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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, however I would not personally consider that an Old School experience. It’s more like watching the movie of an Old School dungeon :)

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 run dungeon crawls using Savage Worlds is that dungeon crawling is a campaign theme that relies heavily on resource attrition as a driving force. Try to run...

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 much the same thing. Conversely, you can already spend hope to help someone else as long as you can create a narrative justification. So I don’t personally...

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 in the horror space. Characters typically are not very combat capable, and even if they can hold their own against human opposition, the mythos creatures are...

According to other posters Dragon Magic was in the original Drakar och Demoner, so I suspect more a case of ‘save the best for the final push’.

In case anyone didn’t notice and is interested, the cloth maps from previous Dragonbane Kickstarters are available as an add-on to this one. I added them to my pledge as I came in late to the system.

Dragon magic also achieved 🙂

A game knowing what it is, and a gamer knowing what they want; that is the route to happiness!

If you changed that to ‘aspects’ it would be equally useful, however. I tend to agree that Experiences are basically a subset of Aspects, specifically focussed on a character’s experience. And that is perfectly fine. I like Aspects. Their weaknesses (IMO) are: they are all +2, which can make...

The tip they give (p30) is “In a standard, battle-focused campaign, it's never a bad idea to take your character's first Experience in something that will help with combat and the second Experience in something useful outside of combat. “ Now, that could be ‘knight of such-and-such order’ so...

I find it interesting that the book recommends you make one of your experiences combat-related, but none of the characters in the live play seem to have done that and I don’t see people discussing characters built that way online, either.

Rolemaster is a good example of not-D&D in my book. It has levels and classes, sure, but it’s not D&D in my book. D&D variants probably have six stats, class, level, d20 attack rolls, armour class, saving throws, spells-per-level, HP as the primary measure of damage. By those criteria, 4e is...

I’m a mind-mapper. This is an example of the session prep for an instalment of my Savage Worlds Lost Colony campaign which ran for about a year. There is more detail at the ends of all those branches on the PCs, NPCs, and other sessions, which I have folded away. But for that specific session...