FFXIV: The TTRPG

So they announced a TTRPG version of the game today...

Anybody else hyped? I want to know if GNB is going to be available in the base or if we're going to need a splatbook for that.

Eagerly awaiting details!

No, not particularly. I'd rather see more RPG elements added to the game itself - such as more meaningful choices to be made within the MSQ's. Imagine if we could have our character react like a regular human would and show disgust towards the shocking reveal that a certain mother goddess deliberately inflicted genocide upon her own people?

As a roleplayer I've found it very difficult to be enthusiastic about actually engaging in roleplay in FFXIV due to how railroaded everything relating to the story happens to be.

Not in the slightest. I can't immerse myself in any world beyond looking at my character and thinking how much of an indestructible badass they are and all else in the world is theirs for the taking.

Yep! I've got my preorder all secured. Hubby and I have been following some of the homebrew things people have done so it'll be interesting to see what the official system used is and how it works.

I'm curious, but I don't have a tabletop group to play with and I have crippling social anxiety.

I want to get it but have no one to play it with. My tabletop group is still in their Balder Gate 3 craze and pretty much hates all things Final Fantasy related to begin with.

Will this have the two minute meta too?

Huh. Maybe? I dunno. I would have to look at how character sheets are made and whatnot to see if it would be worth a try.

My old DnD group had mostly people who has played/is playing FFXIV so it might be a smooth transition if we all got on board with it.

Get it? On board? I'm so hilarious.

I'm cautious about it, since licensed TTRPGs have a tendency to be either "meh" or "bleh". See the absolute poop fest that is the Dark Souls TTRPG, at least the english version; seems like the original Japanese version is actually good.

If it fails at least there's Sword World and Fabula Ultima, both capture the JRPG fantasy perfectly.

Maybe. Maybe I should consider it as a new player to the TTRPG, because if it's anything like the MMORPG I'll have a lot of content to look forward to compared to the predictable dripfeed a veteran has to look forward to.

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Originally Posted by Cilia

Anybody else hyped? I want to know if GNB is going to be available in the base or if we're going to need a splatbook for that.

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From the teaser site's info, you only have WAR (or was it PLD?), DRG BLM and WHM to pick from. This is fine, because I think if they try adding more jobs of any role, they'll have to remove skills and abilities and homogenize them for the sake of balance.