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We're bringing you the DIERPG METAdungeon soon, but what is it?? Grant held an exclusive panel on the RRD discord to find out. Listen to guests Gareth Hanrahan and Kieron Gillen talk about game design and RPG history. Get involved here: rrdgames.com/metadungeon-chronicle

Grant Howitt sits down with Mina McJanda, the creator of Voidheart Symphony to talk about the revised edition. It's game design, it's politics, it's rebellion. Sign up now to Stand Up and Fight, and get your own copy of this revolutionary game here: rrdgames.com/voidheart-fireside or search for Voidheart Symphony on Backerkit. Follow Guest Mina McJanda here: bsky.app/profile/minahoneybat.bsky.soci...

What a beautiful wedding, I hope there's no trouble in paradise... find out in the FINAL EPISODE! If you would like to play HEART or the DAGGER setting used here, go to rrdgames.com GM: Kieron Gillen Cast: Grant Howitt, Nathan Blades, Ed Spence, Naomi Clarke Production: Naomi Clarke with Editing by Maddy Searle and Oliver Moore Theme: Nick Siepmann with additional music by Cai Pritchard Extra Musi...

The light at the end of the tunnel is in sight, but first our scoundrels slide through an interdimensional-non-euclidean-time-rip. Inside; Velvet makes a killing in a ritual gone wrong, Heike and Soil get a brief glimpse of the future or the past, and Castor gets a tummy ache :( If you would like to play HEART or the DAGGER setting used here, go to rrdgames.com GM: Kieron Gillen Cast: Grant Howitt...

Have a Beautiful Incywincymoonmas listeners!

Children are the future. Unfortunately in this episode, Heike and Soil decide against having one, Castor ruins a birthday party, Velvet kills one to help another, and Kieron spends most of the episode trying to get us to put one in the fire. Oh and the reality-bending-train-dragon is there. (no corporeal children were harmed in the making of this episode) If you would like to play HEART or the DAG...

The ultimate plot hole. Castors is one, Velvet has one in the chest, Soil has one in his mind and Heike has one in her heart. That's a whole lotta episode! If you would like to play HEART or the DAGGER setting used here, go to rrdgames.com GM: Kieron Gillen Cast: Grant Howitt, Nathan Blades, Ed Spence, Naomi Clarke Production: Naomi Clarke with Editing by Maddy Searle and Oliver Moore Theme: Nick...

Uh oh spaghetti-o. Things do NOT go well. If you would like to play HEART or the DAGGER setting used here, go to rrdgames.com GM: Kieron Gillen Cast: Grant Howitt, Nathan Blades, Ed Spence, Naomi Clarke Production: Naomi Clarke with Editing by Maddy Searle and Oliver Moore Theme: Nick Siepmann with additional music by Cai Pritchard Extra Music Below. Extra music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)...

Down in the shunt yard, the degenerates get creative. To entice an Aortic Leviathan (train dragon) is no simple task. Castor gets honoured in the spire, Soil sees more dead wife and Velvet tries to explain what the sun feels like while Heike is mostly just bees. If you would like to play HEART or the DAGGER setting used here, go to rrdgames.com GM: Kieron Gillen Cast: Grant Howitt, Nathan Blades,...

It's all a family affair in this Velvet focused episode. Our miscreants the worst birthday party, two corpses and some hard home truths. Except for Castor. Castor discovers some drugs. A LOT of drugs. If you would like to play HEART or the DAGGER setting used here, go to rrdgames.com GM: Kieron Gillen Cast: Grant Howitt, Nathan Blades, Ed Spence, Naomi Clarke Production: Naomi Clarke with Editing...

Our delvers squelch onto (and into) the God of Corpses. Expect cultists, commotion and a very large colon. Heike deals with an in-law, Soil makes a dim-witted friend and Castor and Velvet have a Heart to Heart. If you would like to play HEART or the DAGGER setting used here, go to rrdgames.com GM: Kieron Gillen Cast: Grant Howitt, Nathan Blades, Ed Spence, Naomi Clarke Production: Naomi Clarke wit...

