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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8071136" data-attributes="member: 7006">Whether Morrus should change the names of all the classes or not... all he needs to do is check in with Monte Cook to find out how well his 3E Arcana Unearthed did.&nbsp; Because in a lot of ways that book was for 3E what this new book with be for 5E, and thus Morrus can find out just how popular changing all the classes around and giving them all new names actually ended up being.My own personal assumption is that if he was to present entirely new names for classes... he'd pretty much be shooting himself in the foot.&nbsp; People will be less inclined to buy or play a game they don't recognize.&nbsp; If you don't actually use the baseline game tropes in any way and change over everything (including the most important building blocks, like the class names)... you essentially aren't creating an &quot;Advanced&quot; 5E... you're creating a whole new game like Esper Genesis.&nbsp; And while there were some people who have played EG or played Arcana Unearthed... neither of them have set the world on fire.&nbsp; They were both new variant off-shoots to D&amp;D that had a small following but were not seen as anything more than that.&nbsp; And I don't think that's what Morrus seems to want to go with here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8071136, member: 7006"] Whether Morrus should change the names of all the classes or not... all he needs to do is check in with Monte Cook to find out how well his 3E [I]Arcana Unearthed[/I] did. Because in a lot of ways that book was for 3E what this new book with be for 5E, and thus Morrus can find out just how popular changing all the classes around [I]and[/I] giving them all new names actually ended up being. My own personal assumption is that if he was to present entirely new names for classes... he'd pretty much be shooting himself in the foot. People will be less inclined to buy or play a game they don't recognize. If you don't actually use the baseline game tropes in any way and change over everything (including the most important building blocks, like the class names)... you essentially aren't creating an "Advanced" 5E... you're creating a whole new game like [I]Esper Genesis[/I]. And while there were some people who have played [I]EG[/I] or played [I]Arcana Unearthed[/I]... neither of them have set the world on fire. They were both new variant off-shoots to D&D that had a small following but were not seen as anything more than that. And I don't think that's what Morrus seems to want to go with here. [/QUOTE]

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