Crystal Heart is Now Available at Stores!
about 4 years ago – Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 11:56:20 AM

Yeah, now you can get it! 

US-based people, order here through Amazon. All other products are available as well, including comic issues and dice trays, it's all here.

Everyone else, you can order here through Modiphius.

It might also be on the shelves of your friendly local gaming store!

Help us spread the word

Please, reach out to your gaming store (perhaps tag them on Twitter or Facebook) and ask them if they're selling the game - if not, they can order a copy or two from Modiphius. We'd love to have more people exposed to Crystal Heart, but for that to happen, we need the stores to ask for it!

Add some SWAG to you Crystal Heart game

Switching to a different topic. Savage Worlds Adventurer’s Guild (SWAG) is a recently-launched initiative by Savage World's owners Pinnacle Entertainment, which allows anyone to write Savage Worlds material. There's lots of stuff there, but which are best to use with Crystal Heart?

We read through some of the best and decided to recommend five PDFs which we feel could be easily used with our game. 

Distant Journey, by Manuel Sambs: Turning journeys into adventures! This two-page system is reminiscent of the one used by The One Ring and Adventure in Middle Earth, which I adore. If you don't want to have a Tank in your game, you can use this instead. It also works very well for adventures in which the Tank is out of commission or unavailable. 

Herbal Alchemy, by Jenn Sutcliffe and Kristian Serrano: A one-page Arcane Background that allows your character to harvest components and use them to create concoctions that hold a single power. This sounds like the benefit of a very useful utility Crystal, a type of simple Crystals we introduced in Life in Syn. 

Summoner's Circle, by Dylan Brooks: A 38-page (!) deep dive into the summon ally power. It has some good Edges to have in the benefit of a Crystal focusing on creating magical constructions, and a whole system for creating custom allies which can also be used to create unique frames. Oh, maybe create a Crystal that allows you to manifest a specific magical being, which you form an ongoing connection with?

The Rod of Life, by Mario Lurig: A 6-page one-shot adventure for Novice characters. Without spoiling anything, it has all the trappings of a feral Crystal adventure, the likes of Mixed Heritage: Something weird is happening, go solve it.

The Scheme Pyramid, by Sean Tait Bircher: An 8-page that expands on the Quick Encounter system, turning it into a pretty awesome montage scene, like in a heist or thriller. This has a ton of uses in urban Crystal Heart adventures. 

Card Decks Print-on-Demand and Italian Edition
about 4 years ago – Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 12:08:16 PM

Hello all! Two Crystal Heart updates:

Cards

The Action and Adventure decks are now available in physical format, with DriveThru's print-on-demand. If you're a backer, you should be able to print one at-cost (about $12). 

Italy

Oh hey we're having Crystal Heart translated! Currently into Italian, with German and French on the radar. We ourselves don't speak Italian, which is why we're looking for Italian speakers who know Crystal Heart (or at least, have the book) and are willing to read some of the translation and comment on it. We want to pass it through some QA, and we also would like to have your opinion on some decisions that are Italian-specific (there's a whole thing about using "you" which we're unclear about).

Experience in translation not required, but please note that this is not a paying job, since, quite frankly, barely anyone is making any money on this in the first place (indie RPGs!), so our margins are close to non-existent. 

Discord

Are you on the Crystal Heart Discord channel yet? Join your fellow Agents in discussing everything from the recent webcomic update to Syn's true endgame!

Where Are We Now? November Edition
over 4 years ago – Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 03:41:04 PM

The Books Have Shipped!

We have confirmation that all non-US shipments are on their way, and many have already arrived! We are of course hungry for your reviews and pictures, please tag us on Twitter or Facebook if you post them! And the Crystal Heart Discord is great for this as well.

US backers, your shipments are supposed to go off any day now, and maybe already have by the time this is up. 

We'd like to give a special thanks to Collext (hello Craig!), our non-US, UK-based fulfilment company, for being effective and easy to work with.

Full of Heart is Now Available

Full of Heart, the latest PDF, is now public on DriveThruRPG, presenting ten (and a bit) new Crystals. Some of their names include Dominion, Head Hair, Kitchen Sink, and the incorrectly-named Twisted Fate. Enticing, is it not? 

Meet Us at Dragonmeet!

London’s main RPG and board game attraction Dragonmeet is once again occurring, and so we are compelled to attend. Not because we are dragons, oh no – because we seek to meet with dragons.

We will even have our Crystal Heart roleplaying game for sale! With the card sets and the comics and new stickers and dice tray and everything! Come and say hi, we're very easy to chat to.

Shout Out: City of Mist's New Kickstarter

Amit Moshe is the guy behind the myth-noir roleplaying game City of Mist, but you might not know that he's also the producer of our Kickstarter, so without him, none of this would have happened. Therefore, we're happy to point you at the new Starter Box Kickstarter, which started today.

Full disclaimer: Eran is the chief editor for City of Mist. Which means he also edited the new Starter Box, and it is, indeed, awesome. 

City of Mist RPG: The Starter Box

Venture into a city of modern-day legends with the City of Mist Starter Box, a box set including everything you need to bring this cinematic RPG to your gaming table: basic rules presented in bite-sized learn-as-you-play sections, a guide for the MC (GM/DM), a full-length introduction case, five beautifully illustrated character folios, dice, tokens, maps, cards, and more.

City of Mist is a multi award-winning tabletop roleplaying game where you play modern-day incarnations of myths and legends. Its cinematic flair and story-first, tag-based game system have been widely acclaimed, making it a favorite among new and veteran roleplayers worldwide.

To the Kickstarter campaign >>

Books Are in Launch Positions
over 4 years ago – Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 01:32:03 AM

A few moments ago, all of you backers should have gotten two emails:

•  A final reminder from BackerKit to check your address; we're locking physical addresses in 48 hours. The books will soon be on their way from the distribution centres! 
• A DrivethruRPG email with a PDF code for your copy of Living in Syn, the first and (surprisingly) robust expansion for Crystal Heart, achieved through a Stretch Goal.

If you didn't receive one or both of these emails, it's important that we fix that! Message us, leave a comment, email [email protected], send us a blip through Discord, whatever you'd like.

We hope you'll like Living in Syn, and we're sure you'll like the physical Crystal Heart books! 

Where Are We Now? October Edition
over 4 years ago – Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 01:58:55 AM

Time to Make Sure Your Address is Updated

We recently received news that some of the books, in some of the continents, are being moved to the distribution centres! We still expect it'll take a month or two until they arrive at your houses.

As before, we ask that you make sure your address is correct, as we're about to close the shipping addresses within a couple of weeks!

Five One-Shots, Now Available For All

The five new adventures we released to backers last month are now available to all, through here.

Find Us at MCM Comic-Con 

This weekend (25-27 October) we’ll be at MCM London’s Comic Con‘s Comic Village table CV81 with our comics and merch, as well as a preview copy of the Crystal Heart book for you to peruse.

See more details in this tweet.

A Poem to the 12 People Who Still Haven't Responded to the Survey

When you are risen

at the end of days

When God himself from on high

descends in glory, in songs of praise

When memory fades and only soul remains

Care not for this.

But now, do care

for it's actually pretty relevant

For now, do care,

not the most important thing, we know,

Do care,

we'd still like to know your place of residence

Care,

and we'll deliver unto you that which you deserve. 

Answer the survey, and thanks.