![]() Willpower is a generic resource spent to activate cool stuff about your character like using talents and casting spells. You suffer 1 point of damage per skull on your base dice and your items degrade by 1 for each skull on the gear dice, but you also get one point of Willpower for each point of damage that you take. This becomes extra funny when you do this while trying to heal an ally. This has the hilarious side-effect that you could make a skill check, push the check, take damage, and become “Broken”. This gives you another shot at succeeding at the cost of possibly taking damage and/or damaging equipment. Pushing your roll allows you to reroll any dice which doesn’t have a 1 (a skull) or a success symbol (6 or higher on a d6, d8, d10, or d12). Rolling dice generates “successes” and potentially skull symbols on a 1 which only matter if you “push” your roll. Players will need 15d6 of three different colors for “base” dice, skill dice, and gear dice, plus one each of d8, d10, and d12 as “artifact dice”. Sooner or later, you will end up in situations where the outcome is uncertain, no matter how skilled you are.įorbidden Lands uses a slightly modified version of the Year Zero Engine’s dice pool system. Maybe you have ambitions about carving out a kingdom for yourself. ![]() Maybe it’s just a modest house, or maybe you refurbish an old castle or even build one of your own. Raid enough dungeons, and you might live long enough to get rich and famous. You might have a rough day, catch lice, become Broken, and die cold and alone.īut this also isn’t Mörk Borg where characters are made of paper. The game is intentionally hard to survive. Forbidden Lands makes no assertions that you’re somehow the heroes, and it doesn’t box you into an alignment to try and describe your characters’ philosophical outlook. The Forbidden Lands are a dangerous place, and at times the adventurers will face overpowering opposition. The game is cool, the rules are good, the books are beautiful, and reading the game got me excited to play. Considering that one of the Ennies was for Best Cartography, a suitably well-used map might be a cherished piece of art for your gaming group worthy of decorating whatever space you play in.įorbidden Lands took home 4 Ennies the year it was published, and I can absolutely see why. The core rules come in a box set with a map, and players are intended to permanently mark the map as they play, creating a permanent and unique artifact for your group. Players are encouraged to make their mark on the world both figuratively and literally. ![]() The variety of character options makes characters mechanically diverse and gives players clear hooks into the story of the forbidden lands, and there’s plenty of room for characters who enjoy the mechanical aspects of the game to explore without requiring less mechanically-inclined players to follow along. ![]() It hits a nice middle point in complexity while still managing to elegantly handle simulationist mechanics around travel, survival, crafting, and maintaining a home base which quickly turn into a series of spreadsheets in many RPGs. Adventurers are very human, monsters are very monstrous, you still need to eat to live, and success is nowhere near guaranteed.įorbidden Lands isn’t quite as rules light (or as brutal) as Mörk Borg, but it’s also not as crunchy or superheroic as DnD or pathfinder. Published by Free League and lead designer Tomas Härenstam in 2021, Forbidden Lands is a fantasy RPG in which the players play adventurers carving out an existence in a cursed world full of danger of all sorts. If your imagination runs dry when you are about to describe an NPC or a ruin? Let a player describe it instead.
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