Forbidden Lands Reference Sheet
After running several sessions of Forbidden Lands, I kept finding myself stopping to look up the same handful of rules:
- How far is Short range again?
- What’s the modifier for a Hard task?
- How much cover does that stone wall provide?
None of the questions were particularly complicated, but repeatedly looking them up was bogging down the sessions. So, I created the Forbidden Lands Reference Sheet and published it to DriveThruRPG. It’s a compact two-page collection of the rules and tables I found myself reaching for most often (which was essentially everything).
What’s on the Reference Sheet?
It includes quick-reference tables for the game’s 16 skills, difficulty modifiers, range categories, success probabilities, artifact dice, and conditions.
It also collects several frequently used combat and exploration rules, including slow and fast actions, typical cover ratings, terrain modifiers, hiking distances, and seasonal light conditions.
The idea isn’t to replace the Player’s Handbook. It’s to keep the information you’re likely to need repeatedly within easy reach so you can spend less time flipping through pages and more time engaged in the action.
Everything on the sheet is drawn from the rules as written in the Forbidden Lands Player’s Handbook.
Get the Forbidden Lands Reference Sheet on DTRPGMore Forbidden Lands
One of the things I like most about Forbidden Lands is the way its mechanics encourage players to take risks rather than simply conserve resources. I explored one particularly interesting example of that in “Push or Be Powerless: The Willpower Economy in Forbidden Lands.”
Are you looking for other material to use in your own Ravenlands campaign? Go read “Wailer’s Hold is Abandoned.” I explain what happened when my party wandered into the supposedly empty settlement.
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