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I thought episode 2 was more Daggerhearty than episode one. Tag team rolls, important rest choices, consequences for not balancing actions between players in combat, at least one combat combo that would have been difficult to pull off in an initiative based combat, and serious death choices.

Same; I'd love to see a Daggerheart module for Foundry.

I watched some of the game last night and for me the combat was really good. It didn't bother me that there was no initiative order and I like the HP/Armor/damage threshold thing.

I'll preface by saying I really like both of these systems. A lot. :) I think for me the flow is better in SW. I improvise better and keep things moving better. I'm more comfortable with not worrying about if there's a specific rule for something when I GM SW. Combat is faster in SW, and...

I think that's a difficult comparison to make. 13th Age is better at Fantasy, because that's its target. SW can handle almost any setting with just the core book, just not to the level of completeness (is that a word?) as a more targeted ruleset (like 13th Age, or SW with the Fantasy...

To expand on Reynard's post of the video, there are more videos that have been released today as well on YouTube. There's a character creation one and a session zero one as well, and there could be more I haven't seen.

Here's a video about it:

Of the published settings I've run: 50 Fathoms (my favorite) Accursed Frozen Skies Rippers Regime Diabolique But I've also run a Bureau 13 campaign and some one shots. I love the system. I feel like I can approach almost any setting with confidence that the system will do what I want it to...

Stras did Scum and Villainy IIRC. Edit: ninja'd! :)

Mark Hayen's King's Watch series is set in modern day England and has a character that has a sorcerous tablet ("sPad") as her focus.

The "Tabletopnotch" actual play stream on Twitch and YouTube uses Talespire almost every episode, and has for a while, if anyone wants to see it in action. They have monitors embedded in the game table for the players (one monitor per two players).

Graphically Talespire is already doing very similar things, with animations etc., and has been for a few years.

THANK YOU! That was driving me nuts!

The John Carter of Mars books had something similar I'm pretty sure, though they were biological. They were spider legged heads that moved themselves from headless body to headless body.

This is my answer as well. Like a few of the above posters I mostly GM Savage Worlds and much prefer its system of Shaken and Wounds, as do my players. The risk to their characters from combat means they play less murderously and what one player calls "more charactery" and the bennies and...