Daggerheart Open Beta Playtest is LIVE!
Written by Rachel on March 12, 2024
Our Daggerheart Open Beta Playtest is open RIGHT NOW at daggerheart.com. The goal of our playtest is to have each of you take Daggerheart for as many test drives as you’d like – try to break it, tell us all about what your favorite and not so favorite parts are, and most importantly – pull off some really epic, heroic shit with your characters!
Here’s what you have access to right now as part of our open beta playtest:
- A special quickstart adventure which was developed to get you started with minimum setup and character creation time, in case you’d like to bypass the core rulebook. This guide also includes five pre-generated characters and a five-act adventure: The Sablewood Messengers. It even includes standees for characters, environment elements, and adversaries to cut out and use if you’d like
- All of the character sheets, multiclass sheets, equipment sheets, and guide sheets (pretty much, all of the sheets we could find – you’ll have plenty of them!)
- Ancestry, Community, Subclass, and Domain card sheets (which you can print out and cut if you’d like)
- An action tracker card
- Three full maps, which are interchangeable (meaning, you can align any of the edges to extend the map in whichever direction your party chooses)
- Surveys, which are the absolute best way to give us feedback on Daggerheart. Please play often and give us your feedback! We’d love your feedback after every playtest session that you have (if possible) and expect surveys to take around 15 minutes.
All of these materials can be accessed via PDF on daggerheart.com and DriveThruRPG. If you’d prefer to play virtually, check out the Daggerheart Open Beta Playtest Nexus and character creator via Demiplane. Your friendly local game store may also host Daggerheart Open Beta Playtest sessions (shout out to our Darrington Press Guild stores!).
You are welcome to write about, stream, and share your experience during the Daggerheart Open Beta Playtest with your own audiences and communities and we encourage sharing your perspective far and wide! The Darrington Press Discord is a great place to chat with others that are playtesting Daggerheart (but please, don’t forget to give us all of that delicious feedback through our surveys!). For general Daggerheart chatter, we’d love for you to use the hashtag #Daggerheart and if you’d like to share your art with the community, please use hashtag #DaggerheartArt. We cannot wait to see all of the awesomeness that you create!
To help get you rolling Hope and Fear dice like a pro, our wonderful content team has created a series of helpful videos to compliment our open beta playtest.
In our Daggerheart 101 video, Lead Game Designer Spenser Starke sat down with Matthew Mercer to provide a quick rundown of all of the basics that you’ll need to get started.
Our Betrand Bell character build video with Matthew and Travis covers the basics of creating a new or existing character in Daggerheart.
And, last but certainly not least, we wanted to take a moment to show a little love to these beautiful humans that made Daggerheart possible.
CURRENT DAGGERHEART CREDITS
LEAD GAME DESIGNER: Spenser Starke
ADDITIONAL GAME DESIGNERS: Rowan Hall, Matthew Mercer, Alex Teplitz, Michael Underwood
ADDITIONAL WRITING: Layla Adelman, Carlos Cisco, Felix Isaacs, Erin Roberts, Eugenio Vargas
COMBAT WHEELCHAIR DESIGN: Mark Thompson
DEVELOPMENTAL EDITOR: Laura Hirsbrunner
ARCHIVIST: Dani Gage
SENIOR RPG PRODUCER: Elise Rezendes
JUNIOR GAMES PRODUCER: Alex Teplitz
ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION: Alex Uboldi
ART DIRECTOR: Anthony Jones
ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR: Leesha Hannigan
PLAYTEST PROGRAM COORDINATOR: Brieger Creative
LEAD GRAPHIC DESIGN: Matt Paquette & Co.
ADDITIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGN: John Harper, Vee Hendro
CONSULTANTS: Daniel Delgado, Rue Dickey, Rob Hebert, James Mendez Hodes, David Lezzi, Erin Roberts, Christine Sandquist, Rogan Shannon, Mark Thompson
LEAD CONCEPT ARTIST: Shaun Ellis
CARTOGRAPHER: Marco Bernardini
ARTISTS: Juan Salvador Almencion, Zoe Badini, Paul Scott Canavan, Kristina Carroll, Stephanie Cost, Nikki Dawes, Benjamin Ee, Geoffrey Ernault, Laura Galli, Juan Gutierrez, Leesha Hannigan, Hendry Iwanaga, Anthony Jones, Samantha Joanne Key, Priscilla Kim, Michael Lim, Linda Lithén, Samantha B. Lucas, Julia Metzger, Reiko Murakami, Jess Nguyen, Irina Nordsol, Tamara Osborn, Mike Pape, Simon Pape, Jen Pattison, Marzena Piwowar, Andreas Rocha, Ernanda Souza, Jenny Tan, Rafa Teruel, Mateusz Wilma
Featured art by Jessica Nguyen
