Five Leagues from the Borderlands
Five Leagues From the Borderlands is a narrative-driven solo or co-op adventure wargame that throws your band of adventurers into a dark and dangerous fantasy world. Combining miniature skirmishes with rich storytelling, it’s a game of exploration, combat, and survival where every campaign becomes a unique tale of struggle and triumph.
Product Info:
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Complete fantasy adventure wargame for solo or cooperative play
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Features character creation, campaign progression, and exploration mechanics
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Procedurally generated missions and encounters for endless replayability
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Playable with any fantasy miniatures you already own
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Includes rules for combat, loot, exploration, and evolving story arcs
About the Game:
In Five Leagues From the Borderlands, you lead a warband through villages, ruins, and wild frontiers plagued by raiders, monsters, and dark powers. Every battle tells part of a larger narrative shaped by your choices, dice rolls, and the dangers of the world. Blending RPG-style character growth with tactical miniature battles, the game offers a deeply immersive fantasy experience where no two campaigns are alike.
Why Choose Five Leagues From the Borderlands?
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Perfect for solo players or small groups seeking narrative-driven campaigns
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Combines RPG progression with tactical miniature skirmishes
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Infinitely replayable thanks to randomized encounters and evolving storylines
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Flexible system—use any fantasy miniatures in your collection
Inside this 232-page full colour royal-sized (15.6cm x 23.4cm) hardback book, you’ll discover:
- Fast-moving miniatures agnostic rules, developed specifically for solo and co-op adventure wargaming with a procedurally generating campaign world. All you need is a handful of six-sided dice, a pair of percentile dice, some paper and pens.
- Create a warband of hard-as-nails adventurers, whether human or one of 5 other origins, and follow their story! Develop their skills, gain spells and magical weapons!
- Explore and map out the game world, meet people on the road, discover ancient ruins, fearful villages and brooding lairs all the while engaging in desperate battles.
- Undertake epic quests, face off against fearsome monsters and foil the enemies’ plans as they are revealed to you.
- A host of random tables and systems provide unexpected challenges and seeds for new adventures in a living, breathing world that will unfold before your eyes.
- Several options to tailor the game difficulty to your tastes, as well as mechanics to add your own narrative elements.
This is the third edition (first time in print) of Ivan Sorensen’s community favorite Five Leagues From the Borderlands, and has over 50 pages more than its sister book Five Parsecs From Home. If you are a returning player from a previous edition, this third edition includes conversion rules to bring your game up to speed!
