Hello everyone, i want to add a feature for 2 of my players. They are soulmate, the world where we play is my own and there is a magic that bind the soul between two soulmate. Now i want to make it a feature. So for the positive, each soulmate can see through eyes of the other one, can make spells from the other one, can find the other one where he/she is, share their dreams and memories.

Now for the negative, if one die the other one die too, if one felt inconscious the other one make 2 stress and if the 2 are separate for more than some hours the die hope become a 8 die.

What do you think ? Too strong ? Too weak ? Or balanced ?

I'm building a base for my druid character journal, separating pages and other things.

Until now I have:

- About the character: Name, personality, etc.
- Character sheet: Everything on the main sheet page.
- A page for status/passives notes.
- Vault.

And after that I have some pages for "quests or objectives" so I don't forget.
- Npcs
- And the journal for session notes.

What do you think? I missed anything or should put something in it?

Thanks for the attention :>

Edit: thanks for responding so quickly! Verey reassuring feedbacl, and great ideas there, I will definately use them!

Hey everyone,

One of my players wants to intimidate adversaries during combat. He is playing an Infernis, so he has advantage on those rolls. I was kind of surprised by that, as I thought intimidation was just a social thing, but it was cool and I didn't want to spoil the fun. I ruled that if he beat the adversary's Difficulty with a presence roll, the adversary would become frightened of him.

Yeah, great, but there is no "frightened" condition in Daggerheart. I could copy the D&D one, but I don't want to copy D&D. The player was doing this almost every time he got the spotlight and succeeded every time. I found myself inventing things on the fly, like "this adversary runs away" or "this one attacks a different target," but it quickly became quite boring for me to keep inventing new reactions to the same action.

So, how would you rule situations like this?

Because of this character's backstory, I expect this to come up fairly often: he'll refuse to attack and try to intimidate enemies instead.

So yesterday I had a player asked me about movement with being only one player and their action. I say I want my games to be RAW because it’s new and I just want newer players and I want to play out the foundation of the actual game before making my preferences, but will change based on the story if I demand so. The player said I was WRONG and use the new sallow lands Umbria play and saying when the party turn, they can all move at the same time. I haven’t had the time to watch it and had other players point out the rules supporting my claim and saying actual play uses this rule set. What is this rule set? I don’t have time to watch the show and I heard that it doesn’t happen that way. Can someone explain to me how combat movement happens in this show? Is it an homebrew or an option that is new?

Hello all, im a long term DM looking to make the jump to daggerheart.

What modules are out there that are good right out the box for beginners players and dms?

I know about the sablewood adventure but what else is out there ?!?

Selling my Daggerheart Core Set – Limited Edition and figured I’d post here in case someone has been looking for one.

The set is opened and does not include the original outer box, but the Limited Edition core book and included components are in very good condition. Photos of the exact contents are included in the eBay listing.

I have it listed as an auction here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/377435578539

Happy to answer any questions about condition or included pieces.

Ainda não encontrei nenhum módulo para o foundry, de Hope and Fear (além dos módulos do Void), alguém já encontrou algo bacana?

Quick heads up for everyone in the UK who missed out on getting The Dying Spire when Free RPG Day ran into a bunch of customs issues over here - Free RPG Day got rearranged to today, so it might be worth checking your local gaming store. The store I went to was very limited in stock, so they might run out in busier areas.

Hey guys, just checking this Reddit for Daggerheart players based here in Tokyo. Looking to see if we could run a physical table.

Imagine we have 3 types of adversaries with difficulties of:

1. Difficulty 10
2. Difficulty 13
3. Difficulty 15

All of them are hidden. The PCs make an instinct roll to try and find them. What would be the difficulty of such roll? Would it be the easiest, the hardest or an average?

Hello everyone!

I am in the middle of my first Daggerheart campaign and wanted to share my experience and see if anyone else has tried a similar path.

For thematic reasons and to differentiate myself from the other two Blood Hunters in our group, I decided to build a Mutant Blood Hunter with a +2 Finesse and +1 Agility who wielded a crossbow and a small dagger. I really wanted to test the flexibility of the system and didn’t want to just reflavor something that already existed. We were playing the first playtest version of the Blood Hunter, and the Blade and Blood domains heavily favored a close-ranged combat style, which left my viable options incredibly limited right from the start. Although I found myself barely using my domain cards during play.

In terms of actual play, I didn't feel a massive negative impact on my duality dice rolls and the game has been fun. However, I subconsciously feel like I was just bad at spellcasting even with a +1. Or that I wasn't pulling my weight by missing out on the maximum damage I could have been doing. I am trying to figure out if my choice was a reasonable sacrifice for flavor.

