What do YOU plan on doing with Daggerheart?

[Neonchameleon]

The game went like this:.
I spend cool pc tokens for bonus, I rolled dross, GM gained fear

GM spends fear, several adversaries roll very well as he spends fear etc .

Another player uses cool stuff, rolls dross.
Rinse and repeat.

Whether physical combat, social etc
Can't recall another game being so brutal for bad PC rolls

Hopefully one off nightmare session.

Sorry to hear that. Sometimes the dice just hate you. (And on one occasion we found out why; one of the players was rolling a 20 sided d10 by mistake).

 

[Reynard]

The game went like this:.
I spend cool pc tokens for bonus, I rolled dross, GM gained fear

GM spends fear, several adversaries roll very well as he spends fear etc .

Another player uses cool stuff, rolls dross.
Rinse and repeat.

Whether physical combat, social etc
Can't recall another game being so brutal for bad PC rolls

Hopefully one off nightmare session.

Make sure the GM is following the spotlight and fear rules correctly. I have seen some people complaining online and it turns out sometimes the GM is either multi-spotlighting adversaries they should not be allowed to, or is spotlighting all of them for one fear, etc. It is of course possible that the dice were just that bad, but user error happens with new systems.

 

[John R Davis]

Make sure the GM is following the spotlight and fear rules correctly. I have seen some people complaining online and it turns out sometimes the GM is either multi-spotlighting adversaries they should not be allowed to, or is spotlighting all of them for one fear, etc. It is of course possible that the dice were just that bad, but user error happens with new systems.

He has being doing it correctly

 

[jian]

Yes, I think it’s not very clear how the GM uses Fear and that’s somewhat down to trying to split the difference between PbtA rules (“GM makes a Move in reaction to PC moves/results and when it’s appropriate”) and D&D etc rules (“NPC goes when it’s their turn”).

As noted, the GM gets slightly less Fear than players get Hope, on average, but can accumulate more. If the GM doesn’t spend much Fear early on then they can end up blowing all their Fear in the last fight and making the PCs’ lives very difficult, which is what can happen with Trouble/Doom pools in Cortex.

I do like the creative uses of Fear in the Adversary listings, such as Scapegoat for the Courtier (spend Fear to make a major NPC or crowd believe a PC is to blame for something) or Exile for the Petty Noble (spend Fear to exile the PCs from the noble’s territory, giving them Disadvantage to do social stuff there).

 

[overgeeked]

Yes, I think it’s not very clear how the GM uses Fear and that’s somewhat down to trying to split the difference between PbtA rules (“GM makes a Move in reaction to PC moves/results and when it’s appropriate”) and D&D etc rules (“NPC goes when it’s their turn”).

As noted, the GM gets slightly less Fear than players get Hope, on average, but can accumulate more. If the GM doesn’t spend much Fear early on then they can end up blowing all their Fear in the last fight and making the PCs’ lives very difficult, which is what can happen with Trouble/Doom pools in Cortex.

I do like the creative uses of Fear in the Adversary listings, such as Scapegoat for the Courtier (spend Fear to make a major NPC or crowd believe a PC is to blame for something) or Exile for the Petty Noble (spend Fear to exile the PCs from the noble’s territory, giving them Disadvantage to do social stuff there).

In my playtests I’ve had to fight to keep from capping fear constantly. The suggestions in the book re: how much fear to spend depending on the scene is garbage as far as I’m concerned. If I’d have done that I’d be sitting at 12 fear most of the game.

 

[Reynard]

In my playtests I’ve had to fight to keep from capping fear constantly. The suggestions in the book re: how much fear to spend depending on the scene is garbage as far as I’m concerned. If I’d have done that I’d be sitting at 12 fear most of the game.

I ended up with a lot of fear in my playtest, too, despite spending it constantly because I was rolling so poorly. But one session is not really enough to go by.

 

[Neonchameleon]

I've ended up with a lot of fear in every session I've run. I don't mind; it sets the players on edge in the right way and is very freeing to have this resource the game wants me to spend so the players will not thing things are unfair.