what the fuck....?
Dungeons & Dragons Says Half-Elves are RACIST Now.
@beardalaxy DnD is on its way out, the parent company tried to do some money grubbing shit and it was the final straw, everything that follows now is just another brick in the wall. People are doing bootleg DnD now instead of paying whatever the fuck it costs to run an official game now.
@Jazzy_Butts i can't imagine the new shit is going to sell well, and they probably know that too which is why they are switching to a membership model where you can still access all of the old 5E content too more or less.
i playtested for 5e after running official 4e weekly encounters campaigns and that was after some epic od&d stuff including the actual Tomb of Annihilation (the 4e remake was fucking soft)
pathfinder is superior to d&d, they improved upon the 3e system and then created multiple fleshed out settings and campaigns and pure content that shamed wotc.
..while not bwing shitheads about pricing and ruining it all by trying to make it a subscription service. wotc's mentality on trying to force profit has dragged d&d through the mud almost as badly as sonic
@bitterblossom @Jazzy_Butts the fact that every single pathfinder rule is completely free to use not just in-game but also your own books/rulesets is absolutely incredible and shows that they know their product is competitively viable. 2e is pretty awesome. it is really rule verbose, though, for instance i think the rules and systems for social play is just a little bit weird. i prefer things to be a bit more freeform and simple which 5e does a really good job at, although it can be horribly balanced in almost every area which leaves a lot on the DM's plate.
i've been loosely making my own ttrpg system called "melee, magic & mischief" but it's more of a personal project. it has more simple rules, a lot of stuff is generalized and the character creation is super fast and freeform. it relies on the same system as two other ones i'm making just based on different settings, zombie apocalypse and cyberpunk. i made the zombie one for a friend and he's not gonna' use it probably so i repurposed it into cyberpunk because that's what i actually want to run at some point, but then pivoted a little bit toward fantasy because that's what all my friends are into.
i'm interested in checking out kobold press's "black flag" system at some point too. also, shadow of the weird wizard. shadow of the demon lord seems REALLY sweet and honestly right up my alley in terms of rules and systems, and ESPECIALLY character creation, but i couldn't get any of my friends into it because they don't like how brutally punishing it can be. SotWW should be a bit closer to D&D so i think they'd appreciate it a lot more.
@beardalaxy @bitterblossom I've also been trying to come up with my own rules. I'm a dumb guy with math so I also want to keep it simple. I don't understand much of the rules of DnD even though I read the 5e starter set manuals. Almost everything would be randomly generated. I don't even want to make maps, just random seeds. Ok so like you spawn, you look around, what do you see? First we roll to see what environment you're in (based on seed numbers), and when it comes to events, enemies, battles, etc (even dialogue) we look at the situation, come up with some ideas for possibilities, then roll to see which possibility reality generates. I tried a game with my mom and it worked pretty well, she woke up in a forest, searched for water, spotted wolf tracks, found water, made camp, and got lucky and heard other campers in the distance. First we rolled for environment, then rolled for travel and some rolls to see if anything would interrupt that travel, then some rolls to check stuff out, and before we knew it an adventure had been had. She's completely averse to dnd and thinks it sucks so that she had fun is really saying something.
