Bard & Raven | Adventures for Daggerheart

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🐦‍⬛ Supplements for the TTRPG Daggerheart – occasionally cozy and always whimsical. The world needs more whimsy! 🖤 Independent creator duo (NO AI) 🐝 The BEES have hatched! 🔮 Get BEES here: https://heartofdaggers.com/author/bardandraven/

The video shows a 30 seconds timelapse of a drawing process in Procreate. The artist is working on a cover for a Daggerheart-compatible adventure frame called "Tad Paul's Tour de Pond". The cover shows a bird-eye view of said pond, features a hand lettered title as well as two racing boats with racers on it and a water creature pulling one of the boats. The colors are green/blue with orange accents.
The graphic shows the stat block of a Tier 2 Daggerheart-compatible environment titled “The Watcher’s Dream”. The Watcher is an entity from another plane and came to the world to learn more about the lives of mortals. To do so, they enter the dreams of adventurers and pull them into a shared dream to observe their memories and experiences firsthand. The stat block includes features like “Dream Team”, “Pleasing the Watcher”, “Lessons From Hardship”, “A Way Out”, and “Watcher’s Boon”.
The graphic shows an NPC card that is compatible with Daggerheart and designed by Bard & Raven in purple and lilac colors. The NPCs are called Hazel (she/her) and Mist (he/him). They come with personality descriptions for roleplaying them, a Difficulty, Stress, Experience, Hopes and Fears, a background story that revolves around Mist getting cursed by a hag, as well as 2 potential Quest Hooks and 3 Features that support the PCs during play.
Announcement graphic for a fully-improvised Honey Heist oneshot with illustrations of a bear with a hat and a honey pot in blue outlines on a white background. The oneshot will take place on Friday, July 10th, 11 am EDT on twitch.tv/bardandraven and twitch.tv/jaybirdthings
A selfie of a smiling couple (a man and a woman) sitting in a stadium.
The image shows a graphic featuring the cover of the BEES Daggerheart-compatible supplement on a yellow background in the center of the screen, along with six arrows pointing outward toward the supplement's contents: 24 bee-themed adversaries, 20 consumables, a new downtime move, 6 environments, 14 weapons & armor, 5 NPCs with quest hooks, plus 22 fun facts about bees.
The image depicts a magic staff. It is a twisted, spiral-shaped wooden staff infused with honey. Its shape is somewhat reminiscent of a candy cane. Small drops of honey float in the air at the tip of the staff. The staff also has two semi-transparent wings on each side. A handwritten note below reads "queen bee's staff". The artist is The Gemmy Raven. The illustration is decorated with honeycombs and drops of honey, and in the background there is an old paper texture.
The image shows a graphic describing an environment for Daggerheart where players can first choose an egg or roll a d6 (bee, hornet, flying ant, bumblebee, horned beetle, or butterfly) and then raise it in 4 developmental stages (egg, larval, education, metamorphosis). Every PC gets a Long-Term Countdown and can make an appropriate action roll once per long rest.
The image shows a stat block of a Tier 2 Solo adversary called “Randall the Vandal” for the TTRPG Daggerheart. They are a honey badger and have real-life inspired features like “Thick Skin” (which makes him withstand damage), “I Don’t Care” (conditions do not affect Randall), “Claws Made For Digging” (which allows him to become Hidden in the ground), “Stink Bomb” (which allows him to release a stinky substance) and “Honey Sensor” (which allows him to find honey to clear HP and increase the damage he deals).
The graphic shows a page for an NPC called Miel (they/them), an artificer and arch-mage of mellomancy, including their Difficulty, ambitions, concerns, a short introduction about them and their story, as well as two potential quest hooks. At the bottom there is a hand-drawn black-and-white doodle illustration of a shelf in their workshop, featuring all kinds of tools and jars.
Statblock for the “Hound of Corruption”, a Tier 3 Bruiser adversary for Daggerheart.
The image shows a stat block for a Daggerheart-compatible Adversary. It’s called “Bumblebutt” and is a Tier 1 Social Adversary. It is described as a giant fluffy yellow and black bumblebee-type Apocrit with a rotund body and short legs and wings. Their clumsiness causes them to be a disturbance wherever order is preferred. They know about their shortcomings and do not tire of apologizing for it. Motives & Tactics: Gather pollen and nectar, apologize for inconveniences, overwhelm with kindness. The features include “Membranous Wings” (which lets them fly), “Sorry, sorry” (which lets them move to Far range and if they collide with something, they will apologize, and their target gets pushed away), “Bumblebutt” (which lets them make an attack that makes a target Vulnerable), and “Make yourself useful” (which lets the PCs or other Adversaries try to convince the Bumblebutt to take a side and fight).
