Campaign & Setting Starter
Daggerheart's dark fantasy setting, built for desperate choices, dangerous magic, and stories where survival always has a cost.
Inside you'll find:
- The complete Pathos campaign frame
- Mutation rules for building Pathosian characters
- 20+ unique Pathosian beast forms
- Endless Evil campaign mechanics that escalate danger and reshape the world around the party
Pathos is a high-pressure setting, built specifically with Daggerheart’s narrative-first adventures in mind.
Beneath a black hole in a sunless sky, simple communities cling to life in a world shaped by mutation, scarcity, ruin, and unstable power. Players step into the roles of survivors forced to step up and protect what remains. They'll make the hard choices and decide what survival is allowed to cost. This campaign frame explores struggle, transhumanism, isolation, value of community, and the cost of power through brutal adventures where every gain leaves a scar.
One day this world will die. Just not today.
If there is interest, this book will be freely updated with maps, unique beastform abilities, three major towns, and additional mechanics such as stat blocked NPC allies. Additionally, I am working on a 4-part series of adventures, starting with Pathos: Fatal Cure, a Tier 1 adventure where heroes battle a mad scientist trying to "save the world" with his deadly mutant cure.
