History Webcomic / CrystalHeart

* TheChiefsDaughter: Muna had this as part of her backstory, referring to herself as a Princess a few times. [[spoiler:This changes when her father remarries, resulting in him stepping down from the position of chieftain due to the rules of their society. This comes as a shock to her (mainly because the original message informing her of this didn't reach her until she had ''already returned home'' due to terrible postal service), but she quickly gets over it, placing more value on her abilities as a leader than the actual title.]]

''[[https://www.uptofourplayers.com/ CrystalHeart]]'' is a tabletop game/ fantasy webcomic by Aviv Or and Eran Aviram about the campaign of three friends and their GM, running on the TabletopGame/SavageWorlds system. It has two layers - one following the players Rotem, Guy and Lily and their GM Nadav in their efforts to create the most engaging playing experience possible, and one following their characters.

* ComplexityAddiction: [[spoiler:The Foxes' biggest flaw - it's not enough for them to be clever, they need to ''outsmart'', regardless of whether the more straight-forward plan would work better or not (e.g. manipulating the Snakes into building the device for removing the planet's core, when the Foxes could easily do it themselves).]]

* JustifiedTitle: The title of the comic, as well as the titles of the individual chapters each have "heart" in the title, and the theme of (crystal) hearts features majorly in the story. In the case of the chapters, the names are proverbs, such as "Heart of Stone" "Wild at Heart", or Heartless" - all refering to something that happens in the chapter, such as a crystal heart that can literally turn people to stone.

* PersonalityPowers: A sort of Inverted example, where the personality is enforced by the power - the crystals granting the Syn agents their special abilites also have a Disposition, [[LiteralChangeOfHeart causing the agent to feel a certain emotion or display a specific habit]]. The specifics varies from crystal to crystal, usually matching the theme of the crystal in some way (e.g. ''Good Fellow'' grants empathic abilities but makes its user easily distracted, while Survivor grants some powerful defensive abilities but makes its user stubborn). These Dispositions can be resisted, but it's not always easy.

* PowerTrio: The Crashing Eagles, consisting of Muna, Macintosh and Raffaela. They may occassionally have some problems, but they are TrueCompanions and have remarkable teamwork skills when working together.

** Speaking of the equipment, the "harness" that's installed in syn agents to allow them to use crystals requires frequent maintenance, apparently several times a year, meaning that once you join Syn you're pretty much stuck for life.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Raffaela's backstory. She was part of a group of orphans turned pick-pockets. One day, they found a crystal... then, a Syn agent showed up and murdered another child to get the crystal. Raffaela joined Syn to get revenge.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Part of Lily's plan to screw over Raffaela's nemesis [[spoiler:"Cowboy-Hat," a.k.a. Arman]], another Syn agent, involves using the Requisitions rules to take said nemesis' crystal from them. This succeeds, with the help of [[RulesLawyer Guy]], however it doesn't occur to her until the crystal is in Raffaela's hands that the thought of socketing a crystal that was used to murder Raffaela's friends would ''disgust'' her. By that point it was too late to reasonably back out, but while the crystal (Dominion, which has the ability to command others to a certain extent) does prove useful at times, Raffaela still looks to replace it at the first opportunity.

** Bogovia seems like a stand-in for eastern/ slawic Europe, especially Transsilvania, with titles like the official mad woman of the village being called "Baba", and being the side for both a werewolf- and a vampire-adventure.
** Maseia seems to be quite similar to the great American plains, with frontier towns, and Muna's clan living like stereotypical Native Americans.
* GemHeart: All humans in the setting have gems for hearts, while animals have normal flesh hearts. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that the eponymous Crystals were the remains of the Beasts who attempted to resist the Foxes' efforts to "reduce" them but failed, leaving behind a gem that represented one of their aspects.]]

* PersonalityPowers: A sort of Inverted example, where the personality is enforced by the power - the crystals granting the Syn agents their special abilites also have a Disposition, [[LiteralChangeOfHeart causing the agent to feel a certain emotion or display a specific habit]]. The specifics varies from crystal to crystal, usually matching the theme of the crystal in some way (e.g. ''Good Fellow'' grants empathic abilities but makes its user easily distracted, while Survivor grants some powerful defensive abilities but makes it user stubborn). These Dispositions can be resisted, but it's not always easy.
* PowerCrystal: The eponymous crystals hearts that grant their bearer special powers following a specific theme.
* PowerTrio: The Crashing eagles, consisting of Muna, Macintosh and Raffaela. They may occassionally have some problems, but they are TrueCompanions and have remarkable teamwork skills when working together.
* TheRival: Muna has one in Contessa, another team leader of a novice team. They've been trying to one-up each other since their days in training.
* RulesLawyer: Guy. Seen especially in one case when he helps Lily's character to get a crystal she wants from another agent by citing a probable interpretation of the rules - he is portraited with a wig like british lawyers wear them and stops his argument with an "I rest my case".

