No actually, I think ff is the one IP we can bend 5E into and I wouldn’t be mad about it. (Although I have been using ICON to do my own ff-inspired ttrpg campaign). However, Fabula Ultimate was written and I’d be more eager to actually play that instead of the FFXIV ttrpg.
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I'm mainly interested in it because it looks like it's going to be an entirely first party release. No licensing deal with Asmodee or Modiphious or Free League (or a Japanese developer). I'm really curious what the Creative Business Unit 3 vision of the Final Fantasy TTRPG looks like.
Yeah that’s the real nut to crack for me. I think that for a $60 Box starter set with a strong IP, it’s going to be pretty good. My key interest is in how much they try to translate the game structure of the MMO to a TTRPG. I’m loving that preview mentioning an “encounter map” for example.
That does bring to mind how their dungeons are structured as linear strings of encounters. Boss --> Mob Encounter --> Mob Encounter --> Boss --> Repeat.
But then there's the newer legacy dungeons with branching paths that feel more like a traditional D&D dungeon (and probably feel better for a tabletop model).
The linear design of *FFXIV and how it might be translated into the tabletop space is what I am most curious about. The more I try to think about how you would map that play experience to tabletop, the more I settle on it's closest play equivalent being something like League/RPGA play. That play style captures the sense of everyone participating in the same, relatively bounded adventures, but also allows that each player will experience the adventures slightly differently. I'll be curious to see what the box set and it's three adventures look like!
Fabula Ultima, MEGALOS, Valiant Horizon (especially MEGALOS and VH but that's because I touched them and got words in them) all mean that I'm outside the target audience for their intro box as an advertisement, particularly with it being about 33% higher than its competition. I'm quite curious how the game is put together, I have a couple basic thoughts stemming from the photos we've seen, but my needs are pre-met in this regard.
Still, I'm really delighted that they're starting with a self-contained Intro Box Set, since a good Beginner Box is a godsend for battlecruiser RPG lines, and this has the potential to be a solid battlecruiser line.