How to play Heartwood on Mac

Game summary

A modern twist on the classic table-top roleplaying genre. The world is fraught with peril as well as great rewards for those strong enough to seek them. Heartwood awaits. Heartwood is a fantasy roleplaying game that provides new and exciting content for game masters and their players online. With it, you will embark on a journey to the long lost land of Heartwood, a mysterious and dangerous continent hidden for centuries within the mists of the Ethereal Plane. An unknown magic emanates from the city buried deep below the earth, giving birth to all manner of exotic plants and wildlife, including the enigmatic natives as a new playable origin. Nestled within the wild and alien jungle are bustling cities with diverse citizens. Outside city walls, feral beasts roam, vines slither with a mind of their own on the jungle floor, and massive bioluminescent flora illuminate the darkness below the canopy. Deep below the earth, Heartwood harbors another secret—a sprawling sunken city teeming with hostile guardians protecting a place with no one left to protect—as well as bizarre reclusive creatures that prey upon the lost and vulnerable, dragging them deep into the subterranean realm where they are never seen again. The Heartwood platform provides access to a constantly developing game universe for you to explore. All of the content produced will be carefully crafted to give you a fun and streamlined experience. No more digging through hundreds of pages to find the information you need to get started playing, we will guide you every step of the way. As an online game, you will be able to easily look up all game information from any phone, computer, or tablet. All that you need to play the Heartwood tabletop RPG will be in one place, easily accessible, and flexible for how you want to play.

Play Heartwood on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Heartwood on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Heartwood installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Heartwood like you would on any PC.
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