Hit Point Press has announced the release of Humblewood: Beyond the canopyIt is an independent sequel to the setting of the Humblewood campaign. This allows players to explore the world inhabited by animals and birdfolks rather than standard fantasy races. Humblewood: Beyond the canopy, you’ll find the continent of Westen past the edge of the forest through a lush environmental guide and glove trotting adventure. Compatible with 5E (2014 Rules) and compatible with the art of talented artists in the first book, as well as artists who have been renewed in the world of Everden. This book, like all Hitpoint Press Publications, is written without AI.
Discover frozen mysteries with the spread of crystals, ride powerful insects across the plains of Firnveldt, find warm welcome in Warren from Tempests rocking Stormcrags, and feel the lush tangles and the pulsation of nature.
This 250+ page sourcebook doesn’t require you to play the settings from the original Humblewood campaign, but veteran Humblewood players can easily continue their adventures from the first book. Humblewood: Beyond canopy, compatible with 5E (2014) core rules that support 5E+ (2024) core rules.
Inside, we expanded player options such as a setting guide to the Westen continent with four new regions, as well as a new religious section with new gods and folk tales, new races, subclasses, backgrounds, spells, and original adventures that acquire characters from level 5 to level 8 to level 8.
Four new areas
- Crystal Expans, Antarctic Ice-covered Archipelago that holds ancient secrets like grass
- Firnveldt, a sea of ​​grass where there is political tension between nomads and cities
- Storm Crag, wild mountain with fork shelters from cozy Warren elements
- Tropical jungle with ancient sites and modern advancements between lush jungles, lush vegetation
- Six new Amarantins have new myths about the gods and how they are seen in the world of Humblewood
New Player Options
New Class: Gadgets
A new take on keitation and a flexible system for gadget crafting. It also includes three subclases for gadgets. Cultivators are engineers who shape plants into useful shapes and build exactly what they need in a pinch, fizas who blur the boundaries between science and magic.
New subclasses
- Deep rooted magician
- Draw, store and redirect power from the energy of the world around you
- Mystery Paladin’s Vow
- Uncover the secrets of the world and hide your own secrets
- Wrangler Monk
- Handle beasts and monsters with elegance and grit. yeehaw!
Six new races
- Kaplan
- Kaplan is divided into two castes, a highly social tessara and a separate yanthan, like a goat.
- Erlan
- Based on cats of large and small, Pulling Moon Ellan, and Rolling Sun Ellan form a complex civilization where social etiquette rubs alongside intense independence
- Mastel
- Unusual people based on the wilderness masrids (weasels, ferrets, minks, wolverines, badgers) are divided into powerful bright fans and elegant long distances.
- seeta
- Charming and vibrant feathered parrot forks with talent for imitation get you in trouble when you’re bored
- Sylph
- Based on the Hummingbirds, these small, talented birdfolks follow their wanderlust and live their lives in a mile
- Tyria
- Frenzy lizard people skilled in alchemy, art and political intrigue
- Two new sub-races: Armadillo-like Alma Hedge and Chinchilla/Gin’s Pig Rock Blower Bean
- Four new backgrounds
- Stonesinger: Practice the art of stone hedges and join together with the rhythm of the earth
- Warrenbone: Attack your adventures from the cozy tunnels of Warren’s house
- Wilderness Explorer: Navigate Wilds with expertise
- WonderStruck: You had an amaranthin and a brush. How will it change you?
Brand new Humblewood adventure
The adventures in the first book focus on Humblewood itself, but this new adventure takes you on wild pursuits throughout the Westen continent. Following the appearance of the fire side in Humblewood, adventure now has to uncover the mystery of the water side and what happened to it. Klaythusar, an ancient evil, is released. As he tries to complete his grand and awful plan of using the water side, he causes a horrific storm of froze and abuse Wesden.
The Level 5-8 adventure links to the adventure story from the setting of the Humblewood Campaign, but you can play that adventure without playing it first. It continues with the environmental themes and moral complexities explored in the first Humblewood book.
Supporters of the Kickstarter campaign will have access to a variety of rewards, including miniatures, exclusive artisan dices and more. Yanirjewelry, enamel pins, apparel, battle maps, etc.
Humblewood: Beyond the canopy It will be executed Kickstarter Until May 8, 2025.
Images via Hit Point Press
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