Daggerheart’s First Expansion: Hope & Fear for Players and GMs!
Daggerheart is leveling up with a brand new expansion—Daggerheart: Hope & Fear nearly doubles the worldbuilding and character building toolset! Players and GMs will find its pages, cards, and accessories indispensable in their adventures and storytelling. From the new character options (like the Witch, Warlock, Brawler, and Assassin classes) to the over 130 adversaries to challenge them with, this is an expansion that makes it even easier to tell the stories you want to tell.
Pre-orders for a standard edition and a features-packed deluxe edition (GM screen, dice, trackers) are now open at Daggerheart.com/pre-order, with sneak peeks and pre-order promos available at the PAX Unplugged Darrington booth #3637 this weekend! Daggerheart: Hope & Fear will release in Summer 2026, but as a pre-order bonus, the 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
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 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.
Daggerheart just leveled up with this rich expansion for players and GMs! For more information, visit Daggerheart.com/pre-order.
