FFXIV: The TTRPG

[Veritas-Ancora]

As the owner of the FFXIV TTRPG base game, here's what I have to say about FFXIV: TTRPG

It's garbage. 1/10

Mind you I have played the following games:
- D&D 7x
- VtM 1x
- Break! 2x

The game lacks any direction. It's very barebones "What does the GM think is a fair roll?" and you roll it, and that's it. Stats are virtually meaningless. Stats are arbitrary. You could honestly play a better game with no game at all and a d20 dice.

The preset characters are more or less required to play. And there's a very good chance that your favorite job isn't included in the game, unless you're Black Mage.

If you have ever decried about homogeny for roles, you're going to hate this game.

I'll give you an example. The book acts like you don't know how to TTRPG. They put an example scenario where a caravan was overturned in Gridania. They suggest one player fixes the wheel, and another tends to the chocobos, and another watches out for bandits. And that's it. There's no stat modifiers for doing any of this. There's no proficiencies. There's nothing but a storyteller making something up for you, and you fill in the rest. Instead of telling us what stats are used for what, it just covers a made-up scenario.

Now I figured I didn't know WTF I was talking about, so I brought the game to two of my favorite DMs from D&D/VtM/Break and asked them to review the book.

His words: "You've got to be ffffing joking. This is it? This isn't a game. This is a suggestion."

Her words: "You know I love FFXIV, but this is sad. It's like they wanted to make a game without the structure."

I cannot recommend buying this or the expansion that is about to be released (3/31/25). It's really bad and you should just play D&D with modified characters that resemble Eorzeans.