Ruins of Symbaroum Gamemaster’s Guide

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Ruins of Symbaroum – Gamemaster’s Guide

The Ruins of Symbaroum – Gamemaster’s Guide is a 200-page tome offering inspiration, guidelines and optional rules that will help you when designing adventures and running game sessions in the world of Symbaroum using the 5th Edition OGL ruleset.

In the book

• Extensive information on the capital city of Yndaros, the fortune hunter’s town of Thistle Hold, and Karvosti, the cliff of the High Chieftain and the Huldra.
• Guidelines and tables for placing adventures in the Underworld, Yonderworld and Spirit World.
• Advanced rules regarding expeditions into the forest of Davokar, to be used when designing or randomly creating thrilling treasure hunts, journeys of exploration and other kinds of wilderness adventures.
• Informed instructions and guidelines regarding the design of game worlds, adventures, and epic campaigns.
• A chapter on how to make in-game rewards more interesting and tailored to different player types. Includes twenty-seven mystical artifacts, each with its own adventure setup.
• A long list of optional rules, regarding advanced traps, troupe play, ceremonial magic, managing domains, pitched battles, pact making, social challenges, and more.
• The one-shot adventure Blight Night, set at the edge of Davokar Forest, as an example of how adventure landscapes in Symbaroum can be built.

About Ruins of Symbaroum for 5E

Ruins of Symbaroum invites you to join in the adventure! Explore the vast Forest of Davokar in the hunt for treasure, lost wisdom and fame. Visit the barbarian clans to trade or to plunder their treasuries. Establish a base of power among princes, guilds or rebellious refugees in the capital city of Yndaros. Or survive encounters with arch trolls, dark-minded blight beasts and undead warlords. Whatever you do, never ignore the warnings spoken by the wardens of the forest. Tread carefully and do not disturb the ruins of old, for the darkness of Davokar is about to awaken…

With the Ruins of Symbaroum game line, the acclaimed setting of Symbaroum comes to the world’s most popular roleplaying game. Symbaroum emphasizes survival, tough choices, and the inherent dangers of a forest said to stir ancient evil.

A significant addition to the 5E system is a corruption system where characters can accumulate corruption points. This leads to permanent marks on their character and introduces a new layer of risk, particularly when using magic.