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My partner made these designs that I turned into physical rulers to surprise my party with this weekend!

I created these print-and-play cards for my home game, and wanted to offer them to others who might be interested. The PDF contains a deck of cards to run balanced, improvised adversaries compatible with your Daggerheart game. Cards can be placed in individual sleeves or 9-card binder sheets and re-used with wet- or dry-erase fine point markers.

I also included an Example Battle to illustrate how you can use these cards to improvise narrative combat with solid mechanics.

This is available for free on my Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/s/5c109742ff

And I have to shoutout u/rightknighttofight's Custom Adversary Guide, which contains all the beautiful math behind these cards. Read the full guide and consider tossing them a tip on their Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/rightknighttofight

I've recently received the Hope and Fear Deluxe Edition but can't for the life of me pull the bottom drawer out of the compartment. It feels like the far end of the drawer is stuck to the back panel on the inside and I'm wondering if glue may have melted then solidified there or something. The red ribbon was pulled off, and I tried wedging my fingers in the gaps (pried open with utensils) to try and pull it out, but no amount of human strength seems to work. Has anyone faced an issue like this? Any tips on how to access the shiny things inside without destroying this beautiful box? 🥲

Hey folks, I was hoping I could get someone to check my work on this.

During a livestream and/or interview, someone said that there are around a million character possibilities, and I wanted to find the exact number. (I don't remember if they said a million, billion or more, it's not important)

Ignoring things that have no mechanical effect and experiences, which can literally be anything, I've grouped player options into two sections: Things that interact and make things difficult, and things that don't.

Things that I haven't found any interactions between them (Shapeshifter seems minor enough):

• Armors (8 possible, or 16 if we want to include all the Campaign Frame and Sablewood setting options)
• Traits (6 possibilities for +2, 5 possiblities for -1, 6 possible combos for the +1s, gives us 6*5*6=180 possible)
• Domain cards (6 options for the first and 5 for the second, 6*5=30)
• Communities (15 options)
• Ancestries (using mixed ancestries, 23 top features and 24 bottom features, 23*24=552)
• Transformations (no transformation, 5 transformations, and shapeshifter, which lets you choose one ancestry feature, again 23 top features and 24 bottom features, so 6+(23+24)=53)

So, multiplying these all together:

8*180*30*15*552*53= 17,927,568,000

Or if we want to include the Campain Frames and Sablewood:

16*180*30*15*522*53= 35,855,136,000

Now it gets a little more complicated.

The remaining options: Classes, Subclasses, and Weapons

Subclasses are exclusive to classes, so we only have to count the subclasses.

There are 26 subclasses spread across the 13 classes, or 5 more for a total of 31 subclasses if we include the 2 current Void classes.

Subtract 1 from that for the Brawler's Martial Artist subclass, which gets to pick two Martial Stances, out of 4 (4 for first pick, 3 for second pick, 4*3=12)

Subtract another 2 from that for Warriors, who can wield 2-handed weapons as 1 handed (we will get back to that)

This gives us a total of 35 subclass options, or 40 with Void Content. (not including the Warrior yet)

With no regard for playability, there are 21 One-handed Primary Weapons, 13 Secondary Weapons, and 19 Two-Handed Weapons, including the Battle Wheelchairs (21*13=273 Duel wielding combos +19= 292 weapon choices)

If we add the Campiagn Frames and Sablewood, there are 34 One-handed Primary Weapons, 26 Secondary Weapons, and 38 Two-Handed Weapons (34*26=884 Duel wielding combos +38= 922 weapon choices)

Warriors can wield two-handed weapons as one-handed, so we get a total of 40 primary weapons (40*13= 520 combos *2 for the two subclasses =1,040)

With all official content, we get a total of 72 primary weapons (72*26= 1,872 combos *2 for the two subclasses =3,744)

All together, this gives us (35*292)+1,040= 11,260 class weapon combos with core content, (35*922)+3,744=36,014 with all official, and (40*922)+3,744= 40,624 adding the Void.

With the core content, this gives us a total of 17,927,568,000*11,260= 201,864,415,680,000

With all official content: 35,855,136,000*36,014= 1,291,286,867,904,000

And with all official and Void content: 35,855,136,000*40,624= 1,456,579,044,864,000

Just under 1.5 Quadrillian possible 1st level characters!

If there is interest, I may do a version where I limit it to feasible character builds. (restrict +2 trait to Spellcasting trait, and give characters a weapon that uses their +2 trait)

If this sort of thing is up your alley, I have a youtube channel where extensive use of spreadsheets are used to examine various parts of Daggerheart to help people make homebrew and to predict future Daggerheart releases!

Edit: Immediately realized I forgot Warriors being able to use 2-handed weapons as 1-handed, and while working on that, it was pointed out that there are only 23 unique top ancestry features.

Hello, everyone!

My name is Yago, but I go by Yads!

I've been playing Daggerheart for the last six months and recently started homebrewing for a new campaign I'm GMing. My players suggested I put what I'm working on out there, so here's my first homebrew: the Hearth Domain!

Hearth is a support and social domain that cares a lot about your party, your allies, and who you sit at the table with. In combat it cares about positioning, about negating adversary movement, taxing them, creating zones of protection.

It also adds a new card type, the Trinket. Inspired by Arcana's Rune Ward but extrapolated as a whole subsystem: you mark Stress to mint charms, hand them to your allies, and they decide when to spend them and what they do based on cards on your loadout. The more Trinket cards on your loadout, the menu of effects gets wider.

The document has all 21 cards, printable, plus the card reference, an overview, designer notes, tips along the text, and an FAQ covering the questions that came up during playtest.

I illustrated, designed and revised it myself over the last two months, and playtested it with a table of four in stressing scenarios almost weekly. English isn't my first language, so if any of the rules text reads unclear, please let me know.

It's free on Heart of Daggers, but you can pay what you want if you feel like supporting me or if you like the project.

Link: Hearth Domain

I'm also working on a class to go alongside it, the Lamplighter, using Hearth and Midnight as the domain combination, coming by the end of the month.

Would love to know what you think! Questions, concerns, all of it!

Hey everyone,

We wanted to spotlight another Kickstarter we think deserves your love and attention: Amazing Adversaries & Environments by CZRPG.

IMPORTANT: We’re not affiliated with the project, weren’t asked to promote it, and there’s no sponsorship here. We just seriously really love what they’re making! :)

It’s a huge Daggerheart supplement featuring 8 locations, 56 environments, 100+ adversaries, 64 maps, and adversaries designed to scale across all four tiers of play.

And to make this even better, they’ve just released (literally less than an hour ago) a free 36-page preview featuring The Sky Isles, so you can check out the quality before backing:

Free Preview: https://heartofdaggers.com/products/amazing-encounters-adversaries-the-sky-isles-preview/

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/czrpg/amazing-adversaries-and-environments?ref=406qne

More quality Daggerheart content is a win for everyone, and we’d love to see this one do well!

– Matt from Heart of Daggers

Does it need to be a straight line, or can it be curved?

I made animated Beast Feast Background. Fan-made, obviously. This is my first time as the GM for Daggerheart. I'm so excited and nervous, but mostly excited!

How should you choose the right difficulty for the Spellcast Roll against inanimate objects?