Some interesting info from gencon

I had a chance to take on the level 3 dbk demo. My group did 8 of 11 wounds, tieing the record! One of the many zachs was amazing at demoing it for us. He worked on dbk and a lot of the 1.5 changes. Naturally, we questioned him endlessly. Some of the interesting tidbits gleaned (spoilers):

He rewrote all 100 of the hunt events. Some of the new ones allegedly take up an entire page for a single result! It'll be much interesting. Overwhelming darkness has also been changed but he did not elaborate.

The lantern set has been reworked a bit. I don't recall the specifics but some of the individual armor had new text effects. The full set let's you restore back up to max survival on arrival and adds sharp to clubs.

After defeating the watcher, some new lantern type items become available. We had 3 basic lanterns that just gave a half of each color affinity and one person had a special lantern that gave a new fighting art sort of thing. It replaces the monster controller card with a death die. Based on the level of the lantern, the monster controller each turn can do things such as add 1 speed, add d10 str, d10 movement, that sort of thing.

There is a new survival action called endure. It takes 5 or 7 survival to spend but it let's you reroll a severe injury roll.

We asked if protect the young received any buff to bring it on par with the new and crazy powerful survival of the fittest. He said pty is still a better option in his opinion but didn't elaborate if it was from a buff or vanilla.

I'll try to think of some more/go back later.