Daggerheart RPG: Hope & Fear Expansion Set

Weave dark magic, embrace cursed transformations, and challenge your party across entirely new worlds with the first major expansion to Darrington Press’s narrative roleplaying system.

Daggerheart: Hope & Fear is the premier rules expansion for the narrative-forward tabletop roleplaying game created by Darrington Press and Spenser Starke. Built directly on the dynamic Hope & Fear duality dice engine, this boxed expansion set roughly doubles the character-building possibilities and worldbuilding toolkits available to players and Game Masters alike. Packaged in a sturdy slipcase containing an expansive hardcover volume, dedicated card boxes, and accessory rip pads, Hope & Fear opens up darker genres and grander heroic archetypes for any campaign.

For players, the set introduces four complete character classes—the Assassin, Brawler, Warlock, and Witch—alongside the macabre Dread Domain and a groundbreaking Transformation system that lets heroes become vampires, lycanthropes, or demigods. For Game Masters, the expansion delivers an armory of over 130 fully statted adversaries, 28 detailed environmental hazard frames, four complete campaign settings, and customized tear pads designed for rapid monster improvisation on game night.

Expanded Character Classes, Domains and GM Tools:

• Four New Classes & Eight Subclasses: Master precision lethality with the Assassin, bare-knuckle martial control with the Brawler, otherworldly pacts with the Warlock, or nature's eerie brewings with the Witch.
• The Dread Domain: An all-new set of domain cards introducing macabre spells, forbidden curses, and eerie necromantic manipulation core to the Warlock and Witch classes.
• Character Transformations: A brand-new character augmentation system allowing adventurers to become a Vampire, Werewolf, Ghost, Reanimated, Shapeshifter, or Demigod during creation or campaign progression.
• New Ancestries & Communities: Expand origins with 6 Ancestries (Skykin, Tidekin, Earthkin, Emberkin, Gnome, and Aetheris) and 6 Communities (Duneborne, Frostborne, Hearthborne, Warborne, Freeborne, and Reborne).
• Campaign Frames & Bestiary: 4 ready-to-run genre campaign frameworks, 28 modular environments, and over 130 adversaries accompanied by custom tear-away stat sheets.

Book Set Contents:

• ~200-Page Full-Color Hardcover Expansion Sourcebook
• Thematic Slipcover Case with Internal Storage Box
• Complete Deck of Dread Domain Cards
• 8 Subclass Cards and 6 Transformation Cards
• 12 Ancestry and Community Cards
• 100+ Weapons, Armor, Loot, and Consumable Cards
• 2 Rip Pads of Blank Adversary Stat Sheets

Book Information:

• Publisher: Darrington Press
• Release Year: 2026
• Game Type: Daggerheart (Requires Daggerheart Core Set to play)
• Age Range: 14+
• Primary Genre: Narrative High Fantasy / Tabletop Roleplaying Game Expansion Set