Daggerheart General Thread [+]

[BruceWright]

If you lift one piece of that guidance out of its context, or treat a pacing tool as a fixed rule, you’re no longer engaging with the system as it’s presented. Daggerheart isn’t meant to be run piecemeal; it’s designed so that the principles laid out at the start carry through to every part of the game. Ignore those foundations, and of course the advice will feel mismatched — but that’s a result of losing the context, not of the advice itself.

Yeah, a frustrating thing is when people find one line from the SRD and treat it like it’s from a book of rules written in a legalese fashion.

Daggerheart is not written in that style, and so interpreting a portion as if it is, is to misunderstand the portion quoted.

 

[zakael19]

No, I think that listing actual amounts of fear was a bad move they should’ve avoided. The table is weird, and would been probably better off without hard numbers. Like, spending 4 fear in a standard battle will often leave things incredibly underwhelming.

The guidance in the paragraphs above the table is great.

 

[Imaro]

So im curious... if fear cap doesn't really affect anything... why have one... or maybe a better question is why 12 vs 20 or 6 or 3?

 

[zakael19]

So im curious... if fear cap doesn't really affect anything... why have one... or maybe a better question is why 12 vs 20 or 6 or 3?

12 because they try and do multiples of 6 wherever they can as a design conceit, and a cap around that much so that you can hold a max roll of d4 + 5 after a long rest and still either have a bit of space to accumulate or not overcap a bunch. Not much higher to remind you to spend fear to add interesting complications.