A very intersting breakdown. With your comments about the wizard, I like the fact that it's strictly magic-focused. There are other casters that can mix spells an dproffiencies or spells and martial. I just wish they would release playtest material for those so we can better compare them instead of two extremes.
As a person who loves KP and owns more of their books then DND, I too was disappointed such a creative great company basically just remade 5e with minor tweaks. New subscriber!
Excellent breakdown, thanks. I agree that after the initial vibe of Black Flag evoking a sort of rebel, renegade spirit, that seeing it be a fairly generic heroic fantasy taking strongly after 5E's base is a bit of a letdown.
I don't understand the disappointment. They've been pretty clear what their design goals were here. Maybe, I'm conflating disappointment and surprise? I don't expect to be an early adopter because the whole OGL fiasco prompted me to look at new games and booted me out of a creative funk. I'm in no hurry to go back to 5e in any wrapper. But, if they complete the game I loved, and don't try to fix what isn't broken... "just like 5e" is exactly what I would want from this.
My opinion has changed slightly since I've been looking over more materials. When the initial announcement was revealed, I thought they were going to be making something more akin to their own original system, but I am hoping for the best with this as a whole.
I can't see how you don't see that the Wizard got too much if anything. Even with the Weapon Mastery we still have a huge caster/martail divide... And we still don't have MONK!
Kolbold Press is the best thing that 5e had to offer. I'm bummed that they stuck with the 5e ruleset. It's a broken rule set. I'm in love with Pathfinder. I'll miss KP products.
A very intersting breakdown. With your comments about the wizard, I like the fact that it's strictly magic-focused. There are other casters that can mix spells an dproffiencies or spells and martial. I just wish they would release playtest material for those so we can better compare them instead of two extremes.
Thanks for the run down!
Seems quite interesting, good explanation
As a person who loves KP and owns more of their books then DND, I too was disappointed such a creative great company basically just remade 5e with minor tweaks. New subscriber!
Excellent breakdown, thanks. I agree that after the initial vibe of Black Flag evoking a sort of rebel, renegade spirit, that seeing it be a fairly generic heroic fantasy taking strongly after 5E's base is a bit of a letdown.
Perhaps you would find Level Up Advanced 5e more interesting if your looking something more forward than Black Flag .
Personally, I've hit a point where I'm not all that into 5E as a whole anymore, but thank you for the recommendation.
I don't understand the disappointment. They've been pretty clear what their design goals were here. Maybe, I'm conflating disappointment and surprise? I don't expect to be an early adopter because the whole OGL fiasco prompted me to look at new games and booted me out of a creative funk. I'm in no hurry to go back to 5e in any wrapper. But, if they complete the game I loved, and don't try to fix what isn't broken... "just like 5e" is exactly what I would want from this.
My opinion has changed slightly since I've been looking over more materials. When the initial announcement was revealed, I thought they were going to be making something more akin to their own original system, but I am hoping for the best with this as a whole.
I can't see how you don't see that the Wizard got too much if anything. Even with the Weapon Mastery we still have a huge caster/martail divide... And we still don't have MONK!
Kolbold Press is the best thing that 5e had to offer. I'm bummed that they stuck with the 5e ruleset. It's a broken rule set. I'm in love with Pathfinder. I'll miss KP products.