In theory, makes total sense, easier to work on a team when everyone is on the same page. It seems to me like the game dev industry - in terms of actual production - tends to only hire people with coding experience. Hi! Slightly nebulous question but one I've wanted to ask for some time. IвЂ™ve said before that if you want to play a TTRPG that is mechanically similar to the Pillars CRPG, just play 5E D&D or Pathfinder in the Eora setting. Given that reality, I have a very вЂњtake it or leave itвЂќ attitude toward how I design the Pillars TTRPG. It may never be a commercial product and even if it did become a commercial product, TTRPG industry stats very strongly suggest almost no one would play the game even if they bought it (the fate of most non-D&D/Pathfinder TTRPGs). To his credit, I have had complete control over it to date. When Feargus asked me if I wanted to make a Pillars TTRPG starter guide, my condition was that I have complete control over it. ItвЂ™s more important to me that you can make the kinds of characters you could in Pillars/Deadfire that can do the kinds of things you could do in those games than it is to replicate the CRPG mechanics, which were sort of loosely aping a mix of 2nd Ed. My preference in tabletop games is classless/skill-based and I donвЂ™t think most attribute systems are particularly fun or interesting. I felt that if we had not made the game class-based, with real-time with pause combat, and a six (or close to six) stat вЂњtraditionalвЂќ attribute spread, the backers would feel bamboozled and lose faith in us/crowdfunding for games. Pillars of Eternity and Deadfire were created as spiritual successor/throwback games, which (to me) constrained design choices I made.

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