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Wait, you didnt see the game explicitly say you’re not supposed to spotlight one adversary on the same GM turn unless it has a specific feature? Leaders, or leader-style multi-activation abilities really help an encounter feel better IMO. With most Evasions and attack bonuses leading to...

Maybe we could move a lot of their utility into rituals or feats that allow them to use magic / arcana in place of other skills with a chance of failure, perhaps the former could be powered by Hit Dice.

FWIW, I would definitely treat minions as a single activation per their group-attack ability for that sort of purpose.

Minions when you want to put tokens down and roll lots of dice or let your players see lots of tokens vanish, Hordes when you want to run ToM and describe lots of creatures but without actually doing the management. It's up to you how you describe a horde - is it a small pack of demonic dogs or...

It's so good, the pre-made characters are delightful in their own way; and the game inculcates teh sort of cooperative relationships it wants right from the start in the direction it gives the GM and players. You get a real solid feel for how the designer wants the game to be played.

A good counter example might be Games Workshop, who has their two main-line games and then a host of side games all over the gamut of mini wargaming (fantasy sports! skirmish size games! high scale battles! mini-based-TTRPG things! an entire publishing and animation house! & etc).

Why not a general ability like the community ones that all players get as a frame mechanic? “Heroes Surge: Once per session when you have no Hope and roll with Fear, you can gain one Hope” or something. Limits it, but helps them climb out of the Fear spiral. Another option could be doing Hope...

Dungeons of Drakkenheim is pretty bleak if you run it as written. It’s based on Mordheim, and that sort of “twisted world” vibe with a healthy bit of Warhammer “everybody is grey at best” shines through. I submit Red Hand of Doom. It’s a fairly heroic adventure, pretty open but with clear...

Ooof, I didn't know that about SoS (they're...not good).

In part because even if the serial numbers were filed off Eberron is way too big of a Thing to be a singular frame. It would be pretty cool to collect together like 4-5 different Frames within the larger world though. Sharn has so many options that could be an entire campaign almost within the...

Gosh, DH works really well for Modern Urban Fantasy. We had to figure out a way to hide redcap corpses in a University Quad before their glamour wore off; track down a drug dealer off his clothes that had been used to disguise a summoned specter (a spirit of delinquency ofc), got stuck in rush...

To be fair, the Essentials classes are pretty terrible.

This ties back into the questions about balance and system assumptions though. In a game like Dungeon World, I may very well say exactly that after the fighter rolls a 6- on their clash and gets put in a spot and hurt by the orc; now it's pivot to the Rogue and "offer an opportunity." But that...

Yeah, and then that lets you tie it into certain class Exertion abilities to show off "yeah, this is a dodgy fighter" or whatever; or you can have Warlord types or whatever bestow it on allies as an off turn action.

I absolutely did, were there specific elements of the post that confused you and needed additional discussion? If you want to delve into the entire holistic design of DS! I think that's a little outside the scope of this thread. In short: it significantly refines the core of 4e powers and surges...

Daggerheart’s environments are a nice extension of things like lair effects without needing to go into full grid-level work. One downside of starting with 5e is you don’t have a GM side currency to spend to do effects without it seeming arbitrary; although you could work the Environment into the...

Nope, not at all. DS! has done a ton of play testing and has really tight and fairly flat math. The system is very intentional. Talents are the only class that can go into the "negative" on their per-round accumulated Heroic Resource. Doing so makes them strained. Each ability has a normal and...

I mean sure but I was just tossing examples out there! Easy solution is make it 1/encounter when you… Even more interesting might be to tie it to things that might happen off-turn, via coordination. Like if the barbarian has stuff that gives them an edge in knocking people prone or something...

It absolutely can work, it just needs heavy testing & balancing within interlocking systems. See: the DS! Talent and their choices around going into strained. But it’s not across the board - just a single class that uses it to add to their psionic flavor.

Neat ideas! I think that some sort of in-Initiative mode trigger to regen a resource that ties into the class fantasy would be cool too. Like maybe a Barbarian has “Bloodlust, gain 1 exertion when you land a killing blow” or Occultists can tap their HD or something to replenish, Nature is like...