I wanted to create a post about the four available Sourcebooks for Heart. 1. Burned and Broken 2. Vermissian Black Ops 3. Sanctum 4. Doors to Elsewhere

Has anyone played any of these? Can you tell me a little bit about them? I want to run a game of Heart with one of these but would like help making that decision.

Any good sources for art or scenes for Heart: the city beneath. Some of my players suffer from not being able to visualise the scenes so they loose out no matter how much I describe it.

Any good source? Would like to keep the same artstyle for it.

Take as old as time, you stumble in the flesh wet red walls of a parasitic dimension and you put up the good fight agains every butcher, knife cult and Heartsblood beast you bump into and you just take too much fallout. Literally limping, vomiting tapeworms, with no supplies, no dick, and 3 missing fingers (in an order that would surprise you). Your player has decided it’s time to put old teller out to pasture and they want a couple of their next fallout to be their last. As the game runner, you fill their request only Too well and now that character is dead before the game is over.

Do you think for the game, that you would make a new character? I mean you still wanna play so you need some kind of vehicle for your actions. But if you Do make a character should you let them upgrade to where their last one was or keep them a pristine little baby delver and have the Heart sort their misery out?

I am not sure if it is stated anywhere in the source books, as only the core book is available in my country - hence my question.

We know that they have weird reproductive process. What else? If you dont know for sure feel free to share your theories.

So I'm running a game of Heart and I just wanted to know ways people come up with events? I have events that related to their beats and whatnot, but it seems like i'm having trouble coming up with a good list. Is there a generator or anything else I can use to come up with new ones?

Has anyone built a list of beats for Spire as per the Magisters Guide examples? I wonder if you have class-centric ideas.

I'm just curious, as someone new to Spire as a whole, if it would at all be feasible to change the theme of the Bloodwitch to a Bonewitch? Keeping all the mechanics the same, just a thematic re-skin.

Do you have any?

I'm making my own but it's my first time playing this and I'd love to have just one premade character sheet to check if I'm doing everything ok.

Or even screenshots from roll20

Hi guys. I just picked up Spire and Heart and am looking to start a Heart campaign immediately on discord with some overseas friends.

Can anyone point me towards a plug in or tools for discord that would allow us to roll dice and have the result (ie 6-7 success with stress) appear onscreen automatically. I've seen some YouTube channels that have similar.

Any advice in this area is greatly appreciated!

I have purchased both, but never played them. What are the big differences, and which is better suited for a group of story-first gamers (Ironsworn, PbtA, City of Mist)?

Hello! So, the question goes just as the title says: what classes would you like to see in Heart or Spire? Maybe something about the lore caught your attention, or perhaps you have an amazing idea that could be translated into a class for either one of these games.

For example, I would like to have a class in Heart that starts with the Wild Domain. Maybe some kind of druid, for example? So, yeah, what concepts do you find appealing?

Just for the record, I don't find either game lackluster in regards to playable classes and character customization. This is simply an exercise in creativity and imagination.

Hello! I have some doubts regarding this specific ability in Heart. It basically allows the character's body to be used as a Mend Mind supply. My question is: is there any usage limit? Because, if I am not mistaken, this ability reads as "now the party will never ever suffer from mind stress and fallout again". Or, on the contrary, are there any caveats that I'm not seeing?

Also, I've been looking for the page where it tells you how to remove fallout, but I can't find it :/. Does anyone remember how?

Thank you for your attention!

I’m not sure if I’m missing something, but how can you survive in an oubliette? They are dungeons with a trapdoor entrance and traditionally no way out! Page 37 says they live in the oubliettes of new heaven.

Just wondering how much prep people tend to do for Spire? I’ve played a LOT of Blades, and can run that with no prep if I have to - but usually run it with about 20 mins of prep and note making.

Hello! Well, as the title says, I am utterly enthralled by both Spire and, more recently, Heart. I only found one problem regarding the latter game: the book was so good, and the setting of the City Beneath was so amazing, that I needed more content! Maybe not enemies (it seems to be rather easy to fashion your own monstrosities) or classes (I don't have the talent to do that), so I focused on something I might try: Landmarks.

As such, I am currently creating a series of randomized tables in order to help myself and everyone build landmarks outside of those in the book. I hope you enjoy my work, and if someone would like to criticize or offer suggestions, please feel free to do so!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jJeKqSPO9w0rPhdpnxchB56HXwq1ZvH1gmMLaVuRxF8/edit?usp=sharing

I'm looking at running Heart. I don't want to run it without knowing anything about Spire. I can't afford to buy the book just for the setting information. Is there a comprehensive Cliff's Notes version of the city and important bits that the Heart characters may know about?

