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Is it though, in any meaningful sense? It's like, I get that logically it should be, but they seem almost to be treating it more like some cool game they're running rather than a product they're trying to advertise. Shoulda woulda coulda. You can say "should" but clearly that's not something...

It's pretty wild! I get that, resolution-wise, it doesn't make any difference to the mechanics that Draw Steel! uses for the most part - but the fiction still exists, still matters, and letting PCs be 4'5" and 1000lbs or for that matter 10' and 2000lbs means like, the fiction will need to be...

Personally Survivor feels narrow enough for me assuming the player isn't a chancer. I.e. it seems like they'd mainly use it on rolls where their life was on the line, or where they were doing to have to fight tooth and nail to get through something, which wouldn't be most rolls. Definitely worth...

You're seemingly illustrating your own mindset, not what they're actually doing. Your mindset appears to be "THIS ENTIRE SHOW IS/SHOULD BE BASICALLY AN ADVERT", you can deny that, but your language and concerns make it hard to believe that not how you view Age of Umbra. Especially as all your...

I think that bolded bit is quite a big point and yes it definitely helps differentiate DH from other narrative games for better and worse. Re: Experiences, yeah, you do sometimes have to say "Er I don't think so mate", but it was pretty rare so far, especially as they cost Hope, which prevents...

I mean, presumably dryads aren't the result of biological evolution, but magical creation? And we all know 100% of wizards and gods are pervs. Like, does anyone for even one second doubt Elminster or Azuth or Corellon would give dryads boobs and nips if they created them? I mean just name a god...

I mean, I dunno if I'm actually a 40K "fan" or merely someone who has huge knowledge of 40K lore, but personally I'd say that's actually, locally, absolutely fine for 40K! Sometimes the "good guys" are good, and do win. It's just that it's always only in a specific place, at a specific time. I...

Personally I was kind of fascinated because as a long-time Bard player I had basically zero interest in playing DH's Bard. Re: Grace I think it's one of the worst Domains, for two reasons: 1) Tons and tons of its abilities are "per rest" or even per long rest, but don't offer any ability to...

They just put out the "Release Candidate" main book on the 24th. Rules-wise, it's crunchy so I can't do a detailed comparison with previous versions (esp. as I've been focused on Daggerheart lately), but I can say: A) The art is pretty fantastic and has a distinctive style/vibe in a way that a...

I think it's a bit higher than you're suggesting. D&D streams/podcasts, including ones which involved actual D&D designers playing their own current edition rarely actually "showcase properly" D&D's rules. In fact, most D&D 5E podcasts showcase ignoring the hell out of 5E's rules! I think the...

It literally is not. First off, CharOp in DH is limited in much the same way 5E is - we're talking PCs basically between 7/10 and 10/10 power, not 1/10 and 12/10 like 3.XE/PF1 or 3/10 and 11/10 like 4E. Second off, unlike in D&D, in DH spotlight sharing is entirely social and disconnected from...

@overgeeked Your definition of "optimizer" from the previous thread is both ridiculous and insulting, frankly. You're straight-up confusing "munchkin" and "optimizer". Here's what you said: Optimizing is optimizing. Words have meaning. Optimizing means choosing the right stats, weapons...

You're just flatly wrong. I've played 35 years of TTRPGs and people who optimize but don't hog the spotlight are ten-a-penny. You might not notice them as much because they don't, but they're far more common than the inverse. Just in my own main group, we have three players who are serious...

Sorry but it's just not accurate to claim PCs have "very little control" over Stress. They don't have total control but it's basically a resource they are generally in charge of in a way that's not true of HP. And my point isn't that the players will succeed, it's that they'll naturally try if...

I mean, I feel like we've all met these players, some of them are in our groups! I think D&D particularly has an issue with people not learning the rules because it's so DM-centric - more so than most TTRPGs - the DM generally tells you what to roll and so on, so I think a lot of players get...

4E has "tons of stuff" that wasn't geared solely to combat encounters also - there's nothing you can do in 2E/3E/5E that you can't do in 4E, that I'm aware of. The same goes re "many very social traits". 4E has basically everything 3E had and more! 2E has almost nothing there - it's just on the...

Yeah I think these are major issues that most actual PtbA games address primarily by strictly limiting the players in terms of what moves they can make, and what the results of those moves can be, and often by having a much more formal structure over how the game progresses (one which would...

Your impression was rather inaccurate, but I do appreciate you admitting you didn't play it and that it "looked like" these things occurred rather than claiming them as facts as people sometimes do. Bards were indeed pushed out of PHB1, it's true but not because they weren't "combat oriented"...

Basically this for me. I'd personally also add significant HP escalation, at least over the first nine or ten levels. If the game doesn't have those things, it might be "D&D-like" or "D&D-inspired" or even "a D&D" (which is a broader and different term/usage imo) for me, but it's not a "D&D...

I think you could do that, and the first time you did it might be kind of interesting (and it might work if deployed very occasionally too), but I think that if you kept trying to run the game that way, the way 5E suggests, the players would "get wise" to it and the game would become a lot more...