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They absolutely are better for that reason among many others. Minimalist games get out of the way and let you stay with the fiction far longer than heavier systems. Over the long haul that lets you develop more character and more story rather than worrying about +1s, they don’t break when you...

Sort of, but not really. There's a lot of cruft to the later mechanical additions as well. Domain-level play is a common add-on to many OSR games, so I doubt that's the problem. I, sure. But not C and M. Most likely it's because B/X is lighter, cleaner, and simpler which seems to be one of the...

Daggerheart playtest. Player: “So my optimal move is to do nothing.” GM: “Or you could actually play the game.” Player: “What?” GM: “You just said ‘the only winning move is not to play’ without a hint of irony.” Player: “But the best move is to do nothing.” GM: “This is not the game...

Daggerheart playtest. Head desk. Head desk. Head…

Exactly. There are 18 ancestries with 2 traits each. If you follow the top/bottom restriction that’s 324 possible combinations with those traits alone. Actually tweaking what’s there with slight trait changes also further breaks things wide open. To say nothing of actually homebrewing new traits...

I am hopeful that at least carries through to the next campaign. So much wasted time doing nothing.

Anyone wondering about VTT support should know CR/DP are in talks with several VTTs about running Daggerheart.

The highest rank I saw Daggerheart was 75. No idea if it ever got higher than that.

You can't shake hands with the devil and come away clean. I don't think Goodman is a bigot, but he clearly has no problem working with bigots. That's a "never buy or use another product from them ever again" level problem for me.

That's fair. But in my experience all RPGs involve lots of tedious planning, which is why I love flashbacks. You could also go the other way and make planning a mini game. A skill challenge, basically. Give the PCs so many "rounds" to plan and make rolls to build up resources etc before...

Daggerheart is now sold out on Amazon. At least sold out from Amazon itself. And the sharks are already swimming with $70 core sets and $50 sets with $20 shipping.

That's a great post by the way. Yours and the one you linked to. How would you do flashbacks in Daggerheart? I'm not sure just using only stress would work well. Maybe a combo of hope and stress. Maybe 0 stress, 1 stress, and 2 stress or 1 hope? You gain a hope on about 54% of rolls and...

They are somehow looking worse and worse with each passing day.

Yeah, never underestimate the coping skills, justification skills, laziness, stupidity, and lack of empathy of humans.

Exactly. His expressed views are solidly inclusion and acceptance. He’s betraying those stated values by working with Bledsaw. He’s alienating his fans who believe in those values by working with Bledsaw. But, by working with Bledsaw he’s gaining new fans…who despise inclusion and acceptance...

Try any of the CR Daggerheart actual plays. The first episode of Age of Umbra is now on YouTube.

Good question. Only Joseph Goodman or one of his inner circle can answer that. But it clearly has nothing to do with preservation or bringing back a classic for a new generation. Neither of which he's actually doing with this project.

Whoever controls the Goodman Games YouTube account.

Spot on. This whole idea of somehow "preserving art" is also completely beside the point in regards to this project as it will not actually contain a reprint of the original. It's an entirely new, derivative work based on IP owned by a Holocaust-denying bigot. It's the equivalent to arguing that...