Take Daggerheart to new levels with an expansion offering new options for everyone at the table (GMs and players!) and bringing Daggerheart into even more genres than before.
The Daggerheart: Hope & Fear standard edition comes with a book (around 200 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
Details:
- Print & Play Cards: Available for download here. Visit daggerheart.com/downloads for character sheets, guides, maps, and more!
- Available to purchase in:
- Physical Edition: Purchase includes the physical book and cards in a slipcover set, as well as PDF of the book and cards.
- PDF Edition: Purchase includes a PDF of the book and cards in both full-art and printer-friendly versions.
- Daggerheart Nexus Edition from Demiplane: Features summarized below.
- Physical + Daggerheart Nexus Bundle: Purchase includes a PDF of the rulebook, the physical Core Rulebook and box of cards in a slipcover set, as well the Daggerheart Nexus features below.
- Physical Edition: Purchase includes the physical book and cards in a slipcover set, as well as PDF of the book and cards.
Daggerheart Nexus Features
When you order the Hope & Fear Daggerheart Nexus standalone or in a bundle, you’ll receive a code by email that will unlock access on Demiplane. The Daggerheart Nexus gives you an easy-to-use digital companion for reading, searchable rules reference, official character building and sheets, and play support across desktop, tablets, and mobile devices for both in-person and online games.
This expansion delivers stunning artwork, new classes, ancestries, and a Dread domain. Customers said it exceeded expectations with extensive adversaries, environments, and detailed campaign frames. Some noted mechanics for communities felt uninspired, and a few mentioned last-minute class nerfs. Early delivery praised.
Shipment: arrived early, and the packaging might as well have been custom built for my order to protect it. Perfect condition
Product: Beautiful as usual. high quality materials, content, and art. I love their box sets.
Ordered 2 copies of the pre-order, and own 2 copies of the original. Am big fan of what there exists of Daggerheart so far. Hope & Fear is a good expansion, with new classes, species, ancestries, transformations, a new domain, new monsters, etc. High quality everything.
I have two notes, one specifically on Hope & Fear, the other on the online shop and what is available.
a) The original game had 2 copies of each card in each order. This expansion has only 1 copy, and this is why I'm giving it 4 stars instead of 5. The original release set expectations. Tsk tsk.
b) Not having the dry erase character sheets that one can purchase independently of the card folio (I bought that too) and in quantity is a let down. I'd love to be able to have all that are necessary to run a session in my hands, both for the players and for recurring NPCs. Please reconsider this.
With Hope & Fear, Daggerheart's toolkit for fantasy adventure gaming is complete. The art is gorgeous, but more importantly the content will help people transitioning from other games find familiar touchstones rendered into Daggerheart's excellent system. The new campaign frames have more detail and more support for starting a game in that setting.
An amazing addition to the core rulebook, adding the Daggerheart flavor to an expanding list of familiar RPG elements! Highly anticipated classes and ancestries are now official (Gnome Moon Witch, here I come!), while a hoard of cool and fearsome new creatures are presented with which to fill our fantasy realms.
As a GM whose brain-goblins tend to favor crunchier RPG systems - math, and even sometimes reverse math - I do wish more clarification on balanced creature creation was explored in this book to help those who worry about over-and-underpowering encounters, but regardless the wait for "Hope & Fear" was well worth it.
The art is, again, stunning. Absolutely gorgeous works from penciled character sketches to landscape imagery I would love to decorate my house with fill the pages of this expansion. The transformation mechanic is such an exciting way to handle subjects I've been trying to smoothly implement into games for years to rarely successful results, so I applaud the work put into making it so fun and easy to grasp.
Happy to add "Hope & Fear" to my RPG shelf, and even more excited to get the group together to explore everything it has to offer. Keep up the good work! <3
Its everything i could have hoped for and more. Can't wait for the next official expansion.
In 30+ years of tabletop gaming, Daggerheart has given more memorable table moments than anything else I've played. So, there is my bias laid bare. That said, after over 100 hours at the table with Core and Void content, I did not expect H&F to iterate or improve much upon the Core experience.
Despite my strong feelings toward the system, the Core set did have some issues. Specifically, the box and overall quality of the Deluxe set suffers over the long term, and while I am homebrewing content, the frames were thinner than many hoped. Hope and Fear Deluxe brings a much improved case, excellent pack-ins, and much more details Frames.
