Daggerheart Releases Another Round of Playtesting, Including Two New Classes

A ton of new playtest content was just released for Daggerheart, including two brand new classes and a host of new ancestries and communities. The Void was just updated today with new content, including a brand new Witch class and a new Assassin class. The Witch class comes with a Hex feature and the ability to commune with spirits. The Assassin has the potential of ambushing targets when the Assassin moves into melee range of a target, which deals additional D6s worth of damage based on what tier the assassin is.

Also added to the playtest material are a number of new ancestries - the earthkin, tidekin, emberkin, skykin, a celestial-derived Aetheris ancestry, and gnomes. Six new communities were also added - duneborne, freeborne (a community that was liberated from tyrannical rule), frostborne, hearthborne (coming from a small village or countryside), reborne (coming from a community that they no longer remember), and warborne.

The Warlock and Brawler were also updated with new revisions.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

But a part of me also thinks that maybe Dread is not the right option for Witches. Sure, witches hex. But considering Darrington Press probably wants a little more cultural sensitivity, then maybe Witches having Dread but not actually being good healers plays a bit more into negative stereotypes of witchcraft. Witches can't heal until Tier 3 through the Sage domain.

Good point. I’m also not sure. What would you give them instead?

 

[Aldarc]

Good point. I’m also not sure. What would you give them instead?

I'm not sure. Sage + Arcana is already taken by the Druid. Even then, Sage could use some low tier powers for healing.

 

[Faolyn]

That's not the normal rule. The normal rule is that it's "a" before consonants, "an" before vowels but that it's pronunciation that matters so words where the "h" is silent and the second letter is a vowel (like "hour") take "an" but ones where it isn't like "helicopter" take "a". And words like "hotel" can go either way depending on whether you say "a hotel" or "an 'otel".

The Merriam Webster backs me here.

And given it's a pronunciation difference and, weirdly, I'm likely to say "Haitch-Pee" when the letter by itself would be "aitch" I can not call the editor wrong or you other than a prescriptivist.

Right. But the "correct" (for a given definition of correct, when it comes to pronunciation) of H is aitch. Ergo aitch-pee. (Hotel whould be hoh-tel, not oh-tel.) At least in "standard" American English. YMMV outside of that.

Anyway. It bugs me. Chalk it up to my weird neurodivergent obsession with things like pronunciation.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Right. But the "correct" (for a given definition of correct, when it comes to pronunciation) of H is aitch. Ergo aitch-pee. (Hotel whould be hoh-tel, not oh-tel.) At least in "standard" American English. YMMV outside of that.

Anyway. It bugs me. Chalk it up to my weird neurodivergent obsession with things like pronunciation.

Which is it in whichever style guide they go by, I wonder?

 

[Aldarc]

Right. But the "correct" (for a given definition of correct, when it comes to pronunciation) of H is aitch. Ergo aitch-pee. (Hotel whould be hoh-tel, not oh-tel.) At least in "standard" American English. YMMV outside of that.

Anyway. It bugs me. Chalk it up to my weird neurodivergent obsession with things like pronunciation.

Either way, it's not worth bogging this Daggerheart thread down with this sort of minutiae. It's not fun to read.

 

[Faolyn]

Either way, it's not worth bogging this Daggerheart thread down with this sort of minutiae. It's not fun to read.

Hey, I posted about it once. It's other people who decided to keep it up.

 

[Seramus]

I go both ways.
An Haich-Pee
A Hit Point

 

[TwoSix]

Either way, it's not worth bogging this Daggerheart thread down with this sort of minutiae. It's not fun to read.

Yes, let’s focus on Daggereart.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

It doesn't matter what people say. The text says "a HP."


Well, I don't think it's drifted far enough yet to justify not using it in something that isn't casual.

You should look at why the "n" is added in the first place. It's their because it's difficult to differentiate between two vowel sounds when one immediately follow the other. In effect, it's to stop the space being swallowed up. Now, the thing is, it's the sound that matters. The letter h is unusual in that the name of the letter begins with a vowel sound but it is not itself a vowel. The reason it came to be proceeded by an n when functioning as a consonant is down to over-literal application of 18th century spelling rules. You do not need an "n" for it to be clear that "a" and "hit point" are two separate words.

Given that spelling and punctuation rules only exist to clarify meaning, I have to say that I disagree with you, it is correct to ignore this obsolete rule (unless you are in the 'abit of dropping your aitches).

 

[Ruin Explorer]

At least in "standard" American English. YMMV outside of that.

Yeah it's interesting how the American "standard" and British "standard" (Received Pronunciation) diverge strongly here. In Received Pronunciation or whatever fancy name it has now (they seem to change the names of every not-strictly-regional dialect in Britain every decade or so lol), h is pronounced and clearly. So as someone who was raised to speak that way (even if I also learned to speak Cockney/proto-Estuary and others), I would always say the letter H was pronounced "haitch".

My wife is American and consciously chose to not have a regional accent (Northern Indiana, so I totally get it, soz Northern Indiana folks, but a tiger is not called a "tagger"!), so speaks "Standard" American (i.e. newsreader-ish), and yeah, as you say, calls it "aitch".