Incoming Forbidden Lands products

Guvnor

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With all the talk of Dragonbane it's good to see FL are still supporting Foibidden Lands. These are out June 15th.

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Forbidden Lands: Book of Beasts

Forbidden Lands: The Book of Beasts is a bestiary you can play. It presents a host of new monsters in great detail. Each beast comes ready to play with tailored random encounters, presenting the Gamemaster with a handy set of mini-adventures to go.

The book also includes legends about each monster, introduces the option to harvest resources from slain beasts, and lets the player characters use their Lore skills to gain insight into a monster´s strengths and weaknesses. This will help them defeat – or at least survive an encounter with – the book´s monstrosities.

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Forbidden Lands: The Bloodmarch

With The Bloodmarch, the world of Forbidden Lands becomes a lot stranger. The Bloodmarch is the name given to the volcanic region west of Ravenland, now accessible as the Shadowgate Pass is again opened.

This ancient place of battle-ready horse riders and secretive dwarves is rapidly changing due to the demonic vegetation spreading across the land. Most see this red curse as a threat to all that is good, while others view it as a good thing – or at least a necessary evil needed to reach other goals.

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FL send me review copies of their products.
 
Will the book of beasts be useful for Dragonbane do people reckon. I know the systems are quite different but perhaps conversion is feasible.

Aside: another thing I really miss from the 80s is multi-statted rpg products. I used to enjoy seeing how the same things were represented in different systems. Often you could learn more about the designer's intent too.
 
Will the book of beasts be useful for Dragonbane do people reckon. I know the systems are quite different but perhaps conversion is feasible.

Aside: another thing I really miss from the 80s is multi-statted rpg products. I used to enjoy seeing how the same things were represented in different systems. Often you could learn more about the designer's intent too.
Some people do not like these, hence, they are not being offered these days. For example, the original Achtung Cthulhu had both Savage Worlds and Call of Cthulhu 6th Edition, and I just found seeing the CoC stats annoying, since, here my scandalous confession, I do not enjoy the pure Call of Cthulhu ruleset.

Same reason, I am not too pleased with the Pathfinder Midgard book by Kobold Press that also had stats for the A.G.E. system in same book. And again, Legend of the Five Rings 2nd Edition, that I sold off, due to getting annoying by the dual stats.
 
Will the book of beasts be useful for Dragonbane do people reckon. I know the systems are quite different but perhaps conversion is feasible.

Aside: another thing I really miss from the 80s is multi-statted rpg products. I used to enjoy seeing how the same things were represented in different systems. Often you could learn more about the designer's intent too.
Nah..
 
Yeah I seem to be unusual in this regard, liking multi-statting. I guess one aspect of rpgs I've always been particularly interested in is how the fictional world is represented in game mechanics. Multi-statted products make that more explicit by enabling you to compare how it is done in different systems.
 
Will the book of beasts be useful for Dragonbane do people reckon. I know the systems are quite different but perhaps conversion is feasible.

Aside: another thing I really miss from the 80s is multi-statted rpg products. I used to enjoy seeing how the same things were represented in different systems. Often you could learn more about the designer's intent too.

I think all of FL is translatable to Dragonbane, with monsters sharing some fundamental design. Quite a lot of threads are kicking about of people lifting FL beasties and using with some modification in their Dragonbane games. Some are running Dragonbane in FL settings, which I think would work really well.

Mine has also arrived.

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I think all of FL is translatable to Dragonbane, with monsters sharing some fundamental design. Quite a lot of threads are kicking about of people lifting FL beasties and using with some modification in their Dragonbane games. Some are running Dragonbane in FL settings, which I think would work really well.

Mine has also arrived.

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Cool. Might pick up the pdfs so.
 
What a coincidence, mine too has arrived today into the wild English northlands.

The astute observer may notice two Bloodmarch maps. Obviously, one is for field of battle play at the table, and the other preserved as a collectors' item on the shelf.

Yes, I duplicate all things I love, so more depth and less breath to my TTRPG collection.
Duplicates triggered by post-traumatic stress from combat injuries through tours of duty in previous games.

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