Shard O'Glase
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I am very enthused about AU. I am looking forward to it about as much as I was looking forward to 3e. I'll get 3.5 as well, but the game I want the most is AU.
Bah. Who cares about D&D 3.5? Monte's Arcana Unearthed will be much cooler.
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I already own the following non-cookie cutter FRPGs:
Empire of the Petal Throne
Talislanta
Jorune
Umbragia (free setting)
I'm optimistic that Arcana Unearthed will be worthy of sitting beside those.
Dwarves, elves, halflings, and such...yech. I prefer to leave them in Middle-earth.
Empire of the Petal Throne
Talislanta
Jorune
Umbragia (free setting)
I'm optimistic that Arcana Unearthed will be worthy of sitting beside those.
Dwarves, elves, halflings, and such...yech. I prefer to leave them in Middle-earth.
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EarthsShadow
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GenCon, so far away...to bad it couldn't be in a nearer month, like March 
then we can get all the cool books sooner.
then we can get all the cool books sooner.
Fiery James
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Unearthed Arcana
For me, Arcana Unearthed is a game where the fantastic is put back into the fantasy. My favorite memories of playing back in the day are of all the crazy non-rules stuff we did. You know, the far-attacking magic swords with extraordinary powers made up on the fly; the epic and mysterious backgrounds that lurked in our campaigns; the wonderment of the unexplored and unexplained....
All the cool little details that crept in over time, and the freshness of it all. I remember being afraid of kobolds in our very first adventure, run by Fiery Jason when we were twelve years old and we thought the 4-sided die was used for just about everything.
Arcana Unearthed is different, and effortlessly so.
I have to agree with Hal. I love D&D and the stuff that we've developed over the past 3 years for it, and I love our campaign world and exploring it. BUT - I'm in love with Monte's world too. Reading the book, I'm filled with idea upon idea for adventures and roleplaying bits. It's just a book full of cool ideas and neat takes on things.
It's certainly not "kewl" or different for different's sake - it's a new game with many familiar tropes.
Still, wait until August and see. It probably won't work for everyone, but you won't know until you get a crack at it.
- James
For me, Arcana Unearthed is a game where the fantastic is put back into the fantasy. My favorite memories of playing back in the day are of all the crazy non-rules stuff we did. You know, the far-attacking magic swords with extraordinary powers made up on the fly; the epic and mysterious backgrounds that lurked in our campaigns; the wonderment of the unexplored and unexplained....
All the cool little details that crept in over time, and the freshness of it all. I remember being afraid of kobolds in our very first adventure, run by Fiery Jason when we were twelve years old and we thought the 4-sided die was used for just about everything.
Arcana Unearthed is different, and effortlessly so.
I have to agree with Hal. I love D&D and the stuff that we've developed over the past 3 years for it, and I love our campaign world and exploring it. BUT - I'm in love with Monte's world too. Reading the book, I'm filled with idea upon idea for adventures and roleplaying bits. It's just a book full of cool ideas and neat takes on things.
It's certainly not "kewl" or different for different's sake - it's a new game with many familiar tropes.
Still, wait until August and see. It probably won't work for everyone, but you won't know until you get a crack at it.
- James
EarthsShadow said:
Well, new races and stuff sounds kinda nice. What really does it for me is Monte's design philosophy behind the rules itself.
1. D&D 3rd kept a whole lot of things from AD&D 2nd because they were, well... D&D. Like the fire and forget magic system, magic missle, an all-or-nothing armor system, and so on.
2. Quite a lot of these things, frankly, suck.
3. Arcana Unearthed is D&D the way it could have been had the design team not been so concerned with keeping those artifacts from a previous edition.
EarthsShadow said:
As interested as I am in Arcana Unearthed, I don't think it "takes the d20 system further" than anything we've seen yet. Actually, it falls well short of a few systems out there already. Mutants & Masterminds comes to mind immediately. I'm also *really* interested in BESM d20.
Bagpuss
Legend
Then why not start a new one? Personally I (and most of my group) get bored of running the same campaign or playing the same character after about 6 months, which doesn't mean I don't like to revisit them, but it does mean we usually have about 3 or 4 campaigns on the go, which we swap between during the year.
Knight Otu
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AU seems to have some interesting ideas, but the rest sounds more like something that could easily be done by the Core Rules. I don't really need AU to run non-standard campaigns. Give m R3E, I can do the rest if I want it. 
I'm not saying that it is a bad thing, I just am not overly enthusiastic considering all this hype.
I'm not saying that it is a bad thing, I just am not overly enthusiastic considering all this hype.
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