Recent content by overgeeked

And they are great books. Thanks for those.

Seriously, good luck. Sounds amazing. Sleeper vans and RV can get you through until you can build something.

For me that's the main draw of Star Trek. Without that, it's just another shiny pew-pew show.

Good luck.

That would be great. Though with the clear emphasis on PbtA-style play to find out, I'm not sure how well that will work. That said, as many have pointed out, bog-standard D&D is a fairly clear "fail state" of Daggerheart. If you ignore all the PbtA mechanics and advice you'll still get a...

For a large group like CR I'd imagine a cap of 18 would work better. I don't remember Matt hitting the cap in Age of Umbra. But then he just kept spending fear like mad.

Yeah. I feel you. It's definitely a shift in playstyle. To be fair, it's just my opinion. But it does strike me as needing something like the attitude presented in the Game Master's Handbook of Proactive Roleplaying.

For something like a one-shot or a convention game, absolutely. For a campaign, I would say no. Daggerheart strikes me as a PCs front-and-center as protagonists style of game. In my view that means prepping situations that directly involve the PCs' goals and motivations rather than canned...

Yeah. the biggest differences I'm seeing talked about are crunch and story/fiction mechanics. If you take 5E as a baseline of 50/50, Daggerheart is 75/25 with a push towards lighter story mechanics and Draw Steel is 25/75 with a push towards heavier combat-focused mechanics. Some quick...

They also call out Daggerheart. Draw Steel sells itself as a tactical, heroic, cinematic, fantasy game. Tactical as in there’s crunchy combat on a grid with things like forced movement. Heroic as in you’re playing outright heroes doing good and fighting the good fight. Cinematic as in you...

No. That’s why I called it advice, not a rule. I have read the whole thing at least twice now, but thanks for assuming. As advice goes, it’s pretty bad. As you note at length it contradicts so much of the other advice given in the book.

Again, there is no lie.

Eh. In one form or another I've been fighting cultists most of my life. A few more don't scare me.

I mean, there's no lie.