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I don't know. Fate Horror Toolkit has a lot more actual tools for running horror than CoC does, even if CoC does Hammer Horror quite well, I've always thought that Chill was the better horror game there. IMO. But I'll give you that they're better than Fate with mood and atmosphere stemming from...

Horror campaigns are hard to do and I'd argue that most of it is not due to the rules. Not even Ten Candles or Dread can save the horror if the players are not leaning into it. Granted, rules might not help but if you can run horror in Fate — and you can — then you should be able to do it here...

Titangrave on Geek & Sundry were a show made to showcase and teach Fantasy Age. It had graphics popping up and explained in depth rules you'd need to know and how the maths worked. Age of Umbra isn't that. At all. There are tonnes of stuff in it that has me going "I really wouldn't have done it...

Not the whole but large parts of it yes. Positive things get voted down, negative voted up. I'd argue that there are very few 5e actual play that plays according to the rules as written. If you want to rules lawyer someone else's game, go ahead. I personally think if people have fun, then let them.

No, DH are for the people who want to play it. But we should also allow people some lenience to unlearn rules baggage from other systems. It's not easy to get rid of that even if you know the new rules in theory. The subreddit started to watch with the consensus that "Matt will be terrible...

I would really like to see Laura and Liam's session zero as well.

We have vastly different readings on that reddit then. For me, they're a gathering of people who have made cynicism their main character trait combined with being extremely thin-skinned in any sort of self-criticism. I think there was one positive Daggerheart thread there, the rest was "this...

They on the other hand don't seem to like anything and seem to have a lot of people who think Daggerheart is broken and bad because it's not 5e.

Henson claiming a whole sofa for himself.

I'd echo class, levels, attributes, and d20+ mod rolls. This make Dungeon World not a D&D despite how much it really wants to be seen as it. It means 13th Age, lots of OSR, NuSR (Beyond the Wall), and Pathfinder are all D&D. Edge case for me is the X Without Number but I still think they're...

In 4e terms Hope is your encounter resource, Stress your daily. And yes martials get daily abilities; in general the fighter-type ones are round either not taking or even healing hit point damage. Yes, I know what they are thank you, you're not alone in having read the rules. I was talking about...

I would say that more powerful things should cost stress since that's a more limited resource than hope, but also if an ability is cool you also kinda want the player to be able to use it. But I see a lot of melee and protective abilities cost stress as well, and I assume it's because they feel...

I think they were selected because, like it or not, this is the standard D&D party of the 2020s. Homemade world, Forgotten Realms, or Ravenloft, it doesn't really matter. If you look at how most people out there play 5e, their party will be the circus (affectionate).

Last selfie was me playing around with bad photocopier effects.

The Barovian gloom and doom hasn't set in yet.

People will get angry if they use D&D 2014, and people will get angry if they use D&D 2024, and other people will get angry if they use Daggerheart. So the best thing they could do what they want because some portion of the fanbase will get upset anyway. They need a shake-up.

100% agreed about the pace. But I also wonder if they've learned some from their own playtest and how WotC do theirs — it's better to have things be playtested for a while rather than a month or two before print. Especially if it has a whole new domain. So this is playtest for a book that comes...

Oh yes. I read the game and told people "this is what we should have played in 2016 rather than the highly modified Dungeon World!" (We had to add social things from Urban Shadows and fix the dungeon parts of the playbooks — we don't do dungeon crawls.) Darrington Press just have the worst...