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The trouble with the Fear and GM moves thing and people worried about that being exhausting, like it can be in PbtA games, is that it all depends on which explanation of Fear and GM moves you read because they're all different. Unfortunately. p18. "If you instead roll with Fear on your Duality...

Do you remember who said they had been running Daggerheart?

LOL. Try reading the book before complaining about what's not in it. Page 6, Touchstones. "TTRPGs: 13th Age from Pelgrane Press, Apocalypse Keys from Evil Hat Productions, Apocalypse World from Lumpley Games, Blades in the Dark from Evil Hat Productions, City of Mist from Son of Oak Game...

It’s possible. But that wasn’t the impression I got from what I saw.

The first episode of Age of Umbra was tonight. The Critical Role reddit had a live thread going while the game was streaming and a lot of people commented on being reluctant about the combat system, even as they watched it. A few comments about the episode really stood out for me. The...

I'm not sure I understand the problem. Wherever you'd play any RPG would work just as well for Daggerheart.

Maybe she just had bad taste. There's a lot great old recipes out there. I get the feeling a lot of people are going to be reviving some of those recipes pretty soon. You can't beat cheap, filling meals. Most of what I find abominable is the 70s and 80s cuisine I remember from childhood. Green...

My only complaint about Old Bay is there's too much salt. Dial it back to like 75% and it would be perfect for what it is.

Daggerheart has sold out on the Critical Role shops and when I was just poking around on Amazon I saw this. It's also #234 across all books on Amazon as of right now. Seems like a great first week for Daggerheart. Oh, and Age of Umbra premieres tonight on Critical Role.

It's impossible to design a game with a referee that protects you from the referee just like it's impossible to design a game that is immune to players making intentionally bad faith interpretations of rules. Once the industry stops guarding against problem players and groups simply stop playing...

As mainly a referee I tend to look at that side of things first. So campaign frames, adversaries, countdowns, downtime, etc are all where I've been focusing my attention so far. I absolutely love the modular design so far. Just about everything is designed in a discrete silo that makes for...

The [+] is to keep things positive and prevent the same already tired arguments about Daggerheart and more narrative-focused play. There are plenty of other threads to hate on games and play styles you don’t like. There are a few people on here who play Daggerheart and want to talk about it...

I think that'll go down in history as one of the single most tone-deaf ads ever. Yes, people absolutely 100% would download a car if they could. Are you kidding? Hell, give it a little more time and 3D printers just might make it possible.

It's not even limited to sandboxes. There's seemingly a fairly large minority of players who want RPGs to be life sims. Open a bagel shop and RP that. Run a trading consortium and RP that. Traveling merchants. Etc. A whole lot of people seemingly love the slice-of-life style of play. For the...

I think it's a good general distinction to make, but what's throwing me is this bit: That's absolutely not my experience either running or playing sandboxes. I run open-world sandboxes almost exclusively. I do drop in modules all over the place. But it's never with the intent of pushing the PCs...

Well, both wizards and bards still exist in Dark Sun so you’d still need them. It would likely be easier to make a psionic domain. Could do. The sorcerer sort of has the innate power and elemental theme down. I’m always more a fan of reskinning as much as possible. Thanks.

One thing I always do is look at how you could do something like Dark Sun in whatever fantasy game comes out. Surprisingly there's very little you'd need to homebrew to get Daggerheart to work. Most things are lore choices and renaming or reskinning things. The wide variety of ancestries...

One book for an 11-year-old wanting to GM? For me there's no question the best book is Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master by Sly Flourish, aka Mike Shea. The book takes a minimalist approach of only prepping what you need, understanding that you'll have to improvise so prepping to improvise...