Stalker0's Review: The Trailblazer System by Bad Axe Games

[Starman]

How useful (or not) is this product with the 3.0 Core books?

I would say it's still very useful. The math didn't change from 3.0 to 3.5 and that is what Trailblazer examines and tweaks.

 

[teach]

After reading it, would you say there is anything in it (apart understanding the design of 3x) for a 4e DM?

I play almost predominantly 4th edition, but I still picked this up in pdf form because I feel like it was a lesson in game design. They looked at 3rd edition in a completely different way than I have ever looked at it. There is not a lot in it that can be adapted to 4th edition, but I figured for 5 bucks, it was completely worth it to pick it up. It gets to the root of a lot of the problems I had with 3rd edition when I played it, and offers a very different fix than 4th edition offered. If I had played trailblazer when I played 3rd edition, I likely would have been less likely to play 4th edition.