Daggerheart: Hope & Fear expansion Released Today from Darrington Press

Are you looking for new and intriguing worlds to explore in Daggerheart? Or perhaps you’d like to embrace your inner witch and use magic and mayhem to reach your goals? Maybe you’d like to subvert death and handle unfinished business from beyond the grave? For all of these scenarios, and more, Daggerheart: Hope & Fear has you covered!

Hope & Fear is the first expansion for the Daggerheart Core Set, and it is now available on:

Critical Role shops (US, UK, EU, AU, CA)
Darrington Press Guild Stores
Demiplane’s digital Daggerheart Nexus
DriveThruRPG

Other friendly local game stores, Amazon, and bookstores will have their copies available on September 22nd.

Plus, our friends at Botch Dice have crafted four gorgeous Daggerheart: Hope & Fear Class Dice Sets inspired by the assassin, brawler, witch, and warlock classes. Each 9-die set features bold class-themed artwork, and their first-ever metallic gold Hope d12 and opalescent purple Fear d12: Available now in the US Critical Role shop and the Botch Dice website.

Inside the box you’ll find a rulebook filled with new rules, items, and adversaries – along with four new campaign frames – all guaranteed to enrich your Daggerheart games. This includes four new classes (the witch, warlock, assassin, and brawler classes) each with two subclasses, and the brand new Dread domain, which offers ghastly, macabre magic and abilities.

In the box you’ll also find cards for the Dread domain, cards for the new subclasses, as well as new community and ancestry cards. And for those of you looking to truly shake up your narratives, there are also six new transformation cards, which will allow players to turn into creatures such as vampires, ghosts, and werewolves to drastically refresh the story and mechanics of your games. On top of all that, there are new adversary rip pads to help GMs keep track of the 130+ new devious adversaries or empower them to concoct their own. There are also new adversary mechanics, such as evolutions – which keep encounters fresh with horrifying developments sure to surprise players and encourage tactical switchups.

You can also visit the Daggerheart downloads page for free materials, including digital character sheets built for the new classes.

Homebrewers, Creators, and Actual Players!

With the launch of this expansion, we’ve updated our Darrington Press Community Gaming License (DPCGL) and our Daggerheart System Reference Document (SRD) to enable you to you build upon multiple elements of Hope & Fear, including the classes, the new Dread domain, transformation cards, equipment, and more.

Plus, we have a new section of Supplemental Campaign Mechanics that takes select mechanics from campaign frames (which are not included in the SRD themselves) and brings the settingless version of them to your fingertips for use in your campaigns and for building upon in your creations. So dive into faction tracking as seen in Five Banners Burning, colossal adversaries from Colossus of the Drylands, curses a la Reign of the Weredragon, and more.