#ReferenceRulesCompendium<\/a> on Lulu. The Old School circuit is now bursting at the seams with games that have collectively pushed the envelope, and DD’s place in it all seems less clear to me today than it did three years ago.\u200b I want to fix that.\u200b<\/p>\nTo Improve is to Change<\/b> (W. Churchill)<\/p>\n
“Fixing” stuff of course means changes, but don’t panic. Reliquary will be the best DD ever!<\/p>\n
The hardback edition will include a bunch of changes over V4 which means, eventually<\/i> (after Reliquary has well and truly settled in), I will get around to updating the Ref Rules too. At that point Reliquary and the Ref Rules will be in sync but, in the meanwhile, it feels “right” to me that Reliquary should be “out in front”.<\/p>\n
How will Reliquary Differ from V4?<\/b><\/p>\n
1. Illustrations, examples, indexes, layout, structure.
\n2. A bunch of “optional interpretations” that appear in V4 will be moved to appendices.
\n3. Changes and additions to the remaining core.<\/p>\n
“Changes and Additions”?<\/b>
\nReliquary will be more closely aligned with the source material than is V4. Some changes will be micro-details you’ll need eagle eyes to spot. Other changes will be more obvious, including:
\n. Inclusion of level titles for player-types,
\n. Inclusion of the Fighting Capability stat for player-types,
\n. Elves will be more dangerous with magic weapons,
\n. Update to attack\/saving throw matrices in line with FC,
\n. Inclusion of “melee rounds”,
\n. Etc.<\/p>\n
What will appear in the Appendices?<\/b>
\nThis isn’t set in stone yet, but some candidate appendices include:
\n. V4 “House Rules” capturing all the “V4-isms” that get bumped from the core text; so Reliquary will continue to “support” V4 this way,
\n. EGG’s House Rules,
\n. Arneson’s game,
\n. The Thief; a recreation of Wagner’s original pre-Gygax thief, and the DD V4 thief,
\n. Additional adventuring equipment list,
\n. DD V4’s “additional” spells (and possibly a couple more?),
\n.\u200b DD V4’s “additional” monsters,
\n. Discussion of “Normal” and “Rounds and Turns”,
\n. Etc.<\/p>\n
So, that’s the thinking to date. I’m revising it continuously as I begin to work through the layout, so I wouldn’t say the above is final<\/i> but it should give you a pretty good notion of what to expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Planning What’s in the Hardback With the #DelvingDeeper hardback in the pipe at last, I’ve had to re-think where the line should lie between Reliquary and the Ref Rules. It isn’t easy. Going waaay back the plan was the Ref Rules were to be a minimal, no-frills framework; Reliquary (and other products) were to be… Continue reading Planning What’s in the Hardback<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,9,11],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6hrAz-2m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":114,"url":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/?p=114","url_meta":{"origin":146,"position":0},"title":"A Tale of Two Prototypes","date":"May 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, a man in a UPS shirt knocked on my door and handed me a box. Inside, cocooned in a copious quantity of bubblewrap, were the two DD hardback prototypes. I had already seen photos and had a verbal report from +Cameron DuBeers\u00a0(thanks Cameron!). However, holding the books in my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Delving Deeper\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":107,"url":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/?p=107","url_meta":{"origin":146,"position":1},"title":"What’s With Perfect Binding?","date":"May 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Why would anyone go to all the bother of doing a\u00a0section-sewn hardback\u00a0when POD services all over the planet will do you a \"perfect bound\" book at\u00a0a fraction of the cost? POD is ultimately about economy and convenience; it's fantastically cheap and that's a great thing. But\u00a0POD books are typically\u00a0\"perfect bound\",\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Binding\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.immersiveink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/binding_lulu_dd-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":150,"url":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/?p=150","url_meta":{"origin":146,"position":2},"title":"Early Hint of V5 Cleric","date":"July 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Because #DelvingDeeperReliquary will be the first time I'll need to ask \"real\" money for #DelvingDeeper (true, the Lulu softcover was a \"real\" $4.95, at\/just below cost price), I want it to genuinely be a step up from where DD is at today. There are dozens of retro-clones out there, so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Cleric\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":206,"url":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/?p=206","url_meta":{"origin":146,"position":3},"title":"Delving Deeper V1 Boxed Set","date":"January 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A second post in the short history of DD: this one about the DD V1 Boxed Set. The Boxed Set Shortly after #DelvingDeeper appeared in PDF format Brave Halfling Press launched the Delving Deeper boxed set, in December 2012, as the physical manifestation of the #DelvingDeeper project. I don't personally\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"BHP\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.immersiveink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bill-Lackey-img-3-266x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":239,"url":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/?p=239","url_meta":{"origin":146,"position":4},"title":"Delving Deeper V3","date":"March 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Story So Far: Delving Deeper V1+V2 Delving Deeper Boxed Set And then there was... Version Three The Prelude to V3 V3 was preceded by John Adam's pivotal decision on 17th March, 2013 (shortly after the release of V2) to publicly hand over stewardship of the Delving Deeper name and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Compedium\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.immersiveink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/V3_Booklets1-300x210.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":156,"url":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/?p=156","url_meta":{"origin":146,"position":5},"title":"Here’s a Thing","date":"November 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"(That's never likely to be seen beyond this post). \u00a0 So what the frig is Eyre Tor??\u00a0Or more appropriately, what was it? Way back--before I'd ever heard of the #DelvingDeeper project--I apparently had a bit of time on my hands. Around 2007-2008, I was running a D&D campaign that included\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Delving Deeper\"","img":{"alt_text":"Two Copies of Eyre Tor","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/i561.photobucket.com\/albums\/ss56\/waysoftheearth\/Blog\/Eyre%20Tor%206.1%20Cover%202010_zpszm24iqz8.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immersiveink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}