D&D Combat Problems and How Daggerheart Fixes Them 

The best part is i have run games both theater of the mind and it was "cinematic" and then got a grid and became tactical. its just the vibe you wanna go with. I added the environmental aspect to the game and things became super dynamic and the combat lasted for 3 hours and didnt feel boring at all

Absolutely! It's a wonderful concept.

Comparatively to Daggerheart the options are alot more, even if the level up is alot more streamlined after you picked everything, there is the option of multiclassing at any level up and that changes the dynamic if the character. "Mechanical" builds are alot more revelant than the single card option you get at level up from daggerheart. Though you are correct after you build the character everything else is just there. But building another character at higher levels the options are much more vast than you remember just leveling up.

Multiclassing is OPTIONAL, if you can't hack it as a player or DM, ban it.

​@sebbonxxsebbon6824 😂 still an option but your right. Most games allow it so it's almost a cannon rule. I didn't realize it is optional until you mentioned it. And I have sunken over 6500 hours into it 😅

@@dicegoblinnz4769 The problem is there are some really broken combinations, and some are 1 or 2 level dips....kinda tough to disallow it but those 1 and 2 level dips are a problem.

Bruh! thats brutal! hope it was fun though

Sick! Good luck! 🎉

Gave everything too much HP lol

Homebrew is so much simpler then dnd by a long shot!

I am curious what part are you talking about that the game is "playing you"? The relationship concept is not a mechanical thing its mainly there to help players get along with each other, if you want to craft a different style of backstory and work with the gm, the game doesnt stop you. Also you can arguably make what every character you want, mechanically it has some boundaries but so does dnd and other systems, but you can make it work just as you would a dnd character, the only thing that dnd has over dagger heart is that its been around much longer and has more "options" but ultimately its bending the rules to fit a theme. comparing the two systems for the base game, dnd has the same limitations as daggerheart does in terms of "options". The idea is that daggerheart gives alot more leeway for characters and not limit them mechanically and then you can forge what ever style or theme you want with your character. I am curious what is it that daggerheart dictates for you?

@@dicegoblinnz4769 It is a phrase meant to convey the sense of how little freedom i find in the system in parts that i really want it. The hope and Fear system is dictating how things go regardless of the story i want to tell. Oh they succeeded with fear? Something bad should happen according to the rules. That kind of stuff. It feels like a system that makes me adapt to it, instead of being adaptable to the story i want to tell as a player and a GM.

I don't know. If playing too much leads to boredom, I'd deem that a problem. Especially with a ttrpg, that should be possible to play endlessly. I for one have not a big problem with DnD Initiative. I think its unnecessarily swingy, but thats true for the whole system imo.

@@felixheitzer2262 if DnD has DH's current system people would be saying the same thing if fixed initiative we introduced today. Just admit you want something new because you play too much DnD

The "mechanic" in and of it self that is inititve is a good mechanic that's why it is widely used in digital games. But when you translate it to the time it takes for players to act and narrate what they do, it becomes a slow and monotonous process and thus the boredom after playing it for so long. It is not streamlined. While in digital games the computer auto randomized the rolls and animates the scene causing thr process to be seemless. When you get a chance to play other systems that don't have initiative and combat ends in 4 die rolls you will see the power of narrative storytelling in a tabletop setting. Masks is a perfect example of this.

​@felixheitzer2262 you are right theoretically you can play forever but that's where mechanical problems come in, and becomes bigger problems the more you play and that's where the boredom comes from it's from doing the same thing 1000 times and you must now do it one more time 😅

​​@@dicegoblinnz4769I know. That's what I meant too. Ttrpg rules need to be adepted to suit the needs of the table. And sometimes shaken up to prevent predictability.