Daggerheart RPG

Daggerheart is Critical Role and Darrington Press’s answer to a more character led fantasy TTRPG. It keeps the core of what makes tabletop roleplaying great, then reworks the mechanics around collaborative storytelling rather than complicated stat based mechanics.

We’ve been playing, running and picking apart Daggerheart since launch. Below you’ll find our full library of guides, covering everything from class builds to the mechanics that make the system tick.

Classes and subclasses

The class you choose shapes how your character fights, supports the party and interacts with the world. Each Daggerheart class comes with its own domain cards, hope features and playstyle, and we’ve got a guide for building and optimising each one.

Latest class guides

Daggerheart Class and Subclass Guide

Ancestries

Your character’s ancestry reflects their lineage, shaping their physical traits and granting two ancestry features. The Core Set launched with 18 ancestries with the Hope and Fear expansion adding 6 more:

Core ancestries

Clank
Drakona
Dwarf
Elf
Faerie
Faun
Firbolg
Fungril
Galapa
Giant
Goblin
Halfling
Human
Infernis
Katari
Orc
Ribbet
Simiah

Hope & Fear ancestries

Aetheris
Earthkin
Emberkin
Gnome
Skykin
Tidekin

Players can also mix and match features from two ancestries to build a Mixed Ancestry character.

Communities

A character’s community reflects the culture or environment that most shaped their upbringing, and grants a community feature alongside a handful of adjectives to help build their personality. The Core Set includes nine communities, such as Loreborne, Ridgeborne, Seaborne and Wanderborne, with several more, including Duneborne, Frostborne and Hearthborne, added in the Hope and Fear expansion.

Rules & Mechanics

Journey to Horizon campaign frame Daggerheart: Darrington Press

Daggerheart trades the d20 for a Duality Dice system, and adds new focus on a characters Hope, Fear and Stress. If you’re coming from D&D, the mechanics take some getting used to – these guides break down how it all fits together.

Latest rules guides

Lore & Setting

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Daggerheart doesn’t lock you into a single setting the way D&D leans on the Forgotten Realms. Instead it gives GMs the tools to build their own world. We’re covering the campaign frames and setting material as it grows.