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.