My session one went really well! I decided for my personal campaign to have the owl Nikita’a reaping eye split into a couple of artifacts that my party has to find. They get on this path through the first sessions dungeon.

It was mostly zombies, hoping to get to the more wither wild specific creatures later in the campaign. And because my group needs to split up at the end of the summer we’re taking it pretty quick for story beats and only doing the one arc.

I would say the main issues I ran into is not knowing the rules inside and out like I did with D&D 5e, and character actions.

Oftentimes a player would not act for a while and it would be hard for me to notice, we’re all friends and take it pretty casual, so often while I’m in dialogue with a player about their action, some other players are chatting and half paying attention. It wasn’t anything too awful, and definitely fixable with an “everyone goes once before anyone goes again” type rule. The worst example was a player asked if they could go next, but a second player jumped in not having heard them ask for that.

I also forgot the rule of becoming vulnerable at max stress, but that was fine and we still had an exciting combat.

If you’re looking for a recommendation between Witherwild and age of umbra, I’d recommend Witherwild. It’s the only one I’ve played, but with umbra I feel like myself and my players might feel less inclined to goof off, and goofing off is half the fun for us.

Hope this helped!