Month: Sep 2025

September Battlescroll update – Warhammer Age of Sigmar 4.0 Battle Tactics – GHB 25-26

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September brings to us a new Battlescroll update and today’s update finds us replacing components of the Scouting force Battle Tactic to make some of it easier (praise Sigmar!) and other parts to try and make it less auto-include. This replaces the previous Warhammer Age of Sigmar 4.0 battle tactics – GHB 25-26 set of PDFs and an update is happening to that page at the same time.

September Battlescroll update – Warhammer Age of Sigmar 4.0 Battle Tactics – GHB 25-26

These changes in summary are for Scouting force which now determines Scouts as not just Non-infantry and non-cavalry units starting wholly within your territory but now reads “…which were not set up in reserve using a Deploy Ability…”

This means those great units that are logically scouts, those who get a pre-game move are the ones I am talking about here, are now counted as scouts even if they are outside of your territory! It also saw changes that part 2, Strike, and part 3, Domination, have their completion conditions altered so that the terrain in question must NOT be faction terrain.

For some armies, like Serephon, Skaven, Solblight etc., who have several or large terrain this could pose a tactical disadvantage for including your terrain piece on the battlefield. So this is a positive shift moving forward.

Coloured File for download.

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General Handbook 2025-2026 battle tactics_ September 2025 Battlescroll update pdfDownload

Desaturated files to be downloaded (without the coloured background)

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General Handbook 2025-2026 battle tactics desaturated_ September 2025 Battlescroll update pdfDownload

Thanks for dropping in for a day-after update since the drop of the September Battlescroll. May you roll plenty of sixes and always have excess command points,
The Brazen Wolfe

Rivertown Environment

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Now for a change of pace I present, something different. A zine for the environments around Rivertown which is a central hub for the settlers in my Rivertown bound adventure series (part 1, part 2, part 3), Rivertown Environments. The idea is to still provide GMs and DMs more freedom to tinker with the adventure, how they want to run it to make it feel more free formed and flowing than the larger zines – although there is another one coming.

There are no references to other content other than what’s within the Zine itself and this week is Daggerheart specific. However, with all my adventures it wouldn’t be hard to tweak it to work for other Tabletop Systems.

So I hope you enjoy this weeks adventure, Rivertown Environments, and that all your rolls are made with hope.

Rivertown Environments

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Rivertown Environments – Created in Co-pilot

Rivertown

As you step through the heavy wooden gates of Rivertown, the dirt streets stretch ahead, worn smooth by carts and boots. The smell of fresh bread and smoked fish drifts from the nearby market square, where stalls bustle with chatter and the clink of trade. To one side, narrow lanes wind between timber houses, while further ahead the street dips toward the docks, where the creak of moored ships and the shouts of workers carry over the river breeze.

Rivertown Market

The Rivertown Market is the bustling heart of the settlement, centred on a stout timber hall run by an ageing gnome whose sharp tongue and sharper eye keep trade fair. Around it, uneven stalls offer baskets of berries, bundles of herbs, smoked fish, and rough-forged goods, their mingled scents of sweet fruit, salt, leather, and spice filling the air. The square hums with life. Merchants haggling, children darting underfoot, guards barking orders, and crates shifting with every new wagon that arrives from the docks or nearby wilds. Bright cloths hang in the sunlight, traders call out their wares, and the din of barter and banter mixes with distant gull cries, giving the market an untidy energy that feels at once rough, hopeful, and vital to Rivertown’s survival.

Rivertown Docks

The docks of Rivertown are never still. Little boats sit moored along the timbers, their hulls heavy with nets, barrels, and crates stacked neatly or haphazardly depending on the crew. The sharp scent of river water mingles with dried fish and damp rope. Dock guards stand with watchful eyes, spears in hand, their gaze sweeping over every cart and passenger that passes. Near the centre, the Dock Master, a broad-shouldered feline humanoid with striped fur like a tiger, directs workers with a booming voice and a flick of his tail, his presence enough to keep the traffic flowing. Two long piers stretch into the water, where a few patient folk fish with hand lines, content to sit among the bustle. Along the riverbank, children and the odd daring adult dart and shout in play, laughter cutting across the steady rhythm of dock labourers, who grit their teeth as the games scatter sand and splash water dangerously close to the stacked wares.

PDF adventure – Rivertown Environments

Daggerheart Environment – Rivertown EnvironmentDownload

This Daggerheart adventure was created using guidelines and information from the Daggerheart System Reference Document 1.0 which is the copyright of DRP, Darrington Press, who are the creators of the system. This content was created, modified and/or inspired from content within the SRD and is licensed under the DRP Community Gaming License which can be found here: Darrington Press CGL.

