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There are - Splendor has stuff that heals Stress for example, and if you roll a crit you recover 1 Stress as well as gaining 1 Hope...

I definitely think Stress is supposed to power slightly stronger abilities, on the grounds that it's "easy" to get Hope, but somewhat...

Eh... you can clear stress on a short rest, so I'm not sure I would declare it a daily resource. The other factor is that the number of...

In 4e terms Hope is your encounter resource, Stress your daily. And yes martials get daily abilities; in general the fighter-type ones...

In 4e terms Hope is your encounter resource, Stress your daily. And yes martials get daily abilities; in general the fighter-type ones...

I started a thread specifically on this topic, in case anyone wants to continue the discussion without gumming up this thread.

That was certainly how it felt to us having played it - a lot of PtbA games have mechanical elements that could potentially add to the...

I think this is too broad to be useful for discussion. Dungeon fantasy or heroic fantasy? Sure. But by your logic I can call Earthdawn...

I see Daggerheart as much more of a tactical/crunchy PbtA variant than a D&D variant. Honestly I think this game might address my...

No we definitely weren't aware of that rule - I'll note it for future! The one thing I wasn't super-clear on was why some abilities...

Oh I think they're pretty powerful, he just played very aggressively and didn't back off to drink a healing potion when he should have...

So to add, I mentioned this in another thread, but notably: 1) The combat was extremely fast. This is huge for us - we're using to...

My mental boundary for D&D variants is somewhere near but probably including Dungeon World.

Having played it it really does feel a lot like a mash-up of the best aspects of those two games primarily. This is definitely a child...

Yeah, exactly. It’s clear as day, to me at least, that Daggerheart owes a lot…I mean a lot…to D&D 4E. Far more than just monster design...