Introducing Enlightened Grognard

[steeldragons]

steeldragons: Yes, I'd love to have some art for this system. I'm so incapable with visual media that I always view artists as something like sorcerers.

That we are AMN, that we are. <pulls out his pencil of major image +3> BWAHAHAHA!

 

[Grimstaff]

If nothing else, I think its cool that your system has inspired two brand-new members to sign up on ENWorld and make their first posts ever!

 

[Animus]

I like the pitch and design philosophy. I'll check this out for sure.

 

[Wiseblood]

This is really good.

 

[amnuxoll]

Thank you animus, wiseblood and Grimstaff. I'm glad to hear the positive reviews. I've been holding my breath.

If there are particular things you like or dislike I'd like know.

:AMN:

 

[Animus]

Thank you animus, wiseblood and Grimstaff. I'm glad to hear the positive reviews. I've been holding my breath.

If there are particular things you like or dislike I'd like know.

:AMN:

Well after skimming the doc I am even more impressed. It's not 4e or 3.5, it's not IH or Pathfinder; but yet it's all of them at once. You seem to have a good feel for what is fun.

BTW, this is Ron. We played some LG together in Michigan .

P.S. Can we see some example characters? That would be great.

 

[mach1.9pants]

I second some example PC that you think highlight EG

 

[Alzrius]

Will future releases have a monsters chapter? I realize that'd be a ton of work, but as it stands now using d20 monsters in EG wouldn't be something you could do on the fly (notwithstanding the conversion notes in chapter 12).

 

[amnuxoll]

Will future releases have a monsters chapter? I realize that'd be a ton of work, but as it stands now using d20 monsters in EG wouldn't be something you could do on the fly (notwithstanding the conversion notes in chapter 12).

For what it's worth, conversion really is close to trivial. I ran one playtest using Pathfinder's Kingmaker and had very little monster conversion to do at all. Most of the time I just ran them as written using the trick of creating defenses by "taking 10" on the saving throws.

The DM who is running my current playtest group hasn't talked to me much about what he's doing since I'm one of the players but I get the impression his experience is the same because he has yet to ask me a single question about how to do conversion. He's having fun building up some creative fully-statted NPCs too.

However, I realize that it's handy to have pre-stated monsters around. I have a stat block format already done. What I'm debating is whether I should
a) convert the SRD monsters
or
b) write an adventure path (which would come with stat blocks)

Which would make you more inclined to give EG a try?

:AMN:

 

[amnuxoll]

BTW, this is Ron. We played some LG together in Michigan .

Is this the Ron with the ready grin and the blue car (Taurus?) that always felt about two miles away from breaking down?

P.S. Can we see some example characters? That would be great.

Sure! I'll ask some of my playtesters if it's ok to post their characters.