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Elaine Lithgow
30 days ago
Dagger in the Heart PDF Preview Available For Download!
The time has come! -drumroll- Print preview files for Dagger in the Heart are now available for download for those who backed physical or PDF versions of Dagger in the Heart...
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Grant Howitt
about 1 month ago
PDFs inbound, charging cards and locking orders
Hello! Grant here - Elaine's off so I'm stepping in to have a chat with you all. We're excited to announce that the PDF preview of Dagger in the Heart will be released to camp...
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Elaine Lithgow
about 2 months ago
Dagger in the Heart: Big News! Bigger Releases!
What ho ye delirious delvers of the depths. It’s time for another project update, this time with big news and even bigger releases! Heart Delve Edition PDF Preview Available Now...
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Elaine Lithgow
3 months ago
Dagger in the Heart, June Update
Greetings Delvers. Another quick update to keep you up to speed on all the work that’s continuing at pace on Dagger and all the other Heart-related goodies you know and (hopeful...
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Elaine Lithgow
4 months ago
Dagger in the Heart, Giant Update
Greetings Delvers! It’s time for another project update. We’re talking shipping, PDF delivery, and timelines. We’re also showing some pretty (gross) new illustrations. Fun for a...
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Elaine Lithgow
5 months ago
Dagger in the Heart: Pledge management, Heart review, and a new Quickstart, oh my!
Hey all. Dropping in for a quick update today to let you know how things are progressing across the project. Dagger In The Heart We're at the point of wrestling all the text a...
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If you know a Delver who perished in a memorable way, post a short obituary to honour them here! If we reach the Echo edition stretch goal, their obituary might even show up in print.

Note: Ideal these obituaries should be short, punchy, and tragic. (Aim for for a couple of sentences and ~10-20 words at most).

Some example obituaries:

Fingers-Grace-The-Blade, decapitated by the angel he tried to worship.

Lynd Vassail, finally shed her skin and became one with the Heart.

Dafwyn Pek, crushed by the Vermissian to save their beloved Mayid.
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Now that we've hit our £40,000 stretch goal, we will be adding a 24 page booklet to the Heart GM screen! We are very excited to cram this booklet to bursting with useful tables, references, and handouts that will let GMs take their Heart games to new heights (or depths?).

The idea being that you crazy GMs can cut out parts of the booklet and stick them all over your screen, to create your very own 'red-string-murder-board' GM screen custom made for your game.

With that in mind, what sorts of tables or references would you like to see in the GM booklet? Comment below and we might be able to add them in! 

Here are some ideas provided by the RRD team and the Rowan Rook and Decard Discord to get your creative juices flowing.

Tables:
- Trinkets, rubbish, and pocket-lint.
- Random NPCs and Delvers.
- Havens and what makes them unique.
- Environmental descriptions by Tier.
- Strange sights.

References:
- Skills, Domains, and their associated uses.
- Equipment tags.
- Fallouts.
- A flowchart of how Delves work.
- An index of the rulebook.
- A simple rules summary.
- Class Beat Sheets.

Handouts:
- A ratty return ticket for the Vermissian, never used.
- Strange sketches of creatures, landmarks, and other disquieting sights.
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PROJECT UPDATE
Elaine Lithgow
CREATOR
30 days ago

Project Update: Dagger in the Heart PDF Preview Available For Download!

The time has come! -drumroll-



Print preview files for Dagger in the Heart are now available for download for those who backed physical or PDF versions of Dagger in the Heart. Check your downloads in Backerkit to get access. (If you don't see the download, double check that your order is locked and your card payment has successfully been collected. Declined card payments are the most common issue that stop backers from being delivered their rewards.)

Keep in mind, this is the preview version of the PDF. While it's very close to done, there are some minor layout tweaks and a final proofreading pass to go in before the files go to print. Speaking of which, if you spot any issues, let us know how badly we messed up by plugging your feedback into our form over here.

If you have any issues, you can email [email protected] for help (Don't fret if we're a bit slow to respond over the coming days. There's thousands of you and we've only so many frail human limbs to respond with. Oh for a drop of spider blood.)

