Sundered Isles

Sundered Isles is an expansion for the Ironsworn: Starforged tabletop roleplaying game. It offers guidelines, options, and tools for exploring a world of fantasy seafaring adventure using the Starforged system.

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A World of Wooden Ships and Iron Souls

The Sundered Isles is a realm of wind and tide, mariners and marauders, rebels and empires, myths and magic.

In pursuit of your sworn vows, you will chart a path through turbulent waters, venture across perilous island landscapes, delve into forsaken ruins and tide-swept caves, and visit far-flung communities. Over time, you will grow to command great ships and loyal crews, standing fast against dreadful and tyrannical forces that threaten to sweep like a maelstrom across these vast seas.

Are you ready to set a course for adventure?

What's Included

Setting info for a world of far-flung islands and perilous seas
New guidelines and options for the Starforged system, including ship and crew management, naval battles, seafaring navigation, wealth and treasure, character downtime scenes, and more.
World-building tools for launching your seafaring campaign
Massive collection of system-agnostic generators and random tables, including seafaring events and encounters, weather, island landscapes, people, shipwrecks, settlements, ruins, caves, treasures, and more.
The cursed die, a new option to reveal the strange and supernatural aspects of your setting, and dozens of cursed oracle tables.

Two Guidebooks.
Endless Adventures.

This comprehensive expansion couldn't be contained in a single book! The Sundered Isles Print Edition includes two volumes — each in a table-friendly, lay-flat, wirebound format. If you prefer digital, both books are combined in a single PDF for the Sundered Isles Digital Edition.

Guidebook One includes setting details, new gameplay options, and inspiring worldbuilding exercises. This is your guide to a realm of mighty ships, perilous seas, and rebellious heroes.

Guidebook Two includes a vast collection of generators and random tables for far-flung islands and uncharted seas. What perils and opportunities lie over the horizon? Look within to find out.

Forge A New Path

Sundered Isles offers 61 new character assets for the seafaring setting, many of which are also usable in your Starforged spacefaring campaigns. The new assets are available as a free downloadable print-and-play card deck, and as a high-quality printed deck. Mix-and-match assets from Sundered Isles and Starforged for limitless possibilities!

No matter your choice, one thing remains true: you have the heart of a rebel. Empires and tyrants will rue the day you set on your sworn path against them.

Explore a
Cursed World

The Sundered Isles are a world of your envisioning. At the start of your campaign, you decide the history of the Isles, the state of technology, the nature of supernatural forces, the dominance of imperial threats, and more. Your version of the setting might mirror our real-world age of sail, or a fantastic realm of wondrous machines, powerful magic, titanic beasts, and dreadful curses.

But be wary when you explore this world! Sundered Isles introduces a new option to reveal the supernatural and eerie aspects of the isles — the cursed die. Like your oracle dice, the cursed die is ten-sided, but should be a special color or material to distinguish it from the oracle dice. Choose a die that evokes an eerie quality. A malevolence.

Roll the cursed die alongside your oracle dice when checking for an answer on a random table. After rolling, look at the value of your cursed die. Is it a 10? If so, your answer is cursed, and you should use the cursed version of that table. You've revealed a strange or horrific aspect of the world, such as an uncanny event, grim discovery, strange location, confounding technology, ghostly presence, or monstrous foe.

Sundered Isles includes dozens of cursed oracle tables. You'll never know what awaits you beyond the horizon!

Set Your Sights Skyward

Sundered Isles is perfect for a variety of seafaring campaigns, including gritty historical, swashbuckling fantasy, or supernatural nautical horror.

Prefer to sail the galactic tides? You can use Sundered Isles as a toolkit of new options and character assets for your Starforged sci-fi campaign. Or mix and match Sundered Isles with Starforged for Treasure Planet-inspired swashbuckling among the stars!