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I know.99% of products like this are a sourcebook maybe one or two followup books and that is it.
Believe me, I know.
I know.99% of products like this are a sourcebook maybe one or two followup books and that is it.
An entirely average Kickstarter it appears to me. In fact, even if there's no product for another year, the Kickstarter would still not be inordinately catastrophic. Sorry.So Kickstarters slip, maybe this is a normal amount, but Green Ronin is supposed to be a grownup company and I expect that they do better communication and better than missing release dates by an entire year.
I wish people would stop saying this it is not accurate. The ORIGINAL release by Green Ronin in January 2018 stated a full release date of Gencon 2018. They have since changed the press release but retconning their press release does not make it fact. They stated that a limited run of hardcovers would be available at Gencon and that did not come anywhere near to happening.
FYI. Just checked the PDF of the rules still states coming soon on their website, so anyone that says it is available right now, that is not true.
Question: during the Kickstarter, was there ever any plans for a campaign.
Just yet another ruleset with a light Expanse skin doesn't do it for me.
If I'm going to invest in a new RPG I'm going to do it for the stories. The stories I can purchase as ready-made published campaigns, that is.
(Far too many licensors just write a rulebook, maybe a couple of campaign world supplements, and that's basically it.
Me, I've got a dozen perfectly serviceable rules engines already, and far too many sourcebooks I haven't even read.
What I'm after is quality adventures. Stories that give my players a similar look and feel as reading the source material.)
Question for those who have got the PDF. Is it any good?
I wish people would stop saying this it is not accurate.
The ORIGINAL release by Green Ronin in January 2018 stated a full release date of Gencon 2018.
They have since changed the press release but retconning their press release does not make it fact.
They stated that a limited run of hardcovers would be available at Gencon and that did not come anywhere near to happening.
Seems you belong to the 90%.I bought it for the occasional one-shot and don't plan on running an entire campaign (or "series" as the rule system calls it).
The initial game where this rules engine came into being is Dragon Age (the TTRPG adaptation of the CRPG).It is based on the Adventure Game Engine (a/k/a AGE System). I was not familiar with AGE before playing the game but the mechanics are pretty easy to pick up.
Seems you belong to the 90%.
Myself, I yearn for the days of yore, when games were made because writers had to publish lavish campaigns dripping with detail: Warhammer's Enemy Within, Call of Cthulhu's Orient Express or Beyond the Mountains of Madness or Masks of Nyarlothep...
Nowadays far too many publishers are only in it for the quick cash grab: the main rulebook that sells the best, then maybe a generic sourcebook, and then getting out before sales drop.
:-(
PS. Sure WotC keeps publishing adventure campaigns for D&D. But man cannot live on D&D alone.