We'll be in touch soon(tm) with more updates.

- The RRD Team

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PROJECT UPDATE
Grant Howitt
CREATOR
about 1 month ago

Project Update: PDFs inbound, charging cards and locking orders

Hello!

Grant here - Elaine's off so I'm stepping in to have a chat with you all.

We're excited to announce that the PDF preview of Dagger in the Heart will be released to campaign backers next week. (By "preview," I mean - the whole book's in there and it's all laid out but we're expecting you to find some errors which we can fix before we go to print.)

This means that we're going to lock orders and charge cards for everyone.

We're going to do this on Wednesday 21st August, so if you want to add anything to your pledge, please do it before then! (Personally I can recommend the GM screen because it's bananas.)

We'll then release the PDF on Thursday 22nd August, assuming nothing implodes. 

As ever, if you have any issues, please email us at [email protected] and we'll do our best to resolve them.

Cheers,

- Grant
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PROJECT UPDATE
Elaine Lithgow
CREATOR
about 2 months ago

Project Update: Dagger in the Heart: Big News! Bigger Releases!

What ho ye delirious delvers of the depths. It’s time for another project update, this time with big news and even bigger releases!

Heart Delve Edition PDF Preview Available Now

First and foremost, the PDF preview of the new Heart: The City Beneath edition is now available online for your ravenous consumption (provided you’ve purchased a copy of Heart ofc. No free meals here. You’ll pay for your pound of flesh like the rest of us.) Simply hop on your webstore of choice and download the newest version to check it out for yourself.
Dubbed the ‘Delve Edition’ this new version of Heart is bursting with lovely layout updates, errata, delver obituaries, and four new pages on crafting Delves for your players (masterfully penned by Chris and Grant under extreme duress as a ‘break’ from their duties on Hollows).

We’re giving this document a bit of breathing time before sending it off to print, so if you spot anything amiss, please let us know by telling us we messed up in our errata form.  


New Character Sheets

You can’t have a shiny new version of Heart without a shiny new character sheet to hand to your players. Well, arguably you can, but I refuse to accept that reality if the alternative lets us force Mina to make us a shiny new form fillable character sheet for folk to use.
This new sheet is currently bundled alongside all digital copies of Heart, and we’ll update the website version some time shortly so everyone can get their hands on them.

Dagger in the Layout

While all this fancy corebook work has been going on, the text for Dagger in the Heart has emerged from editing and slammed into layout like a boiling hot locomotive ploughing into an antique store (that’s to say: with much commotion and screaming noises from everyone involved).
This means that, all things going well, you can look forward to getting your grubby mitts on the PDF copies of Dagger in the Heart within the coming weeks, once Mina has beaten it into its final shape.


We’re at GenCon! (gods save us)

A bunch of the RRD staff will be flying out to the states to attend GenCon next week. They’ve been promised that this will be worth the jetlag and risk of gun-related-crimes. If you want to help make that statement true, why not swing by and chuck some money at them (or inflate their egos by praising their work, you know, if that’s more your speed). 

I’m told they have the last 95 copies of Heart in the US squirrelled away in a highly secure cardboard box. So if you hunger for the pre-Delve edition original recipe Heart, this could very well be your last chance to get a hold of one. We’ll have two booths this year, one dedicated to Eat the Reich (Booth 455 Main Hall) and our Studio 2 (Booth 1929/2029 Main Hall).

Grant and Chris will be hosting a panel to talk about the world of Heart and Spire if you’re so inclined. Tickets are currently sold out, but who knows you might be able to show up and crash the joint if you’re lucky. https://www.gencon.com/events/250690 

We’re also running convention scenarios of Heart, Spire, Hollows, and more! Again… sold out (wow we’re so popular) but you never know. All told GenCon should be a veritable RRD blowout. You’ll be sick of us by the end, probably.

Speaking of ends, that’s all for this month.

Oh and for the 3% of you who still haven’t locked your pledges: I SEE YOU! GET ON IT! DON’T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE!

  • Elaine and the RRD Team

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