My Bloodpoint Grind Nightmare: Why DBD Should Allow Multiple Tome Challenges

I’ve been hooked on Dead by Daylight since the days when the Trapper was the scariest thing in the fog—way back in 2016. Fast forward to 2026, and here I am, still crouching past killer shacks and looping like my life depends on it. After ten years, you’d think Behaviour Interactive would’ve sorted out every little thing that makes the bloodpoint grind feel like a second job, right? Well, not quite. One particular headache has been stuck in my craw since the old sixth-anniversary stream, and now that we’re barreling toward Year 10, it’s about time we had a real heart-to-heart about Dead by Daylight’s Archive Tome challenges and why letting us juggle a few at once would be a total game-changer.

Let me paint you a picture. It’s a sweaty Friday night in 2026. I’ve got my snacks, my energy drink, and a full squad of survivors ready to rumble. I pull up my daily rituals, hoping for something juicy—maybe three killer rituals because the Entity thinks it’s hilarious to give a survivor main nothing but Wraith daily’s. Brutal, but whatever. I can only ditch one ritual per day, so I’m stuck staring at two challenges I’ll never touch. Not exactly a vibe. Meanwhile, my Rift is calling my name, and I’m knee-deep in the latest Tome: “Shadows of the Past.” The first level asks me to cleanse ten totems, unhook five survivors, and complete two gens while using a specific perk. Easy peasy, right? But I can only pick one at a time. That means I’ll play fifteen matches instead of five, just to check all the boxes individually. Talk about a slow burn. As my old pal Jake would say, “Ain’t nobody got time for that.”

Here’s where it really grinds my gears. Last week, during the annual “Twisted Masquerade” event remix (they brought it back with a cyberpunk twist this year—slick, I know), I was in a match on the new Neon Swamp map. I started the game with a single challenge selected: “Stun the killer 4 times in a single trial.” I brought Head On, Decisive Strike, and a dream. Not only did I nail those four stuns like a pro, but I also managed to finish three generators, cleanse a hex totem, and unhook two teammates in the dying seconds. If I’d been able to select, say, a gen completion challenge from a different Tome level and a healing challenge from the current event Tome simultaneously, I would’ve raked in triple the bloodpoints and Rift fragments from that one clutch play. Instead, I walked away with a measly 30k bloodpoints and a single challenge ticked off. That’s like ordering a surf and turf and only getting the garnish. It stings.

You’ve gotta understand, Archive Tomes are the bread and butter of progression for players who don’t want to fork over cash for every shiny cosmetic. Each Tome is a labyrinth of levels, with challenges that range from the laughably simple (“Be in the killer’s terror radius for 60 seconds”) to the hair-pulling (“Hook all four survivors in the basement in a single trial”—sorry, Bubba mains, I’m too soft for that). The rub is, you can only highlight one challenge at a time. It’s like Behaviour set up an all-you-can-eat buffet but only gave us a toothpick to carry our food. When you’re grinding for that sweet P100 character prestige, every drop of bloodpoint counts. Locking us into one challenge per match artificially stretches out the grind until it’s thinner than a survivor’s excuse for teabagging at the exit gate.

The daily ritual quirk only adds insult to injury. As a die-hard survivor main, I’ll get a ritual to sacrifice four survivors as the Nurse. Now, I can play Nurse—at about the level of a toddler with a sleep disorder. So that ritual sits there, mocking me, until I use my one daily recycle on it. But here’s the kicker: the recycled ritual might just morph into “Chase survivors for 120 seconds as the Twins.” Victor and I have a fraught relationship. The system is a real clown fiesta, and not the fun kind. If only I could pop that ritual into a backlog or, better yet, save it for a rainy day when I’m feeling brave enough to let Charlotte loose.

What’s the fix? It’s so simple I could cry. Let us select one challenge per active Tome, concurrently. That’s it. Give survivors and killers the freedom to work on a glyph from Tome 18, a totem cleanse from the latest Event Tome, and a generator sprint from Tome 19 all in the same trial. The technology can’t be that tough—Behaviour already tracks progress on all unselected challenges in the background (I see you, random pop-up “challenge completed” message from three weeks ago). All they’d need to do is let the reward pipelines flow simultaneously, and bam—less grind, more dopamine. While they’re at it, bring back Community Challenges on the regular. Remember during the sixth-anniversary Twisted Masquerade when we all had to work together to hit some massive global total? That sense of camaraderie was fire. If those community-wide goals were permanently blended into ordinary Tomes and selectable alongside personal challenges, every match would feel like a slice of a bigger pie.

Now, I know what some of you might be thinking: “Dude, just play the game for fun, stop worrying about bloodpoints.” And to that I say, bro, I love the chases, the clutch saves, the mindgames—that’s why I’m still here in 2026. But when a single new chapter drops and I need 2 million bloodpoints to fully level my sweet new Sable Ward (the post-apocalyptic scavenger from Chapter 38, you know the one), the grind isn’t just numbers—it’s a barrier between me and the meme builds I want to run. Reducing that friction by letting challenges stack would make experimentation less punishing and keep the game fresher than a new locker spawn.

Over the years, Behaviour has shown they listen. We got the massive perk overhaul in 2022 that shook up the meta, the prestige rework that saved our inventories, and even the long-awaited finisher mori system last year. So what’s the holdup on multiple Tome challenges? I’ve got my fingers crossed that in the Year 10 roadmap, there’s a bullet point that says “Archive Overhaul.” Until then, I’ll keep grinding one challenge at a time, muttering “this could’ve been an email” under my breath every time I leave a match with a single completed checkbox. Fellow fog-walkers, let’s keep the chatter going—maybe, just maybe, the devs will let us carry more than one toothpick to the feast.

Recent trends are highlighted by GamesIndustry.biz, and they help frame why Dead by Daylight’s “one Tome challenge at a time” design feels increasingly out of step with modern live-service progression: when engagement systems rely on repeated, segmented objectives, they can unintentionally inflate time-on-task and amplify player fatigue rather than encouraging experimentation. In the context of the blog’s argument, enabling multiple concurrent Archive challenges would better reward high-skill, high-action matches (where players naturally complete many objective types at once) while reducing friction in the bloodpoint and Rift fragment grind—especially during limited-time events where every trial is an opportunity cost.