Symbaroum RPG Gamemaster’s Guide - Physical + Digital

Build richer dark fantasy campaigns with the Symbaroum Gamemaster’s Guide. This revised book gives Game Masters advanced tips, guidelines and rules for developing and customising a Symbaroum campaign.

First, the guide expands your toolkit with important locations, setting design advice and adventure design support. It also includes guidance for game modes, balanced combat encounters and challenges for heroic characters. As a result, the Symbaroum Gamemaster’s Guide is ideal for groups that want deeper stories and more demanding adventures.

In addition, this Symbaroum GM guide introduces a wide range of optional rules. These cover distance categories, hit locations, monster trophies, pact making, reclaiming bolts and arrows, and more. Meanwhile, the Epic Expeditions section adds advanced tools for staging journeys into Davokar forest. It also includes rules for domain management, pitched battles and social scheming.

The book is also packed with setting inspiration. You will find mystical artefacts, powerful ceremonies, plot hooks, lore and resources for building memorable campaigns. Finally, the ceremonial magic section describes a forbidden type of magic, mainly used by NPCs, which can bring destruction and corruption if the player characters do not intervene.

Choose the Symbaroum Gamemaster’s Guide if you want:

• Advanced campaign and adventure design tools
• Optional rules for customising your game
• Epic Expedition support for Davokar journeys
• Important locations and deeper setting lore
• Ceremonial magic and dangerous NPC powers
• Mystical artefacts and reward guidance
• Plot hooks and inspiration for long form campaigns

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Symbaroum Gamemaster’s Guide contents list

This product includes:

• 1 Symbaroum Gamemaster’s Guide
• Important locations and setting lore
• Setting and adventure design guidance
• Optional rules for advanced play
• Epic Expedition rules
• Domain management tools
• Pitched battle rules
• Social scheming rules
• Ceremonial magic
• Mystical artefacts
• Plot hooks and reward guidance

More about the Symbaroum GM guide

Important locations and setting inspiration

The book presents additional information about key settlements, the Underworld, Yonderworld and Spirit World. These sections give Game Masters more material for mysteries, journeys and campaign arcs.

Symbaroum Gamemaster’s Guide adventure design

The guide offers advanced advice for designing settings, adventure campaigns, game modes, balanced combat encounters and heroic challenges. Therefore, it is useful for Game Masters who want stronger structure without losing the atmosphere of Symbaroum.

Optional rules for custom campaigns

The Symbaroum GM guide includes optional rules for a wide range of table styles. These include rules for distance categories, hit locations, monster trophies, pact making, and reclaiming bolts and arrows.

Epic Expeditions and campaign systems

Epic Expeditions provide more advanced rules for staging and executing journeys into Davokar forest. In addition, the book includes tools for domain management, pitched battles and social scheming.

Ceremonial magic and enhanced rewards

Ceremonial magic introduces a forbidden form of magic mainly used by NPCs. It can create major threats, especially when player characters must stop destruction or corruption from spreading.

The enhanced rewards section also offers guidance on rewarding different player and character types. It presents close to thirty mystical artefacts, each with a suggested adventure setup.

Your purchase includes a physical copy and a digital copy of this book