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I have to second everything @overgeeked just said and add ... cards. Cards are great. We only have two copies of the Daggerheart book for a table of 6. And one has stayed shut almost all the time. When leveling up and character generation, there was no passing around the books over and over...

Simply put, each player has 3 tokens. Spend one to take the spotlight, once each player has expended all three of their tokens, they all refresh. I haven't had to use it, players are good about jumping in and making sure everyone is contributing.

Daggerheart's main advantage is there is no initiative, so I've found it more fluid and that keeps players engaged. I don't know whether or not it stalls out with a large party or not (I have 5 PCs), but I imagine that fluidity should help in that respect at least. TBH, even with Brennan (who I...

Limit is a nebulous thing. I will say, one of the reasons I jumped into Daggerheart was seeing a cheap pre-order price on Amazon, that was a good $15-20 cheaper than FLGSes, and even at full price ... the book and full set of cards definitely made me like I was getting good value for the money.

R I'm already a little jealous of the Gen Con alt art cards. Darnit, I already have MTG draining my wallet for shiny cardboard, Daggerheart wasn't supposed to do that!

Oh, I've disliked rolling for stats since 3.5 DnD. 4e going to point-buy as standard was a selling point for me. Haven't looked back, though I allowed rolling once, when 5e launched, as a convention one-shot. And the Monk rolling double 18s certainly gave me the wrong impression of class balance!

I think the sci-fi-isms are causing me issues. Daggerheart used a lot of DnD terminology to quickly on board me. Sure, there's occasional bumps and twists, like, oh, Daggerheart Wizards can heal? Sorcerers share domains with Druids and Rogues?, but in general, I know what a Wizard is and a Druid...

I just view rolling for stats as an old vestigial part of RPGs, I don't allow it in DnD anymore (except for maybe a one-shot) and avoid it everywhere else.

It's hard to get a sense of scale here in the niche world of RPGs, and I certainly don't claim any particular insight into it, but I do feel like this is Darrington going through a fairly major scaling up process. That said, they're early on. Just because they signed two ex-WotC designers...

I'm not against spending a Fear to "Compel" a PC experience. Oh that mayor's son was assassinated by the Sapphire Syndicate so best not let your affiliation get out. Tbh, I've been thinking of ways to spend Fear outside of combat and making pseudo compels seems like a good idea.

La'an told Kirk about her feelings in the musical episode, but he said that things between him and Carol were getting serious.

Well, TBF ... I did just run a single Solo against 5 PCs and while they weren't fully rested, this battle was not a cakewalk and if I'd had the Flickerfly focus fire on a PC, I could have downed one. The Wizard and Warrior both got rocked in the battle. Overall, I've found combat math accurate...

All of them once we're in combat. I find I can focus too much on the mechanics of the creatures and less on their personality when I'm trying to manage a battle.

I'm happy for their success, though I imagine it's frustrating for those that haven't gotten their copies yet

Well, tbf, they also say these are guidelines that even they don't always follow. My guess is that they wanted a squishier Bard, and give the classes most likely to be off on their own a bit more resilience. Maybe when they do a Skald subclass it'll gain extra HP like the School of War Wizard...

My current group has a superfan (he went to the Sanderson convention a few months back), and a casual reader, and the rest of us (including myself) haven't read any of his books. So there's some interest in maybe playing the system, but Daggerheart is suiting us well and there's both DnD 5e24...

The homebrew kit says that both Wizard and Bard get reduced hitpoints due to access to the Codex domain, which is why they both start with 5 (Also Valor domain generally gets an extra hitpoint). Note that this is only referring to Core classes, while a few Void classes also have 5 starting HP...

Ivanova: Oh, this is demeaning! I mean, we're not some - some deep space franchise, this station is about something! What fun. Lampshade it to heck, add a lot of meta references and still include some solid character work (I really liked that last conversation between Una and Scotty), and I'll...

Depends on how they're implemented. Something like a Pathfinder adventure path or a lot of DnD modules would be ... too prescriptive and yes, not quite right for Daggerheart. But I could see some pre-made encounters, villain countdown clocks and a light structure to better help a DM get going...

Character packs are cool, but I don't know if I'll bother backing the kickstarter. I'll be interested in seeing the price point though. Because I do like these as a way for players to buy in without having to shell out for the full system. More campaign frames and settings are really cool, I'm...