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A new Daggerheart campaign frame will soon be unveiled at this year’s Gen Con. Entitled The Night Market, the horror-themed supernatural setting takes place in a city known as Eidolon, whose inhabitants have harnessed the power of ghosts.
The Night Market represents one of the first major campaign frames for the Daggerheart RPG outside of the core rulebook. It’s also a new project for Keith Baker, who is best known as the award-winning creator of the D&D Eberron setting and founder of indie tabletop company Twogether Studios.
Notably, back in August 2025, Baker and his wife and fellow designer Jen Ellis announced that they were officially joining Darrington Press to work on several Daggerheart projects. It’s worth noting, however, that The Night Market is not an official Darrington Press publication, but will actually be published by Twogether Studios using Daggerheart’s third-party Community Gaming License (although a larger official Daggerheart project is coming some time in the near future from Baker and Ellis).
More details will be revealed at Gen Con 2026 in July with a session entitled The Night Market: Designing For Daggerheart with Keith Baker. You can sign up now for tickets for the talk on the Gen Con website. Below, we break down everything we know so far.
What is the Daggerheart Night Market campaign frame?
The description for the upcoming Daggerheart Gen Con 2026 panel notes: “The Night Market explores magic and mystery in a city where ghosts turn the wheels of industry. Take on the role of a haunted hero and try to create light in a city forever shrouded in shadow.”
Back in late February 2026, Keith Baker actually discussed more about the Night Market on Episode 357 of The Download Podcast, which he co-hosts with board game designer Andy Looney.
In the episode, Baker notes that he was “starting to work on something we’re calling The Night Market, which is taking a little setting I made a long time ago and basically just only did as a Fiasco hack.… A Daggerheart campaign frame’s usually about 10 pages. This is going to be more than a campaign frame and less than a full setting. Like a micro-setting.”
In terms of the concept itself, Baker notes: “The Night Market is this setting that is kind of built around ghosts. That basically, it’s the whole idea of a poltergeist, who sort of has a moving kinetic force. They can generate kinetic force and move things. Well, okay, then can we harness that and use it to move things? And so a society that has basically learned how to sort of capture the essence that remains and do various things with it.“
In the podcast episode, Baker also notes that the concept of the Night Market was inspired by a trip he took 16 years earlier to Slovakia, where he happened to see an archeological dig of a Bronze Age town. He notes: “To get to the town, you had to go through this big cemetery, which held like 700 people. And it was sort of this thought of basically they’ve laid their cemetery across the road into town. And not even the road, just across the only way into town. And the question was, did they think that their enemies would be superstitious about this? Did they think people would be afraid to cross the graveyard? Did they think that the ghosts of the dead would rise up and protect them? And my thought was, but what if they would? What if that is a wall? What if they don’t need a wall for their city because the graveyard is their wall? Just, you know, started thinking about that. And so from that, we get Eidolon, a city where the cemetery is the wall.“
Who is Keith Baker?
If you aren’t already familiar with him, Keith Baker is an American game designer, author and world‑builder who is best known for creating the Eberron setting for Dungeons & Dragons. Notably, Baker submitted the initial concept to Wizards of the Coast for their “Fantasy Setting Search” contest in 2002, beating out over 11,000 other submissions. Eberron was officially launched for D&D 3rd edition in 2004, with Baker running point on the setting along with a number of other senior D&D designers. Baker also wrote several Eberron novels and continued to steer the setting well into the fourth edition of D&D.
Baker later parted ways with Wizards of the Coast (which still owns the rights to Eberron) but has continued to publish new materials for the setting via DMsGuild, including popular titles such as Exploring Eberron and Chronicles of Eberron. In 2024, he also briefly consulted on Eberron: Forge of the Artificer and wrote and released Frontiers of Eberron: Quickstone under a third-party license, which he announced would be his last Eberron product.
In addition to his work on D&D, Baker has also contributed to several other TTRPG systems, including Pathfinder and 13th Age. In 2014, he co-founded Twogether Studios with his wife and fellow designer Jen Ellis, and developed a number of board and card games, including Gloom, Phoenix: Dawn Command, Illimat and TAZ: Bureau of Balance.
More recently, in August 2025 at Gen Con, Darrington Press announced that Baker and Ellis were joining the Daggerheart team, where they would be working on a new project.
What else is coming up next for Daggerheart?
Daggerheart recently celebrated it’s first anniversary with a free adventure and the announcement of a new actual play series. The team has also charted out a three-year roadmap that includes:
- Daggerheart: Hope & Fear: The game’s debut expansion is currently scheduled for a summer 2026 release and will introduces new classes, campaign frames, adversaries, magic items and physical cards.
- Chris Perkins & Jeremy Crawford projects: The former Wizards of the Coast senior designers left the D&D team in June 2025 and will be working on new Daggerheart products. In a blog post, Darrington Press notes: “Jeremy Crawford will take point on a full setting for Daggerheart inside a hellishly terrifying genre, while Chris Perkins will weave tales spanning campaign frames to a wider interconnected adventure supplement.”
- A future Keith Baker & Jen Ellis project: In the Download Podcast, Keith Baker notes that the Night Market is the first project, and is relatively small in scope. “I made the setting a long time ago, but I’m now translating it into a Daggerheart form. And it’s good sort of practice for the big thing we’re working on after that.” The “big thing” will be an official Daggerheart project published by Darrington Press.
Why we’re excited for Daggerheart Night Market
- A cool concept: The idea of a ghost powered city sounds intriguing (and a little reminiscent of Doskvol from Blades in the Dark), and it’ll be interesting to see how the concept comes to life (or unlife) within the campaign frame.
- An iconic RPG designer: Keith Baker has helped to create one of the most unique and compelling official Dungeons & Dragons settings, so we’re 100% on board for seeing what he can do with Daggerheart.
- A major third-party campaign frame: Daggerheart is a little over a year old, and while The Night Market is not an official Darrington Press campaign frame, it’s definitely one of the most high profile third-party publications for the game.
Final Thoughts
With Gen Con 2026 just around the corner, we won’t have to wait long for a deeper look at The Night Market. One thing, however, is clear: it will likely represent a major next step in Daggerheart‘s history.
We’ll be keeping a close eye on this story in the days ahead and will update this page with new information as it’s made available. In the meantime, you can learn more and sign up for the Night Market panel on the Gen Con website.