LIGHT ON RULES.
BOUND TO THE DARK
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STEP INTO THE WOODS EARLY.
Boundless launches on BackerKit in February 2027, but you don't have to wait to play.
Follow the campaign and reserve your copy for only $10 today. Reserving gets you:
- Instant access to the latest PDF of the full game. Every rule, class, spell, and monster, right now. Only the introductory adventure is still a work in progress.
- The complete digital edition at launch, at no extra cost. Your reservation covers it!
- A discount on the print edition when you upgrade during the campaign.
The forest is patient, but you don't have to be! 😁
Vines draw you into a slithering embrace; tendrils burrow into your body, encasing your corpse in a shell of moldering bark and fungal ridges. You belong to the forest now, a puppet of its malign intelligence.
Boundless is a peril fantasy role-playing game carved in bark and bones. Play as brave souls trying to find their way in a world grown dark under the shadow of an otherworldly woods bound to the spirit world where your characters try to be the spark of hope the land so desperately needs.
In this game, you will confront corrupted creatures, religious zealots, spiritual anomalies, and the blighted things that crawl from places where the veil to the spirit world has torn.
With these rules, you will create characters in minutes, push your luck when things get ugly, track dwindling supplies with dice pools, cast dangerous magic, survive brutal fights, expand one-shots into campaigns with procedures for journeys, delves, mysteries, and strongholds, and eventually create your own ruleset from an easily extensible system.
It is a game games of perilous travels and desperate delves where play focuses on clever problem-solving and where combat is fast and deadly.
If you love Year Zero Engine, Into the Odd, MÖRK BORG and Blades in the Dark, you’ll feel right at home.
This is 150+ pages of solo-friendly rules, art-heavy layout, random tables, adventures, monsters, and more.
Brought to you by the team that made Stoneburner, which raised CAD $44,720 with the help of 1476 backers.
Learn in minutes, create characters in seconds, and play until the end.
- Old-school-inspired D6 rules system based on the free Boundless Core Rules.
- Solo support with oracles, player-facing rules, random tables, and game procedures.
- Art-heavy, accessible layout by René-Pier Deshaies, with illustrations by Galen Pejeau.
- 6 thematic character classes, plus options for freeform character creation.
- 32 original spells divided among three domains of magic: druidic, light, and blight.
- 12 corrupted horrors to fill a bestiary of creatures.
- 4,000+ random table entries for generating sparks, biomes, weather, towns, resources, lairs, roads, shrines, wonders, fauna, flora, factions, goals, leaders, non-player characters, quests, treasures, and complications.
- 8 printable reference sheets for managing sessions, characters, journeys, delves, mysteries, strongholds, and journaling at the table.
- A introductory adventure, “A Feast for the Boneslake,” written by Ryan Lucas.
- A 40-minute official ambient soundtrack by Of Sleeping Bears.
The oily roots consumed kingdoms and souls alike. As the fallen exhaled their final breath, their bodies warped into wooden husks bound by ancient wills, driven to march against the last bastions of warmth and light with their bark soaked with the blood of those who fed their endless hunger. In that dark hour, the spirits walked the land once more.
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Latest from the Creator
Fari RPGs
3 months ago
Boundless is almost done!
I’ve been working on my game Boundless (prev. Dungeon Bound -> prev. Chronicles of the Boundless), for a long time, and I recently reached a major milestone: the main work is now complete!
The core rules, layout, art (thanks Galen!), lore, classes, bestiary, and solo procedures are all finished. The only thing left is to add the introductory adventures, which are coming very soon.
The core rules, layout, art (thanks Galen!), lore, classes, bestiary, and solo procedures are all finished. The only thing left is to add the introductory adventures, which are coming very soon.
That means we’re one step closer to releasing the game through the BackerKit campaign, which has already reached 1,080 followers!
I recorded a video where I share more about what’s inside Boundless, what’s next for the game, and a tutorial on how to create some beautifully grungy-looking spreads for your own TTRPGs.
We're thinking about a February launch date for the campaign but I'll keep you all posted as things align but the campaign may include a couple of more things than just Boundless itself... more on that soon!
We're thinking about a February launch date for the campaign but I'll keep you all posted as things align but the campaign may include a couple of more things than just Boundless itself... more on that soon!
Watch the video https://youtu.be/y7jKHDJxf78
Follow the Boundless BackerKit campaign.
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BTW the core rules of the game are released and free as a PDF and on my website at https://farirpgs.com/boundless/
Follow the Boundless BackerKit campaign.
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BTW the core rules of the game are released and free as a PDF and on my website at https://farirpgs.com/boundless/
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