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Thanks. I'll have a look. Ha. But I was looking for preexisting games. That might be considered cheating.

My groups would be level 20 before the sentence fully left my mouth.

I’m hoping to hive mind a few mechanics I’m thinking about including in a project but I want them to come from OGL or CC-BY sources. I’m fully aware I can just write whatever, but that misses the point of the exercise. I’m looking specifically for games released under the OGL or CC-BY games...

I absolutely agree. 3E is fiddly as hell and 4E looks to be even more fiddly. M&M is fantastic for gamers who like system mastery and an in-depth character creation mini-game. Some of that also makes it rather clunky in actual play. One of the great things about Green Ronin is they released...

There's a lot of basic adventures you can throw together with the playtest PDF. The best bit of advice I could give is don't get bogged down in the character creation and power math. Just use what's in the archetypes and skip the rest. The section on challenges is a great place to start when...

I’m curious about the license they’ll use. All prior editions were under the OGL. It would be hard to argue that suddenly they’re no longer bound by it considering all the works cited. But stranger things have happened. Considering how wildly open they’ve been previously I could see them...

Definitely on the looser side while still existing. I've only run it a few times though. The races and mixed-race rules are fantastic. I absolutely love them. The homebrew kit makes the point about not mixing top-line and bottom-line features. But other than a few odd interactions, it doesn't...

My people, do not trust the machine with anything, much less something important.

And they are great books. Thanks for those.

Seriously, good luck. Sounds amazing. Sleeper vans and RV can get you through until you can build something.

For me that's the main draw of Star Trek. Without that, it's just another shiny pew-pew show.

Good luck.

That would be great. Though with the clear emphasis on PbtA-style play to find out, I'm not sure how well that will work. That said, as many have pointed out, bog-standard D&D is a fairly clear "fail state" of Daggerheart. If you ignore all the PbtA mechanics and advice you'll still get a...

For a large group like CR I'd imagine a cap of 18 would work better. I don't remember Matt hitting the cap in Age of Umbra. But then he just kept spending fear like mad.

Yeah. I feel you. It's definitely a shift in playstyle. To be fair, it's just my opinion. But it does strike me as needing something like the attitude presented in the Game Master's Handbook of Proactive Roleplaying.

For something like a one-shot or a convention game, absolutely. For a campaign, I would say no. Daggerheart strikes me as a PCs front-and-center as protagonists style of game. In my view that means prepping situations that directly involve the PCs' goals and motivations rather than canned...

Yeah. the biggest differences I'm seeing talked about are crunch and story/fiction mechanics. If you take 5E as a baseline of 50/50, Daggerheart is 75/25 with a push towards lighter story mechanics and Draw Steel is 25/75 with a push towards heavier combat-focused mechanics. Some quick...

They also call out Daggerheart. Draw Steel sells itself as a tactical, heroic, cinematic, fantasy game. Tactical as in there’s crunchy combat on a grid with things like forced movement. Heroic as in you’re playing outright heroes doing good and fighting the good fight. Cinematic as in you...

No. That’s why I called it advice, not a rule. I have read the whole thing at least twice now, but thanks for assuming. As advice goes, it’s pretty bad. As you note at length it contradicts so much of the other advice given in the book.