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    What do YOU plan on doing with Daggerheart?

    I will start be saying - IANAL. Implementing DH in an existing VTT seems different from creating a VTT to run DH to me as a lay-person. Certainly, there are fan-made implementations of D&D 4e and GURPS for Fantasy Grounds, for example. I don’t see why you couldn’t do that with DH?
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    What Game Publishers Are Saying About The Tariffs

    Ah, the good’ol DeLorean method…
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    Let's Read Daggerheart +

    Given that you always generate hope or fear on an action roll, there is no ‘vanilla’ success to contrast against. So success / failure with hope seem to function as base pass / fail while ‘with fear’ seems to be ‘yes but’ and ‘no and’ respectively. A critical success is the ‘enhanced’ success...
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    Let's Read Daggerheart +

    I agree, the statements are not mutually exclusive or contradictory in my opinion.
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    Daggerheart General Thread [+]

    They may be playing deliberately slowly to allow the audience to keep up and get familiar with the mechanics? I haven’t watched it yet.
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    What do YOU plan on doing with Daggerheart?

    That’s a table choice kind of thing. From p176: “Some players love getting new weapons and armor, while others may have established an emotional connection to an item (for example, a family heirloom sword or armor once worn by an old friend) and want to keep it. If PCs want to keep their...
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    Critical Role to Run Grimdark Daggerheart Miniseries

    They are a sliding scale of complexity in the changes involved. I think you need to actually see the content to get the full understanding of what they are doing / demonstrating. The most involved frame is a Weird West setting which involves battling giant monsters Shadow of the Colossus style...
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    Critical Role to Run Grimdark Daggerheart Miniseries

    Making changes is not a binary thing, with the type and degree of change required making a big difference in how good a fit or otherwise a system is. I say this as a person who has adapted systems like GURPS or Savage Worlds to many different campaigns, and the two are very different activities...
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    What do YOU plan on doing with Daggerheart?

    This sounds like the job for a campaign frame, where characters with powers choose from being a psionicist or a defiler (I think there is a third option? Haven’t played Dark Sun). The campaign frame rules would define what happens when you use a power based on your type. How defiling works, and...
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    Critical Role to Run Grimdark Daggerheart Miniseries

    Time (and play) will tell, however I think that DaggerHeart has that ‘loosely coupled systems’ quality in its design that makes a system like Savage Worlds easy to home brew in my experience. I will definitely play the default rules and some of the provided frames to get a feel for things...
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    Critical Role to Run Grimdark Daggerheart Miniseries

    The campaign frames in the book are both ‘official’ and ‘examples’ in my opinion. They exist to illustrate how GMs can add campaign-specific rules to tailor the core experience to whatever you need for a desired game feel or theme.
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    Critical Role to Run Grimdark Daggerheart Miniseries

    Also, there are no ‘rabbit people’ presented in the DangerHeart core.
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    Daggerheart Review: The Duality of Robust Combat Mechanics and Freeform Narrative

    I’m at the point of having finished the player sections, and just about to start on the GM section. So far the game is very interesting. One thing that stood out to me, when I was reading the ancestry powers pretty much every one had an ability I thought sounded amazingly powerful. The...
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    Tell Me About Cortex Prime

    The badly mangled Kickstarter killed my interest in the game, unfortunately. It has some interesting qualities but I doubt I would want to run it for anything but the most relationship driven campaign since this seems to be it’s USP versus systems like Fate (IMHO at least).
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    Dragonbane Announces Two New Books

    When you need to be low, ducking is always a good option…
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    How Long Do You Wait Before You Houserule a New TTRPG?

    I voted ‘after a few adventures’ but it would be more accurate to say ‘after a few sessions’. Enough of a sample time to be confident there was an issue we wanted to do something about. I also prefer to minimise house rules.
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    Tell Me About Cortex Prime

    There are 16 ‘Spotlight’ campaign implementations that were done as part of the original Kickstarter for Prime, but these have only been released to backers and the current owner seems to have no interest in releasing them more widely.
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    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    If you subscribe to Playstation+ then Gloomhaven is one of the free games this month.
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    What do YOU plan on doing with Daggerheart?

    My set is due for delivery tomorrow, so then I will start to dive into the details 🙂
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