• Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary@dice.camp
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    18 days ago

    I understand that in some countries, Call of Cthulhu is more popular than D&D, based mainly on a series of video interviews by Don’t Stop Thinking asking about various DungeonTubers’ local scenes. Pathfinder was also lesser-known outside the US at the time of those interviews, though that might have changed by now since the interviews happened before the OGL debacle of 2023.

      • Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary@dice.camp
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        18 days ago

        Yep! The relative smallness of D&D in Japan is only secondarily about Sword World existing, and primarily about just how popular CoC is there, from what I can tell. CoC seems to just generally be better-known internationally than Pathfinder is, or was at the time at least.

  • nocturne@slrpnk.net
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    18 days ago

    My d&d group tried daggerheart for a few sessions. It felt very incomplete. We have discussed trying draw steel, but I could not get everyone to commit.

    • tiberius@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Shadowdark has very appealing features

      • real-time torches
      • simple ancestry
      • 2 page classes
      • limited carrying capacity
      • shorten stat block
      • high risk high reward casting system
      • loot based xp system
      • large font

      It’s a nice refreshing meal of OSR while still holding a 5E blankey.