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Best Daggerheart homebrew

From original campaign frames to subclasses, find recommendations for the best Daggerheart homebrew content.

Artwork for Daggerheart featuring a giant tree playing host to a community of houses.

Homebrew content includes classes/subclasses, settings, adventures, enemies, and other elements made by the community and the players, rather than the official development team. As Daggerheart is a TTRPG that was more recently released by Critical Role’s Darrington Press, there isn’t as much homebrew content as a title like Dungeons & Dragons

However, what Daggerheart lacks in quantity of homebrew content, it makes up for in support materials for creators. The team behind the Daggerheart core rulebook have released an official Daggerheart Homebrew Kit to guide creators in making their own original content for the game: such as overall design, ancestries - like Clanks - communities, domains, classes/subclasses, adversaries, environments, homebrew weapons, and campaign frames. 

There are other tools designed to help Daggerheart players create their own homebrew content, such as Fresh Cut Grass - an encounter builder and community hub for homebrew content - and Daggerheart Brews, which lets users create custom domain cards for Daggerheart. If you’re looking for pre-existing homebrew content for Daggerheart, you can find it online in various spaces, particularly community spaces like Heart of Daggers and Daggerheart Brews

Best campaign frames    

Campaign frames are settings - like the official Daggerheart setting of Witherwild - and longer storylines, which can feature encounters, adversaries, and environments, amongst other elements.  

Bureau of Chronological Affairs by DNGN Club 

Artwork for Bureau of Chronological Affairs showing some office propaganda.
The Bureau of Chronological Affairs has a very unique art-style that reflects its Loki, Severance, and Control inspirations.

This campaign frame sees players exploring a strange office complex that hosts an organization responsible for managing the universal time flow, as well as a sinister Doom’s Day Clock that ticks the universe closer to annihilation. 

Inspired by the Loki television series, Severance, Control, and Doctor Who, the Bureau of Chronological Affairs features unique gameplay mechanics, including a doom’s day clock mechanic, an entirely original environment - an office-block's worth of strange departments - and a brand-new Agent player class. 

March of Seasons by Worldspring

The March of Seasons takes inspiration from Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Odyssey.

The March of Seasons is a campaign frame that takes inspiration from the likes of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Fieren: Beyond Journey’s End, and Greek classic - The Odyssey. Players travel across the world of Echeasea, which has since been abandoned by its own gods and left to spiritually fend for itself. 

Throughout their journey, players will have to contend with a land populated by various wild creatures, in an RPG campaign frame that’s designed to be friendly to beginners whilst still scaling as they level up. 

Best adventure modules

Adventure modules are shorter stories that are designed to be played in a handful of sessions, and often include encounters, adversaries, environments.

Widdershin’s Thrice-Bound Codex by Heart of Daggers

Players will have the opportunity to claim this magical tome for themselves, if they think they can handle the chaos.

Widdershin’s Thrice-Bound Codex is a Level 1 adventure that provides players with a more puzzle-forward experience, for folks looking for something more relaxed and combat-light. 

This adventure sees players seeking a sentient magical tome that’s now loose and causing chaos. The player group needs to capture and contain this book, with the option to use the tome themselves if they’re willing to take the risk. Widdershin’s features a collection of pre-built NPCs, a collection of original lore, and gameplay mechanics around the book’s wild magic. 

The Read Pearl Heist by angellethedemonne

The Red Pearl Heist is an adventure themed around the planned theft of a precious Dwarven artifact, by a ragtag team of ambitious thieves who must work together to complete the job. Players can choose between a selection of pre-built characters - including a reckless Simiah rogue, a Goblin assassin, and an ex-circus performer - or create their own to join the team. 

As well as the pre-built characters and overall concept, The Red Pearl Heist features a collection of unique gameplay mechanics tied into event being held at the location of the heist, including triggering an encounter featuring a rather tense standoff between two rival factions. 

Best homebrew classes/subclasses

Homebrew classes are entirely original play-styles that players can use in character creation, whilst homebrew subclasses provide original ways for players to augment their existing class on their character sheet. 

Daggerpath by Core Hickson Games 

Daggerpath includes a total of nine different subclasses, one for each of the official Daggerheart classes.

Daggerpath features a collection of original subclasses, one for each of Daggerheart’s nine primary classes. These homebrew subclasses include: 

Woe Minstrel: a bard who transforms anguish into protection

Warden of Spores: a Druid who hosts and utilizes a fungal consciousness

Mirror Warden: a Guardian who creates reflective shields 

Fieldkeeper: a Ranger who keeps useful notes on adversaries 

Chronodagger: a Rogue who harnesses stolen moments to twist time

Pious Bulwark: a Seraph blessed with a sacred resilience 

Fey Origin: a Sorcerer empowered by binding bargains

Call of the Hound: a Warrior who fights with a wolf companion

School of Sigils: a Wizard who can make wards 

Pistolheart Vol 1 by Carlos Cisco 

As well as 5 original subclasses, Pistolheart Vol 1 features two additional environments for Daggerheart fans to play around in.

A homebrew supplement that features a selection of 5 subclasses for the Guardian, Ranger, Seraph, Rogue, and Warrior. All of these subclasses are themed around western-style gunslingers, including: 

The Breacher Guardian: a character who is never afraid to lead the charge

Longbarrel Ranger: a long-ranged attacker who shoots from the shadows  

Marshal Seraph: a character who is able to empower themselves and their allies for the sake of local order

Outlaw Rogue: someone who is constantly on the run from their enemies

The Call of the Pistolero Warrior: a gunslinger who lives and dies by the gun

On top of this, Pistolheart Vol 1 comes with 2 original environments - a canyon monitored by a team of riflemen, and a runaway train - as well as rules for mounted characters, and the option to turn any player character into a firearms user. 

Best homebrew adversaries

Homebrew adversaries are creatures and characters that players must confront, either via combat or using other methods - such as stealth or persuasion. 

Incredible Creatures by Alan Tucker

This artwork served as an inspiration for this Daggerheart adversaries homebrew.

This homebrew adversary supplement features enemies inspired by a collection of fan artwork that was created for Daggerheart. Incredible Creatures takes this artwork and assigns stats, lore, and environments to them, turning them into interactive elements for your own Daggerheart encounters. 

Martial Adversaries by Cael Reader

This homebrew content is ideal for anyone planning a war campaign for Daggerheart.

Inspired by historical and fantastical archetypes of soldiers and armies, Martial Adversaries includes a total of 60 stat blocks for enemies to use in war-themed scenarios. These homebrew adversaries range from ronin to gladiators, with options available for each of the four Daggerheart tier levels. 

Martial Adversaries also features four original environments, as well as options for certain adversaries to use specific melee and ranged combat tactics such as shield walls or mounted combat. 

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