it’s interesting, with CR not using daggerheart for their next big campaign, i had assumed they just wanted to sweep it under and rug and forget it happened. and then you hear they sold 2500% more than their projections. i’m not too familiar with the comings and goings of CR but i feel like there’s a story there, especially with them also bringing on a new DM when Matt Mercer basically is the brand. none of this is criticism, if they’re seeing success with both the game and the show and are happy then more power to them. and it’s always great to see anything else succeed in a market so thoroughly dominated by D&D. it’s just… i dunno, curious
Based on interviews that I’ve seen, they didn’t go with daggerheart because campaign 4 has been in the works for over a year, prior to the daggerheart release. So they had to develop it around an existing system. Also, their campaigns are the main part of their brand. I would assume they wouldn’t want to go all in on using a system they weren’t sure was going to even be popular.
it’s interesting, with CR not using daggerheart for their next big campaign, i had assumed they just wanted to sweep it under and rug and forget it happened. and then you hear they sold 2500% more than their projections. i’m not too familiar with the comings and goings of CR but i feel like there’s a story there, especially with them also bringing on a new DM when Matt Mercer basically is the brand. none of this is criticism, if they’re seeing success with both the game and the show and are happy then more power to them. and it’s always great to see anything else succeed in a market so thoroughly dominated by D&D. it’s just… i dunno, curious
You can watch the first minutes of this interview with Travis and Matt.
The short answer seems to be: The decision to use D&D was made months earlier and they were too committed to that already.
Based on interviews that I’ve seen, they didn’t go with daggerheart because campaign 4 has been in the works for over a year, prior to the daggerheart release. So they had to develop it around an existing system. Also, their campaigns are the main part of their brand. I would assume they wouldn’t want to go all in on using a system they weren’t sure was going to even be popular.