Notes: 1) The dice set I mention at the end is hard to find and prices are inflated so it's hard to tell the retail price. 2) Yep, the history teacher misspelled "renaissance". It was 2 am. :)

The person who draw most art in this game was also involved in the first RPG publishing Company in Sweden. They released games like "Drakar och Demoner", Mutant", KULT and so on back in the 80´s and earley 90´s.

Everything from free league is amazing. Coriolis, symbaraum, tales from the loop, this. They are honestly the most exciting RPG publishing company there is, the TSR of our modern day. The lorebuilding reminds me of the visionary folk lore inspiration of tolkien for all of these games - coherent, thematic worlds.

Glad the hiatus is over. This looks sweet, but I can’t wait for the renewed maps series to continue!

we just had our first session of forbidden lands and absolutely LOVED it. cant wait to keep playing

Not what I expected to see when the video started, but I enjoyed it a lot. It's a nice throwback to the days of our youth. I loved the black&white illustrations. I usually prefer color illustrations, but these are so well done, that I am perfectly fine with them. It is a great review that gives a good idea about what the books are offering. I think the Gamemaster's Guide would be useful to any DM who wants to run a campaign to any fantasy setting.

Have played D&D for 35+ years. Our DM convinced us to try FL. Absolutely love it. Love the combat lethality, the social interaction, crafting and most of all building dice pools a la Shadowrun

Good review. Waiting for the combat system analysis.

I've watched literally a dozen reviews of this system - yours is definitely the best I've seen thus far! Very comprehensive, yet clear. You have good insights as well.

This game looks very well put together and the layout is amazing. I would want to own it for that alone. Some game play description and experience would be interesting.

Looks very cool! The art and book crafting is great!

My favourite KZfaqr has returned!!!!! 🥳 Aslo Nate congratulations in advance for 100k subs!!🥳

Nice video review! I share your love of Forbidden Lands and can't wait to get it to the table later this month!

Great review. Ordered my copy while watching

I've been so happy with their kickstarter!

You just sold this game for me. Can't wait to play!

Finally picked up the QS after being introduced to the system with Alien. Quite liking what I see in the quickstart. Lots of good info everyone should grab.

great review. thanks

Thank you for this overview. I'm already a huge fan of Symbaroum and I researched enough to convince me purchase the FL 2E Box Set as well. I'll let you know how our group gets on with it.

The intro was an exact description of my life since getting Forbidden Lands :P

Thanks for you Amazing reviews. Rewards from México

The Return of the Fantastic Map Master...

I was really wanting a new system instead of the more simple 5e. Thanks for the video I will consider picking this up!

What I like about this is that it is a system and some adventuring material

Interesting system. Reminds me of Ars Magicka, particularly the art style of the books. I’ll probably pick it up but somehow I doubt anyone will want to play it.

Get this man 4k more subs!!! :D

This RPG is amazing! Quickly became my all-time favorite.

The cover is breathtaking, I want to buy it just to put it on display

I’ve been on the fence about this game. This review has pushed me over to the ‘buy this now’ side.

Hey! Will you do one on the new Free League Alien RPG?

Along with Dragonbane, Forbidden Lands is SOLID as solo and co-op game along with both being ease of use for game masters. Also Vaesen and Symboarium with some adjustments can be turned into solo/ co-op too! Free League FTW!

Forbidden lands looks interesting will have to check it out. So have you ever looked into Dungeon World it is a PBTA fantasy game.

Not sure you'll see this but... Super curious if you ever had a chance to play? I just got FBL a couple of weeks ago. Really hoping to get a grp together this fall.

The card combat system sounds like X-Wing. A system I always wanted to translate to people combat.

seems interesting. i would watch someone play it.

your the man ...Nat

There is currently a Bundle of Holding for up to 7 of the pdfs. I came here to see if it was worth it and you sold me, though, I kinda wish I was buying a physical copy instead of pdfs...

Hi WASD20, did you ever get to play this? It has been sitting on my shelf and I am keen to play it. Not sure if I can get the numbers together unfortunately.

Sounds like MY0 but fantasy. CooL!

Love the system, also use it as my SOLO Rpg goto.

I want to get this

why do you specificaly need 3 diferent colors of d6 dice??

How do you play these type of books?do you need a board?im new to them but like the look if tales from the loop.just never played one and haven't got a clue about what this book is

1:38 OMG that spelling..... But seriously, the artwork alone makes me want to buy this game!

Hey Nate :D Have you played the game yet? I'd love to hear some follow up thoughts :D

This looks really cool. What is the feasibility of having combat as a tactical, miniatures on the table sort of thing?

Im playing a young orc female druid super fun.

Great review on this. I'm interested in getting this just for something different. I've been playing D&D for years, 2nd edition mostly. I didn't like 3rd, 4th was better but I love 5th. I wish something like this was around back then. It seems simple yet effective. You have a good amount of options but not too many. In D&D it can be overwhelming to be anything but a human fighter at first. Plus I like the change of "just surviving" aspect. I'm just wondering if it's a crawl game, how much role playing is there to it? Thanks for the review. Keep up the awesome work!

