DEMONHEART - The Vile Codex for Daggerheart™

DEMONHEART - The Vile Codex for Daggerheart™

Between a sprawling city carved into a fallen angel's corpse and a colossal satanic figure looming over head, Hell is a brutal landscape. Dream Realm Storytellers brings you Demonheart, a Daggerheart campaign, steeped in shadow and unease.

Infernal Rewards

What's in Hell?

The standard copies of Demonheart includes three core books that together form the complete infernal experience. The supplement, setting, and the adventure. The Supplement Book introduces new mechanics, the Sin Domains, and the 66 new subclasses. The Setting Book explores the brutal world of biblical Hell and what players will venture into. The Adventure Book guides players through a campaign of damnation, fear, and survival! 

For the devoted souls who are looking for something special, you can upgrade your base books into deluxe copies! Each volume features luxurious leatherbound covers, striking foil detailing of the runes and titles. All held within a grand slipcase with the same foil detailing

The Demonheart Art Book and Infernal Bible dive even deeper into Hell. The Art Book showcases terrifying creatures, damned landscapes, and haunting visual explorations. The Infernal Bible is a religious text studied and taught by the Church of the Dawnbreaker. The scripture is written in Demonscript, with no recorded copies translated into other languages. The Church teaches its own interpretations, though anyone could decipher the tome given enough time...

Four full dice sets can be found in the Demonheart campaign along with three individual D12s. The first set honors the campaign as a whole: the Demon Dice. 7 dice with a dark black-purple base and swirls of red glitter through out. The Sin Dice feature 7 teal dice with gold script. The Fear Dice feature 7 black dice with red script, and the Hope Dice feature 7 white dice with gold script. The three D12s match the previous dice sets, but they're slightly bigger than the dice sets to indicate they're to be used as the duality dice + Sin Die.

Bring the horror to life and to your table with four unique standee sets featuring demonic monstrosities in cardboard or the Sinlord Avatars in acrylic. Whether used for battles or displaying the world of Demonheart across your table, these standees will bring the horror from below!

The Demonheart pin collection features eight distinct designs inspired by themes of Hope and Fear. All the pins are high quality enamel pins with embossed character designs. Along with this when the full set on the left is collected they can fit together in any order for neat organization. The set to the right are matching pins to the Hope, Fear and Sin D12s. 

The World of Demonheart

Demonheart is a sinister campaign where players take on the roles of damned souls who have died and awakened in an infernal world of towering chains and cities built upon fallen angels. To survive, they must embrace the power of sin itself, wielding corrupting abilities and forging twisted alliances as they climb the ladders of damnation.

Demonheart leans into darker stories and mechanics that reflect the brutal reality of its setting. Players are not heroes chosen by fate, but damned souls navigating greed, wrath, and the consequences of their own sins. Through systems like the new sin domain and the sin dice, players are given a story intertwined with the moral compromises of temptation. Immorality is now a core part of the story, and it is up to the sinners on how to proceed. 

A new adventure awaits you in Demonheart, specifically designed for the Daggerheart system. This campaign arrives to you when there are still very few full adventure books available for the game. Making this an exciting opportunity for fans to explore fresh stories within the system.

You’ll come face to face with monsters born in this nightmarish landscape, and see the true backbone of a setting that is dangerous as it is mesmerizing.

In the depths of Hell fear is all around you, but hope can still be found in the darkest of places. Hope can inspire rebellion in communities, while fear of punishment and the unknown constantly threaten to consume it.

This fragile balance of hope and fear, determine whether you cling to hope, surrender to terror, or become something far more dangerous in the darkness.

New Player Options

For those that choose to face the trials and tribulations of Hell, you will find that there are plenty of new options you can pick from when adventuring: 66 subclasses to over 200+ items.

Something new crawls out of the dark, and it wants a name. These classes are forged in catastrophe, shaped by desperate choices and powers that should have stayed buried. Subclasses twist those identities even further, splintering them into volatile paths.

Demonheart offers 1 new class and 66 new subclasses. Play them if you want to flirt with control while everything burns around you.

These domains are not safe havens. Step into any of our 7 new domains based on the seven deadly sins and reality begins to fray, offering power at the cost of certainty, and maybe a piece of yourself.

Pride is the domain of the highest in society. Those who embrace this sin believe they are destined to stand above the masses, drawing power from status, ambition, and the unshakable certainty of their own superiority. Through either keen blades, cunning influence, or commanding presence, followers of Pride bend situations and people to their will. Pride grants its practitioners the ability to dominate all.

Nothing here was made to be used cleanly. These items grant power, but never freely. From the 200+ options available in Demonheart, every blade and relic is ready to remind you who holds the edge in Hell. 

