I get that a lot of people are all tripping about the OGL, but I just wanted to go down a bit of a tangent for a second.
Recently, I've seen a lot of people talking about moving over to Pathfinder. I've got very little experience with it, but I was curious enough to dig around and see if they had a DnD Beyond but for Pathfinder.
Turns out, yes, yes they do. Its called Pathfinder Nexus and its hosted over on Demiplane. I got to looking around at the different classes, backgrounds, all that good stuff, and had a blast.
Here's where it gets really interesting though.
Demiplane not only has a Pathfinder Nexus, but an: Avatar (Aang and Korra, not Navi), Vampire the Masquerade, Marvel RPG, Alien RPG, Mutant: Year Zero, and Hunter: the Reckoning nexus as well. There's also a werewolf one coming soon.
This got me pulling the old wizard beard and wondering, is this worth investing into? It seems like a lot of content, but it also feels like they could all just be niche\themed reskins of DnD which makes me hesitant.
So, to those of you with experience with those games\their makers, what do you think? Are those games\Demiplane worth spending money\time on, or are they basically DnD reskins?
Demiplane is the creation of the people that created B&D Beyond (Adam Bradford et al) before it was sold to Hasbroken/WotC and any meaningful updates beyond digital dice ceased.
Many if not most/all the folks who started DDB are building DemiPlane. Adam Bradford/BadEye himself wrote "I joined Demiplane because I wanted to bring top-tier digital support to as many as possible." Basically they want to create a DDB like digital space for any game that wants to come on board, and going at it with "lessons learned" from the DDB development (for example, build systems with the knowledge that new rules or rules changes could come, a lesson I believe that came from implementing Tasha's). I think you're best off at watching the numerous Demi-plane demos out there (Mellie formerly of DDB is heavily involved in that) and judge the actual product in use.
I get that a lot of people are all tripping about the OGL, but I just wanted to go down a bit of a tangent for a second.
Recently, I've seen a lot of people talking about moving over to Pathfinder. I've got very little experience with it, but I was curious enough to dig around and see if they had a DnD Beyond but for Pathfinder.
Turns out, yes, yes they do. Its called Pathfinder Nexus and its hosted over on Demiplane. I got to looking around at the different classes, backgrounds, all that good stuff, and had a blast.
Here's where it gets really interesting though.
Demiplane not only has a Pathfinder Nexus, but an: Avatar (Aang and Korra, not Navi), Vampire the Masquerade, Marvel RPG, Alien RPG, Mutant: Year Zero, and Hunter: the Reckoning nexus as well. There's also a werewolf one coming soon.
This got me pulling the old wizard beard and wondering, is this worth investing into? It seems like a lot of content, but it also feels like they could all just be niche\themed reskins of DnD which makes me hesitant.
So, to those of you with experience with those games\their makers, what do you think? Are those games\Demiplane worth spending money\time on, or are they basically DnD reskins?
Thanks!
The games on Demiplane are not DnD reskins. Most of the games have very different systems. World of Darkness games run on the Storyteller system. Avatar: The Last Airbender is built on Powered by the Apocolypse. Alien uses it's own proprietary system. Marvel uses it's own system. Mutant Year Zero uses the Year Zero engine. Pathfinder 2.0, according to Paizo, doesn't contain any content from any of the DnD SRD's, and only included the OGL 1.0a do other people could make content compatible with it. If you want to switch to any of the games on Demiplane Nexus, you shouldn't have to worry about any OGL issues.
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Hi all,
I get that a lot of people are all tripping about the OGL, but I just wanted to go down a bit of a tangent for a second.
Recently, I've seen a lot of people talking about moving over to Pathfinder. I've got very little experience with it, but I was curious enough to dig around and see if they had a DnD Beyond but for Pathfinder.
Turns out, yes, yes they do. Its called Pathfinder Nexus and its hosted over on Demiplane. I got to looking around at the different classes, backgrounds, all that good stuff, and had a blast.
Here's where it gets really interesting though.
Demiplane not only has a Pathfinder Nexus, but an: Avatar (Aang and Korra, not Navi), Vampire the Masquerade, Marvel RPG, Alien RPG, Mutant: Year Zero, and Hunter: the Reckoning nexus as well. There's also a werewolf one coming soon.
This got me pulling the old wizard beard and wondering, is this worth investing into? It seems like a lot of content, but it also feels like they could all just be niche\themed reskins of DnD which makes me hesitant.
So, to those of you with experience with those games\their makers, what do you think? Are those games\Demiplane worth spending money\time on, or are they basically DnD reskins?
Thanks!
Demiplane is the creation of the people that created B&D Beyond (Adam Bradford et al) before it was sold to Hasbroken/WotC and any meaningful updates beyond digital dice ceased.
Many if not most/all the folks who started DDB are building DemiPlane. Adam Bradford/BadEye himself wrote "I joined Demiplane because I wanted to bring top-tier digital support to as many as possible." Basically they want to create a DDB like digital space for any game that wants to come on board, and going at it with "lessons learned" from the DDB development (for example, build systems with the knowledge that new rules or rules changes could come, a lesson I believe that came from implementing Tasha's). I think you're best off at watching the numerous Demi-plane demos out there (Mellie formerly of DDB is heavily involved in that) and judge the actual product in use.
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The games on Demiplane are not DnD reskins. Most of the games have very different systems. World of Darkness games run on the Storyteller system. Avatar: The Last Airbender is built on Powered by the Apocolypse. Alien uses it's own proprietary system. Marvel uses it's own system. Mutant Year Zero uses the Year Zero engine. Pathfinder 2.0, according to Paizo, doesn't contain any content from any of the DnD SRD's, and only included the OGL 1.0a do other people could make content compatible with it. If you want to switch to any of the games on Demiplane Nexus, you shouldn't have to worry about any OGL issues.