Voidheart Symphony - Stand Up and Fight

Everyone’s working too hard and still no-one has enough. They turn us out on the streets to starve or freeze. They carve up our liberties and hammer them down to stubs. Their poison floods the air and water. 

They take everything from us and tell us they’re doing us a favour.

You’re used to this. The people in charge hate you because you’re different. You’ve been fighting all your life. For respect. For your community. For your survival. But something snapped. 

Now you’ve seen the power behind the throne: the castle. Twisting halls and terrible monsters glimpsed through doorways in forgotten places. A parasite reality colonising the border between the real and the imaginary. A cannibal zeitgeist giving strength to the worst people you can imagine: Despots. Abusers. Billionaires. Your shitty boss. 

People say you’re crazy. Of course they do; they haven’t seen the truth. 

Only you and yours can see what the castle has stolen from you: a new world, glittering and true, decent and fair, grown out of the carcass of the old. A world forged in magic and blood and death and beauty.

Sun’s going down, rebel; time to get started. The castle isn’t going to topple itself.

Voidheart Symphony is a tabletop roleplaying game about magical grassroots resistance. You and your friends play rebels - people on the edges of society who’ve been abused by the great machine that is the castle. By day, you struggle to thrive in a world that doesn’t want you to exist. By night, you enter the castle, ready to tear the cruel inhabitants to shreds with magical weaponry and powers granted by the connections you’ve forged in the real world.

Voidheart Symphony uses distinct interlocking rules systems to empower your stories. A free-flowing, action-oriented Powered by the Apocalypse system governs your kick-in-the-door exploration and desperate fights in the castle; a modified version of Heart: The City Beneath’s Resistance system keeps track of your struggles in reality, and provides a wide variety of ways the bastards can grind you down. As you gain support and make connections, a plethora of allies allow you to fight longer, shine brighter, and maybe afford to turn the heating on when it’s cold.

It’s been six years since the first release of Voidheart Symphony and we’ve learned a lot since then. We’re taking this opportunity to make the play experience as evocative, straightforward, and exciting as we can. We’ve also redesigned the layout and we’re doubling the size of the book from A5 to US Letter, for ease of use at the table (and to really give our award-winning designer a chance to flex). If you’d like to be the first to get your foot in the door between dimensions, follow this page and we’ll let you know when we go live.