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- This isn't a D&D killer, but it might act as a ghetto for the theatre kids.
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Of course, but one must review and consider what one is presented
It’s basically ironsworn with vertical scaling. The game play is the exact same as ironsworn’s story game style but you can scale, weapon damage, armour, health, stress , rolling to hit and durability.
Ironsworn only lets to grab more and more assets and horizontally grow scenarios you get advantages in
because 2d12 statistically looks like a pyramid, small bonuses will have a pretty outsized influence on the average result compared to rolling a d20. Being able to combine a ability score bonus with an experience/skill bonus can get you up to +4 or +6 at level 1, and getting advantage can push up your average quite a lot. But you're definitely not just stacking up ones and twos like pf2.
Your commitment to open-mindedness is commendable. (I know that's one of your main things, but still. Thanks)
I concur!
I concur with your concurrence.
I appreciate that!
So thats a quorum.@@foxtrotelement
Why do the story games have more complex combat systems than games that were designed around combat? 🤔
It's the difference between having played combat systems for long enough to want them simpler and then have the experience to do it.
because dnd d20 combat is like the slow child of combat systems.
Cards are feats essentially. I agree that there are a few more fiddly bits that don't really seem to add anything to the game. You needs cards, tokens, different dice and so on and so many small things to keep track of on the character sheet.
The thing I do not agree is that safety tools are useless. I have seen them be useful in my online games and the evidence I have shows me they are useful.
On the other hand, Far Verona, UK Games Expo, etc etc
Great review, grim and informative. I would add a heart emoji but you have plenty.
Adjectivenoun is the best new modern fantasy game. Your character can have so many powers, like adjectivenoun, adjectivenoun, and gerund noun.
I remember my first impressions were it seemed like a schizophrenic mess of mechanics pulled from many of the most popular systems (savage worlds came to mind), but it seems to function at least from a surface level.
I sense that as well. Probably because of candela's failure, they are trying to rein things in and create something more familiar.
Great review! As usual, Traditional D&D Basic/Expert and AD&D trumps once again. No need for any other D&D game in over 40 years.
This isn’t a dnd game :) it’s more a pbta game that made compromises to make dnd player feel comfortable. They did really well making a hybrid that works and sits in the middle
Thank you for your presentation of the game. I wanted to read through the rules but I'll save that for now. Because you're so quick with a video. Oh Jim, it's just a horror how we players are milked. This shows me that everything is moving towards usable merch again. Freeleague makes it so bad too. I assume that they want to sell Daggerheart as a box so that it exudes that old school charm. For me it's not an Instabuy yet. I don't see a DnD killer either. What could happen, however, is tension between DnD players and critters.
Thanks for taking an honest look. I was probably not going to buy already since CR don't play how I do, but I like to know what the product is from a source who plays how I'd like to
Glad I could help
The hope/fear mechanic sound tedious with this current implementation - for every action/ attack.
And as a GM you have to find a meaningful positive/negative outcome or what's the point.
Applause for trying this game.
That was the original intent, it seems, and it's still what they say in videos, but it seems like both aspects have been "tokenized." When you roll with hope, you get 1 hope, which can be spent now or later. When you roll with fear (in or out of combat), the DM gets a token, which can be used whenever...adding enemies to combats, taking moves "out of turn", etc. So it seems to me that they've gone a ways in reducing the hope/fear toll on the DM. As far as I see it, it means the DM doesn't have to come up with these consequences on the spot, when the roll is made (though they still can).
Have you seen Crown & Skull?
It's a pretty new game, borrowos from ItO/ Cairn but takes it further. Does some interesting things IMO (no hit points or stats, only skills and equipment that get damaged when hit and so you can't use it). Character creation is very modular. There's a free quickstart online, you may like it
Ignoring the ancient idea of "roll dice, there's your stat, have a day"... does that "distribute +1 and +2 to your stats" really have any benefit over "You have sixty points, distribute them across six stats"? Or ye olde point-buying?
Thanks for the video, Grim. The game looks to have some decent aspects to it (the 2d12 looks intresting in paper), but I'm not really interested in playing it (I have secluded myself into only playing like 3-5 systems in the later years).
Curious, I think I have never heard you talking about some of following indie darlings:
-Mausritter
-EZD6
-Maze Rats & Knave
Have you done any review or have an opinion about either of this games?
I have not read, encountered or played any of those.
@@PostmortemVideoOh, Mausritter is really nice, maybe even mice. It’s inspired by Knave, Cairn and Into the Odd, but you play small animals and cats and owls are your worst nightmare.
