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The Perilous Wilds
Publisher: Lampblack & Brimstone
by Dustin H. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 08/26/2022 15:28:04

While I do own Dungeon World (which this is a supplement for), I have never played it. Regardless, I have found numerous uses for Perilous Wilds. The tables within are so useful for coming up with inspiration when I am dming a group. They are even more useful when I am playing solo. If you own Ironsworn this book can be a great way to give some flavor and additional excitement to your expeditions through the wilderness (If Ironsworn has one weakness, it is the lack of wilderness related tables/lack of depth in the wilderness related tables. This book fills that gap for me).



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The Perilous Wilds
Publisher: Lampblack & Brimstone
by Michael M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/23/2022 11:13:33

If you've just bought Dungeon World, this should probably be your next purchase. I particularly enjoy the thematic dungeon building systems. The content and ideas presented here are also applicable to other game systems.



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The Perilous Wilds
Publisher: Lampblack & Brimstone
by Robert S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/17/2021 15:48:03

I couldn't play DW without this in future, not least of which for the edits made to regular travelling rules and setting a watch. I enjoy the edit to the Ranger, too.

The dungeon creation mechanic is neat but I didn't break it out all the time if I had something a little more structured in mind, but it's otherwise very interesting to utilise.



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The Perilous Wilds
Publisher: Lampblack & Brimstone
by Courtney D. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/02/2021 20:11:00

Whether you have a pre-existing world or generating one from scratch, or even if you're not using Dungeon World world at all, The Perilous Wilds is highly recommended for GMs expecting to go off the beaten path.

The Perilous Wilds breaks down the locations of a setting into their key details, allowing the GM to quickly categorise the core aspects and keep notes on all the interactive bits. The GM can then draw upon these details to help pick and choose what kind of structures, creatures, traps or obstacles the party may encounter. It also comes with a good number of tables to randomly generate regions, creatures, points of interest and other features relevant to the exploration of the unknown. The tables are tailored towards the fantasy genre if that is of concern (after all, it IS a supplement for Dungeon World, which is also tailored for fantasy). Finally it also covers the often glossed over features of surviving the wilderness such as preparation, hiring guides and navigation.



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The Perilous Wilds
Publisher: Lampblack & Brimstone
by Daniel S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/23/2020 17:47:33

Amazing resource! Definitely worth the money. Applies to most other systems imo



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The Perilous Wilds
Publisher: Lampblack & Brimstone
by Mattias L. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/07/2020 15:01:44

Absolutly stunning and awesome. The perfect supplement to Dungeon World and invaluable random tables for any RPG with a focus on overland travel.

I give it 5+ stars, The '+' is because Jason helped me get the print version after only buying the PDF. Thanks again Jason!



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The Perilous Wilds
Publisher: Lampblack & Brimstone
by Jason Y. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 06/17/2020 13:45:03

Such a great resource for any Dungeon World GM. Even if you're not using it right out of the book there is a lot to spark inspiration.



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The Perilous Wilds
Publisher: Lampblack & Brimstone
by Aaron S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 04/10/2020 17:17:44

The ideas in this publication are indispensable. So good, & so seamless in compatibility that LaTorra should consider putting it into a 2nd edition of DW. The only drawback is that the hardcopy is just slightly better quality than a reader's digest.



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The Perilous Wilds
Publisher: Lampblack & Brimstone
by Hans M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/30/2019 12:33:17

This book has the best Value to Cost ratio of any supplement I have ever purchased for any game, let alone Dungeon World. Every DW gamemaster should have it.



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The Perilous Wilds
Publisher: Lampblack & Brimstone
by Kyle M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 06/26/2019 21:56:39

Provides everything you need for a sandbox campaign in Dungeon World, and many of the tools & new moves can be applied to any DW game you might run. I loved it so much I bought it twice so I could have a hard copy.



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The Perilous Wilds
Publisher: Lampblack & Brimstone
by Jason A. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/08/2018 20:05:43

This is potentially the best book for open-world sandbox play ever written. The entries on the random tables are perfect for getting the creative juices flowing without being concrete and forcing a specific world on the players. I enjoy Dungeon World, but it's not my system of choice. I use this book when playing Torchbearer and Dungeon Crawl Classics, generally when I'm running hexcrawls, and it works beautifully in any fantasy system. I'd love to see an intricately hyperlinked pdf version, similar books for other genres of games, and a more in-depth book centered on the "Plumb the Depths" chapter. I was an original backer on the Kickstarter and have loved the book ever since. This book is always with me in my game bag and I look forward to any and all future Kickstarters by Jason Lutes (especially similar to this project).



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The Perilous Wilds
Publisher: Lampblack & Brimstone
by Scott D. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/21/2017 09:42:27

Some fun things are in here that add depth to designing the wilderness in your campaign setting. Particularly the method of communally drawing the world map is something I’ve used in many of my games. However the format of many rollable tables and more complexity of rules clashes with the spirit of Dungeonworld's impromptu rules-lite feel. You want to give the GM just enough to help them tell a story, not bury your nose in dozens of pages of tables. Some of the choices are also baffling, like rollable tables or moves where nothing happens: you can roll for a hireling's background and get "unremarkable" or roll to gather hirelings and have no one show up. This is overtly contrary to the core of Dungeonworld that every roll makes something happen. Also the name lists in the back are great, but I hope you like Hungarian, Yoruban, Finnish, and Indonesian names because that's all you get. Why they don't have lists of more standard easily pronounceable names is beyond me. It's a shame for a supplement made for Dungeonworld with some neat ideas that you have to fight it's design to run a game as instructed by the Dungeonworld rules.



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The Perilous Wilds
Publisher: Lampblack & Brimstone
by Greg L. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/07/2017 21:11:16

As far as content and presentation go, totally a five star product. I was incredibly disappointed with the physical book. It's flimsy, the pages are very thin (I can read the text on the next page through them) - this sort of thing I wouldn't expect to pay more than about $6 or $7 for. It's a shame.



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The Perilous Wilds
Publisher: Lampblack & Brimstone
by A customer [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/01/2015 02:26:44

I was a bit underwhelmed by this after all the other good reviews. There are some good bits in this book and the art is excellent. I'm most disappointed about the additional moves, particularly the hireling, movement rules and weather rules. They seem to add more complexity to the game without adding additional fun. A few of the moves seem to be text book examples how you shouldn't design moves, according to the Dungeon World rule book. For example giving players options to do nothing. The compendium classes lack the zing and weirdness of the ones provided alongside the original rules. The random dungeon creation is good and the descriptive text is well written. I think the problem for the authors is that Dungeon World is so subtly well designed that the most likely result of adding more to it is that you end up with something that isn't quite as good. I got the same feeling reading this book as looking at a Lotus Elise that's been fitted with aftermarket 'improvements'. There is good stuff here but I'll be using it sparingly in my own games.



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The Perilous Wilds
Publisher: Lampblack & Brimstone
by Robert S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/26/2015 09:36:52

What a superb product! A delight in every way, The Perilous Wilds taps directly into what many GMs and players want most: pure, unencumbered exploration. Do yourself (and your players) a favor and give this book a try. I should note, in addition to the excellent content, the illustrations are a pure joy.



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