013 - Community Spotlight Special

We finish our Hope & Fear Campaign Frame review with a long look at Journey to Horizon. Perhaps the most mechanically complex frame we've seen to date.Gethin:  @thewelshdm  Nico:  @NicodeGallo  === COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT - FEAR ME! ===Fear Me is a Daggerheart supplement designed to give GMs a framework for adding Villains into any campaign they are running. The structure in which these Villains are presented offers an array of details for you to pull inspiration from, all on a single two-page spread.Heart of Daggers: https://heartofdaggers.com/products/fear-me/Topics:00:00 - Intro07:40 - Other Systems?12:36 - News & Commentary28:06 - Listener Questions37:53 - Reviewing Journey to Horizon01:25:46 - Community Spotlight01:40:13 - OutroMusic - Middle-Earth by Luis_Humanoide

Nico and Gethin dive into the monster filled nights of Anadluria this week, and reminisce about our teen years and Kate Beckinsale.Gethin: @thewelshdm Nico: @NicodeGallo === COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT ====== MAB Music TTRPG ===Mark is a composer from Montreal writing full scores for TTRPGs, including campaign albums, tavern ambiences, and dungeon crawls. No AI is used in their products.Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@UC24a4Vb26IC2yZ5oFM2th3w Patreon: patreon.com/mabmusicHeart of Daggers: https://heartofdaggers.com/author/mab-music-ttrpg/Topics:00:00 - Intro02:35 - Relaxing After a Session06:27 - TTRPG News09:37 - Listener Question10:56 - Reviewing Dark Heart of Andaluria 01:04:43 - Community Spotlight01:11:00 - OutroMusic - Middle-Earth by Luis_Humanoide

We continue our mini series looking at the Campaign Frames in Hope & Fear, this week the fairy tale themed Curse of the Weredragon!Gethin: @thewelshdm Nico: @NicodeGallo === COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHTS ====== Bard & Raven ===Community live streams and interviews with designers, providing you with new content and an insight into the design process of the best Daggerheart content out there.Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bardandravenPatreon: patreon.com/cw/bardandraven === Daggerheart Dispatch ===A central place for all your Daggerheart news, inspiration, and discussions. Subscribe to their newsletter to make sure you don't miss any of the fantastic content out there.http://daggerheartdispatch.comTopics:00:00 - Intro04:00 - Best of Britain08:43 - Daggerheart News15:10 - Listener Question28:05 - Reviewing Reign of the Weredragon01:08:15 - Community Spotlight01:17:43 - OutroMusic - Middle-Earth by Luis_Humanoide

We start a new mini series breaking down and reviewing the campaign frames from Hope & Fear, starting with everyone's favourite magical boarding school Castle High!Gethin: @thewelshdm Nico: @NicodeGallo === COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT - ATLAS OF ADVENTURE ===The White Horse of Lowvale is a system neutral, folk horror scenario.Atlas of Adventure: Volume 1 introduces 30 new environments, including traversal challenges like the Perilous Journey, magical events like the Time Loop, and larger-scale environments capable of supporting an entire story arc like the Masquerade Ball and the two-phase Planar Incursion!Heart of Daggers: https://heartofdaggers.com/products/atlas-of-adventure-vol-1/DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/580408/atlas-of-adventure-vol-1-daggerheart-compatible-environments?affiliate_id=3073419Topics:00:00 - Intro04:34 - Balancing for Party or Story?07:35 - Daggerheart News23:04 - Listener Question30:30 - Reviewing Castle High01:03:22 - Community Spotlight01:17:10 - OutroMusic - Middle-Earth by Luis_Humanoide

This week we discuss how we would take a system agnostic adventure and bring it into our games of Daggerheart. What steps would we take as GMs and what additional considerations would we have during prep and the game?Gethin:  @thewelshdm  Nico:  @NicodeGallo  === COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT - AMAZING ADVERSARIES & ENVIRONMENTS ===High above the clouds, scattered across a breathtaking chain of floating earthmotes, lies the Sky Isles—a secluded refuge where the disciplined Phoenix Monks have built a new life far from the world below.But peace here is fragile.The Sky Isles is a complete, ready-to-play Daggerheart location built around exploration, discovery, character-driven encounters, and a growing supernatural threat. Meet the enigmatic Phoenix Monks, earn their trust, explore their remote mountain sanctuary, and uncover the dark history that drove them here.Heart of Daggers - https://heartofdaggers.com/products/amazing-encounters-adversaries-the-sky-isles-preview/Topics:00:00 - Intro06:28 - Our Favourite Genre of Game10:29 - Using a System Agnostic Adventure51:16 - Community Spotlight01:01:05 - OutroMusic - Middle-Earth by Luis_Humanoide

