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Rolemaster is a good example of not-D&D in my book. It has levels and classes, sure, but it’s not D&D in my book. D&D variants probably have six stats, class, level, d20 attack rolls, armour class, saving throws, spells-per-level, HP as the primary measure of damage. By those criteria, 4e is...

I’m a mind-mapper. This is an example of the session prep for an instalment of my Savage Worlds Lost Colony campaign which ran for about a year. There is more detail at the ends of all those branches on the PCs, NPCs, and other sessions, which I have folded away. But for that specific session...

I’m not seeing that thread, got a link?

Yes, in some ways Hope will churn faster as it can be generated by action rolls, where as Stress is only recovered by resting? Or possibly there are abilities that allow Stress to be recovered?

I was reminded by the live-play that once a character is at 0 stress they are Vulnerable. Did that come up?

Interesting that your optimiser thought that Druids were OP but got put down to 0HP. Does that suggest that, in actual gameplay, they are not as over powered as they seem on paper? What do you think based on your play experience?

Maybe the often stated “it would be a good game if it wasn’t called D&D” trope is playing to DaggerHeart’s advantage here, since it isn’t a D&D branded game.

I was going to say similar. Whether that is because it is easier to farm non-predatory animals, or whether that it is because a preditor’s diet might include pathogens more like to harm us, is more difficult to say for sure.

I think one of the staff members at the development company was into TTRPGs and released a game of his own writing (with the company’s permission).

These two are examples where the GURPS rules were integrated with the book, rather than just appending GURPS Lite to the end of it. A much better approach in my opinion. Dungeon Fantasy was an even bigger re-write of the rules so it stands alone.

The Mostali are dwarves, too.

Given that Chris Perkins is seen as a great live-play GM maybe this will give them the bandwidth to run both a 5e stream and a DH stream in parallel? No need to choose.

It’s still early days (I’ve only watched eps 1 and 2, haven’t seen ep 3 which just dropped in YT) but so far I liked that they have had just one big fight in each session and it worked. I really dislike the attrition based combat assumptions baked into D&D. So far DH doesn’t seem to need those...

Just for anyone else who might be interested, item 1 on my list is no change, and item 3 is the work of seconds. This is easily resolved by not making armour available to buy, or playing up the social consequences of going around in military gear all the time. Or just remove the ballistic...

There are multiple ways to address that if someone wanted to. First, sticking to mostly Extras as enemies would mean they go down in a fight easily, so you would see people being dropped quite quickly in many fights. Second, tweak the stats for guns and armour. Guns aren’t super high damage...

Savage Worlds would be my first pick. It does ‘big damn heroes’ out of the box, and the latest Sci-Fi companion (which should be available in both PDF and print in the very near future) gives you some additional rules to address things like ships in more detail if you want to. There is nothing...

Hopefully this will being used to accelerate the development of the company in addition to any benefits to the products. P&C have already ‘retired’ once so they are unlikely to still be at DP in a few years time. If the DP team have any sense each of the industry veterans will have one or two...

Savage Worlds, as per my earlier post in the thread :)

Personally, my favourite game is genre flexible and has lots of optional rules which can easily nudge the game to be a bit more gritty, a bit more heroic, a bit more horrific and so on.