Drifting Lands

Příručka Drifting Lands ti více představí fantasy prostředí, jehož střípky jsi mohl poznat v sérii dobrodružství Echoes From Fomalhaut. Součástí je sada šesti rozkládacích hexových map: hráčská a GM karta pro Erillion, Twelve Kingdoms (dva listy), Kassadia (dva listy) a prázdný list Savage Peninsula.

Příručka je v angličtině.

“In a barbaric age where old certainties are gone, everything is possible. This booklet describes lands in turmoil. Old powers have fallen, civilisation has retreated to a few refugia, and barbarism is on the move. On the Isle of Erillion, a successful island kingdom has secured coastal footholds, but has made few inroads in the isle’s old forests and high mountains. The Twelve Kingdoms, a collection of small feudal realms, have descended into civil war and mutual destruction while an arctic empire dreams of conquest. And in the Kassadian Empire, the long decline of a high civilisation has created a landscape of rival city-states, militaristic frontier-towns, and barbarous hinterlands – against the shadows of an Empire that bitterly clings to its life. Here are lands ripe for adventure, plunder, and conquest. Here are thrones to win, dark fates to avert, and frontiers to tame – here is a world to be reshaped by the able and shrewd! And here is your opportunity!”

A players’ gazetteer to the Drifting Lands, a vanilla fantasy setting previously released in bits and pieces over multiple issues of Echoes From Fomalhaut. This is a 52-bage booklet that expands on and consolidates these materials into a player-friendly guidebook.

It includes the following materials:

• A bird’s eye big-picture description of the setting and its known regions, from the Isle of Erillion to the Empire of Pand.
• 34 gods and heresies, from fleet-footed Apelles, God of Messengers; and Galerius Demarcator, God of Boundaries and milestones, one of the three imperial cults; to the extinct (?) cult of the Purchased God and everyone’s favourite, the frog-god Tsathoggus. Notes are also offered on the Omnipotent Index, the Kassadian Empire’s monstrously outdated and utterly unjust legal code to classify approved and heretical religions.
• More detailed guides to three regions, focusing on customs, places of interest, and conflicts that call for adventurers to resolve.
• A separate map pack with six fold-out hex map sheets: players’ and GM’s cartogrtaphy for Erillion, the Twelve Kingdoms (two sheets), Kassadia (two sheets), and the blank slate Savage Peninsula.

Drifting Lands features a cover image by an unknown alumnus (culled from an ancient US college yearbook, it is a striking piece that makes quite an impression), and interior illustrations by Cameron Hawkey, Vincentas Saladis, the Dead Victorians, and the Antique Alumni.