The Black: Spaceship Combat Rules (for Daggerheart)

By Terrence Thompson

Take your Daggerheart adventures beyond the dungeon and into the haunted void of space. The Black: Spaceship Combat Rules is a complete campaign frame and expansion for the Daggerheart role-playing game, giving you everything you need to run ship-based stories full of grit, salvage, and found-family crews.

Inside This Book:

The Black Campaign Frame – A fully realized setting for Daggerheart where magic and technology merge in Saturn’s orbit. Includes factions, NPCs, and Talon Station, a hub for smugglers, scrappers, and syndicates.

Ships of The Black – Complete Daggerheart stat blocks and details for the Nautilus (a Tier 4 all-terrain arcane vessel), the Dragonfly (an agile smuggling transport), plus Pirate Corvettes and Magistrate Patrol Cutters.

Daggerheart Spaceship Combat Rules – A cinematic and tactical expansion fully compatible with the Daggerheart core system. Includes rules for range bands, hull integrity, armor, evasive maneuvers, critical hits, boarding actions, and escape mechanics. Roles for Pilot, Engineer, Gunner, and Navigator give every player meaningful choices in ship-to-ship battles.

Shops & NPCs of Talon Station – Armories, salvage yards, contract-binding rune parlors, and colorful characters like the Magistrate, guild leaders, and scrapper rivals to drive downtime roleplay.

Encounters & Mission Hooks – Random encounter tables and ready-to-run Daggerheart adventures including pirate ambushes, void whale migrations, cursed salvage, and derelict ships pulsing with forbidden magic.

Themes of Debt, Mystery, and Found Family – A gritty Daggerheart campaign frame that asks: what are you willing to risk for freedom, and what will The Black take from you in return?

Why You’ll Love It:

The Black: Spaceship Combat Rules expands Daggerheart into the stars with a mix of tactical ship combat and narrative depth. Perfect for Game Masters who want to add ship crews, stations, and spacefaring adventures to their campaigns, and for players who dream of commanding a vessel where every decision matters.