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But it isn't extra steps for a soak system, just a different intermediate step. Sure, it is an extra step from D&D, but that wasn't the claim.

I am not sure what "extra steps" you are talking about here. Damage dealt. Check Threshold. Use Armor. Mark HP. Compared to a system with Soak (say, SWADE of Shadowrun) how is this extra steps?

I had not considered a solo game as a way to build a villain's background. That's a great idea.

First of all: stop saying "solo play." This is Duet Play. Second, lots of extra (temporary) hit points is great but your action economy is still that of one PC. You're toast.

The bolded part (my emphasis) is the exact reason why a narrative, player driven, play to find out game is exactly the wrong tool for the job.

It isn't that you could not figure out a way to do OSR dungeon crawling in Daggerheart. It is that it is the wrong tool for the job, so why bother?

You having to wiggle and push it a couple times IS one check.

I am a "you get one try for the party" GM. To roll again,the PCs have to change the circumstances.

I really like Mutant Year Zero, but have not actually bought any games besides those.

What is/has/will everyone be getting from the Steam Summer Sale (if anything)?

Ravenloft -- meaning the domains of dread -- are a giant pile of potential frames, given how frames are focused. This brings up an interesting question: how would one do a traditional campaign world for DH? Would you have a gazetteer of all the lands (etc) and then a section on Campaign Frames...

I would say "No" except there will always be someone who chooses the wrong tool for the job and then complains how it is a bad tool.

That's one interpretation, but I don't think it is explicit in the DH rules or the only way to implement Aspects into.DH. DH is already a frankensystem, so bolting on mechanics is full with just changes to match the math should work.

DH isn't what I'd called either an extremely light OR a narrative first game. It is medium crunch, narrative second. So that would ask different things of a Delve frame.

Aspects are a narrative tool. They give the players some control over the context of the situation. The +2 is only half the impact.