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<blockquote data-quote="Newtonian" data-source="post: 7654865" data-attributes="member: 6776959"><p>Yep! To be clear, Morningstar is designed as an "enabler" not a "facilitator". In other words, it will provide the information and materials you need to easily do what you want, but it won't tell you what to do. It doesn't restrict you to roll initiative any particular way or limit you to cast spells a certain amount of times, that's all up to you.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, this is a more complicated answer. We thought about adding an open system that would allow people to put in their own rulesets...but this quickly became a rabbithole of complication. Rules are extremely complex. For us, Tabletop gaming isn't about rules. It's about the story and adventures. Whatever rules we use should compliment the game (instead of the other way around). So, the app has a number of features that will work system agnostically (like campaign/adventure management, party tracking, logs, messaging, etc.)</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying we won't be supporting different rulesets, but it's not something we can say "yes!" without truly being aware of the implications.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>One is ease-of-use. Morningstar is designed to work so that you can download the app, set up your party, prep and start your adventure within 20 minutes. </p><p></p><p>Two is look/feel. Morningstar looks and feels great to use. It's designed to keep people in the game.</p><p></p><p>Three is the digital book experience. We've built the toolset around an enhanced digital book paradigm that is very familiar already to anyone who uses physical books. This is why Morningstar is intuitive. We'll have more details for people on this next week.</p><p></p><p>Does that help?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Newtonian, post: 7654865, member: 6776959"] Yep! To be clear, Morningstar is designed as an "enabler" not a "facilitator". In other words, it will provide the information and materials you need to easily do what you want, but it won't tell you what to do. It doesn't restrict you to roll initiative any particular way or limit you to cast spells a certain amount of times, that's all up to you. Well, this is a more complicated answer. We thought about adding an open system that would allow people to put in their own rulesets...but this quickly became a rabbithole of complication. Rules are extremely complex. For us, Tabletop gaming isn't about rules. It's about the story and adventures. Whatever rules we use should compliment the game (instead of the other way around). So, the app has a number of features that will work system agnostically (like campaign/adventure management, party tracking, logs, messaging, etc.) I'm not saying we won't be supporting different rulesets, but it's not something we can say "yes!" without truly being aware of the implications. One is ease-of-use. Morningstar is designed to work so that you can download the app, set up your party, prep and start your adventure within 20 minutes. Two is look/feel. Morningstar looks and feels great to use. It's designed to keep people in the game. Three is the digital book experience. We've built the toolset around an enhanced digital book paradigm that is very familiar already to anyone who uses physical books. This is why Morningstar is intuitive. We'll have more details for people on this next week. Does that help? [/QUOTE]
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