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Boardgames are one of the secondary activities of my gaming group. We aim to meet weekly, and the #1 plan is to play an RPG. If the GM hasn’t had the time or headspace to prepare, we will usually switch to boardgames as a secondary option which we also really enjoy. We have a few RPG-like board...

My understanding is that you get the spotlight and get a point of fear as the GM if a players rolls with Fear on an action roll. You don’t necessarily have to use the spotlight to attack the PCs, however. But you get to make a move as the GM so can push the scene in some way.

I suspect GMs will need to do this regardless, as spending Fear allows the GM to take the spotlight. So managing spotlight will be a key skill for running combats in Daggerheart, across both PCs and NPCs. I think this will be one of those things people need to try out and see if it is fun for...

I’m coming at this from a theoretical perspective as I haven’t run it yet, so take my ideas with a pinch of salt… It seems to me that this just needs the same GM table management skills as you would typically apply in a non-combat scenario. Watch the table, make sure Spotlight is being shared...

I will start be saying - IANAL. Implementing DH in an existing VTT seems different from creating a VTT to run DH to me as a lay-person. Certainly, there are fan-made implementations of D&D 4e and GURPS for Fantasy Grounds, for example. I don’t see why you couldn’t do that with DH?

Ah, the good’ol DeLorean method…

Given that you always generate hope or fear on an action roll, there is no ‘vanilla’ success to contrast against. So success / failure with hope seem to function as base pass / fail while ‘with fear’ seems to be ‘yes but’ and ‘no and’ respectively. A critical success is the ‘enhanced’ success...

I agree, the statements are not mutually exclusive or contradictory in my opinion.

They may be playing deliberately slowly to allow the audience to keep up and get familiar with the mechanics? I haven’t watched it yet.

That’s a table choice kind of thing. From p176: “Some players love getting new weapons and armor, while others may have established an emotional connection to an item (for example, a family heirloom sword or armor once worn by an old friend) and want to keep it. If PCs want to keep their...

They are a sliding scale of complexity in the changes involved. I think you need to actually see the content to get the full understanding of what they are doing / demonstrating. The most involved frame is a Weird West setting which involves battling giant monsters Shadow of the Colossus style...

Making changes is not a binary thing, with the type and degree of change required making a big difference in how good a fit or otherwise a system is. I say this as a person who has adapted systems like GURPS or Savage Worlds to many different campaigns, and the two are very different activities...

This sounds like the job for a campaign frame, where characters with powers choose from being a psionicist or a defiler (I think there is a third option? Haven’t played Dark Sun). The campaign frame rules would define what happens when you use a power based on your type. How defiling works, and...

Time (and play) will tell, however I think that DaggerHeart has that ‘loosely coupled systems’ quality in its design that makes a system like Savage Worlds easy to home brew in my experience. I will definitely play the default rules and some of the provided frames to get a feel for things...

The campaign frames in the book are both ‘official’ and ‘examples’ in my opinion. They exist to illustrate how GMs can add campaign-specific rules to tailor the core experience to whatever you need for a desired game feel or theme.

Also, there are no ‘rabbit people’ presented in the DangerHeart core.

I’m at the point of having finished the player sections, and just about to start on the GM section. So far the game is very interesting. One thing that stood out to me, when I was reading the ancestry powers pretty much every one had an ability I thought sounded amazingly powerful. The...

Aye

The badly mangled Kickstarter killed my interest in the game, unfortunately. It has some interesting qualities but I doubt I would want to run it for anything but the most relationship driven campaign since this seems to be it’s USP versus systems like Fate (IMHO at least).

When you need to be low, ducking is always a good option…