Former Blizzard Entertainment executive Chris Metzen helped to bring the worlds of Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft to life. But, in the 1980s he was just an awkward kid playing Dungeons & Dragons with his friends. Now, Metzen and a small team of collaborators at Warchief Gaming are bringing that original D&D campaign to life. The first product in a new line of books is called
Worldbook: Lawbrand, and the crowdfunding campaign has already earned more than $1 million on Kickstarter.
The land of Lawbrand is just one part of a much larger fantasy setting called Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent. It’s a place wildly different from modern D&D settings like the Forgotten Realms, Eberron, or Ravenloft. Instead, it’s a land filled with prosperous city states, powerful magic fueled by mystical tattoos, and a prospering counterculture with a music scene all its own. Metzen told us in an interview that it’s “kind of like Dragonlance meets Black Sabbath’s 1973 U.S. road tour,” and th