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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 8922333" data-attributes="member: 6688049">In the spirit of Peter Adkison's Envoy: <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=399" target="_blank">Pyramid: Envoy</a>Once the ORC License is rolling, I propose four things:1) An ORC SRDs archive, like the Open Gaming Network:[URL unfurl="true"]https://opengamingnetwork.com/[/URL]That's a no brainer...I'm sure that folks will do that.The other proposals are more far-reaching:2) I propose that that archive (or some other site) have hyperlinks to each 'equivalent' feature within each game system. For example, the various ancestries, backgrounds, and classes lined up across systems (e.g. the "Elf" ancestry across all systems, or the fantasy "Fighter / Warrior" class across all systems). So that it's easier to convert characters back and forth between various ORC systems.With clearly-marked tags, whether it's: Core (a feature from the core rulebook(s) of that game), Core Optional (a variant offered in the Core books), Expanded (not in the Core books, but published by the company that owns the game), Third Party (by a publisher which is in business, e.g. on DriveThruRPG), with maybe another category of "Homebrew" (fan-made non-commercial content).3) I propose a conversion app which uses these equivalencies to convert characters back and forth between ORC systems. The ORC ENVOY app.4) I propose that several or many ORC publishers make a streamlined way to publish each adventure and setting for each of the ORC systems. So that's it's just a matter of course that there will be, say......besides Ptolus in the Cypher System...also Ptolus PF2, Ptolus Fantasy AGE, Ptolus C7d20, Ptolus A5E, Ptolus WOIN, Ptolus BRP, Ptolus DCC, Ptolus Savage Worlds, Ptolus 13th Age, Ptolus OSE, Ptolus L&L, Ptolus Basic Fantasy, Ptolus Heroes & Monsters, Ptolus The Black Hack, Ptolus Tunnels & Trolls, Ptolus MAZES, etc....besides Lost Omens / Golarion in PF2 and Golarion Savage Worlds...also Golarion Cypher System, Golarion Fantasy AGE, Golarion C7d20, Golarion A5E, Golarion WOIN, Golarion BRP, Golarion DCC, Golarion 13th Age, Golarion OSE, Golarion L&L, Golarion C&C, Golarion Basic Fantasy, Golarion Heroes & Monsters, Golarion The Black Hack, Golarion Tunnels & Trolls, Golarion MAZES, etc....besides the Dragon Empire in 13th Age system...the Dragon Empire PF2, Dragon Empire Cypher System, Dragon Empire Fantasy AGE, Dragon Empire C7d20, Dragon Empire A5E, Dragon Empire WOIN, Dragon Empire DCC, Dragon Empire Savage Worlds, Dragon Empire OSE, Dragon Empire L&L, Dragon Empire C&C, Dragon Empire Basic Fantasy, Dragon Empire Heroes & Monsters, Dragon Empire The Black Hack, Dragon Empire Tunnels & Trolls, Dragon Empire MAZES, etc.Currently, conversion from one system to another is very labor intensive. As seen for example in the Kickstater which converted Pathfinder to Savage Worlds.Yet, if there were already robust conversion conventions laid out in the ORC ENVOY website and app, it would not be quite as hard work for publishers to simultaneously or promptly produce many different "localized" versions of their settting books, for various RPG systems.This could be facilitated by establishing customary, transparent industry-wide royalties for this sort of project.And by tapping into the "second string" and "third string" aficionado-designers, who do good work for more obscure RPG systems.Though having a multitude of house systems is not "efficient", it is a healthy, diverse, individuated, localized ecosystem.Yet this ecosystem could also be strengthened through a more systemized, public-facing mode of coöperation, as proposed in this ORC ENVOY.</blockquote>

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