Our team of vagabonds makes preparations to leave the God of Corpses and head toward the Aortic Leviathan. As Soil says a fond farewell to his new friend, Velvet and Heike have a disagreement about their respective wedding looks, and Castor gets a bit of work done. If you would like to play HEART or the DAGGER setting used here, go to rrdgames.com GM: Kieron Gillen Cast: Grant Howitt, Nathan Blade...

You are cordially invited to a wedding of concepts inumerable and inexplicable. Follow a handless bride, an obliging witch, a partying grifter and a dead man walking, down into the corpulent depths. Will you survive the journey? Will you survive the nuptials? Hard to know, after all... the Heart wants what the Heart wants. If you would like to play HEART or the DAGGER setting used here, go to rrdg...

Catch the behind the scenes and get right into the heart of Heart character creation. If you would like to play HEART or the DAGGER setting used here, go to rrdgames.com GM: Kieron Gillen Cast: Grant Howitt, Nathan Blades, Ed Spence, Naomi Clarke Production: Naomi Clarke with Editing by Maddy Searle and Oliver Moore Theme: Nick Siepmann with additional music by Cai Pritchard Content Warnings Below...

In this, our final standard episode of the Heart Directors' Commentary, we tackle the second half of the Adversaries chapter - from the Gnoll Incursion Team to the Legendaries - as well as blundering through the appendices. Intro/Outro Music: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3742-fearless-first License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

We spent an absolute age making the adversaries in Heart - dangerous, pathetic, frantic creatures who are just doing their best to survive and maybe that means they kill and eat you. Learn about their design and where we got the ideas from (Greek mythology mainly) as we do the first half of the Adversaries chapter, all the way from Angels to Ghosts. Intro/Outro Music: Fearless First by Kevin MacLe...

Our longest episode yet deals with the world of the City Beneath - all the way from Derelictus down to the Heart Itself, and then beyond to the Eight Heavens. Interstitial music from Tabletop Audio. Intro/Outro Music: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3742-fearless-first License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Just a short one this time - we take a look at delving and exploration in Heart, endorse correct mapping practices, and explain how we couldn't (and didn't!) write any delves in the book. Intro/Outro Music: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3742-fearless-first License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this episode, we go into the rules at length - difficulty, fallout, and equipment - talking about our evolution from Spire, the challenges in writing the right tragedies to befall your players, and how decent equipment is basically a win button for the game that we forgot to tell anyone about. Interstitial music from Tabletop Audio. Intro/Outro Music: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod Link: incom...

Witches are jam-packed with barely-controlled magic channeled through a magical blood disease that they picked up from scrubbing around in meat tunnels and grimy tooth chandeliers. We love 'em - and we struggled to make them work. Learn about the difficulties inherent in not killing your darlings in this, the final Class episode before we move on to the rest of the book. Music: Fearless First by K...

The Vermissian Knight was the first class we wrote for Heart, and it's undergone a lot of changes since then. If you're interested in how to develop your own train-armoured spelunkers, listen along! Music: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3742-fearless-first License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

If the Incarnadine is Chris' class, then the Junk Mage is Grant's class. Frantic and terrified? Check. Emits gaseous MDMA in a crisis? Check. Stealing magic from beings so powerful they can't even be classified? Check. This episode also includes: playtesting a spellcasting character without any spells, which is the worst patron and why (it's the Stone Chorus) and MAGICAL TRANSIT VANS. Music: Fearl...

We decided to give Chris full authority over a class, and if you ever wanted to see a picture of what he finds interesting, strap in for a protagonist riddled with self-loathing, guilt, debt and ready to flat-out murder anyone who so much as looks at them funny. Music: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3742-fearless-first License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4...

Follow the evolution of this class that went from An Otherwise Unremarkable Ray Winstone in Wet Hell to The Most Obscure Kind of Warlock We Created In A Game All About Warlocks. And a soldier? And a cop. And a hunter? And a possession victim? Anyway. Music: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3742-fearless-first License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The Moon Beneath is huge, ominous, pregnant somehow, and definitely real. Get some hot takes on religious schisms and how to make clerics interesting in this episode where we focus on the most religious of classes: the Heretic. Music: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3742-fearless-first License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/