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FORBIDDEN LANDS – THE BITTER REACH

Designer: Various | Publisher: Free League

If Forbidden Lands’ fog-shrouded aura of doom hasn’t been quite bleak enough for your tastes so far, The Bitter Reach may well be just the thing to scratch that melancholy itch. Straddling the gulf between setting guide and full campaign, the beautifully built book paints a snowdusted portrait of frozen wastes, evil kings, and rampaging demons in a land where the weather can kill as surely as any monster’s claw.

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