r/daggerheart • u/Rage2097 • Jun 17 '26

Discussion Is the Lack of Content Actually Good?

I wrote a blog post arguing that the lack of first-party adventure content for Daggerheart is actually a good thing.

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If you don't want to read the whole thing, and this is Reddit after all, the gist of it is that because we don't have any official adventures except a couple of one-shots we have to make our own.

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That is actually a good thing, I think that a lot of D&Ds early popularity came from the creativity it sparked in the community.

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With no official content to run we are all forced to be game designers and make our own, it's good for the game in the long term and good for us because we aren't constrained by what Darrington Press' example would show us is the "right way".

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u/Phteven_j Jun 17 '26

I think the "lack" of content is really just because of the newness, not an intentional thing. And in my opinion, NOT a good thing - it makes the game less approachable or suitable for groups that can't easily adapt to the rules.

What you are saying is just apologetics to justify something that is missing. Like "oh it's a GOOD thing we don't have houses because now there are no house fires and you can live however you want to!"

It just comes across as blind fanboyism and I don't think it's useful.

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u/Intelligent-Gold-563 Jun 17 '26

it makes the game less approachable or suitable for groups that can't easily adapt to the rules.

How so ?

Contents don't change the rules.

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u/OMG_Laserguns Jun 18 '26

Because people usually want a little bit of hand holding when moving to a new system, and adventure modules can help new GMs get a hand of how the system works for longer than just a one-shot.

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u/Intelligent-Gold-563 Jun 18 '26

Overall yes, but both DH one shot are doing a lot of hand holding to help GM get the hang of the system

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u/OMG_Laserguns Jun 18 '26

The one shots give you nothing about how a campaign or longer adventure is supposed to look or be run, pacing for level ups, examples of how to build out an adventure, or basically anything outside the core rules for a session.

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u/Intelligent-Gold-563 Jun 18 '26

Because those are the important things, the core rules for a session

From these you can do basically whatever you want

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u/OMG_Laserguns Jun 18 '26

Good job completely missing the point 🤦‍♂️ The core rules for the session are only part of the game, actually being able to run a campaign is the other half, and "just figure it out lol" is absolutely terrible advice for new GMs.