Forbidden Rules (Shadow of the Demon Lord)

Forbidden Rules provides a comprehensive set of variant and optional rules for use with Shadow of the Demon Lord, letting you reshape the game in a variety of different ways. Whether you’re looking for a points-based casting system or basic rules to kick off games beyond level 10, this supplement has it. Inside this book, you’ll find: - Dice rules that range from cooperative tasks to consistent damage, bell curve rolls, and variants in which players make all the rolls. - More marks of darkness and rules for using fortune points. - Damage reducing armor rules - Wounds to replace damage - Modified dying and death rules - Variant healing methods - Social combat rules - Variant combat options, such as initiative or guidelines for running abstract combats - New ways to use actions in combat plus details on how to handle chases - Optional rules for customizing ancestries - A skill variant to replace professions - A new adept novice path - A system of power points to replace castings! - Plu