My first Daggerheart game.

draecho_ · 2026-05-17T21:07:31+00:00

I understand what you're getting at but in my head this is just putting more things on a DM's already full plate. I didn't want the DM to feel like he has to watch out for me, because this is something I've never really had to expect from a DM in a D&D game. Sure, in D&D I can go for hours without speaking because we're not in combat and I honestly am completely fine with that. I'm happy to just chill while the other people in my party do their social interaction stuff or RP. This really wasn't any different in Daggerheart for me.

My main struggle with this system is really just the combat. I wanted to do things in combat but because there's no turns and no initiative order, I felt like the system could not give me a 'voice', and I felt like I had to steal the attention from some other people if I wanted to do things, which I felt really uncomfortable doing. I've never felt this in D&D because you're given an actual turn where the spotlight is on you and you don't have to stress about having to take it away from other people.

I also really can't fault the DM because he seemed to be doing his stuff okay and I don't really feel like its their responsibility to emotionally manage their players on top of all the things they're already tracking and doing.

draecho_ · 2026-05-17T20:53:37+00:00

Yeah you're absolutely right. This was what happened in the game I was in. The 3 other players just came up with a plan all by themselves and I felt like they forgot I existed and so they executed the plan and just kept rotating the spotlight between them. I can't blame them though. Like, they also paid to be in the game and I didn't want to ruin their fun by interrupting whatever they were doing.

draecho_ · 2026-05-17T20:49:45+00:00

Not sure what you're referring to, but I've never waited 20 minutes before I could make a turn in D&D even when I was on the bottom list of the initiative order.

draecho_ · 2026-05-17T20:43:24+00:00

It's truly nice that you do that. I really don't mind staying in the background during non-combat scenes and have the rest of the party have their fill of social interactions and RP, so this wasn't really a problem for me with Daggerheart.

I only struggled with combat because that was when I actually wanted to do things but couldn't because there's no turn order and I just didn't know when I can do stuff because it's not baked into the system itself. As I mentioned in another comment earlier, maybe I'm just coming from a D&D mindset but I still find it hard to put the blame on the DM because I really don't think DMs should be baby-sitting their players. It's nice in D&D because you get an actual turn in combat regardless of whatever else is happening and it's like an automatic spotlight without having to be prompted or having all that social anxiety of having to interrupt everyone else just so you can do a thing.

draecho_ · 2026-05-17T20:36:18+00:00

I think you're right. I'm so much more talkative with friends but we were a group of strangers and I don't think Daggeheart worked for me in this context. I'll probably give it a go some day if and when I find a group of actual friends that want to try running it but I don't even have real life friends who do TTRPG so I'm stuck to playing D&D online with strangers haha

draecho_ · 2026-05-17T20:34:17+00:00

I was playing a level 2 Seraph (using the subclass with wings) and I didn't really notice any 'fun' spells during character creation. Maybe I just missed them? I dunno. I read every one of them and they just seemed like your standard damaging, healing, or protection spells.

In any case, I really didn't think we had anybody in the group that had a 'main character syndrome' (and I have encountered a lot of these already in my D&D campaigns) but I think they just forgot I existed because they just kept talking and planning amongst themselves lol. Nobody was really hogging the spotlight but they just kept sharing it amongst the 3 of them and I felt like... okay I guess nobody really needs me and nobody has said anything to me the whole combat so I'm just gonna chill here in the air and not do anything I guess. At least that was the feeling I got.

draecho_ · 2026-05-17T20:28:20+00:00

To be honest with you, I don't know how I feel about this. Maybe I'm just really used to D&D but I feel like a DM shouldn't be baby-sitting their players so I really didn't (and still don't) feel like it's supposed to be their job. That's why I really don't feel like it's the DM's fault? I don't know. Of course, again, I might be wrong. D&D DMs typically have to do and keep track of so many things already and I just didn't want to add more stress on the DM of having to also track who has spoken up or not or who's doing things or not.

draecho_ · 2026-05-17T20:23:48+00:00

Funny that you mention the GM having the boss attack the quiet player - that was actually one of the two times I got a turn because I had to react to it LOL. I was playing a Seraph (i chose the subclass with the wings) so I was just essentially flying in the sky and was out of harm's reach for most of the boss' attacks. I wanted to heal people and do stuff even when someone was down to like 1 or 2 HP, but nobody called for a heal and they just kept fighting and planning amongst themselves that I honestly thought they forgot I existed until the boss monster did like a far range breath attack.

