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So your original comment was struggling with seeing how these “other games” can hit the same exploration notes as D&D. While I haven’t seen scene framing and recommendations like this show up apart from the 2024 DMG and the 4e one which I only read recently, I’m glad that you can see how you can...

Yes, and also remind players they can hand the spotlight off with a bit of fiction to another player! “Jon yells “Kyree, can you fix them in place like that last group?” as he hunkers behind his shield” is a totally valid response to being spotlighted, and when you have a group that’s adroit at...

Yeah absolutely. That foraging with an impending storm? I mean, he needed more mystical supplies, but he could’ve decided to set that aside; so off he went Foraging (and rolled a 7-9, which in this case I suggested had an obvious consequence: he found what he needed but the storm opened up).

Yeah, even in light of reading plenty of other PBTAs and such - going back and looking at DITV for instance lays things out so clearly. Knowing how to run BITD and PBTAs is informing how I look at Daggerheart. FWIW, in the game of Stonetop we had on Sunday during the End of Session portion one...

Well ok, but in the context of your greater post which includes your constant refrain of stuff like: Im really curious, since like "interacting with NPCs and PC to PC" is the vast majority of all the play I do even if we're handling procedures differently. Are you drawing a contrast here...

Theres a lot of the Diablo / Heroes of the Storm Blizzard class design in there to me!

(partially ninja'd by @Ruin Explorer ) I think that for the Homebrew stuff there’s a feeling some of the classes are “missing” fantasies people liked in 5e. The only thing I’m doing there is my previously mentioned Seraph adjustment, and then showing how each class fits into the setting + what...

I don’t think this is the case here, because you’re spending a resource as the GM to Make something happen. Doesn’t matter if it’s the environment or an adversary - you’ve expended Fear. Heck, I’d love to combo that sort of thing on a Failure with Fear with appropriate tags or Actions - the...

Are you drawing a comparison in your head here between your play and like old school dungeon crawling or something? Every single game of D&D 5e I’ve played and run has rotated around interactions in character with NPCs, with that being most of the player’s favorite moments apart from high beats...

There’s probably a question here of profit, if you’re selling the tool vs providing it free. Also most of the tools I see are linking over to Demiplane for character sheet info, does that require a purchase to have or is the charbuilder there free?

The Impulses/ Difficulty / Potential Adversaries / Features are all meant to communicate this. You don’t fight an environment directly usually (except in the Frame with the colossi?), but the GM can bring in Features off Fear spending instead of activating an adversary for instance. It’s still...

With the improvised damage chart and effects, traps should be easy to toss together as GM moves off fear etc. Stress as an expendable resource is really nice too for using traps to ablate lightly without weighing play down, I’d be tempted to charge them that on a success with fear for instance.

Note that the DH Seraph also implies some sort of sworn oath granting or inherent in the role via the class questions and fluff. It’s a genericized High fantasy Paladin with the aasimar wings. I love that the “healing” domain powers don’t interact with death at all, apart from the single use...

“Some seraphs ally themselves with an army or locale, much to the satisfaction of their rulers, but other crusaders fight in opposition to the follies of the Mortal Realm.” I’m not sure why DH dropped Cleric / Paladin from their classes when almost the rest are direct D&D fare - but perhaps...

Yeah, that’s what I did, along with cards etc.

Yeah so I plan to handle exploration style scenes the way I do in a PBTA like Stonetop: a point crawl. Narrate the travel portions with some back and forth world building and character beats, and then introduce a scene not dissimilar to like the Abandoned Druid Grove or Raging River. Not always...

I’ll often chime in with a “maybe something like X? y?” or a nudge to use a mechanic that suits. My intent here is to tell them what I immediately see as some potential steps to realize their goal or what have you. Sometimes they grab what I toss out and play moves on, sometimes they ‘yes, and’...

Is it just me or is the Seraph more of a bifurcation of the Paladin class fantasy? One side has smiting, one side has laying on of hands. Neither is particularly “cleric-y.”

I wanted to create some custom cards for the Communities & subclasses I'm putting together, but the one in the OP doesn't seem to be up and running yet. Found this excellent link instead: https://www.daggerheartbrews.com/

They've also got some nice high-fantasy regional maps that stitch together in multiple ways to make your own larger world to explore!