Daggerheart is still a young TTRPG, which means there's not a lot of official or unofficial content for it yet. So why not borrow from other systems?Gethin: @thewelshdm Nico: @NicodeGallo === COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT - THE DRAGON'S VAULT ===Over 200 new items, domain cards, and adversaries to include in your Daggerheart games. Expand the options available to your players, fill your magic shops, and populate the world with dangerous monsters.All converted from the Magic Monday series by the WelshDM, converted and drawn by the many great minds of the Daggerheart community.LINKS - TBDTopics:00:00 - Intro01:54 - 100 Fowlbears vs 1 Grimmling03:14 - The News!16:19 - Using Content from Other Systems39:46 - Community Spotlight50:56 - OutroMusic - Middle-Earth by Luis_Humanoide

World Building is a crucial element of TTRPG campaign design, but how much is too much? And how do you ensure you leave space for your players to add to the world as well?Gethin: @thewelshdm Nico: @NicodeGallo === COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT - DAGGERHEART DECONSTRUCTED ===A Dispatch companion series by Designer Chris Davidson where we reverse-engineer a Daggerheart Adversary or Environment statblock to unpack the hidden details that make it easier to prep and enjoyable to play.https://www.daggerheartdispatch.com/daggerheart-deconstructed/Topics:00:00 - Intro02:27 - Best Snack?04:48 - The News!08:51 - Nico's Void Playtest15:30 - Main Topic: World Building50:01 - Community Spotlight55:28 - OutroMusic - Middle-Earth by Luis_Humanoide

Darrington Press recently released an updated Blood Hunter and the new Summoner class to the Void for playtest, and we have some thoughts...Gethin: @thewelshdm Nico: @NicodeGallo === COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT - BUREAU OF CHRONOLOGICAL AFFAIRS ===A bureaucratic time-travel campaign frame for DaggerheartAt the heart of TIME/SPACE stands a vast office complex – its stairwells spiraling endlessly through every shadowed corner of the multiverse. This is the BCA, the Bureau of Chronological Affairs, long-time custodians of the universal time flow and guardians of the DOOM’S DAY CLOCK – a device that has ticked since the dawn of creation.Or at least it did – before the entire staff of the Bureau vanished.Now it’s up to you and a handful of freshly recruited field agents to navigate the surreal corridors of TIME/SPACE, restore the Bureau’s lost departments, and uncover the truth of what happened to the BCA.Heart of Daggers: https://heartofdaggers.com/products/bureau-of-chronological-affairs/Itch.io: https://dngnclub.itch.io/bureau-of-chronological-affairsTopics:00:00 - Intro00:35 - Best Time for a Game?05:32 - What's in the News!12:36 - The Void Provides15:43 - The Summoner Class30:15 - The Updated Blood Hunter50:20 - Community Spotlight01:13:00 - OutroMusic - Middle-Earth by Luis_Humanoide

There is so much incredible community produced content for Daggerheart, and as best as we do to spotlight it every episode, there's only so much we can do. So this week we're catching up and showing you a bunch of outstanding content to pick up for your games of Daggerheart!Gethin: @thewelshdm Nico: @NicodeGallo === COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHTS ===Grab yourself the products we spoke about in the episode at the links below! Don't forget to leave a Review and let them know we sent you.Fearless Vol. 1 - heartofdaggers.com/products/fearless-vol-1/ Halflight Halls - heartofdaggers.com/products/halflight-halls-campaign-setting-starter/ Ghosts! - heartofdaggers.com/products/ghosts/ Branneth's End - heartofdaggers.com/products/branneths-end/ Traps! - heartofdaggers.com/products/traps/Starheart - heartofdaggers.com/products/starheart/ Return to Daggerworld - heartofdaggers.com/products/return-to-daggerworld/Topics:00:00 - Intro01:23 - Announcing Difficulty of Rolls06:57 - Fearless Vol. 113:24 - Halflight Halls22:42 - Ghosts!34:54 - Branneth's End42:45 - Traps!49:29 - Starheart57:01 - Return to Daggerworld1:04:24 - OutroMusic - Middle-Earth by Luis_Humanoide

The Exploration player is the oft forgotten, but perhaps most important element of a heroic fantasy TTRPG, and Daggerheart provides a wealth of tools to explore this pillar of play. But even the best of us still can struggle with it, so we discuss our tips for running interesting, compelling, evocative Exploration in Daggerheart.Gethin: @thewelshdm Nico: @NicodeGallo === COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT - CRYPT OF THE NEKROLYCH ===A Villain Frame for Daggerheart that brings the ancient NekroLych to life in your games, by Tomas Gimenez RiojaYou already know what a Campaign Frame is. Now, a Villain Frame is the same, except it puts a villain as its main point. The primary villain, in this case the NekroLych, becomes the Big Bad Evil of the campaign you port this Villain Frame to, and gives you everything you need to know about its backstory, motives, and plans to not only have a villain, but a compelling 3-dimensional villain your players will absolutely love to hate!Support the Project: https://tgimenezrgm.itch.io/crypt-of-the-nekrolychFollow Tomas: https://bsky.app/profile/tgimenezrgm.bsky.socialTopics:00:00 - Intro03:07 - Our Mimic Traps04:21 - News & Releases14:17 - What is Exploration in TTRPGs?23:33 - Exploration in Daggerheart34:56 - Engaging Players with Exploration44:25 - Community Spotlight53:00 - OutroMusic - Middle-Earth by Luis_Humanoide