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Wrack & Ruin
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by Darrin Drader, Greg Dent, Kevin Melka, and Todd Laing
On Sale Now at better hobby and game stores!
The great City of Penance is the oldest settlement on the Forge, literally containing millions of years of history in its deep hulking mass. Though nearly forty million souls call the city home, less than half of one percent of the city's locations are inhabited. The bulk of the Pedestal is a madly stacked and sprawling ruin, only superficially explored by the relentless rafters and treasure-seekers of the surface world.
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Every home in the city has a hundred others lost beneath it, and every city street stands atop an incredible three-dimensional maze of corridors, alleyways, and crawlspaces - a maze where time has left nothing unchanged, eroding and distorting the framework of magic and even the laws of physics themselves.
Long past the grasp of any human control, the ruins of Penance have become a true landscape, vast, beautiful, and unforgiving, with their own unique ecosystem and their own set of hazards and comforts. Strange plants and creatures have evolved in the eternally darkened streets below the city, and prey upon those foolish enough to step out of the city's gilded cage of civilization.
Wrack and Ruin is an essential guidebook for anyone intoxicated by the forgotten secrets of the past, or by the potential power lost within the great city's crumbling majesty. Don't leave your Bloodhold without it!
What the Reviewers Say...
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"In many ways Wrack & Ruin marks a special moment for
Oathbound. The cleverness, the flexibility, the flavour and the
sheer scope of this colourful high fantasy setting come together
in one distinguished product. Wrack & Ruin just bristles with
life, it is packed to the hilt with information, plot bytes,
game mechanics, flavour and artwork. Score: 8 (out of 10)."
Read the review at Gamewyrd
"As
a sourcebook expansion for the Oathbound city of Penance, Wrack
and Ruin does its job providing numerous options for adventuring
in the lost portions of the massive city and expanding the rich,
high powered, high fantasy milieu that is Penance. Score: 4 (out
of 5)."
Read the full review by Voadam at ENWorld
"Oathbound:
Wrack & Ruin provides a good amount of player material, GM
material and an adventure to get the game rolling. 4 (out of 5)
stars."
Read the review by Joe Kushner at EN World
"Overall, it contains so much
information that it’s a surprise to realize there are only 128
pages! It seems like more—but in the good sense of loads of
material, it is certainly not a boring read. Much is background,
and careful study will provide added substance whatever you are
doing within the Oathbound setting, but especially
if your characters fancy exploring their new home. Grade: A."
Read the review by Megan Robertson at the Open Gaming Exchange
"Even at 128
pages, Wrack and Ruin is a fairly small and lightweight
book, but still packs a powerful punch! If you’ve been putting
off running an Oathbound campaign, this may be the book
that motivates you to action. Light on mechanics, Wrack and
Ruin breathes life into the wild areas of the city of
Penance, providing the GM with plenty of descriptive atmosphere,
while still giving them all the necessary rules to handle
adventures set therein.4.4 (out of 5.0; Grade: A-)"
Read the review by John Grigsby at the d20 Magazine Rack
Product Code: BAS-1011
ISBN: 1-59263-003-0
Release Date: Now
Format: Trade Paperback
Trim Size: 8 3/8" x 10 7/8"
Page Count: 128 pages
Case Pack: 12
MSRP: $15.95
Cover Art by C. Michael Erickson
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