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Mine is that if you assume: Everyone is engaged and ready to play on their turn Everyone has a solid working understanding of the rules...

There’s also the bit of how the interlocking systems (recovery + fear gain) and admonition to consider combat from its narrative weight...

Oh yeah. In theory from outside, this should be a hand in glove fit. And it wasn't just dictated at you, I've just seen far too many...

Fair, but I think you’re interpreting my post more literally than it was intended. I’m not suggesting Daggerheart is the official...

I really don't think this is true. Spenser and Rowan made the fantasy game they wanted, and sure they looked at the Legend of Vox...

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...

I've only done full or over-budget encounters and my experience was the same as @overgeeked and @zakael19. I suspect things would be...

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...