Vol 16: Publishers & Pistoliers

SPOTLIGHT

Yes, Hope & Fear is the big news. But the spotlight goes to Love & Magic, the forthcoming romantsy adventure that will see a digital-first release, according to Darrington Senior Producer Elise Rezendes: "We're going to be doing experiments with adventure content [to] gets things into people's hands way faster."

NEWS

A Feted Feast

You know the deal: Darrington announced Hope & Fear, an expansion book slated for next summer that adds six Ancestries, six Communities, four Classes and six Transformation cards from The Void, the Dread domain, over 130 adversaries, and four campaign frames. PS: Here's the art of Hope & Fear if you missed it.

PAXU Packages

The news also included a forthcoming Adversary Pack (GM cards featuring the baddies in the CRB), a GM screen w/built-in Fear tokens, a dice tray, and mention of The Dying Spire, a new Level 2 adventure for Free RPG Day.

Dream Stream

The crew hosted a 2-hr livestream from PAXU to celebrate everything, including that Acquisitions Incorporated has moved to Daggerheart, and Viva La Dirt League will start a 30-episode campaign starting in January. 

Kenreck & Company

True to form, the crew sat for interviews with Todd Kenreck, who posted one with the whole team, one with just Mercer, and then a deep dive with Crawford and Perkins. 

Adventuring Enneagrams, Redux

Easily lost amidst all the noise was Part II of What Your Daggerheart Class Says About You, in which Rowan Hall proves she is both VVitch and canny therapist.

RELEASE NOTES

Rapid Reposte

Matthew Borja’s Heart of Daggers is on tear, following up its recent Homebrew Vault with an integrated Encounter Manager that includes just about every feature of FreshCutGrass—and doubles as a GM screen with native Countdowns, Fear tracker, 3D dice roller and loot generator. And there’s more to come. They’re currently working on an Adventure Builder for shareable (and sellable, likely) one shots and adventures where you can add chapters and acts that link to Encounters, core and homebrew adversaries, maps, and images. It’s part World Anvil, Obsidian, FCG, and DriveThru and it’s either going to be a mess or a defining tool of the Daggerheart community.

G'old Gus

The OG-DHSRD now sports a beautifully designed and easy to use fillable PDF character sheet that can accommodate domain card text. Gus also made the site accessible to dyslexic readers.

Torutu Part II

Torutu has updated their Obsidian plugin Daggerforge with an edit feature, tags, and the addition of more adversaries and environments. With v1 in the rear view mirror, they hinted at not just more Obsidian updates, but a new app altogether.

Duelists

Duality Codex, who after an early lead challenging Demiplane’s character sheet dominance before going quiet, re-emerged on the sub this week to announce a slate of updates, including Campaign Frames, token support, custom counters, new themes, and a Spanish translation.  

DISCUSSIONS

Spawn Con

Solid advice on the Discord after a GM worried about a big Fear pool disrupting their encounter planning math. Responding to “should I decrease the encounter size or hold back on Fear spend?”, @OWHL suggested they use Environments and Leaders with Spawn features to give the GM an elastic scenario that can adapt based on how the PCs perform. Read their full reply.

Prayers and Thoughts

The question “can a Prayer Dice be used on a Potion roll?” arrived at a general consensus that, yes it can—but shouldn’t top the Potion’s maximum (ie. a 4PD + 2PR tops out at a Minor Health Potion’s maximum of clearing 4 HP). There was also some consternation about inconsistencies in how v1 of the CRB explains this and other related affects.