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Promos are starting to drop. Here's a look at some of the Adversaries: (from Exclusive: DnD rival Daggerheart features some nightmarish high-tier adversaries) Folks have pointed out that there's a lot of neat design tricks for these higher-level monsters, like the Demon of Hubris having...

Of course, only the lucky folks down under know for absolute sure, but DP has been fairly clear about Campaign Frameworks being included in the core rules. A Campaign Framework (from what we saw in the beta) is a very top-level setting sketch, some rules tweaks to support the intended mood of...

I'm hoping that everyone is waiting for the full release (May 20 for those of us who preordered, June-ish for retail), to start shoveling more coal into the hype train. I was following the project just because it had the chance to become 'the next big thing' and along the way fell in love, so...

I guess my question for them (which I know is probably unanswerable) is how much money do you have spend to learn a new game? Time, sure. But for the casual viewer, just being excited when the players shout "Critical!" instead of "Natural 20!" would seem to be enough. It's not like Matt is not...

With campaign frames being more "here is how to tweak the core rules to get this vibe for your game", I wouldn't be shocked if one of them was "how to do high fantasy fun", but with the game's emphasis on player collaboration, it is likely to be more "how to make a campaign world like Exandria"...

Awesome. I think I'm going to do the preorder at Demiplane and I've already got the physical core coming whenever release happens, so it's more about occasional reference and character building than needing a PDF (which I think Darrington includes with physical orders, not sure).

Yes, unfortunately.

After watching (and enjoying) the Critmas special VOD, I went searching for other Daggerheart materials, and came across DodoBorne (an actual play podcast by fans using the beta rules, but they have great comedic chemistry) and am also still excited to get the final release. I don't think that...

Based on what I saw of the preorder video, that's correct, yeah.

If it was the math on the Armor rules that bugged them, it is now much simpler. Spend a point of Armor to reduce the actual Damage done (so from 2 HP damage to 1 HP, for example). I'm hoping that the final release is robust enough to see some play when it arrives.

Staffan did a good job of representing my thoughts. For certain managers, the deliverables are all that matters, and I could easily imagine that someone who went to business school and learned that "if you want to make more money selling widgets, you need to either increase the widget's price...

The challenge is that, for the person who went to college for business administration (and the crazy parties), doing that doesn't feel like "working", micro-managing people and squeezing another 0.1% out of the turnip is working. It is a damn shame.

If this is a move towards a "publish once, get a PoD, PDF, Nexus, and Roll20 integration as a result" that could be very cool. But I rather suspect doing something like that is ridiculously complicated, so we will get another walled garden where only the biggest get to play.

To my mind, the most important component is that some do continue to play. Of course, people drop off. But I've been playing for ~40 years now, and I'm not likely to stop any time soon (health willing). Even if 1 new player out of a 1000 gets the bug to try other games and explore the RPG...

When you advance your Valour, you do get a Reward, but (unless you were focused on Valour to the exclusion of all else) that should have happened once with 2-3 adventures at most amounts of advancement points handed out. The Starter Set adventures are Shire-focused, were you up to Hobbit...

That sounds like maybe the Loremaster was in a D&D mind frame a bit too much. Valour rewards should happen somewhat slowly and rolls to find magic items should be even more rare. They may just have wanted to see the magic items in play, or felt that y'all expected it? Hard to say, of course.

With The One Ring, what was your trouble with Rewards? They should only get one when they advance their Valour, which is roughly equivalent to a Level in D&D-alikes. Was it happening too often? Was no one advancing Wisdom and thus getting Virtues? (feats, basically) And, of course, the phrase...

I think we are very strongly agreeing. I am not sure if there is a point of confusion?

Oh yes, that's what has been said, and I tend to believe that's what the design team wants ("another shot at it with 10 years experience, but don't rock the boat too much because 5e was the first D&D for lots of people") but the C-suite got greedy and tried to wreck the OGL. So, if the C-suite...