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Exactly. What’s striking isn’t just how Daggerheart is designed, but how it’s being rolled out. The team didn’t launch with a confident...

I'll add that in a hobby that prides itself on modifying rules to suit particular tables, complaints about things like orcs not being...

The examples the OP gives are not a problem. Bioessentialism becomes problematic when two things happen: 1. The essentialism is about...

Are you setting up an adversary action via GM move and pivoting to one of the players and asking “what do you do?” Leaving the spotlight...

Right. It’s Critical Role’s fix D&D project. It just so happens that a lot of the pain points CR felt needed fixing were also pain...

I can see a second "Player Core" book being released in a set like the current, with all the new cards in a box, but I think it will be...

D&D should definitely be included, but not given special weight because more people play it. Vastly more people play Call of Duty than...

Node & Branch might be thought of as an overlay that changes depending on context - what it's wrapped around. Apply node & branch to a...

I agree with you about being forward facing, so the players don't have to guess the stakes. When the skill system is leveraged in the...

2LM has already mentioned that this will not be using the DC System (the system from Outgunned), but a new system (let's see how...

It’s a counter. When you succeed it goes up, when you fail the failure side goes up or some other complication. It’s non-spatial except...

Yeah. I think the key is probably the forward facing nature of this? Like "you will achieve this goal when you get to full" changes the...

The version of this I'm most familiar with is the 4e skill challenge. Just thinking it through, the challenge consists of: *A threat...

One alternative to Map and Key that may fall under Event Based (maybe?) is the reliance on Clocks/Countdowns of a goal with GM fronted...

Just watching the stream on KoLC and he mentioned something I've never seen before. They call out games to do things that Draw Steel...