Today, Darringtpn Press, the publishing arm of Critical Role, announced the first expansion to the Daggerheart TTRPG. Daggerheart: Hope & Fear is the debut expansion to the Daggerheart Core Set and nearly doubles the game’s worldbuilding and character-creation toolkit, offering players and GMs new options for creating adventures.
Featuring new character classes—including the Witch, Warlock, Brawler, and Assassin—and more than 130 enemies, Daggerheart: Hope & Fear expands on the Daggerheart storytelling toolkit. GMs will find adversaries, environments, 4 new campaign frames featuring new themes and custom mechanics, and a rip pad of blank adversary sheets. Player options include a full new set of domain cards (the Dread Domain), communities, ancestries, gear options. It’s also set to feature new mechanic: transformation cards which expand your heritage options to play as Werewolves, Demigods, or Vampires.
Daggerheart: Hope & Fear comes in two versions: a standard edition and a deluxe edition with exclusive accessories (GM screen, dice, trackers) and variant artwork.Â
The Daggerheart: Hope & Fear standard edition ($39.99 USD) comes with a book (around 200 pages) and a box containing cards and a rip pad of blank adversary sheets!Â
Inside the book, you’ll find:Â
- New character options, including 4 new  classes: the Witch, Warlock, Brawler, and  Assassin, each with 2 unique subclasses
- 130+ new adversaries and 28 environments,  plus a rip pad of blank adversary sheets to help you create your ownÂ
- 100+ weapons, armor, item, and consumable optionsÂ
- 4 new Campaign Frames introducing new worlds and settings for you to exploreÂ
The cards include:Â
- A completely new Dread Domain set of cards, unlocking ghastly, macabre magic core to the new Witch and Warlock classes.Â
- Subclass Cards for all 8 new subclassesÂ
- 6 Transformation Cards: A completely new mechanic, transformations represent changes or augmentations to characters in Daggerheart. During a campaign or at character creation, transform into a Vampire, Werewolf, Reanimated, Shapeshifter, Ghost, or Demigod!Â
- 6 new Community Cards: Duneborne, Hearthborne, Frostborne, Warborne, Freeborne, and ReborneÂ
- 6 new Ancestry Cards: Skykin, Tidekin, Earthkin, Emberkin, Gnome, and Aetheris
The Deluxe Edition ($119.99 USD)Â Â of Daggerheart: Hope & Fear contains
• Store your rulebook and an accessories  compartment in a gorgeous gold foil box with a wraparound cover featuring all-new artwork unique to this edition. The accessories compartment holds all your gorgeous cards and goodies, and clasps with a secure magnet.Â
• Alternate cover artwork on the box, rulebook, and accessories compartment.Â
• Track Fear and have rules references at the ready with this new GM screen and rhombic Fear tokens that stack along the top of the screen, visible to the GM and players. Stunning new artwork graces the player-facing side while quick reference information organizes the game master side.Â
• A rip pad of character sheets, player and GM guides, maps, and more.
• Dice, dice, and more dice! The gorgeous deluxe-edition-exclusive dice include:
o A set of 7 sharp-edged polyhedral diceÂ
o An oversized d20 for the GMÂ
o A set of 10 rhombic d12s for players to use as Hope & Fear diceÂ
 Pre-orders for Daggerheart are open at Daggerheart.com/pre-order, offering both standard and deluxe editions. As a pre-order bonus, the digital rulebook PDF will be delivered two weeks ahead of release date. Upon full release, the deluxe edition will remain an exclusive offering at Darrington Press Guild stores and Critical Role shops (US, UK, CA, AU, and EU), while the standard edition will also be available at other friendly local game stores and everywhere else that books and games are sold, thanks to the Darrington Press partnership with Macmillan Publishers.
Images via Darrington Press
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