Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition Impressions, part one
I backed the kickstarter for EN Publishing's Level Up, and I've had the three core PDF's for around a week now. I've been wanting to write up a deep dive into some RPG book for a while now, and I've got some opinions about these books. So let's do this thing! What's the Plan? The plan for this series of posts is to go through the core rules of Level Up and talk about things that catch my eye. I'm reading the early release PDFs, so I'm not going to be talking about layout or editing mistakes, though there are a few editing choices that I may touch on if they seem to be in final form. I'm interested in game design decisions, not layout or editing (though I'll talk about layout if it seems like it would affect the game). I'll talk about what the game is as a whole, then I'll go through the Monstrous Menagerie, Adventurer's Guide and Trials and Treasures PDFs, noting my thoughts on elements in the order they appear. I thought about s...