Daggerheart Tools: Character Creators, Campaigns & Encounters

Daggerheart’s community has grown fast enough that there’s no longer just one place to build a character or run a game. A small ecosystem of digital tools now exists, each with a different focus. This guide walks through the main kinds of tools people use, what tasks they solve, and what DaggerHub currently supports.

Quick answer, if you don’t want to read the whole thing: DaggerHub covers character building, campaigns, encounters, and homebrew in one place. Heart of Daggers offers that same broad set of tool categories on a free account. If you only need one piece, FreshCutGrass and Heart of Daggers are both good for running encounters live, HeartSmith or Minva get you a character fast without an account, and daggerheart.org/game-aids is a good jumping-off point if you just want to see what else is out there.

What “Daggerheart tools” usually means

Most tools in this space cover one or more of the same core jobs:

• Character building: picking class, subclass, ancestry, community, domain cards, and equipment, then tracking Hope, Stress, HP, and Armor as you play.
• Campaign management: a GM-facing view for tracking players and a whole campaign, not just one character.
• Encounter preparation: building fights with adversaries and environments, usually against the game’s Battle Point budget.
• Live-play tracking: keeping Hope/Stress/HP/Armor current at the table as things happen during a session.
• References: SRD lookups and rules aids for the table.
• Homebrew content: creating custom classes, subclasses, domains, ancestries, weapons, armor, and adversaries that plug into the rest of a toolset.

Few tools try to do all of these well, and which one fits depends on what you need.

What DaggerHub currently supports

DaggerHub keeps character building, campaign management, encounter prep, and homebrew content in one place:

• Daggerheart character creator and character sheet: choose ancestry, community, class and subclass (including multiclassing), Domain cards and level-up options. Track Hope, Stress, HP, Armor and inventory during play. You can also export the sheet as a PDF.
• Campaign manager: create a campaign and invite players to join it via a shareable link.
• Encounter builder: build encounters against the game’s Battle Point system. It surfaces the Battle Point math for you; it doesn’t automatically balance an encounter on its own.
• Homebrew workshop: create custom weapons, armor, classes, subclasses, domains, domain cards, ancestries, communities, adversaries, and environments.
• Class and domain card reference: all 13 classes with their features and subclasses, and all 210 domain cards with search and level filters. No login needed.

DaggerHub is free to use. Free accounts can create up to 6 characters and 20 homebrew items, and campaigns and encounters have no count limit. A paid Adventurer plan is available for increased capacity.

See the FAQ for common questions and the changelog for what’s shipped and what’s next.

A few other tools in this space

There are several other Daggerheart tools worth knowing about, each covering a different slice of the list above. This is a factual comparison, not a ranking. Pick based on the task you’re trying to solve.

Every cell below is one of three explicit states: Yes (confirmed present), No (confirmed absent), or Unverified (couldn’t confirm either way, usually because the app is client-rendered and a static check can’t see everything it does). Unverified is not the same as No — check the tool directly if it matters for your decision.

* Minva’s randomizer only covers the original 9 classes and doesn’t include the newer Hope & Fear classes (Assassin, Brawler, Warlock, Witch). Minva’s separate paid products (Notion templates, dice sets) aren’t part of this row.

daggerheart.org/game-aids isn’t in the table above on purpose. It’s a community-run directory pointing to other tools in this space, not a builder of its own.

Sources, checked 2 September 2026

• Heart of Daggers: Hope & Fear changelog · campaigns · encounters · encounter limits (Standard vs. Legend) · Legend tier status · Homebrew Vault
• Demiplane Nexus: free Level-1 + SRD access · campaigns live · equipment homebrew beta · domain card homebrew launch · Hope & Fear launch; price via Roll20’s Nexus bundle listing (Roll20’s storefront for the bundle, not Demiplane’s own)
• FreshCutGrass: the homepage itself — no separate docs page exists
• HeartSmith: the app itself — no separate docs site exists
• Minva: the tool page itself

DaggerHub and Heart of Daggers are the only two tools here confirmed to support the newer Hope & Fear classes (Assassin, Brawler, Warlock, Witch) for free, as of September 2026. Heart of Daggers added them via last month’s changelog; DaggerHub through its own character builder. Demiplane added them as paid content in August 2026.

If you’re moving off Daggerbrain, which shut down August 31, 2026: it isn’t in the table above since it’s no longer running. See our note on the transition for what changed and where to pick back up.

Picking a tool

If you just want a quick random character to start from, Minva’s randomizer is the fastest path. HeartSmith is a guided alternative if you’d rather walk through the choices yourself. For campaign management, encounter prep, and homebrew alongside character building in one place, DaggerHub and Heart of Daggers both cover all of that. Check out Heart of Daggers if you want a marketplace of community homebrew alongside your own; use DaggerHub if you’d rather build and manage everything yourself in one place. Demiplane Nexus is worth a look if you mainly want the character builder and sheet tied into Demiplane’s platform. Its campaign tools are live now too, though encounter building is still in beta. For running encounters specifically, FreshCutGrass and Heart of Daggers both specialize there.

DaggerHub is an unofficial, fan-made toolset built on the public Daggerheart System Reference Document (SRD). It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by Darrington Press.