Elaine Lithgow
CREATOR
3 months ago
Project Update: Dagger in the Heart Week 1 Roundup
It’s been 1 week since the Dagger in the Heart crowdfunding campaign went live, and what a week it’s been. An incredible amount of support and excitement has been poured into the Delving Machine’s hungry reactor, sending this cursed locomotive thundering through stretch goals and letting us make something truly special for all fans of Heart: The City Beneath.
Unlocked Stretch Goals
We’ve raised over £105,000 in the last week, an outstanding amount which has seen us unlock a bunch of stretch goals. We spoke about the GM screen booklet and extra art stretch goals in our previous day 1 update, and since then we’ve unlocked three more and are fast approaching our seventh!
£70,000 Cover Foiling: All physical editions of Dagger in the Heart now come with fancy red cover foiling to give the books that extra shiny luxe feeling.
£85,000 Card Bookmarks: We’re making three different full-colour, card bookmarks for Dagger in the Heart to give to all physical pledges free of charge. Each bookmark features a different antagonist and handy roleplay and mechanical references for GMs to embody these larger than life characters.
£100,000 Extra Pay: We’ve managed to set aside extra funds to give our freelance developers (Gareth and Sar) a lovely bonus to show our appreciation for their outstanding work.
The Echo Edition
We’re also excited to announce that our £125,000 stretch goal is a big one! The Echo printing of Heart: The City Beneath.
If we reach this stretch goal, it will allow us to execute an update and full reprint of Heart: The City Beneath, including the creation of a new collectors edition, known as the Echo Edition. Like all echoes, these new editions of Heart are similar, but different. Warped by their time in the Heart and reflected back into your waiting hands.
Both new editions of Heart: The City Beneath will feature:
- Integrated errata and layout tweaks to create the best version of Heart to date.
- 4 additional pages of GM advice on creating Delves for your games (the most requested addition to date).
- Subtle changes throughout the book for the discerning delver to uncover, such as quotes, messages, and cyphers from doomed souls who came before.
The Echo Edition of Heart: The City Beneath will also feature:
- A gorgeous quarter bound cover of faux-leather, cloth, and foil. This cover takes the original design from the first printing of the Heart collectors edition (pictured above), and twists it into an echo of itself, by changing the colour of the cloth to light blue and the foil to a crimson red, to set it apart from the first edition.
How will I get the new edition?
If we reach this stretch goal, all backers of this campaign who purchase a copy of Heart: The City Beneath will receive an updated edition of the book free of charge (Physical or PDF based on your pledge).
How do I get a copy of the Echo Edition?
If your pledge does not already include a physical copy of Heart: The City beneath, you will be able to add one to your pledge using the Add-ons feature. Alternatively If your pledge already includes a physical copy of Heart: The City Beneath, you will be given the option to upgrade it to an Echo Edition during pledge management at a reduced cost.
Delver Obituaries
Do you know a Delver who perished in a memorable way? If so, you can post a short obituary over on the Backerkit community post to honour them. If we reach the Echo edition stretch goal, their obituary might even show up in print.
An Interview With Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan
We’ve uploaded a text interview with Gareth, the writer of Dagger in the Heart, to chat about his inspirations, process, and advice for Delvers setting out into the campaign for the first time. You can read the interview over on the Rowan, Rook and Decard blog.
That’s everything for this week.
Let’s see how deep we delve and what horrors we discover as the campaign continues…
-RRD
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