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Well yeah, I would never push a game like PF2 or DS! on people I know don’t want to engage with rules. That sounds like a miserable experience for all concerned.

Was reflecting on the design of this as I was driving in, having digested a fair bit of player and monster abilities from the DT Quick Start yesterday along with reading through the short form rulebook, and I think this might be one of the best links of mechanics and fiction in a...

I was referring to how “make an additional GM move” is “do anything the game suggests a GM can do.” Thus what you can spend fear on is actually “everything the game allows you to do if it feels dramatically appropriate in this moment.” Additionally, whenever the spotlight pivots back to the GM...

Because it’s side based I-Go-You-Go combat, there’s going to be at least a little bit of back and forth and plenty of examples of that being intentional in the book. It wants you to do quick coordination and teamwork that’s aware of mechanics, and then translate that back into the fiction to be...

I was telling the group tonight as we were talking through games to try how impressed I was that DS! very quickly shows that there’s win conditions other then “kill em all.” You very quickly get things like "use a maneuver to determine the magic thing is causing the problem, and you can deal...

I can't speak to the specific scenario this was in reply to, but the DS! Quick Start adventure setup is created specifically to teach the rules in slow manageable chunks with encounter designs that get progressively more complex and open to avoid just this sort of thing; as well as teach GMs via...

Well, I’m going to run a few test sessions of Delian Tomb for one of my groups. Should be able to get some opinions on subject because one player does PF2e every week and loves tactical gameplay; one said “huh, wonder if it’ll actually be fun to play unlike PF2” and one is an OSR / narrative...

GM Move: "Use a PC's Backstory Against Them" / "Show the Collateral Damage" / "Reveal an Unwelcome Truth" can lean into an Experience, but isn't quite a Compel from how I understand that mechanic. Note though "Make an additional GM move" is extremely broad.

I think there's also a split between "D&D the actual mechanical game that's gone through a number of iterations and grown to be a highly combat sub-system focused design that everybody has a favorite version of" vs "D&D, the fictional genre of related media that has grown up over the decades and...

Are you playing the playtest adventure (based on the encounters you described it sounds like it)? The Delian tomb "Start Here" packet pregens all have an excellent assortment of skills. Also, I wonder if a GM coming from a more narratively open game or who has experience running later design...

Or, conversely, they did some deliberate planning to try and avoid excess stock based on anticipated demand and sales exceeded their projections. @Morrus can you shed some light on how long it usually takes to get a large scale hardcover print run spooled up / shipped to distributors / back in...

I dont believe the CR business group has gone out there and announced "we plan to take X% of market share!" or "our Press unit is an utter failure unless it turns $6MM in sales this year!" or anything. Edit: the most they've said is it's a "major part" of their business plans. What you can read...

Maybe one of the “details TBD” adventures will be aimed to extend one of the starting situations stuff each frame presents into 10-15ish hours of play thing.

Trimmed down rule book? Dropping that away from a hardcover might work. There’s space for the Sablewood to become an actual set of Situations with a bunch of prompts for the GM to ask player input in how the narrative flows. A good level 1-3 flow or something, with ideas where you could go next...

Haha yeah, core sets - I’ve been looking at/talking about QuickStarts for other games and the term got crossed in my head!

I’m not sure what Parmendur is posting about. They seem to be gleeful about DH surpassing shadowdark for some reason, while also generally disliking DH’s actual designs or not being interested in looking at said actual design before making sweeping statements. I do think that DH was consciously...

I saw 5 starter sets at the FLGS display table I stopped in at Monday. Looks like the next batches are flowing in!

If you read the blog, you can see the actual intent here and how it’s not that at all.

Yeah, DH definitely uses a set of consistent key words that need some definition. The good thing is that they’re pretty much all taught directly from the character sheet and its explanatory “Sidecar.” Rather confusing to read without context though!

These are what I have nostalgia for. Formative memories of fantasy play. No real connection to FR beyond that, and not the more recent stuff either.