D&D 5E Dungeonscape Lives!
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Depends on the game, but I'd say that matches my experience of high level 3.x stuff. As someone (was it Dancey?) said - 20 minutes of fun in 4 hours. Which is an exaggeration, but the point stands, I think.
My personal preference though is if a rule needs looking up and takes time, skip it, make something up, and never, never force people to sit watching you reading a book. You can always look it up later.
Newtonian
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The answer to the Game Master question is in the first FAQ question on the Kickstarter. The important thing to note is that Morningstar is an integrated solution between both a dynamic digital book system and a tools system. This means that all the information you're working with has been designed to manage encounters, add/subtract things, manage notes, search, cross-linking...and a whole slew of other things that a PDF reader simply can't do.
Campaign settings are system agnostic. We feel that even if we don't directly support the character creation and character sheets of a particular system right away, the GM tools for campaign settings will still relieve a huge burden at the table.
Newtonian
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One guy demanded that we publish 5e content anyway.
We will, of course, be looking for whatever WotC decides to unlock via 5e OGL, but we're really not interested in getting sued.
Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad
I wish them luck. They seem like a good group of people.
I did not like the "Thieves in the night" crack they made about WOTC. That was unnecessarily unprofessional, and I think it would be a wise public relations move to make a lengthy, genuine, and non-cryptic apology for that.
I do not think they will make the goal they set for this Kickstarter. It smacks of Kickstarter-newbie to me. They do not have the track record and name recognition to support that goal, in my estimation, based on the history of RPG-based kickstarters. I am guessing they over-estimated their fan base.
But what do I know? I've never run a kickstarter myself. Good luck to them. If they come out with a product that is good and supports a game I play, I will likely eventually buy it. But...not in this kickstarter.
I did not like the "Thieves in the night" crack they made about WOTC. That was unnecessarily unprofessional, and I think it would be a wise public relations move to make a lengthy, genuine, and non-cryptic apology for that.
I do not think they will make the goal they set for this Kickstarter. It smacks of Kickstarter-newbie to me. They do not have the track record and name recognition to support that goal, in my estimation, based on the history of RPG-based kickstarters. I am guessing they over-estimated their fan base.
But what do I know? I've never run a kickstarter myself. Good luck to them. If they come out with a product that is good and supports a game I play, I will likely eventually buy it. But...not in this kickstarter.
Because it might be more relevant here, I'll repost something I wrote in the comments to the news item:
I'm primarily a 5e guy these days. I don't have any use for a Pathfinder toolset. However, I'm still playing with the idea of supporting this, because I would love to have this product for 5e-- particularly the content management stuff. Being able to import adventure content, have easy access to rules, character generation, live game tools etc. all in one place would be very appealing to me. And if this tool exists and is successful, then (as Mr. Newton points out) there is some possibility that it will eventually become a tool for 5e.
I'm not trying to make a pitch. There are still a lot of uncertainties-- will they pull it off, will it be as good a tool as we hope, will licensing allow for 5e compatibility, etc. So I'm still weighing whether it's worth it for me (and how much if it is). But I'm thinking about it.
AD
P.S. And yes the price tag for the project is high, but if they are paying salaries with it, then that's no surprise.
I'm primarily a 5e guy these days. I don't have any use for a Pathfinder toolset. However, I'm still playing with the idea of supporting this, because I would love to have this product for 5e-- particularly the content management stuff. Being able to import adventure content, have easy access to rules, character generation, live game tools etc. all in one place would be very appealing to me. And if this tool exists and is successful, then (as Mr. Newton points out) there is some possibility that it will eventually become a tool for 5e.
I'm not trying to make a pitch. There are still a lot of uncertainties-- will they pull it off, will it be as good a tool as we hope, will licensing allow for 5e compatibility, etc. So I'm still weighing whether it's worth it for me (and how much if it is). But I'm thinking about it.
AD
P.S. And yes the price tag for the project is high, but if they are paying salaries with it, then that's no surprise.
Queer Venger
Dungeon Master is my Daddy
At this point I dont see the need to continue this discussion in the 5e forums. It seems that this should be moved to the Pathfinder forums as this is not a D&D product.
There's a thread for it over there already.
Newtonian
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There's nowhere where we say the "Thieves in the Night" had anything to do with WotC. In all honesty, we wrote a story inspired by real events, but it's all fiction. Adventures need a problem to solve or a villain to defeat. Forgive us for taking creative license
.As far as the goal for the Kickstarter...I've worked in video games and mobile software for 8 years, and I can say that for high production software on multiple platforms, you're looking at anywhere from 100k to 1M or more for budgeting on average. 425k isn't that much.[FONT=Roboto, arial, sans-serif]
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As far as fans of Tabletop gaming... this is a true test to see if people want this kind of product. Let's not beat around the bush anymore. This is the big-leagues now. We feel that tabletop in general is beginning to have enough interest to support this kind of thing.
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