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Dagger in the Heart

A full-length adventure for Heart: The City Beneath RPG, written by Gareth Hanrahan and illustrated by Sar Cousins.

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Alex - Rowan Rook & Decard
3 days ago
Dagger in the Heart December Fulfillment Update
Hello all, It's now the merry month of December, which means we move over from the Production team sending out emails to your regularly scheduled updates...
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Elaine Lithgow
28 days ago
Locking Pre Orders
Hey delvers! Quick update for you today. As we ramp up to fulfilment in the new year, we’re going to lock and charge outstanding orders & preorders ov...
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Elaine Lithgow
about 1 month ago
Dagger in the Heart, November Update
Time For An Auditory Adventure Til Death Do Us Heart, the official actual play for Heart, is now streaming! Come join the gang as they go on an ill-fa...
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Elaine Lithgow
3 months ago
Dagger in the Heart September Production Update
Welcome once more to all you delicious delvers. It’s been a hot second since we last spoke, so let’s dive right into the updates. Printers Go Brrr Since we released the PDF pre...
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Elaine Lithgow
4 months 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
4 months 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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Welcome to the Dagger in the Heart Launch Party!

Join us as 16:00GMT on February 27th, 2024 for exclusive launch content, including:
An interview with writer Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan
A showcase of Artist Sar Cousin's original illustrations, available as a pledge tier
plus a great time with Grant, Maz, and the Rowan, Rook and Decard team!

Dagger in the Heart Banner: A grotesque tangle of organic matter with the logo in the centre

What is Dagger in the Heart?

Dagger in the Heart is the first full-length sourcebook for Heart: the City Beneath.

In this campaign, the player characters will follow in the wake of The Delving Machine: a device that bores through rock, blood, bone, space, time and reality towards the scintillating terror of a crimson eternity.

As their journey progresses, they'll encounter three antagonists looking to control the machine and shape the future for themselves: the arms dealer Ptolemy Bay, the aelfir politician Aramos, and a ragged nameless figure who appears all too familiar. They'll witness the dreadful impact of Zenith abilities – their Zenith abilities – on the places that they journey through. They'll venture via passages uncanny to Summersisle, home of the Humans, on the eve of their greatest tragedy.

And, then, of course, the Heart Itself.

Dagger in the Heart is written by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan (Eyes of the Stone Thief, The Dracula Dossier, The Laundry RPG), illustrated by Sar Cousins and laid out by Minerva McJanda (Heart: the City Beneath, Lancer, Voidheart Symphony).

"Below, We Die in the Dark. Below, a Red-Lit Heaven. Below, We Ascend."  written above an adventurer attempting to escape from a tangle of organs and viscera reaching for them, having already absorbed bits of the world around it.