Daggerheart

We're entering the winter doldrums of game scheduling, and many of our TTRPG adventures have been coming to a halt (or at least a slow) for the winter due to the difficulty of getting this many adults in a room, even a virtual one, for the holidays.

GenCon 2025, one of the premier events in the tabletop RPG industry, just wrapped up, and -- considering that the game's only been out a few months -- there were a surprising number of announcements for Darrington Press' Daggerheart.

Dropout TV's Brennan Lee Mulligan is formally the Game Master for Critical Role's fourth campaign coming in October 2025.

This week we continue our adventure of Daggerheart, as our crew becomes the first to enter the towering spire that is the Motherboard.

This week we continue our adventure of Daggerheart, as our crew walks away from the settlement surrounding the Motherboard and into a not entirely unexpected ambush.

This week we're playing a game of Daggerheart, largely because I was enchanted by the Motherboard setting in the book — a funny turn of phrase, since the setting has no magic!

Tabletop RPG fans who have followed the names of the various folks associated with Dungeons and Dragons -- especially its 5th Edition and the more recent revision of that edition -- are probably familiar with the names Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford.

Daggerheart has had a fairly extensive public playtest process -- one which we participated in by playing our own game!

We ran an entire adventure, from beginning to end, in one session using the v1.2 open beta playtest rules for Daggerheart, the new TTRPG developed by Darrington Press and the team at Critical Role.

Recently, the Blizzard Watch crew played the public beta playtest of Daggerheart (you can listen to our session zero now)-- the upcoming tabletop role-playing game from Darringon Press, the fine folks who bring you Critical Role.