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Heart: The City Beneath RPG

Created by Grant Howitt

A game of obsession and wonder in a nightmare dungeon beneath the Spire.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Heartsblood Update
about 3 years ago – Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 08:42:54 AM

A word from our logistics expert and book enthusiast, Mary Hamilton, with regards to the Heartsblood Editions:

"We're expecting to take delivery of both the signed bookplates and the last few custom Heartsblood books on Thursday or Friday this week. Once they're all here, we will be packaging them up along with art for those of you whose orders included originals. We'll be arranging contactless pickup and sending them in batches, starting next week, as we're limited on how many items we can have collected at once without breaking the spirit of the current UK lockdown. 

We'll get in touch with you with tracking information once we have it, and in the mean time if your address has changed please email us ([email protected]) to let us know."

Apologies for the delay on this; we promise you'll love them when you get them.

- Grant, Chris and Mary

HEARTSBLOOD EDITION UPDATE
over 3 years ago – Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 10:48:04 AM

HEARTSBLOODS ARE HERE!

We've taken delivery of almost all of the Heartsblood edition books, and the last two are due for pickup tomorrow. They are extremely pretty and we're incredibly pleased with how they've come out - Wyvern has done an amazing job through a series of brutal setbacks.

Not included: advent calendars

HEARTSBLOODS ARE STAYING HERE TILL WE WORK OUT WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING AT OUR BORDERS!

We know you've been waiting for these for a lot longer than originally planned, and we're sorry about that - thank you for your patience. We do however think it's probably a good idea to wait for a few more days at least before putting these in the post: there's a bit of a Christmas rush on, Brexit is imminent, and UK borders are currently closed to a substantial volume of freight traffic. We've had to temporarily replace a motorway with a lorry park, which is never a good sign. The bit of Mary's spreadsheet where it talks about "risks and challenges" is actually bleeding through the screen. So we are going to hold off on shipping until we can be certain that things will reach you, because these are one-of-a-kind items that can't be replaced. We'll be sending everything fully tracked, insured and so forth, and we'll confirm your addresses before we put anything in the post.

There's so much leather in our storage room; it smells like a shoe shop in there

HAPPY HEARTY CHRISTMAS!

We'd just like to thank you all for bearing with us through this monstrous year, and to congratulate you for making it this far. Here's hoping 2021 will be better, and we'll actually get to see some of you face to face. Best wishes.


- Mary, Grant and Chris

[Removed - Posted in error]
over 3 years ago – Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 04:20:11 PM

[This update was intended to go on the Unbound project, not the Heart project! I've deleted the text but I'm unable to remove the post. Apologies.]

November update
over 3 years ago – Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 01:30:50 AM

Hello! Three things:

1) All the packages have been sent! It's done! If you don't have a notification for your package, then drop us an email ([email protected]) and we'll get you sorted out.


2) We posted the first episode of our Heart Director's Commentary yesterday - if you're interested in learning more about the design decisions that went into the development of Heart and like the sound of our voices, you should take a listen here. You can also subscribe to the RRS feed here, as we'll be releasing about an hour of audio every week.


3) Eagle-eyed backers will notice that the UK has gone into another period of virus control lockdown - we enjoyed the first one so much we just couldn't help ourselves. Luckily our bookbinder, Wyvern, is still operating (albeit at a reduced rate) and we can assure those of you that ordered Heartsblood editions that they're hard at work stamping and stitching to get your books complete. Once we have a proper eta we'll let you know what it is.


That's all for now - and indeed, perhaps for good! It's been a unique experience trying to fulfill our biggest ever Kickstarter during this wretched pox but, thankfully, now, it's done and you can all descend into the red wet heaven in search of salvation.


Huge thanks to all of you that supported us through this project, both in terms of your enthusiasm but also in terms of the cash you threw at us to make some of the most beautiful RPG books on the market. We're so proud of what we've managed to achieve.


What's next for us? We have a Kickstarter for our next full-length Spire supplement coming up early next year - we're focusing on the Crime, Order and Religion domains, and we've worked with some brilliant writers to broaden the setting in ways that we couldn't have done ourselves. And then after that, we'll probably do something for Heart. Or something entirely different, who can say? At present we're just waiting to see what Brexit does to our tiny industry and doing what we can to pre-emptively adapt.


Anyway. Much love. May the Goddess guide your hand.


- Grant, Chris and Mary 

GOOD NEWS, AMERICA!
over 3 years ago – Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 06:17:35 PM

(ALSO: GOOD NEWS, CANADA!)


You're going to get your books, finally! Here's where things stand:


- After an extended period of back-and-forth over whether or not the books would be allowed into the country proper, we were lucky enough to have them released to run free among your fields, valleys, amber waves of grain etc. They're with the distributor now, and will be starting the final leg of shipping over the next few days. You'll get an email to the address you used for Backerkit when your parcel ships.


- There was some damage to the shipment, because of the customs hold and the repeated handling, so everything is being checked before it ships. If you have any issues at all with your parcel, please drop us an email at [email protected].


HEARTSBLOODS

The orders are all with Wyvern and they will be producing them over the next few weeks. Things are still moving relatively slowly, but we are hoping that your fanciest fancy books will be with you before Christmas.


DIRECTORS COMMENTARY

We have twenty-five episodes of this to cut together, but they're all recorded at least. We're currently working out how long everything will take and we'll update you with more info once we have it sketched out.


UNBOUND KICKSTARTER

We have another Kickstarter active! Possibly KS already emailed you about it, but in case they didn't and you're interested, here's the pitch:

UNBOUND is a rules-lite tactical cinematic pulp action worldbuilding game that we released in 2017 and then didn't print any additional copies of it because we weren't really a proper business at that point. BUT we're a proper business now, by gum, so we're funding a new print run and a redesign of the book. If you'd like to learn more you can check out our project here.


That's all for now! It feels pretty good to have the books in the right place and en route to you, we'll not lie. That was a stressful few weeks.


- Grant, Chris and Mary