Parmandur
Book-Friend
Yeah, OneD&D is doing basically the same thing, they just have five groups instead of 3 (4 for the Class Groups, and generic Feats).
Project Black Flag Design Notes #1
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Clint_L
Hero
D&D definitely does belong to one company. But the game doesn't, in the sense of the rules, so the original quotation seems accurate enough.
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Unless you're defining DnD as the literal ability to legally label products with the name, no, it doesn't.
Scribe
Legend
There's also....a dramatically small percentage of men who can play the NFL game, at a level of execution people want.
Half of the NFL cannot even reach that bar, and its getting worse every year lol.
It's certainly possible -- I would expect e.g. Eldritch 'Knight to have access to some Magic talents, etc. But that becomes fiddly, and (I still believe) less fun overall. Much better would be not to have talents that are so superior to others, right? An S Tier magic talent will almost certainly mean more to a Wizard than to a Rogue, so let the Rogue have access to it.
As a scholar, you have spent time researching particular academic subjects at an institute of learning or under the tutelage of a knowledgeable teacher. Choose a talent from the following list to represent this experience: Polyglot, School Specialization, or Trade Skills.
As a soldier, you have received special training or honed natural capabilities that have kept you safe during your service. Choose a talent from the following list to represent this experience: Armor Training, Combat Casting, or Combat Conditioning.
As a soldier, you have received special training or honed natural capabilities that have kept you safe during your service. Choose a talent from the following list to represent this experience: Armor Training, Combat Casting, or Combat Conditioning.
They very well might, but "access" is a broad range. Having "access" to a selection of them at any talent gain interval vrs being allowed to more broadly choose any qualifying magical talents but only at certain points rather than being able to choose them during any talent choice level are slightly different. We already know how that can be expanded in future supplements by looking back at 3.x too where it wasn't uncommon to see "this feat can be selected as a $class bonus feat"" or whatever the wording was
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bedir than
Hero
But Black Flag isn't about setting up the Patriots. It's about putting together a team that wants to play the same style together. It doesn't have to be a billion dollar company to be a success.
Scribe
Legend
Indeed, I didnt think it was a great comparison in the first place, not least of which, I dont equate Wizards version of D&D with the Patriots either, but I'm trying to regulate my snark after a long week/day.
Laurefindel
Legend
I’m not sure the allegory is quite apt. 5e is a ruleset, like football is a ruleset. Keeping with the football allegory, Savage World might be rugby, or perhaps soccer (which everyone around the world call football except for us North Americans).
So KP’s statement is more like “we love football too much to leave it in the hands of only one league.” This is a real sentiment in many sports actually.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
Pretty much exactly, yes.
Heh heh... well based upon all the complaints we always hear about people refusing to use 3rd party products because they don't think they've been playtested... apparently there's only a small percentage of people who can make effective D&D rules too.
Scribe
Legend
Heh heh... well based upon all the complaints we always hear about people refusing to use 3rd party products because they don't think they've been playtested... apparently there's only a small percentage of people who can make effective D&D rules too.
Certainly true, but only heart ache is at the conclusion of this analogy.
TerraDave
5ever, or until 2024
I like it. All pointing the right direction and lots of hints that she sees what the problem areas are.
It’s a competition, but an asymmetric one, KP may be the underdog but for BF to be a success doesn’t require anything remotely like the sales that the 1d&d team will need to show.
It’s a competition, but an asymmetric one, KP may be the underdog but for BF to be a success doesn’t require anything remotely like the sales that the 1d&d team will need to show.
I was hoping for something more.
I was hoping for some publisher to feat a whole system of various feat replacement mechanics by now. Guess I have to learn how to make clean pdfs, hire an artist, and distrubute my system myself.
Frozen_Heart
Hero
It's a shame Paizo isn't in a position to capitalise on the 5e/DnDone switchover. With pathfinder 2e being both its own thing, and extremely new, they're not going to be snapping up many of the players in the switchover. But they're not going to drop 2e for a new system either.
Shardstone
Hero
I've been following you on this forum for a long time. I like your posts and your opinions a lot, even when we disagree.
I say this to you from a friendly place. You personally will never find a system that appeals to your tastes, because you have a strong vision and that vision isn't known to or shared by everyone. I think it would be great for you to actually start working on your own game stuff (which I'd love to talk with you about) and I know you'll be good at it once you start formalizing your ideas into publishable content.
But you literally will never be satisfied with another person's game. You might play it, you might take it for what it's worth, but you are one of those creators who needs to realize their own vision instead of hoping someone else does it for you. I say this because I'm literally the same kind of person, as many of us are on this forum.
