Hey everybody! I only found out about this game yesterday but have done a small amount of studying up on it. I'm interested in GMing it myself, and then playing if I can convince any of the other GMs in my circles that it's worth trying for them, too.

One thing I've just gotta know about the game is whether martials are more viable in Daggerheart than they infamously are in a certain other TTRPG. Now, I understand with the setting-based rules of Daggerheart, a GM could simply make martials capable of standing toe-to-toe with spellcasters (I think), but do the universal rules make it so that I could play as warrior thirsting for glory in battle, a knight seeking to use his blade and not much else to vanquish the forces of darkness, or a conniving swashbuckler wishing to rule the high seas with his tricks and trinkets without having to run to the nearest magician whenever things look a little rough?

In that other TTRPG, when I play, I'm usually quite stubborn about the fact that I like playing as fighters and barbarians more often than I play casters (though I do like going out as the occasional bard or wizard) and usually just accept the downsides and hope the DM- I mean GM is nice to me.

Thanks for your time and reading! Have a nice day, y'all! And if you have any tips on building my first martial character in Daggerheart, I'd love to hear them!

As the title states, I am a relic, an antique, aging like a fine vinegar. I initially avoided DH as I felt it was just going to be another narrative hyper focused game at which point I have always felt you might as well just be LARPing. Old man yells at clouds, news at 11. At the same, time after running a 2 year DND campaign to mid high levels I needed a change for my sanity from trying to balance the terrible encounter system that is DND. I did a deeper dive on DH and tried to look past the narrative focus bias I had and found what seems to be a great system. For those that have switched from more crunchy systems with detailed tactics, have you and your group enjoyed the tactical options in DH while still embracing the narrative focus of the game.

In a recent one shot, there was a situation where all PCs where in Very Close range of an Acid Burrower. All players wanted to move away from the Burrower, since the Acid Spit was damaging everyone. What are the options in daggerheart if everyone wants to take distance from a monster?

It is my understanding that moving away (within Close range) can RAW only be done as part of an action roll, thus creating opportunities for the Burrower to Acid Spit all other PCs again.

Of course the GM might rule that all PCs can move within Close range, since it could make sense for the PCs to do that in the fiction (scary monster and all that), but yet again the GM might also want to keep the PCs close to raise the stakes of the combat.

Do we have any guidance on how these situations can be handled, either RAW or through rulings that worked well at your tables?

Hi everyone. I've updated Daggerheart.org with the new content from Hope & Fear! (at least, the things that I'm allowed to from the SRD). It includes:

• Advantage & disadvantage info
• 1 domains (Dread)
• 4 classes (Assassin, Brawler, Warlock, and Witch)
• 8 subclasses
• 6 transformations (Demigod, Ghost, Reanimated, Shapeshifter, Vampire, and Werewolf)
• 130+ adversaries
• 28 environments
• 6 communities (Duneborne, Hearthborne, Frostborne, Warborne, Freeborne, and Reborne)
• 6 ancestries (Skykin, Tidekin, Earthkin, Emberkin, Gnome, and Aetheris)
• 100+ equipment & loot (weapons, armor, items, consumables)

I realise this is all a bit late, but I don't often get the time to work on it, and I wanted to do it properly 😄

Ok, so my first DH campaign is coming to it's final act (Tier 4). I've been planning out the details and scenarios for the last few adventures. In one of them I want the PCs to have to fend off a wave battle until a certain amount of time has passed, but critically I want them defending a McGuffin from these waves who will occasionally try to and perhaps successfully attack it.

So my initial thoughts obviously landed on countdowns. One counting up for the timer, one counting down for the loss condition. The loss condition is pretty simple. Each time a successful attack hits the McGuffin it ticks down. Set it at a reasonable number compared against the time one and maybe offer the PCs a chance to heal/repair the McGuffin as an action if they want as a kind of safety net. Cool.

The problem stems from the timer countdown. Every countdown I've used so far has either been a progress or consequence countdown or tied to an Adversary, so it's nice and obvious when it should tick. But what constitutes a "round" in DH, or time in a combat sense? Should I just use how many times the spotlight is used (ie how many actions are taken during the combat)? But that just feels like I have no firm grasp on what is a reasonable number of actions for the event, how many actions on average does a combat take? I could tie it to each time I take the spotlight, but that feels weird because each time things get "bad" they make progress on their goal. Do I just make it a Progress countdown? That feels weird there isn't really anyway for them to help the McGuffin do it's thing faster. Do I just count a round as some kind of vague number of players + maybe half the adversaries and the thing ticks every time the spotlight has moved that number of times? That feels more manageable than just straight spotlight shifts, but it becomes weirder to keep track of, as I'd be using a dual layered countdown (one tracking the number of "turns" and one for the actual time) and that just doesn't feel good.

