balance-guide

Balancing Heart Rush content involves defining XP costs, talent budgets, and progression milestones against established guidelines. Compare your new talent, race, or bloodmark's ability structure, frequency tags, and scaling rules to the core balance framework to verify it maintains the intended power curve and avoids power creep.

Heart Rush balance guidelines provide standard cost formulas and scaling rules tied to ability frequency, timing tags, and progression milestones across XP, Heart Die, and race traits. Use these definitions to ensure new abilities align with the established progression curve and playtesting expectations.

Apply the balance framework's comprehensive guidelines for races, bloodmarks, and talents to validate that new options fit core rules and maintain consistent pacing. Compare ability costs, Heart Die milestones, and XP progression against established standards before adding content to the game.

Heart Rush abilities require standard definitions including ability structure, frequency tags, timing tags, and cost alignment to progression milestones. The balance guide defines these structures so new talents, races, and bloodmarks maintain coherent power scaling across playtesting and live content.

Yes. The balance guidelines apply to content creation, modification, and review. Use them to audit existing talents, races, and bloodmarks against ability structures, cost formulas, and progression rules to identify inconsistencies or opportunities to strengthen pacing.