With Norse-themed video video games, TV exhibits and novels persevering with to be all the trend, Schwalb Leisure is proud to welcome a brand new Viking IP to its increasing line up of tabletop role-playing video games (RPG).
When the Wolf Comes is about in a pagan current, an alternate timeline the place Christianity has been put to the Viking sword and historical past as we all know it has been thrown to the wolves. The sport was efficiently Kickstarted in August 2022, however suffered a number of sudden delays. Schwalb swooped in to make sure the venture was again on monitor and within the fingers of followers.
Schwalb mentioned, “The Norse setting is so timeless, it truly is the wellspring of all fashionable fantasy. I really like the way in which the Vikingverse setting takes archetypes we all know and love, and strips them again to their pre-Tolkien origins. Who doesn’t need to unleash their inside Viking? I’d counsel that the long run is vibrant, however that’s what Trickster Gods and Demon Lords all the time say…”
Sharpe mentioned, “The RPG was a chained and fettered beast. Like Vánagandr himself, backers howled wildly for information, a foaming river referred to as “Expectation” flowing from their drooling mouths. Fortunately, Rob has shattered these chains, and now the Fenrisúlfr can run free, devouring every part in its path… I’ve spent two years immersed in his Shadow of the Demon Lord guidelines. I couldn’t be extra excited to work with him instantly.”
IAN STUART SHARPE/IÓN STÍVARÐUR SKARPI has written extensively about his alternate Vikingverse, a parallel timeline the place the Norse rule the seas and stars with stressed fleets and all different gods and religions are however historic footnotes. His titles embrace the All Father Paradox and Loki’s Wager, in addition to the humorous phrasebook Outdated Norse for Fashionable Occasions and the Jötunn Struggle comedian sequence.
ROBERT SCHWALB/HRÓÐBJARTR SVABAR has been a sport designer and developer within the role-playing video games trade for almost 20 years. His design could be present in three editions of Dungeons & Dragons, together with Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, A Music of Ice and Fireplace RPG, and Star Wars Saga Version RPG. In 2015 he launched a profitable Kickstarter marketing campaign for Shadow of the Demon Lord, a horror-fantasy roleplaying sport set within the final days of a dying world that has gained rave opinions for its simplicity and elegance.
When The Wolf Comes is a sport of storytelling, heroism, and epic wrestle set throughout a reimagined Norse Finish of Days. An entire tabletop position taking part in sport in a single 400 web page hardcover e book, When The Wolf Comes offers every part it’s essential to create and play characters, type warbands in pursuit of fame and plunder, and inform sci-fi sagas with your pals. The e book additionally offers Sport Masters all of the instruments they should create adventures, a bestiary stuffed with lethal creatures, an in depth historical past of the Níu Heimar, and intensive recommendation to assist run the sport.