@EffortlessFury @IronburrJones @GregoryEllner@OfficialRWBY I've been doing this for a while, but a 'strength' character gets half a feat and a few HP. A 'will' character gets an entire class core feature (spellcasting) _and_ some AP - it doesn't take deep knowledge to realise that one of these is a lot, lot better
@EffortlessFury@GregoryEllner @IronburrJones @OfficialRWBY So, 'aura points' are not 'aura'? That's _terrible_ terminology them, isn't it? And where in the show is 'I kill myself by aura use' a thing? Also, D&D also doesn't do narrative damage - it's all HP, delivered generally via combat, not just narrated/declared.
@EffortlessFury@GregoryEllner @IronburrJones @OfficialRWBY Except it doesn't-in show, people can't injure themselves by converting HP to aura, it's the other way around. Plus it's clearly not even been spellchecked, it's just a bit sloppy (health pool? health boxes? don't make up new terms!)
@EffortlessFury@GregoryEllner @IronburrJones @OfficialRWBY 'heavy armour and +D8 HP' or 'be a wizard' is clearly not an equal choice - one is obviously better. Being forced to long rest after dropping to 0HP or be terrible at combat, while removing healing, is also clearly dodgy design
@EffortlessFury@GregoryEllner @IronburrJones @OfficialRWBY If they're putting it out for public consumption, it should pass the initial sniff test of 'would this work without further patching' and this wouldn't. I already advised 'use Fate' as it's a lot better for loose, narrative systems.
@OfficialRWBY What's a 'Notary', as according to the class level summary, that's what's levelling up? Can you please run this through spellcheck and grammar check, and try and actually be consistent with capitalisation and terminology? It's a bit messy for anything 'official'
@EffortlessFury @IronburrJones @GregoryEllner@OfficialRWBY "Play Fate or a game that actually takes that sort of thing into account". D&D is a terrible fit for ad-hoc, freeform 'make some stuff up and hope it doesn't break the game' type stuff.
@_Sean_________ and the related costs, and time! mine was only 40 minutes each way, but that's still 7-8 hours a week, and about £1.5k a year. Physical meetings are nice, but so is a 30-second commute to the spare room ^_^