{"id":684,"date":"2026-10-25T20:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darrindrader.com\/index.php\/darrin-drader-designs\/products\/daring-dread-rpg\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T20:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:03:30","slug":"daring-dread-rpg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/darrindrader.com\/index.php\/darrin-drader-designs\/products\/daring-dread-rpg\/","title":{"rendered":"Daring & Dread: The Roleplaying Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Flagship Game<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daring & Dread: The Roleplaying Game<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Stop playing in easy mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A complete fantasy roleplaying game, rebuilt from the ground up on the 5E foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daring & Dread<\/em> takes the fifth edition rules you know and rebuilds them for tables that want their victories to mean something. Overpowered spells and abilities have been reined in, death and resting carry real weight, and the dangers your heroes face are genuinely dangerous. It isn’t Easy Mode, and it isn’t Nightmare Mode. It’s heroic fantasy where courage, strategy, and hard-won wins matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start with the Player’s Guide and the GM’s Manual. Add the Engine toolkits to build cities and strongholds, and drop in a Sidequest whenever the party needs a night of adventure. The default world is Aeloria and the continent of Androsa, the same world detailed in the Daring & Dread Campaign Setting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Core Rulebooks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Core Rulebook \u00b7 For Players<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Player’s Guide<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Everything you need to build a hero and play.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Species, classes and subclasses, backgrounds, feats, and a comprehensive spell collection, along with the reworked rules for combat, death, and resting that give the game its edge. Appendices cover the deities and cosmology of Aeloria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A complete game built on the 5E foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Core Rulebook \u00b7 For Game Masters<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GM’s Manual<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The heroes are only as heroic as the dangers they overcome.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Game Master’s companion to the Player’s Guide. Practical systems for running the game, magic items, campaign setting material, and a bestiary of hundreds of creatures built around a consistent approach to monster design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Designed for use with the Player’s Guide<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Engine Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Plug-and-play GM toolkits for building the places your campaign calls home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daring & Dread: City Engine<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A fast, flexible GM toolbox for building fantasy cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daring & Dread: Castle Engine<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A GM toolbox for building, funding, and running castles, with rules for managing your stronghold and its income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daring & Dread Sidequests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Short drop-in adventures you can buy and play the same night. Each one fits nearly any fantasy world and runs with Daring & Dread or standard 5E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Dead of Fort Halden<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For 1st- and 2nd-level PCs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fever took a frontier garrison one soldier at a time, until only the chaplain was left. Something at Fort Halden is still on duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Hollow of Meriara<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For 3rd- and 4th-level PCs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A singing crystal deep in a mine has drawn the troglodytes, and something in the chasm is climbing out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Seven Masks of the Deceiver<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For 5th- and 6th-level PCs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somewhere in the dunes, the Deceiver waits behind seven faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Final Trial of Ravenhold<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For 7th- and 8th-level PCs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Raven Consortium tests its candidates with a hunt that lasts until dawn. Tonight, the PCs are the target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The World of Aeloria<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Gods, monsters, fallen empires, and dragon-ravaged lands. The Daring & Dread Campaign Setting and its supplements detail the world the game calls home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Explore the Campaign Setting<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Never Miss a Release<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New books, Kickstarter launches, and streaming news, straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daring & Dread: The Roleplaying Game. A complete fantasy RPG rebuilt from the ground up on the 5E foundation. Player’s Guide, GM’s Manual, the Engine series, and Sidequests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":611,"menu_order":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"_background_id":0,"_xo_background":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-684","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrindrader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrindrader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrindrader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrindrader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrindrader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrindrader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrindrader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrindrader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}