Dagger In The Heart

$84.99

Rowan, Rook and Decard

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Dagger in the Heart is the first full-length adventure for the award winning Heart: The City Beneath: a sandbox campaign that takes delvers into the deepest recesses of the Heart in search of their destiny. 

You are caught 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 your journey progresses, you doomed delvers will encounter a trio of antagonists who each seek control of the machine to shape their ideal future: the arms dealer Ptolemy Bay, the aelfir politician Aramos, and The One Who Waits In Ashes, a ragged figure who appears all too familiar. You’ll witness the dreadful impact of Zenith abilities – your Zenith abilities – on the places that they journey through. You’ll venture via uncanny passages to Summersisle, home of the humans, on the eve of their greatest tragedy. Ultimately, if you survive long enough, you might just stand before the Heart itself…

This 144-page release is dripping with evocative prose from author Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, grotesque full-colour illustrations by Sar Cousins, and immersive layout by ENnie award-winning Minerva McJanda.

Includes:

  • A complete narrative campaign for Heart: the City Beneath which guides your group from your first steps into the streets of Derelictus, to the deepest depths of the Heart itself.
  • Three major antagonists and their accompanying factions that can be opposed, joined, or betrayed, as they each fight for control of the Delving Machine.
  • New player character Beat sheets designed specifically for Dagger in the Heart, which chain a character’s fate to the Heart and the Delving Machine.
  • Dozens of new creatures and NPCs to encounter, from eccentric Junk Mages to body-snatching insects, and worse.
  • 40+ new landmarks to explore, overflowing with unique resources, fallouts, and plots to ensure every delve is distinctly beautiful and horrifying.
  • 20+ new delves ready to use as paths and connective tissue that drags your party inexorably towards the bleeding wound at the centre of reality.
  • 35+ detailed full colour illustrations by Sar Cousins which paint a picture of life, and death, in the Heart.

Dagger In The Heart requires a copy of Heart: the City Beneath to use the rules and setting within to the best effect.

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