to create a fantasy "alternative history" of...

I also really liked their method for Brute Squads. Unlike say 'Swarms' in D&D where the swarm is basically not different mechanically than any other creature and it's only "flavored" like a mass of creatures together... 7th Sea Brute Squads had a mechanical base that was different than henchmen...

I would find it infinitely amusing if the people who have been over the last decade or so decrying the fact that WotC never updated the Forgotten Realms suddenly decided NOT to get these books because of how the covers looked. I would presume that won't be the case... that their needs for...

I myself wouldn't necessarily agree with the specifics of what Mike wrote, but can understand where he's coming from. To me I always saw it like this: First gen is the original Dungeons & Dragons and D&D adaptations that are like as he said-- the slow move from wargaming into playing a...

I also got 61. Although I also think the glyph for 20 is incorrect because to me it is breaking its own internal pattern. 0-3 was the top row flags in a pattern of empty/left flag/right flag/double flag Then we get the next pattern of the middle row of flags going left/right/double flag plus...

Heck... backing the KS just to get Pirate Nations alone would have been enough for me. That book you couldn't find anywhere without it being hiked up into the hundreds of dollars for it, LOL!

Agree 100% on the Swordsman School issue. Always got the sense that they wanted to get the Nation books out as quickly as possible in order to not alienate players who had PCs for those nations... but as a result they came up with potentially interesting schools thematically but could never...

Really? Couldn't disagree more. I think the first edition d10 Roll & Keep system with exploding dice and players being able to call their own raises is one of the best and most exciting mechanical systems I've ever used and perfect for swashbuckling adventure. To me, nothing says 'Derring-Do'...

It also doesn't help that both WotC and all these 5E third-party designers are trying to map out an entire species of people with four or five rather pathetic game mechanic traits. ;) I've said it before and I'll say it again... when the game gives us 20 levels worth of features and abilities...

Once in a 7th Sea campaign a couple decades ago. I had already had two PCs die in the campaign and thus went much further afield with the design and background of the third one to try something really new... a stealth assassin member of Die Kreuzsritter. That design turned out to be a mistake...

The entire Leveled Class System is Narrative Dissonance. PCs can go from Level 1 to Level 5 after like two modules that take place over like two weeks of in-game time... and now have 5 times the hit points and their abilities multiply five-fold. And THAT doesn't cause players to go "What a...

Having multi-species parents in the D&D game would have been fine if every single species had that opportunity. It's the fact they singled out just TWO of them, both of which have a Human parent who is never distinguished by their species in their name and thus always assumed Human to be the...

You mean no one's bothered to start a thread about it. ;)

I would imagine that if every class had the same metacurrency that refreshed in the same exact way for the exact same amount, it would put off an equal amount of people than it is doing right now currently. There's no way for any company to win this design battle. Either method will irritate...

I was not a fan of the mechanics of 7th Sea 2nd Edition either. In the few times I've run it in the past few years, I've instead used the 1st Edition game with my own rebalancing of the Skills and Knacks system. I love the Roll & Keep system of 1E, there were just issues with the proliferation...

There are no 5E24 half-elf stats. The Khoravar is the first "half-elf" to get stats for 5E24. You otherwise just have to use the 5E14 half-elf stats if you want one that isn't a 'Khoravar'.

If one has a good DM who understands the situation you talk about... you as a player DO know what you can and can't do even with "non-rule" skills (as you put it) because the DM will be consistent with what they allow and plus care more about making a fun and interesting game than trying to...

I find it is ultimately better to just find a good DM than it is to play a game that requires so many rules to be included in it so that you are always able to be allowed to play no matter what it is you wish to accomplish. A game run by a quality DM trumps any game trying to "protect" players...