Monday, February 17, 2025

Starting Five Leagues from the Borderlands

This effort will describe a miniatures wargame campaign play-through of Five Leagues from the Borderlands (3rd edition).  

Five Leagues from the Borderlands is a solo adventure wargame where you take the role of a warband of heroes and adventurers, and explore a grim world full of monsters, enemies, creeping malice, and exciting quests.

Five Leagues is a small book with limited lore and the game system relies on players to use their imagination to spin a story based on core elements and happenings which are generated randomly. The player may earn and spend "story points" to put their thumb on the scale, however nearly any event can be shown to be related (even intimately so) with just a little creativity. On the other hand, enemies and battles are meant to be adapted to your existing miniatures collection.

My world (and miniatures collection) will be styled primarily after Tolkien's Middle-Earth with influences from Howard's Hyborean Age, Salvator's Ice Wind Dale, Sapkowski's Witcher, as well as classic fantasy games like HeroQuest, and Warhammer Fantasy.

The setting and first campaign turn are now documented as "Adventures in Fey Forks."










See "Adventures in Fey Forks" for full adventures, setting description, character backgrounds, and an interactive map.

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