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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9706551" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>One thing to note here is the Fear/Hope amounts are retained across sessions - they don't reset.</p><p></p><p>Which should help with excesses in one direction or another, because it's close to literally impossible that, over time, this wouldn't correct itself. The first session I played had an excess of Fear, the second an excess of Hope. I do think there is some "wonkiness" but whether that's a feature or a bug is a question - every even slightly crunchy RPG has a degree of "wonkiness" in this sense, albeit it tends to appear in different places.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah this is an important point - if the PCs are short on Hope, but also ignore Prepare, which can give 2 Hope per Short Rest, that's a fairly significant thing to overlook. It can be worth resting just to get that Hope, if the situation isn't so narratively urgent that you can't spend an hour resting, especially if the DM is already at or close to full Fear, which seems to be what [USER=7044197]@RenleyRenfield[/USER] was describing. My group used it a lot, including letting themselves retain a small amount of HP or Stress or Armour damage in order to get Hope.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It's a 54% chance to generate a Hope on a roll. If you were generating "buckets" of Fear but not much Hope, it might be worth double-checking the Hope/Fear rules were followed correctly. For example, my players kept forgetting 2x the same value == Crit Success. So even if you roll two 1s, that's a Crit Success, but I had players reporting stuff like two 4s as "failure", and only when I quizzed them on whether it was with Hope or Fear did we get to me realizing they were actually describing a Crit.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Um, no.</p><p></p><p>No that's definitely <em>not </em>the math.</p><p></p><p>There's no "each" (my bold and colour). If that was the case you were getting the rules <em>very seriously</em> wrong. If that's just a typo for "total" (a pretty big typo but still, it happens) then that might kinda make sense, but still only kinda, because there's no such thing as a "turn" in Daggerheart and on average, for ever 3 Fear generated, you'll generate 3.24 Hope.</p><p></p><p>The only other explanation I can think of re: "turns" is that you were using the optional token-based action-tracking system, and you saw that as a "turn"? But then that's still wrong, because you'd be generating 1-2 Fear per "turn" (1 the majority of the time), because you get three actions each, with a 54% chance per action of generating Hope, and 46% chance of generating Fear. That just doesn't match up with "2-3 each".</p><p></p><p>So I'm slightly unsure what you're trying to say here - your position seems to be "We did all the rules right and X happened", but your description doesn't really match with the rules very well. So it kind of seems like you didn't do the rules right, it seems like you misunderstood or overlooked something pretty fundamental. I could be wrong but we need some more info, given you're going around accusing people of being difficult and dishonest with you.</p><p></p><p>What is it you mean by "per turn"?</p><p></p><p>Do you mean "total" rather than "each"?</p><p></p><p>Unless these questions can be answered, it's very hard to assess what you're saying, and I think the people uncritically accepting it might actually want to reconsider, because it doesn't make sense, and it doesn't add up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9706551, member: 18"] One thing to note here is the Fear/Hope amounts are retained across sessions - they don't reset. Which should help with excesses in one direction or another, because it's close to literally impossible that, over time, this wouldn't correct itself. The first session I played had an excess of Fear, the second an excess of Hope. I do think there is some "wonkiness" but whether that's a feature or a bug is a question - every even slightly crunchy RPG has a degree of "wonkiness" in this sense, albeit it tends to appear in different places. Yeah this is an important point - if the PCs are short on Hope, but also ignore Prepare, which can give 2 Hope per Short Rest, that's a fairly significant thing to overlook. It can be worth resting just to get that Hope, if the situation isn't so narratively urgent that you can't spend an hour resting, especially if the DM is already at or close to full Fear, which seems to be what [USER=7044197]@RenleyRenfield[/USER] was describing. My group used it a lot, including letting themselves retain a small amount of HP or Stress or Armour damage in order to get Hope. It's a 54% chance to generate a Hope on a roll. If you were generating "buckets" of Fear but not much Hope, it might be worth double-checking the Hope/Fear rules were followed correctly. For example, my players kept forgetting 2x the same value == Crit Success. So even if you roll two 1s, that's a Crit Success, but I had players reporting stuff like two 4s as "failure", and only when I quizzed them on whether it was with Hope or Fear did we get to me realizing they were actually describing a Crit. Um, no. No that's definitely [I]not [/I]the math. There's no "each" (my bold and colour). If that was the case you were getting the rules [I]very seriously[/I] wrong. If that's just a typo for "total" (a pretty big typo but still, it happens) then that might kinda make sense, but still only kinda, because there's no such thing as a "turn" in Daggerheart and on average, for ever 3 Fear generated, you'll generate 3.24 Hope. The only other explanation I can think of re: "turns" is that you were using the optional token-based action-tracking system, and you saw that as a "turn"? But then that's still wrong, because you'd be generating 1-2 Fear per "turn" (1 the majority of the time), because you get three actions each, with a 54% chance per action of generating Hope, and 46% chance of generating Fear. That just doesn't match up with "2-3 each". So I'm slightly unsure what you're trying to say here - your position seems to be "We did all the rules right and X happened", but your description doesn't really match with the rules very well. So it kind of seems like you didn't do the rules right, it seems like you misunderstood or overlooked something pretty fundamental. I could be wrong but we need some more info, given you're going around accusing people of being difficult and dishonest with you. What is it you mean by "per turn"? Do you mean "total" rather than "each"? Unless these questions can be answered, it's very hard to assess what you're saying, and I think the people uncritically accepting it might actually want to reconsider, because it doesn't make sense, and it doesn't add up. [/QUOTE]
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