Adopting that perspective on the world seems like loads of fun, not only for young players.
I bought the German version for the kids, but the publisher butchered it by gendering almost every noun in the book. It’s horrible. I switched back to English after seeing the equivalent of a “roaming frog knight/ess” where in German even the attribute needed to be gendered twice. Crazy nonsense.
Thank you for the detailed review.
I have seen people say "why cant people just let people enjoy something" in response to peoples criticism. Ah yes a game that is in beta asking for feedback is now a bad thing. Also I knew this was going to be the same clownary as the last one blah. In my game worlds that I enjoy and will make for any games is well semi realistic in terms of how things would be. The world is not a nice place, flith in the streets of towns and cities, sickness, depravity of all sorts. People will suffer and horrible things will happen. (look at any decent RPG video game same stuff you see in them) Also its hard to make a Critical Role experience when it is all semi scripted.
The token-based GM action economy seems very broken to me. It'll work for what Critical Role typically does, but it stops making any sense if the players are outnumbered. All those enemies, even the ranged ones, just stand there waiting for a chance to act? And if the party never messes up, what then? The baddies get half as many actions if the GM does what they're not supposed to do and converts actions into fear?
It go like that, but the math says it generally won't. DM can get a turn any time someone rolls with fear, and there's a 50/50 chance of that happening. The DM can also build up fear pre-combat from social and exploration rolls.
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so wait if I heard this right as I was watching.. the players turn does not end until they mess up a roll?.. If so.. why not abuse the safety tools.. so you can X card the DM's turn away? XD Best use of the safety tools I can think of.. so far just to bloody cheat. XD
A quarantine is a quarantine. But, if enough people can be conned into it, then it might be a D&D Killer for a brief moment (maybe long enough for the suits to freak.)
The game system seems needlessly complex for a simple end result. I will say that player characters are defined more by what they say and do and the choices they make in game then in mechanics gained in generation. So not too upset about cookie cutter generation at the beginning.
Nice review Grim thanks, I think this is a pass.
Could be
The problem is their fans expect any CR game to create the CR experience. The problem is the typical CR episode has nothing to do with the real TT rpgs.
lol wut
The same way actual wrestling has nothing to do with WWE.
@@PostmortemVideo exactly
@@GarredHATES IF YOU DIDN'T PLAY TT RPGS BEFORE BUT LIKED CRITICAL ROLL, YOU WOULD EXPECT FOR THEIR GAME TO RECREATE THAT EXPERIENCE BUT THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE ACTUAL TT RPGS ARE NOT LIKE THAT.
@@PostmortemVideo I mean they both feature half naked dudes fighting over who's on top and who's on bottom...
Game. Of. The. Year.
It seems odd that a lot of the choices don't seem to have any real effect on the character. Very strange.
That’s because you grow quite a lot in leveling. Experience can be scaled , all 6 stats can go up +1 per 3 levels and other stuff
That's not much.
This makes me feel like 5th edition really has inflicted brain damage to matt. I guess we can all write a fantasy heartbreaker from time to time. There's maybe a handful of good ideas mixed in there but this seems to be another art book for critters.
Matt never struck me as a rules guru (looking at stuff like the Blood Hunter) but Spenser Starke of CO 'fame' is listed as the main writer, which might explain some things.
You can't blame them for trying the art book approach. It works for free League. America is a post-literate culture, so they prefer to buy art books than actually well written books.
Without adversity where is the game? Without challenge, difficulty and friction how do you give anything for players to wrestle with? Unless wrestling with challenges isn't the goal but talking a lot about how cool the things you do are? Bit too saccharine drenched for me, that kind of thing. Feels like a different kind of animal to actual roleplaying games too. Fair enough if you like that but I don't understand why someone would pretend their product was something other than it is. The thing sounds dire and I'm sure will top the drivethru sales one way or another for a couple of weeks then be played by a niche minority once in a blue moon.
I've watched a number of reviews on this game and ignoring the obvious shills and haters the general opinion is a virtue signalling plus a lack of actual options equals a bland game
It will sell loads. Nobody will play it, but it will sell.
This sounds like utter garbage but we all know that 90% of people who buy it will never actually play it.
"Hectoring" ?!? Fam... What? 😅😅😅
Hectoring: Talking and behaving in a loud and unpleasantly forceful way, especially in order to get someone to act or think as you want.
Yeah, sounds dumb.
This is pointless slow and doesn't help.
Such is the way with much playtest feedback.
Sounds like a big load of meh.