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

sevenbastard · Tuesday at 3:28 PM

I might pick up

Christian Hoffer said:
City States of Vendilyn – A Ravaged Realm book.

I dont need another system, but Free Leauge books are always so well put together and if the setting looks cool I can always convert it.

Fenris-77 · Tuesday at 3:50 PM

The art! Oh, that wonderful art.

jerryrice4949 · Tuesday at 5:24 PM

City States of Vendilyn – A Ravaged Realm:

Any chance this is system neutral. I am not going to be playing in that system but would love the setting.

Staffan · Tuesday at 5:52 PM

Interesting. I've often used Symbaroum as an example of a way to provide adventures in the form of a Big Campaign alongside campaign setting material (a technique the people behind Symbaroum also used in Mutant: Undergångens Arvtagare). However, the disadvantage of that approach (at least if you have escalating adventures which you want in this model) is that at the end, you've often "used up" the setting. So rebooting the same game but with a different setting seems like a convenient way of resetting that cycle.

nyvinter · Tuesday at 6:31 PM

I usually like their settings but here I'm also very interested to see how they've improved the system. Parts of Symbaroum 1e were rougher than they should have been.

Elvish Lore · Tuesday at 7:47 PM

The new setting sounds great, I'm definitely picking this up.

But I'll say, the existing system needs quite a bit more than being "lightly revised".

Belen · Tuesday at 11:51 PM

Yes, but will they release it for the 5e version too?

Superchunk77 · Tuesday at 11:58 PM

Belen said:
Yes, but will they release it for the 5e version too?

Nope.

Willie the Duck · Wednesday at 1:40 AM

nyvinter said:
I usually like their settings but here I'm also very interested to see how they've improved the system. Parts of Symbaroum 1e were rougher than they should have been.

This is what piques my curiosity. The best part of Symbaroum (outside of the art, obviously) has always been the evocative setting. The game system, less so. To re-do the former while retaining the later to me seems like a non-starter, yet Free League are no fools, so I'm curious what they have in mind.