The things you face on your journey through Hell are not just enemies, they’re manefestations of everything thats gone wrong. These 150+ new adversaries, from the lurking Snatcher Demon to the twisted Strican and the brutal Ursusian, challenge your strength and unravel your sanity.

New Mechanics

The Sin Die introduces a volatile layer of power that rewards risk and tempts players toward darker choices. When invoked the new mechanic allows you to roll with sinful advantage or sinful disadvantage on an action or reaction roll. The Sin Die reshapes the outcome of the narrative weight. Every roll becomes a moral gamble.

Sinful advantage represents an opportunity that you seize through vile means to increase your chances of success.

Sinful disadvantage represents an additional difficulty you face as a result of the dark forces.

What makes the Sin Die especially compelling is how it interacts with the Duality Dice, the core of a Daggerheart campaign. When all three dice a rolled together (Hope, Fear, and Sin) you create moments for vile outcomes and infernal successes.

A Vile outcome is when one of the Duality Dice and the Sin Die have the same number after rolling.

Infernal success is when the Duality Dice and the Sin Die are rolled with the same result. Be careful what you roll, as the coresponding numbers may draw unwanted attention to you.

• Sloth restrains you temporairly when rolling repeating 1s
• Lust surpresses you with arousal when rolling repeating 2s and 3s
• Gluttony makes you insatiable when repeating 4s and 5s
• Greed is exactly as it seems when repeating 6s and 7s
• Wrath puts you at a disadvantage on all rolls except attacks on 8s and 9s
• Envy becomes you when you roll repeating 10s and 11s
• Pride is reserved for the highest of beings, and only is sucsessful when rolling repeating 12s

Satan Dice Mechanic

This optional mechanic allows you to summon Satan. When removing the repeating 6 rule in the Greed attribute, and adding it to Satan themself. When Satan turns their attention to you, you are stunned!

Demonheart Demo

In the demo you will find a taste of terror that this campaign will have in store for you. Preview the Sin Mechanics, try out the new subclasses, and show off your new items. 

Click here for the adventure book demo that was unlocked during the campaign!

Pledge Tiers

Tier Breakdown

Pay Over Time

With Kickstarter's Pledge Over Time feature, you can split your pledge into 3 equal payments. The first charge will occur when the project ends successfully. The remaining 2 payments are then collected automatically each month until your pledge total is paid in full.

For example, a campaign ending on June 1st would split your pledge into 3 payments, on June 1st, July 1st, and August 1st.

Click here to learn more about Kickstarters pledge over time feature!

Stretch Goals

The unlocked printed maps will be added to the following tiers. Freshly Damned, Hellforged Adventurer, Chainbreaker of the Pit, Supreme Tyrant of the Pit, Lord of All That Burns, and CEO of Hell. The digital only tier, Digital Hell, will receive just the map PDFs. 

You have unlocked the Demonheart mouspad, and our sinful community gets to decide what it will look like! This 800x300 mousepad will be added to Lord of All That Burns, CEO of Hell, and as an add-on. 

You have unlocked upgraded art for the Demonheart Sourcebooks! We will be working with 3 additional artists to revamp the artwork in all three of the base books. 

Dream Realm Storytellers goal is to have all items fufilled by June 2027. As we unlock our stretch goals throughout this campaign, the fufillment time may shift out as we design these unlocks. 

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Your involvement makes this project special, and we want to hear your thoughts every step of the way. Let's build this adventure together! We have a variety of ways for you to join our community at Dream Realm Storytellers!

Anti-AI Policy

No AI generated content is used in Demonheart, and we believe in supporting real artists. We also love to create and would never let AI steal that joy from us.

We hope you check out Demonheart as it is a culmination of the finest human talent, featuring hellish art and writing!

Full Content Warning from Dream Realm Storytellers:

Demonheart is the codex of evil, although we do not endorse the acts of evil, this book delves into the darker side of the stories. This demo booklet contains mature and potentially disturbing themes intended for adult audiences. Within its pages, readers may encounter references to depictions of physical violence and revenge, narratives shaped by trauma, despair, and psychological distress as well as sexual abuse. The work explores religious themes and reinterpretations that may be considered blasphemous, alongside portrayals of Hell, damnation, and infernal hierarchies. It also includes elements of body horror, transformation, and the loss of identity or autonomy, as well as mechanics and narratives involving moral corruption, coercion, manipulation, and the abuse of power.

Some sections feature suggestive or sexual themes, including desire, temptation, and arousal as part of the broader Hellscape. There are also references to self-harm, ritual sacrifice, and existential or nihilistic ideas concerning the nature of the self, suffering, and purpose. Characters within this work may be subjected to or participate in systems of domination, control, and exploitation.

These themes are presented as part of a dark fantasy setting and are not intended to endorse or trivialize real-world harm. Reader discretion is advised.