Daggerheart: Hope & Fear Coming Summer 2026

It’s PAX Unplugged, and Darrington Press has revealed the first Expansion for Daggerheart. 

Announced this morning, Hope & Fear is going to be doubling the content that the base book has. Some of what’s to come in the book includes:

• 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

Now, also included will be New Cards for the book as well, including:

• 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

Now the Standard Version of the book comes with all of this. The Deluxe Edition comes with everything in the Standard Version, and other things, including:

• 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

This amazing book is for Pre-order now, with the release scheduled for Summer 2026.