Darrington Press' new tabletop roleplaying game, Daggerheart, and its Core Set have sold out! Have no fear, though, as restocks are on the way for this hotly anticipated new system, which comes from the minds and team behind Critical Role.

Daggerheart: Core Rulebook // Darrington Press

For those not aware of Daggerheart, it's a new set of roleplaying game rules for playing epic Fantasy games full of high adventure in whatever setting you choose. There is as much of an emphasis on the players as the Game Master to help weave the narrative and come up with cool ideas for creating custom-designed characters and worlds.

Daggerheart Core Rulebook - Preview // Darrington Press

The book itself features guidelines for creating characters and the worlds they live in, as well as help in building adventures, planning encounters and building this all into campaigns. You'll also find plenty of rules for dynamic and interesting adversaries and environments, which will challenge the characters you make. Game Masters will also find a section about crafting stories, player best practices and campaign building.

Daggerheart Core Rulebook - Preview // Darrington Press

As you'll see above, the book also comes with a selection of adventures and settings for you to explore, so you can either use these as the basis for your first stories or as a guide when building your own adventures.

At the core of Daggerheart are also the cards shown below which you use to build your characters and customise them.

Daggerheart Cards // Darrington Press

These great down into Ancestry Cards, which allow you to build all sorts of characters like the turtle-esque Galpa and robotic Clanks as well as classics like Orcs, Elves and Humans. You'll then get Community Cards, which dictate where you've come from and what culture shaped your character's background.

The Subclass Cards then give you some ideas as to how you're planning to build your character. Classes that you'll be familiar with still exist, like Rogues, Bards and Warriors, but they then break down into more options so you can stand out from others who choose the same Class.

Finally, you also have your Domain Cards, which offer abilities for you to choose from. Each Class is a combination of two Domains and so you can either go hard into one of them or spread your abilities across both Domains to get access to more options. Again, this introduces lots of customisation options to Daggerheart to make the characters you want.

If you'd like to know more about Daggerheart, you can check out some videos from Critical Role below...

How To Play Daggerheart

Age of Umbra | Session Zero (Character Building)

As I mentioned, Daggerheart is currently unavailable from the Darrington Press and Critical Role webstores HERE but you might still be able to get it on Amazon or through a range of independent stores. Find out more about that. As an example of when copies will be available again, the UK store has it listed as 15th June, 2025.

Are you going to be checking out Daggerheart?