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I did a couple sample encounters with my wife, just to test before I ran on the podcast. She really enjoyed the system. Even at 1st...

I think the last sentence is the important thing, though there is a large middle space between your two options, and there's nothing...

I still pop in, but I am not starting threads (or commenting much). I ran a one-shot of Daggerheart for another group of friends -...

Agreed. This is what I was trying to get at earlier in terms of this being a game design/game choice problem. It is not an unavoidable...

If optimizing wasn't encouraged behavior by default the game shouldn't make optimizing good. Case in point: Swords & Wizardry Complete...

Thats also utter nonsense. As I said in that other thread, I consider myself a power gamer and optimizer. Never was I told I disrupt...

That is fair, but thats a general problem. Also if you just have "normal" players and bad ones at the table, or "normal" and optimizers...

Yes! This is exactly what I was going for. Fear reduces guilt about being "fair" so you can instigate shenanigans, and the players are...

You do realise you just reversed the statement you were replying to. That they talked about optimizers trying to make people feel bad...

As usual, this is the opposite of my experience; optimizers are at their best in hard games, and in fact, are often bred by same. The...

I disagree. Smart play has a much bigger impact than optimization (at least, in the RPGs I play) so whether or not the characters are...

Yeah, Scion 1E was absolutely infamous for being a Paper/Rock/Scissors system. There was so much to love about the setting as a whole...

I normally disliked doing this, but one of the things I was virtually forced to do when running Scion 1e was to be very picky what...

TBF if you're going to have a long ongoing campaign you're still going to have to win the large majority of fights you get into. The...

I was really pleased that Daggerheart's no initiative system allows specialists to shine if that's how everyone wants to play. The game...