And next we have Forbidden Lands - The Bitter Reach Campaign and Reprint

DMing my first session of this on Tuesday after watching your review. Have you played it yet?

Could you enjoy this with one DM and one PC playing multiples?

How did I miss this game? or did I? This look very much like a distilled, tweaked version of the classic swedish fantasy roleplaying game "Drakar och demoner" (Dragons and Demons), from mid 80's to early 90's (with its expansions and editions). A game I played alot when I was young. Most (if not all) of the art in this is actually from that classic core game (probably because this is also swedish and probably from some of the same guys). The stronghold segment, and some other parts, contains some stuff from the "Drakar och Demoner" expansion "Gigant", that had rules for Strongholds, Lands, Taxes/Income/Expenses, Hirelings, Armies, Battles and more. This seem to have put some better collected focus on survival though. The old game lacked a cohesive ruleset for that, but it contained parts of it scattered all over (so it was often forgotten or overlocked), even if the backstory/intro and the classes was more or less the same. Its a harsch world, and you are NOT a hero, from the beginning, just a adventurer trying to do a mark, and survive. Now it looks like they actually included a real ruleset, with what you can do, like making camp, resting, forraging etc. The old games had the details (skills), but no frame for how to use it. Now you have. Good. They also changed the "dice mechanic" to this new one with D6's, and Pushing it, and Willpower (like Mutant Year Zero, and other games from them). Originally it was D100 (%) based, and in later edition changed into D20 system. In my head I think I like this new system. This brings back memories. I like it. I need to see if I can get this and play it some day. PS: I miss the Duck-kins though (used to be a playable race). Have to do a homebrew for them. ;) Cheers.

Should I buy this?

Forbidden Lands has so far been the most exciting and awe inspiring RPG I've played (Vaesen is a close second). I absolutely adore RPGs where the game mechanics encourage IC roleplaying over combat

So it's been 4 years and no follow up video, did you get a chance to play it? What did you think?

This looks like a great system! I've been on a tear, reading tons of different RPG systems. I may have to add this to my reading list. I'm currently running LMoP, but during my 2 year career as DM, I've found 5th edition lacking in some key areas for me. I think it's a great game, but I long for a way to make magic seem rare and dangerous, rather than ubiquitous as it is in 5th edition from the books. I've been exploring a plethora of different systems, namely Dungeon Crawl Classics, Index Card RPG and am currently reading Dungeon World. I think my path forward is going to be using DCC as the core system, with some of the quality of life improvements 5th edition provides, as well as incorporating ideas from ICRPG and DW. I'm excited to wrap up my 5th edition campaign and embark into my homebrew mishmash!

Cool

I love being a gamer. I got this cool new book...puts on shelf. One day I might play you...

I wish I could afford this

How did this game hold up after a couple of years. How are the supplements?

sounds like a very Conan esque game...Kewl!!!

TL;DW Combat-focused, inventory management old D&D converted into a dice pool system. Has some tables and lore. Seems like a good system if you've never played, want combat, and only want to buy one product. What to steal: Failure = reward later _(which should be in all modern RPGs anyway)_

It seems quite cumbersome. I would love to see some people who are comfortable with the game playing a session.

Ah, talking xvart!

They send you the product free of charge. So it's a sponsored video.

"Now the level of hatred between each races is pretty obvious, [...] I'm not exactly sure how cohesive a party with multiple kin will be." If elves can work along side lumberfoots during the End Times, then anything is possible.

Thanks for reviewing this. Here are some random comments: This game looks like it has some good ideas. None of them are really new though. It looks simple, beer and pretzels, fun to play and limited in the odd sort of way that many of these modern games are. But it also seems to incorporate elements of a table-top game, like Gloomhaven or maybe Dark Tower. (Who remembers that?) It reminds me a bit of Steve Jackson's The Fantasy Trip to a certain degree from the way that you describe it. The engine is obviously quite a bit different though. The problem that I have with it is that the game looks too limited in an odd compartmentalized way. I do not see this game as being old school at all. I see it trying to emulate certain aspects of those kind of games. It looks like it succeeds in some cases and falls short in others. It seems like they tried to make a boardgame and an RPG for Millennials (sorry guys). I like that it has skills. I kinda like that it has classes too, a little bit, maybe . . . ok not really. I do not like classes. I like that the characters are not heroes. I think what they meant with that is that it is more Batman than Superman. You seem to be worried about the alignment aspects of that, but when we look at the world, people seem to always be rationalizing some infraction that they committed vs. the pristine codex that they allegedly follow. Just look at the church or the police or the government. Let's face it alignment is mostly just a façade. Every now and then someone does something "good" and that is really cool, but also amazing. 70 spells are ok. That is a good streamlined number to start with. Of course there will be expansions. Games like this always have expansions. It seems like the pins you down to a generic world that looks like maybe it could change from scenario to scenario. Kind of like a Candyland with variable encounters? Hmm. Not sure I like that either. I suppose it is ok for a few sessions, but what does it have over a game like D&D 1st edition? Simplicity perhaps? The game takes a lot of admittedly neat ideas and tries to string them together into some kind of a limited beer and pretzels RPG. How effectively it does all that remains to be seen. Most of these games do not do it very well. The limitedness bothers me. I do not see how it has anything over any of the older classic RPG games where a dungeon master could create a rich and dynamic world. Why would I spend my money on this when I could have the former? I think the answer is work. You are working all the time. You just want to get together with some friends and play something without all the prep. This game gives you a good skeleton for that, the question is can you put more meat on the bones or does the game curtail that? I do like the art!

