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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 :)

This is worth it for Darrington for the PR and advertising alone. The huge market is of course in eating the D&D 5e player base and that's two huge names.

The thing is that my answer for favourite RPG has changed a lot since about 2010 because since about 2010 designers have got a lot better at making tight focused games intended for short campaigns. And I find more intensity, more RP, and more drama in a dozen sessions campaign of something like...

I absolutely would not call ten sessions a one shot so much as a short campaign. I've had two session one shots but that's pushing the limits.

Probably not. Land and Stars druids don't want to be in melee, and moon druids want to claw. Storm (or as they officially are Sea) druids are the only possibles - and even there if you've gone warden you get martial weapons.

I thought I'd also expand on something. My current gaming club, The RP Haven thrives based on short campaigns (four quarter-long campaigns a year). We're only fifteen years old, and up to eleven branches (not counting the online branch) and happy to help set up more. The short campaign model...

My first instinct here is that it's certainly a cool basis but I don't like armour as a choice for this subclass; it feels as if armour should be Relic + Bone or even Splendour rather than Blade. Torchbearer looks inspiring. Getting into the gritty details of the domain I see a lot to tweak...

I love them and most of my recent campaigns, both run and played have been short ones although I've kept groups together for years on end running chained campaigns. I also find D&D and especially D&D 5e very bad at them. I'd rather use something more narrative (e.g. Apocalypse World, Blades in...