Much more interested in FG than 4ed

[Sigurd]

I'm an older gamer. Personally, the SRD and the promise of one great D20 universe drew me back into gaming. I read the SRD, then bought the books, and said "now what?".

The next step was Fantasy Grounds. It makes things easy. It lets me play with friends who don't live close and make new friends far away.

The big draw is the people I can play with not one particular rule system.

I'm sure 4the ed has its fans but for me its the same 'stuff' different pile.

The idea that WOTC is reducing the freedom of the SRD seems to me like a betrayal and trying to put the genie back in the bottle. I don't dispute their right to do it but I think its bad for the type of story based game I like to play.

I make my own stories and I read widely. I also like much of what I've read for d20 - why should I leave it.

People drive my gaming. If everyone was playing 4e I'd have to switch but thankfully I don't know that is going to happen.

I'm happy to be flexible - especially if its a simpler game to DM. Even as a player you have to pity the D20 DM.


For now, I'm sticking to 3.5 and looking to audition non WOTC games as well. So what if they're niche markets - niche players are interesting. I don't need more than 3 other players at a time.

Savage worlds, Castles and Crusades, Call of Cthulu, BRP, Ars Magica, Bunnies and Burrows, even Warhammer (which is more restrictive even then WOTC) - here I come. There's no shortage of game systems.

I'd love to find a public domain game that could be made popular - its not like D&D invented story telling.


Sigurd

Who hopes Fantasy Grounds will get more refined rather than worry too much about 4e.

[richvalle]

I think it depends on what you mean by 'public domain'. I think there are a bunch of game systems out there that are 100% Open Game Content. I THINK True20 is and I saw a post saying there were open versions of Traveller and Rune Quest released.

There is also something called Orsic (sp?) that I think is open.


I'm running a 3.5 dnd game right now but hope to run Savage Worlds next. If Evernight works out I'll try to run their Sci-Fi setting (Necropolis).

I'm seriously thinking about trying to run 4th Ed for my kids though. I think this is something they could do and enjoy while I think 3.5 may have been a bit too much for them rules wise.

rv

[richvalle]

Ok, so Orsic is meant to be more like 1st ed then 3rd or 4th...

https://www.knights-n-knaves.com/osric/

[Foen]

RuneQuest and Traveller have been released as open content under the OGL.

It would be nice if Chaosium did the same with BRP, but don't really know what to expect (they didn't publish RuneQuest OGL, Mongoose did).

Stuart

[Sigurd]

BRP is part of everything significant Chaosium has done. I can understand the step is scary for them. I think it would help them though.


Sigurd

[Foen]

You never know: once they release their Call of Cthulhu ruleset they might consider a BRP one - it just probably wouldn't be OGL/free.

Stuart

[Sigurd]

Well Chaosium has to do something to get traction with players and generate demand. They're products are generally as good as any I've ever seen and they really deserve more success.

Call of Cthulhu is so atmospheric and has so many adventures etc.... that it must be profitable if they can get D20ers to accept the BRP.

Sigurd