Thanks Nate! Good review. So I bought the PDF version a while ago to see what all the fuss was about, and found it a little "meh". While I thought some of the mechanics were good (like the monster attacks you mention), I was unimpressed by the writing and also just kept thinking, "yeah, but this is just like the games I used to play in the '80s, so why is it so special". I wonder if it all seems new and different to people who have only experienced 5e. But haven't played it so can't really comment fairly yet.

It looks like a fine product, but many similar out there. You haven't told my why I would want to play this system over other systems. That said, Symbaroum looks fantastic and I can definitely imagine playing that game.

Nate are you related to Rhykker? O.o

Could you play this without magic?

From the cover, I was getting Dark Sun mood, pity the setting isn't like that. :(

This game looks cool as someone who grew up in the 80s but has never gotten into D&D. But, are people actually playing it?

The gold has been torn from my books also and I have been very careful with them, they cheaped out with bad quality. =/ I love the world, art and idea!! But, I dont like the system. Its to simple for a sandbox game. It works for pure storytelling games were its all about the story. But it doesnt belong in this kind of game imo. This game could have been one of the best newer games out now, but sadly to say it was open, read, tested and will probably never used again. The system killed it for us. They should have gone with the real basic rpg, that would have been MUCH better. If I have the time, I will try and convert the game to BRPG instead.

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So the question system is like RIFTS XP system.

lol...5th edition.

Well, nothing is stoping you from acting heroic, no? It's just not the main purpose of your story. At least, that's what I gathered. So, in fact, it might be pretty fun to play a completely heroic character as a fish-out-of-water.

It's okay to play other rpg games D&D doesn't own the world!

About the animosity between the Kins, In my opinion those write ups are from unreliable narrators. If you read them carefully you'll see that they're written from a single person's perspective and that person clearly has a strong bia for their Kin and the other Kins.

I love the interior art and I feel that the interior art fits the game perfectly. I can't stand the box art though. 😀 It looks like a science fantasy game and doesn't fit the atmosphere of FL at all imo.

Great review. The fact that the chance of throwing a hit and a disaster are the same means this game is definitely not for me. Unless I've missed something in the review,. the more dice you throw makes no difference, one die and 10 dice carry the same chance of success and the same chance of failure. Nope, doesn't work.

Lol 3rd view ooga booga

WTF

1. The interior art is dope. 2. XP questions and Willpower looks like World of Darkness. 3. 4 attributes like in GURPS or Oko Yrrhedesa (Andrzej Sapkowski's rpg). 4. NO LEVELS - good. Levels sucks. I'm baffled that TSR went down the line with this broken concept. 5. Did you suffer from your dark secret? - Wow. Even Kult reference is there. 6. d6 based. Nice. Recently more games use this type of these, which is most common. And long known games like Shadowrun or GURPS are based on d6s as well. 7. Actions that are open to anyone at any time during combat. Well... That's what some people call free form. You don't need any table, or rules for that. Just use your common sense. Simple and also the best solution you can have. Players should use their brains not rules. Rules are for GMs only. The better GM describes the scene, the better ideas players can have. Stop using maps and develop your storytelling skills. 8. Dice pool mechanic. World of Darkness, Shadowrun, Sibirpunk, Wiedźmin - gra wyobraźni (Hexer/Witcher - game of imagination, yep. There is a Polish Geralt of Rivia game released in early 2000s that's d6 based and use dice pool mechanic). 9. No "balanced encounters"? Good. Life isn't balanced. Life is savage. Bad things 1. 10:38 Well... That's not how warhammer looks like. The longer handle, the bigger momentum, the bigger force it has. Impact are shouldn't be as big as on this picture and one end should have a spike for piercing armour. That's a devastating warhammer. 2. Hexmap stickers. R'ly? 3. Villages, castles and dungeons. Wait. What?! No ships, inns, sewers or brothels? 4. Horns on helmets. R'ly? That's as lame as it can be. Plus not wise when going into combat.

You gave a review to a game you haven't run yet? my god man, what merit could you gleam from it without using it?

Wow, I can't wait to play as a halfling, elf, dwarf or orc in a tabletop RPG for the 1000th time! I really admire the work behind this and similar games, but the lack of originality makes me lose any interest I had. The first LotR book is older than both me and my dad, yet the overwhelming majority of fantasy stories and games still use the same characters and settings to this day.