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I believe the idea of the armour is the thresholds are soaking some damage, but when hp gets through, you can damage your armour a bit...

Lots of people talk about the speed or otherwise of combat versus 5e. For me personally I don’t care whether combat takes the same time...

On my agenda, but not anytime soon. Didin't like WFRP4 nor WFRP2, did like WFRP3 and WFRP1...

Gamer hobbies in general are now mainstream, so that will probably help reduce some of the attrition. Me and my boss (we are both in our...

I guess it depends what a person means by running an OSR game using DH. What you describe sounds very similar to how I do things...

Re: DaggerHeart and dungeon crawling, I think (based on a read, not played it yet) that this will be tricky. My experience of trying to...

They seem to be fairly strong on ‘you can’t help yourself with hope’ as a concept, and spending hope to create an aspect would be pretty...

Ok, ran the game for the first time. An incredibly positive experience for me personally and for pretty much everyone at the table (6...

Over the years, I’ve explored a number of systems and settings, each offering something valuable but rarely aligning with everything I...

I've found that the only thing required to have more discussion about non-D&D games is to start (or engage in) more discussion about...

The idea that mechanics don’t matter much to horror is a product of the fact that many gamers have never seen many mechanics that have a...

Re: horror as genre vs horror as tone. It's both. Some genres are defined by plots, others by characters, others by setting, and others...

That’s why I said:

I think the essence of horror is powerlessness, at least in some context and up to a point. Call of Cthulhu is, of course, the big dog...