one thing i wasn't happy with from the original announcement onward was the communication. they did a pretty good job hooking people in, but frequently their communications suggested they would be much more transparent then they actually were. there were a lot of promises of compatibility, balance fixes, confusing rule adjustments, etc, that were given in vague terms that suggested much more than we actually got.
compatibility: they frequently used terms like "fully compatible" with 5e. now obviously if they're making changes at all to anything except specific content, it can't be 100%. but personally my expectation would be that player options would be directly compatible. other parts of compatibility are generally less important because they are easy to adjust on the fly, but player options need balancing and are difficult to make well.
...well, they decided to replace races, how you get build up stats, and subclass levels.
mostly you can slot in 5e options directly, but differing subclass levels and feature interaction make porting subclasses feel very iffy if you don't have a strong grasp on editing mechanical rules safely. mostly, there isn't a simple nice set of instructions you can follow for using 5e options with a ToV based. you have to do a bit of leg work.
...but they really could have done a lot more. it really felt like most of the changes were much more horizontal than actual buffs. monk got a little extra juice at the earliest levels. ranger probably got the best of the changes. fighter was very horizontal. all three of them had changes which already broke any potential feature compat things, but they didn't get the buffs they really needed. step of the wind is still resource locked when very reasonably could be free...
I got my Kickstarter PDF copies of Tales of the Valiant from @KoboldPress. I am hoping this will replace #DnD5e for me. I cannot wait to ready the final version.
RPGBOT Announces BFRD.net and ToV Optimization Content
Today we're excited to announce the launch of BFRD.net, your rules companion for Black Flag Roleplaying, as well as character optimization content for Tales of the Valiant.
Tales of the Valiant basiert auf dem #DnD SRD 5.1 unter Creative Commons und gehört zu #KoboldPress neuem #5e-System, das unter dem Codenamen #ProjectBlackFlag entwickelt wurde. Eine deutschsprachige Übersetzung ist bislang nicht angekündigt.
Player's Guide und Monster Vault für #ToV wurden zuvor per Kickstarter mit > 1 Mio $ finanziert
I have created a #dnd#dnd5e compatible #crafting system that does not rely on rolltables, is flexible, halfway simple and allows for the greatest amount of creativity from both the dungeon master as well as the player.
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