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I haven’t got it the table yet myself, only read it. But it reads really well as a more grounded fantasy game. It gives me The Fantasy Trip vibes.

The current Dragonbane crowdfunder is for a new city book - Arkand (and an expanded magic book, too).

Babylon 5 is probably the model I reference back to as well in most campaigns. A degree of long term overarching ‘plot’ for want of a better word. Big things happening in the background for the players to interact with and either adapt to or rail against as they wish. Interleaved with smaller...

I like the PCs to be exceptional because I like asymmetrical design for RPGs, The PCs should work on a different paradigm to most NPCs; how different and what that difference is can vary by game. In Savage Worlds for example, the PCs are Wild Cards while most NPCs are Extras, and that makes the...

Boardgames are one of the secondary activities of my gaming group. We aim to meet weekly, and the #1 plan is to play an RPG. If the GM hasn’t had the time or headspace to prepare, we will usually switch to boardgames as a secondary option which we also really enjoy. We have a few RPG-like board...

My understanding is that you get the spotlight and get a point of fear as the GM if a players rolls with Fear on an action roll. You don’t necessarily have to use the spotlight to attack the PCs, however. But you get to make a move as the GM so can push the scene in some way.

I suspect GMs will need to do this regardless, as spending Fear allows the GM to take the spotlight. So managing spotlight will be a key skill for running combats in Daggerheart, across both PCs and NPCs. I think this will be one of those things people need to try out and see if it is fun for...

I’m coming at this from a theoretical perspective as I haven’t run it yet, so take my ideas with a pinch of salt… It seems to me that this just needs the same GM table management skills as you would typically apply in a non-combat scenario. Watch the table, make sure Spotlight is being shared...

I will start be saying - IANAL. Implementing DH in an existing VTT seems different from creating a VTT to run DH to me as a lay-person. Certainly, there are fan-made implementations of D&D 4e and GURPS for Fantasy Grounds, for example. I don’t see why you couldn’t do that with DH?

Ah, the good’ol DeLorean method…

Given that you always generate hope or fear on an action roll, there is no ‘vanilla’ success to contrast against. So success / failure with hope seem to function as base pass / fail while ‘with fear’ seems to be ‘yes but’ and ‘no and’ respectively. A critical success is the ‘enhanced’ success...

I agree, the statements are not mutually exclusive or contradictory in my opinion.

They may be playing deliberately slowly to allow the audience to keep up and get familiar with the mechanics? I haven’t watched it yet.

That’s a table choice kind of thing. From p176: “Some players love getting new weapons and armor, while others may have established an emotional connection to an item (for example, a family heirloom sword or armor once worn by an old friend) and want to keep it. If PCs want to keep their...

They are a sliding scale of complexity in the changes involved. I think you need to actually see the content to get the full understanding of what they are doing / demonstrating. The most involved frame is a Weird West setting which involves battling giant monsters Shadow of the Colossus style...