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How so? If anything, it should let players be more immersed in the fiction, because they have a part in making it. The fiction isn't...

I mean, we were talking about people we meet. I might try asking the cashier at Tesco's tomorrow how many steps their tolerance is, but...

To be fair, the 2024 DM guidelines at least talk about this. But people are so entrenched in how they run D&D they barely read the DMG.

No. You can’t faithfully portray a character without some sort of metric to measure that portrayal against. “I’m faithfully portraying...

The other thing to consider is how easily can steps be short cutted? For example, a big roll in Daggerheart or 5e means I can often skip...

Keep in mind that responsibilities are not necessarily shared equally between the GM and player. The player in D&D only rolls to hit...

Looking at the number of steps in isolation is not very meaningful, especially as how to break them down into steps is (perhaps...

Had something wild (for me) last night, an in-person session 0 just down the road from the house with a bunch of other locals. As noted...

And on that note... my copy arrived today! :D I'll be reading it over the weekend.

Daggerheart goes with a slightly complex armour system because it's trying to solve two complex problems at once: If you use a soak/DR...

I believe the idea of the armour is the thresholds are soaking some damage, but when hp gets through, you can damage your armour a bit...

The bolded part (my emphasis) is the exact reason why a narrative, player driven, play to find out game is exactly the wrong tool for...

While I can see where you’re coming from, I think that there might be a distinction between a Front/Threat and at least what I think of...

Of course, you cut off the rest of my text here. And note that the text is saying that they can be used live, not that they were...