I have to share my first thought when I saw this: I pictured a queer romance manga about boys in high school where the D&D club members discovering their true feelings while acting out dates with these waifus.
My brain went a layer deeper from “This book would’ve been awkward with my old game group” to “If I had brought this book to the group I would’ve figured some things out a lot earlier!”
Also, kudos for including demihumans. Monster girls represent!
I’m glad you like it! The idea behind it is to bring love, feelings & relationships to the tabletop in as mature (and real) way as possible. It certainly isn’t a high school manga drama. Thanks so much for your support!
Hi CambionHeartz! I’m glad you like it! The 2nd volume will be released later this year. This time it will cover 50 male characters – with their hidden desires, warm feelings, and secrets buried deep within their hearts.
I added you to the list and will PM you once it’s up – you’re not the first to ask about that!
Thanks for the comment! The book doesn't use strict D&D races and classes, but rather the high-fantasy archetypes. The clasess such along with the alignments, listed on the stat blocks" are provided to help facilitate gaming quickly.
General races and classes such as half-elf, dwarf, wizard or a fighter are common for many high-fantasy games such as DnD, Pathfinder, GURPS Fantasy or Savage Worlds, and thus can be used universally. That's why there are no DnD or Forgotten Realms branded races such as drows or kenku - although there are dark elves and birdfolk, that could help you find the best equivalent in your setting.
no offence but you'd hold a lot more weight in this statement if you didn't have "dragonborn" as one of your preview characters. literally a thing that's unique to D&D in how you portray it
even using a name like half dragon would've given you more validity here
Those things didn't originate with D&D and they're far from unique to it. Even the alignment system (which in its first incarnation had only the Law-Chaos axis) was taken from Poul Anderson's novels. The race and class names have been coded to mean specific things in D&D but they were coined from archetypes that have been around a lot longer than the game has. Pathfinder uses many of the same names BECAUSE the makers of D&D didn't create them and don't own them (and Paizo's Remaster ditched the few things that might be an issue).
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I have to share my first thought when I saw this: I pictured a queer romance manga about boys in high school where the D&D club members discovering their true feelings while acting out dates with these waifus.
My brain went a layer deeper from “This book would’ve been awkward with my old game group” to “If I had brought this book to the group I would’ve figured some things out a lot earlier!”
Also, kudos for including demihumans. Monster girls represent!
I’m glad you like it! The idea behind it is to bring love, feelings & relationships to the tabletop in as mature (and real) way as possible. It certainly isn’t a high school manga drama. Thanks so much for your support!
When will the second Tome be released? I am still reading through the first one but I am so excited for the second one already.
Hi CambionHeartz! I’m glad you like it! The 2nd volume will be released later this year. This time it will cover 50 male characters – with their hidden desires, warm feelings, and secrets buried deep within their hearts.
I added you to the list and will PM you once it’s up – you’re not the first to ask about that!
Thank you so much! I can't wait!
I would like to be notified too, please!
Hi Sakura Tenshi, thanks for your support! Will send you PM too!
How is this supposed to be system agnostic when it is clearly deeply rooted in D&D; using its classes, races, and alignments?
Thanks for the comment! The book doesn't use strict D&D races and classes, but rather the high-fantasy archetypes. The clasess such along with the alignments, listed on the stat blocks" are provided to help facilitate gaming quickly.
General races and classes such as half-elf, dwarf, wizard or a fighter are common for many high-fantasy games such as DnD, Pathfinder, GURPS Fantasy or Savage Worlds, and thus can be used universally. That's why there are no DnD or Forgotten Realms branded races such as drows or kenku - although there are dark elves and birdfolk, that could help you find the best equivalent in your setting.
no offence but you'd hold a lot more weight in this statement if you didn't have "dragonborn" as one of your preview characters. literally a thing that's unique to D&D in how you portray it
even using a name like half dragon would've given you more validity here
Those things didn't originate with D&D and they're far from unique to it. Even the alignment system (which in its first incarnation had only the Law-Chaos axis) was taken from Poul Anderson's novels. The race and class names have been coded to mean specific things in D&D but they were coined from archetypes that have been around a lot longer than the game has. Pathfinder uses many of the same names BECAUSE the makers of D&D didn't create them and don't own them (and Paizo's Remaster ditched the few things that might be an issue).
Couldn't explain it better!