社群Communities

Communities represent a key aspect of the culture, class, or environment of origin that has had the most influence over your character’s upbringing. Your character’s community grants them a community feature. Each community card also lists six adjectives you can use as inspiration to create your character’s personality, their relationship to their peers, their attitude toward their upbringing, or the demeanor with which they interact with the rest of the party. Please note the Daggerheart Core Set includes only the following communities: Highborne, Loreborne, Orderborne, Ridgeborne, Seaborne, Slyborne, Underborne, Wanderborne, Wildborne.

DUNEBORNE

Being part of a duneborne community means you’ve made a home among the shifting sands and arid climate of the desert. Each duneborne enclave develops specific methods of protecting themselves from the blazing sun, moving across the scorching sands, and acquiring and storing precious resources. Some duneborne travel their desert homes, maneuvering through the dunes herding livestock, while others cluster around oases, collaborating with one another to maintain and share a rare area of abundant resources. Duneborne settlements are known for architecture that captures wind to cool their homes and irrigation systems that tap into underground reservoirs and tend to crops even amidst the harshest conditions. Many duneborne put added emphasis on familial bonds and the need for everyone to contribute to the well-being of the collective. Duneborne are often adaptable, centered, collaborative, devoted, cheerful, and observant.

COMMUNITY FEATURE

Oasis: During a short rest, you or an ally can reroll a die used for a downtime move and take the higher result.

FREEBORNE

Being part of a freeborne community means you’re from a collective that once lived under tyrannical rule but is now liberated. Though no two freeborne enclaves are the same, all are unified by the experience of fighting to preserve their culture while others tried to eradicate it. Whether due to their religion, resources, location, or culture, freeborne groups were once subjugated by another community. For some, this subjugation might have only recently ended; for others, even if their freedom has been long-won, the scars of tyranny can last, bonding together families and neighbors for decades or even generations. Many freeborne collectives unify in and rebuild the lands reclaimed from their oppressors or in a homeland they were taken from. Others see “home” as a collection of people who care for one another, no matter where they reside.

Many freeborne passionately celebrate their unique holidays, art, food, decor, and other customs, whether they’re enjoying long-held traditions or new practices born from liberation. Their past experiences often forge in them a fierce protectiveness of their community and an equally strong fervor to celebrate their culture. Freeborne are often optimistic, guarded, courageous, joyful, subversive, and traumatized.

COMMUNITY FEATURE

Unbound: Once per session when you roll with Fear, you can change it into a roll with Hope instead.

FROSTBORNE

Being part of a frostborne community means you come from a place of snow and ice. Forged in bitter and unrelenting cold, frostborne communities are accustomed to surviving in the harshest conditions. The glaciers and tundras they call home usually lack wood, so these collectives use more readily available materials such as ice, stone, bone, and animal pelts to make shelter and conserve heat. They are adept at ensuring their supplies go a long way and that all their people have access to the essentials needed to survive. As part of their systems of survival, many frostborne closely track weather patterns, the rising and setting of the sun, and the needs of local flora and fauna. Because of the howling wind and biting snow, some frostborne communities develop nonverbal means of communication so they can cover their faces for safety during dangerous weather. Frostborne are often cunning, gregarious, intrepid, purposeful, quiet, and warm.

COMMUNITY FEATURE

Hardy: When you take a rest, you clear a Hit Point.

HEARTHBORNE

Being part of a hearthborne community means you come from humble origins, having lived in a modest village or quaint countryside. These communities are often small groups that live in resource-rich, peaceful areas that allow families and neighbors the time to develop close-knit relationships rather than compete over scarce supplies. Hearthborne communities are largely agrarian and pastoral, focusing the layout of their villages around their plants and animals. The town centers typically feature a collection of locally owned shops with skilled artisans such as blacksmiths, cobblers, alchemists, and the like. Sometimes, hearthborne communities have distant but powerful rulers who own the land the villagers work and live on—in those cases, resources are controlled by the wealthy even though the labor is performed by locals, and workers might struggle to afford the basics they need to survive. While some hearthborne individuals can be mistrustful of outsiders, most are known for being welcoming, peaceful, and hospitable. Hearthborne are often careful, generous, insular, loquacious, smiley, and traditional.

COMMUNITY FEATURE

Close-Knit: Once per long rest, you can spend any number of Hope to grant an ally within Far range an equal number of Hope.

HIGHBORNE

Being part of a highborne community means you're accustomed to a life of elegance, opulence, and prestige within the upper echelons of society. Traditionally, members of a highborne community possess incredible material wealth. While this can take a variety of forms depending on the community—including gold and other minerals, land, or controlling the means of production—this status always comes with power and influence. Highborne place great value on titles and possessions, and there is little social mobility within their ranks. Members of a highborne community often control the political and economic status of the areas in which they live due to their ability to influence people and the economy with their substantial wealth. The health and safety of the less affluent people who live in these locations often hinges on the ability of this highborne ruling class to prioritize the well-being of their subjects over profit. Highborne are often amiable, candid, conniving, enterprising, ostentatious, and unflappable.

