Dagger in the Heart
A full-length adventure for Heart: The City Beneath RPG
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.
Inside the book you can find a sandbox adventure that takes Delvers into the deepest recesses of the Heart in search of their destiny.
Dagger in the Heart features:
- Three major antagonists and their accompanying factions all vying for control in the depths that can be opposed, allied with, or betrayed.
- New Beat sheets designed specifically for Dagger in the Heart, which allow players to chain their fates to the Heart and the Delving Machine.
- Dozens of new creatures and NPCs to encounter, from eccentric Junk Mages to body-snatching insects known as flenslings, and worse horrors besides.
- 40+ new landmarks to explore, overflowing with unique resources, fallouts, and potential plots to ensure every delve is distinct in its own beautiful and horrifying ways.
- 20+ delves ready to use as the connective tissue that pulls your party inexorably towards the bleeding wound at the centre of reality.
- And more secrets yet to be uncovered...
Writing: Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan
Illustrations: Sar Cousins
Editing: Neil Kingham
Layout and Graphic Design: Minerva McJanda
Production: Zachary Cox, Maz Hamilton, Elaine Lithgow
Hardcover book, 141 color pages with 2 bookmark ribbons.
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