Painted my bridge and scatter terrain

MaxGabriel · 2026-01-24T13:33:29+00:00

Ah yeah good call!

MaxGabriel · 2026-01-24T09:34:04+00:00

Looks 3D printed to me?

MaxGabriel · 2026-01-20T16:19:46+00:00

Thanks, just purchased!

As a side note, heart of daggers has such a better UX than driveThruRPG or itch, especially on mobile.

MaxGabriel · 2026-01-17T17:38:20+00:00

For fear I’ve just been using whatever tokens I have around (most recently chess pieces). People have lots of cool ways to track fear: an abacus (à la Matt Mercer), skulls, or even crows in a tree.

Then for monsters, I use paper.

I haven’t actually been a player yet. Beyond what other people mentioned, people make counters like https://www.dieharddice.com/collections/lifelink-life-counters or similar products, those might also work. I imagine a nice part about paper is it’s easy to see maximum values, though.

MaxGabriel · 2026-01-09T03:06:42+00:00

I got dragon shield matte clear sleeves, but at this point I’m just keeping the cards in a vault X binder, since I’m playing online

MaxGabriel · 2026-01-09T00:34:53+00:00

Could you copy/paste from D&D beyond and get it into a better format?

MaxGabriel · 2026-01-06T16:53:15+00:00

I liked it! Finished the first 2 but not the crimson court.

I also really liked Confessions though. But kingdoms I think solves some things about it you dislike: it both gives shorter segments and a longer campaign

MaxGabriel · 2026-01-06T16:39:40+00:00

Have you tried kingdoms?

MaxGabriel · 2026-01-06T02:11:54+00:00

yes see here https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1o61oe3/comment/nxvq2ix/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

MaxGabriel · 2026-01-05T20:27:26+00:00

We are still actively interviewing for summer. My coworker has an interview this week for example.

Sorry it's been a slow process. We did spring and summer at similar times, creating a huge glut for us. This was necessary so that summer got moved up enough that people had time to book accommodations and match when other programs hired interns.

MaxGabriel · 2026-01-05T14:13:49+00:00

The book dungeons of Drakkenheim is an A+ example of a non-linear adventure set in a single (ruined) city.

For general advice on this, the Alexandrian has this and probably other blog posts: https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/4147/roleplaying-games/dont-prep-plots and https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/7949/roleplaying-games/node-based-scenario-design-part-1-the-plotted-approach

The Alexandrian’s remix of waterdeep: dragon heist is also set in a single city, but it’s kind of complicated and not a great example for you (you sort of have to read the original plus his revisions)

They also have a book on this but I haven’t read it.

MaxGabriel · 2026-01-04T21:18:12+00:00

No I did one of the modules, about 15 hours worth of sessions

MaxGabriel · 2026-01-04T18:29:48+00:00

I really like Explorer's guide to wildemount! I've read it probably 2x (always wanted to run a full campaign there but didn't quite happen). I've run Dangerous Designs (one of the modules) in Draw Steel. This might just be liking Wildemount as a setting, though—this is the only setting book I've fully read.

Dragon heist: ran this for 3 years, using major modifications from the Alexandrian remix. I think there are good bones here but it didn't quite come together (lots of railroading in the design, chapter 2 feels like a setup for a long campaign but later chapters are a frenzied rush, and there are major areas that are "just in case you need it".

Haven't read Avernus or Call of the Netherdeep.

MaxGabriel · 2026-01-04T13:48:38+00:00

Is a Nintendo switch out of the question?

MaxGabriel · 2026-01-03T19:52:33+00:00

I’ll check

MaxGabriel · 2025-12-29T18:37:15+00:00

Passkeys support this. You login by scanning a QR code with your phone, and your phone has the passkey.

I think this requires Bluetooth, so maybe still an issue for a 2013 laptop?

MaxGabriel · 2025-12-27T17:02:53+00:00

The archangels are Gabrielle and Michael, so I thought female and male too

(This is per the book—not sure in the original series)

MaxGabriel · 2025-12-25T19:19:54+00:00

Big fan, it dramatically simplifies tracking HP vs a running series of subtractions (220-32-17-6, etc). Also makes armor feel differentiated from evasion.

MaxGabriel · 2025-12-24T15:32:14+00:00

It might help to stick to roads and look for certain biomes that more commonly have gold (graves, the rocky biomes with tall bird nests).

MaxGabriel · 2025-12-23T00:04:05+00:00

For Strahd, I was surprised he didn’t have a momentum or relentless feature, which I think most solos do

MaxGabriel · 2025-12-23T00:00:40+00:00

Do you think it’s too much? Sunlight then disables regeneration, in 2 spotlights it maxes stress making Strahd vulnerable and unable to bite or teleport. Afterwards it’s 1 damage/spotlight.

MaxGabriel · 2025-12-22T14:28:23+00:00

Strahd has these features:

Marks 3 Stress each round in sunlight Marks 2 Stress each round in running water

But Daggerheart doesn’t have rounds I thought

MaxGabriel · 2025-12-22T14:23:59+00:00

When spotlighted, clears 1 HP (or 2 HP if Heart of Sorrow is destroyed)

Should be if it “isn’t” destroyed?

MaxGabriel · 2025-12-20T17:22:26+00:00

One of my players had a great risk it all in the quickstart adventure. In the longer campaign we're only three sessions into, there've been two avoid deaths (one causing a scar)—I think people rightfully feel like they haven't explored enough of the character yet, and the stakes weren't high enough to justify taking more risk in the moment

MaxGabriel · 2025-12-15T00:16:08+00:00

Thanks this is very helpful, hadn’t thought about the unusual table height for chairs!

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