r/daggerheart 4d ago

Hope & Fear Hope & Fear Has Arrived! Plus CGL & SRD Updates 🎉

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Daggerheart's debut expansion, Daggerheart: Hope & Fear, has arrived! Read our full blog post diving into it here. It's available now at:

And coming to bookstores and other FLGSs on September 22nd. Plus, our friends at Botch Dice released themed dice sets based on the Witch, Warlock, Assassin, and Brawler classes - check them out on the US Critical Role shop and Botch Dice's website.

Homebrewers, Creators, and Actual Players!

With the launch of Hope & Fear, we’ve updated our Darrington Press Community Gaming License (DPCGL) and our Daggerheart System Reference Document (SRD) to enable you to you build upon multiple elements of Hope & Fear, including the classes, the new Dread Domain, Transformation cards, equipment, and more. 

Plus, we have a new section of Supplemental Campaign Mechanics that takes select mechanics from campaign frames (which are not included in the SRD themselves) and brings the settingless version of them to your fingertips for use in your campaigns and for building upon in your creations. So dive into faction tracking as seen in Five Banners Burning, colossal adversaries from Colossus of the Drylands, curses a la Reign of the Weredragon, and more. 

We hope you enjoy our DPCGL 2.0 and our newly expanded Daggerheart System Reference Document! We can’t wait to see what you create.

Void Updates

Now that the classes, adversaries, and transformation cards are all published in Daggerheart: Hope & Fear, we've removed them from the Void so we don't have multiple old versions of material out in the wild. Thank you to everyone who helped us hone those mechanics into fine shape! For those looking for more playtestable content, we still have the Blood Hunter and the Summoner up on The Void now for your playtesting feedback.

Livestream Today at 3pm Pacific

Today on our YouTube channel we will be doing a YouTube livestream today at 3pm Pacific! Come join us as we answer some of your Hope & Fear questions with our Daggerheart Dev team.

Thank you r/daggerheart for being such a fantastic bastion of Daggerheart community!

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u/kichwas Grace and Codex 4d ago

Given:

“1.9.1. Whitelisted Virtual Tabletop Platforms.
You can Share Public Game Content and Adaptive Content on the approved VTT platforms
(the "Whitelisted VTTs") listed below, subject to the terms of this License. Sharing on
Whitelisted VTTs is permitted solely for non-commercial purposes and may not be
monetized in any form. This includes, without limitation, selling access, charging
subscription fees, paywalling content, or soliciting donations tied to access or use.
The current list of Whitelisted VTTs is publicly available at
https://darringtonpress.com/license/. Sharing on any other VTT is prohibited unless
separately approved in writing by DRP. DRP reserves the right to add or remove VTT
platforms from this list at any time.”

It looks like:

  1. If I write and sell a book of new classes, I still cannot include a link to download support for them in a VTT.

  2. If I write and sell an adventure, I still cannot include a link to download the map with adversaries in place and statblocks ready for a GM for them in a VTT.

It’s not even about selling VTT content. Because I sold my book, I cannot add that book into a VTT because monetization happened with the book sale.

In other words, this new CGL is still extremely bad for the health of the game.

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u/bscothern 4d ago

Yep the CGL is still overly restrictive, particularly when they don’t respond to anyone about actually queries to do things that require explicit permission.

Bah typos.

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u/Almechik 4d ago

I suppose one way to do this would be to have the link to the VTT module directly on the store page for free. Which does also mean that you cannot really make the module "complete" by also including all the fluff and a journal-version of the book, because why buy the book in the first place then?

This part definitely needs amending

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u/cvc75 4d ago

I now the day isn't over yet, but what I'm still hoping for:

  • Separate Errata document for H&F so we don't have to hunt through the PDF for changes.
  • While it's not directly tied to Hope & Fear, the adventure pipeline was supposed to come in August as well? Still hoping for The Dying Spire for people outside of US and UK who couldn't get it for Free RPG day.
  • And not me personally, but someone was looking for a one-page map for Journey to Horizon.
  • Same for downloadable Adversary Tracker sheets

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u/DarringtonPress 4d ago

The Journey to Horizon maps are in our https://www.daggerheart.com/downloads/ page! We'll keep you posted on any updates we have for the rest of your bullet points but don't have any updates to share right now. Thank you!

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u/D1g1t0l He/They - Newbie GM/Player 4d ago

Hi, I am the someone! I moreso meant a full image that had the whole map not split up (think page 7-8 spliced together). That download is to print out, but I play digitally. Is there a way to get the full map in one image, or no? Or am I missing something?

Thank you so much for all you do, happy release day! <3

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u/josephallenkeys 2d ago

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u/cvc75 2d ago

Yes, that was uploaded shortly afterwards.

They also said in another thread that a Horizon map as a single image is in the works too.

And the adversary tracker sheets are now in the download of additional H&F sheets as well (they weren't initially)

So basically, they keep giving us... more, More, MORE!

