Exactly. Now you get where I'm coming from. Both are called the same thing, but they are two totally different games. You can't really mesh them. They both have different rules and balls and are completely different styles of games.
Oh i think we bith understand this the whole time ... The only difference is perspective.
I see it like: Larian yelled LETS PLAY FOOTBALL! And you were like HELLS YEAH and run towards them to play ... now you get there and find out that field is different, the ball is round, people are not wearing any protection, etc. (i dont know all the obvious differences) ... and then you realized that Larian said they want to play football ... but they mean Europian one. But you wanted to play American one ... so you started to ask for that ... and while you are certainly not alone with such wish ... there is still the other group who want to play Europian one ... and they have few advantages over you: ball, field, judge, and enough people to play.
You tryed to play with them and since you are still here i dare to say you at least kinda enjoyed it ...
//Edit: I wish to believe that by now you understand that you were never actualy promised American one and it was just your hopes and dreams ... at best you were told that americans play this one aswell but nothing more.
Yet you stay trying to persuate them to submit and play American fotbal with you, bcs you sincerely believe it would be more fun for everyone ... while using argument that while you have round ball you are unable to play American fotbal properly. O_o
One problem with your scenario.
Larian yelled, "Let's play American football!". I came running expecting American football. Instead, I got European football.
See, Larian said the game would be based on D&D 5e. That means the rules, the setting, everything should start with D&D 5e. You might tweak the rules a bit because, well, everyone does if it's not the pros. Based on the field you're playing on, etc, you might need to adjust the rules to fit.
But I showed up and the whole game is based on DOS mechanics with a smattering of 5e. So, it's like I showed up to the field and they had a round ball and said, "We'll adjust soccer rules a bit to make it more like football. Um. You can throw the ball with your hands and tackle people. How's that? What? We said football. Didn't you know we meant European football?"
"No you said American football. The game would be based on American football."
"We said based on. See? You can pick up and throw the ball just like an American football. Therefore, we didn't lie. It is based on American football. We're still going to use a round ball, we're still going to kick into goals, and the game is still pretty much going to go by the rules of European football, but we're giving you a few American football rules so that technically we can say that it's based on American football."
The game still feels very much like European football and abides by more of the rules of European football, but because it has a few American football rules, they're saying that it's based on American football.
If you tell someone that you're basing a game off of D&D 5e, there should be more D&D 5e rules and stats and so forth then there are Homebrew rules and stats and so forth. If the Homebrew out weighs the base rules you are no longer playing a game based on the base rules. That is my point.
