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It on the other hand is impossible to make the argument that Daggerheart does stop-motion as opposed to dramatic and chaotic combat. The initiative system is "whoever wants to go goes" with the GM getting a go when the players miss or roll with fear or the GM spends a fear point.

Just to put this into perspective Apocalypse World was explicitly designed for short (12 session) campaigns and I find 10 feels better - but it's a very intense 10 sessions. Daggerheart is aimed at 25 and there's far more heft and choice to levelling up in Daggerheart than post level 3 5e

And this is entirely a matter of the game being played; picking up the ball and running with it is cheating in association football but 100% central to the game in Rugby football. And if the rules explicitly allow me, as the GM, to introduce a new character as the result of a failed roll (as...

Thank you and I'm disappointed but can't say I'm shocked.

I consider Daggerheart an excellent game based on having played and run it - but it is absolutely the wrong game for you given what I know of your preferences. Different people have different tastes. As an aside I 100% would recommend it for the "narrative 4e" crowd like myself, @pemerton and...

Just to put this into perspective I don't believe PF2e ever broke the top 150 of books on Amazon. Daggerheart is already, from basically a standing start (Candela Obscura went nowhere), challenging for second place. The big question is whether they can turn their game into a game line. And they...

It's also part of the campaign frames and the setup there (which I don't have in PDF). The Quickstart adventure also has notes including and

Just checked the UK Amazon sales ranks. The 2024 D&D PHB is claiming to be the #1 best seller in roleplaying and wargames despite having a rank of 626 in books. By contrast Daggerheart only has a books rank ... at 399 (and isn't even officially out until July on Amazon UK)

Like I said game rules don't prevent you using loaded dice for your rules. And how is anyone going to know to ban them afterwards? Are you going to boast of it. But any reasonable person would consider it taking the piss and you would almost certainly be kicked from the table for using loaded...

"I did badly enough at singing that made an awful caterwauling somewhere near where a guard was and now he's come to investigate? I don't understand how this can be and what caused it!" Seriously? If you made and failed a sing check it is because you were trying to sing and didn't do a good job.

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