Symbaroum celebrates 10th anniversary with new Kickstarter, new campaign setting

Free League Publishing is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its dark fantasy RPG Symbaroum with a new Kickstarter that offers a reorganized core rulebook set plus a brand new campaign setting. Launching on May 19th, the Symbaroum Anniversary Kickstarter will feature two products - revised core rulebooks that organizes the original rulebooks into three books, plus the brand new City States of Vendilyn – A Ravaged Realm book.

Symbaroum is a dark fantasy RPG with an emphasis on gritty and deadly gameplay. The core mechanic uses a D20 roll under system, with additional modular rules that allows players to customize their game easily. A 5E variant of the game was also released.

The full description of the books being offered for the Kickstarter are below:

• Core Rulebook: Provides everything needed to bring Symbaroum to the table, including a tutorial adventure, guidelines for creating homebrew scenarios, and an introduction to the dark and foreboding Davokar region.
• Gamemaster’s Guide: Offers advanced guidance for running Symbaroum, including support for campaign building, adventure creation, and optional rules for large-scale battles, advanced traps, and social scheming.
• Davokar Creature Codex: A detailed bestiary presenting the monsters and people players will encounter on their travels, featuring updated practical stat blocks while building on the legacy of the award-winning Monster Codex.
• City States of Vendilyn – A Ravaged Realm: A full-color hardcover volume introducing the City States of Vendilyn as a campaign setting where survivors struggle to endure after the once-peaceful realm was devastated by the malevolent elves of Duskwood.

 

[dbm]

Reading the description on Kickstarter it looks like the new set features a different location in the same world. So my guess is the original stuff may stay available but the default start location for the game is moving.

 

[Autumnal]

Looks good to me.

 

[numtini]

I'm skeptical. The setting is AAA, but the system is so easily broken and needs not just repackaging, but also a pretty extensive review and it doesn't sound like the latter is happening.

 

[...m...]

Nope.

...i expect ruins of symbaroum outsells the original; their support has been unwavering across all new releases since its introduction...

 

[Superchunk77]

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...i expect ruins of symbaroum outsells the original; their support has been unwavering across all new releases since its introduction...

Maybe in a far distant future Kickstarter. But not this one. Free League stated they have been backing away from 5e "for a while now" and have no plans at this time to return to it.