So Who's Buying Lone Wolf?

[Krieg]

As I don't have my copy yet, I have not posted a review -- but rest assured that I will once the time comes.

Oops I was being TIC, didn't mean for it to be taken too seriously.

There was a recent (infamous) review of OGL Ancients on RPGnet that contained the following...

The problem is, of course, an OGL book must necessarily pack 3 times as much content as a d20 book. It must reprint ALL the skills, feats, and rules from the Player's Handbook and the DMG, and it must include its own mini-Monster Manual if it knows what's good for it. I don't think there's 1 gamer out of 100 who is going to buy "OGL Ancients" who doesn't already have some version of the 3rd Edition of 3.5 rules, so why make it OGL? Obviously any OGL book must either be a significant revision of the basic rules (like, say, "The End" or "Mutants and Masterminds") or must be as super-detailed and exhaustive as the core 3 books (like, say, the "Everquest" RPG books). What an OGL book should not be is a weak restatement of the same ol' Player's Handbook rules, with just a few new classes and equipment, and almost NO room left over for historical information, treasure, monsters, magic items, etc. etc. etc

Your statement just reminded me of it.

 

[Dragonblade]

I just reserved Lone Wolf from my FLGS. They had never even heard of it. They had to look it up in the catalog of Mongoose releases to find it.

I love Lone Wolf. Joe Dever's world of Magnamund has influenced my gaming since childhood.

 

[Joshua Randall]

Krieg: what the guy on RPGNet said is exactly my point. I think that in fairness to Mongoose, they have made substantial enough changes to the rules that OGL is warranted. However, they are also going to have to replicate large portions of the core rules, and that is very low value-add to most gamers.

Ah well, what do I know. I care less about the rules than I do about the Magnamund goodness -- the fluff, if you will. And it damn well better be good fluff: they've supposedly got access to Joe Dever's private cache of notes on his game world. In any event, it should be interesting.

 

[JoeGKushner]

I've played in the Lone Wolf setting before using that little guide book they had many moons ago. Thought it was okay. Actually enjoyed the books better.

Now this book needs to be virtually error free for me to buy it. The whole Conan thing still stings a little. On the other hand, one of my friends is a die hard fan of Lone Wolf and will be buying this one, sight unseen.

 

[slingbld]

I would get it but there are too many darned books out I can't afford to get this