🫀 HEART'S DESIRE 🫀 | In the Heart, the sandbox plays with YOU!

Creating your character

Character sheets will be tracked in a shared spreadsheet, via Google Sheets. You'll need the core rulebook only (and I guess you can use the Minister calling from Burned & Broken if you really want). Once the Ways & Means supplement releases, I'll make that available as well. Character generation uses the default rules. Choose your species, calling, and class along with one Major advance, three Minor advances (which could include upgrades to your Major if you're so inclined), and two Beats of your choice. We'll go over these in our first session, and we'll also use that first session to ask and answer the key story questions for your character. It'll go most smoothly if you have an idea of what you want in advance. If you haven't played Heart before, think about the overall type of character archetype you're interested in, and I can help steer you to a class I think you'll enjoy. Don't have the core book? Talk to me before the game and I'll send you the info you need for your class and calling.

Preparing for the session

You'll need to be able to access Discord voice chat and Google Sheets. I would recommend having access to the core rulebook for Heart as well (but if you don't have it, let me know and I'll help you out with the info you need).

What Jasmine brings to the table

I'll be running the game primarily over voice chat, with dice rolled in the text chat via a bot. You can expect a balanced GMing style, with a mix of combat, exploration, and social encounters. Encounters will be tailored to the PCs, both for their abilities and their story beats, so if you're going to miss a session, it's very important to let me know in advance! HEART: THE CITY BENEATH is a fantasy-horror game with dark and gruesome themes, so safety tools are important. The subject matter may be grim, but we're playing for fun, not to shock or upset each other. I expect a common pattern to be me setting up a nice creepy atmosphere only to have it immediately undermined by someone doing something absurd that causes the scene to devolve rapidly into comedy while "Yakety Sax" plays in the background. But that's what TTRPGs are really all about, right? 😁 Oh, and an important note: PCs are expected to die by the end of the campaign. That's just how things go in the Heart. No one survives down there forever. Will you make your death a good one?

How Jasmine creates a safe table

The same spreadsheet used for character sheets will also have a page for lines and veils, and players can and should make use of stoplights and X-cards either verbally or in text chat if an upsetting topic or plot development comes up. If you aren't able to bring up an X-card at the time for whatever reason, you can also throw one between sessions in text chat and we can talk about doing a retcon for the story going forward. I'll leave a short time at the end of each session for post-session chats, which will include stars and wishes (as well as selecting advances and new beats). We'll discuss these safety tools in the first session, and go over them again if new players join the campaign later.