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Faster is an odd measurement, because I don't use a stopwatch or time combat ... so while I think combat takes the same amount of time...

People thought about positioning, teamwork (not just the specific move) and general tactics vastly more in the fights we ran than D&D...

Yes, the other advantage of no initiative is it is easy to simply end a fight when it's clearly dramatically over. Adversaries aren't...

Also, thinking narrative first we’ve had two combats in a row now where the players taking out the clear leader meant a...

Yeah I sent the PDF to everyone so they could read the rules and literally no-one even looked at it until there some question about how...

Just to second this the cards are generally great and they plus the character sheets with basic class information on them are a literal...

I need to make tarot sized cards

Yeah, forcing everyone to write down magic items they for sure won't keep seems like a pointless hassle in a TTRPG.

Yeah I don't think the fundamental concept was bad. I think it was just really unfortunate that they chose to do it in the incredibly...

I have to second everything @overgeeked just said and add ... cards. Cards are great. We only have two copies of the Daggerheart book...

No real way to answer that generally, but I know I'd much rather play Daggerheart than 5E. Daggerheart is faster in combat than 5E and...

Simply put, each player has 3 tokens. Spend one to take the spotlight, once each player has expended all three of their tokens, they all...

There's the fluidity element that should help either speed up the combat, or at least remove the sort of dead space of a player spending...

Daggerheart's main advantage is there is no initiative, so I've found it more fluid and that keeps players engaged. I don't know whether...