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Forbidden Lands Core Game

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Round the beggar from Varassa all sat in a ring,

and by the campfire they sat and heard his song.

And about walkers and wolfkin and every terrible thing,

and of his fear he sang to them all night long:

“There is something beyond the mountains, beyond the howls beyond the mist, there is something behind the veils, behind hearts cold as stone.

Hearken, something walks and whispers, walks and lures you in and whimpers:

Come to us, for this earth shall ever be ours and ours alone!”

Forbidden Lands is a new take on classic fantasy roleplaying. In this open-world survival roleplaying game, you’re not heroes sent on missions dictated by others - instead, you are raiders and rogues bent on making your own mark on a cursed world. You will discover lost tombs, fight terrible monsters, wander the wild lands and, if you live long enough, build your own stronghold to defend. Contents:

  • Player’s Manual including rules for fast character generation, visceral combat, lethal magic, dangerous journeys and for building your own stronghold - easily be ported to your own favorite game world.
  • Gamemaster’s Guide including a rich and detailed description of the Forbidden Lands setting, a large illustrated Bestiary, extensive random encounters, and three complete adventure sites.
  • The Legends & Adventurers booklet, letting you flesh out your characters and give them unique backgrounds.
  • Full-color map, giving you the freedom to explore the Forbidden Lands any way you want, hex by hex.

From the creators of the award-winning RPGs Tales from the Loop, Coriolis - The Third Horizon and Mutant: Year Zero.

"It's like somone took hazy childhood memories of a classic D&D game and mixed them with a dash of bleak Scandinavian darkness."
–Tabletop Magazine

"Superbly packaged, Forbidden Lands is a pleasing combination of Old School nostalgia and fast, simple mechanics with unobtrusive narrative elements designed to bring aspects of the character into play. Its setting offers scope for the player characters to develop not just personally, but also in terms of their place in the world."
–Reviews from R'lyeh


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Jason P December 06, 2023 1:30 pm UTC
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Do they have a copy of the map in JPEG or PNG to use on a VTT. I own the physical copy but my players want to play online . thanks
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Joel S August 23, 2023 2:45 am UTC
whats the diff between first and second edition?
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Joseph A September 21, 2022 9:27 am UTC
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Gamemaster guide Page 193 Under oddity... There is no result for rolling a 61, but 63 is labeled twice.
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Branden Z September 21, 2022 1:44 am UTC
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Hi,

Does the "5th printing" pdfs include the Errata that is found as a separate document on the Free League website under the game's downloads?
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Lesley N June 07, 2022 4:50 am UTC
Hmm, I'd like to submit a 'review', But I didn't 'buy' it here, so I will have to settle for making a 'comment' here.
Well, after 40 years of role gaming, seeing nearly every design worth mentioning, I think I can at least comment :)

I'm a long-time user of D&D 1st 2nd 4th and I've checked out 5th.
I'm a long-time user of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st 2nd and 4th.

But eventually, you get tired of dealing with 'a lot of books'.
That is one thing I was looking for. Minimal books.
I wanted something with a setting that wasn't too over-detailed.
I wanted a setting that wasn't fixed.
And I wanted a PC design that wasn't like doing my taxes.

I wanted something easy to play, and yet not quite totally minimalist.

I have considered a variety of clever efforts. And this one is the survivor of all my scrutiny.
A rare title worth getting in quality hardcover. But getting a simple printout is ok as well.

This title...See more
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Adrian S January 10, 2023 11:56 pm UTC
Hey Lesley, would you mind telling what systems you considered to be clever efforts. I'm only having 5% of your experience in years and I'm currently in my checking out many different rpgs phase.
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Lesley N January 11, 2023 10:20 pm UTC
Hello Adrian. 'Clever' can be a tricky word I suppose. I will attempt to do what you ask :)

Ok, first off D&D clones are a plentiful thing out there. Delivering a game that isn't a D&D clone is not easy. Everyone wants to do the usual 6 stats, and the usual four races and four classes. That being Strength Dexterity Constitution Intelligence Wisdom and Charisma. Not always those exact words, and not always that order. Human Dward Elf and Halfling. Fighter, Wizard, Thief, Cleric. They just work so well.

So NOT doing that, is truly tricky. Forbidden Lands largely manages it, but still likes the usual in some manner. Fighter and wizards is meat and potatoes for fantasy. Dwarves and Elves are hard to avoid. But Forbidden Lands creates a setting where there is no epic world altering setting. It's all explore and seek out adventure for the sake of it. Two high quality books and you are off and running.

