Craft your Stories in the Mortal Realms with Soulbound
With Warhammer: Age of Sigmar 4th Edition arriving soon alongside the Skaventide two-player launch box, our miniatures communities are amped to spill blood for their respective Grand Orders on our tabletops using these exciting new rules and models!
Welcome to the hobby if you’re deciding to start your minis journey with 4th edition! There’s never been a better time to pick up the dice and brush.
However, if the high-fantasy tales of Warhammer stories are what first drew you to the hobby, then the Soulbound RPG might be the perfect addition to your gamenights!
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound is the definitive RPG system for weaving your own tales in the Mortal Realms.
Players will embody their soulbound heroes — god-chosen mortals who have undergone ancient and deadly rituals to empower each other as they answer the call to fight the forces of evil and death.
Play and story arcs lean into the over-the-top stakes and actions familiar to Warhammer lore enthusiasts. This is NOT the standard fantasy RPG where a plucky band of adventures saves a small fishing village and then moves on to become world-altering forces after many real-world sessions.
In Soulbound, your characters are already mighty warriors capable of unthinkable acts of bravery and battle. It is not a matter of “Will our party save the world?”. They MUST. Archaon and the forces of Chaos already claimed victory in The End Times, and Chaos is eager to bring down this new “Age of Sigmar” the forces of Order cling so tightly to.
The system’s actual gameplay and character creation are quick to move through, pick up, and get dice and the plot rolling on the table.
Players create their hero from a list of species and archetypes that will be familiar to Warhammer fans and delightful to those diving into the “turned up to 11” style of fantasy Age of Sigmar offers.
Three main stats, Body, Mind, and Soul, and your character’s skills and equipment determine how hard a task will be to complete using a d6 dice pool system.
The DM sets a difficulty of how many successes a player needs and what number constitutes a success. For example, swaying a nobleman may require 3 dice over 3 to succeed. Throwing him out his manor’s window after he refused may require only 1 dice over 3 from your musclebound Fyreslayer Berserker player.
Combat and the overall system have more complications to satisfy the strategist, such as rules for targeted “called shots” and battlefield zone-based combat, among other intricacies, but that’s the general flow of the d6 pool system.
In summary, as you paint up your new Warhammer: Age of Sigmar armies for 4th edition, pick out a mini to serve as your new Soulbound character as well! Both the full wargame and RPG systems offer you the chance to tell exciting fantasy stories in their endearingly extreme setting.
Pre-orders for the Skaventide Box Set can be found here on our website, and much of the Soulbound line can be found at our Duluth location in-store (25% off all July in-store). Happy adventuring in the Mortal Realms!
