A year ago, Critical Role's Daggerheart arrived as one of the most anticipated D&D alternatives in years. It is now celebrating its first birthday with a full week of stream events starting 18 May, fresh class packs in shops, and the first official bundle that combines the physical Core Set with Demiplane's digital Nexus tools.
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See how it worksThe Physical + Daggerheart Nexus Bundle was the missing piece for groups who wanted both a real book on the table and a proper character builder online. Until now you bought the slipcover hardback and card box from Critical Role's shop, then paid separately for the Nexus tools at Demiplane. The new bundle drops the Core Set, a PDF, the cards and full Nexus access into a single discounted package, available in all regions through the Critical Role shop.
For new players, the more interesting drop might be the Daggerheart Class Packs hitting hobby retail in time for the birthday week. Each pack is a self-contained way to build a character from one of the nine Core Set classes, Bard, Druid, Guardian, Ranger, Rogue, Seraph, Sorcerer, Warrior or Wizard, without anyone at the table having to lend out the whole rulebook. They are aimed squarely at the players who turn up after a session has already started and need their own kit.
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Set up your group for freeDaggerheart's first proper expansion, Hope and Fear, still lands 25 August with new classes, ancestries and adversaries. In the meantime, Matthew Mercer's grimdark Age of Umbra mini-series premieres 29 May, capping birthday week with a Souls-inspired campaign that should drag a fresh wave of D&D refugees over to try the system.
If you have been meaning to spin up a Daggerheart group but kept getting stuck on the buying-twice problem, the bundle is the nudge. Find a game night near you and put it on the calendar.
Sources: Daggerheart | Darrington Press | Demiplane
