Greetings, all!
What would be involved in adapting the Pathfinder 1e rules to Dwarf Fortress? I ask because DF is already effectively a Roguelike life simulator, and Pathfinder 1e is a robust, complex ruleset which allows for many,
many things. I chose Pathfinder 1e instead of D&D 3.x for its robustness of mechanics instead of the D&D 3.5 system on which it was based: Pathfinder simply has more open source stuff legally usable. At present, I don't plan to do the modding work. I just want to know what would likely be involved, and considering the number of Dwarf Fortress/Pathfinder crossover Google results I found, other people also want to know!
I ask because I've been a D&D and Pathfinder fan for many years now, and the DF engine (especially the adventure mode in this context) is quite extensive as a life simulator. I like the notion of being able to play in a procedurally generated world with familiar rules and use the most powerful stuff from the rules in an environment that doesn't directly harm other players. (For example, I could have an Undead army via
animate dead, Command Undead, and
command Undead, a bunch of
dominated and
charmed minions, many
simulacrum clones, and some Outsiders I got from
planar binding. A typical 4-6 player game doesn't like someone playing 10s of units at once while they each only play 1 unit or so.)
I know that the Pathfinder stuff would need to be made - mechanics, creatures, images, etc. - and some Pathfinder material would need to be adapted to this engine and the fact this is a PC game. I also don't expect the fullness of PF1e's mechanics (classes, spells, feats, items, etc.) to be fully available from the first release because of the 10+ years of stuff made for it. I also know that if
Incursion can adapt D&D 3.5 mechanics for single players (with NPC followers like horses and Bardic groupies) and
Javelin can adapt D&D 3.5 mechanics for parties, this ruleset can be done in Roguelikes.
I also imagine later releases with multiplayer and a GM mode. (There's already a multiplayer Dwarf mode mod!)
What say you?
Thankee!