Rowan Rook and Decard

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Rowan Rook and Decard episodes

December 14, 2020 Heart Directors' Commentary Episode 10 - Vermissian You Already
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/
31 min
December 07, 2020 Heart Director's Commentary Episode 9 - Junk (Mage) In The Trunk (Mage)
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: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod
Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3742-fearless-first
License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
33 min
December 07, 2020 Heart Director's Commentary Episode 8 - The Incarnadine, A Spire Class That Snuck In
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/4.0/
26 min
November 30, 2020 Heart Director's Commentary Episode 7 - Heart Is Where The Hound Is
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/
24 min
November 30, 2020 Heart Director's Commentary Episode 6 - How Exactly Is The Moon Fecund, Grant
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/
20 min
November 30, 2020 Heart Director's Commentary Episode 5 - Oh, Bee Hive!
Organs? Tired of 'em? To hell with organs - just have industrious hyperintelligent bees recreate them out of efficient, translucent wax. The Deep Apiarist is probably the most Heart-centric class in Heart, so strap in for some chat about how we ripped the entire thing off from Annihilation and The Secret World.
Music: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod
Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3742-fearless-first
License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
18 min
November 23, 2020 Heart Director's Commentary Episode 4 - Dead(walker) Reckoning
Deadwalkers died, but they got better; now a spectre follows them around, giving them a helping hand. Which is nice! We take a closer look at Deadwalkers in this episode and talk about how hard it is to write a class when you've already done their backstory but none of the mechanics.
Music: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod
Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3742-fearless-first
License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
19 min
November 23, 2020 Heart Director's Commentary Episode 3 - I Think You Should Cleave
Cleavers are tilting headlong towards the red wet heaven of Heart, filling their guts with delicious discoveries to grow ever more powerful. We take a closer look at the class that puts both the "body" and the "horror" into "body horror"
Music: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod
Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3742-fearless-first
License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
28 min
November 16, 2020 Heart Director's Commentary Episode 2 - Calling All Callings
In this week's episode, we really get into callings - the reasons why delvers have decided to die in the chaotic meat dungeon beneath the earth, and not at home in bed or something.
Music: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3742-fearless-first
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
48 min
November 09, 2020 Heart Director's Commentary Episode 1 - (Under) Groundwork
Welcome to episode one (of many) of our Heart Director's Commentary podcast! Chris and Grant are doing a close read of a book that they just wrote, talking about the design decisions and limitations that lead them to end up with Heart: The City Beneath.
In this week's episode, we talk about putting together the bare bones of the mechanics and the setting. We really must recommend that you listen to this podcast alongside reading the book, otherwise it will be at best boring at at worst nonsensical.
- Grant and Chris
53 min