The Sablewood Messengers

An unofficial Foundry VTT conversion of The Sablewood Messengers, the free Daggerheart Quickstart Adventure by Darrington Press — a complete Tier 1 one-shot with ready-to-run scenes, pregens, NPCs, music, and journal entries.

The original adventure PDF is available for free from Darrington Press: Sablewood-05-20-25.pdf

Requirements

• Foundry VTT v14 (minimum/verified)
• The Daggerheart game system

Recommended:

• Click to Scene
• Daggerheart Enhanced UI
• Daggerheart Spotlight Carousel
• Dice So Nice
• Dice Tray

How To

1. In Foundry’s Add-on Modules tab, install via manifest URL:
   https://github.com/Artieficr/sablewood-messengers/releases/latest/download/module.json
   or install manually and drop the repo contents into
   Data/modules/artieficr-the-sablewood-messengers/
2. Activate the module in your Daggerheart world
3. Navigate to the Compendiums tab
4. Open “The Sablewood Messengers” adventure compendium
5. Import the adventure to your world
6. Follow the adventure content and guidance provided

Features

• Complete Tier 1 adventure content
• Ready-to-use scenes, PC pregens, NPCs, music playlists and comprehensive journal entries
• no AI used for creation of this module

Attributions

If any author credited below objects to their work being used in this module, please raise an issue on this repository or contact me directly at artieficr@pm.me and it will be addressed.

Source Adventure

This adventure is a FoundryVTT port of The Sablewood Messengers, the free Daggerheart Quickstart Adventure by Darrington Press.

This product includes materials from the Daggerheart System Reference Document 1.0, © Critical Role, LLC, under the terms of the Darrington Press Community Gaming License (DPCGL). More information can be found at daggerheart.com.

Darrington Press™ and the Darrington Press authorized work logo are trademarks of Critical Role, LLC, and used with permission.

Visual Assets

• Alchemy monochrome enhanced arts — Alchemy RPG
• Ambush, The Clover Tavern, Open Vale maps, Hush animated scene — Cze Peku, used under their license
• Placeable tiles — Forgotten Adventures, used under their license
• Fidget portrait — adapted from X Train’s ArtStation artwork
• Halythons Fives portrait — adapted from Reddit: Daggerheart NPCs (Hero Forge)
• Lausa Standworth portrait — adapted from Grace Liu’s ArtStation artwork
• Hush houses — adapted from Emelie Vaccarini’s ArtStation artwork

Audio — Ambience & SFX

• Tavern background sounds — ivolipa, Freesound
• Ritual completion sound effect — Coghezzi, Pixabay
• Final battle spooky ambience / Ritual complete — Coghezzi, Pixabay

Audio — Music

• Lobby music — Dvir Silverstone, Pixabay
• Birds forest ambience — Dany_photo, Pixabay Music
• Battle drums 1 (Thistlefolk fight) — Ievgen Poltavskyi, Pixabay
• Battle drums 2 (Thistlefolk fight) — Ievgen Poltavskyi, Pixabay
• Tavern music — sonically_sound, Freesound
• Tavern music — Alexander Nakarada, Pixabay
• Treehouse music — Vlad Bakutov, Pixabay
• Short rest music — Mystery Magic Forest, Pixabay
• Final battle music — Lumen Sound, Pixabay

References / Design Resources

• Tavern games collection — Reddit: r/DnDBehindTheScreen