Darrington Press revealed the next expansion for Daggerheart coming this summer. Daggerheart: Hope and Fear arrives August 25th with more everything for players:
Daggerheart: Hope & Fear’s stunning cover artwork and release dates
are revealed today! This expansion heralds the next chapter of Daggerheart, the breakout TTRPG from Darrington Press, the publishing arm of Critical Role. The robust debut expansion to the Daggerheart Core Set that nearly doubles the game’s worldbuilding and character-creation toolkit, offering players and GMs an abundance of new options for creating epic adventures.
Availability of Daggerheart: Hope & Fear
NOW: Pre-orders for both the standard edition and the feature-packed deluxe edition are now live at Daggerheart.com/pre-order.
As a bonus for pre-orders, the digital rulebook PDF will be delivered two weeks before full release, and they’ll receive a 20% off discount to pre-order the Demiplane Nexus edition of the game! Copies ship in early August.
July 30–August 2:
Limited copies available at Gen Con in Indianapolis, IN.
Tuesday, August 25:
Release at Darrington Press Guild stores, friendly local game stores, and Critical Role shops (US, UK, CA, AU, and EU). Digital editions of the expansion from Demiplane and DriveThruRPG release concurrently with the physical edition.
Tuesday, September 22:
Release everywhere else that books and games are sold, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and others.
The Deluxe Edition of Daggerheart: Hope & Fear will remain an exclusive offering at Darrington Press Guild stores and Critical Role shops, and contains significant enhancements, exclusive extras, and beautiful alternate artwork.
Unboxing & Cover Artwork & Contents Reveal
Daggerheart developers Spenser Starke, Elise Rezendes, and Rowan Hall unbox both the standard and deluxe editions of Hope & Fear in a YouTube video today on the Darrington Press channel. Artists Mat Wilma and Dominik Mayer are reprising their roles as cover artists from the Daggerheart Core Set, for the standard and deluxe editions respectively. Keen-eyed gamers can catch some of the same characters from the two covers rendered in each of these unique styles!
The devs showcase all the beautiful art and components of each edition. In addition to the variant artwork, the deluxe edition adds a box set, a GM screen, fear tokens, gold foil-edged cards, and lots of exclusive dice: a full
sharp edge resin set of polyhedral dice (with a chunky d20 and a set of rhombic duality dice in the colors matching the cover) as well as 10 rhombic d12s to share with everyone at your table.
What’s Included: Standard Edition
The Daggerheart: Hope & Fear standard edition ($39.99 USD) comes with a book (198 pages) and a box containing cards and 2 rip pads of blank adversary sheets!
Inside the book, you’ll find:
- 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 easily create your own
- 100+ weapons, armor, item, and consumable options
- 4 new Campaign Frames introducing new worlds and settings for you to explore
The cards include:
- A completely new Dread Domain set of cards, unlocking ghastly, macabre magic core to the new Witch and Warlock classes.
- Subclass Cards for all 8 new subclasses
- 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!
- 6 new Community Cards: Duneborne, Hearthborne, Frostborne, Warborne, Freeborne, and Reborne
- 6 new Ancestry Cards: Skykin, Tidekin, Earthkin, Emberkin, Gnome, and Aetheris
What’s Included: Deluxe Edition
The exquisite deluxe edition ($119.99 USD) of
Daggerheart: Hope & Fear contains a host of unique
accessories and enhancements:
- 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.
- Alternate cover artwork on the box, rulebook, and accessories compartment.
- 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.
- 3 adversary rip pads
- 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:
- A set of 7 sharp-edged polyhedral dice
- An oversized d20 for the GM
- A set of 10 rhombic d12s for players to use as Hope & Fear dice
