Recent content by zedturtle

Absolutely love the Dodoborne podcast. Insight Check seems to be the largest YouTuber pivoting wholeheartedly to Daggerheart, but I expect several folks are watching their numbers on test videos.

I doubt very strongly that Amazon cares (and likely many of the execs don't understand at all) what system the source material comes from. WotC might well prefer a 5e-based show, but unless they sign a huge sponsorship deal (to my knowledge they don't sponsor CR at all these days), I doubt they...

There's a whole article's worth of how much DH takes from 4e in a good way.

I think some folks are worried about spotlight hogs, more people are worried about folks being skipped over because they don't feel comfortable inserting themselves into the action.

One of the better ideas from the subreddit has been the idea of 'spotlight buddies' so that when the players keep the spotlight there's a sort of automatic 'if I just went, I should hand the spotlight to my buddy' that can keep things moving. And the GM can also provide a subtle nudge to keep...

This is all hilarious, as Matt is the writer for the Age of Umbra campaign frame. So, yes he made it all up. And then put in a book, with nice art and excellent presentation. I hope the campaign fulfills its grimdark promise and shows the range of the CR cast.

One that I haven't seen as many folks twig to as expected – in 4e you are often asked to roll some multiple of your damage die for a weapon attack, and the higher your level, the more dice you roll. In DH, your proficiency with weapons bakes that in.

I can see them playing D&D on stream again, since it's what they became known for. But I can't see them running a long-form campaign again in D&D, but when they have a purpose-built system that fits their style better and is their own product as well.

It used to be that you subtracted your armor value from the damage you took in order to figure out your damage threshold (most of the time you're comparing damage to your thresholds do figure whether to mark 0, 1, 2, or 3 HP). Of course that meant math on every hit, which slowed the game down...

I'm hoping (and reasonably confident) that the GM Screen will become available separately, as that was the only bit of the deluxe set that appealed.

In Daggerheart, HP is sort of like hearts in Legend of Zelda. Incoming damage is compared to thresholds to maybe mark 0-3 HP (0 HP marked if the damage is low enough) so each HP represents a big pool of potential damage. You never have a huge amount of them, and not marking your last HP from a...

Yeah, until we see the final rules we don't know for sure. But it seems like the GM can spend a Fear token to have a go with a monster. I'm not sure if that means the Fly goes 4 times with 1 Fear, or the GM can spend 4 Fear for four goes.

Promos are starting to drop. Here's a look at some of the Adversaries: (from Exclusive: DnD rival Daggerheart features some nightmarish high-tier adversaries) Folks have pointed out that there's a lot of neat design tricks for these higher-level monsters, like the Demon of Hubris having...

Of course, only the lucky folks down under know for absolute sure, but DP has been fairly clear about Campaign Frameworks being included in the core rules. A Campaign Framework (from what we saw in the beta) is a very top-level setting sketch, some rules tweaks to support the intended mood of...