Elaine Lithgow
CREATOR
7 months ago
Project Update: 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 and illustrations into layout, and identifying which additional pieces of art we're adding from the More Art stretch goal. From there we'll be bringing on editors and proofreaders to polish the text to a mirror shine. (If you see any reflections in the book, don't listen to them.)
Pledge Management Now Open
Okay technically this happened last week, but we wanted to gently open the floodgates first, just in case anything fell over. The initial tests look good though, so behold! You should now be able to manage your pledge on Backerkit! Now's the time to double check what goodies you're signed up for, and plug in all that very useful information like your delivery address so we know where we're sending them to.
Pledge management should stay open up until the books ship. This should serve as a vague enough date to encourage you to plug in their details now so you don’t miss out (I see you there thinking “oh I’ll do it next week”. Did you know that procrastination is the leading cause of unfulfilled pledges? Don’t let this happen to you!)
Quinns Quest Heart Review
A rather cool dude in a very nice blazer gave a glowing review of Heart: The City Beneath which we just had to share for those who haven’t seen it (It might come in handy for anyone trying to convince their friends to join their game). Technically it seems like this review was recorded in the 80s? Which is all manner of confusing, but is just the sort of temporal shenanigans we endorse.
You can check out the review here:
Updated Heart Quickstart
An interesting side effect of the Quinns Quest review and the success of the Dagger campaign, is that an enormous amount of the existing stock for Heart-and-Heart-related books has vaporised overnight. It’s not the worst problem in the world to have, but it’s been quite eye-popping to see the numbers in real time.
This has opened up an interesting opportunity for us. Since we’re going to need to reprint a bunch of our books now, we want to take a little bit of time to add errata and minor tweaks to improve them where we can. Most of these changes will barely be noticeable, but we’re pulling out the stops to upgrade one book in particular: the Heart Quickstart.
The Quickstart booklet was one of the first Heart releases back in 2020, and since then we’ve learned a whole heap of new tips and tricks about presenting a cracking quickstart booklet to really hook a group on the game. With such a huge influx of new players, and a reprint on the way, we wanted to take a bit of time to give the Heart Quickstart the glowup it deserves.
The updated Heart Quickstart should feature:
- New layout, with more art and clearer presentation of the rules.
- New tear-out bespoke character sheets for each premade character.
- A tear-out rules reference to toss in the middle of the table for players to fight over.
- A spine! (The book kind, not the skeletal kind… although.)
- We might even be able to splash out on a little spot UV on the cover, as a treat. (Big ‘IF’ on this one based on costs.)
We’re still working with our printers to lock in the exact costs involved in the upgrade, which means that the price of these new Quickstarts might increase slightly once they land in the wild. However! Everyone who picks up a physical copy of the Heart Quickstart through this campaign will get one of the updated quickstarts at no extra cost. Just our way of saying thanks for supporting us. And of course, as always, if you have a PDF copy you can download the updated version for free once it’s live.
Here’s a couple examples of the kinds of upgrades you can look forward to. Take a look, and hopefully you agree it’s worth the extra effort!
Until next time, DON’T FORGET TO MANAGE YOUR PLEDGE! We’ll know if you procrastinate.
- RRD
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