Recent content by zedturtle

If you're playing with using actual rules for recall costs, I don't think it's too bad. And you never know – even your brief question might have been enough for them to reread the rules afterward. I know that when I run games, I tend to stick with my interpretation of a rule for a session just...

I actually wanted to ask you about the math here too. The Earth Elemental can do a Rockslide to make the PCs Vulnerable, giving itself Advantage on its Boulder Fist, increasing the chances of a crit, which (of course) would be 3d10 + 32, so well in the expected outcome of a Severe hit. Since the...

Unless I'm misremembering the rules quite a bit, the '1' reduction would apple to all the damage of the first hit, there's no target by target processing in DH. So it should be a guaranteed six rounds, hopefully split between two fights.

For a single target, yes. But Restoration is per PC/ally and Zone of Protection is all PCs/allies within Very Close, so it could be 2 or 3 characters. Is it weak? Probably. But I don't think it's absolutely too weak, there are times it might be the one to take, especially if you have a couple...

My sense is that it is 75% over-reaction from white room theorists. Yes, it is strong, but I'd try it at your table with your players before making any tweaks. That said, I've only seen them at the lowest levels, so you might have trouble in long games.

The YouTube video that they dropped has some very pertinent commentary from Crawford about how the Blood Hunter actually works better in Daggerheart, because they have multiple currencies (e.g. Stress, not just HP) to manipulate. Interesting stuff.

I think it makes sense in that it is very low overhead (just new packaging, the same cards) and allows them to figure out how to produce new Class offerings without a new core set. The big stuff is coming down the pipeline – Perkins, Crawford, and Baker are all working on different offerings...

As handy references at the table? :) I'm sure the game will get there eventually, they just didn't want to launch with 72 Classes.

If the Domains are random, then you could get Domains that aren't part of the class circle – e.g. Splendor only goes to Wizard or Seraph, and Bone only goes to Ranger or Warrior. So if you draw Splendor and Bone, you don't have a Class.

Well, if you did random Domains, and not random Class, you'd run into the trouble of not having the actual Class structure (it's not much, but it is there). I suppose you could have a mechanism for picking a base Evasion and base Hit Points on a sliding/inverse scale (e.g. as Evasion goes up, HP...

The cards represent 4e-style Powers, so no and I don't see random selection as something most players would want.

That's almost certainly part of it – I suspect they're printing in China, and pricing the worst possible situation into these class packs.

Nobody knows. I suspect that Player Pack kickstarter will let them know if releasing (say) a 'Witch Pack' is a feasible way to expand the game of if we will get a big release at some point. In various interviews, Rowan has described all the stuff they've been doing as 'spooky stuff' so maybe...

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...