Dagger in the Heart, November Update
over 1 year ago
– Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 08:58:27 AM
Time For An Auditory Adventure
Til Death Do Us Heart, the official actual play for Heart,
is now
streaming! Come join the gang as they go on an ill-fated journey to stop a wedding down in the Heart’s depths, or die trying.
The show features Keiron Gillen as the maniacal Gamemaster, alongside Nathan Blades, Naomi Clarke, Grant Howitt, and Edward Spence as the chaotic delvers under his thrall.
The first three episodes of Til Death Do Us Heart are available now, featuring two episodes of the actual play itself and a bonus session zero for the real nerds. From here on out, we’ll be publishing a new episode of the show every week for 8 weeks, for a total of 11 episodes.
If you want to join others in discussing the show, be sure to check out our
Discord where like-minded-weirdos can nerd out together, aggressively ship characters, speculate over how many drugs Castor can fit in his mouth, or whatever it is that fandoms do nowadays.
For those folk who are attending Dragonmeet, there’s also a super-secret live prequel episode taking part at Dragonmeet on December 30th at 4pm in the Podcast Zone (aka: the Pouilly Room). So make sure to swing by if you’re at the convention.
Books, Books, and More Books
The printers have been hard at work turning all our gorgeous illustrations and lurid words from a digital dream to a printed-on-dead-trees, reality. Behold! The printed books in all their glory!
As it stands, that’s all the books printed. Now we’re just working from the GM screen, which is currently finishing up in the layout stage before it can be prepared for printing.
Bookmarks!
That’s a lot of books, So you’re going to need some bookmarks for those. Thankfully the designs for the free antagonist bookmarks are now finished and off to print as well! Sneak peeks below:
We also decided to splash out on some red foil treatment on these, so expect some proper luxury bookmarks to cram beneath the pages of your book. As a reminder, a pack of these will be included in every physical pledge.
Shipping On Strange Tides
Now onto the not-so-great-news. No two ways about it, we’ve had some timeline slippage. This is largely due to us needing to squeeze in a complete reprint of the entire Heart line amid the chaos of fulfilling Dagger. An unexpected surge in popularity selling out all our stock is a good problem to have as a company, but it’s still a problem that takes time to solve.
We’ve got the reprints sorted now (as evidenced by the deluge of paper pictured above) but it’s delayed us long enough that we’ve run head first into the pains of shipping pallets of books across oceans during the holiday season (and I hear some rumours about a US election or something? Which is making logistics companies all across the globe very nervous about putting stuff on boats in November).
All this is to say that it’s looking closer to January before we can get books across the right oceans to begin physical fulfilment proper. It’s not ideal, and it ain’t what we wanted to happen, but alas it’s where we’re at. Hopefully you’ll agree that the extra couple months is worth the wait.
That’s all for now. Make sure to check out Til Death Do Us Heart, and stay cool, delvers.
- Elaine and the RRD Team
Dagger in the Heart September Production Update
over 1 year ago
– Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 04:18:36 AM
Welcome once more to all you delicious delvers. It’s been a hot second since we last spoke, so let’s dive right into the updates.
Printers Go Brrr
Since we released the PDF previews of the books (that’s Dagger in the Heart, and the reworked version of the Heart: The City Beneath corebook and the Heart Quickstart) we’ve been hard at work integrating all the final errata layout tweaks needed to make the books ready for print. A huge thanks to everyone who submitted feedback to our errata form. You saved us from a few embarrassing but admittedly hilarious mistakes. (How many livers do Aelfir have?)
As of this week, the files have all been checked over by our printers, we’ve touched the print proofs in the real world, and my hand is hovering over the flashing red ‘PRINT BOOK NOW’ button.
We’re just waiting on the last checks for the softback sourcebooks to come through over the next week or so, then I'll be able to slam that button with all my might. The anticipation is killer.
We’re still hopeful that we can get books in your hands by November, but we’ll update everyone on the shipping dates once the books are running off the printer and we enter into the wonderful world of global logistics.
Echo Edition Cover
It took some time, but we finally finished agonising over the colours and materials for the Echo Edition cover. As mentioned during the campaign, the goal was to make a cover that stood apart from the first printing of the Heart collectors edition, while still feeling distinctly ‘Heart’ ie: dark, red, and wet. Mina has put together a lovely mockup of the final colours and design below for you to feast your eyes on.
Till Death Do Us Heart
One of our hotly anticipated stretch goals was the creation of a high quality
Heart: The City Beneath actual play. We’re psyched to announce that the recordings are all complete and in the editing process. Since we couldn’t wait, we’ve put together a quick teaser for your enjoyment.
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This show has been titled
Till Death Do Us Heart and features a group of grotty delvers on a ‘high-stakes’ ahem ‘quest’ to halt a wedding set to take place right in the centre of the Heart.
It’s looking like we’ll have ten episodes in total, with the first three releasing some time in November and weekly releases after that (wow, just like those fancy streaming shows everyone loves). We’re looking forward to you getting to know our delvers in the near future.
