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And one more thing... I've said this elsewhere, too... being able to bank Hope and Fear -- not necessarily having to deal with the good and bad stuff right there and then with every roll -- is game changing. Genesys -- which has no banking mechanism -- was fun but it was also exhausting for me.

My own nerd discussion group is tripping up over the Hope/Fear thing. "Not everything players roll for has hope or fear built in!" I'm like... right. Hope and Fear aren't necessarily diegetic here. It just comes down to you rolling with a 'yes and' or a 'yes but' or 'no and' 'no but'. Hope and...

That’s fine, it’s a game for your recreation not a work assignment. Maybe give it a shot down the road or try it as a player and not as a GM. Either way, it makes for excellent reading in a ‘rpgs as narrative’ kind of way and isn’t a waste of your time.

I want to play this right now.

Like I said originally, it's not good data science here. I'll also say, I think a break down of games at Gen Con do tend to represent the general market, too. And, yea,'tend' there is carrying a lot of weight.

Gen Con rpg list It's fun to look at lists like this and draw conclusions. Thing is, I'm not sure what conclusions to draw. Gives a list of most popular rpgs? A long list of games you thought were dead but still around? Indie darlings that we think are far more popular than they really are...

I'm super curious if Sanderson's Cosmere rpg will be a mostly unplayed, merch-only purchase. I suspect it will be. But if it gets more people into the hobby, it's a win for all of us.

I agree and I'm not having any delusions here. Probably most people are going to read this game and reject it because it's so narrative forward and beyond the pale for them. To be clear, my pessimism aside, I hope it's a hit, however people want to define that term. But at least... at...

I think, like @Kichwas, for a LOT of people, the advice here in Daggerheart is going to be the first time folks have seen great GM advice codified. For all that apocalypse world and blades in the dark gets talked about on rpg discussion forums, 99% of D&D/casual gamers have never heard of...

This is terrific... thanks so much for sharing. And yea, we're totally going to try this out and I'm going to send feedback. I'm here in Seattle and we miss you, btw...

I can see that point of view. That it might feel more confrontational to have the GM actively using the pool against you. I'll say, though, that growing the Fear pool in front of the players does lend scenes a sense of danger which I really like. And at least it's a measure of how the GM may...

That's great to hear, actually. I'm so glad they didn't pull an Ironsworn - Starforged thing where that game's asset cards (which contain traits and abilities) are NOT in the book which leads to a very weird problem where you can't make characters sitting down with the core book - you have to...

That's a nice idea and Mercer is a big enough fan of the hobby in general that I can see it as a possibility.

I've played Genesys quite a bit across various genres. Mainly urban fantasy but we did cyberpunk and sci-fi and spies, too. You're often forced to deal with positive and negative meta-currency accrual with every roll but with Daggerheart, I really the core mechanic allows the GM to bank Fear and...

She was on Roll for Combat as a guest and I thought she was nice and smart and very, very aware that she's awful and a D&D doom and gloomer in order to get an audience and serve the YT algorithm. I appreciated her take but I can't stand the cynicism. I unsubbed from her a long while back.

Welcome to the RPG community on Reddit. This sentiment dominates the conversation over there and it's so incredibly obnoxious.

45 years gaming has drilled into my skull that folks need to play the game first as written before they start house ruling it because what's on paper so often comes off very different in actual play. Over the decades I've seen people skim rules and instantly think they know better. And maybe...

With the pdf being $30, the standard print edition -- a 366 pg hardcover and 189 cards -- is only twice that? That's actually a really good deal. And the standard has some nice production values... they could have done $75 and I don't think people would have thought twice. I mean, I know they...

People really, really, really, really, really like traditional in their fantasy no matter what they say. It's exhausting how people want to endlessly continue the tropes.

The game is called Dungeon World 2, not Dungeon World second edition, for what's worth. Like... maybe they need to make it more explicit -- 'Dungeon World Revisited' -- but it's meant less of a replacement and more of an evolution of the state of PbtA fantasy gaming. Original DW is from...