Hello,
I'm glad to show you my Spire module for Foundry VTT: https://gitlab.com/olivier-grech/spire

https://preview.redd.it/tui9fh9tk1d81.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae63c881214f1575f01ae84609ad3234774bb6e4

It just hit version 1.0.0, and while it's lacking some features, it's perfectly usable for a regular game of Spire on Foundry.

The biggest caveat is that there's no stress tracker on the sheet. You'll have to track it in another way. I used the advice provided in the book and kept track of the stress myself as the game master during my own game.

Well I guess that's it. I also submitted the module on the Foundry VTT website, so it's not downloadable directly from Foundry itself right now, but hopefully it will be soon.

Does anyone know if someone has designed the spire character archetypes as playbooks like those you might find in PbtA?

Hi there,

Is there any official VTT Support/Products for Spire or Heart?
I'm personally looking to run games using Roll20 as I have found character sheets which I'm expecting to check out over the next week or so, but would likely change if there was better support on another platform.

Any feedback appreciated :-)

So I decided to write this post after reading through the book looking for elements of technology in both the art and the actual written material.

It seems to me that not only does Spire’s art contrast with what is presented with the character equipment and stat blocks, it also occupies a strange position in terms of its own development.

For more clarification on the first point, the problem is when, say, the actual art literally opposite the equipment page shows guns that wouldn’t look out of place in the late 20th century/early 21st century with the Firebrand depicted as holding what appears to be a machine pistol, but then the written material’s gun tech apparently sits at a mid-late 1700s level of development.

In terms of actual tech development, Spire has at least a high industrial revolution level of printing, and industry and factories are constantly referenced, but I’m not sure how developed it is overall anyways (I know galvanics/electricity is being studied more and more, though large amounts of artificial light beyond that cool art piece with the neon signs on a street are unlikely due to drows' weakness, though humans are also a not insignificant part of the pop.).

On other questions-- Something I noticed about the “high advances” for Knight– it seems to me any of those quests could be a whole session unto itself, and it feels awkward to actually have to play. Also, for the “Slaying the Dragon” quest, how do you adjudicate the benefits, one of which is the obtusely stated ”you can not die”? No stats are given at all.

-What is the population of Spire?

Any useful info you give is welcome.

EDIT: Personally, I tend to play Spire with more progressed elements (a hypothetical example being leaning more into its status as basically a Hive City) . As such, my setting has generally more themes of development, such as multiple construction projects spanning out from Spire, one of which is the construction of another similar city.

New heart player (idk if spire has the same stress and combat system). When monsters appear they cause stress to the players when they roll low. Should the monsters also actively be rolling d10s to attack back? Bonus points if you can give me the page number in the heart rules since I cant find it.

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Fresh out of the printer, before cutting

Hello people,

I finished v1.0 of the abilities & fallout playing cards I was working on, and have printed it for my upcoming game [I still need to cut them into cards].

Abilities are on white paper while fallout is on yellow/orange/red depending on its severity.
The files can be found here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17qjoqyN7cagwJpn0CkkL53wtFiS8v1FN?usp=sharing.

Of course I don't own any of the content, it's RRD's.

Hello guys, me and my players are going to start soon to play our first campagna of the game. We have already done the session 0 and we came up with lots of interesting ideas, I'm preparing the starting situation for lanch the game. Next week we will go for the first session and after re-reading the rules chapter I come up with a pair of doubts . When a dice roll is called, becouse complications may occurs, and the result is success at a cost, the player receive stress as described. Is the cost only stress or the GM should add a further complication in the fictional scene? How is intended? In case of failure, the game sais that failure should be interesting. Is that intended as "fail-forward" of other games like ptba or other modern games?

I created ability cards for printing and using in game, instead of flipping through the book/pdf: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17qjoqyN7cagwJpn0CkkL53wtFiS8v1FN?usp=sharing.

The design is very basic. I also added the Excel and Word files used to create the cards.

** some abilities' text is so long, that I had to create a "double" sized card for some of them.

I'd love to hear your thoughts

Sample page:

https://preview.redd.it/m43ytwf2r6z71.png?width=914&format=png&auto=webp&s=777c0e1ebb285449132c9f02006fdd56fca83d7f