Forbidden Lands: a Kickstarter to launch two manuals not to be missed.
Forbidden Lands
The Swedish publishing house Free League Publishing has recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on the Kickstarter platform for the creation of two new manuals for the editorial line of the award-winning and fantasy role-playing game Forbidden Lands.The project has already achieved an extraordinary success, having been fully funded in just eight hours and having largely exceeded the threshold envisaged for its realization, indicating how much Forbidden Lands is a role-playing game particularly appreciated by the public.
There are two manuals of expansion contained in this Kickstarter:
Forbidden Lands: Book of Beasts, a beautifully illustrated bestiary filled to the brim with murderous monsters and deadly encounters. Forbidden Lands: The Bloodmarch, a manual that expands the game world and includes a complete campaign: Legacy of Horn.
The Kickstarter campaign will end in twelve days and can be reached at this link. Our advice is not to miss these two splendid manuals, which we will quickly illustrate below.
Forbidden Lands: Book of Beasts
Forbidden Lands: Book of Beasts is a bestiary that can be played with immediately. It will feature at least twenty-five new monsters in great detail, plus additional bonus monsters such as stretch goals, most of which have already been unlocked. Each beast is ready toa> play with tailor-made random encounters, and the manual will present Game Masters with a handy set of mini-adventures to use.The book will also include legends about each monster, introduce optional rules for harvesting resources from slain beasts, and allow players to use their Lore skill to gain insight into a monster's strengths and weaknesses. This will help the characters defeat, or at least survive, an encounter with the book's monstrosities. Among the monsters in this manual, creatures such as the Amphibian, the Basilisk, The Iron Dragon, the Corrupted Ent and many others will make their presence, ready for use in any Forbidden Lands campaign.
Forbidden Lands: Book of Beasts is written by experienced game writer Andreas Marklund and acclaimed Swedish fantasy author Erik Granström (whose interview you can read about), illustrated by Henrik Rosenborg and with graphics by Niklas Brandt.
Forbidden Lands: The Bloodmarch
With this expansion manual, Forbidden Lands will get even stranger. Bloodmarch is the name given to the volcanic region west of Ravenland, accessible since the Shadowgate Pass was reopened. This ancient land of battle-ready knights and elusive Dwarves is rapidly changing due to the demonic vegetation that is spreading throughout the region. Most see this red curse as a threat to all that is good, while others see it as a good thing, or at least a bad thing necessary to achieve other goals.Players will be able to choose from which side to be, or not give a damn about everyone and only look after themselves, during the Legacy of Horn campaign. This campaign will put explorers on the hunt for Horn's Astra, a legendary set of artifacts sought by many in the land of ashes. These powerful items are said to be capable of stopping demonic growth or are powerful enough to ensure their triumph.
Forbidden Lands: The Bloodmarch and The Legacy of Horn campaign contained therein are written by the acclaimed fantasy author Swedish Erik Granström (whose interview you can read), lead author of the settings for the role-playing game Forbidden Lands and designer of the game's first campaign module, Raven's Purge. Bloodmarch is illustrated by Henrik Rosenborg.
Two New Forbidden Lands Books Hit Kickstarter From Free League
Free League are back on Kickstarter with a new campaign looking to add two new books to the growing Forbidden Lands Fantasy library. The focus this time around is on the Book Of Beasts and The Bloodmarch!
The first of these books is the Book Of Beasts. This is a brand new bestiary that has been filled to the brim with artwork and rules for terrifying monsters and lethal encounters to include in your adventures.
Twenty-five monsters are included as part of the book but more are getting added as Stretch Goals get unlocked as part of the campaign. As well as the rules you'll need to battle them, you'll also find lore in there allowing you to explore their strengths and weaknesses and encounters that you can use in your games.
Forbidden Lands is, once again, a stunning piece of work by the creative team. It has been put together by Andreas Marklund and Erik Granström and then illustrated by Henrik Rosenborg and with graphics by Niklas Brandt. So, if you want to go searching for them on the internet you now have some names!
This really does look like a fantastic piece for those who want to expand on their options for Forbidden Lands. It always pays to have more tricks to pull on an adventuring party when they are deep in the wilds.
The BloodmarchThe next of the books is a campaign focused one called The Bloodmarch.
Within this book, you'll find an in-depth campaign called Legacy Of Horn that expands on the game world of Forbidden Lands. A demonic scourge is infesting the land and it is now up to you to try and work out how to stop it. You will need to collect together the artefacts of Horn´s Astra and use them to deal with the blight.
Much like with previous expansions, The Bloodmarch comes with an entirely new section of map for you to explore. Due to the nature of exploration and adventure in Forbidden Lands, this should become a unique piece just for your group. It looks deadly, dangerous and an exceptionally fun place for a roleplaying game to be set.
Make sure to check out the Kickstarter campaign and let us know if Forbidden Lands has captured your roleplaying group's attention.
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