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Heart: The City Beneath is a tabletop roleplaying game about delving into a nightmare undercity that will give you everything you’ve ever dreamed of – or kill you in the process.

It is a dungeon-crawling, story-forward tabletop RPG from the designers of Spire that focuses on what characters have to lose in pursuit of their dreams in the chaotic darkness beneath the world.

Sharing a setting with Spire, Heart expands the unreal world beneath it. It uses an expanded and updated version of the Resistance system, the mechanics that power Spire, to help you tell stories of desperation, hubris and adventure in the City Beneath.

The Heart quickstart provides you with basic rules, a selection of pre-generated characters and the introductory scenario "Drowned".

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Ed B June 26, 2022 1:30 am UTC
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We started the game, explained the awesome theme and mechanics, but when I got to the Lines and Veils, no one could agree on topics that everyone felt comfortable with. I tried to explain how there are no racial advantages and that I’d follow the book and use non-gendered pronouns, and my players voted to play something else instead. I thought I was being inclusive, what am I doing wrong?
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Ludwig T July 29, 2022 1:57 pm UTC
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Might be your group dont do horror games. Period.

I´d never use non-gendered pronouns or even bring up the topic unless the players made it a topic do discuss. Why bother. I might have a group whre we just say if we are uncomfortable with a topic and move on. The authors even cover that by writing

"PRONOUNS: We use masculine, feminine, and non-gendered pronouns throughout this game."

There are no mechanical advatages to playing a race. But flavor- and RP-wise there are tons. You and your players make the table rules not the book. Heck, I play Forbidden lands with my group and racial (specist) tension come up all the time.

The lore in the book even describes that Gnolls arn´t allowed in the city above and they are at war with the Aelfir. Even though it´s not a major theme your players might have a backstory where they hate all elf because of X,Y and Z.

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Ralf N May 25, 2020 8:09 am UTC
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Hi! This seems really cool, but I have a question:

Several pieces of equipment have the 'brutal' tag. But it's missing from the list of tag descriptions. Is it the same as 'potent' or something else?
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Grant H May 25, 2020 11:50 am UTC
Hi Ralf,

Yep - it's the same as the Potent tag, apologies for that. We're going to upload a corrected version soon.

- Grant
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Ralf N May 25, 2020 2:46 pm UTC
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Thank you for the rapid response!

Keep up the good work! :-)
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Grant Howitt, Chris Taylor
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Felix Miall
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