In the field of cliche D&D action, well, how many books do you want...See more
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ROBERT P April 29, 2022 11:02 am UTC
Any chance of a module for fantasy grounds unity?
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Charleslebronn X August 27, 2021 3:32 pm UTC
how compatible is this with other osr content ? The reviews sound pretty cool but I might just hack it if it is too 'unique'
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Matthias H April 20, 2022 5:27 pm UTC
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It's...not an OSR game?
The game uses a D6 dice pool system, so it's about as far away from most definitions of OSR as you get.
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Gustavo L March 10, 2021 3:58 pm UTC
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There seems to be a problem with the player´s guide, half of the pages are missing and the graphics are all messed up.
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Gustavo L May 07, 2021 2:13 am UTC
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For the record, it was fixed a couple of days later :)
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Attila V June 25, 2021 7:37 pm UTC
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The problem still occurs. Can't open the PDF with Acrobat Reader. In Chrome half of the pages are still missing and the art is messed up.
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Attila V June 25, 2021 8:25 pm UTC
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Managed to solve the problem with the batch download. Now the PDF works.
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RM J November 28, 2020 1:22 am UTC
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Is there a reason for not allowing bookmarks?
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Ricardo J September 27, 2021 11:08 am UTC
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I have exactly the same problem. I wanted to create custom bookmarks to more easily access some content and I am not able to. Did you have this issue sorted out somehow?

Thank you.
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RM J October 01, 2021 1:45 pm UTC
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I was using iBooks and an Ipad and since switched to Xodo. Xodo allows bookmarks and annotating.
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Samuel G October 01, 2020 7:54 pm UTC
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Hey guys. The session "He & She" is missing on PDF :(
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Jeff J May 12, 2020 5:27 pm UTC
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I have a question about morale checks / fleeing in the game. I see fleeing mentioned as a possibility for PCs but I don't see any mention of morale any place or stats for that. In many OSR books, it seems a given that most sentient creatures won't fight to the death. Are monsters (or NPCs / humanoids) expected to always fight to the death in FL?
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Caio L February 28, 2020 12:34 am UTC
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Its the 2nd version print?
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Jamahl L May 05, 2020 7:15 am UTC
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Is this meant to be a question or a statement?
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Antster P June 08, 2020 2:11 am UTC
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this is 2nd edition
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December 08, 2019 2:04 am UTC
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Purchased the PDF set. Is there a version of the PDFs available with higher resolution art? The text scales nicely to larger size when zoomed but the art is jaggy, which is a shame because it's gorgeous.
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May 06, 2021 7:56 am UTC
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Was hoping to get a reply from the publisher on this.
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Addramyr P September 20, 2019 5:45 pm UTC
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Is there a changelog for the 2nd printing updates?
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Nathanael C September 05, 2019 3:38 pm UTC
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Hey Free League: Any chance of y'all unlocking the PDFs we paid for? As a digital GM, I really appreciate being able to extract pages to my own working notebooks, but these files prevent me from doing that using standard PDF tools. Locking PDFs is disrespectful to your paying customers. Yes, there are work-arounds, which are annoying but easy to use, but the fact is I shouldn't have to resort to external means in order to access features of PDFs that I paid for.
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Free L September 19, 2019 12:07 pm UTC
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Hi! No disrespect intended. What exactly is it that you want to do with the PDFs that you cannot do now? Please email to support@frialigan.se and we'll help you out!
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Harm-Diercks G September 20, 2019 7:13 am UTC
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My PDFs are pretty much unlocked, except the extraction of layouted pages and page compilations
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Nathanael C September 25, 2019 8:34 pm UTC
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The real simple explanation is that the PDF is "locked" and prevents any modification. I'd like to extract a couple of pages to assemble a bit of a player guide for the folks at my table. I also wanted to fix some of the embedded outlines that weren't right, and also to replace the Weatherstone pages in my heavily-commented GMG with the new pages from the 2nd printing.

I was actually able to do all of this through a bit of a complicated extraction via a linux tool, but it's frustrating to have to do that in the first place. When so many other publishers don't lock their PDFs, there's no real reason to lock them today.
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chris D March 20, 2023 4:03 am UTC
I can't say I've really heard of any publishers leaving their PDF's unlocked so people could edit the pages. I have seen them do layers so you can turn off backgrounds and images to make it more ink friendly but never have I been able to edit text or delete images. Out of the PDFS I own if I'm making a "players guide" I usually just "print" the pages using PDF creator and then only those pages are included. I have seen somewhere they don't allow you to copy the text in the pdf to paste somewhere else and that's annoying
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