Read the Crystal Heart Comic
Buy the Graphic Novel
Join four friends as they dive into a high-stakes adventure in the tabletop RPG Crystal Heart!
336 pages, 7″ x 10″ TPB
Out November 2025 from Dark Horse Comics
You can find Crystal Heart wherever comic books are sold. The best way is to contact your local comic book store and buy it directly from them.
You can also get it through these bigger retailers:
Bookshop US, Bookshop UK, Book-a-Million, Barnes & Noble, Indigo CA, Booktopia AU, Waterstones UK, Forbidden Planet, Leisure Games, Amazon US, Amazon UK
What is Crystal Heart?
In a world where everyone’s heart is made of stone, special agents of an organization named Syn replace their own hearts with mysterious crystals that grant them unique powers, and team up to unearth more of these valuable artifacts across the Five Lands. One such team is on course to unearth much more: secrets within their own ranks, as well as the mystery behind the crystals themselves.
Follow Rotem, Guy, Lily, and game master Nadav in a TTRPG actual play comic, as they weave an intriguing story about friendship, fantasy, and world-changing magic. Be there with the players as they learn the game, roll dice, discover the world, and shape the narrative in pursuit of the secrets of the crystals.
Read Crystal Heart Online
The comic was originally published online, a new page each week. Many of the pages have additional details in the posts, that didn’t make it to print!
An observant reader could also find a few small differences between the originals and the printed version, such as the non-sparkly Wild Die in Chapter #1; the transition in-comic from dull to sparkly is explained in a secret page that didn’t make it to print, between the first two chapters.
Chapters
More comics
Our four protagonists, Guy, Lily, Rotem, and Nadav, also appear in a series of comic strips about board games and gamers.
They also feature in Ready to Roll, a series of 2-page comics explaining the core rules of some worthy roleplaying games: Savage Worlds, Fate, City of Mist, and more.
Play the Game
The players in Crystal Heart use Savage Worlds, a real-world ruleset that’s been published in many editions and with many expansions over its 20 year history, gathering an avid fan base that praises its “fast, furious fun” motto – which is also the reason we chose this system for our comic.
Savage Worlds is simple to use, and the best part is, you don’t need to know anything about it – because you’ll be learning its core rules along with the players in the comic, as the story develops. Crystal Heart has been used by Savage Worlds’ publisher, Pinnacle Entertainment, as teaching material, and the game’s community considers the comic a go-to resource for curious new players.
Check out the Crystal Heart RPG, based on Savage Worlds (obviously!), one book with everything you need to know about the Five Lands, Crystals, and Syn.
Join the Conversation
The Crystal Heart Discord is a place for Agents to gather and exchange experiences, ask questions, discuss their RPG sessions, and introduce new Crystals they came up with.
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FacebookCrystal Heart in the media
- J-M invited us on the Savage Universe live stream to announce the book
- We had a lovely long conversation with Matt from Whatcha Doing?, available both as video and audio
- We chatted with Carl from Tabletop Tango about the graphic novel and the No Power Points rule
The Creators
Eran Aviram
Eran (he/him) writes and edits roleplaying games with the purpose of turning more people into players, and then hand those players the tools to enjoy themselves. He’s chief editor for Son of Oak (City of Mist, Queerz!, :Otherscape, Legend in the Mist), and publishes his own zines and adventures.
Aviv Or
Aviv (she/her) is an illustrator and comic artist, living in London, UK, and definitely should be getting out more to enjoy that fact. She’s worked in and around tabletop roleplaying games, creating artwork for books and designing characters for streams, and these days she’s mainly drawing comics (Critical Role: Tales of Exandria—Artagan, Ghostbusters: Dead Man’s Chest).