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No. You're taking the existing fiction "We are on a mission to find the Desert Rose" and taking a giant steaming dump on it. You are ending the adventure. You also aren't declaring anything that is even vaguely under the control of your character or anything that they should be able to know in...

And I am saying that you are clearly using the social contract of any game that allows player authorship for toilet paper. And if you are using the social contract for toilet paper you are being a jerk. What you can author is generally what you can know in character in advance. You clearly do...

I just thought I'd clarify some of this. We have two different modes of Game Mastering being discussed here. The Trad Simulationist and the Neo-Simulationist. Or to put things another way a (trad) DM and a PbtA MC. The DM created their dungeon. They set everything in there by their design and...

Just to step in, I'd add one in circumstances where it was appropriate to the game and style I was running the game in. To illustrate why the game matters I could be running two versions of the same dungeon, one in 1e and one in 5e. One of the key differences between the two systems is that...

As I said to you quite a few pages ago when you were talking about exactly this example you can be a deliberate jerk. You can also bring loaded dice to the table; there's nothing in any rulebook I've ever read saying you can't. What - that jerks will expose themselves? What you're missing is...

Indeed. There was a just over 40% death chance for each of them. And only about one in three both survived.

It's also for two other reasons: Crit Role normally gets intense and dark but it takes a hundred sessions to build there; they have eight The Daggerheart playtest setting was borderline twee in its implied setting and Darrington want to point out that it doesn't have to be

Technically he's right. But to actually make it matter in play in 99% of circumstances would be an example of what I've seen described as "zipper DMing"; a DM having a player's tadger caught in their zipper and doing damage because they haven't actually taken the step of declaring they are...

Because, to be blunt, you're not a deliberate jerk who is setting out to ruin the game. There's nothing explicit in most RPG rulebooks against using loaded dice - but you'd need to set out with malicious intent to do it. Most of the DMs I've had allow some fiction authoring by the players...

The best piece of Daggerheart's design IMO is that you actively don't have to change from 5e to effectively run DH - but there are tools available if you want to.

How chaotic a GM are you? And how much do you want death to be on the line? Firefly is an excellent system for light chaotic action comedy (it will not do Serenity) Scum and Villainy is excellent for more consequential hijinks by the seat of the pants Edge of Empire if you want something big...

Post by Spenser Starke on Reddit: Hi JustADream! Not to worry, I'm still the lead designer on Daggerheart and I'm not going anywhere!! Jeremy and Chris are here to help us continue to build out Darrington Press, Daggerheart and otherwise, but the vision, the approach, and the game style are not...

Just for context I, in my first time running Daggerheart last Saturday, taught three people to play, including full character generation from a standing start. And a big part of that rather than getting lost in character creation and sharing a rulebook was the cards.

Critical Role doesn't need more great DMs (not saying they aren't an asset, but Crit Role has the most famous one). Adventures, possibly - but Daggerheart helps them spiral and grow in ways D&D doesn't.

To me the biggest potential problem with Daggerheart is turning the success of the core rulebook into a line. The Daggerheart rulebook can't be kept on shelves right now - but where will it be in a year's time and how will they keep up the enthusiasm? If the Daggerheart core rulebook is it then...

Yup. If something is published under an old license it's legit in perpetuity - you just need to check before anything new. The other part the outrage machine objects to is that if you publish something you can't sue Darrington for something similar they publish unless it's a blatant lift, and...

I don't think it's a black eye for WotC - especially as they don't really have anything to sell right now. Those who were locked in for 5.24 have already bought it and there are no new supplements out yet. But Darrington are in a different position. Their best potential market segment (when...

Oh, I don't think many except the terminally online care about corporate positions. But both are significant social media-wise for 5e/5.24; Crawford was Sage Advice for years and Perkins was all over the D&D YouTube channel for the launch of 2024 (as for that matter was Crawford).

I'd have thought you were more in the Shadow dark direction :)