I’m not complaining, more new games the better, and some of them are very interesting.
Also, at least some of these youtubers turned devs have tried Pathfinder and that wasn’t it, so spare the “why won’t they just play Pathfinder?” comments
Crazy how becoming an expert on a creative subject and dedicating years to developing and discussing feedback on your unique perspective leads one to pursue creative endeavors
That creative endeavor: A 5e clone with Blades’ progress clocks slapped on top of it.
A lot of rpgs I see made this way go long way from 5e clone.
A lot of the games that I see coming out are faar from a “5e clone”. No need to be rude to people who are creative for not just playing pathfinder.
Beats my contribution, all I do nowadays is run things in ORE. Stolze turned me into a core mechanic snob.
I don’t think I understand this meme template. Also am I going blind or is the text kind of small and blurry?
Do people still make fantasy heartbreakers? That’s where someone’s only really played D&D sets out to make their own game. It’s full of passion and enthusiasm, but it kind of sucks because it doesn’t stray far from D&D. So you get a “creative new breakthrough” that’s like “our six stats go from 1-10” instead of, like, “We realized we don’t need stats like that at all”
There are many completely different TTRPGs out there, even ones that came from people who worked on/with D&D, such as Numenera (by Monte Cook who made many D&D adventures and supplements) and Daggerheart (made by a duo of TTRPG YouTubers/streamers)
The type of person that gets deep into TTRPG systems for their rules design will eventually want to apply what they learned (or think they learned) towards making a system themselves. Like with any skill, you want to flex it once you acquired it.
First thing that comes to mind is Daggerheart by Spencer Stark and Matt Mercer, but yes this happens multiple times.
Can’t wait for Matthew Colville’s inevitable TTRPG design!
Inevitable, as in already in development. https://mcdm-rpg.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
The weird part is that it only works if you transition
I transitioned but the lack of approval from my friends regarding the rule changes kept me from being motivated enough to write my own rulebook. We play a different rule system than DnD and my friends were like “Oh no, we like our fights uninteresting. Motivates us to seek other solutions” which is great that they’re choosing non violent solutions but sometimes fights are unavoidable.
Funny enough, some of my proposed rule changes later appeared in an extra rule book by the official authors because they also thought that fights could be more interesting. Sadly I had no hand in that but I’m glad it happened because my friends are really heavy on sticking to official rules. Sorry this kinda turned into a rant.
