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I haven’t really watched CR, do they do much open exploration in that or is more scene framed? But yeah, a couple of forests / rugged foothills / etc stuff was absolutely on the list for me - to sketch out what I want them to look like and feel like if nothing else!

I guess if you consider just the first page the Frame, and the rest of the stuff "bespoke world building/custom mechanics!" I'm definitely going to drop 3 different 1-paragraph concepts on a prospective group, building out from the same setting backdrop.

For me, I think there's enough to start writing my own based on some of the environments I'd like to highlight. Eg: two different types of ancient ruins that I should think through some Passive / Actions and such, a couple different types of natural environments, etc.

I'm a little surprised at how long-lived they've set most of the species to in the base presentation, but in really weird and almost dart-boardy fashion. Watching Frieren has made me start looking at stuff like that a little differently, and I'll be dialing that back a fair bit as I put my...

Clearly for Daggerheart, you are. See: OP title ;). Regardless, a Player Best Practices with short punchy descriptions of how to play to get the most out of the game and its intended loops is common place now. Both Dolmenwood and His Majesty the Worm have it for the OSR side of the house that...

That's how I would've used it when running 5e as well!

Gotcha, I guess I've been on the lucky side & also have been running games with players where complication and "failures" are desired and exciting. Hopefully one of the big online spots adds robust DH support for you then, or you can check out that app and see if it'll suffice since it does...

Given the relatively small amount of math required on top of the duality dice, is there a reason why you wouldn't just have people roll physical dice? I can see wanting to do damage calcs via computer math since those can get pretty big. Also, that freshcutgrass app I linked has player dice...

Ah yeah, that's a great point there. I've definitely had some moments where play felt like it was lagging out, and I realized I needed to get better at both helping wrap a scene; and ensure we had a "purpose" or question to address. I'm still working on that, but I can see those scenes that...

Right, I've played in a lot of extensive settings previously. I've run APs that have moment by moment play mapped out, I've played in the FR; or Exandria; and other such stuff that has quite a bit of reference material. I've run an OSE sandbox hexccrawl using Dolmenwood - which has tons of stuff...

I can't speak for what Strandberg does, and I guess it depends how you define "low vs high stakes." When my players want to explore quiet moments with their potential romantic partners, centered around the question "should I stay here, or is it too dangerous for everyone" I think that's a scene...

I'm not going to argue DW design stuff in a DH + thread, but I concur that DH is so far doing the Critical Role play ethos better from a design perspective then what I see of DW2, and I'm really looking forward to bringing it to the table. I've already seen quite a few people looking to put...

Jumping off this to answer your previous direct question as well, this seems to be a misunderstanding of the sort of actions a game like Stonetop wants me to do as the GM. I am required to keep my Agenda in mind for everything I say that's not just bookkeeping. The Agenda is to: Portray a...

A Player Agenda/Best Practices that calls for that you can refer the players back to as needed helps ;). I like that Daggerheart starts with "Embrace Danger" as its #1:

I’ve stated many times that Stonetop Book 2 is my new litmus for “game which gives me so many answers while still asking plenty of questions to ‘play to find out’ within the scope of the premise.” You absolutely have to buy into the designer vision to get a good game out of Stonetop, but if you...

I’ve been trying very hard to talk about how I’ve experienced play, designs, and GMing methodology based on my personal experiences and understanding of texts. I don’t believe I was assuming anything about your play, but making statements at most about how I’ve perceived the play culture based...

Same realm as in “game built to facilitate CR style play and stories that’s explicitly not D&D.” That’s been a big part of the vision for DW2, and obviously is the core goal of DH. DW2 is trying to reinvent the PBTA to facilitate heroic fantasy tropes and narratives as the core (they literally...

Telegraphing a threat is meant to lead to a decision point, especially in an exploration context. I want play to move forward, so I’m prompting them to perhaps Know Things, or Seek Insight, or simply declare a course of action and evolve the situation. Just because a Threat comes on-screen...

Well, if you’re playing classic XP for treasure, and following the distribution guidelines for placing treasure in the dungeons or whatever, it’s up to how the players delve and recover stuff. If I’m running Stonetop, all the XP triggers are in the player’s hand’s. I’m currently debating how to...

In Stonetop, when I tell the players they see “footprints/tracks” or “evidence of killed game” or whatever else tantalizing thing here, what I’m really doing is telegraphing a threat (“point to a looming danger / hint at more then meets the eye, etc”) which I may bring into play as a hard or...