Queen of Daggers, Heart of Fire: A Daggerheart Adventure

Duality Bites! Ep 4: One Hand Tied (Playing Sub-Optimally, for the Fiction)

Carmela and Jay Ben return to discuss playing half a season using only one of their two domains. What's it like to be a spellcaster who won't cast spells? (Yes, both of them.) 
Featuring Carmela Smith and Jay Ben MarksonEdited by Asteria
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Duality Bites! Ep 5: Prologue Dice! (Homebrew Mechanics & Collaborative Storytelling)

Asteria and Carmela visit Katie in Chicago for our first ever in-person coven meeting! In this portion, we talk about the homebrew mechanics of Season 1, our biggest collaborative storytelling moments, and the inherent Daggerheart-iness of fitting your method to your madness. 
Featuring Katie McLean Hainsworth, Carmela Smith, and Asteria (aka Liz Thaler)Edited by Asteria
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Episode 7: Touched by Fire

As night falls on the Shadowjack camp, our heroes are drawn apart--by their pasts, by their fates, and by curiosity. Though they call themselves allies, each mysterious figure here sings a different siren song. What will our young Poets discover about themselves in the shadows? They may have changed the world, but they're now learning how strange it already was... Gird yourself for flashbacks, new characters, and an ever-thickening plot. Plus, the juiciest of reveals: Soren's age.
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Jay Ben Markson as Lemma Katie McLean Hainsworth as Evelyn David Skeist as OrLeon Carmela Smith as Ginny and Asteria the Hag as Game Master
Produced by Asteria (aka Liz Thaler) and Carmela Smith
Sound Editor Carmela Smith
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Duality Bites! Ep 6: Back to the Future (Backstory Collab & Dramatic RP)

Asteria and Jay Ben share the collaboration and pre-campaign discussions that led to Lemma's flashback scenes and backstory reveals. Looking back on the vignette of Lemma's kindling, we discuss how we've been able to set each other up for dramatic improvisation and build off each other's storytelling--while still, ideally, ruining each other's lives. (It's a game after all.)
Contains heavy spoilers for episodes 1-7 of Queen of Daggers, Heart of Fire.
Featuring Asteria and Jay Ben MarksonEdited by Asteria
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SPOILER-FREE BONUS Duality Bites! Ep 6.5: Improv is Scary, RPGs Are Great

The second half of our most recent chat episode, for those who haven't yet listened to episodes 6 and 7 of Queen of Daggers, Heart of Fire. 
In this section, Asteria and Jay Ben discuss the pre-campaign groundwork that went into creating the Elegists, and into building comfort with group worldbuilding and storytelling as a whole. 
 
Featuring Asteria and Jay Ben MarksonEdited by Asteria
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Episode 8: Waking

Strange visions greet our Poets in their sleep. Stranger still is the task that awaits them on the morrow... 
 
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Jay Ben Markson as Lemma Katie McLean Hainsworth as Evelyn David Skeist as OrLeon Carmela Smith as Ginny and Asteria the Hag as Game Master
Produced by Asteria (aka Liz Thaler) and Carmela Smith
Sound Editor Carmela Smith
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Duality Bites! Ep 7: Fish Don't Know They're Wet (Knowledge Rolls & World-Building)

Part 2 of our Live From Chicago session! Asteria, Carmela, and Katie talk about exploring the Realm of Lacuna through player questions and dice rolls. Plus, these veterans of multiple systems compare the Daggerheart experience to other games in their wheelhouse (especially the super-crunchy ones). 
Featuring Katie McLean Hainsworth, Carmela Smith, and Asteria (aka Liz Thaler)Edited by Asteria
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Episode 9: A Ring Afire

The Poets at last find themselves in a fight they can't escape. What will they learrn about themselves in this trial by chaotic fire? Will motes of Madness herself change their fates? 
 
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Jay Ben Markson as Lemma Katie McLean Hainsworth as Evelyn David Skeist as OrLeon Carmela Smith as Ginny and Asteria the Hag as Game Master
Produced by Asteria (aka Liz Thaler) and Carmela Smith
Sound Editor Carmela Smith
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Duality Bites! Ep 8: The Great Weasel Trap (Environments, Adversaries, & Combat Design)

Asteria and Carmela react to the big Episode 9 combat, and break down Asteria's use of the "Burning Heart of the Wood" environment. Listen to the actual play podcast we're talking around, "Queen of Daggers, Heart of Fire," at https://www.hagdealgaming.com/qod-podcast
Featuring Carmela Smith and Asteria (aka Liz Thaler) Edited by Asteria
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Episode 10: What Hath Iron Wrought

Faced with a showdown between Glory and Fortune themselves, the Poets make some quick decisions--and try to put together the pieces of all that's befallen Lacuna in a few short days.
 
 
STARRING
Jay Ben Markson as Lemma Katie McLean Hainsworth as Evelyn David Skeist as OrLeon Carmela Smith as Ginny and Asteria the Hag as Game Master
Produced by Asteria (aka Liz Thaler) and Carmela Smith
Sound Editor Carmela Smith
This product includes materials from the Daggerheart Playtest Manuscript 1.5 © Critical Role, LLC. under the terms of the Darrington Press Community Gaming (DPCGL) License. More information can be found at https://www.daggerheart.com/. Any intentional modifications are identified as such as they occur.