Huh. A patronage - funded project to develop a new D20 system?
Game Design: "e20: System Evolved" Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook — Kickstarter
Game Design: "e20: System Evolved" Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook — Kickstarter
"e20: System Evolved" Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook
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Darrin Drader
Explorer
Wulf Ratbane
Adventurer
Hmm... If you count my revision of Grim Tales (and it's still a bit early to count on that) this currently makes three similar projects in the works-- the third being the one announced by Owen KC Stevens on the Paizo boards.
And while I am a fan of the patronage model, I am also a fan of the print-on-demand model, especially for roleplaying games. It's a huge waste to raise a ton of cash for a print run for a niche market.
Of course it's not the same staggeringly high patronage target as Stevens' project ($75,000) but if Sarli can work "full time" for a year at $10k, more power to him.
Theoretically, working under the patronage model simply to raise an art budget, working in my spare time (as always-- it's a hobby) and therefore taking no profit from the project other than what I see from actual sales, I could do the same thing for a fraction of the price.
For reference, a 400-page book with a piece of art on every spread-- extravagant-- would need 200 illustrations. I know a few illustrators who would love to get a piece of that art order and the book would look fantastic. (Not Paizo fantastic, no-- but professional quality.)
And while I am a fan of the patronage model, I am also a fan of the print-on-demand model, especially for roleplaying games. It's a huge waste to raise a ton of cash for a print run for a niche market.
Of course it's not the same staggeringly high patronage target as Stevens' project ($75,000) but if Sarli can work "full time" for a year at $10k, more power to him.
Theoretically, working under the patronage model simply to raise an art budget, working in my spare time (as always-- it's a hobby) and therefore taking no profit from the project other than what I see from actual sales, I could do the same thing for a fraction of the price.
For reference, a 400-page book with a piece of art on every spread-- extravagant-- would need 200 illustrations. I know a few illustrators who would love to get a piece of that art order and the book would look fantastic. (Not Paizo fantastic, no-- but professional quality.)
MichaelSomething
Legend
Is it me or does everyone and their grandma has done/wants to revision the 3E ruleset?
Does this include people with long lists of house rules to 3E/3.5E?
With that being said, wonder if there's a list of 3E/3.5E/d20 derived fantasy heartbreakers rpgs somewhere.
I am skeptical about the "genre neutral" goal. My experience is that even games that try to remain genre neutral (say, GURPS) still have design that strongly favors certain genres, and it seems like you get a better result when you admit that, and work with the genre, rather than try to eliminate it.
Jeremy Ackerman-Yost
Explorer
You mean like literally everyone did with OD&D and 2e?
Or like "everyone" will eventually be doing with 4e?
There's a pattern here....
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