Thanks for joining me today for another adventure. Please feel free to leave comments if you like what you see when you grab a copy of the PDF. Next time you get a party together consider running this adventure and I hope that you enjoy it. Don’t forget to come back daily so you don’t miss a thing in the coming weeks adventures. And as always, don’t forget to roll with advantage,
The Brazen Wolfe

The Path of Forgotten Fortua

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So having a go at getting some notes down for Daggerheart’s Campaign frames and wanting to have something that feels like something I’d actually run. It’s no secret that I use a lot of inspiration from mainstream, or obscure, pop culture but I try to create everything from scratch where possible – to really immerse myself not only in the process but in the end product.

So while I work on a larger campaign frame for some of my adventures I wanted to get something out to help guide the last three Zines, Rivertown Bound – Part 1, Rivertown Bound – Part 2 and Rivertown Bound – Part 3. So I created some notes based on some analysis, and a lot of summarisation, with the attached document as a quick template to fill in to begin setting up the campaign frame, to trigger thoughts and begin that creative journey.

Campaign Frame: The Path of Forgotten Fortua

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Previously, the Fortua civilisation called these lands its own, but their fall has been lost to time and memory. What was once built with stone, steel and will has long since been swallowed by moss, root and ruin. The wild has taken back the bones of their world, twisting them into something new and feral. Now the ruins stand like broken teeth against the horizon, reminders that even greatness can be devoured.

You arrive in a fragile moment, when hope and ruin wrestle for dominance. The new settlements cling to life, precariously perched on the river’s edge or nestled in valleys that the wild eyes hungrily. Places like Rivertown promise fresh starts and better tomorrows, but they are surrounded by dangers that whisper of Fortua’s mistakes. Raiders prowl the waterways, marauders stalk the ruins, and in the depths of the Wraith Woods, the very forest seems alive with malice.

Whispers speak of the Taint, a lingering corruption that warps flesh, mind and nature itself. No one knows if it is curse, contagion or vengeance, only that it spreads and festers in the shadows of Fortua’s fallen towers. Yet even here, secrets remain. Forgotten knowledge lies in stone vaults, relics wait beneath the roots, and maps may lead to salvation—or to truths better left buried.

This is a story of discovery and survival, where civilisation pushes into a world that does not want it, and where the past gnaws at the edges of the present. Will your group protect these fragile settlements, carve their own path through the wilds, or be swallowed by the same forces that destroyed Fortua? The ruins are waiting, and they remember.

Core Concept

This is a story about discovering a new world, its dangerous populace, the fragile settlements that civilisation struggles to anchor, and the forgotten past that shows this land was not so different to where they came from.

Tone: tense and brutal, mythical and wondrous, history-deep, survival at all costs.

The World and Its Wounds

The untouched wilds are feral, overflowing with untamed magic and twisted tribes.
Cursed ruins, warped creatures, and the lingering echo of wild magic scar the land.
Yet something is worth saving here — the growing settlements like Rivertown, fragile sparks of hope in a hostile world.

The Central Tension

  • Will the new settlements survive, or fall like Fortua before them?
  • What drives peaceful people and creatures to madness, rage, and corruption?
  • Can civilisation persist here, or is the land itself cursed against it?
  • What happened to Fortua, and what warning lies in its fall?

Factions and Forces

The River Raiders — settlers who turned to piracy and plunder.

  • Want: control of trade, power through raiding.
  • Dangerous: ruthless, organised waterborne hunters.
  • Temptation: bargains for survival or wealth.

The Taint — a living corruption.

  • Want: hunger, corruption, to consume the living.
  • Dangerous: twisted beasts, silence, warped minds.
  • Temptation: forbidden knowledge and Fortua’s secret.

The Marauder Clans — corrupted humanoid hunters.

  • Want: dominance, control of ruins and passages.
  • Dangerous: cunning, relentless, savage.
  • Temptation: power in joining or bargaining with them.

Settlers Council (future faction)

  • Want: survival, stability, expansion.
  • Dangerous: demanding, ambitious, self-serving.
  • Temptation: a place to belong, but at a cost.

The Places of Play

  • Rivertown (Hub): vibrant, hopeful, fragile. The safest place, for now.
  • The Wilds (Frontier): shifting, tainted, alive with danger and change.
  • The Ruins of Fortua (Mystery): broken spires and relics. Knowledge and power, but heavily contested.

Player Hooks and Themes

  • Who in Rivertown depends on you to succeed?
  • What fear keeps you from trusting the woods?
  • What secret do you hope Fortua’s ruins might reveal?
  • How have you faced the raiders before?
  • What have you seen of the taint?
  • What vow drives you to survive?
  • Why did you come here — choice or decree?

