Quote from: Tommy Brownell;658332In fact, I used it to break in one of my best friends, who had never played RPGs before.

He then played D&D 3.5 with his girlfriend's group of friends and decided he would rather played more Dragon Age.

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He then played D&D 3.5 with his girlfriend's group of friends and decided he would rather played more Dragon Age.

Quote from: HombreLoboDomesticado;658363Hehe, who wouldn't?

The one fact keeping me from being more interested in this game is the fact that it has elves and dwarves and the like. System sounds like fun.

Quote from: Akrasia;658229I had not been that interested in DA until reading this thread, mainly because I never played the computer game version

Quote from: Skywalker;658244I should also clarify that though my answer was "no" to old school, I do like Dragon Age quite a bit. Its one of the best introductions to RPGs in the market today.

Quote from: HombreLoboDomesticado;658518Didn't Green Ronin have plans for a separate release of just the AGE rules set?

QuoteI kinda think there's been some confusion unless I've slept through a whole meeting and announcement chain. Which I admit is possible...

We (Green Ronin) are definitely doing a new AGE game coming up (hopefully the first of many, I personally have ideas for at least two more I'd love to do but that's a ways off). It will be fantasy and it will use the same system (AGE). Some things might be changed a bit from DA to make them fit that game and setting. And since it's not tied to the Dragon Age IP it likely will be a bit more "generic" in some ways of what you can do with it and in that sense it will be a more "generic" book. However, it will have its own fantasy setting we're trying really hard to make unique and cool, so it probably won't be that generic.

Also, we'll be doing some support for non-DA AGE play for folks using the current rules (DA) as a base to run their own fantasy games (which is actually super easy to do rules wise, it's a fair amount of setting work for folks though). But there's no plans to do a setting-less generic AGE system at the mo. I'm also looking at adding some more optional rules/subsystems to Dragon Age that have utility outside the setting.

Personally, while part of me thinks it would be kinda cool, most of me totally agrees with that tactic. Because yeah, I can use the core AGE rules and design theory to do a lot. But I'd honestly want to do say, a sci-fi game different enough than say a kung fu game that we'd have some definite changes how some things are handled.

Classes for example, I could see an AGE game concept where we did away with classes entirely. (And one where we had several more). Backgrounds might be something in some games and less in others. And so on.

So the new game will be a license-free version of AGE but it won't exactly be generic and you might see AGE variants use in different settings later (that's more my personal design preference than a prediction there, I admit). Hope that helps with info.

Also, the new setting (still in development) looks very cool. It's a really fun mix of familiar for context and different enough to be new and fun.

Quote from: CRKrueger;658524I agree, it's the Second Coming of the Red Box everyone is always talking about and has completely overlooked.

Quote from: Haffrung;658535This. Accessible system that covers exploration, social encounters, and combat? Check. Familiar fantasy archetypes? Check. Quick character generation? Check. Supports pick up and play without minis? Check. Everything you need to play - including setting content and maps - in one box? Check. I don't know why the OSR crowd isn't all over Dragon Age, if it really is accessibility and a game in a box they're after.

Quote from: Bill;658566Dragon Age has Skills and 'Feats'   OMG!!!!

Quote from: Exploderwizard;658572Despite this, over half the players in my Dragon Age game wanted to quit after a few sessions simply because there was not enough mechanical shit to stick to thier characters at each level-up. They enjoyed the events happening in the campaign but simply found the character building minigame lacking.

I haven't run anything else for this group since.

I really enjoy the game, as both a player and a GM.

Quote from: Bill;658574Was it a 3.5dnd 'I love My Builds' group?



Added as an afterthought: I care a bazillion times more about events in the game than how many +1's I can squeeze out of my to hit roll