Distant Lands
A downloadable game
Distant Lands is a 44 page ttrpg rulebook for running sword & sorcery or dark fantasy games where magic is rare, and dangerous, and the threat of corruption always looms.
It includes rules for classless, random character generation, dungeon and wilderness exploration procedures, spellbooks, artifacts and a bestiary.
It is based on Cairn by Yochai Gal and Weird North by Jim Parkin. All art is by Perplexing Ruins.
Text licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.
| Updated | 4 days ago |
| Status | In development |
| Category | Physical game |
| Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (4 total ratings) |
| Author | River Grimm |
| Tags | cairn, cairn-hack, rules-lite, sorcery, swordandsorcery, Swords, swordsorcery, Tabletop role-playing game |
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Development log
- Text-only version available4 days ago
- v1.0 Released, online SRD available.15 days ago
- More monsters, a collection of artifacts, and new spellbooks34 days ago
- Wilderness Events table added to pdf42 days ago
- Character sheet now available!44 days ago







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Love it, thanks for posting about my game!
Good simple hack, I like the way the chaotic magic makes spellcasting feel more unpredictable and dangerous.
Love the cover art
Thanks for checking out! And yes, I'm a big fan Perplexing Ruins, his art is just the right amount of weird to me.