COMMUNITY FEATURE

Privilege: You have advantage on rolls to consort with nobles, negotiate prices, or leverage your reputation to get what you want.

LOREBORNE

Being part of a loreborne community means you’re from a society that favors strong academic or political prowess. Loreborne communities highly value knowledge, frequently in the form of historical preservation, political advancement, scientific study, skill development, or lore and mythology compilation. Most members of these communities research in institutions built in bastions of civilization, while some eclectic few thrive in gathering information from the natural world. Some may be isolationists, operating in smaller enclaves, schools, or guilds and following their own unique ethos. Others still wield their knowledge on a larger scale, making deft political maneuvers across governmental landscapes. Loreborne are often direct, eloquent, inquisitive, patient, rhapsodic, and witty.

COMMUNITY FEATURE

Well-Read: You have advantage on rolls that involve the history, culture, or politics of a prominent person or place.

ORDERBORNE

Being part of an orderborne community means you’re from a collective that focuses on discipline or faith, and you uphold a set of principles that reflect your experience there. Orderborne are frequently some of the most powerful among the surrounding communities. By aligning the members of their society around a common value or goal, such as a god, doctrine, ethos, or even a shared business or trade, the ruling bodies of these enclaves can mobilize larger populations with less effort. While orderborne communities take a variety of forms—some even profoundly pacifistic—perhaps the most feared are those that structure themselves around military prowess. In such a case, it’s not uncommon for orderborne to provide soldiers for hire to other cities or countries. Orderborne are often ambitious, benevolent, pensive, prudent, sardonic, and stoic.

COMMUNITY FEATURE

Dedicated: Record three sayings or values your upbringing instilled in you. Once per rest, when you describe how you’re embodying one of these principles through your current action, you can roll a d20 as your Hope Die.

REBORNE

You were once a member of a different community that you’re no longer part of. Unlike members of collectives who are allied by familiarity, shared location, history, and culture, reborne are individuals who might never meet and are unified only by their shared experience of solitude. Whether they left by choice or were ripped from their community, all reborne are disconnected from the place where they once belonged, and they carry that wound with them. Some reborne are isolated from their community because they chose to reject or renounce it, or they could have been forcibly expelled by other members. These instances are often due to a conflict, such as clashing ideological differences, a falling out with their people, or an incident that forced them to depart. Other reborne have no knowledge of their culture, either due to their upbringing or perhaps because they lost their memory through injury or magic. Some have even returned from beyond the veil after death with no recollection of their previous life—or the culture that shaped it. Often, reborne individuals tirelessly search for their past or feel that they’ll never belong in a collective, but all are afforded the opportunity to turn toward the future and redefine themselves while building new bonds with those they come to know and love. Reborne are often curious, hopeful, innocent, isolated, mournful, and uncanny.

COMMUNITY FEATURE

Found Family: Once per rest, you can spend a Hope to use an ally’s Experience as if it were your own. When you do so, describe how your time with that ally prepared you for this moment. When you join a new community or rediscover your old one, you can permanently trade this card for that one instead.

RIDGEBORNE

Being part of a ridgeborne community means you’ve called the rocky peaks and sharp cliffs of the mountainside home. Those who’ve lived in the mountains often consider themselves hardier than most because they’ve thrived among the most dangerous terrain many continents have to offer. These groups are adept at adaptation, developing unique technologies and equipment to move both people and products across difficult terrain. As such, ridgeborne grow up scrambling and climbing, making them sturdy and strong-willed. Ridgeborne localities appear in a variety of forms—some cities carve out entire cliff faces, others construct castles of stone, and still more live in small homes on windblown peaks. Outside forces often struggle to attack ridgeborne groups, as the small militias and large military forces of the mountains are adept at utilizing their high-ground advantage. Ridgeborne are often bold, hardy, indomitable, loyal, reserved, and stubborn.

COMMUNITY FEATURE

Steady: You have advantage on rolls to traverse dangerous cliffs and ledges, navigate harsh environments, and use your survival knowledge.

SEABORNE

Being part of a seaborne community means you lived on or near a large body of water. Seaborne communities are built, both physically and culturally, around the specific waters they call home. Some of these groups live along the shore, constructing ports for locals and travelers alike. These harbors function as centers of commerce, tourist attractions, or even just a safe place to lay down one’s head after weeks of travel. Other seaborne live on the water in small boats or large ships, with the idea of “home” comprising a ship and its crew, rather than any one landmass. No matter their exact location, seaborne communities are closely tied to the ocean tides and the creatures who inhabit them. Seaborne learn to fish at a young age, and train from birth to hold their breath and swim in even the most tumultuous waters. Individuals from these groups are highly sought after for their sailing skills, and many become captains of vessels, whether within their own community, working for another, or even at the helm of a powerful naval operation. Seaborne are often candid, cooperative, exuberant, fierce, resolute, and weathered.