Arc of Play

  • Stage One: Discovery — Raiders, the Taint, the ruins of Fortua. First glimpses of a larger world.
  • Stage Two: Escalation — The Taint spreads, marauders grow bold, raiders vanish. Pressure builds.
  • Stage Three: Reckoning — Will the players defend Rivertown, evacuate the settlers, or carve a new fate elsewhere?

Tone and Safety

  • Tone: mythic, foreboding, survivalist with hope.
  • Boundaries: avoid graphic cruelty. Focus on tension, not torture.
  • Spotlight: resilience, sacrifice, haunted history.

Recurring Motifs

  • Fireflies glowing in darkness, hope in fragile lights.
  • Broken stone swallowed by moss, civilisation consumed.
  • Horns and hunting cries echoing over silence, the sound of predators.

Flexibility Check

  • If Rivertown is ignored: players may join raiders, carve their own haven, or venture deeper into the woods.
  • Every faction can evolve — ally, escalate, collapse.
  • Failure pushes the story forward, never halts it.

Thanks for joining me for another night here at my blog. Don’t forget to check in from time to time to see what I am up to as I plan to still publish RPG Zines as often as I can. Stay tuned for more regarding the Path of Forgotten Fortua and the adventures that lay within its forgotten and feral lands.
The Brazen Wolfe

Rivertown Bound – Part 3

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Now for a change of pace I present, in new format zine, River Bound – Part 3. The idea is to still provide GMs and DMs more freedom to tinker with the adventure, how they want to run it to make it feel more free formed and flowing than the larger zines – although there is another one coming.

There are no references to other content other than what’s within the Zine itself and this week is Daggerheart specific. However, with all my adventures it wouldn’t be hard to tweak it to work for other Tabletop Systems.

So I hope you enjoy this weeks adventure, River Bound – Part 3, and that all your rolls are made with hope.

Rivertown Bound – Part 3

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Rivertown Bound – Fortua Ruins – Created in ChatGPT

The adventurers make it at last into the ruins of Fortua, a place spoken of in whispers but never seen so closely until now. The forest canopy broke to reveal crumbling walls and shattered towers, their jagged stones rising from the undergrowth like the tombstones of a long-forgotten people. At the centre of it all, piercing the canopy itself, stood the spire, cracked and weathered, yet still defiantly tall. From the first steps inside, it was clear these ruins remembered their fall, and the air hung heavy with the weight of forgotten history.

The adventurers took their time, gathering themselves after the ordeal of the Wraith Woods. This was no safe place, but even here they sought a moment to breathe, to dry their boots, and to steady their resolve. In the silence of the ruins, their conversations revealed new insights. Tales of old battles, half-remembered maps, and beliefs about what the people of Fortua once stood for. Every adventurer that made it this far shared what they knew like weaving a tapestry to reflect the story of this fallen fortress, retelling its history together.

Exploring deeper, the ruins became a patchwork of discovery. Broken statues hinted at forgotten gods, murals etched in crumbling stone told fragments of war, and ivy-bound halls revealed relics half-buried in moss and dust. Each discovery felt like peeling back layers of a mystery, with the adventurers’ voices weaving Fortua’s story into something alive again. They found knowledge of Rivertown’s path, relics that might yet serve them, and glimpses of the world that was lost when Fortua fell.

But peace never lasts long. The silence fractured with the harsh sounds of horns and guttural calls, the signal of hunters entering the ruins. The marauders were closing in, their whistles and cries echoing between the broken walls like wolves on the hunt. Whether the party slipped into shadow or prepared to stand against them, the tension of being stalked through the ruins was palpable.

From the top of the spire, Rivertown finally came into view; distant yet certain, a beacon of hope after so much peril. The path forward lay clear at last, though reaching it would not be without risk. The hunters pressed closer with every heartbeat, forcing the adventurers into a desperate choice: flee before they were cornered, or draw their weapons and fight in the shadow of Fortua’s fall.

When the adventurers departed the ruins, they carried with them more than just a direction. They bore fragments of Fortua’s story, the weight of its memory, and the gnawing sense that they were being watched, not only by marauders, but perhaps by something older that still lingered within those stones. The road to Rivertown had revealed itself, but the shadows of Fortua clung to them like moss on forgotten stone.

PDF adventure -Rivertown Bound – Part 3

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This Daggerheart adventure was created using guidelines and information from the Daggerheart System Reference Document 1.0 which is the copyright of DRP, Darrington Press, who are the creators of the system. This content was created and/or modified from content within the SRD and is licensed under the DRP Community Gaming License which can be found here: Darrington Press CGL.

Thanks for joining me today for another adventure. Please feel free to leave comments if you like what you see when you grab a copy of the PDF. Next time you get a party together consider running this adventure and I hope that you enjoy it. Don’t forget to come back daily so you don’t miss a thing in the coming weeks adventures. And as always, don’t forget to roll with advantage,
The Brazen Wolfe