While this is on the Standard Set link, as I ordered Deluxe through my Beacon account, both sets are spectacular and well worth the purchase if you are a fan of the Core set or even if you are looking to get started. The tweaks to the character options from Void content are all solid, thoughtful changes; balancing power and flavor.
From a broader experience, this is the most well-designed supplemental book of any system I've ever read. The flow is intuitive, the art and content are so well done, and it compliments Core so well. I would quit my job if I could survive on playing Daggerheart.
All of the components are high quality, and the same quality of the original set. This expansion gives my table top an expansion that includes almost all of the aspects of the game. It's Daggerheart times 2. If you want to expand your game, this is the way to do it.
Everything about Hope and Fear has been stunning and exciting! If you're a Daggerheart fan, this is a must have for even more incredible ways to accent your game and the campaign frames as well as the environments and adversary options open up so many new interesting ways to challenge your players! GM's it's a no brainer, it's a permanent addition to my growing Daggerheart collection.
Came early and in perfect condition! Mechanics wise, very excited for this expansion which had noticeable improvements to the void playtest classes, as well as introduces transformations, which my table will be putting to good use starting this fall. Can’t wait for daggerheart’s next expansion!
The art is beautiful. I especially enjoy the attention to detail regarding the various art concepts for the vampire/ancestry combinations. The amount of items, consumables, and adversaries give much more variety when paired with the core rulebook. This is an excellent addition to core.
Absolutely love everything about this expansion. More of the game I already fell in love with? Yes please! From the art to the content, everything makes this homebrewing GM so happy.
I'm happy with the new features and spells this brings to the game. It will help my players characters and my own characters as well.
Hope and Fear just arrived today, and it's every bit as gorgeous as expected. I am endlessly excited that it came super early as well. As always the Critical Role team has over delivered ☺️
I was so excited for it that I ended up buying two copies without realizing. Great quality as always, need to get around on playing now! best regards!
The book(s), yes I ordered both versions, looked and felt amazing, I seriously have no complaints, and the fact that I was able to get it a month before official release is mind blowing! Thank you so much folks at darrington press and critical role. Also please make the pencil sketches in the book full posters, like I’m begging you just take my money I need it. Can’t recommend this product enough. Keep up the fantastic work guys!
The hope and fear expansion is a great addition to the core daggerheart experience. My only real gripe is that bloodhunter didnt make it out of the void.
Absolutely love it! The new book is an amazing addition to the game, the added bestiary give us much more guidance on what mobs should look like at the different tiers, and the new classes are *chef's kiss*!
Exactly as expected, just earlier than expected
Got this earlier than I hoped and in pristine shape! Props to the sellers for handling shipping so fluidly!
Daggerheart has already been an amazing and easy to lean system as both a player and GM. Session 0's and Character Creation have never been simpler! With this new Expansion, my new players were excited to try out new opportunities for their classes, ancestries, all in a slightly familiar but all new campaign module, one of several fascinating new settings to practice the system! The foe pages made me laugh in both their creativity and the possibilities they provide.
It's nice to buy a new TTRPG expansion and it live up to the hype! Looking forward to all things from Darrington Press and Critical Role going forward!
- A Satisfied Critter! :)
This is exactly what was needed. Frames, adversaries, environments, galore. The perfect supplement for a GM. The character build options are inventive and thematic and the Dread domain is full of options that make for tough and devastating characters... at a cost. All in all, in conjuction with the Core Rule Book, one can run a million different adventures from now until the end of time.
Prompt delivery, Excellent quality, Amazing content. Even the PDF was well done and easy to download. My only critique is that I have yet to receive the Demiplane Nexus discount code e-mail to pair this with my digital copy there.
These goods are genuinely glorious.
All around really smooth process from the store, and the game is so sick! Can’t wait to destroy my players- I mean, enjoy a great game with my friends.
An amazing expansion to a spectacular game system! The new classes are compelling, as is the new Dread domain, and the adversaries and environments were sorely needed to round out the content of the core rulebook. Absolutely recommend this extraordinary addition.
It came fast and was wasn't damaged.
