Filling official templates and inventing a domain or class

The official compendium templates — every Daggerheart domain card, every D&D spell — are yours to fill. Open one from Templates or from a card in the Compendium (“Make one like this”), and the fill studio shows the card exactly as it will render everywhere else: the same renderer, the same frame, the same colours.

Picking the value that shapes the card

Some fields do more than print text. A domain card’s Domain picks the band colour, the hero tint, the ribbon and the card back; a spell’s School picks its frame and sigil. Those fields show as a grid of swatches rather than a plain dropdown — each option carries its colour, and the domain ribbon where the card has one — and the card repaints the moment you pick.

Click any block on the card to jump to its field in the panel. Double-click a text block (or press Enter with it selected) to edit right there.

Tip

The value is what matters, not the spelling. Type “codex” or “CODEX” and the card resolves the same Codex colours and back.

Inventing a domain

At the bottom of the Domain picker is ＋ Custom domain…. Give it a name, one colour and a mark, and the card takes care of the rest: the band and hero derive from your colour the same way the official ten do, the ribbon is drawn in your colour under the official gold trim with your mark inside, and the back is the official ornate back in your colour with your mark in the medallion.

Official templates are shared, so a custom domain lives on your own copy of the template. PostRoll makes the copy for you and lands you on it with the new domain already picked. Cards of the official domains made from your copy still look exactly like the official ones — the custom domain only adds to the list.

A domain you invent is kept with your account, not with the one card you invented it on. It shows up wherever a domain can be chosen, including on the class card below.

Inventing a class

A class card is the one card that defines something rather than choosing it. Fill in its name and pick the two domains it holds, and the Fields panel offers Save <name> as a class. That is the whole ceremony.

Everything the card wears comes from those two domains, so there is no third colour to choose. The banner takes the second domain’s colour with the first running down its shoulders, both domains’ marks sit on it, the art band and the divider are drawn from the pair, and the back is the ornate two-domain back with both marks on the medallion. Add your own artwork if you have some; the card is complete without it.

The domains can be official ones, ones you invented, or one of each.

Class feature cards that match

Once the class is saved, a class feature card offers it in the Class picker beside the thirteen official ones. Pick it and the feature card wears the same banner, the same art band, the same divider and the same back as the class card — they are drawn from the same two domains, not copied.

That link stays live. Recolour one of the domains and every class holding it follows, along with all of that class’s feature cards.

Note

Subclass cards. A subclass card can name a class you invented, but its frame is built differently from the class card’s, so it wears a plain class frame rather than your two domains’ colours. The class and class feature cards are where a homebrew class lands completely.

Note

D&D and other systems. A custom spell school, creature type or class gets its colours and its icon on every bound part of the card. Its frame stays the template’s first frame, because those frames bake the school into the art itself and there is no neutral one to draw on. Daggerheart domain cards, whose front is one shared frame, are where a custom value lands completely.

When a value has no art

An official domain card of a domain the template does not know would once show a broken ribbon and someone else’s back. Now it draws the ribbon from your colour, and — until you add the domain properly — uses the generic back. Add the domain through ＋ Custom domain… to give it a back of its own.