We've Played the Daggerheart Open Beta! | The RPG Rundown #9 

Live how im getting a rabbit hole of Daggerheart rather than being funneled down to dnd! Glad people are looking into it and giving feedback!

GM gets their turn if they roll with fear OR they fail their attempt. Feel this second part is missed by a lot of folks. pg119 - Oftentimes, these moves will happen when a player rolls with Fear or fails the action they were attempting, but a GM can make a move any time the narrative demands it.

They may end up printing cards on full sheets of cardstock with perforations for the basic set, because you can package that as an insert. I mean maybe a whole booklet for the basic set, because that's a lot of cards - but a double pack of "book plus cardstock booklet" would save them a fortune on product cost. Cardstock sheets could be an insert for expansion content pretty easily though. On the other hand, a box set does give them the opportunity to include a dice set with different colored d12s which might something they're looking to do. It's too early to say, but they definitely have an array of options depending on what price point they're interested in marketing at. Oh last thing - like many have said, I'm definitely of the opinion they will offer a basic version with many fancy options in the merch store for those who want it. Cheers y'all

Angel can just be a nickname. I get it but not a big deal with me.

33:40 A critical success isn’t just two ones. It’s any time both duality dice match.

Thanks for this breakdown - as the GM for an actual-play stream, I really appreciated your thoroughness. We're seriously considering starting up a 2nd table (running a dark fantasy war story for the primary), and I was looking for something different enough to not be derivative, yet still within what our audience might find interesting. Daggerheart's now in the running!

Thanks so much for your in-depth review of the topics you were able to cover!

I prefer the domains to be as cards, if for nothing else, at 5th lvl and beyond you only have the 5 active cards in your load-out. by lvl 10 you'll have 5 in load-out and 6 in your vault, if I've got 11 domains with their full description on my sheet (that will actually require a whole separate sheet of its own) how do I remember what's in my load-out and not. If they choose to modify the character sheets to somehow incorporate the 11 domains, I'm just going to write out my deck on index cards and stick with this method. Tokens: Let's not forget that 5e has it's own acutrama, from the little rings to denote poisoned, cursed, etc. to the measuring tools to determine precisely if that Cone of Frost hit or not. While not being 'required' some mother's basement dweller is going to insist, the cost for all this usually falls completely on the DM. With these tokens if a player wants pretty ones that they bought or made for their character, cool. But going to the bank and getting a roll of quarters is just as valid and the cost is spread equitably.

I think wintery d&d mentioned using an action token cap. like 2 action tokens per player before they have to wait for everyone to spend their 2, then all players get their action tokens back. I would also say that, unless they're alone, no player can spend two actions in a row.

I do hope they have Aasimar and Genasi or something like them in the game.

I think Seraph is fine, because in this setting seraph is an occupation or a rank, and not an ethnicity or race.

I watched the pocket dimension thing too and I disagree with the seraph thing because "seraphim" is an angel in the hierarchy.. seraph is a name meaning angelic (think matrix revolutions had a program character named seraph).. its fine for a name of a holy class

Pretty sure its going to be a box set with all the cards and some tokens all in one. Maybe provide your own tokens if you want them but they arent necessary

Great video, gentlemen!! and I'm so sorry we ruined "Seraph" for you, @whitefoxsg! (but secretly glad that we're not alone on that feeling).

I disagree that there will ONLY be box sets. I would put high bets there would be the "box sets", which would include the book rules, and all the decks and some extras (like I made a tracker for Hope, Stress, Hp, and Armor) and probably a set of dice with an extra d12, and then just the book rules sold by themselves (also just a .pdf version for even cheaper), and then decks sold by themselves. (And the book / .pdf would have them set up like the beta version now where you could print your own.) Because only really one person at each table needs ALL the things. They almost certainly could share the decks. And honestly the decks aren't really necessary. Sure, I've made cards for D&D abilities years and years ago, so for ME they work great. But really just noting the abilities for DH, especially in the lower levels where you only have a few, would work just fine. My big question, especially the more I think about it, is; if you can swap any abilities/cards at any time, why are you only supposed to take a couple at a time? It seems like it might make more sense to say 'here are all of your abilities for this class and each has a hope and/or stress cost', because that's effectively what it boils down to if you can swap at any time for the cost of the stress. I get it if they are doing it to limit how much players are learning at once. Or even more importantly to make characters of the same class different from one another, but can they ever really be different if all abilities are effectively available at all times? And how different are they really since classes share 1 of 2 'decks' with another class? Like if you look at Bard and Rogue, who each only used Grace, that would make them far more similar than not. Yeah, it's a lighter / less complex game compared to things like D&D and Pathfinder, but I think maybe it could use a bit more depth than it currently has. (Like increase each deck by 30-40% and don't allow things to be swapped outside of long rests.) They are going to have to do expansions at some point, or do more before launch. Because right now there is no Monk class at all. You can't even force an existing class into it, it just wouldn't work. Same with Gunslinger, or even trying to pretend to be one with something like Warrior and using Finess. A ranged Warrior just wouldn't really work due to what the class cards do. (You could try, but it would be very challenging.)