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Dagger in the Heart

Created by Rowan, Rook and Decard

Pre-order your Heart: The City Beneath books and accessories here! Featuring Dagger in the Heart, the first full-length sourcebook for the game written by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, and an all-new GM screen with gorgeous art by Sar Cousins. **Due to fluctuating global shipping rates, we will be charging shipping fees at a later date.
We will keep you updated through project Updates for when shipping fees will be applied to your pre-order. Thank you for your patience and understanding!**

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Dagger in the Heart, Books On Their Way!
about 1 year ago – Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 03:05:29 AM

Greetings Delvers! 

Just a quick update today to let you know that fulfillment has begun in earnest. If you were a Backer, or pre-ordered before January the 8th, you can expect your books to arrive any day now. Some of you might even get your books before you read this! You can thank the temporal indifference of the Vermissian network.

For more specifics, check your region below:

(Note: If you pre-ordered after January 8th, your order hasn't been locked or charged yet. We'll do this after primary fulfillment is complete to avoid any warehouse mixups.)

UK and EU Orders

UK and EU orders are all at our EU distribution center and the first deliveries begun last night (16/01/2025). That means, if you're in the UK or EU, you can expect your order to arrive in the coming days (given time for the warehouses to pack orders and send them by courier).

US Orders

Our books should arrive in our US distribution warehouse this time next week, at which point they'll begin sorting and courier delivery. You can expect fulfillment to start in a couple of weeks, with orders starting to arrive after that.

AUS, NZ & AsiaPacific

Our books are prepared for their imminent flight to our Asian distribution warehouse. You can expect fulfillment to start in a couple of weeks, with orders starting to arrive after that.

Problems?

If you have any questions, you can send an e-mail to [email protected] and include "Dagger Fulfillment" alongside your name in the subject line to help our hard working CS staff find you. Just remember, there are a lot of orders and not a lot of CS staff (read: one), so don't freak out if we can't reply immediately (we aim to reply to all CS queries within 3 working days, though).

We hope your books arrive safe and sound!

- Elaine & the RRD Team

Jan Dagger Update - Fulfillment Begins
about 1 year ago – Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 12:48:08 AM

TL;DR: if you’re in the UK, Europe, Africa or the Middle East, your addresses are locking down imminently. Please check they are correct!
Everyone else: your books are moving towards you!
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The final piece of the puzzle dropped into place yesterday. The Heart GM screens have cleared UK customs and are now careening down the track towards our fulfilment centre like a wild Vermissian train.
As we’re sending this out, they should be in the warehouse - which means we can begin fulfilment.
Here’s the timeline:

UK/EU/ROW
The first UK & EU backers packages will go out this month, starting with the smallest orders and working up to the largest packages over the following weeks. That means your addresses will lock down in the next 48 hours, so look out for that email.

It will take a few weeks to fill all these orders. You’ll get a tracking code and we will also update your order in Backerkit so you know when it’s shipped. We’ll also update you again when fulfilment is done. The last orders to these territories should ship before the end of Feb.

Americas
Things are coming together nicely. The first, main shipment has landed and is on a train towards at our US fulfilment centre; the first books should arrive there once they clear customs next week. We know this can be a tricky time for projects (ask us about moths!) and we also need to get the Heart GM screens across the pond for those who’ve ordered them.

We’re anticipating that should be done within a couple of weeks, at which point we’ll lock addresses and get your fulfilment started. More soon.

Australia/NZ/Asia-Pacific
Pallets are packed for shipment to our Australian fulfilment centre – they'll be handling everything Asia-Pacific-related through the AusPost system. These will go onto an aeroplane in the next week or so and, customs willing, will be at the fulfilment centre by the end of January.
We’re expecting this will be the last group to start, kicking off around mid-February.

Generally
Thanks enormously for all your support, folks - we couldn’t do this without you. We’d love to see pictures of your parcels as they start to arrive - you can tag us on Instagram, BlueSky or Facebook, or pop links in the comments here. 

As ever, there’s always a risk things will get dinged, damaged or lost in transit. If that happens to you, we want to put it right, so get in touch by emailing [email protected] if anything goes wrong with your parcel. 

We’ll write again once we’re ready to lock other addresses - hopefully in a week or two.

xoxo
– Alex, and everyone at RR&D

Xmas Special Fulfillment Update - Dagger in the Heart
about 1 year ago – Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 08:40:38 AM

Merry Monday Heartbreakers,


From a postage & fulfilment perspective there’s no changes to announce here.
Everything is in place and on schedule to lock addresses in mid-Jan, as mentioned in the previous message. Please check your address is correct and fix it if it’s not!

We’re here with a little pre-holiday gift for all of you. (Gift is stretching it, you did buy it for yourselves.) 

Final Production Parts:
Heart GM screens are pounding their way through the presses and beginning to be stacked ready for shipping to us. We’re expecting a pallet delivery to our UK warehouse before the end of 2024. 
Here are some gorgeous photos of the physical objects as they’re coming together at our printer.
Feast your eyes on these beauties, and imagine how beautiful they’re going to look on your tables early next year.
Updated PDfs:
With all the files off to printing we figured it was time to update the digital files in Backerkit for Heart & Dagger in the Heart. These are now the final versions from the community feedback process. 
We have had a long discussion (honestly, too long) about the best size for web pdfs, oscillating wildly between high quality art rendering vs small file size for easy use on your phone. In the end we’ve settled on a compromise - both. 
So you should find a new file in your BackerKit account right now with a small file size version, perfect for quick loading on your tablet (or even your phones, ya filthy animals). Then there’s a higher size file to let you really zoom in on those art pieces.

