Andrepartthree
July 4th, 2015, 04:32
I realize there are people who are going to either start laughing their butts off at me or make snarky comments after reading this and I will do my best to take it in good stride :P .. having said that...
I am slowly... ever so slowly ... piecing together a campaign with my own home brewed adventures/modules.. I'm doing it in my spare time when I'm not doing the dad thing ;) and it's progressing at a very slow pace (I'm very , very demanding of myself as far as the role playing element ... fully fleshed out NPC's with their own backstories and pictures to give the players more "oomph" as far as people to interact with .... writing up as much "flavor text" as possible to describe as many possible player reactions I can think of that I can just drop into an FG game session to speed things along instead of typing it up on the spot ,though of course I will resort to typing stuff up on the spot if I have to --- I know I know the players will surprise me with something I didn't anticipate , but after decades of RPG'ing I'd like to think I can make an educated guess as to which way they'll jump at least some of the time ;) ... looking up good combat maps to use....writing stats for the NPC's - that last part takes FOREVER I tell you ! ) ... given my campaign takes PC's from level one up through level eighteen or nineteen I don't expect it be done for, bare minimum, three or four years.
(and yep I know I know , people are going to tell me " Don't do that, players may have no interest in what you're writing up and want to go off in an entirely different direction"... I've built up a "crew" of gamers over my years of FG'ing who more or less like the same things I do far as really getting into the RP aspect and if I tell them " Look, sorry for the limited railroading but the campaign was designed around the concept that the kingdom of Cygnar gives you a mission to go save the innocents and your PC's choose to go on the mission", I know they'll go along with it as opposed to saying " Screw Cygnar we're going to go work for the other guys!" ... long as I make the missions interesting and fun enough which I have every intention of doing ;) ... also I'll do my best not to fall into the classic " there's only ONE way to solve this mission and that's it" trap too, will try to brainstorm different possible player approaches to solving the problem in question.. and of course try to write my adventures up in enough detail to be prepared to do "spur of the moment" stuff when the players inevitably do something I hadn't anticipated ;) :P .. but anyways...)....
I've been encouraged to see I'm not the only one on here who loves D&D 3.5E and Pathfinder :) .. D&D 4th edition and 5th edition gets praise as being streamlined and moving gameplay along faster and I can see how that would appeal to a lot of people.. but I'm a big fan of 3.5E due to the sheer level of customization you can put into it far as NPC and PC character design (which is the trade off far as the rules admittedly being much more complex than 4th or 5th edition , which I realize can bog game play down at times when you're running 3.5E)... that and I'd really rather not make a 180 degree turn and start re-writing all my NPC's in 5th edition format now that I've started writing them with 3.5 stats :P .. that and the older IK books inherently support D&D 3.5E which gives me a big advantage too.
So I guess this is a question aimed more at the FG developers.. right now I know when you purchase an FG full license, according to the store link it includes rulesets for "D&D 3.5E, D&D 4E, D&D 5E and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game"
In the years to come .. say four or five years from now (hopefully there will still be an audience for D&D 3.5/pathfinder by then ! :P ) ... do you think FG will continue to have built in support for D&D 3.5? It would suck if years later I finally get my campaign up and running only to discover that FG is no longer supporting D&D 3.5 :( .. I know I know, D&D 3rd edition rules were introduced in 2003 and still have a fan base here on FG over 12 years later (especially thanks to Pathfinder and the whole open game license thing) ... still, just wondering what the FG developers take is on this...
I am slowly... ever so slowly ... piecing together a campaign with my own home brewed adventures/modules.. I'm doing it in my spare time when I'm not doing the dad thing ;) and it's progressing at a very slow pace (I'm very , very demanding of myself as far as the role playing element ... fully fleshed out NPC's with their own backstories and pictures to give the players more "oomph" as far as people to interact with .... writing up as much "flavor text" as possible to describe as many possible player reactions I can think of that I can just drop into an FG game session to speed things along instead of typing it up on the spot ,though of course I will resort to typing stuff up on the spot if I have to --- I know I know the players will surprise me with something I didn't anticipate , but after decades of RPG'ing I'd like to think I can make an educated guess as to which way they'll jump at least some of the time ;) ... looking up good combat maps to use....writing stats for the NPC's - that last part takes FOREVER I tell you ! ) ... given my campaign takes PC's from level one up through level eighteen or nineteen I don't expect it be done for, bare minimum, three or four years.
(and yep I know I know , people are going to tell me " Don't do that, players may have no interest in what you're writing up and want to go off in an entirely different direction"... I've built up a "crew" of gamers over my years of FG'ing who more or less like the same things I do far as really getting into the RP aspect and if I tell them " Look, sorry for the limited railroading but the campaign was designed around the concept that the kingdom of Cygnar gives you a mission to go save the innocents and your PC's choose to go on the mission", I know they'll go along with it as opposed to saying " Screw Cygnar we're going to go work for the other guys!" ... long as I make the missions interesting and fun enough which I have every intention of doing ;) ... also I'll do my best not to fall into the classic " there's only ONE way to solve this mission and that's it" trap too, will try to brainstorm different possible player approaches to solving the problem in question.. and of course try to write my adventures up in enough detail to be prepared to do "spur of the moment" stuff when the players inevitably do something I hadn't anticipated ;) :P .. but anyways...)....
I've been encouraged to see I'm not the only one on here who loves D&D 3.5E and Pathfinder :) .. D&D 4th edition and 5th edition gets praise as being streamlined and moving gameplay along faster and I can see how that would appeal to a lot of people.. but I'm a big fan of 3.5E due to the sheer level of customization you can put into it far as NPC and PC character design (which is the trade off far as the rules admittedly being much more complex than 4th or 5th edition , which I realize can bog game play down at times when you're running 3.5E)... that and I'd really rather not make a 180 degree turn and start re-writing all my NPC's in 5th edition format now that I've started writing them with 3.5 stats :P .. that and the older IK books inherently support D&D 3.5E which gives me a big advantage too.
So I guess this is a question aimed more at the FG developers.. right now I know when you purchase an FG full license, according to the store link it includes rulesets for "D&D 3.5E, D&D 4E, D&D 5E and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game"
In the years to come .. say four or five years from now (hopefully there will still be an audience for D&D 3.5/pathfinder by then ! :P ) ... do you think FG will continue to have built in support for D&D 3.5? It would suck if years later I finally get my campaign up and running only to discover that FG is no longer supporting D&D 3.5 :( .. I know I know, D&D 3rd edition rules were introduced in 2003 and still have a fan base here on FG over 12 years later (especially thanks to Pathfinder and the whole open game license thing) ... still, just wondering what the FG developers take is on this...