Suggestion: Collected Options

[Levi Kornelsen]

There are a LOT of great suggestions on this board, proposed rules, shout-outs to other Open Content that might be useful, all that. Some of it won't get used, despite being really good, because it doesn't fit overall, or goes too far from the idea. And that's fine.

But why waste it?

I'd suggest scooping it up with a big shovel while it's going on, taking the stuff that doesn't get used, and making a big fat PDF full of cool "rules optional" material.

[Mark Moreland]

Levi Kornelsen wrote:

There are a LOT of great suggestions on this board, proposed rules, shout-outs to other Open Content that might be useful, all that. Some of it won't get used, despite being really good, because it doesn't fit overall, or goes too far from the idea. And that's fine.

But why waste it?

I'd suggest scooping it up with a big shovel while it's going on, taking the stuff that doesn't get used, and making a big fat PDF full of cool "rules optional" material.

There's so much flying around these boards now, that doing so would be someone's fulltime job. While I agree that it's a great resource for individuals to use for houserules, etc, I think the focus should be on the design of PRPG. Perhaps some fans could volunteer to do the compilation, but I'd hate to see one of the Paizo guys' time used on it instead of the real content.

[Levi Kornelsen]

yoda8myhead wrote:

There's so much flying around these boards now, that doing so would be someone's fulltime job. While I agree that it's a great resource for individuals to use for houserules, etc, I think the focus should be on the design of PRPG. Perhaps some fans could volunteer to do the compilation, but I'd hate to see one of the Paizo guys' time used on it instead of the real content.

*Organising* it would be a fulltime job, yah.

I'm just suggesting this: Let us say we have Bob. Bob is going to be reading through all the threads. Bob, seeing ideas he's interested in checking against the real game, adds one step: He copy-pastes those posts into a notepad.

And that's all, for now.

Later, when the game is basically done-ish, Bob has what amounts to a book worth of optional rules. Like, right there.

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On the other hand, you might be right. A fan-volunteer-type-thing might work better. I'm just spitballing, because I've seen a lot of really smart, savvy ideas get tossed around here.

[grrtigger]

I'd love to see a collection of "Unearthed Arcana" style rules variants that don't make the final cut for Pathfinder RPG. Maybe during the final year of Beta, as there is discussion to refine the final ruleset, alternate/variant rules discussions could be flagged here at the boards for possible inclusion in a later project (whether print or PDF-only).