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In the final arc, the Crashing Eagles decide to try to convince [[spoiler:the Council of Syn]] to stop their plans instead of fighting them directly, reasoning that not only would the party be outnumbered in the fight (the 3 party members to the [[spoiler:5 Council members]]), they also lose out in terms of experience and overall strength, seeing as [[spoiler:the Council members are all Legendary rank, with Crystals to match]]. [[HopeSpot It seems to start working]], as the antagonists were more a WellIntentionedExtremist group than actually evil, but [[spoiler:subtle sabotage by the Foxes have messed with the council's own plans, which does at least convince them that the Eagles are telling the truth]].

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Raffaela's backstory. She was part of a group of orphans turnt pick-pockets. One day, they found a crystal... then, a Syn agent showed up and murdered another child to get the crystal. Raffaela joined Syn to get revenge.

** Maseia seems to be quite similar to the great american plains, with frontier towns, and Muna's clan living like stereotypical Native Americans.
* GemHeart: All humans in the setting have gems for hearts, while animals have normal flesh hearts.

* PersonalityPowers: A sort of Inverted example, where the personality is enforced by the power - the crystals granting the Syn agents their special abilites also have a Disposition, causing the agent to feel a certain emotion or display a specific habit. The specifics varies from crystal to crystal, usually matching the theme of the crystal in some way (e.g. Muna's first crystal gives her empathic abilities but made her easily distracted). These Dispositions can be resisted, but it's not always easy.

* TakenForGranite: This is the ability of the crystal at the center of the chapter ''Heart of Stone'' (later revealed to be called Solid Stone in the RPG book). It allows the user to harden their skin to a stone-like texture, improving their defenses considerably, and it grants them [[DishingOutDirt the ability to create stone constructs like walls]]. It's incredibly dangerous in its feral state, as it instead converts anything that touches it without protection, or even just lingers too close to it for a while, to stone. This includes people [[spoiler:as [[ArcVillain Boss Honda]] finds out the hard way when he grabs the crystal with his bare hands in a fit of unthinking greed, turning into a statue within seconds]].

''[[https://www.uptofourplayers.com/ CrystalHeart]]'' is a tabletop game/ fantasy webcomic by Aviv and Eran about the campaign of three friends and their GM, running on the TabletopGame/SavageWorlds system. It has two layers - one following the players Rotem, Guy and Lily and their GM Nadav in their efforts to create the most engaging playing experience possible, and one following their characters.

[[https://www.uptofourplayers.com/ Webcomic/CrystalHeart]] is a tabletop game/ fantasy webcomic by Aviv and Eran about the campaign of three friends and their GM, running on the TabletopGame/SavageWorlds system. It has two layers - one following the players Rotem, Guy and Lily and their GM Nadav in their efforts to create the most engaging playing experience possible, and one following their characters.

!!Webcomic/CrystalHeart contains examples of:

[[https://www.uptofourplayers.com/ Webcomic/CrystalHeart]] is a tabletop game/ fantasy webcomic by Aviv and Eran about the campaign of three friends and their GM. It has two layers - one following the players Rotem, Guy and Lily and their GM Nadav in their efforts to create the most engaging playing experience possible, and one following their characters.

* LaResistance: The revolutionaries in Fjordstad. First, they protest the for better rights for miners, but it quickly escalates from there...

* CorporateConspiracy: As the Crashing Eagles find out in chapter four, some Syn Agents seem to have a different agenda...

** Maseia seems to be quite similar to the great american planes, with frontier towns, and Muna's clan living like stereotypical Native Americans.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Bogovia seems like a stand-in for eastern/ slawic Europe, especially Transsilvania, with titles like the official mad woman of the village being called "Baba", and being the side for both a werewolf- and a vampire-adventure.
* HouseRules: All the time, as Nadav and his players adjust the rules to their wishes for the setting. Originally, the game was based on Savage Worlds, but there has been the addition of crystal rules as well as many others. One can now buy a rulebook with the Crystal Heart rules!

These characters are agents for a rather new, but powerful organization - Syn. Syn consists of people that had their hearts replaced with crystals that give them special powers and spend their time searching for new crystals as well as solving problems that were created by crystals gone feral. The story follows a team of three novice Syn agents, warrior princess Muna, tech-guy Macintosh, and rogue Raffaela in their fist missions, where they learn that not everything about their world and their organization is as it first appeared...

[[https://www.uptofourplayers.com/ Webcomic/CrystalHeart]] is a tabletop game/ fantasy webcomic about the campaign of three friends and their GM. It has two layers - one following the players Rotem, Guy and Lily and their GM Nadav in their efforts to create the most engaging playing experience possible, and one following their characters.