In Chiselheart you'll find
- Tier 0 adventuring rules, including makeshift weapons and armor, and a way to handle execution attacks.
- The Delvers Deep campaign frame in the vein of Shadowdark, including
- mechanics for Hirelings and Torches
- 13 hireling stat-blocks and abilities
- A bestiary of 23 new adversaries
- 1 mini adventure
Chiselheart is a handcrafted, Daggerheart compatible re-imagination that blends the best parts of Daggerheart with the core ideas of an older style of gaming. It's designed to seamlessly translate fresh Daggerheart characters into your favorite titles by providing easy translations for existing adversaries.
This book lays out how to play with Tier-0 characters—adventurers just starting out—and includes a level progression to take them from OSR-adjacent to Daggerheart Tier 1, Level 1. This allows them to be used alongside any standard Daggerheart creations.
It also includes a system for creating improvised weapons and armor from scraps you find, a type of makeshift Tier-0 gear.
The book features a full campaign frame, Delvers Deep, designed to support dungeoneering with mechanics for hirelings, stat blocks for 23 Tier-0 and Tier-1 creatures, and a world of strange mysteries for you and your table to play through and develop together.
Finally, it contains the outline for a one-shot adventure, The Soap Merchants, in the vein of an simple dungeon crawl.
As of 5/31/26 the Delvers Deep player's guide has been added, with the GM's guide to follow. The guide includes custom ancestries, communities, and world building details to start up a campaign in the Delvers Deep frame.
