Forbidden Lands is a gritty, low-fantasy role-playing game published by Free League. It’s a hex crawl – an exploration-focused game in which humans, elves, goblins, and other species expand into a once-cursed land.
This page gathers resources supporting the Forbidden Lands RPG. Suggest more resources by leaving a comment or emailing us at podcast@lairofsecrets.com.
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Official Forbidden Lands Websites
- Forbidden Lands Official Homepage – Learn about the game, find out about new releases, buy the game. You can download free resources like PDFs of the character sheet, the world map (and those of its expansions), and adventure sites.
- Quickstart Rules & Adventure – Per the site, the free 152-page free PDF “gives you a taste of the Forbidden Lands experience, including rules for skills, combat and travel, and the complete Weatherstone adventure site.”
- Free League Forums – The official forums for all of Free League’s games, including Forbidden Lands (with a general, GM only, and Swedish forums)
Character Sheets & Rules References
- Forbidden Sheets (Webpage) – A good looking, web-based character sheet. You can import and export your character’s information. You can use it online or print the sheet and use it offline.
- Github site for Forbidden Sheets, which includes the code for the website. Translations are available in Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
- Rendered Player and Stronghold sheets
- Reddit: Character and Stronghold Sheets (Form Fillable PDFs) – Fillable and printable PDFs.
- Reddit: Player Reference Sheet – Rules cheat sheet for Forbidden Lands.
- Custom Gamemaster Screens (Google Drive) – Custom screens available as PDFs or Word; great as quick references during your game.
- Forbidden Lands Companion – Create a new character from scratch or based on a template. Also includes a Forbidden Lands-specific dice roller.
Dice for Forbidden Lands
Forbidden Lands is a dice pool game and uses custom dice, which are standard dice with added markings to indicate successes and failures.
- Official Dice – Custom dice sold by Free League, which includes:
- Four D6 Base Dice
- Three D6 Skill Dice
- Two D6 Gear Dice
- One D8 Artifact Die
- One D10 Artifact Die
- One D12 Artifact Die
- RPG.net (Discussion): Reasonable and satisfying alternatives to custom dice – Alternatives to buying the official dice, which look great, but can be expensive and/or hard to find.
- Forbidden Lands Companion: Dice – Fan-built online dice roller.
- Dice: An app that lets you design and roll custom dice (nifty, but there’s a small charge to unlock the “custom dice” premium feature).
Fan Forums
- Unofficial Discord – The officially unofficial Discord.
- Reddit: The subreddit dedicated to the game. Lots of good conversations and advice.
Maps
- Smoke Raven: Campaign Maps – Downloadable versions of the core map and the Bitter Reach map, with and without hexes.
- Free League – Map & Stickers – The boxed set comes with a map … and site stickers to put on it. This fills some geeks with horror, since it makes the map a one-use item. This replacement map solves that problem.
Tools
- Forbidden Lands Wiki – A fan-created wiki for the RPG.
- Random Swedish Name Generator – Generates random Swedish names based on the PC and NPC names that appear in the Swedish version of the game.
- Perchance Generators – A bunch of great generators for the game, from traps to critical wounds to mishaps to finds.
- Perchance: Dungeons – Creates a rundown of a dungeon site, including the background, description, and list of rooms found. There’s no visual map.
- Perchance: Castles & Keeps – A text-only fortification generator, including a brief backstory and its current inhabitants.
- Perchance: Monster Generator– Random generator for creating monsters and animals, containing a full stat block and backstory.
- Perchance: Villages – Summary of a village, its inhabitants, and a notable location or two.
- Perchance: Weather – A one day, one-line weather generator.
- Perchance: Demon Generator – Creates a random demon stat block.
- Wyrm Tales: a random content generator for the Forbidden Lands RPG.
- Yxans Llagan: Tools for running you games, including legend creation, random encounters, monsters, calendars, and a dynamic map for hex crawling. It’s a fantastic resource for the traditional game as well as solo play.
Real World Resources
Tutorials
- World of Game Design: How to Play
- Legion of Myth: Let’s create a character
- Thomas Boulton: Basics Playlist
Virtual Table Tops
- Roll20 – A fan-made character sheet for the game, including dice pools.
- Foundry – Various official modules supporting the game.
Featured Image Meta
Cover art from the Forbidden Lands boxed set. Credit: Free League.