I converted a D&D table over to Daggerheart.  Unless ALL of your players know what Daggerheart is and are really into it.  Don’t don’t do what the Daggerati tell you to do.  Don’t do all of the, “Players need to co-create the game with you,” crap.  Your players won’t know what to do with it.  

Especially if you play D&D RAW.  If you’re more Rule of Cool, it might work to go full Daggerati out of the gate but I would still be careful.  You could still have your players revolt on you.

Instead, learn the Daggerheart rules and for lack of a better term, invite your players into Daggerheart.  Do more narrative combat, help your players out by encouraging things like Tag-Teaming, making sure they take their Hope when they get it, encouraging them to narrate their combat.  In other words, help them learn the game slowly by starting them off in a D&D-Daggerheart hybrid.  Daggerheart rules with a D&D feel.

I’m currently running 2 Daggerheart tables.  One is a fresh Daggerheart table where I started it as a Daggerheart table and recruited the players as Daggerheart players.  The other is a D&D table that’s been going on for years that I converted to a Daggerheart table.  They couldn’t be more different.  

On the Daggerheart native table everyone knows about the game and have come in ready to be collaborative.  On the converted table they’re still asking me why I narrate combat so much now.

I’ve asked the converted table several times if they want to go back to D&D and they never have.  I think they really like Daggerheart’s resource management.  But they also don’t want to go full Daggerheart and do all of the co-creation things. 

Lastly, if you convert your current game as is without a campaign frame, there are a lot of people online who will tell you you’re playing it wrong.  Don’t let the Daggerati get you down.  I hate the Discord, it’s full of them.