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Nah. Dagger Heart solidly nails a particular niche(so does Draw Steel shadow Run DCC 5Shadow Dark). Those are all games with solid niches they accurately target their gameplay towards with not one of them missing it's niche by trying to be d&d.

Psst... You forgot what was being discussed. We were talking about how "mass market" & "hardcore serious tabletop gamers" are very different groups. Most of the AL players I see are just there because they can play d&d with all the time investment one could expect from a few rounds of pubg or...

Funny I've never heard anyone say that about similarly posted and run AL games. Quite the opposite in fact, the draw of AL tends to get held up as a big deal thing for d&d. Both games were run on multiple days with totally different groups of varied trrpg experience. Are you really claiming...

I've run both dh and ds in public/open games at a flgs. "Story and roleplay" is great sure, especially in a made for profit live play with a cast of professional voice actors but the average mass market player doesn't give a fig about roleplay beyond their own nose and just wants the ttrpg...

I think it's more like draw steel or crows but dagger Heart has a solid place among them for its niche

Yeah think it's a symptom of Rules As Written evolving under "rulings not rules" into Rules As a Guarantee & it's probably somewhat related to your be honest fair comment being built on a patch of rules that are quicksand or lava for the gm. Back in the old days it wasn't as difficult for the...

Ime there is a significant chunk of players who react to the gm creating that need through changes to monsters as an immense and unjust overstep and there is ultimately some moment of outrage where they explode in outrage over noticing that a monster is capable of hitting an absurd ac without a...

I think sometimes it feels like the HC adventures create a lot of unique throw away NPCs and distinctive places that could and should be combined into a smaller number of returning fixer types with longer tails and memorable places with history at the table. Some of that is almost certainly...

Why would players need to know when a combat will happen? They can simply predict that one is likely to happen eventually and be certain that it doesn't matter given the current rules It's not hard to grasp what I wrote Seems pretty basic English. Is the problem perhaps that you did not read...

Why would you think so poorly of the average player that there would even be a need to wonder how players could make those sorts of connections? That "crystal ball" is simply the fact that most players are human. Despite all of the tropes & memes that sometimes get tossed around about players...

Those structural problems are often the result of choices made to cater content to readers. Taking your CoS example, there is an NPC who shows up in a few places (sort of a paladin/monster Hunter type∆) the first time you see him there is not even a hint for the gm about his purpose or what...

That bold bit is the part I was saying that your earlier post was missing. Absent that sort of clarity it leaves the reader to guess what you might be referring to in the exhaustion rules.

Florida in general has a somewhat older skew in its population compared to a lot of other states Here in my corner of south Florida id guess that the ages skew a couple decades higher id peg the gap somewhere between 30something and 40 something. We have a couple regular younger...

That aligns with my experience too. There's a definite age gap between the average gm age and average player age among the regulars who show up to run/play AL at the flgs where I ran AL for years.

Campaign length adventures need to have some degree of pull apart support --OR-- they need to very explicitly define themselves as a railroad where the players lack agency to make choices that could result in them going around X ignoring Y and jumping straight to P before spending wayyyyyy more...

What you complain is putting words in your mouth is simply pointing out why your suggestions consistently ignore the problem scenario being discussed and are incapable of manifesting as the solutions you present them as being. I agree that it's not the GM's "job to care about story", but when...

Maybe when the players are abusing Long rests with long rest classes or still at low levels. Gritty realism ceases to be all that useful when players are abusing short rests with short rest classes as those short rest classes gain levels & progress into late tier2 or tier3+ levels. If anything...

You just created a 24hour tiny hut with an 11 minute cast time that uses no spell slot & the warlock's Hex spell now lasts eight times longer but the warlock is getting seven of those overnight 8 hour gritty short rests to the wizard/cleric/paladin/druid/etc's adventuring days. It seems easy in...

I'm going to comment on this because it's central to the point I keep making that you keep completely ignoring in order to blame the GM for not doing better at one thing or another until the players choose to start caring. In the past the GM had mechanical reasons why the players feel like they...

This is circular. If the players don't care about the fiction because their pcs need anything from the world and no longer need to worry about the complications of past rest/recovery implementations they should care about it when it's called "story"....your showing why wotc is long overdue for...