Doors to Elsewhere

by Grant Howitt

THE CITY LIVES. THE CITY SPEAKS IN DOORS AND PATHWAYS. THE CITY IS DYING. As dozens of doors to a strange land between dimensions begin to open throughout the Heart, the delvers step through to find the city of Elsewhere in turmoil. The lights which keep them safe are going out one by one. An ocean of vicious darkness roils at the edge of Elsewhere and seeps through to the City Beneath. Will the delvers save this nexus of worlds? Inside you ll A campaign frame designed to pull characters into the City Elsewhere, Places to go and people to see in this land between worlds, Rules for surviving the city at night, Details on major and minor dimensional links through Elsewhere, Spells specific to the culture of Elsewhere, such as Summon Bridge. This is a scenario supplement for the City Beneath. A copy of the core rulebook is required to play.

25 pages, Paperback

Published November 9, 2020

Reviews

[Tom]

This is labeled as a scenario supplement, but it’s something between that and a mini setting book. As with all things Heart, this is for the DM who’s comfortable improvising and playing theatre-of-the-mind: you won’t get any location maps or scene-by-scene breakdowns here. The design philosophy is very hands off, going so far as to not specify who is responsible for the conflict, though brief suggestions are listed for who might be and why. For this reason, this feels more like a planescape-esque hub setting that a party might stumble through and slowly unravel in the downtime between other adventures. Or maybe you combine it with the Sanctum expansion and use the haven fallout rules to advance the plot.

In either case, Doors to Elsewhere feels like an incomplete package. What’s here is good, but I don’t walk away from reading it with the confidence that it would be straightforward to run.

[Meredith Katz]

What a fun campaign frame -- it's basically a campaign setting, with an ongoing problem they need solved, rather than a scenario, and I adore pretty much everything in this. The dimension where cats go when nobody's looking at them is particularly great tbh, and kind of representative of the whimsy elements that are at threat by the horror elements of this book. Looks extremely playable and giving me excellent ideas.