Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes
There’s a D&D survey open! If you play or don’t now but used to, go share your opinions! (Although I wish one question in particular had a “Currently Make” checkbox.) dnd.wizards.com/articles/news/survey2019

I don't know about the overall quality of the game (and I'd say combat doesn't look particulary good right now),  because on that I trust CDPR more then Bioware given the current track record, but I'd certainly say DA4, unless it'll be a total mess, will be more enjoyable to play to me because of the third person.

I generally prefer the latter, but first person is even worsein RPGs where I can fully customize my character, and their response of seeing your character in mirrors and the menu is...laughable, to put it mildly. 

It's their decision, but it seems to me that they want to attract the fans of first person shooters, and I could understand the reasoning, if they'd present a great combat system, which doesn't seem the case so far.

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Didn’t Destiny/2 have a CC? I don’t think that feature in particular is necessarily scrapped.
I do fear for what they’ll do with live service and similar. We’ll see how it goes.

I wonder if they get any non-DM respondents lol. I only started hearing about this survey after I started DMing.

No, Fiscal Year 2022 ENDS in April 2022.

It'll be the setting and continuation of a story I've already got an attachment to, so it'll take a lot for me to dislike DA4. Which one will be "superior", on the other hand, isn't really what I was driving at. I was more saying DA4 should have the same attention to detail, love, and maybe even ambition that Cyberpunk seems like it does.

D&D 5e is (thankfully) a MUCH easier DMing experience than Pathfinder.

I prefer the worldbuilding in Pathfinder and Starfinder, but mechanically 5e is as smooth as butter. Because of the bounded accuracy (bonuses grow slowly, and are generally capped even w/ magic items), it’s dead easy to improvise encounters and checks. No tables or charts to consult; regardless of party level, a 10, 15, or 20 DC is probably suitable.

That single feature is a huge weight off my shoulders... no pressure to keep players in the prepped stuff, because I can fill in new content without too much effort.

appeal to new and old fans alike.

as long as they get an idea of exactly what they're doing, that should be good enough.