Daggerheart General Thread [+]

[EricLazure]

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[zakael19]

Random thought I had: if you wanted to take DH's core resolution and game-running mechanics and build your own deep hack, are Domains really required? Like, I can conceive of just doing class-build type things where as long as you've got a decent selection at-level to create opportunity costs, you could build far more identity in to a class then they currently allow.

Like, DH's ability ethos is "go generic" to its benefit as re-skinnable heroic fantasy, but if you want to deviate away from that and be more opinionated with class design, I think the core system would support that really well still.

 

[Vael]

Has anyone tried running Colossi from the Colossus of the Drylands Campaign Frame? I'm gearing up for a short 3-shot campaign, and the plan is to run one as the final boss battle, curious what people have found out about designing or running them.

Random thought I had: if you wanted to take DH's core resolution and game-running mechanics and build your own deep hack, are Domains really required? Like, I can conceive of just doing class-build type things where as long as you've got a decent selection at-level to create opportunity costs, you could build far more identity in to a class then they currently allow.

Like, DH's ability ethos is "go generic" to its benefit as re-skinnable heroic fantasy, but if you want to deviate away from that and be more opinionated with class design, I think the core system would support that really well still.

I was toying with how to ... phase or limit access to a larger Domain. Mainly because I was thinking about a Mass Effect hack of Daggerheart. Mass Effect kinda has 3 domains: Combat, Biotics and Tech ... but you have specialists like the Adept that only uses Biotics ... so do you make divide Biotics into 2 domains or somehow make the domain larger but limit access for classes like the Sentinel that is Half-Biotics and Half-Tech?

 

[zakael19]

I was toying with how to ... phase or limit access to a larger Domain. Mainly because I was thinking about a Mass Effect hack of Daggerheart. Mass Effect kinda has 3 domains: Combat, Biotics and Tech ... but you have specialists like the Adept that only uses Biotics ... so do you make divide Biotics into 2 domains or somehow make the domain larger but limit access for classes like the Sentinel that is Half-Biotics and Half-Tech?

I ran into this trying to map the core domains to Warhammer's Psychic / Tech / physical split as well. I wound up thinking about how to rework most of them into slightly different fictional cast, but some domain powers need to be trimmed entirely.

I'm also tinkering with a total deviation of a hack built on the resolution core (Duality / resources / etc), but with far more traditional classes with a lot more 4e influence, because why not!