We’ve also added the PDF version of the GM Screen Booklets for you to download, and a pdf version of the GM screen itself, which will make wonderful backgrounds for VTTs, streamed games or just to wrap around your GM notebook with sticky-backed plastic like its 1999.
These should all be available to you through your BackerKit login RIGHT NOW!

Happy Holidays to all of those who celebrate. Happy Sun-death to all those in the Northern Hemisphere who don’t. Good BBQ-season to our Antipodean friends.
Have a fantastic end to your 2024s and we’re excited to get you all your Dagger in the Heart goodies in 2025.
Alex, Fulfilment & Freight RRD

Dagger in the Heart December Fulfillment Update
about 1 year ago – Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 02:23:54 AM

Hello all,


It's now the merry month of December, which means we move over from the Production team sending out emails to your regularly scheduled updates coming from the Fulfilment team. Everything is in place and on schedule to lock addresses in mid-Jan. Here's what goes into making that happen:

Final Production Parts:
Heart GM screens sailed through final set-up and checks at the printers, and the presses started rolling on Thursday morning last week. 
Progress is steady, and printing is now the final element we are waiting for. 
Following the current plan we should have those delivered from the printers just before the end of the year.
Once those are in the UK warehouse we’ll finalise sending them across to the US and 'press go' on the Australian air freight delivery. 
We’re planning for this to happen at the very start of January, and then we’re fully in to Shipping Season.

Shipping Plans:
Current plans have us closing BackerKit preorders & locking your addresses in mid-January, followed by a short window where we crunch & clean that data, before we send it to our fulfilment partners. 
We've already begun briefing the fulfilment teams at all warehouses in preparation for the orders to go out.

UK/EU/ROW
We’re working to the timetable that the first UK & EU backers packages will go out at the end of January/beginning of February, starting with the smallest orders and working up to the largest packages over the following weeks. 
We will fulfil customer backers first, followed by pre-orders & retail backer orders concurrently. 
If you're a retail backer, expect to see your copies arriving around the end of Feb/start of March. This gives you almost a month before other stores can begin stocking and selling the new products.

Americas
Things are coming together nicely. As I type this, our first major freight shipment to the USA is starting its passage. We're expecting the shipment to touch down at our US fulfilment centre just before the festive period begins.. 
We're hoping we might have dedicated Canadian fulfilment up and running in time for us to deliver Dagger in the Heart orders through our new partners. If not, then the fantastic team at Studio2 Publishing will be covering all of our Americas fulfilment from their base in the USA.

For USA/Americas backers, we’ll begin the fulfilment process in early February, with a staggered schedule, moving from simple to more complex orders over the weeks.
We will fulfil customer backers first, followed by pre-orders & retail backer orders concurrently.

If you're a retail backer expect to see your copies arriving around the end of Feb/start of March. This gives you almost a month before other stores can begin stocking and selling the new products.

Australia/NZ/Asia-Pacific
We've begun working out our pallets for freight shipment to our Australian fulfilment centre – they'll be handling everything Asia-Pacific-related through the AusPost system. These will go onto an airplane in early January and will be at the fulfilment centre by the end of that month.
This will be the last group to stagger start, kicking off around mid-February.
As above, we will start with the smallest orders and work up to the largest packages over the following weeks. 
We will fulfil customer backers first, followed by pre-orders.

Exciting
All the UK team at RRD have now had a chance to put hands on a copy of these new books. They are looking absolutely GORGEOUS, and we're excited to be so close to sending them out to their new homes.

You can expect another update from us once the GM screens have arrived in the UK, otherwise it will be in mid-January, just as we're about to lock addresses and charge for shipping.

Alex
Logistics/Freight/Big Vehicles
RRD

Locking Pre Orders
over 1 year ago – Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 03:45:13 AM

Hey delvers!


Quick update for you today. As we ramp up to fulfilment in the new year, we’re going to lock and charge outstanding orders & preorders over the coming weeks. This largely affects pre-order folks and any stragglers from the campaign itself who haven’t paid yet. So, if you have outstanding payments to make, best check your card details are up to date. 


The first round of charges will take place on Monday the 18th, after which we’ll be hitting the ‘give us your money’ button every couple of weeks until the books ship. Again, this will only affect folk who haven’t paid yet, so no need to worry if you’re squared up.


As part of this push to get books in hands, you’re also going to start seeing some updates from our fulfilment team. They’re best qualified to talk about the finer details of where books are in the world and when you can get your grubby mitts on them. (I, in comparison, am happy to lurk beneath my shroud of blissful ignorance when it comes to global logistics. I’m here to make books, not negotiate with curmudgeonly import officers over head-scratching tariffs and obscure import laws. So be nice to them!)


That’s all for today. Take care out there! 


  • Elaine and the RRD Team