COMMUNITY FEATURE

Know the Tide: You can sense the ebb and flow of life. When you roll with Fear, place a token on your community card. You can hold a number of tokens equal to your level. Before you make an action roll, you can spend any number of these tokens to gain a +1 bonus to the roll for each token spent. At the end of each session, clear all unspent tokens.

SLYBORNE

Being part of a slyborne community means you come from a group that operates outside the law, including all manner of criminals, grifters, and con artists. Members of slyborne communities are brought together by their disreputable goals and their clever means of achieving them. Many people in these communities have an array of unscrupulous skills: forging, thievery, smuggling, and violence. People of any social class can be slyborne, from those who have garnered vast wealth and influence to those without a coin to their name. To the outside eye, slyborne might appear to be ruffians with no loyalty, but these communities possess some of the strictest codes of honor which, when broken, can result in a terrifying end for the transgressor. Slyborne are often calculating, clever, formidable, perceptive, shrewd, and tenacious.

COMMUNITY FEATURE

Scoundrel: You have advantage on rolls to negotiate with criminals, detect lies, or find a safe place to hide.

UNDERBORNE

Being part of an underborne community means you’re from a subterranean society. Many underborne live right beneath the cities and villages of other collectives, while some live much deeper. These communities range from small family groups in burrows to massive metropolises in caverns of stone. In many locales, underborne are recognized for their incredible boldness and skill that enable great feats of architecture and engineering. Underborne are regularly hired for their bravery, as even the least daring among them has likely encountered formidable belowground beasts, and learning to dispatch such creatures is common practice amongst these societies. Because of the dangers of their environment, many underborne communities develop unique nonverbal languages that prove equally useful on the surface. Underborne are often composed, elusive, indomitable, innovative, resourceful, and unpretentious.

COMMUNITY FEATURE

Low-Light Living: When you’re in an area with low light or heavy shadow, you have advantage on rolls to hide, investigate, or perceive details within that area.

WANDERBORNE

Being part of a wanderborne community means you’ve lived as a nomad, forgoing a permanent home and experiencing a wide variety of cultures. Unlike many communities that are defined by their locale, wanderborne are defined by their traveling lifestyle. Because of their frequent migration, wanderborne put less value on the accumulation of material possessions in favor of acquiring information, skills, and connections. While some wanderborne are allied by a common ethos, such as a religion or a set of political or economic values, others come together after shared tragedy, such as the loss of their home or land. No matter the reason, the dangers posed by life on the road and the choice to continue down that road together mean that wanderborne are known for their unwavering loyalty. Wanderborne are often inscrutable, magnanimous, mirthful, reliable, savvy, and unorthodox.

COMMUNITY FEATURE

Nomadic Pack: Add a Nomadic Pack to your inventory. Once per session, you can spend a Hope to reach into this pack and pull out a mundane item that’s useful to your situation. Work with the GM to figure out what item you take out.

WARBORNE

Being part of a warborne community means you come from a place that is, or was, ravaged by war. These groups might be composed of civilians who live in an active warzone, soldiers who served together in the armed forces, or citizens of nations that have been in conflict for decades. Whether civilian or military, warborne are typically skilled in self-defense, even if their tactics are focused on avoidance rather than offensive action. Warborne defending their homeland are known for using their environment to their advantage, while invading warborne might rely entirely on their military might. No matter their origin, the life of a warborne is defined at least in part by resourcefulness. Those who live in an occupied territory might need to undertake massive reconstruction efforts to repair and preserve homes, farms, workplaces, or cultural monuments— the remnants of one building often become the materials to repair another. Meanwhile, warborne who are part of an invading army typically carry few personal possessions and must rely on scavenging the warzones they occupy. Whether they find themselves on the winning or losing side of a conflict, those from warborne communities are likely to bear trauma for the rest of their lives, their sense of safety and mortality forever marred by the mass casualties and destruction of war. Warborne are often strategic, devastated, determined, calculating, unwavering, and devoted.

COMMUNITY FEATURE

Brave Face: Once per session when you would be forced to mark a Stress, you can spend a Hope instead..

WILDBORNE

Being part of a wildborne community means you lived deep within the forest. Wildborne communities are defined by their dedication to the conservation of their homelands, and many have strong religious or cultural ties to the fauna they live among. This results in unique architectural and technological advancements that favor sustainability over short-term, high-yield results. It is a hallmark of wildborne societies to integrate their villages and cities with the natural environment and avoid disturbing the lives of the plants and animals. While some construct their lodgings high in the branches of trees, others establish their homes on the ground beneath the forest canopy. It’s not uncommon for wildborne to remain reclusive and hidden within their woodland homes. Wildborne are often hardy, loyal, nurturing, reclusive, sagacious, and vibrant.

COMMUNITY FEATURE

Lightfoot: Your movement is naturally silent. You have advantage on rolls to move without being heard.