NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lambert Behnke" data-source="post: 8057925" data-attributes="member: 6925231">Yes and no.Drakensang was back in the times of the revised forth edition, called 4.1 in Germany. In 2015 the current 5th edition was released. It has streamlined a lot of things from 4th Edition and brought the systems used in line.Most notably the abilities cost the same whether bought at character creation or later added with XP making characters a lot easier to compare and new characters to be added at a certain level.Skills, magic spells and religious miracles now use exactly the same system so you don't have to learn different rules for different classes/builds.Lastly and maybe most importantly the core rules have all the rules you need. There are more detailed Focus rules which can go into more depth BUT you don't have to use them. In fact some PCs in your group could use them and others not. For example take hunting. By the basic rules you can make a single test of Wilderness Lore and dependingon roll you hunt more or less food.You could go focus level one, where you might role a tracking roll to find your pray, a stealth roll to sneak up and an attack or trap setting roll to make the kill.You could also go focus level 2 where your animal lore let's you identify the type of prey available and from there play out the entire hunt in detail.Now if hunting is important, either because it's one of character's stick or because it's plot relevant you can use the level of focus you desire. The hunter of the group might always use focus 1 and when someone else hunts or it's just to deal with the journey to the next adventure you use the basic rules.Overall it's an amazing rule set and I love playing it. Also it's the edition which came to English and we are lucky to have these amazing looking and feeling books.</blockquote>

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