#daggerheart

[lunarrolls]

i know that this may seem like, idk, praising the bare minimum or something, but i bought daggerheart at gencon last week and reading through it has brought me so much joy. seeing the diversity of the character examples, from mixed ancestries and wheelchairs (and other disability rules) being baked into the rules to the ancestry variation among class examples. daggerheart is probably the first time i’ve seen a fat person in this high fantasy setting, and there’s actually multiple of them throughout the book. when me and my friends noticed the henna on the human ranger’s fingertips (WHICH MATCH WITH THEIR TIGER COMPANION’S EARS AND THE ENGRAVINGS ON THEIR PROSTHETIC ARM!!!) and the top surgery scars on an elven blacksmith made me gasp. dwarves of all genders have facial hair, which is styled in their various ancestry sketches. there’s an infernis with an afro in the character sketches, and the seraph divine wielder has realistic hair decorations on her locs. each character has little visual touches that make them feel really alive. the pronoun spot on the character sheet makes me really happy, too. there’s a commitment here to increasing visual diversity (not even just real-world racial diversity, either, but in the designs and ancestries of the featured characters! the fungril rogue absolutely blindsided me with how genius their design was) in the high fantasy ttrpg genre, especially as a game that seeks to nab some of d&d’s drifting playerbase. reading through this book is such a breath of fresh air after playing d&d for the majority of my ttrpg lifespan and i’m really having fun with it so far :^D

[tadfools]

Great things are in store for my mental state

[littlebosslady7]

Taliesin and Ashley backstage at the Indy show via Sam's instagram in a bit of their Fearne and Ashton inspired looks.

[mikermccall]

I ran across a YouTube video today where someone said that Daggerheart was meaningless, was a collection of losers who were D&D cast-offs, and had been in radio silence mode since its release.

Clearly, this guy was a jackass, but it amazes me how echo-chambery the D&D community can get that "not outselling D&D" and "not releasing anything except playtest materials and an Actual Play in the 2 months between release and GEN CON" while selling out a print run twice is "irrelevant".

By the standards of any ttrpg except D&D, Daggerheart is doing amazingly well. I sincerely doubt anyone at Darrington Press gives a shit how their numbers stack up compared to D&D. D&D developers play a lot of games, and Daggerheart is attracting some attention right now.

[sun-critrole]

Please reblog for sample size!

[avengingannie]

It just occurred to me that next year, when the romantasy campaign frame for Daggerheart drops, CR will probably do a miniseries with it, and Aabria will probably run it, and it will probably be my favorite thing ever.

[foldbaron]

The boi himself, Ronin Willingham-Bailey, as the Book Of Ronin card.

Art by Jenny Tan

[itsguysnightitsironic]

yee(again)haw! (bring the cowboy home)

[sevibun]

two totally normal additions to the group 🙂‍↕️

[ladytiefling]

| loot the... Gelatinous Cube~! 🧊🫧

This random table was a ton of fun to put together, I hope y'all enjoy!! Is there a monster you need a loot table for in your adventure? I’ll be trying to take some requests so drop a comment or DM me! I want to help out your games! ♥️

[acebender]

Meet the characters of the Age of Umbra!

[eliotbaum]

‘Overwhelming Aura’

one of the illustrations I’ve done for Darrington Press’s Daggerheart 🗡️💜

[littlebosslady7]

is there anything you don't like about daggerheart? why are you championing it for campaign 4?

I do miss initiative rolls. And I agree with a minor quibble that Reaction rolls should've been named some something else like Response rolls to avoid confusion with Action.

I have no problems at all if they continue to play D&D. I love D&D. Been playing with my husband and a few of our friends for years now.

But from a business standpoint, D&D had a horrendous few years publicly. Staff members from D&D/Hasbro went over to Darrington Press/Daggerheart.

Also, Critical Role will always have D&D in their old campaigns. Daggerheart is their system with echoes of other TTRPGs/series.

From a marketing standpoint, it'd be a bit odd to not showcase more of Daggerheart in a longform story.

Regardless of system, I'm here for the tales that Brennan, Matt, and company choose to weave. Also, I prefer the narrative structure.

[shmaba]

Merry Critmas! If you've managed to watch CriticalRole's Daggerheart Critmas Special this year I had the pleasure of designing the set and the monster forms for the characters.

[loserwithanartacc]

Low effort snyx be upon ye!

I love my loser son