This does also put a bit of a time limit on a campaign of Heart - it's not intended to run past around a dozen sessions or so before all the characters have been retired one way or another, but this is hardly a flaw - it lets the game focus on the narrative of the group, rather than serving as an open-ended sandbox.

To family they began to refer to themself as Sucks-Down-Teeth, a name that was never openly acknowledged. The Heretic's Major abilities represent five of the six virtues of the Danmou (the sixth, Grace, is missing, possibly stolen by the Aelfir). Zenith beats, like the final secret one I mentioned, are very hard to achieve, and not everyone will manage to do so before their untimely but likely deserved death. Mostly, characters will find, scavenge or steal resources from the people, creatures and places they find on their travels. Angels of the Heart are "red and terrible and mighty", and any area they visit reshapes into walls of flesh with eyes opening on every surface.Resurrective Immortality: The Zenith ability 'Perfect Resurrection' allows a Witch to inflict this on their target, at the cost of the Witch's own life. From the depths of the cursed mass transit network known as the Vermissian, the Ministry of Our Hidden Mistress wages a shadow war against their cruel high elf overlords. Inflicting stress on a delve is how you make progress through the ever-changing terrain of the Heart, so delve equipment includes anything that helps you get from Point A to Point B, without ending up at Point Z.

Heart's their newest release (PDFs dropped on the 1st of April), and it works as both a kind of sequel to Spire, and as a second iteration of the core mechanics. I’ve got more to say about prep for loose-improv games like Heart and Spire, but that’s another blog post. The very nature of the Heart means any of them could be correct at any given time, no matter how contradictory their theories. No matter what cool abilities you might have, how imaginative the monsters are, or how impactful the fallouts, at the end of the day you’ll be rolling Kill checks until the enemy is dispatched – and, again, the combat is quite swingy, so sometimes it takes a while.

It is a dungeon-crawling, story-forward tabletop RPG that focuses on what characters have to lose in pursuit of their dreams in the chaotic darkness beneath the world. The Minor Abilities attached to Major ones are less formulaic, and tend to alter how the Major functions, although some grant semi-related perks instead. While other fallout categories are fairly straightforward – your Blood is spilled, Supplies run low, etc. The Major Abilities in particular are nicely customisable, and sit somewhere between Spire's Medium advances (for the Major alone) and High advances (once you have all the modifiers). Oath of Fury is more aggresive, letting you augment your killing abilities considerably, although