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To me this says your knowledge of modern systems stops in about 2010. Because there was a vast leap forward in using mechanics to encourage characterisation starting in about 2010 with games like Fate Core, Apocalypse World, the Cortex Plus games, and others. And Daggerheart has basically...

Your perception [edit: that game lines are smaller not that there are fewer games as well] is absolutely right IMO - but on the flip side I can count many more indies with solid reps than I could in the 90s or the 00s. And games have got a whole lot better at focusing on a theme than they were...

I have three metrics for success. Commercially: Did it make break even? Design wise: Can I see myself running or playing this over using Fate, GURPS, D&D 5e, or the nearest existing PbtA game? Socially: Three years after release is anyone in my extended gaming network running or even talking...

That's basically what most narrative games (almost all the GM'd ones) do. The old school narrative games are all about cutting the cruft that gets in the way for a light and fast experience then relying on players and GM to go cinematic. The new school ones add lightish rules that enhance the...

Mothership. One survived. A win!

I'm not complaining about spell reuse. I'm saying that spells and spell reuse has been part of the identity of the psion in 2e, 3.0, and 3.5 and anyone claiming they weren't a spellcaster is trying to retcon. I wish they weren't spellcasters with a splash of paint - but that's what they have...

I'm with you right until this paragraph - but when you're trying to convince me that something like Levitate (Psionic) from 3.5 isn't a spell when it literally references the arcane spell I start wondering how little paint it takes for you to think something is different. They didn't even bother...

Or really any building with windows

Every single psion D&D has offered in every single edition has been disappointing to me, with the best psion in any edition being the 2014 Aberrant Mind (not letting them change subclass spells killed this in 2024 for me). The best psychic in the history of D&D for me has been the 2024 Great Old...

If you have total control over the tone you must have a very docile group of players. And yes if you have all the acting done against a green screen you aren't at the mercy of the actual environment and have more direct control

But they allow you more control over the tone than simple D&D style success/fail (never mind "roll to see if you have to roll again"). And a lot of grimdark is about the tone.

I mean we can all be disingenuous and cherry pick to pretend that moving parts don't exist or that single dimensional moving parts don't move at all. And we can assume good faith and that people can have different opinions they can back up with facts! As for fewer moving parts? Each part moves...

Just about any success-with-consequences game has a huge advantage over any non-success-with-consequences game for grimdark fantasy. On every single roll the PCs have about a 45% chance of "Rolling with fear" which means something gets worse, and a 45% chance of "rolling with hope" which allows...

I can't agree it's that clear cut. A level 1 Daggerheart character has: Stats Two ancestry abilities One community ability One class Hope ability (Costs 3 hope to use) One to two (mostly two) class abilities One to two (mostly two) subclass abilities Two domain abilities (which may be one...

A few more than that. You're looking at level 1 and have missed the domain abilities. My "character crunch" estimate is about equal to a 5e Monk from levels 1-3 with a bit steeper curve after that. But you have more variety and options thanks to the core mechanics including choices on rest and...

Having been through the rulebook myself I think the split isn't too different from 5e's pretty freeform non-combat and relatively crunchy combat (at least compared to that skill system). The Daggerheart combat will certainly be faster than 5e's and is easier to track. The target audience are...

To chime in this feels like a D&D-centric approach to me both because D&D 5e is a game with fairly crunchy and tedious combat and pretty light out of combat (as was 4e) and because there's a significant number of groups that are more than fine with this as long as the rules are good leading to...

In my experience people who want to play goliaths play stone or hill, people who want to play genasi play the others. The two most popular races that weren't previously in the PHB.