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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9649907" data-attributes="member: 18">I think I'd need to play Daggerheart with an actual group several times to give any kind of answer that wasn't kind of half-arsed, and that's unlikely to happen until it's out at the very least, and maybe not even this year (depending on when Draw Steel! comes out). I've looked through the playtest, and I can say this - it definitely doesn't superficially seem particularly similar to shonen manga by RPG standards. Please note that a lot of RPGs do resemble shonen or isekai manga/anime (or both - you can combine the two - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_Leveling" target="_blank">Solo Levelling</a> does for a popular modern example)! But I'm not seeing any particular similarities beyond those found in easily the majority of fantasy RPGs.D&D, for example, actually resembles a lot of manga and anime (particularly shonen and isekai) in that D&D inspired the early computer RPG Wizardry which inspired most early JRPGs (and is still "big in Japan") which in turn lead to Japanese JRPGs which in turn helped lead to a particular kind of isekai manga/anime (i.e. either "trapped in a video game", or "the world works like a videogame, but only for me and perhaps a few rivals"), as well as to general fantasy anime/manga which tends to have far more D&D-ish tropes the Western fantasy does (c.f. Frieren for a recent example).</blockquote>