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Personally, I find it the most tolerable merging, but others might disagree. Even with a merged STR+CON stat giving bonus hp, it’s still not eclipsing DEX. It would be eclipsing the other abilities though. Sounds sensible I’d go back to fortitude/reflexes/will, and add perception. It’s been 15...

If Con and Wis are still in the game, they might as well be like the other ability scores. Completely folding Con into Str and Wis into Int has more merits, even if you decouple bonus hp from (reformed) Str and perception from (reformed) Int

Defining what a rule does rather than leaving it too wide for interpretation will always help with said rule acceptance, but IMO, you shouldn’t care about malcontents beyond those within your own group. As far as my own malcontentement is concerned, I’d be more upset about ability score...

VTT is virtual table top? What’s FTF?

I wish that was « most people ». Many in our groups are musicians, actors, and stage techs, so we’re often off on a gig here or there. Otherwise they’re health services workers, no doctors in our groups but various nurses and hospital equipment techs that often have to work nights on rotary...

Oh believe me I’m not telling anyone what’s good or saying what’s better. I’m with you and Micah on that matter. I’m only observing that given two products of equal quality and equal availability, the official published product will be more popular despite being more expensive. If the 5e Star...

Im sure a lot of people don’t care, but many others do. Enough, I think, to make @Reynard ´s comment true (« if it were official, people would actually buy and play it »)

Oftentimes, yes. Published, even by your own publishing company, adds credibility in the eyes of customers in a « fake it until you make it » kind of way. [edit] that sounded quite diminishing of self-publishers here, which wasn’t the intent. In a vast majority of cases, this credibility is...

Definitely not! Just like because it’s fan-made doesn’t mean it isn’t an excellent product. But for many people, even if just on the subconscious level; published = already went through some quality control and professional approval. [edit] precision: that is what being published means; gone...

But if it’s free it’s still just a fan-made product. If its published and purchased it’s like a seal of approval; its professional instead of amateur, which in the subconscious of enough people makes it that a paid official product has more worth than a free version of the exact same thing.

It’s been a few months, but I had some success with my homebrewed adaptation of the TOR 2e rules for Star Wars. Original thread

Ohhhhh, I see. makes me wonder though if other ability scores aren’t too narrow in scope then.

Looks like you’re pretty set on Strength, Dexterity (fine motor skills), Athletics (gross motor skills), Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma, and Perception as ability scores. The problem I ran into with Perception as a stat was that you then need another skill that equates to...

I like it. It’s pretty simple and straightforward, which is good. I do like the human heroic inspiration though and don’t think it’s underpowered, but the « pick two backgrounds » had its merits.

This reminds me of a version of my heartbreaker D&D in 2010 (heartbroken by 4e at the time) where each of the four « stats » had a physical and a mental component, copied from the attributes of Legends of the Five Rings (it would have been the 2nd or 3rd edition at that point). Fire = Agility +...

It’s not that the money is too good to pass up, it’s that D&D ripoffs gives them the one thing that is really dificult to get otherwise: an audience.

I like Vancian casting and prefer it over other types, especially for D&D’s kind of magic. Things is, spell slots are a secondary concept in Vancian magic; the three main principal concepts of Vancian magic apply in many RPGs, some of which use spell points. 1) magic is finite - someone can «...

I love that chart! But in all seriousness, a beefed-up version of this done with a decent interface with images and extracts, third party reviews, in an overly-idealistic, critically-aware industry that allows parties to share descriptions of genres and uniform use of keywords… That’d be my...

Honestly, there are so many things out there that I easily get dizzy and fall back to known games by default. It’s like going to the restaurant and be handed a 50-page menu spread over five different tables, a blackboard the entrance, another by the kitchen, on the back of the napkin dispenser...

Huh, and here I thought it was another thread about generative AI technology in RPG… Another trope not yet mentioned is where the antagonistic AI is not the original, but a second or third gen AI; a program created by the program to independently supervise a certain aspect of its parent AI’s...