Video of a duck and her newly hatched ducklings sitting in a nest by a pond.
There are 4 different rough sketches of fish heads with very sharp teeth - one that looks a bit derpy, a simple side view, an eel-inspired one, and one with a visible overbite (the German word “Überbiss” is noted below it). Beneath the sketches, there’s the finished, illustrated and colored token of the sketch with the overbite fish version in the colors green, blue, black and white, with an orange line around it.
The graphic reads: FREE - coming in June BARD & RAVEN Patreon Weekly Homebrew: A new, ready-to-use piece of Homebrew for Daggerheart. Design Workshop: Every Monday live at around 3 pm CEST on Twitch. BEES Preview: Sneak peeks of our upcoming new Daggerheart-compatible supplement. Early Access: Edited replays of weekly game design workshops and new Daggerheart creator interview. Homebrew Collection: Access to our growing collection of Daggerheart Homebrew. Join today for free at www.patreon.com/bardandraven
A photo of a woman and a man, their upper bodies visible, wearing beekeeping suits, smiling at the camera, and standing in front of two beehives.
The image shows a card for a Daggerheart-compatible item. In the upper right corner is an illustration of a purple dreamcatcher with a star in the center and three strings adorned with beads and feathers. The text reads: SOULTHREAD Item “Dreams are precious things. In it, we can simultaneously be at our strongest and our weakest. Yet, we nurture and revere them as they let us see our deepest feelings and ambitions. They show us worlds our waking minds will never be able to create or even achieve, yet we hold on tight because they give us Hope of what could be. Even if we will never be able to make them come true, the act of dreaming is an Experience in itself, fueling our very being.
If we dare to share these experiences with others, bonds for life might be created. These are the beliefs of the (in)famous Oneiromancer Belle Dare. She wove this dream catcher and infused it with her magics in hopes that it would bring people together. Unfortunately, this is the only one to ever exist. Before she could create other ones, she was attacked and killed by a company of arcanophobic knights, hunting down magic-users in their duchy. During the raid, the Soulthread got lost as well as the knowledge about its magic.” EFFECT: While using the Soulthread, gain access to a new downtime action, only available during long rests: Threadwalking. Two to three players can choose to use this action to enter a shared dream. Work together with the GM to describe the experience of a shared dream. Afterwards, PCs using this downtime action roll their Duality Dice. The PCs gain 1 Hope for each time their Hope Die rolls higher than the Fear Die or it is a Critical Success. Additionally, on a Critical Success, each PC gains an extra Experience (+2) of their choosing that reflects the events of the shared dream. This Experience only lasts for as long as the PCs are traveling together. Each PC can only ever gain one extra Experience by using the Soulthread. Designed by Bard & Raven
The graphic reads: “Heart of Daggers presents A Heart of Daggers Community Initiative FEAR FEST Featuring Carlos Cisco & Mike Underwood” The illustration shows a spooky black-and-white graveyard with dead trees, gravestones, and glowing jack-o-lanterns. “FEAR FEST” is written in bold, orange letters that look like some kind of liquid. Several purple dice are scattered across the graveyard and hanging from the branches.
The illustration shows the cover for a Daggerheart-compatible adventure. It features the text “Tad Paul’s Tour de Pond” set against a bird’s-eye view of a hand-drawn pond. The lettering is playful and has a mosaic-like organic effect, inspired by a shimmering water surface and water texture. Near the center-right of the pond, a friendly aquatic creature is pulling a boat with three small, frog-like racers, two of whom have drawn their absurdly large weapons (an axe and a sword). The boat is heading left and creating many waves. On the left side, another boat with two more racers is partially visible as they are just leaving the frame; one of the racers is holding a staff in his hand. In the upper right corner, you can see the silhouette of a flying heron. There are water lilies in the pond. In the corners of the cover, there are bushes, rocks, and flower patches that mark the edges of the pond. At the bottom edge, you can faintly make out the shadow of a gigantic sea snake swimming in the water. The illustration is rendered in shades of green and turquoise. The boats, lily pads and flower patches are orange.
An illustration of a meadow in bloom at night, where small, semi-transparent, cute ghostly creatures are dancing and having fun. Mountains and the moon can be seen in the background. A little ghost peeks over a banner that reads “THE WILL-O-WISPS”. The illustration features a hand-drawn, purple and gold Art Nouveau frame and lettering, and the number “4” written in runic symbols.
a hand-drawn lettering that reads "Tad Paul's Tour De Pond", made to look like a calm water surface.
a hand-drawn black raven, shown in profile from the torso up, in front of a purple, starry, moonlit sky, wearing a bard’s hat with three blue feathers and smiling slightly. he has a twinkling 5-point-star for an eye.