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Aandhee Skel, blue dragonborn wizard. She hordes knowledge. (because to become a dragon, you must have a horde.) Also by the end of that campaign there were at least four copies of her running around doing wizard-dragon stuff.

Are there other ways to fail? If so, optimize for success under those conditions. If not, and it’s just a low-stakes game then mechanical optimization is kinda pointless. You may want to optimize for story potential, which is a different set of considerations.

I woud structure it this way: Part 1 of the book is a broad overview of the setting, highlighting te things that make it special. So an Eberron book would talk about the Last War and magic-punk and unknown gods. A Ravenloft book would talk about horror in ttrpgs and the vibes of the setting...

Analogy: running is fun and good and healthy. Walking is fun and good and healthy. But if you're on a walk with friends but insist that they run, you're being a jerk. But if your (ex-)friends decide that the problem is running, they're being a different kind of jerk.

Not much, but campaign frames don't need extra rules. But the frame also sets things like, themes, touchpoints, limitation and so on that are rather helpful to making Ravenloft work. You gotta go in knowing it's a Hammer-horror game. I might add some details about character fears to work with...

I don't know if this was said upthread but: Ravenloft is a perfect campaign frame.

Amazon seems to hedge their bets on delivery times - mine was supposed to come sometime in early July, but it came last Saturday (a few days after I ordered it.) Under-promise and over-deliver seems to be their motto.

I have had an issue with "overly comfortable" dress, but that guy has enough red flags for a CCP parade. The rest are more hypothetical problems than recurring issues for me.

After thinking about this (and some other news) for a couple days I realize I have no idea what, if any, effect this will have on Hasbro or WotC. They're both way to big for me to predict. This is still very big news for Darrington Press, and I've mentally upgraded the odds of them being a...

Given Daggerheart’s “campaign theme” mechanism I think there’s some real potential for stuff like this, especially if the module adds new game features to really make it shine.

My other intuition is: no one only watches one kind of movie, or at least it's weird if you do. Most people will watch a superhero movie or a comedy or a Western or a horror flick... some will only watch 3/4 of those, but it's an odd thing to only watch one. Same goes here: people who normally...

If you're into OSR, then Daggerheart is not for you (near as I can tell). It's for the players who want drama to be the main thing and adventuring for context. But, in my experience, that's a very big chunk of new players. So Daggerheart could (and probably will) be a big deal. 13th Age is toast.

My current guess is the bean counters decided that licensing has much better bang-per-buck and so are cutting as much from trpg support as they can to focus on more profitable stuff.

Fair enough. My own first instinct is “why not?” and then trying to think of way it can be exploited and if those are really a problem.

Presumably it works like any other language in terms of availability, since it’s taken as a language. How widespread it is in any given setting is up to the worldbuilder and/or dm. Follow-up: can you use sign language for Verbal components?