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Reply To: Interesting News From Monolith

October 9, 2019 at 11:30 pm #1445883

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The one thing I’ve always noticed is that whenever production costs could be lower that never was reflected in the price us consumers had to pay.

It is an interesting development that’s for sure.

I do wonder how they’ll manage the inevitable rules updates as campaign modules get released.

One of the problems with D&D and its various campaign settings was that only the popular ones would get updates after a new iteration of the core rules. I think it was one of the reasons they reduced the amount of official campaigns that were maintained to a few.

@onlyonepinman I’d argue that Pathfinder/D&D/2D20 aren’t setting agnostic.
They all require a specific style of game to function at peak performance. Monolyth has managed to made very good choices in picking the type of setting that supports the heroic/tv-movie fiction format their system supports. I kind of doubt it would work for a setting where the sudden appearance of ‘extra’ enemies wouldn’t fit the theme.
D&D has serious problems running the kind of gritty fiction in Warhammer and Call of Cthulluh, which is why D20 Modern doesn’t quite work unless you target A-team style action.