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A very informative video interview with him. Just like being there. You'll be missed, sir.

One thing I've recently come to appreciate about 2E is how optional a lot of the subsystems were. Easy to add complexity or take it away to customize an experience. My favorite OSR game (Swords & Wizardry) is similar in that respect. Optional rules are clearly marked.

"Are we being too literal?" "No, you fool, we're following orders!" --Spaceballs I haven't created anything because the game is like "don't create a campaign before people come to the game - just have a few outlines they can vote on." "Just have the vague notion of a story - don't write an...

I've seen it reported by several outlets now. I had the interaction of helping him set up his GenCon booth once. He had no help, just carting a wagon down the sidewalk one summer in Indianapolis. He got me in the vendors entrance. I helped him put out his wares. He told me about the dice...

Optional. With the exception of Psionics, which was core to my 2e experience.

I've had several memorable encounters with him over the years. Once I helped him carry and set up his booth in the GenCon dealers hall. He had great stories. I'll be looking for the official story. This will be big news in my circle.

I was talking to my wife last night and expressing some disappointment with Daggerheart. It's a great system for many things and my players enjoy it, but I'm eager to move on at the end of my current campaign. First, I've been running two campaigns (Witherwild and Motherboard) for close to 6...

I like a lot of humor. I've even competed in amateur stand-up comedy nights. I blame my aversion to this specific kind of humor to growing up in the Bible Belt during the Satanic Panic and being bullied because of my interests. Nerd stuff gets popular, a bunch of comedy comes out about it: Big...

Yeah. Unfortunately minions and hordes in DH are basically worthless as opponents. Do pathetic damage. Not challenging in the slightest.

This is one of those properties I've been told to read/listen to because I'd "absolutely love it." I actually really dislike mixing fantasy/sci-fi and humor. I don't like Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams, Princess Bride or 5th Element. But everyone in my gaming group loves this. They'll...

Nope. Those increases will give you even better stats than anyone else in the party.

So it's not only the druid's combat abilities, but also the ability to do anything at any time. Need a scout that can get anywhere? Need to basically be invisible? Need to fly? Need to swim? Need to teleport the party anywhere? Need to heal damage? Need to do the most damage of any character...

My wife is playing a druid. She can admit it's the most overpowered class she's ever played. (And she's a "numbers go brrrr" player.) Last session, another player commented that they were happy to see my wife playing a character that is so fundamentally overpowered that it can essentially solve...

Well, yeah. But it is what it is. I'm fortunate that our sessions are mostly consistent and all players show up. I'm also running for several players with attention difficulties, so going much longer and they'll get squirmy. Back in the day, my groups would do 6+ hours. We'd regularly lose...

I placed my preorder a few days ago. Looking forward to this quite a bit. Should be getting here in time to start my next campaign.

Let me get this out at the beginning: if y'all had fun, that's great. I'm not going to say you're having badwrongfun. But I think that a pre-written adventure misses out on what makes Daggerheart breathe and risks turning it into just another "trad 20" style RPG. By minimizing GM moves with...

Around 3-3.5 hours. We play weekly.

I guess so. That's sort of a different way of handling campaign settings than traditional fantasy RPGs which are just collections of maps, names, and histories. Traditionally, any campaign specific rules apply to the entire world. But if a Daggerheart campaign setting would be like "Here's...

I ran it for about a month before my group lost interest with the ease of all the encounters and emptiness of Level 1. We had 4 players.

I think Critical Role sticking with D&D is what hurt adoption the most. I think also that you can't really sell traditional RPG products for Daggerheart. Adventures are pointless because they're created at the table and supposed to be "loosey-goosey." Campaign settings provide too much detail...