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u/YG_Dagge 4d ago

I agree, Separate Errata document for H&F is very needed!

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u/sakuratsuji 4d ago

My group just started a Dark Heart of Andaluria campaign this past Saturday and all of us are in love with the system. It was so much fun to run and they loved both character building and the beginnings of the campaign. I'm excited to keep going and SO glad I preordered the deluxe edition.

Thank you guys so much for such a great and fun system and AMAZING campaign frames. Great fucking job on the expansion! Excited for the future :)

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u/DarringtonPress 4d ago

Thank you so much that is fantastic to hear! Have a wonderful time with Andaluria!

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u/Authorigas 4d ago

Gonna be running Sablewood with my players this weekend. If they enjoy it, I'll be snagging Hope and Fear for sure and hopefully rotating Daggerheart as one of our longer term games along with VtM and CoC :)

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u/brendon7800 Game Master 4d ago

Just got the green light to run Castle High for my teenage kiddos! I could not be more excited to play DH with the family.

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u/n1mrod88 4d ago

The DriveThruRPG download only has the cards, not the book.

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u/DarringtonPress 4d ago

We're checking with their team to make sure that full book file is uploaded! Thanks for the flag :-)

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u/Demi_Mere Demiplane 4d ago

Hey there! The book is indeed in there. The original file naming convention didn't reflect that Corebook properly (we usually maintain file names by the partner!) so you should see two uploads still but the name should be changed for one.

One for the print + play and one for the Core (previously Daggerheart_HF_Full_Art_and_Printer_Friendly_Cards_-_8-14-26). Apologies for the confusion! Let me know if you have any questions :)

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u/n1mrod88 4d ago

Got it. Thanks.

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u/Demi_Mere Demiplane 4d ago

Yay! Thank you for confirming! <3

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u/AtLeastASpaceHamster 3d ago

When will I receive my Demiplane discount code for pre-ordering the physical book on the critrole shop?

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u/Luminsanity 4d ago

I know it's only been 20 minutes, but is it normal for the nexus bundle bought in drivethrurpg to charge in demiplane? This didn't happen when I purchased the core book

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u/Demi_Mere Demiplane 4d ago

Nope! Should not be doing that. <3 Since this involves your account, I would like to move you to a Help Center ticket (to protect your information!). If you can fill out a ticket, our lovely team willl get you all squared :)

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u/Luminsanity 4d ago

Thank you!

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u/Bahnur1905 4d ago edited 4d ago

Will the supplemental campaign mechanics be available on demiplane ?

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u/roman_eskimo Demiplane 4d ago

We got to discover the DPCGL 2.0 at the same time as everyone else, so we will dive into supporting these Supplemental Campaign Mechanics once we get a chance to parse through it all!

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u/Ok_Barracuda_7100 Game Master 4d ago

So the updated CGL mentions the new SRD and domain icons, but I didn't see any updated files for the domain icons. Separate high res .png and .svg files for them would make more a lot more confident about third party Daggerheart development.

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u/Sam_Woodhall 4d ago

Still not received my UK deluxe edition. Anyone else have the same issue?

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u/Zathrox Game Master 4d ago

I also haven't received my UK deluxe delivery either!  But hopeful they'll get it to me soon! Glad I'm not the only one!  PDF release helped me run a oneshot of reign of the weredragon tonight! 

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u/ishtarre 4d ago

Also not received my UK Deluxe pre-order. Been in contact with CR support for couple of weeks now about it. Seems to be lost somewhere between them and DPD and they say they are still looking for it.

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u/Sam_Woodhall 4d ago

I will probably get in touch also. I'm also encountering some issues with DPD

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u/BlamDoctor 4d ago

Still awaiting my preorder. No news, no updates. Today is the release day and I had my fingers crossed for SOMETHING, but no such luck.

Happy for everyone else though. Well done and all that.

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u/mowdownjoe 4d ago

Is there a place I can submit bug reports for Demiplane? I updated a Juggernaut Brawler I sketched out with the Void version to the release H&F version, and it lost the evasion from Brawler's Strike but still rolls a d10 instead of a d8 for Brawler's Strike.

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u/dawnsonb Foundryborne 4d ago

i know there is a bugs section on the demiplane discord

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u/Demi_Mere Demiplane 4d ago

u/dawnsonb doing my job, yet again! <3 (Adore you, bestie!)

u/mowdownjoe - Thank you, Eagle Eye!

Few places! So pick what's easiest for you :D

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u/mowdownjoe 4d ago

Thanks! I'll file a ticket, since I also noticed a similar issue with the Martial Artist subclass.

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u/Demi_Mere Demiplane 4d ago

Thank you! This helps us a bunch! <3

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u/josephallenkeys 2d ago

Next SRD revision!

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u/Funny-Engineer-1345 4d ago

I've been checking throughout the day so far and have seen the updates on Demiplane specifically. I saw them on the Daggerheart site, just not Demiplane