That’s all we have for this update. We’ll be in touch soon™ once the soporous smell of printer ink fills our senses.
Dagger in the Heart PDF Preview Available For Download!
over 1 year ago
– Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 09:06:01 AM
The time has come! -drumroll-
Print preview files for
Dagger in the Heart are now available for download for those who backed physical or PDF versions of
Dagger in the Heart. Check your downloads in Backerkit to get access. (
If you don't see the download, double check that your order is locked and your card payment has successfully been collected. Declined card payments are the most common issue that stop backers from being delivered their rewards.)
Keep in mind, this is the preview version of the PDF. While it's very close to done, there are some minor layout tweaks and a final proofreading pass to go in before the files go to print. Speaking of which, if you spot any issues, let us know how badly we messed up by plugging your feedback into our form over
here.
If you have any issues, you can email
[email protected] for help (
Don't fret if we're a bit slow to respond over the coming days. There's thousands of you and we've only so many frail human limbs to respond with. Oh for a drop of spider blood.)
We'll be in touch soon(tm) with more updates.
- The RRD Team
PDFs inbound, charging cards and locking orders
over 1 year ago
– Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 07:10:10 AM
Hello!
Grant here - Elaine's off so I'm stepping in to have a chat with you all.
We're excited to announce that the PDF preview of Dagger in the Heart will be released to campaign backers next week. (By "preview," I mean - the whole book's in there and it's all laid out but we're expecting you to find some errors which we can fix before we go to print.)
This means that
we're going to lock orders and charge cards for everyone.
We're going to do this on Wednesday 21st August, so if you want to add anything to your pledge, please do it before then! (Personally I can recommend the GM screen because it's bananas.)
We'll then release the PDF on Thursday 22nd August, assuming nothing implodes.
As ever, if you have any issues, please email us at
[email protected] and we'll do our best to resolve them.
Cheers,
- Grant
Dagger in the Heart: Big News! Bigger Releases!
over 1 year ago
– Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 07:05:58 AM
What ho ye delirious delvers of the depths. It’s time for another project update, this time with big news and even bigger releases!
Heart Delve Edition PDF Preview Available Now
First and foremost, the PDF preview of the new
Heart: The City Beneath edition is
now available online for your ravenous consumption (provided you’ve purchased a copy of Heart ofc. No free meals here. You’ll pay for your pound of flesh like the rest of us.) Simply hop on your webstore of choice and download the newest version to check it out for yourself.
Dubbed the ‘Delve Edition’ this new version of
Heart is bursting with lovely layout updates, errata, delver obituaries, and four new pages on crafting Delves for your players (masterfully penned by Chris and Grant under extreme duress as a ‘break’ from their duties on Hollows).
We’re giving this document a bit of breathing time before sending it off to print, so if you spot anything amiss, please let us know by telling us we messed up in our
errata form.
New Character Sheets
You can’t have a shiny new version of
Heart without a shiny new character sheet to hand to your players. Well, arguably you can, but I refuse to accept that reality if the alternative lets us force Mina to make us a shiny new form fillable character sheet for folk to use.
This new sheet is currently bundled alongside all digital copies of Heart, and we’ll update the website version some time shortly so everyone can get their hands on them.
Dagger in the Layout
While all this fancy corebook work has been going on, the text for
Dagger in the Heart has emerged from editing and slammed into layout like a boiling hot locomotive ploughing into an antique store (that’s to say: with much commotion and screaming noises from everyone involved).
This means that, all things going well, you can look forward to getting your grubby mitts on the PDF copies of Dagger in the Heart within the coming weeks, once Mina has beaten it into its final shape.
We’re at GenCon! (gods save us)
A bunch of the RRD staff will be flying out to the states to attend GenCon next week. They’ve been promised that this will be worth the jetlag and risk of gun-related-crimes. If you want to help make that statement true, why not swing by and chuck some money at them (or inflate their egos by praising their work, you know, if that’s more your speed).
I’m told they have the last 95 copies of Heart in the US squirrelled away in a highly secure cardboard box. So if you hunger for the pre-Delve edition original recipe Heart, this could very well be your last chance to get a hold of one. We’ll have two booths this year, one dedicated to Eat the Reich (Booth 455 Main Hall) and our Studio 2 (Booth 1929/2029 Main Hall).
Grant and Chris will be hosting a panel to talk about the world of
Heart and
Spire if you’re so inclined. Tickets are currently sold out, but who knows you might be able to show up and crash the joint if you’re lucky.
https://www.gencon.com/events/250690
We’re also running convention scenarios of Heart, Spire, Hollows, and more! Again… sold out (wow we’re so popular) but you never know. All told GenCon should be a veritable RRD blowout. You’ll be sick of us by the end, probably.
Speaking of ends, that’s all for this month.
Oh and for the 3% of you who still haven’t locked your pledges: I SEE YOU! GET ON IT! DON’T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE!
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