Daggerheart: Hope & Fear Expands the Hit RPG from Darrington Press, Revealed & Now Available for Pre-order!

LOS ANGELES, CA, November 21, 2025 — An exciting new expansion is on the way for Daggerheart, the breakout TTRPG from Darrington Press, the publishing arm of Critical Role! Pre-orders for both the standard edition and the feature-packed deluxe edition are now live at Daggerheart.com/pre-order. Fans attending PAX Unplugged can also get exclusive sneak peeks and pre-order promos all weekend long at the Darrington Press booth (#3637).

The Daggerheart Core Set released in May of this year, quickly selling out internationally to an overwhelming demand. Powered by an innovative card and Duality Dice design, Daggerheart blends tactical depth with narrative freedom, empowering each group to make the game their own. The creative team behind Daggerheart—along with some exciting special contributors soon to be revealed—has crafted the next chapter in Daggerheart’s journey.

Daggerheart: Hope & Fear is 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.
Featuring new character classes—including the Witch, Warlock, Brawler, and Assassin—and more than 130 formidable adversaries, Daggerheart: Hope & Fear expands on every aspect of the Daggerheart storytelling experience. 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 abound with the addition of a new full new set of domain cards
(the Dread Domain), classes (Witch, Warlock, Brawler, and Assassin), communities, ancestries, gear options, and a new mechanic: transformation cards which expand your heritage options to play as Werewolves, Demigods, or Vampires! Build richer worlds, create legendary heroes, and dare to bring new tales to life.

Daggerheart: Hope & Fear comes in two stunning versions: a standard edition and a deluxe edition with a wealth of exclusive accessories (GM screen, dice, trackers) and variant artwork. Both editions are available now for pre-order and will ship in Summer 2026. As a bonus for preorders, the digital rulebook PDF will be delivered two weeks before full release!

What’s Included: Standard Edition

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!

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

Plus, an 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.
• 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

Pre-order Now with a Summer 2026 Release

Pre-orders for Daggerheart are open NOW 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.

Take a Closer Look at PAX Unplugged

Darrington Press is showcasing Daggerheart: Hope & Fear this weekend at PAX Unplugged (Philadelphia, Nov 21–23) at booth #3637, along with a closer look during their Daggerheart panel, Daggerheart Live: Building the Next Chapter, on Saturday Nov 22 10am-noon Eastern, which will also be livestreamed to the Darrington Press YouTube channel.

Assets and additional imagery can be found in the Daggerheart: Hope & Fear EPK.

Daggerheart just leveled up with this rich expansion for players and GMs! For more information, visit Daggerheart.com/pre-order.