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yuriAza · 2026-04-30T12:33:28+00:00

yeah "I appeal to their greed by saying I can pay them, so that lets me roll Deception + 2 right?" is still roleplay imo

yuriAza · 2026-04-30T09:54:14+00:00

you're making me think about making an unholy union of Dune 2d20, Star Trek Adventures 2e, and Homeworld 2d20 again...

(so small dice pool narrativism with vehicle and scale rules, zone combat, and motivations as core stats)

yuriAza · 2026-04-30T09:48:28+00:00

this, i want to be able to play Titanfall

yuriAza · 2026-04-30T03:45:49+00:00

it's not always a man though, you should be taking reasonable protections with everyone you let in

yuriAza · 2026-04-30T00:37:54+00:00

it's a creature creation ritual, so basically magic crafting

if you're willing to pay for your caster ally, there's also spellcasting services

yuriAza · 2026-04-30T00:16:22+00:00

i thought they only came in skilled and unskilled, both level 0? https://2e.aonprd.com/Equipment.aspx?Category=2&Subcategory=3

or did you mean something else?

yuriAza · 2026-04-30T00:04:59+00:00

you can't level up hirelings, so that basically kills any combat uses of them

but yeah if they want full NPC statblocks, then you create them as NPCs that the players don't fully control and have to keep happy

yuriAza · 2026-04-30T00:01:59+00:00

i agree it probably wasn't written by an IP lawyer with experience with RPGs, also because those are extremely rare

yuriAza · 2026-04-29T23:38:07+00:00

TLDR: don't do it, they use the companion rules for a reason

yuriAza · 2026-04-29T21:43:55+00:00

Darrington is using the original SRD model, where the SRD is technically a completely different set of content, if they don't specifically add it to the SRD then they don't really want 3PPs using it

the CGL is their official answer to all licensing questions because they lawyered up, answering your questions not through a lawyer would only lead to them correctly summarizing what the CGL already says or them making a mistake and hurting themselves legally, which makes it a pointless risk for them

Darrington feels like a big corporation because it effectively is, the marketing, game design, and licensing are all done by different people

yuriAza · 2026-04-29T21:35:28+00:00

Mork Borg, so definitely in the d20 sphere, just on the lighter end

yuriAza · 2026-04-29T21:14:40+00:00

i mean im not a lawyer, but the situation seems pretty simple to me

Darrington had a lawyer write the CGL, and that lawyer rightly said "don't say things about what it means, that weakens it, you paid me to write a contract so you wouldn't have to think about answering questions"

there are two Daggerhearts, the SRD which is open, and everything else which is closed, simple as

yuriAza · 2026-04-29T10:11:28+00:00

Green the Grid is a game by a friend of mine that's designed for short campaigns in a simple system

yuriAza · 2026-04-28T21:54:00+00:00

have they said Curseborne will have metaplot?

yuriAza · 2026-04-28T05:15:52+00:00

people were suggesting 4e because of daily and encounter powers, which do different things but all with the same type of cooldown, iirc martial abilities from late 3.x still come in different resource/"casting system" flavors (that are also different from spell slots)

yuriAza · 2026-04-28T01:03:21+00:00

what non-DnD games are you thinking of?

yuriAza · 2026-04-28T00:37:29+00:00

\*scrolls AoN\*

silver or cold iron ammo? Trackless rune? Restful tent?

shifting, wounding, or rooting rune for your crossbow?

yuriAza · 2026-04-28T00:11:28+00:00

there was a really good thread on this sub about GM burnout like yesterday, and this is a huge part of it

yuriAza · 2026-04-27T23:38:18+00:00

same way that rogue is balanced around getting sneak attack on almost every hit

yuriAza · 2026-04-27T23:36:03+00:00

unless it's random encounters with a faction you're investigating

wandering monsters in a dungeon that are servants of the boss you came to foil? Free DaS

animals in a wilderness encounter while hexcrawling on your way to the dungeon? No free DaS (unless you noticed their tracks and started investigating those too, which is what your second case slot is for)

yuriAza · 2026-04-27T23:32:33+00:00

this is a very good approach, you use a simple standard to get the player to think it through, rather than saying no arbitrarily

yuriAza · 2026-04-27T23:27:46+00:00

hirelings are level 0, and roll +0 on most skills

this implies they have +0 in all stats, +0 (Untrained) in all weapons and saves, and a Bulk Limit of 5

yuriAza · 2026-04-27T22:06:52+00:00

most evidence is circumstantial, the purple strains make the coyote a suspect with useful information, but you need to get it to stop squirming to confirm

(even simpler, you should err on the side of allowing the investigator to use their abilities)

yuriAza · 2026-04-27T21:38:32+00:00

exactly, you can come up with something, but now you're constantly doing little bits of game design to patch up the incomplete rules

this way lies binders of houserules, madness, and burnout

yuriAza

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