Forbidden Lands campaign notes

A dangerous frontier fantasy where explorers cross newly opened wild lands, uncover ruins, and try not to get eaten on the road.

RealmBinder turns your table's rough notes or recordings into a shared record of the campaign: session recaps, characters, places and quests. Set the campaign to Forbidden Lands and it knows the kind of story you are telling.

The griffin dive, a campaign cover for Forbidden Lands Explorers
A ready-made campaign cover from Forbidden Lands Explorers.

2 Forbidden Lands campaign frames

Choose a frame when you set up the campaign, or keep just the system. The frame picks the covers you start from, sets the look of the art, and tells RealmBinder the setting when it tidies your notes.

Into the elven vault, a campaign cover for Forbidden Lands Explorers

Forbidden Lands Explorers

Adventurers explore a once-forbidden wilderness now open after centuries of isolation and accumulated bad ideas.

  • exploration
  • survival
  • ruins
  • wilderness
Raiders at the ditch, a campaign cover for Settlement Builders

Settlement Builders

Characters attempt to build and protect a new settlement in lands that are deeply unconvinced by the idea.

  • building settlements
  • frontier life
  • defense
  • community

What changes in a Forbidden Lands campaign

Notes that keep the right tone

When RealmBinder rewrites a session or the Chronicler asks you about one, it is told what a Forbidden Lands story sounds like. It uses that for tone only: what your table wrote down always wins.

Tone
Adventurous, dangerous, and scrappy.
Focus
Travel, exploration, survival, local threats, and emergent stories.

Beside your other tools

RealmBinder isn't a character sheet, a rules reference or a virtual tabletop. Keep playing Forbidden Lands the way you do and link the character sheet you already use.

Characters in the game's own words

Player character profiles ask for a class, species and background, the terms Forbidden Lands players already use.

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