FORBIDDEN LANDS REFERENCE SHEET

Forbidden Lands Reference Sheet

The 16 Skills Difficulty
Strength Agility Wits Empathy Difficulty Modification
Might Stealth Scouting Manipulation Trivial +3
Endurance Sleight of Hand Lore Performance Simple +2
Melee Move Survival Healing Easy +1
Crafting Marksmanship Insight Animal Handling Average 0
Demanding -1
Range Categories (with modifiers) Hard -2
Range Description Typical Terrain Shooting Fleeing Formidable -3
Arm's right next to
— -3/+3 —
Length you Artifact Dice
few steps away, small room, Result D8 D10 D12
Near — -1
in same zone cave tunnel
6 ⚔ ⚔ ⚔
dense forest,
≤ 25 meters, in 7 ⚔ ⚔ ⚔
Short swamp, large -1 0
bordering zone
hall 8 ⚔⚔ ⚔⚔ ⚔⚔
≤ 100 meters forest, hills, city 9 — ⚔⚔ ⚔⚔
Long (4 segments) ruins, gigantic -2 +1
away hall 10 — ⚔⚔⚔ ⚔⚔⚔
-1 11 — — ⚔⚔⚔
as far as the eye plains, (open);
Distant
can see mountains
-3 (aim)
+1 12 — — ⚔⚔⚔⚔
(rough)
Conditions
Success Chances Condition Effects
Dice # Chance Pushed cannot recover Strength without magic; suffer
1 17% 29% 1 point of damage to Strength per week; death
Hungry
if your Strength is broken and you go another
2 31% 50% week without food
3 42% 64% cannot recover any attributes without magic; if
broken, must drink water to get back up again;
4 52% 74% Thirsty suffer 1 point of damage to Strength/Agility
5 60% 81% daily; death if your Strength/Agility is broken
and you go another day without water
6 67% 87%
cannot recover Wits without magic; if broken,
7 72% 90% must sleep ≥ one Quarter Day to get back up
8 77% 93% Sleepy again; suffer 1 point of damage to Wits daily,
collapse and sleep for ≥ one Quarter Day if this
9 81% 95% damage breaks you
10 84% 96% suffer 1 point of damage to Strength/Wits
immediately; possible hallucinations and
irrationality (GM discretion); continue rolling
Cold
Endurance at same interval with same effect on
fails, if Strength is broken while cold, you die
on your next roll; cannot recover Strength/Wits

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Slow Actions Typical Cover
Action Prerequisite Skill Barrier Armor Rating
Edged or Blunt Furniture 3
Slash Melee
weapon
Wooden Door 4
Stab Pointed weapon Melee
Tree Trunk 5
Punch/Kick/Bite unarmed Melee
Wooden Wall 6
Grapple unarmed Melee
Stone Wall 8
Break Free you are Grappled Melee
Shoot Ranged weapon Marksmanship Terrain Types
Persuade opponent can hear you Manipulation Type Movement Forage* Hunt
Taunt opponent can hear you Performance Plains Open Terrain -1 +1
you are a Forest Open Terrain +1 +1
Cast Spell None (Chapter 6)
Druid/Sorcerer
Dark Forest Difficult Terrain -1 0
no enemy at Arm's
Flee Move Hills Open Terrain 0 0
Length
Crawl you are prone None Mountains Difficult Terrain -2 -1

Melee Charge High Mountains Impassable — —

Charge at Near range
talent Lake/River Requires a boat or raft — 0
Marshlands Requires a raft +1 -1
Fast Actions
Quagmire Difficult Terrain -1 0
Action Prerequisite Skill
Ruins Difficult Terrain -2 -1
Dodge — Move
Parry Shield or Parrying Weapon Melee *-1 for Spring, +1 for Autumn, and -2 for Winter seasons.
Draw Hiking Distance
— —
Weapon
Terrain On Foot On Horse-Back
Swing Heavy weapon, must be performed
—
Weapon right before a close combat attack Open 2 hexes/quarter 3 hexes/quarter
Get Up you are prone — Difficult 1 hex/quarter 1 hex/quarter
Shove — Melee
Disarm target holds a weapon Melee
Light & Darkness
Spring Summer Autumn Winter
Feint enemy at Arm's Length —
Morning Light Light Light Dark
Move (in
Run no enemy at Arm's Length Rough Daytime Light Light Light Light
zone)
Evening Dark Light Dark Dark
Retreat enemy at Arm's Length Move
Nighttime Dark Dark Dark Dark
Grapple
you've Grappled an opponent Melee
Attack I put this reference sheet together after running several
Ready sessions of Forbidden Lands. I kept asking the same
Weapon
Ranged weapon — questions over and over and it bogged down our sessions a
lot more than it should have. This sheet only considers the
Aim Ranged, ≥ Short distance — rules as written (RAW) from the Player's Handbook. I hope it
Power
you are a Druid/Sorcerer
None helps you as much as it helps me.
Word (Chapter 6)
Use
~Patrick
varies varies
Item
Credit
This product was created under license. Forbidden Lands and its logo are
trademarks of Fria Ligan AB.
Layout: Patrick Higingbotham
Cover Illustrator: Jack Holliday
This work contains material that is copyright © Fria Ligan AB and/or other
authors. Such material is used with permission under the Community Content
Agreement for Free League Workshop. All other original material in this work is
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