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 (hopefully) love.

The train is thundering towards the station with reckless abandon. The text is finished and is in the process of being edited, and all the illustrations are complete and entering layout. It’s an exciting time where everything comes together into the final shape of the book. (Read: ‘exciting’ as ‘beautiful chaotic mess’.)

Speaking of beautiful chaotic messes, if all proceeds as the oracles have foretold, by the time you’re reading this, the shiny new updated Heart Quickstart should be available for download from our website, DriveThruRPG, and Itch.io. This is your first chance to take a good look at all the hard work Mina has put into sprucing up the Heart line in anticipation of the big reprint, and the Echo Edition.

Now the PDF is finished, the files can get ready for print and whisked off to our printing partner. We’ve even managed to work out a way to ensure that the gorgeous new character sheets that Mina has designed will be perforated for easy tear-out-and-play at the table (your players and printers will thank you).

Sar has officially finished the illustration for both sides of the GM screen and we couldn’t be happier with the results. Take a look yourselves! 

We’ve also been working away on the content for the accompanying GM booklet. You can expect the usual boilerplate useful rules references you’d find on any GM screen, but we know what you’re really here for is the weird stuff. 

So today we wanted to show off some of the class tables. The idea here is to give you quick little roleplay prompts for each class. The GM can roll them to surprise your players, or hand them out to the players and let them roll themselves (after all, why should the GM do all the hard work?) Here’s a couple we’re working on. 

First up is one for the Vermissian Knight, or more specifically, their armour. After all, shouldn’t their armour be a character itself? This can be a fun table to use during moments of downtime, when the knight is fixing up their armour by the fire, or more actively during combat or delves when you want to show wear and tear on the suit.

Next up is the Deadwalker and their deathly spectre. This table is all about exploring the Deadwalker’s relationship with their Death, asking ominous questions, and helping their grim shadow get some time in the spotlight. 

That’s all we have for today, folks. We’ll be back in a couple weeks with another update! In the meantime, if you haven’t done so yet, CONFIRM YOUR PLEDGES! We see you, the 3% who haven’t done it yet. We really want to send you books at some point but damned if it isn’t hard without addresses and shipping info. So get in there. 

-The RRD Team