Demonsub is Five Leagues From The Borderlands

The rulebook for the third edition recently went on pre-order from the Modiphius site, so, since I’ve been waiting for this from when I first heard about it last year, I didn’t hesitate to go for it. I won’t receive the book for a few months but I did get the full version as a pdf so I can make a start now.

With experience from playing Five Parsecs From Home I knew there’d be a lot of rolling on tables and note taking before I would flesh out results and the story so I bought myself a notebook just for the game. Then it was time to work out my warband.

First I would generate my four heroes. I had a choice of a variety of races and after some thought, and looking through some of my miniature collection I settled on two humans, a duskling and a feral.

Miniatures wise, I’ll be treating dusklings as dwarfs and as for ferals I have a few Burrows & Badgers miniatures which I can choose from.

Next I had to choose backgrounds for each of my heroes which would provide 4 tables each to help shape them. I chose zealot and mystic for the humans, the mystic being a spell caster. For the duskling and the feral I had to choose the outsider background.

I then selected weapons and armour from a limited list, which I did with the miniatures I had in mind to use.

Then I rolled to see what two followers I would get, an outcast drifter and a studious apprentice, which sent me back to my miniatures collection to choose two more suitable models.

Finally I had to select one hero to be my avatar, my representation on the tabletop, around which the warband was based, for that I chose the mystic as I fancied myself as an all knowing wizard. 

From left to right:

Outcast Drifter (follower), an Otherworld Miniatures thief,

Duskling with bow, a Midlam Miniatures dwarf ranger,

Human mystic (avatar), a Hasslefree Miniatures wizard, 

Human zealot with sword, a Hasslefree Miniatures barbarian,

Feral with longbow, an Oathsworn Bunny with bow,

Studious apprentice (follower), a North Star wizard’s apprentice.

As well as painting the six models for the warband, I need to fill out the warband roster sheet and campaign sheet from the notes I’ve made in my book, as well as come up with names for each of our members (and maybe even backgrounds).

There’s a small practice scenario to play which provides no risk and isn’t part of the campaign but helps with learning the rules and the game involves creating  a map of the land where my adventures will take place, which I’ve already been experimenting with.

Fun times ahead.