About a year ago I backed a Kickstarter for "Level Up" - a take on an 'advanced 5e' by En Publishing. I finally finished reading through the PDFs this week. Some thoughts:
This may be one of the best games I'll never run. Level Up has some really nice features that probably make it an improvement over 5e, but it's also a step more complicated when 5e is pretty much at the upper limit of what I'm interested in running now. Besides, if I were to get the chance to run anything else, I'd go for something distinctly different - Firefly, or Star Trek, maybe.
I really like this method of buying into the game: back one Kickstarter to an appropriate level, receive a package of the books, and then that's essentially all there is. That sort of one-and-done is now really appealing, especially given my increasing disdain for supplements.
I backed this at a PDF level. I suspect that is now very much the future - I have sorely limited space for (or interest in) physical books any more, while other electronic formats are utterly useless to me. But PDFs are ideal.
And I think, actually, that is that. I had planned a longer, more in-depth review, but don't think that really aids anything. This is recommended for people who like 5e but would like it to be a bit more crunchy, in depth, and detailed, and is very much not recommended for anyone who fundamentally doesn't like 5e.
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