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The thing to remember about Fate's Aspects is that they're narrative permissions wrapped in a bit of mechanics. When you do something that inflicts a condition on a target in Daggerheart, that's an Aspect. Things in the environment that would help or hinder you are Aspects...and in Daggerheart...

Despite not getting the whole win or lose mentality, this is something I do get. Modern players invest a lot of time and energy into their characters. Writing backstories, forming future plans, writing out their character "build" to max level, etc. And in a lot of games the actual act of...

Exactly. There seems to be a least some undercurrent of competition and competitiveness. I'm lucky that I haven't had that experience yet. I'm not sure I would have handled it as well as you did. I'd probably just smirk and say, "Rocks fall, you die," then tell the player to leave and never come...

Exactly. It's one reason why all this talk of winning and losing and various sports, marathon, or game analogies just fall flat for me. It's a game in the same sense that catch is a game. There's no winning or losing. You play until you don't want to any more. If you fail to catch the ball you...

There's a lot of different ways you could do things. Lots of different systems and subsystems to borrow from in the OSR and NSR scenes. Shadowdark's torch timer is one. You could use the in-built countdowns quite easily as light, resources, timers, etc. Spirit of 77 has something called Heat...

This idea keeps popping up and has for awhile now. Not sure how far back it goes as I don't remember Jon Peterson covering it in either Playing At the World or The Elusive Shift. I've never understood the idea that you can win or lose while playing RPGs. People claim that since it's a game, you...

Yeah. Maybe. I've never liked dragonmarks generally or dragonmarked PCs specifically so I'd probably drop it as a PC option entirely.

I don't know that you'd really need much, if anything, to convert it. You already have a campaign frame inspired by Eberron (Five Banners Burning). The game encourages reskinning and reflavoring so most things could be covered there. Ancestries. The clank (warforged) and katari (shifter)...

"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

I would push back on this a bit. The original 1977 Classic Traveller has a robust skill system and tells the referee to make up whatever skills or rolls they deem necessary to cover whatever else they might need or want. The note on the bottom of page 20 is fantastic. It was edited and changed...

Also, the SRD was updated and there’s a changelog. Addedto the OP. https://www.daggerheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/DH-SRD-1.0-June-26-2025.pdf

If people are looking for a copy and don’t want to wait for Amazon or the eventual second printing, Barnes & Noble seems to have some fairly consistently. The 3-4 near me have copies and you can order from their website.

“…to dungeons deep and caverns old…”

Surprise. People who take the stance that you're supposed to try to win an unwinnable game will treat any nuance as a speed bump in their race to twist what you say around in order to win a discussion. Note how you can't win a discussion, only an argument. Thank you all for proving my point.

Yeah, it's fairly ubiquitous stance in conversations about this topic. It goes hand-in-hand with the other fallacy that because RPGs are a game you're meant to play to win. As if you can win an RPG. Which you can't. But yeah, it's part of the whole attitude around optimization and optimizers...