d20borne Project Update!
Hey everyone, it’s Aboleth-Eye! You know, the blog who tried turning Bloodborne into a D&D 3.5-adjacent game and has been stumbling to get anything public and free out for the newer 2.0 draft version of the game. As I told my discord members, I decided at the beginning of October to finally put down a free semifinal draft of the d20borne Project game system and a starting bestiary before the month was out.
This month I really really tried to get something out there for everyone to use! But complications kept coming up both in and out of the game design process. Real life stuff got in the way, I expected that at the start. However, upon reflection while working on the d20borne Hunter’s Guide (a player/game master guide to the system) I made the unfortunate discovery that I would have to explain all the minutia of the d20 System for this new audience. I’m sure a lot of you know how D&D works in every edition, but I realized this might be someone’s first opportunity to play or host a d20 game. So I got bogged down with explaining a lot of the nitty gritty rules and abilities of d20.
It doesn’t help that a lot of the resources I could reference in this rehashing aren’t as supported anymore. As the d20borne Project is based on Dungeons & Dragons’ 3.5 edition, almost all the resources on the older d&d/Wizards of the Coast sites for the standard reference document are very out of date or bogged down by an ungodly amount of ads that make them hard to navigate.
So I’m chipping away at explaining the rules and abilities of the game system in my own way, and I’ll be doing that for a good while. With that endeavor now stretching out ahead of me, I am going to need more time to get something out. I can probably get a Bestiary out for you all to look at and give feedback on, but the Hunter’s Guide is going to take some time.
Thank you all for your patience. I hope this game interests a lot of you and you’ll have the d20borne Project in your hands soon (in digital form). I hope you all had a safe Halloween and a great, healthy next few months!
-- Aboleth-Eye