New Game For Me: Forbidden Lands

Christmas was kind to me, with a copy of Forbidden Lands under the tree (among other things).

For those unaware, Forbidden Lands is a role-playing game from Free League, or Fria Ligan, that is fantasy-themed like DnD, but a different ruleset entirely.  Free League also brings us Tales from the Loop and the Twilight 2000 reboot, so its quality stuff.

The trailer speaks for itself, so take a moment to watch it.

Then maybe spend a lot more time listening to these guys discuss the game and work through the rules.

Outside of actually playing the game, the only thing to do is create a PC or two for it, just to take the character creation rules for a spin.  For those wanting to try this at home, there are some legit free quickstart rules from Fria Ligan.  

So let's get started.

1. Choose your kin.  I'm going with Wolfkin to start with.

2. Pick your profession.  Wolfkin are typically Druids, Fighters, or Hunters.  This Wolfkin is a Hunter. 

3. Decide on your age. Adult, for 14 points to distribute among my attributes.

4. Spend points on attributes.  There are four choices: Strength, Agility, Wits, and Empathy.  Wolfkin allows Agility to go to 5 and Hunters allow Agility to go to 5, but together allow it to go to 6. My 14 points will be divvied up this way - Strength 3, Agility 5, Wits 4, Empathy 2

5. Spend points on skills.  Adults get 10 points, so I'll choose from the Hunter Skills: Stealth 2, Move 2, Marksmanship 1, Scouting 3, Survival 2

6. Choose your starting talents. I get a kin talent, profession talent, and two other talents due to Adult.  Hunting Instincts (kin), Path of the Forest (profession), Pathfinder, Quartermaster

7. Determine your Pride. I'll take one of the offered ones - I can survive alone in the wilds for weeks.

8. Choose a Dark Secret. Another offered one - I once left a wounded friend to die in the woods to save myself.

9. Define your relationships to other PCs. Uncertain without creating an entire party.  Leaning on the random backstory tables in the Legends & Adventurers booklet will carry me through.

10. Pick gear. Bow or Sling, two items from trade good list, d6 silver, Food d8, Water d8, Arrows d10

11. Decide your appearance.

12. Choose your name.  

No dice needed to 'roll up' a PC.  Neat.  

Now to read carefully through both books and see what I can glean for the #Dungeon23 challenge that formally begins next week.

My next step is to get a copy of Raven's Purge, to go along with my PDF of Spire of Quetzel (Questing Beast reviews Spire). Looking at both the official storefront and Drivethrurpg shows lots of options for tabletop and online games.  Color me intrigued.

At some point I will find a playgroup and time for at least a one-shot.