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Desolation of Time

CanonOfficial lore from the booksDoTp. 2-9

Desolation of Time is a campaign book for the Lands of Exile setting, published by Bad Badger Games. It holds two standalone yet consecutive adventures and a mini-adventure, together with a bestiary, exploration encounters and survival material for wilderness travel.1

A masked figure with an hourglass-headed staff borne by armoured undead before glowing desert ziggurats
The cover of Desolation of TimeArt by Muhammet Feyyaz. Desolation of Time (Bad Badger Games, 2024), p. 1.

From the city to the wilderness

The book follows Shadow Over Vansreik. Where the earlier adventure ran through the dark streets of Vansreik, this one moves from the gloomy old stone buildings to the dangerous wilderness, and beyond it to the southern side of the Living Wall, the desert of time: a place where survival grows harder by the hour and the mind is played with, full of ancient horrors, time distortions and whispers from beyond the grave.2

Contents

  • The Wrath of Nature. The reclusive druids, neutral in every conflict, have begun to strike at the realm with disease, poisoned water, unnaturally rusting metal and vines that shake the foundations of cities, and no one knows why. In the southern imperial provinces and the Da’fat lands the forests have come alive, and those without fey blood cannot find their way into Da’fat unless a druid blesses them.1
  • The Ballad of the Keymaker, a standalone one-shot built on the legend of the Keymaker, a mysterious architect said to have raised towers full of puzzles and trials in hard-to-reach places, guarding treasures and a very special key.3
  • The Desolation of Time. Beyond the dunes of the southern desert, amid time jumps, illusions and a lack of essential resources, lies the secret of The Desolation, the catastrophe that drove all living beings into exile; to understand it, one must go south.3
  • Exploration Encounters, Survival Mechanics and a Bestiary of new creatures with lore beyond their game statistics, followed by an appendix.4

Credits

The book was created by Fatih Şahinbaş and written by Ahmet Cem Alemdar. Its cover, painted by Muhammet Feyyaz, is also used on the Starter Setting Guide.5