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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jonstark" data-source="post: 9400509" data-attributes="member: 7046214">So I just recently bought in to A5E fully (got the 'everything' package as part of the Voidrunner kickstarter; learned that there's lots more and in process of buying everything A5E over at DriveThru).  I haven't played a campaign yet; just reading through everything (and loving it so far!  Destinies - brilliant!, rare spell variants - brilliant!, exploration/journey system - brilliant!  Martial manuevers, expertise dice system, etc, etc, loving everything so far!).One of the great selling points for A5E when I found it was that it was 5E-compatible and I theoretically could mix/match in a modular fashion with all my O5E stuff (and 3rd party 5E stuff).  And that got me thinking maybe there are other 5E-compatible systems that might add something to the mix.  I started to search around to see what else was out there, and aside from a theoretical project from Cubicle 7 that hasn't seen news updates in nearly a year, there's Tales of the Valiant which seems to have lots of buzz (though I'm not sure why).ToV player's guide is expensive, $35, and so all I can judge by is looking at the table of contents.  Same for the ToV dm's guide, though that's not out yet.  Scanning the contents, all I see that snares my interest is the Luck system, but that sounds a lot like the Inspiration system in A5E, rebranded.  Also I like that 'carousing' is listed in the downtime activities section, which sounds fun, but $35 is a lot to spend just to get a system for carousing... and for all I know there might not even be any kind of system, just a paragraph blurb description of what carousing is (as if the reader is from another planet).In the dm's guide, the only thing that jumps out at me from the table of contents as different is the 'Advanced Social' section, particularly the sub-heading on Factions.  A good faction system would be excellent to add in (though I'm already super-impressed with Worlds without Number's faction system which is game-agnostic), but again for all I know there's not system there at all, and only a description of what factions are, which I really don't need.So I just wanted to ask if anyone has picked up ToV and if so, were there any parts of it that you were able to graft onto or into your A5E campaigns?  It seems not worth it to me, at least at first glance, but I wanted to check for some opinions.</blockquote>

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