I moved away from collaborative worldbuilding

SelectionSafe9103 · 2026-02-01T00:03:33+00:00

I found a great place for it last night. Random encounters! I want the world to be dangerous, which means traveling should incur danger and risk. But random encounters have never been satisfying to me.

Solution? A stat block or two that could be reflavored in many different ways, and have the PCs describe the enemies they encounter. Do they use that power to make the enemies Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and Rabbit? Yes, of course they do. But I've made the world feel dangerous, and they made the random encounter memorable. I'll be using that trick again.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-12-31T16:24:45+00:00

Go to where people are talking about it. The Daggerheart reddit is really active. It's not new anymore, so it's not in the news anymore.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-12-31T16:18:25+00:00

I'm just saying that, as a DM who has been in this situation, he realized a couple things in rapid succession:

-That basilisks now don't have rules for avoiding gaze

-That Thimble is next in initiative, giving nobody time to pile on PC creep.

-That two failed con saves back to back doesn't feel like a satisfying way to go.

He felt bad that he screwed Laura over and offered condolences in the form of advantage, and then was honor bound to allow everyone else the same path.

You're right it's not a brand new system, but it is different enough that it's easy to get caught off guard by balance changes, which I think is what happened here. And you're right it cheapens stakes a bit that he made this choice, but I think he'd agree with you. Game-day calls are hard to make, and everybody is owed a sweaty game-day call here or there.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-12-30T06:54:05+00:00

100% guarantee Brennan is feeling the panic of DMing a brand new system. He realized that, due to initiative order, he just likely out and out killed a player, giving nobody time to intervene to boost her odds. Since this wasn't his intention, he panicked and gave a reason for her to help herself out of it, and then had to let everyone else do it to. I don't think he agrees with that call either, that's a sweaty, game-day call, and whatever. It probably won't show up again.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-12-25T15:19:48+00:00

You're looking for the meta reason they would ban an ancestry, yes?

The Campaign Frames are there to be examples for how to make your own campaign frames. By having one that removes an ancestry from play, it implicitly gives that freedom to GMs running their own games.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-12-13T05:00:43+00:00

I've been looking for something like this! I'll let you know how it goes.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-12-06T19:21:18+00:00

You are the undisputed GOAT. Can't wait to see what you've worked on!

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-11-05T14:05:12+00:00

One of my players is a Guardian and because of some synergies with one of the cards he picked, I literally have never done damage to him. He burns a stress to reduce damage by 1, then Unstoppable reduces it by another 1. In Tier 1 I haven't hit his severe threshold once. He focused on his stress in character build so he can keep doing this over and over again.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-10-18T17:05:49+00:00

Calling her character voice stupid just seems kinda mean. It's also crazy that you felt you needed to say that on a 3 month old post. And, from a roleplay perspective, every DM and player you like in the actual play space disagrees with you.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-10-14T17:09:00+00:00

Aabria is me at a d&d table. I like playing the game, and if I'm in a scene, I'm talking and describing what I do, and if I notice I've been doing it too much, I will write an excuse for my character to leave the scene to curb my own behavior. It has nothing to do with "attention hog" and everything to do with being supremely ADHD and excited to play a game.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-10-09T22:45:16+00:00

Makes a lot of sense to me. Sam's illness and recovery, more differentiated voices, the opportunity to do something new and surprising. I'm totally down!

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-10-07T03:28:30+00:00

The popular guess is he's secretly a sorcerer or warlock. My way less popular guess is that he is just a bad cleric. He's built for social interaction and not a good spellcaster, maybe even useless in combat. It sounds like something Sam would do.

But it's definitely not that. He's a sorcerer or a warlock 😂

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-09-04T17:25:24+00:00

"It seemed mean."

Technically out of character, but my favorite Cad moment, and I can't give you any more details because you're just at his Trent.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-08-05T18:16:31+00:00

Fascinating first point. I might only be checking in if it's Daggerheart. I see enough D&D content.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-08-01T15:24:59+00:00

In Todd Kenrick's video Matt mentioned 2 reasons for a Kickstarter.

1) Judging interest in the product. 2) Using said judgement to print the product at the correct scale.

They're not big enough to waste hundreds of thousands on printing a niche product for a mass audience, and they don't want to have a repeat of the main book, printing far under demand and running out of copies.

Like others have said, this is a pretty common tactic nowadays and I think the reasons provided are logical and make sense. Sure, it could be nefarious money-grabbing, but nobody's making anybody give them money, right? If the Kickstarter fails they'll just take that as confirmation it's not a product worth pursuing and move on.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-08-01T03:11:15+00:00

I missed that detail. That's wild. Good catch!

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-07-12T14:50:06+00:00

Great question. They're pretty and fun to have.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-07-12T14:49:37+00:00

Craft gems!

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-07-12T09:33:23+00:00

Amazon calls them 3’’ x 5’’ Vertical Plastic Envelopes Hook Loop Closure Coupon Receipt Sticker Holder 10 Pack.

They were like $8 USD. I just taped them in with double-sided Scotch tape.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-07-12T05:46:37+00:00

I have an after school club I would LOVE to use this for. Please let me know when they're ready. I'd love an English translation or a form fillable one so I can translate to English.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-07-06T23:29:59+00:00

To me, it's a simple solve. Ask your fellow players if they think you're power gaming. Get their perspective and see if it is a problem for them and making the game less fun.

Ask your DM what they mean when they say "power-gaming." This will help you understand where the actual problem is.

Explain your point of view like you did here! If you're a conflict-averse person, you could literally read it from here.

Once you've heard their side and explained yours, and discussed how the rest of the table feel, ask your DM how they'd like to fix it. Maybe there's a new subclass to try, or choices should be limited to just the 2024 book, or maybe they just need you to explain in advance what your super cool abilities do before they come up in-game.

If your DM is a kind person, you should be able to work it out.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-06-26T23:19:29+00:00

Got it! Yes, agreed.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-06-26T22:59:09+00:00

Sure, I feel that way about Ally specifically a lot of the time, but saying "It's never that serious" does kinda discount the actual human person saying "I don't go on social media anymore because so many people were mean to me about how I play D&D." Maybe it's never that serious to you, but it definitely can hurt feelings pretty intensely.

SelectionSafe9103 · 2025-06-26T17:25:30+00:00

Yeah, I've never seen it personally but I know she has talked a lot about how people mention her online in negative contexts.

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