Daggerheart Discussion

[SteveC]

Just a quick comment to say how happy I am to hear all the news about Foundry. I'm going to try as hard as I can to get a game going with it. I'll gladly share details if I can put it together.

 

[Kichwas]

Just a quick comment to say how happy I am to hear all the news about Foundry. I'm going to try as hard as I can to get a game going with it. I'll gladly share details if I can put it together.

It's been a bit of a whirlwind as I was getting all over their case just a day ago but my vibe has had a major shift today. Not just Foundry, but there are some license changes potentially coming and some of the stuff from campaign frames is going into the SRD and well... a lot more.

Yesterday I was thinking seriously about dropping Daggerheart, today I feel very hopeful.

But I've always felt it's best to have passionately argued but loosely held beliefs and stances. Argue as strong as you can for what you're going for, but the moment you're wrong or the facts change, change with them.

 

[Marc Radle]

Curious to hear who here nabbed a copy of Court & Shadow this weekend at GenCon!

 

[Arilyn]

I casually mentioned to my players that I was interested in the Journey to Horizon campaign frame. They were curious, but as soon as I explained that it was like Zelda and some of the FF games with a dash of Lord of the Rings, they leaped on it. I have never seen my group leap this quickly on any game before. Absolutely rabid!

"Why didn't you mention this earlier? We could have made our characters tonight!"

"Because tonight we agreed to play board games and I wasn't sure if you guys would even be interested in that or maybe Monster of the Week or this other game I just got... "

Daggerheart it is.

 

[zakael19]

I casually mentioned to my players that I was interested in the Journey to Horizon campaign frame. They were curious, but as soon as I explained that it was like Zelda and some of the FF games with a dash of Lord of the Rings, they leaped on it. I have never seen my group leap this quickly on any game before. Absolutely rabid!

"Why didn't you mention this earlier? We could have made our characters tonight!"

"Because tonight we agreed to play board games and I wasn't sure if you guys would even be interested in that or maybe Monster of the Week or this other game I just got... "

Daggerheart it is.

Please report back with how the procedures feel in play! If it had been in the core book I would be running it rn.

 

[Arilyn]

Please report back with how the procedures feel in play! If it had been in the core book I would be running it rn.

I'm very curious about the travel procedures. They feel like they won't get too bogged down while still having some weight.

 

[zakael19]

I used some of the Hope and Fear adversaries last night (the not-Aztec shifters) standing in for Gnolls. Once again reminded that Standards are often kinda just useless, with low +s to attack & squishy when a character dumps some resources (the Ranger used his 3 Hope ability and something else and did Severe damage to 3 standards who'd used their group-up attack to no effect).

I did quite enjoy the Leader -> Solo Phase Change though. Did a bunch of lighter moves to induce dynamism in the fight: grab and toss a character towards a fire and give them a Reaction Roll to avoid...failed, now you're On Fire - Elemental Sorcerer, do you do something about that; or Bard charges forward to Power Push, fails with fear - she grabs him by the face and sends him flying (minimal damage, but Feels Cool).

Starting to get a little grumbly about some of the ability designs here (Rune Circle??? why is there no spell cast roll??), and talking with some folks on reddit certain things scale very badly into high tiers and some things get bloated for little gain. I dont think I'll ever want to push into T4.

 

[Neonchameleon]

I've actually been curious and already waiting for someone to take the Daggerheart blueprints and make a new game with it that isn't just "DH in space" or "DH out west" but actually fine tune the system and progress it without trying to also appease players who want d20 fantasy.

It's WIP but I've been running a playtest campaign of my Golden Daggers homebrew; a heavily hacked Daggerheart core (I've abolished domains for one due to print budget) with the setting inspired by K-Pop Demonhunters and paying tribute to Tenacious D. And there's a spinoff coming that covers large chunks of Persona, Power Rangers, and Magical Girl games (i.e. school kids that transform into powered people).

 

[mamba]

Does WotC even release anything in a given year that is for tRPGs?

I am thinking second in terms of Paizo being first. I’ve not seen anything from WotC since the core 2024 books and that’s been almost 2 years now.

Do they just put out a lot more stuff but only on their paywalled website so outsiders like me have no awareness that WotC actually does make content?

yes, they have released some books (starter set, 2 FR, Eberron, Ravenloft, 2 more FR in September), in print. If you have seen nothing and heard nothing that is clearly on you

 

[Kichwas]

yes, they have released some books (starter set, 2 FR, Eberron, Ravenloft, 2 more FR in September), in print. If you have seen nothing and heard nothing that is clearly on you

That's about mid-rate quantity. Split over how much time, 2026, or 2024-2026.

Darrington has yet to perform on its plan… but if it does, it’s not just 2 books/year. There is the adventures and other items.

None of which for the foreseeable future will be republished old content like setting updates. That probably won’t be a thing for some years to come.

I still think that if they manage to perform on this it will put them second behind Paizo. But it does look like it’ll be a close call

And even against Paizo it will have the benefit of being all new material and not updating to a new edition.