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10-26-2008, 11:16 PM #21
Considering that we long ago diverged wildly from the actual discussion about the character, I've split these off into a new thread.
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10-27-2008, 02:11 AM #22
I would not so easily overlook the likelihood the notion that people appreciate strait 3.5. The newcomer knows 3.5. From there, something consistent with the original boxed set (which people still ask for) and the BRCS are two ways to go. For reasons already mentioned, I think the spirit of the original materials is a significantly better approach.
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10-27-2008, 10:15 AM #23
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Then make them house-rules and so label then. What you (and apparently others) have doen is clog up the wiki with a bunch of house-rules that are not identied as such nor are they delinieated so people like Sorontor can readily tell what system is being used - this is totally unacceptable and much more trashy then a single set of rules (any set).
The point of the BRCS was to establish a standard for this site (which includes the wiki by the way).
The revised chap 2 was sanctioned (that it is was voted on with a greater majority (i.e 75 % in favor, everyone active at that time got to vote so it was as openly inclusive as it could be) and is considered "official" in that regard.
Rejecting it so off handed is just wrong. A lot of time was spent (over 1 year) of on line discussions and mini votes along the way to develop the revised chapt 2.
Since you seem to have no reason to play along then please do not add to the confusion.Duane Eggert
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10-27-2008, 10:25 AM #24
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Oh and Kenneth the point of the reliance on mechanics is a reflection of how 3.5 works.
In 2nd ed monsters were created in pretty much any way the DM wished - there were no real standards at all.
In 3.5 monsters are created using formulas and guidleines very strict design criteria.
Now if you are creating character using 3.5 without accoutning for the mechanical strictness of the system then you are already greatly nto the house rule area.
I know how much you use house rules in your games and there is nothing wrong with that but in a discussion or information post it is very important to make clear where the basis is coming from and not assuming that people can read the author's mind which is apparently what has been happening.
The "default" (for 3.5) of this site is supposed to be the BRCS (using the sanctioned chapter 1 and 2).Duane Eggert
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10-27-2008, 04:37 PM #25
All house rules are set up on specially marked pages for that purpose. There are no house rules in general usage.
The alternative to a trashy wiki, let's remember, is nothing. The BRCS project was abandoned, unfinished. And nothing has proceeded from it since. It is a rotting corpse. You are wasting your time attempting to get people to bow before it.
The revised chap 2 was sanctioned (that it is was voted on with a greater majority (i.e 75 % in favor, everyone active at that time got to vote so it was as openly inclusive as it could be) and is considered "official" in that regard.
Rejecting it so off handed is just wrong. A lot of time was spent (over 1 year) of on line discussions and mini votes along the way to develop the revised chapt 2.
Since you seem to have no reason to play along then please do not add to the confusion.
I addressed this in post 19. Either respond to those arguments or leave the issue off the table. Don't bother attempting to raise it as a "new" issue, I'll just refer you back to earier posts.
Now if you are creating character using 3.5 without accoutning for the mechanical strictness of the system then you are already greatly nto the house rule area.
The focus for Birthright really should be elsewhere. Politics and other setting considerations should drive character construction, not CR or ECL. If Gaven Tael decides he's had enough of you, he won't send his CR 4 henchmen to deal with your 4th level party, he'll send the best man he has available, and that might be a CR of any level, perhaps even the Sword Mage. The notion of precisely calibrating encounters so that they are tough enough to be exciting but not so tough that that might actually win belongs in some other setting. It might lurk about in the shadows, because at the end of the day we do need to know how tough an encounter was. What it should not do is replace the excitement inherent in an encounter because the PC's are advancing their goals and their enemies are opposing them.
In Birthright, action, adventure, and excitement should flow from the history, politics, and domain conflicts, not from a strict mechanic about what CR this or that is. The enjoyment from the game should come from role playing, not roll playing. This setting has placed too much focus on the politics and intrigue of rival domains to just use that as window dressing for playing the kind of standard D&D that drives John Wick to make BR style games which he then calls the anti-D&D.
I know how much you use house rules in your games and there is nothing wrong with that but in a discussion or information post it is very important to make clear where the basis is coming from and not assuming that people can read the author's mind which is apparently what has been happening.
Further, very little of that involves character stat blocks. So none of that is really an issue.
The "default" (for 3.5) of this site is supposed to be the BRCS (using the sanctioned chapter 1 and 2).
This is where we enter the "be careful what you ask for" territory.
Because I can create character material in standard 3.5, or I can start using a totally different system, like GURPS or Houses of the Blooded. Which do you think will be more confusing?
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10-27-2008, 08:10 PM #26
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So most of the material (posted by an admittedly few number of people) are based on their personal viewpoitns of what is useful and what is not.
