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Hearing about this new book, I thought I might want to check it out. I appreciate this discussion because I now see this book is not for me. Not going to yuck anyone's yum, but not for me. Like some other recent threads, it will be interesting to see how it does.

I have to agree on this. I have a friend who's very excited about Outgunned so I'm going to get to try it. From everything I've seen about it, it's high-octane action-adventure-centric. I'm not sure that was fully the intention of the Evil Hat game, it seemed more PbtA-based, which I'd call...

I saw this and was initially surprised because they were talking about creative differences. I thought the game ideas I was seeing were really in line with what the licensing company was trying to do, at least from what I've seen recently. But I also wasn't surprised because this was taking a...

I do think that he will be missed. My major interest, as someone who likes Daggerheart, is how the change in personnel affects the development of the game. I don't know how much interest, experience, or what the opinions on this PbtA/narrative gaming are with Perkins and Crawford. I literally...

This is such a good point. I have a friend who went all-in on the Avatar RPG. We played one session, and I really liked it. The problem was that no one else in our group, including the GM, did. The issue they had was that they were expecting a game with super-cool bending moves where awesome...

If you go look at the listing under Amazon, you'll see that it's a book, but also called a "game manual." I was looking at the Canadian site, and they don't have that category. I noticed that the new Eberron book used to have a ranking and be listed as a book, but it is now also listed as a...

Except that I followed the 5.0 PHB for years, and it was typically at about 100 to 180 for the entire time. There was an ongoing discussion about how many books the PHB was selling going back years, and I always found that, at least according to Amazon, it was doing well.

Oh I'm sure they don't mean anything. Except that they made it to the top 10 of all books. Now I'm sure this will likely drop off shortly, but I was wondering how long it would take someone to say, "This doesn't mean anything!" I plan on looking at this every couple of weeks. I used to do it...

I was just looking at Amazon Canada after someone mentioned it. Daggerheart is #10 in books, while the Player's Handbook 2024 is #313. So, at least for now, Daggerheart is winning the Canadian pocket book.

Daggerheart uses rest mechanics between encounters to manage the adventuring day. The thing is, the GM gains Fear when you rest, so I asked my players what they wanted to do. They managed the situation quite well. In the game I played in, I was playing a support character so as long as I felt I...

I'm not advocating for this, but I just opened Gemini and asked it "create a narrative rpg for me using six-sided dice and tarot cards for action resolution." And it did. And it wasn't terrible. Then I asked "what would the combat system be like for the system you just created?" ... and it made...

And here we go again. It will be interesting to see how many other names come out in the next couple of weeks. Whenever something like this happens, people always say "In video games, after launch you see this sort of thing all the time, and there's the 'non-edition-edition' that just came...

I think it's sort of funny that we're discussing debts as if the legally enforceable kind are the only ones that exist. While there may not be a legal obligation to fulfill, there is a debt nonetheless. I know that I've broken off friendships and even left a job over these kinds of debts. I'm...

It is really interesting to see Daggerheart selling more books than D&D, even if only for a little bit. I'll have to check Amazon Canada to see how things stand a month from now.

This has been my experience as well. There are some folks out there who really don't like Daggerheart and have expressed that dislike very strongly. Maybe it's that they don't like Critical Role. Maybe they don't like narrative play, and maybe they like a specific style of OSR play that's...

I think that's a really good question. I think there are examples of games that had huge Kickstarters but no one played. Once a big group is playing and having fun with one, not sure that I can think of one that's faded away. Now I'm sure someone will bring one up to prove me wrong.

As I've been thinking about this, I do a sports analogy. When a baseball or football team makes a move to acquire the best-known and respected talent that's suddenly available, I think of it as making a big commitment. Okay, so the analogy breaks down in that there's no world series or super...

This is really interesting. I think that taking people from the "tradional" RPG world says something about where they want Daggerheart to go, rather than the indie scene. I'm excited to see where this goes.

We ran a six-session campaign using the beta rules, and we had what I will call "ant and grasshopper" Hope issues. Some of the group treated Hope like a resource they hoarded for emergencies. They ran into the max Hope issue pretty hard. On the other hand, we had the "oh, I have a Hope? Better...