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Grimdark for 5e: The talented illustrators of impressive Blood Sword art gallery
Blood Sword is a 5e campaign setting that’s funded on Kickstarter and will close in days. Blood Sword was also a grimdark choose-your-own-adventure gamebook from the 80s, and that’s what the 5e setting is based on.
Blood Sword brings 80s grimdark to Dungeons & Dragons
The Blood Sword 5e Handbook will contain approximately 250 richly illustrated and colored pages with maps, characters, opponents, monsters and other evocative images of Legend, a land of adventurers threatened by unspeakable horrors.
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It feels like a spicy week, with plenty of news and a noticeable uptick in Kickstarter activity. Oh, and the powerhouse Marvel returning to roleplaying games.
Free to Download: Blood Sword 5e quickstart
Blood Sword is the sword of life, the only weapon capable of opposing the power of the evil Wizards of Krarth who threaten the Lands of Legend.