Daggerheart survey from Darrington Press

[Retreater]

I had not looked at or followed Daggerheart for a bit, till @Aldarc put that thread out on Combat as Theatre.

Have you looked at this?

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/553609/menagerie-of-mayhem-volume-1

I've been hesitant because it's $15 for a 19-page PDF. That's a fairly premium product, especially when it doesn't add tons of new content.

I helped playtest some of the monsters in this. Some good stuff from good people. It was art first inspired.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/544239/incredible-creatures-adversaries-for-daggerheart

I def let them know they need more monsters etc.. but I want adventures too.

This one has more content, so I'm interested.

The only downer about both of these products is that I run the game exclusively using my tablet and the Fresh Cut Grass site. I can build encounters, track HP and stress, etc. With these sources not being on the app I'll need to do more prep to determine what enemies are available, figure out the convoluted encounter building system manually, and track everything on notebook paper.
(I guess this is how D&D players have been spoiled by DND Beyond.)

Official sources of adversaries, put on Fresh Cut Grass, would be preferable. I mean, since we're sending Darrington Press a wish list of content anyway.

 

[zakael19]

Fresh Cut Grass isn't an official system though? It's got everything from the SRD, and what people add. I think a bunch of the Incredible Creatures have been added to there by folks, but not by the creator. If you buy a supplement, surely it doesn't take that long to load new profiles in there based on what would be useful to you?

Menagerie of Mayhem is also available on HeartofDaggers, the DH focused community storefront. It's a little cheaper there.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

So I think the core failing of this survey is that they kept asking me about what products, digital tools, etc. I think would be good without ever establishing whether I actually like the game or want more products from them. Since the answer to both is "sort of, but not really" I'm probably not the person they should be getting feedback from about digital products.

 

[Reynard]

So I think the core failing of this survey is that they kept asking me about what products, digital tools, etc. I think would be good without ever establishing whether I actually like the game or want more products from them. Since the answer to both is "sort of, but not really" I'm probably not the person they should be getting feedback from about digital products.

I don't think they are worried about people that don't like the game. I mean, why would they be?

 

[Benjamin Olson]

I don't think they are worried about people that don't like the game. I mean, why would they be?

Generally it makes more sense to cater one's product line or offerings to the opinions of people who intend to keep buying or consuming them rather than those who do not.

Now arguably I'm on the fence, because while I'm not pleased or satisfied with Daggerheart as a game, I'm still conceivably persuadable to purchase more Daggerheart products were I to think they might improve it for me, so I might be exactly the sort of person they'd want to hear from in certain contexts. But asking me, as the survey did, to rank a bunch of things I'm not particularly interested in, without actually asking me whether I'm likely to buy, use, view, or whatever any of them is not likely to give them useful information even about what they should make for me, much less the proper Daggerheart fans they are presumably more inclined to cater to.

 

[aramis erak]

I noted a desire for digital copies of the dead tree I buy; I forgot to include at the end that I want an official Foundry module... but the Foundryheart module (Fan done) is excellent.