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You might be surprised just how common that attitude is. Or you might not. This is one of the major reasons I despise the pretension of academia and so-called critics of literature, film, art, etc. It always comes from a place of snobby elitism and a need to look down one's nose at others...

That's a great way to put it. I think my playtest suffered because the players mostly had the D&D 5E power-gamer, tactical-play mindset despite some of them being Critters and OC fans. Not sure how to get people to engage with the game as it is rather than how they think it should be. In my...

Same. I'm not a big fan of salads, mostly because when I make them at home they're boring. But gimme a good salad bar and I'm in. Absolutely love the seemingly random ingredients they put out.

Yes, because this tangent started from my playtest experience of players getting super upset about all the negative effects of the dice mechanics. As mentioned during that discussion up thread, one player was so upset that despite me tracking the rolls and showing them that log they accused me...

Gotcha. Yeah, I suggested much the same up thread. I think that might be a great house rule for Daggerheart. I seem to have the opposite play experience despite a similar attempt to start on the same page with players.

Yeah, that can absolutely work with the right kind of players. But that's not everyone. A lot of gamers I've played with would just say neither and get mad. Borrowing the terminology from the video linked up thread, there are theater kids and math kids. The theater kids would revel in that...

People have seemingly evolved to anthropomorphize everything.

My group was a mix of critters and not. They mostly were the kind of OC player who would like CR whether they actually watched or not. For example, despite it being a playtest, one of the players had a 8-10 page backstory written up for their character. There was definitely an air of power...

Yeah, that's a thing. As some others have mentioned, when playing games with complications besides just success/failure it doesn't feel as bad to get a complication thrown in the mix. But here it felt worse, for my players at least. It really did feel like a double or triple whammy. The crit...

Yep. That's one big reason why D&D 5E stuck success at 65% and fixed the leveling, PC, and monster math around that. We tend to feel failure twice as much as success, so if you win 2/3 of the time and fail 1/3 of the time it feels like you're at 50/50. I kept track of the rolls of my playtest...

It’s also back in stock at the CR store. https://shop.critrole.com/products/daggerheart-core-set

Daggerheart playtest: success with fear.

If you’re trying to get one Barnes & Noble has copies and ships within 1-2 days.

I bet he did. That's how they got that "clone".

Defiance. I remember that one. It started strong then just faded into the background.