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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9177372" data-attributes="member: 11760"><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reaperddrpg/reaper-miniatures-dungeon-dwellers-roleplaying-game" target="_blank">The Kickstarter campaign is now live</a>.It's interesting that the <s>races</s> folk include &quot;Proudfoot halfling,&quot; &quot;wood elf&quot; and &quot;hill dwarf.&quot; Why specify the variant if they're not planning on other sorts of halflings, wood elves and dwarves in future?The system, as described on the Kickstarter page, sounds like a 5E/OSR hybrid (more 5E than OSR), which makes sense. I'm mildly surprised they're going with three core books, which is a big ask for a new system.I had been hoping they would make a big deal of having all the Reaper versions of monsters in their monster book (they often have different names and very often some interesting variant designs compared to other companies' take on the monsters). While that seems logical, I don't see where they've stated that yet. I do like they explicitly mention scalable versions of monsters, which seems like a good idea that is finally spreading like wildfire through gaming.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9177372, member: 11760"] [URL='https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reaperddrpg/reaper-miniatures-dungeon-dwellers-roleplaying-game']The Kickstarter campaign is now live[/URL]. It's interesting that the [S]races[/S] folk include "Proudfoot halfling," "wood elf" and "hill dwarf." Why specify the variant if they're not planning on other sorts of halflings, wood elves and dwarves in future? The system, as described on the Kickstarter page, sounds like a 5E/OSR hybrid (more 5E than OSR), which makes sense. I'm mildly surprised they're going with three core books, which is a big ask for a new system. I had been hoping they would make a big deal of having all the Reaper versions of monsters in their monster book (they often have different names and very often some interesting variant designs compared to other companies' take on the monsters). While that seems logical, I don't see where they've stated that yet. I do like they explicitly mention scalable versions of monsters, which seems like a good idea that is finally spreading like wildfire through gaming. [/QUOTE]

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