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‘Heart: The City Beneath’ is D&D meets Call of Cthulhu

The Cthulhu Mythos and Lord of the Rings were vivisected and reassembled as a roleplaying game

“Heart: The City Beneath is a tabletop roleplaying game about delving into a nightmare undercity that will give you everything you’ve ever dreamed of — or kill you in the process. It is a dungeon-crawling, story-forward tabletop RPG that focuses on what characters have to lose in pursuit of their dreams in the chaotic darkness beneath the world.”

Like its sister game Spire, the word “heart” has multiple meanings. The game is called Heart. The underworld “city” is called Heart or THE Heart. The thing at the bottom of it all is the Heart Itself, and the Heart Itself is unknowable. It’s been described as…

• “An enormous organ of flesh and gristle … that pumps unreality from an alternate plane into this one…”
• “The eye of a creature of unfathomable size, dreaming of another world…”