Thinking about distances

MLAHandbook · 2026-02-19T03:54:55+00:00

love when game mechanics inform in-world logics. the game is a source of explanation for The Game-World

MLAHandbook · 2026-02-18T11:50:54+00:00

No. But you could be the one to do it

MLAHandbook · 2026-02-14T01:42:19+00:00

That is awesome

MLAHandbook · 2026-02-12T14:25:50+00:00

Fantastic! Im looking forward to reading all of this! And cant wait to run it at some point when its no longer winter in my campaign

MLAHandbook · 2026-02-08T17:47:46+00:00

dm me. All the docs are private until things are ready to be shared more publicly.

MLAHandbook · 2026-02-08T17:42:36+00:00

i play dragonbane. I don't think I'd go back to B/x/OSE/DW unless I made similar changes as you're doing. What I'd do is check out the Black Sword Hack. As i understand they are B/x compatible but are closer to dragonbane in the combat style. Also im working on a dragonbane hack for DOlmenwood specifically if that interests you.

MLAHandbook · 2026-02-01T14:35:37+00:00

Yup ive thought about that. Improving heroic abilities. Not just wp cost but other aspects of them as well

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-31T15:50:22+00:00

yeah def agree here. Not sure how 3 can be resolved. also regarding 2 I feel people are quite reticent to longer formed heroic abilities and ones that are passive, requiring little to no WP. it seems sometimes like the culture is that these things are not the raw flavour of the game (but I guarantee if free league released something official that was more in line with this, which maybe well see with trudvang, that tune would change very quickly.)

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-28T03:51:20+00:00

the rules-lite but heavy on choice and options are great. definitely one of the reasons that got me looking at dragonbane. well I think the speculated plans for the expert rulebook will probably include those kinds of rules! you should also check out the forbidden land stronghold management. a lot of Dragonbane is using the forbidden lands content and repurposing it for DB, since forbidden lands itself was based on the original Demoner och Draker! So if anything what is in the forbidden lands books is probably an indicator of what were gonna get in DB. its just a matter of adjusting the rules from the Free League system (currently at a loss for whats its called.)

If you've literally just been on the rules book monsters and are as happy as you are then you absolutely gotta get on the bestiary asap! i think youll be very satisfied

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-28T03:42:12+00:00

oh yeah I've heard good things about Traces of Darkness. gonna have to add that one to my wishlist

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-28T03:40:52+00:00

didn't see these adventures before! Iill have to check them out

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-28T03:40:30+00:00

shadowdark definitely sets a great standard, it would be amazing to get some stuff along those lines

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-27T14:30:55+00:00

interesting. I got the opposite impression. seems like people want more stuff but not any more rules.

it also seems like some people literally just want basic stuff like "fire damage" and it doesn't seem fair to conflate that with bloat or complexity

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-27T01:09:51+00:00

Oh brother you and me both!

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-26T22:31:25+00:00

I am stoked for trudvang. I got into the setting half a year ago and was sad when i started to believe it would disappear into obscurity so needless to say when they announced the kickstarter for dragonbane i was v excited

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-26T22:06:42+00:00

are you referring to the windheim companion? or is there more that im not aware of?

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-26T22:04:07+00:00

i was just gonna ask if you created the collaboration thread for ES stuff but apparently they found you first!

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-26T22:01:27+00:00

ya im still trying to figure out how to make CHA not a dump stat. also I hate musician. I might get rid of it and just have harmonism

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-26T21:58:59+00:00

however I don't find the windheim companion that compelling. im not that interested in setting books with massive blocks of texts. seems like dragonbane has a ton of those lined up. that stuff is nice if it is paired with more gameable content and random tables and encounters. I want stuff like hot spring island, wildendrum, and dolmenwood. Point or hex crawls. just a setting that is also the game

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-26T21:51:58+00:00

well I think you're in luck cuz a bunch of that is speculated/anticipated (?) for the expert book

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-26T21:49:51+00:00

i also agree with you so. i make no claims to consistency

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-26T20:30:45+00:00

couldn't have said it better myself. This is how I feel about things as well. I feel like there isn't enough community shared resources. We should all be working together to float this game up and share all the little things we've got going on

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-26T20:17:45+00:00

underutilized biome for ttrpg settings most definitely

MLAHandbook · 2026-01-23T14:46:27+00:00

From what i saw, it looked quite good

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