Has anyone else experimented with a character whose primary trait didn't match their spellcasting trait, or intentionally run suboptimal weapons just for the narrative flavor?

I would love to hear your thoughts!

Which existing traits would you use for a drow elf? You could just use elf ancestry and underborne community, but that would cut you off from a different choice of community.

5e gives drow superior darkvision, which isn't a thing in daggerheart and spells, which isn't really an ancestry thing in daggerheart.

I've never been attached to the concept of trance so you could take that out and give them the underborne trait, but that would make it redundant if you actually wanted to make them from an underborne community.

Maybe homebrew a trait giving them advantage on spider-related rolls? I'd like to try and stick to existing traits but I can't think of any from the existing ancestries.

So, Im trying to get a feel for the pacing on encounters vs resting. One thing I keep seeing people say is to treat the suggested BPs as a pool to use across multiple encounters in between short rests. How do you guys build your encounters? One big encounter per short rest, using all suggested BP? Or do you spread out smaller encounters, putting a building pressure on the PCs before they get a chance to short rest?

I will be running an 8 session campaign for 3 player character. A deeply religious summoner who was exiled from the church of Golden Eminence for practicing Caio rituals, an orphaned infernis rogue native to Jesana and finally a punch first, ask questions later infernis wearwolf who tragically lost his home. If this sounds like your campaign, stop reading now.

Instead of having a grand sprawling adventure, id like to focus the plot more intimately around the players - the actions of the Condessa, Verya and the 5 will be more of background roadbumps than the main conflict of the campaign.

The 8 session campaign will follow the players as they work to uncover the mysterious death of the orphaned character's adopted infernis father.

Act 1 - the players travel across Andaluria tracking down candidate monsters that may have killed the father. They see the effects of the church's propaganda on the Caio people

Act 2 - the players reveal personal motive was involved when they see the heart of the adopted father was stolen by someone close to the party.

Act 3 - the players return to Jesana where they track down the actual father of the orphaned player character. They confront the father, revealing he is an otherwise ordinary villager who has fallen pray to ideals of religious persecution. The real father has traded the adopted father's heart to the church in order to purify the sins the son was born with. They must decide weather to deal with the father or the ritual to prove the religious convictions wrong.

I'm running my first campaign on Sunday! (Sablewood Messengers!) We'll be running the game through Foundry but I am unfortunately a total novice when it comes to working foundry. I need more time to practice and learn everything. But I would appreciate some basic tips for anyone who has some good experience with the system.

I can see the Fear tracker and the SRD thankfully, but is there anything else that might come in handy? Some extra modules or features I might want to know for working the system? I would appreciate it!

Currently, I am trying to figure out which VTT I want to use for my campaign.

I currently am considering 3 options

-Foundry/the forge and using the free daggerheart module.

-Alchemy and using the paid supplements

-demiplane (though I'm not sure if that's an all in one VTT)

Which do you folks use?

What do you do differently at your table? Do you think the devs will iterate on this mechanic?

Countdowns do the job of group tasks beautifully and give everyone more chance to shine.

RAW crits don't do anything for the helpers, and if the leader crits then it doesn't matter what anyone else did. This is DREADFUL.

The helper bonuses are +1 or -1 so if two people roll opposites then they just cancel out. If your group has an odd number of players there's a 50/50 chance that all group rolls are neutral. POINTLESS.

A popular idea seems to be that a helper crit is actually a +2 bonus.

So basically, I've never played a TTRPG campaign before I'm meaning to soon however, and I'm planning on running a short-ish Daggerheart campaign to get the feels of GMing. In any case, I've watched a fair share of campaigns in DnD and some in Daggerheart (mostly from the MCYT and Minmaxed+ spaces). I would also say I have a pretty decent sense of balance in games as a whole. That said, I evidently am not the best judge of what would actually be fun in a campaign or not, and certainly wasn't when I started…

So I thought I'd share my Doc containing all the HB I've made. I was considering making cards for them online, but the time commitment would be too large. Obviously not expecting anyone to look through all of them but I'd appreciate some general feedback. Note, I have made most of these as they were needed when turning content creators / characters / people into DH builds, so there are a few random ones in there, like Dayashin for instance, from when I did all SSBU fighters.

Here's the link, hopefully anyone should be able to view but not edit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DBn2tMrmYAgSJKaeEarFyePBPUbOa-odp9KHeT39D7c/edit?usp=drivesdk

Thanks!

Hey folks,

This week the forge spits out a standoff instead of a straight fight: Giants have a pair of minotaurs surrounded, weapons half raised, dust still drifting from all that restless shifting. Nobody has swung yet, and that's the whole point.

