Daggerheart To Release Official Hope & Fear Expansion

Darrington Press has announced the first expansion for Daggerheart, which adds four new subclasses, a new domain, and several other new character-building options. At the onset of PAX Unplugged, Darrington Press announced Daggerheart: Hope & Fear, the first expansion for the Daggerheart TTRPG. The new expansion, which will launch in Summer 2026, contains 4 new classes - the Witch, Warlock, Brawler, and Assassin, each of which comes with two subclasses. Also included is the brand new Dread Domain, which is tied to Witch and Warlock classes. There will also be over 130 adversaries and 28 new environments in the books, along with four new Campaign Frame.

A Standard Edition and a Deluxe Edition will be released for Daggerheart: Hope & Fear. Both versions come with the book and associated cards, with the deluxe edition featuring a gold foil box, dice, alternate art covers, and a rip pad with various sheets for the game. The Standard Edition (which runs about 200 pages) will retail for just $39.99, while the Deluxe Edition runs for $119.99.

A full description of the new expansion is below:

Daggerheart: Hope & Fear 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, 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

 

[Vael]

What's interesting to me is that one of the witch arts looks to be a male coded character. I don't have any problems with using that class name, but I also recognize my own privilege here.

If only they would sell a GM screen separately!

Yeah ... that's the one reason I'll delay a bit on deciding whether to go for the deluxe or not. I want the GM screen, but the tokens, dice and fancy box are meh to me, and it is 3x the price of the base box ...

 

[Scribe]

It is weird that folks in this thread are "worried" about the witch and warlock terms even though it has not come up here at all, except in people suggesting someone, somewhere, but not here, is mad about it.

What's the concern?

 

[Vael]

Is he making a frame, or a full campaign setting? I got the impression at the announcement that it was the latter.

This Insta post confirms that this is not what Keith was working on. Also ... the Fear tokens are rhombic dice that can slot over the GM screen, so I'm leaning slightly more to the upgrade

Darrington Press on Instagram: "Hope & Fear surprise live with the Devs at PAX Unplugged. We’re under the table top again!"

339 likes, 7 comments - darringtonpress on November 21, 2025: "Hope & Fear surprise live with the Devs at PAX Unplugged. We’re under the table top again!".

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[Agamon]

What's the concern?

Religious connotations? Satanic panic? 60's sitcom dislikers? Fighting Fantasy book haters? Who knows these days...

 

[Scribe]

Religious connotations? Satanic panic? 60's sitcom dislikers? Fighting Fantasy book haters? Who knows these days...

I guess? I'm a Shadowdark enjoyer, it has both, and a class that may have to "ritually sacrifice 9 humanoid lives." so what do I know eh?

 

[Aldarc]

I'm not mad; I'm just disappointed.

 

[ProfessorDetective]

Ooh, Brawler. Every combat-heavy game needs a practitioner of good old fisticuffs/kung-fu. I must get around to buying the core book, eventually

 

[Stormonu]

Well, I'll be picking this one up.
I like the box, but I put my cards into a MtG style binder, so it was easier for the players to actually see the cards when building/leveling their character. So, I plan to just pick up the standard edition, and the cards will be added to the binder.

Glad we're getting the Warlock & Witch, I'd like to play one myself one time.

 

[Professor Murder]

So I am keen to pick this up, but the deluxe is just outside my budget. Conversely, if the production quality is as good as the core book and given the size they are suggesting, $40 is a pretty good deal at this point. What I am aching for is for them to release the screen as a separate product.