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I like how Elemental sorcerers have an ability to use their control of elemental magic as an additional Experience basically, merging flavor with a nice little bonus.

6! Each domain has 3 L1 cards and you can choose between them (edit: unless you were specifically pointing at “spells”). Dont forget that the Instinct ranged weapons are basically damage cantrips too and you should totally flavor them as energy blasts from wands or staves or whatever. Also...

There’s an additional layer of “how is the game feel that results from the mechanics.” Eg: what does the actual fiction that surrounds those turn by turn actions look and sound like.

Improvised an entire metaphysical "Oghma's Test of Mental and Physical Strength" off the cuff tonight, using nested Montages to resolve as a scene-framed dungeon, pulling memories out of character's minds ("Raka, tell us about the last time you felt true mortal fear?") to then play out in a new...

DS! only has 10 levels, unlike 4e's 30. Based on my experience so far and the general guidelines in the book you should expect 3-5 Victories per session of 3-4 hours. Extending that out and if you read the various ways the book suggests awarding victories beyond combat encounters, I can see a...

There’s explicit secondary weapons, but generally they just give you the listed Feature benefit (a shield gives you extra armor slots, a short sword gives you +2 bonus damage to your main hand, etc). When you make an attack roll, it’s with a single weapon unless you have a domain or class...

Also, if you have actual new players there’a a host of “teach the paradigm” content out there these days! Shadowdark even does this right in the player facing material and further in its free dungeon.

Most of the time when I see "player skill" highlighted its in terms of "use your knowledge of tropes and conventions and procedures to achieve success" with the idea that this in part stands in for what a skilled adventurer would know operating in a world built on this sort of assumptions. This...

I think that if you're playing a game in which a significant goal of play is the back and forth of investigating a dungeon using conversational modes between the players declaring actions and the DM responding with a clear hierarchy of Landmark -> Hidden -> Secret knowledge, you must have Tells...

There's not really such a thing as a "multi-attack" apart from a handful of abilities. as you note, an attack is a single Action Roll so you always have the chance to flip the spotlight. You only make one Action Roll at a time, check the result, and if it's a Success with Hope the players side...

I’m taking Codex and making it into a tech-priest domain. If we don’t need to worry about “wizard as Swiss Army knife” I think that sort of theme fits a tech tinker better.

The Homebrew kit tells you what the values are, if you're talking about the Evasion/HP mix. Generally, sum to 16; Codex gets 5 and Valor gets 7. If you're talking about something else, the Kit probably has some design thoughts about that too haha.

The domains don't really map to Classes and Subclasses directly, in fact the Homebrew Kit says to avoid making direct references to class in a Domain you design so it can be shared. There's an intent for the Hope + Core features to speak directly to a specific fantasy, and then the subclasses...

I'm planning an Assassin class for my 40k hack that will be a version of Midnight + Bone, with a Bladedancer and either sniper or poisoner subclass (I don't hate the poisons idea, but the execution is lacking).

Yeah, so I'm doing a pretty big rework of the classes and domains for my 40k hack. I think that Frame-style "consider this" for the classes only goes so far when you're getting into a style of flavor that deviates strongly from the core domain and class vibe. I think you can get a long way with...