Daggerheart Remap

SET decided · SOURCE verified in the campaign summary · YOURS GM invention · OPEN undecided · NOTE caution

NOTE This is a workbench, not a rulebook. Each subsystem below has a table: Daggerheart on the left, Night City on the right, and a status tag. Nothing is remapped yet. Once a subsystem is SET, its Night City column is what the table pages and the character creation options get built from. Keep Daggerheart's rules text verbatim wherever a mechanic is kept — only the names change.

Ground rules

SET Daggerheart, lightly reskinned, not a full conversion.

Keep as-is: Duality dice, Hope and Fear, HP, Stress, Armor, damage thresholds. Fear reads as "the city turning on you."

Reskin freely:

• Weapons become guns, using Daggerheart's existing ranges and damage dice.
• Domain cards become cyberware, quickhacks, street skills, or contacts.
• Presence is renamed Cool (nod to Cyberpunk RED's COOL stat).

Build bespoke: only what each character uniquely needs.

Process: players pitch a concept, match it to the closest class and subclass, rename most abilities, and hand-build only the one or two pieces that need it. Multiclassing is off; the crew runs levels 3 to 5 — Campaign Frame.

1. Traits

2. Core loop

3. Ancestries (24)

OPEN What an ancestry is in Night City — body type, chrome lineage, where you grew up, or dropped entirely in favour of communities. Decide the frame first, then the rows.

4. Communities (15)

OPEN The strongest candidate for "where you're from" — district, corp-town, Badlands, orbit.

5. Classes (13) and subclasses (26)

SET The Warlock is the Hope & Fear version (not the Void playtest). The Character Menus already name the classes in play: Wizard (School of War), Warlock, Druid (Warden of the Elements / Warden of Renewal), Seraph (Divine Wielder), Guardian (Stalwart / Vengeance), Bard (Troubadour), Rogue (Syndicate / Nightwalker), Ranger (Wayfinder), Warrior (Call of the Slayer). Remap those first; the rest only if a player wanders.

Subclasses in the corpus: Troubadour, Wordsmith, Warden of the Elements, Warden of Renewal, Stalwart, Vengeance, Beastbound, Wayfinder, Nightwalker, Syndicate, Divine Wielder, Winged Sentinel, Elemental Origin, Primal Origin, Call of the Brave, Call of the Slayer, School of Knowledge, School of War, Executioners Guild (H&F), Poisoners Guild (H&F), Juggernaut (H&F), Martial Artist (H&F), Pact of the Endless (H&F), Pact of the Wrathful (H&F), Hedge (H&F), Moon (H&F).

Candidate bespoke pieces named in the menus (one or two per character, not more):

• Wizard: Codex → program library; spells → quickhacks; Splendor → nanite repair / system restores.
• Druid: Beastform → digital shapeshifting (netrunner) or chemically altered states with a comedown (biohacker).
• Seraph: Prayer Dice → stim / med-kit pool.
• Bard: Rally die → calling in a favor; Codex → contacts and favors owed.
• Rogue (Nightwalker): shadow abilities → optical camo and reflex boosters.
• Warlock: patron → the Voodoo Boys (and what is really behind them — Factions).

6. Domains (10) and domain cards (210)

SET Domain cards become cyberware, quickhacks, street skills, or contacts. OPEN which domain becomes which.

7. Equipment

8. Adversaries and environments

9. Campaign frame fields

The Daggerheart frame fields (tagline, pitch, complexity, tone & feel, themes, touchstones, Session Zero questions, principles, distinctions, mechanics) are tracked on Campaign Frame.

10. What happens after

When sections 1–7 are SET:

1. The Character Menus move to the table pages as the character creation options.
2. The play sheet assets (copied from Colossi, still vanilla Daggerheart) get the renamed traits, domains and equipment.
3. Gear & Chrome and the Night City pages open for player-facing content.

Source · Kill Fee campaign summary, 2026-10-02; scope counts from the Daggerheart corpus (titterpig-dsl-daggerheart 0.5, core book + Hope & Fear; H&F entries marked)