I'm sorry that does not make it a valid basis for an arguement.
And I have noticed far and away most of the new people posting have either been using 2nd ed rules (understandable) or the BRCS so you arguement on that issue is just plain wrong or skewed by a personal viewpoint.Duane Eggert
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10-27-2008, 08:17 PM #27
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Let's see so defintion of power is number of blood abilities a regent has?
Where is the logic in that one at all?
The measure of power in BR always came from the size of the domain the regent has.
In general the higher the bloodline strength the larger the domains.
But this is not always true since many awnies have high strength (and scores) and yet do not rule domains.
I'm sorry but logic dictates your basis is incorrect for determining a regent's power in a game of rulership.
And actullly I think the real reason you haven't seen people using the BRCS system until late is a confusion as to whether the wiki should have the original character or a 3rd ed version. Since no one bothered to specify what version should be posted total lack of cohesiveness has resulted IMO.
I do not spend hardly anytime on the wiki mostly due to a dislike of them in general but just as much due to the lack of "discussion" invovled with such a structure.Duane Eggert
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10-27-2008, 08:36 PM #28
Identify where I said this. I content you made it up from whole cloth and attribute it me.
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10-27-2008, 08:41 PM #29
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Except for the character posting side obviously or else this sbuject would never have arisen would it>
75% of the people who didn't wander off to find something more interesting to spend their time on. This was a rump group, you were only voting among yourselves. This confers no official status and is binding in no way.
Let's see of the group dedidcated to writing the BRCS at the time of the votes I was the only one left. So it is impossible for me to be voting by myself.
IIRC the total in the sancitioning votes were between 30-40 people. Which is as large or larger than any poll posted on this site.
I think the real reason that more did not vote is (just like in past US elections) they don't want to be bothered with voting. Or they were people like you who stated up front that they were going to use their own house rules for the the game they were running.
No one is rejecting it out of hand. It is rejected because it takes 40% of canon characters and fundamentally converts them by taking away their blood abilities. Because it arbitrarily took a perfectly good bloodline system and fundamentally changed the way it worked and what kind of characters it produced for no good reasons.
The existing 2nd ed bloodline system was a total reflection of the 2nd ed concept of letting the DM do what he wanted to with no structure as a basis.
This makes sense if 4e strikes you as a really great game system for BR. The arguments are the same. Although 4e does a vastly better job of matching encounters, making encounters exciting, and assigning difficulty to encounters.
So more roll playing and less role-playing. That turns off an awful lot of old school gamers (those who fell in love with the BR setting in the beginning are prime examples). If there is any doubt on that look at the suggestions for 4th ed - several people (not all, some actually want to be true to the setting)
[quote]The focus for Birthright really should be elsewhere. Politics and other setting considerations should drive character construction, not CR or ECL. If Gaven Tael decides he's had enough of you, he won't send his CR 4 henchmen to deal with your 4th level party, he'll send the best man he has available, and that might be a CR of any level, perhaps even the Sword Mage. The notion of precisely calibrating encounters so that they are tough enough to be exciting but not so tough that that might actually win belongs in some other setting. It might lurk about in the shadows, because at the end of the day we do need to know how tough an encounter was. What it should not do is replace the excitement inherent in an encounter because the PC's are advancing their goals and their enemies are opposing them.
In Birthright, action, adventure, and excitement should flow from the history, politics, and domain conflicts, not from a strict mechanic about what CR this or that is. The enjoyment from the game should come from role playing, not roll playing. This setting has placed too much focus on the politics and intrigue of rival domains to just use that as window dressing for playing the kind of standard D&D that drives John Wick to make BR style games which he then calls the anti-D&D.
So politics determines how poerful and influential a regent is? Hmmm it seems that I mentioned that in the fact that the number of blood abilities should be irrelevent.
You are many years behind the facts (or so broad in your definition of house rules to include material published by Wizards) because since 3.5, I have found rules in wizards materials to satisfy all of my variations from the standard rules. My game now may require Player's Handbook II and Unearthed Arcana, but both come with the D&D logo and are published by Wizards.
That was one of the biggest hindrances in writing the BRCS the mandatory having to stick with OGL material and the decision to only use the core 3 books - since everyone who played 3.5 had access to them while not everyone had access to any of the others (especially those overseas).
Both since neither specifies what set of rules were used and therin lies the confusion.
That is all I've said but have quickly been the brunt of attacks of to paraphrase "what you helped write is total garbage" and yet there are numerous posts by players new to BR who came due to the BRCS-playtest. Can the wiki or you claim otherwise on that one?Duane Eggert
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10-27-2008, 08:43 PM #30
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From post #19
Are they to be made great characters vying with dukes, or humbled, forced to give up their blood abilities because of the BRCS?Duane Eggert
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