Daggerheart fans waiting for the first proper expansion finally have a date. Hope & Fear lands at Critical Role and Darrington Press Guild stores on 25 August 2026, with a wide retail release on 22 September. Pre-orders start shipping in early August. Cover artwork landed on 8 May too, courtesy of Mat Wilma on the standard edition and Dominik Mayer on the deluxe.
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Set up your group for freeDaggerheart has been the fastest-growing tabletop RPG of the last twelve months. Critical Role's 2d12 Duality Dice system (you roll a Hope die and a Fear die together) launched in May 2025, sold out in Critical Role shops within days, and now sits as a 2026 Origins Award finalist for Roleplaying Game of the Year alongside Cosmere RPG and Starfinder Second Edition. Ex-D&D leads Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford left Wizards of the Coast in spring 2025 and joined Darrington Press to work on the line.
Hope & Fear adds four new classes (the Witch, Warlock, Brawler and Assassin) with two subclasses each, 130-plus new adversaries, 28 environments, and a new Dread Domain card set that powers the more macabre witch and warlock subclasses. There's also a transformation mechanic that turns characters into vampires, werewolves, ghosts, reanimated dead, shapeshifters or demigods, plus four campaign frames with their own custom rules.
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See how it worksThe standard edition is $39.99 USD (about £32). The deluxe collector's box runs $119.99 (£96) and packs a wraparound gold-foil sleeve, GM screen, fear tokens, gold foil-edged cards, and exclusive resin polyhedral and rhombic d12 dice. The deluxe is shop-exclusive to Critical Role and Darrington Press Guild stores.
If you're at UK Games Expo from 29-31 May, Hope & Fear is on the demo schedule along with Free RPG Day on 27 June. Got a group that liked Daggerheart's Quickstart but never carried it past one shot? Hope & Fear is a good excuse to start a fresh campaign with one of the new transformations on the table.
Sources: Daggerheart | Darrington Press | EN World
