Geas is an interesting one. It's pronounced "gesh" but everyone I've played with pronounced it "geese"
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For me its gay-ass and I do not apologise
"You have been targeted by a gay-ass spell, it compells you to go on a gay-ass quest"
I've said Ghee-ass this entire time.
No clue where they're pulling that pronunciation from, but it isn't the standard, so I kinda suspect they pulled it from the same place you pull the rubber band your dog swallowed.
Capitalized “Sigil” (sig-əl) in this context is a made up place-name from D&D lore. It is a homograph to the actual English word “sigil” (sij-əl) They are pronounced differently for the same reason I can name my storm barbarian “Barnacles” (rhymes with “Hercules”).
That's clever. Given the spoken nature of a Dungeons & Dragons session, a DM could just meme by naming a character literally the English word "barnacles" but by pronouncing it as "barn" + "uh" + "cleese" (to rhyme with "please") I imagine people would not think of that word.
...barnacles would make a fine champion in a party with vinegar the barbarian...
I’ve only heard it pronounced with a hard g when listening to critical role, and the person that pronounced it that way (more like giggle but starting with an s) got razzed for it.
Listening to audio books I hear a lot of words that make me cringe or wonder if I’ve been wrong all these years, after all these are professional voice actors that presumably have directors or producers that correct them when they’re wrong, right?
Also I read a lot as a kid, And didn’t watch or listen to a lot of media, so I mispronounce things all the time. My favorite is primer as in a small introduction to a topic. This has always been prime-ur in my mind, makes sense as that is the term for the small charge that ignites the big charge in a bullet. The word is actually pronounced primm-er.
D&D is likely written by people who have similarly focused on the written, not spoken word. Don’t trust any of their pronunciations.
Jif is good you winker, creator's pronunciation and all that.
Si-gill is obscene.
It’s pronounced “gif”!
But seriously, either the creator is trolling or an idiot.
Hard G for life, yo!
I am thoroughly convinced that the people who choose the soft G are people who are intentionally contrarian.
"But the originator of the word says it's a soft G"
Yeah, and, the originator of the word is wrong.
Hard G.
...it's pronounced sigil and anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong...
Never use the hard 'g' unless you're from the plains, Berk.