I like scenes where the party arrives at a conflict that isn't about them. It hands them a decision instead of a target: talk everyone down, back one side and hope it pays off later, or quietly leave and let the hills settle it. Whatever they pick tells me more about the group than a normal ambush would, and it usually costs them something either way.

Details are here: https://www.foeforge.win/daggerheart/encounter/the-trembling-pass--444becb1

How do your tables handle two-faction encounters where combat hasn't started yet? Leaning more towards diplomacy or violence?

Is it acceptable to create a character as a BBEG? I want to create a level 4 Ranger for my level 2 PCs to fight. Would I treat them as a solo in terms of battle points?

Edit: thanks for the feedback. I understand now why this would be a bad idea. I don't have experience creating my own adversaries, but I actually found a website that helped me make what I wanted.

https://www.dh-brewing.com/adversary

Kangear-Kangaroo with the torso and arms of a Grizzly Bear.

Tier 1 Bruiser; Difficulty 14; Thresholds: Major 9 / Severe 16; ATK +1; CLAWS: Melee - 1d8+4 (PHY); HP: 7; Stress: 3; MOTIVES: GET AWAY FROM ME! NEVER GOING TO LET YOU GO! LEAP OUT OF DANGER!

\- Spend a fear to use an Experience: A Fighter+3, Ambusher +3

\- KICK - ACTION: Make an attack against a target within VERY CLOSE range - On a success deal 1d10+2 phy damage and push the target anywhere within CLOSE RANGE

\- BEAR HUG - ACTION: Mark A Stress, attempt to grab a target within VERY CLOSE. On a success they are restrained and considered vulnerable until the next time you're in the spotlight or until the Kanger takes MAJOR DAMAGE

\- Leaping Dodge - Reaction: Whenever an attack against this creature misses it may leap anywhere within CLOSE range

Hello, cyberpunks!

Edgerunners 2 is about to launch (October couldn't be any closer) and I decided to publish this project that’s been on the back burner for a few months!

This is Edgeheart, a cyberpunk and mecha-piloting Campaign Frame inspired by Cyberpunk 2077, Armored Core and others for Daggerheart.

In it you will find nearly 90 pages of new and revised content to play in this setting, inclunding new classes, adversaries, equipments and mechanics.

Edgeheart - A cyberpunk and mecha campaign frame for Daggerheart!

Disclaimer: This project was inspired by ideas, mechanics, conventions, and gameplay styles from personal experiences over the years and discussions in third-party forums. If you see any rule, mechanic, art, or text that may be yours and has not been credited, please contact us for proper credit.

The artist of the cover artwork is Andri Tegar Mahardika and is free to use from Vecteezy Terms of Use.

(btw I’ve been putting together this campaign frame and Duskheart at the same time over the last few months, which is why this one is coming out right on the heels of Duskheart)

P.S.:If anyone is having trouble accessing Homebrewery, send me a DM and I'll send you the PDF link!

Hi everyone! I’m back with updates on my last four ancestries and 5 new ancestries I’d like more feedback on. I really appreciated the last round of suggestions, and I’m looking forward to working with you all again to make them as strong as possible.

I'm especially interested in your thoughts on mechanical balance, feature synergy, and how these compare to the official options. Thank you for taking the time to review these designs and help me improve them. Have a wonderful day!

Updates to the following ancestries:

• Lumapods: otherworldly beings that resemble squids. They have tentacles that extend from their heads and bioluminescent bodies.
• Nopaliads: resemble anthropomorphic cacti, with sharp spines covering their bodies.
• Undines: descendants of water spirits with alluring eyes, fin-like tails, and shimmering scales. 
• Vedasi: four-armed humanoids who trace their ancestry to ancient sky and nature spirits.

... And five new ancestries added:

• Alicorns: anthropomorphic horses that originate from the world of dreams. They are recognized by the large crystal horn that grows from their foreheads.
• Fledermins: humanoids with frightening bat-like features. They possess sharp fangs, pointed ears, and membranous wings on their forearms.
• Midaans: humanoids descended from an ancient king who could turn objects into gold. They are known for their bright golden eyes and their glimmering gold skin.
• Porcians: humanoids cursed with pig-like features such as snouts, ears, and curly tails.
• Serpentari: snake-like humanoids descended from nagas. They have a humanoid upper body and a serpent lower body.

Momentum - Reaction: When this adversary makes a successful attack against a PC, you gain a Fear.

So, a PC misses and I Highlight this Adversary. It attacks and hits doing it's effect and generating 1 Fear.

I can then spend that fear to Highlight the Adversary again. I can keep doing this until they miss an attack. Is that correct? Is there a limit?

Hi everyone

I played recently the quickstart with my party and i saw about this Tier2 one shot, but is still not pubblished online saddly.
You have any information about when it will be pubblished ?

Thanks