FFXIV: The TTRPG

[Cilia]

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.

Online over Discord or something to that effect is always an option. I'm not terribly fond of it to be honest, and scheduling conflicts still happen (c'est la vie), but the alternative is not playing at all.

I'm hoping to get this, at least to beg my DM to let me adapt a gunblade to D&D ^_^

[Boblawblah]

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

I might pick up the book just to read through it though. Wait, I don't even know if there is a big book!

[TheMightyMollusk]

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.

If I'm reading it correctly, the Starter Set includes those four (it's WAR for the tank) as premade character sheets. Presumably the full standard rule book will include more classes to choose from. I'd expect to at least see all of the ARR jobs.

[Atelier-Bagur]

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.

I swear, I feel like almost every response you make is just so try cynically try hard. I say this because I knew exactly what your response was gonna be by being the contrarian as usual and linking back the discussion to the game itself.

I'm sorry, I know this is off topic, but I just kinda find it amusing. I dont play DnD anyway so I'm not excited myself but even then I wouldnt have cared to make such a response.

[MintnHoney]

I swear, I feel like almost every response you make is just so try cynically try hard. I say this because I knew exactly what your response was gonna be by being the contrarian as usual and linking back the discussion to the game itself.

I'm sorry, I know this is off topic, but I just kinda find it amusing. I dont play DnD anyway so I'm not excited myself but even then I wouldnt have cared to make such a response.

Shame on Theodric for stating his distaste for a new product so honestly, in thread about said product, on a discussion board, and being rather polite and somewhat clinical about it in an effort not to upset certain posters whose titties twist whenever someone so much as utters direct disdain for the game or developers.
Shame. I'd smack you on the hand if I had a long enough ruler, Theodric, but I'm sure you can make do on your own.

At any rate, I'm sure glad that they found a way to finally let players play FFXIV, the MMO slowly morphing into a single player game, offline, and I can't wait for them to ruthlessly go after all the homebrew templates and content created by other people that have been posted around the internet because it violates some sort of copyright that will become relevant now that they're releasing a TTRPG that likely has minimal substance but all the flashiness that a mindless collector could want.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Shame on Theodric for stating his distaste for a new product so honestly, in thread about said product, on a discussion board, and being rather polite and somewhat clinical about it in an effort not to upset certain posters whose titties twist whenever someone so much as utters direct disdain for the game or developers.
Shame. I'd smack you on the hand if I had a long enough ruler, Theodric, but I'm sure you can make do on your own.

At any rate, I'm sure glad that they found a way to finally let players play FFXIV, the MMO slowly morphing into a single player game, offline, and I can't wait for them to ruthlessly go after all the homebrew templates and content created by other people that have been posted around the internet because it violates some sort of copyright that will become relevant now that they're releasing a TTRPG that likely has minimal substance but all the flashiness that a mindless collector could want.

You misunderstand me, the thing wasnt that he doesnt like the product.

I DONT LIKE THE TTRPG myself. I think its just meh, but if you notice Theodric's attitude its just a bit eye-rolly that of course he has to add further into it by going back "I rather wish the game itself has rpg elements' and yada yada and I was just making an observation from knowing how the guy talks.

[SannaR]

It has some of my FC interested a little. I do wonder if they're going to use D&D or some other system. If D&D then which edition as not every new product chooses to run with 5E. I do wonder how short these pre-made adventures are if they're saying 2hrs for run time.

[MintnHoney]

You misunderstand me, the thing wasnt that he doesnt like the product.

I'm aware that your oddly-visceral reaction was about how he posted, rather than the content of his post. I just don't agree that someone who seems to be actively going out of his way to share his opinions in such a way as to be mindful of the people around him, seemingly in an effort to avoid emotional reactions which don't further on-topic discussions, is somehow expressing a specific "attitude" unless you're attributing his distaste for the product as being his "attitude."
It comes off like you're that kid in grade school who makes fun of another kid because they knew how to answer the teacher's question, or "that one guy" in movies who makes fun of a character for having a hobby that's not deemed "worthy" by the group he's trying to appeal to. I'm not a fan and I don't think he deserves that, but it presents a fun opportunity (and so I chose) to be sardonic.

[TaleraRistain]

Shame on Theodric for stating his distaste for a new product so honestly, in thread about said product, on a discussion board, and being rather polite and somewhat clinical about it in an effort not to upset certain posters whose titties twist whenever someone so much as utters direct disdain for the game or developers.

He didn't state his distaste for a new product. He didn't comment on the product at all. It's a XIV related product but more than likely no one on the development staff is involved with making it and still he links it back to issues he has with the MMO. And we have yet another thread where he can't stop himself from bringing up Venat. This is how many now?

[Rolder50]

Can't wait for this game to have more depth and complexity then the real thing