So yea, I'm curious if anyone has done something like this before? How did it go for you? What tips/ideas do you have? Even if you haven't done something like this before how would you?

For additional context, the world is a setting where demi-gods called Childeren (spelling intentional) walk the world and offer strange Pacts with people who wish to practice magic. Each Childe is an aspect of the god they come from, which are the planets. All PCs that use magic have a Pact. One has a Pact with an entity known as the Lady of Ephemeral Fancy, who was believed to be a Lunachilde, but the player wanted them to be weird and mysterious and communicate only through dreams and visions. Earth is the only planet in our solar system that is not a god.

Through gameplay, their ideas, and my own I settled on the idea that earth was just not a god yet. Part of the plot has been the evil gods (comets, black holes, the empty void) trying to corrupt Gaia and stop her from being born. This also gave me the idea to turn the Lady of Ephemeral Fancy into a Childe of Gaia. Now she's finally being born in an astral mirror realm, a kind of idealized earth. But the evil gods are trying to stop that and sending minions to do so. The PCs are going to arrive right before Lady Eph is born, a weird flower pod containing her, but it's under assault by the enemy and I want them to hold out for a bit of time while a demi-god is born and prevent them from getting corrupted or killed.

I am traveling to NY in November and I would like to buy some Daggerheart items in a local store. I would really appreciate your recommendations for a place you like to but your Daggerheart items.

I've got the first session of a new Journey to Horizon game coming up shortly, and I had an idea for an environment to use during the inciting incident. I'd love some critique, and or suggestions on how to make it better. I feel like I need maybe a countdown or something to go with it, but I'm open to suggestions.

The Crumbling Descent (Tier 1 Event) Difficulty: 11

​The floor of the Temple to Aurelia has been violently torn open by thick, aggressively expanding roots of terrana magic. The descent is a chaotic, 45-degree slide of shifting marble, ancient soil, and tangled vines dropping into the pitch-black catacombs below. The air is choked with dust, the deafening roar of collapsing stone, and the echoing shouts of Tolren’s Fellsworn plunging into the abyss right behind the party.

Environmental Hazards & Features

The Shifting Scree: The entire slope is moving. Characters making an Action Roll must also contend with the sliding ground. A failure with Fear might mean they slip, losing their positioning or dropping a vital piece of gear.

Whipping Terrana Vines: Saraya’s overgrowth is still thrashing. Characters can use Agility to swing from these thick vines to bypass the worst of the rubble, but a failed roll means the magic violently lashes out, briefly restraining them.

The Raining Vault: Massive chunks of the temple ceiling are in freefall. This offers immediate cover from range attacks, but the falling stones are a hazard of their own.

GM Moves

Spend 1 Fear - The Ground Gives Way: A section of the rubble violently shifts directly beneath a player. They must immediately make an Agility or Instinct reaction roll to avoid sliding into a hazardous obstacle or taking 1d6 physical damage.

Spend 2 Fear - Desperate Grapple: A Fellsworn templar recklessly leaps from a higher ledge, crashing directly into a player mid-slide. The player must deal with this melee threat in extreme close quarters while continuing to plummet toward the catacombs.

Wir haben unseren ersten Kampf in DH gehabt und waren ziemlich erfolgreich, aber der Spieler des Schurken hat sich darüber beschwert, das es vollkommen unausgewogen wäre.

Sein Schurke hat ein Ausweichen Wert von 16 dank seiner Hoffnungsfähigkeit, der Textilrüstung und 'Unantastbar'.

Seine Basisschwellen für Verletzungen sind dafür nur 5/11 bei 3 Rüstungspunkten.

Mein Charakter ist ein Seraph als geflügelter Wächter. Mein Ausweichen beträgt nur 8, weil ich ein Großschwert führe. Aber dank 'Wer braucht schon Rüstung' und Panzer habe ich als Basisschwellen 11/21 bei 5 Rüstungspunkten.

Er findet es unausgewogen, das ich nur einen Kratzer bekomme, wo er fast Tot da liegt, wenn er getroffen wird.

Wie sehr ihr das? Bzw was sind eure Erfahrungen?