About Dolmenwood

  • Adventure and Peril in Fairytale Woods

    Dolmenwood is a fantasy adventure game set in a lavishly detailed world inspired by the fairy tales and eerie folklore of the British Isles. Like traditional fairy tales, Dolmenwood blends the dark and whimsical, the wondrous and weird.

    Following a hugely successful Kickstarter, Dolmenwood is available to pre-order now.
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  • Core Books

    Dolmenwood comes as a set of three lavishly illustrated hardcover books. The Dolmenwood Player’s Book contains the complete game rules plus all character options. The Dolmenwood Campaign Book and Dolmenwood Monster Book present a detailed campaign setting and bestiary, ready for years of adventure.

  • Characters

    Players can be a proud, goat-headed breggle, a starry-eyed elf stepped straight from Fairy, a tricksome grimalkin cat-fairy, a worldly or hapless human, a fungus-riddled mossling, or a capricious, bat-faced woodgrue. Choose from nine classes: the charming bard, ardent cleric, wilful enchanter, dashing fighter, jolly friar, stealthy hunter, haughty knight, enigmatic magician, or wily thief.

  • Open Sandbox World

    Simple, flavourful rules for travel, exploration, and camping lead characters on adventures across the tangled expanse of the Dolmenwood map. Players can explore 200 map hexes, visit 12 detailed settlements, meet over 280 NPCs, and meddle with the schemes of 7 major factions: the Cold Prince, the Drune, the Human Nobility, the Longhorn Nobility, the Pluritine Church, and the Witches.

  • Familiar, Streamlined Rules

    Dolmenwood uses a streamlined version of the acclaimed Old-School Essentials rules system, customised and expanded for the setting. Anyone who’s played a game with six ability scores, classes, hit points, armour class, and saving throws can pick up Dolmenwood in no time.

  • Designed for Play

    Modern formatting and layout make the game easy to learn and a breeze to reference during play. Clear procedures for travel, camping, settlements, dungeons, encounters, and combat make running the game smooth and easy. PDFs are enhanced with clickable hex maps and text hyperlinks for instant navigation.

  • Adventures, Minis, and More

    In addition to the core books, we will be publishing a range of extras, including:

    • Four adventures set in Dolmenwood: The Fungus That Came to Blackeswell, The Ruined Abbey of St Clewyd, Emelda’s Song, Winter’s Daughter.
    • A set of 11 resin player character miniatures, including the unique new Dolmenwood kindreds and classes.
    • A Dolmenwood referee's screen, featuring beautiful 4-panel art by Pauliina Hanninuemi.
    • Cloth and poster maps of Dolmenwood, including a referee's hex map and a player-friendly map.
    • A 10 track Dolmenwood soundtrack album by the artist Tales Under The Oak, available as 12" LP and digital download.
    • A full set of Dolmenwood fungal dice.

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