Dragonbane Core Boxed Set

"This most certainly makes me not even want to look back at D&D 5e! It is exactly what I want a fantasy system to be, and is great for both one shots and long campaigns."
–DTRPG Review

Dragonbane is a classic fantasy tabletop roleplaying game full of magic, mystery, and adventure. It is designed from the ground up to facilitate fast and furious play, with very little prep time and adventures that are a breeze to run. Dragonbane is a game with room for laughs at the table, while still offering brutal challenges for the adventurers.

This boxed core set includes:

• Rulebook with fast and effective D20-based game rules for character creation, skills, combat, magic, and travel
• Adventures book with eleven complete adventures, to be played separately or tied together in the epic Secret of the Dragon Emperor campaign
• The booklet Alone in Deepfall Breach lets you play Dragonbane solo
• Huge full-color map of the Misty Vale
• Illustrated playing cards for adventures, treasure, and more
• Ten transparent polyhedral dice, including two custom D20s
• Five pre-generated characters
• Five blank character sheets
• Cardboard standees for characters and monsters
• Double-sided battle mat

The game uses a skill-based D20 system that is very easy for new players to learn. Each skill is rated from 1 to 18, and the player needs to roll equal to or lower than the skill level to succeed. That’s right – in this game you want to roll low. Rolling a natural 1 is called rolling a dragon, and triggers powerful special effects.

The core Dragonbane game has ten professions, including the classic Fighter, Mage, Hunter and Thief, but also the more unorthodox Artisan, Merchant, Mariner and Scholar. The profession will impact a player character’s starting skills and give it a starting heroic ability, but after the game starts the player is free to further develop their character in any way they choose, unbound by any class restrictions.

Dragonbane is a translation of Drakar och Demoner, Scandinavia's first and biggest tabletop RPG, launched initially in 1982. This new and reimagined edition has one foot firmly planted in the heritage of decades of Swedish gaming and the other in the modern and innovative game design for which Free League Publishing is known worldwide