Fear, Hope, Stress and Armor as usable resources
Because every time you roll with the Duality Dice, you gain additional resources. If you succeed with hope, whether success or failure, you receive a hope point that you can use for further actions in the game, such as specific additional effects of spells or using experience skills.
If the same happens with fear, the game master receives fear as a resource, which they can use to make the game more challenging at suitable points or to allow enemies to take additional actions.
Your armor also functions as a usable resource, which you can use to mitigate damage. If you consider your hit points in Daggerheart, you will notice that they are significantly lower compared to D&D. This is because incoming damage is calculated and classified differently, through various thresholds.
For instance, many classes start at level 1 with just 6 hit points that can be individually reduced and healed. Depending on the incoming damage points, you suffer minor, major, or devastating damage, which your game master can narratively underscore and which costs you 1 – 3 hit points according to the threshold.
If you take damage, you can use your armor to reduce the incoming damage. If you run out of armor, it is temporarily destroyed, and you must repair it during your next long rest.
It is similar with stress, which you either gain through specific actions or sometimes through rolls with fear, representing your mental state as well as your physical exhaustion and also functions as a resource.
