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The tip they give (p30) is “In a standard, battle-focused campaign, it's never a bad idea to take your character's first Experience in...

That implies Character optimization and spotlight hogging are the same thing, which I don't agree with. In any event, theory crafting...

Eh? Building super over the top characters, ie, char op, is something Daggerheart supports. But I do think that social game...

I have said before, I think that Experiences are more like Fate Aspects.

LOL!! We did character creation on Saturday (I'm going to do a shortish Witherwild campaign to get a better handle on the game) and not...

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...

Yes, in some ways Hope will churn faster as it can be generated by action rolls, where as Stress is only recovered by resting? Or...

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...

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...

So, reporting back as promised, ran session zero + 2 sessions of Daggerheart, with my main group, most of whom I've been playing with...

To thread the needle ... 4e has one of the best combat engines in any edition of DnD. It's where the game shines, IMO. But to say it...

4E has "tons of stuff" that wasn't geared solely to combat encounters also - there's nothing you can do in 2E/3E/5E that you can't do in...

Your impression was rather inaccurate, but I do appreciate you admitting you didn't play it and that it "looked like" these things...

OK, so I didn't play 4e, but a large part of that is because the first books made it clear (to me) it was very much a combat game. It...