Daggerheart to Heart

020 - Dark Heart of Andaluria Review

Daggerheart to Heart

Show Notes

Nico and Gethin dive into the monster filled nights of Anadluria this week, and reminisce about our teen years and Kate Beckinsale.

Gethin: @thewelshdm Nico: @NicodeGallo

=== COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT ===

=== MAB Music TTRPG === Mark is a composer from Montreal writing full scores for TTRPGs, including campaign albums, tavern ambiences, and dungeon crawls. No AI is used in their products.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@UC24a4Vb26IC2yZ5oFM2th3w Patreon: patreon.com/mabmusic Heart of Daggers: https://heartofdaggers.com/author/mab-music-ttrpg/

Topics: 00:00 - Intro 02:35 - Relaxing After a Session 06:27 - TTRPG News 09:37 - Listener Question 10:56 - Reviewing Dark Heart of Andaluria 01:04:43 - Community Spotlight 01:11:00 - Outro

Music - Middle-Earth by Luis_Humanoide

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