Daggerheart
Designed by Spenser Starke, Carlos Cisco, Rowan Hall, John Harper, Matthew Mercer, Alex Uboldi, and Michael Underwood
Daggerheart is a fantasy tabletop roleplaying game of brave heroics and vibrant worlds that are built together with your gaming group. Create a shared story with your adventuring party, and shape your world through rich, long-term campaign play. In addition to dice, Daggerheart’s card system makes it easy to get started and satisfying to grow your abilities by bringing your characters’ background and capabilities to your fingertips. Ancestry and Community cards describe where you come from and how your experience shapes your customs and values. Meanwhile, your Subclass and Domain cards grant your character plenty of tantalizing abilities to choose from as your character evolves. Craft your unique character through the cards you choose and the story you tell, and become the hero you want to be!
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Luke (LittleBoyBlue)
Ran 2 sessions
I’ve GM’d thousands of sessions across a variety of TTRPG systems and developed my own distinctive style of storytelling and table management. Over time, I’ve created countless homebrew rules and adapted existing ones to ensure my games are engaging, balanced, and tailored to the needs of my players. When I discovered Daggerheart, it immediately clicked with me — it captured exactly how I love to run games. After running a few one-shots for an event, I was completely hooked. Daggerheart feels fantastic to run: the rules are intuitive and easy to learn, yet offer deep potential for strategy, creativity, and character-driven storytelling as you dive deeper into the system.
Old Scratch
Played 10 sessions
I'm a long time D&D fan who started playing Daggerheart in April 2025 and won't be stopping anytime soon. Daggerheart foregrounds roleplaying and storytelling without foregoing tactical combat. It's now my favorite TTRPG.
GM Aetheric
Ran 3 sessions
Daggerheart has quickly become my preferred TTRPG system for player-narrative focused campaigns. The Hope and Fear mechanics create an organic ebb and flow of gameplay and encourages players to engage proactively with a scene and collaborate to achieve their goals. There are no jarring transitions between social, exploration, and combat, which allows a GM to blend the three pillars of gameplay into a single scene. This has enabled me to craft some of the most complex, tense, and rewarding encounters for my players, encounters that I couldn't have pulled off with another system. If you enjoy grounded, consequence-oriented gameplay, impactful narrative moments, and close collaboration between the players and the GM at the table, then I can't recommend this system enough.
GM DANIEL
Ran 39 sessions
I love the narrative feeling of all the Daggerheart games I have run. The mechanics support the story and allow for players to have buy in.this game is the most fun to run mechanically for me as a DM. Prep and management of resources is also amazing. Over I love this system!
Brad
Ran 4 sessions
I'm loving the Daggerheart system and the support behind it. Not just a great community, but also the team behind Daggerheart is amazing. Can't wait to run more games.
Ross
Ran 19 sessions / Played 7 sessions
"Dnd for theater kids" is one of the best summaries I've seen of this, but this doesn't mean you can't have fun if you aren't an actor. This is a role-play heavy, narrative first system where the mechanics will help you become a better role-player and a better GM. If you are looking to start out or branch into something with more modern design and a cinematic feel, don't hesitate. When your first combo attack with your ally annihilates the target in a scene of glory and your whole table goes wild, you'll know why I sent you.
How to play Daggerheart
When it’s time for the game mechanics to control fate, players roll one HOPE die and one FEAR die (both 12-sided dice), which will ultimately impact the outcome for your characters. When Hope die is higher, you also take Hope to power future abilities and turn the tide in your favor! If the Fear die is higher, the game master takes Fear, which they’ll use to challenge the characters and richly complicate your narrative. This duality between the forces of hope and fear on every hero drives the unique character-focused narratives in Daggerheart.
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Explore Daggerheart Classes
Bard
As a Bard, you know how to get people to talk, bring attention to yourself, and use words or music to influence the natural world around you.
Druid
As a Druid, you are a force of nature, preserving the balance of life and death by channeling the wilds themselves through you.
Guardian
As a Guardian, you run into danger to protect your party, keeping watch over those who might not survive without you there.
Ranger
As a Ranger, your keen eyes and graceful haste make you indispensable in tracking down enemies and navigating the wilds.
Rogue
As a Rogue, you have experience with sidestepping the law and dealing with the underbelly of society, preferring to move quickly and fight quietly.
Seraph
As a Seraph, you have taken a vow to a god that helps you channel sacred arcane power to keep your party on their feet.
Sorcerer
As a Sorcerer, you were formed and shaped by the will of the arcana, and you’ve learned how to wield that power to get what you want.
Warrior
You run into battle without hesitation or caution, knowing you can strike down whatever enemy may stand in your path.
Wizard
As a Wizard, you’ve become familiar with the arcane through the relentless study of tomes and scrolls.
