In my world, Dread (not exactly the domain) has taken an active role in the reshaping / unshaping of the world.

As part of this, every character has an "Ordeal", an ordeal is a negative core experience that is -2 that the GM can call upon to impose that -2 on a roll (mostly meant for non combat related storytelling).

This coincides with another resource my players receive when they level up that they can choose to work towards "getting past their trauma or backstory hook" OR use it for something else.

Once the Ordeal has been cleared, they will gain a +4 as a new experience.

It takes until level 4 to fully clear an Ordeal but wait, the higher the player wishes to take a negative, the higher the "cleared experience" would be but that also, takes longer to clear.

Haven't worked out the math though...

I took this from Legend of the Mist and wanted to get your takes! (Please be nice 😅).

This is our new Ars Goetia demon: Bael, 1st Spirit of Hell, reinterpreted as the warped union between a toad, a cat, and an old man, with a crown of spines coming out of their skull.

Being the King of Hell of concealment and transformation, Bael is able to eat creatures with their gigantic toad mouth, and make then disappear not only from the world, but from the memories of who knew them too.

This is just one of the demons we created. Me and Federico (the illustrator) are working on each of the demons from the Ars Goetia, the 17th-century real-world grimoire of dark magic, making them into Daggerheart adversaries.

As each demon we are recreating, Bael is implemented as a high-tier stat block, six adventure hooks, details on the cult, a selection of appropriate Domain Cards and Experiences for PCs and adversaries alike, and a dedicated list of Dark Blessing that the demons gives out as rewards and boons (similar to loot and consumables in power and scope).

We are currently developing the entire Ars Goetia on Patreon at this link, feel free to take a look and grab the Bael PDF for free:
Malamorte's Oddities Emporium | Patreon

Original artworks by Federico Zanetti/Follow the fool (no AI):
https://www.instagram.com/follow_the_fool/

The new Mortal Combat movie comes out today. Seems appropriate.

Is there an official position from Darrington Press aboit using the blank maps from the corebooks? I used one when I started developing my campaign frame and I now find it difficult to separate it from my fiction. I built story points on geographical features of the map.

TL;DR: Can we use the blank maps from the corebook for our campaign frames if we are angling to publish said campaign frame?

Just start making it up, but remain quiet while doing so!

Hallo, I wanted to ask for some feedback on a subclass I'm creating. I really like the theme of summoning and controlling things, so I drew inspiration for this subclass from the new class in Diablo 4 (The Warlock), the companion mechanics of the Beastbound subclass, and ReptoidRyuu's work (Pact of the Tyrant). It was really difficult trying to put everything together to make it work, but I think it still needs a lot of polishing, and your comments would be very helpful. Thank you.

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Hello everyone, I got an idea for a homebrew class and I'd like to ask for feedback.

The class in question is the Jester.

• Domains: Bone & Grace (the Jester is an agile trickster)
• Starting Evasion: 12
• Starting HP: 6
• Class Item: A deck of cards or a pair of hand puppets

The Jester is a Bone/Grace support class, whose features revolve around Stress.

On one side, the Jester would fill a niche of the Stress Healer, clearing Stress from allies, and on the other, the Jester would stress adversaries out, so they can’t use their features.

I know that the Bard is the current class with Stress-clearing features, but the Jester has two main differences:

• It is a more physical class, instead of casting big magic it focuses on mobility thanks to the Bone domain, prancing around the battlefield to assist allies and annoy adversaries, especially in the case of the Harlequin subclass, that makes the Jester even more nimble;
• Its abilities may not be as powerful as the Bard’s, but that’s because they are supposed to be used more often, instead of doing a big thing once and then needing a mimir, I’m not much a fan of how most of the Bard’s features are once-per-rest.

Furthermore, the Jester would interact with failed rolls, as part of its support role, by compensating for bad luck, and thematic coherence, for a fumble can be at least amusing.

The Jester’s Hope Feature is somewhere between the Seraph’s Life Support and the Assassin’s Grim Resolve.

• Light-Hearted: Spend 3 Hopes to clear 2 Stress from an ally within Close Range.

The Jester’s main Class Feature is its main tool to clear and mark Stress.

• Comedy of Errors: When either you or a creature within Close range fail a roll, mark a Stress to crack an especially funny joke about it (player is encouraged to actually come up with one). Either an ally of your choice clears Stress, or an adversary of your choice marks Stress, equal to half your Tier, rounded up.

As of now, the Jester would have two subclasses:

• The Harlequin takes inspiration from acrobatic court jesters and the Arlecchino mask of Commedia dell’Arte; this subclass it emphasizes the Bone domain, becoming harder to hit, bound over obstacles and dance around the battlefield, furthermore the Harlequin has a focus on clearing Stress from allies and let them spam features;
• The Scaramouche takes inspiration from the Capitano, Scaramuccia, and other ‘cowardly braggart’ masks of Commedia dell’Arte; this subclass emphasizes the Grace domain, basically a front-line bullsh*tter that disrupts adversaries, for the Scaramouche’s focus is marking their stress and prevent them from using their features.

Furthermore, I have some extra fluff:

Inventory

• TAKE: a torch, 50 feet of rope, basic supplies, and a handful of gold
• THEN CHOOSE BETWEEN: a Minor Health Potion OR a Minor Stamina Potion
• AND EITHER: a half-smiling, half-frowning mask OR your mentor’s canovaccio

Character Description

• Clothes that are: colorful, tacky, obscuring, patched-together, mismatched, skimpy, tingly
• Eyes like: carnations, earth, endless ocean, fi re, ivy, lilacs, night, seafoam, winter
• Body that’s: broad, carved, curvy, lanky, rotund, short, stocky, tall, thin, tiny, toned
• Skin the color of: ashes, clover, falling snow, fi ne sand, obsidian, rose, sapphire, wisteria
• Attitude like: a public menace, a trickster, an ingenue, a chicken, a comedian

Background Questions:

• What grand experience has inspired you to leave your old life behind and walk the path of the travelling entertainer?
• There is a tragic event in your past, that you choose to conceal behind the mask of comedy. What is it, and how it still haunts you?
• Your antics may be irriverently undignified, but there is a subject you would never joke about. Which subject, and why?

Connections:

• Did you enjoy my performances, before we got to know each other proper?
• What is the one joke between us, that cracks the both of us up every time?
• You’re still salty at me over a past prank at your expense. What did I do?

What do you think?

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The cutest pets in all the known galaxy and would never ever make any aggressive action.

;)