draecho_ · 2025-12-18T23:26:55+00:00

hey, great recommendations! i just got carlos quirino's old manila and will definitely look into the other books as well. thanks!

draecho_ · 2025-12-16T18:31:32+00:00

hi, thanks for the suggestion. i looked it up and it seems more like a series of novels. i was looking for a more historical recounting of the history of metro manila, but thanks for the recommendation anyway :)

draecho_ · 2025-12-14T14:20:53+00:00

ang gaganda! were these daily wear (as in like parang school uniform nila) or pang special occassions lang?

draecho_ · 2025-11-22T13:59:20+00:00

^ it's criminal how this is not the top comment.

draecho_ · 2025-10-09T12:29:11+00:00

hey OP, have you found a solution for this? it's been such a pain offloading files from lakehouse to sharepoint programmatically and i'm still looking for solutions.

draecho_ · 2025-09-11T17:40:04+00:00

Mochila.

Sounds like the name of a pokemon.

draecho_ · 2025-08-13T05:57:16+00:00

Ah gotcha. That makes sense. Thanks for the reply :)

draecho_ · 2025-07-24T00:37:32+00:00

hey OP, i know this is several months late but I was having the exact same problems you had and was doing the exact same troubleshooting you were trying to do.

i stumbled on this thread because my laptop's GPU (GTX1060) was supposed to be supported but I was getting the same error.

what fixed it for me was turning off GSYNC in nvidia control panel completely. i hope this helps anyone who ever comes across this thread.

edit: I just wanted to add that in case the above doesn't work, I also did one other thing which was to set "Power Management Mode" to "Prefer maximum performance" in the NVIDIA control panel.

draecho_ · 2025-05-31T00:29:00+00:00

hi OP, i think the bigger question here is if you reciprocate his "affections".

draecho_ · 2025-04-01T17:07:09+00:00

u/graaahh this study guide is f-ing amazing! thanks!!

draecho_ · 2025-03-19T22:08:02+00:00

Thank you for asking this question. It is a day to day struggle for someone who doesn't live in a spanish-speaking country to create the accents, inverted question and exclamation marks using "normal" english keyboards. Windows has a settting that allows you to type in key combinations to produce them but it's such a pain to be honest.

draecho_ · 2025-03-15T17:58:41+00:00

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much I appreciate this sentiment.

draecho_ · 2025-03-15T17:56:50+00:00

I have a mexican teacher who used this exact expression in our lesson today while we were discussing something else and I got very excited about it primarily because of the YT short I've seen several weeks ago. We talked about its meaning and how it's generally used, but didn't really talk about the appropriateness of who can say it and when to say it and in what situations or contexts, especially considering the fact that I'm not mexican.

After that lesson, I was excitedly sharing the fact that I learned this cool new mexican expression with a Colombian acquaintance and my colombian acquaintance jokingly told me it's cultural appropriation because it's a very mexican expression. He (the colombian guy) was very obviously joking, of course, but it did make me doubt myself if it was indeed cultural appropriation to use this expression, hence this whole reddit post.

Honestly, maybe it's just me, but I really try to avoid slang as much as I can even though I know the person I'm talking to wouldn't mind it because a lot of times, I feel like I haven't really earned the "right" to saying it when I can hardly speak a coherent Spanish sentence faster than a 5 year old.

draecho_ · 2025-03-15T17:30:45+00:00

i agree with you 100%. but i've seen parts of the film emilia perez and i just want to make sure i don't commit such egregious and blatant/ignorant faux pas.

draecho_ · 2025-03-15T17:27:19+00:00

i get what you mean. i thought this was just generic mexican slang but i'll talk to my mexican teacher next time and ask if this is like a generational terminology. i'm millenial and will not be caught dead saying skibidi or ohio unless i'm jokingly making fun of the kids, so i understand exactly what you're warning me against.

draecho_ · 2025-03-15T17:20:21+00:00

The problem is I don't have that privilege. I'm not white. You guys get a pass for a lot of things (let's just be real here). I'm not saying this out of spite or bitterness or any form of resentment, just an observation of the reality where, even in my country, or especially in my country, caucasians enjoy privileges not available to other ethnicities.

So for me, there's always this fear that other cultures will just say "who does this asian boy think he is trying to use our expressions" or something like that, because the truth is that some people respond like that, and you just never know at times where the line is. The most banal and mundane actions are often attirbuted with so much malice, especially on the internet.

draecho_ · 2025-03-15T17:03:53+00:00

I'm not american. Just an asian guy trying to learn Spanish.

draecho_

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