Daggerheart, a high-fantasy TTRPG from Darrington Press (publishing arm of Critical Role if that means anything), launches in Spring 2025 and has been demoed at GenCon 2023 & 2024 (4-hour events) and PAXU 2024 (45-minute chunks). With the rules available by GenCon 2025, I’m curious what types of events would interest players. While Darrington Press will likely host their own games, I’m considering creating an independent event.As a "forever DM," I use GenCon to explore systems beyond D&D 5e and see if they’d work for my players. While playing pre-gens is fun, I sometimes wish I could experience character creation to understand the system better. At GenCon 2023, Daggerheart featured character creation paired with a Mad-Lib style one-shot created at the table, which later appeared in the Open Beta. By 2024, pre-gens and a structured adventure were used instead.I love how Daggerheart’s collaborative character creation fosters party cohesion with just a few prompts. It’s what hooked me on the system. Would a 4-hour event with character creation and a customized Mad-Lib adventure interest you? (45-minute character creation and Mad-Lib, 3-hour play time, ADVERTIZED as such) Do you think the Mad-Lib format showcases the system’s strengths? slope game
Looking for insights on what people want to see for GenCon 2025 for events in a fairly new system: character creation? collaborative one-shot building? or jump right in to action?