THE DRAGONWILDS is a classic fantasy hex-crawl campaign setting presented as a pair of jam-packed zines lavishly illustrated by the talented DC Stow. Designed for Realms of Peril and compatible with OSR systems.
Currently in Development & Coming 2025!
📗 THE DRAGONWILDS GAZETTEER is a complete reference guide containing a massive, fully-stocked hex crawl adventure map with detailed regions, cities and towns, NPCs, factions, guilds, and more. 70+ pages, spot color, soft-touch, staple-bound zine.
📙 THE DRAGONWILDS COMPENDIUM is where all the evil, wretched, dark things hide. Here you’ll find more than a dozen interactive and re-usable dungeons populated by terrible foes and vexing puzzles. Monster stats can also be found here, along with descriptions of all the wondrous magical items lucky adventurers might unearth. 70+ pages, spot color, soft-touch, staple-bound zine.
⚔️ The Dragonwilds is designed to be an example West Marches hex-crawl setting that you could create using the processes described in Realms of Peril. If you haven’t seen Realms of Peril yet, check it out here!
⚔️ It will be easily usable with games like: Old-School Essentials, Knave, Maze Rats, The GLOG, Troika, Cairn, Rogueland, Dungeon World, World of Dungeons, Into the Odd, Five Torches Deep, and similar games.
📗 Book #1 focuses on the overland map. Grab this one if you want a big, densely populated hex crawl that your group can spend dozens of sessions exploring. Use with book #2 for the full experience!
📗 Nearly 250 hexes with something interesting to find in each and every one. Encounters with wayward knights looking to joust? Yep. Sea caves infested with giant crabs? Check. Hidden elf enclave guarded by intoxicating illusions? It’s there. Ominous mountain with entrance to underworld dungeon labyrinth? Come and see what there is to see, if you dare! Gorgeous regional map by illustrator DC Stow.
📗 More than 30 detailed and unique regions, each with their own flavor and random encounter tables. Each zone is something different to experience, with unique flora and fauna and flavorful landscape features. No matter which way the adventurers go, there’s something special about where they end up.
📗 Powerful and petty factions who vie for power across the vast territory. Each faction is detailed with agendas, agents, leaders, allies, and enemies. Play them against the adventurers and watch the sparks fly!
📗 9 steadings (some safe, some not) for adventurers to carouse, resupply, recover, hear rumors, and accept quests. Presented clearly with notable NPCs, shops, and establishments detailed with only the most useful and flavorful bits. Beautiful custom maps by illustrator DC Stow.
📙 Book #2 focuses on the overland map dungeons, monsters, and treasures. Grab this one if you want a bunch of neat, old-school dungeons to drop into your existing campaign. Use with book #1 for the full experience!
📙 More than a dozen dungeons, ranging in size from small to huge, for adventurers to plunder and die in. Dungeons are designed to be easy to use at the table, putting the important “need to know” facts right up front, followed by the less obvious details that require some examination or interaction to uncover. Beautiful custom maps by illustrator DC Stow.
📙 A horde of horrendous monsters lurking in darkness, ready for you to unleash upon the world. Monsters aren’t scary because they have a lot of hit points or a high armor class, they’re scary because they’re vicious, clever, relentless, and unpredictable. Some familiar, some never before seen.
📙 An array of amazing new OSR-style magical items and curious artifacts. Items are designed to be simple, evocative, and useful. Some might be cool and powerful weapons, but most just make for entertaining problem solving and creative utility.
📦 For pre-orders, you do not pay shipping now.
📦 You will pay shipping when the products are ready to start shipping out, sometime in October. We use USPS to ship.
📦 The following are estimates based on current shipping prices (plus packaging and labeling costs) and are subject to change, as per the USPS.
📦 Shipping in the US and Puerto Rico should be $5 for up to two zines. For the boxed sets, shipping should be $10. If you’re in the state of Washington, there will also be sales tax paid at this time.
📦 For Canada and Mexico, shipping for a single zine is $15. Shipping for two zines or the boxed set is $20.
📦 For all other countries, a single zine ships for $15. Two zines or the boxed set ships for $25.
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