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I actually find it hard NOT to prep. I'm just going through my day and my brain spits out things that would make a good cinematic or...

I dunno…it’s hard to explain how not to do something. I don’t quite “zero-prep”; I usually think of an encounter scene or two on the...

As a positive, I really love how there's almost no darkvision in the game. There's the Vial of Moondrip as a consumable potion, and one...

Ran the Quickstart for 3 people. It started out fun. I really like the Connections between the characters and Experiences to drive the...

But does this mean that he will now be moving to and hired by WotC ?

Interesting! Every game I’ve ever played has pointed in the rules to the GM to facilitate the table and manage play. I’ve had players DM...

Quiet players do exist. Spotlight hogs do exist. I'm running a Daggerheart playtest and I'm having that exact problem. Every time the...

Just to shift gears into the positive: I think Daggerheart as a "bridge" game between traditional D&D style and fiction-first PbtA...

THERE'S NO INITIATIVE. All play is play. Spotlighting an adversary happens in Combat, or in Social scenes, or in Exploration, etc. The...

Huh? You can also Spotlight an Adversary or Reveal an Unexpected Danger or Capture Someone to make a move against a player who's...

Daggerheart doesn't agree, although again it's designed to collapse gracefully to more "conventional" TTRPG play. This is a game that...

Do you know how Ableist that comes across? Most of the people I game with have trouble enough reading the GM, let alone the rest of the...

That’s the fight I had in my playtest. The players basically never rolled with hope in the first fight. Six players. Four or five rounds...

My first training wheels game was with a solo player. He rolled 6 successes with Hope in a row. It was honestly kind of funny in a "I...

Yeah, I ran into the issue because I didn't want to take actions away from the player, but the NPC was clearly being asked to do far...