To the Ice Caves – For Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland

In Maskwitches, players take the role of maskwitches who respond to the problems of the hunter-gatherer communities of Forgotten Doggerland. These problems frequently manifest as strange and horrific creatures the witches must defeat in ritualised magical warfare.

Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland uses The Silver Road rules.

In The Silver Road each character has two things they’re good at and two things they are bad at. In Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland, these take the form of the masks the witches wear, and amulets they carry. Witches are able to trade and change their masks, making their characters’ identities extremely fluid.

Maskwitches Redux presents as a standalone, 168 page softcover, 21cm square, full colour, perfect-bound book. There is the option to get a hardcover if you’re feeling fancy.

There are three new sections to the Redux edition:

• Optional rules for tracking injury by using your group’s masks as a resource pool that comes under pressure during play. Including an optional rule for what happens if a witch has no masks left.
• Theres a new section that optionally provides players with a handful of things that their witches know. Which provides some inspiration from the get go, and ideas for your character. It’s ideal for groups who aren’t used to picking up the story ball and kicking it at the horizon. It’s a starting point.
• There’s also a new section on what to do if you really don’t have masks or amulets that relate to the current obstacle and you just cannot figure out any kind of creative way to use what you do have.

In addition to the imagined Mesolithic setting, Maskwitches also presents a 1970s setting in the vein of the novels of Susan Cooper and Alan Garner to overlay the core setting, with Doggerland events taking place in flashback, and significant objects and entities connected across the ages.