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The Iron Realm: Enter the MegaDungeon
FREE. My Gift to You.

I am your Maze Master, Abel Enzo, and I welcome you to Enter the MegaDungeon - an introduction to dark fantasy classic gaming in The Iron Realm Campaign Setting. Within these pages you will be shown a world of total darkness for The Iron Realm is The Last Realm – the plane that exists after all other worlds have fallen, after even the gods themselves have passed away in the limitless destruction that doomed every universe to oblivion. Every gaming aid you need to begin play is included - as well as selected art and fiction from The Realm.
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The Iron Realm: Solitaire Essentials & Gaming Guide
The Complete Rules of the Game.

There are many ways to play the solitaire game known as The Iron Realm – and the purpose of this essential volume is to give you everything you need, in a clear, written form, in order to begin your path to glory. Collect the podcasts, one by one, which are available at The Iron Realm website for free. As you listen, custom design your play experience with the invaluable advice given within these pages. You will discover that solitaire gaming in The Iron Realm can be a free form rules light delve, an engaging multi-faceted roleplaying challenge, or nearly anything in between. You decide.
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The Iron Realm: Campaign Essentials & Character Guide
Discover The Iron Realm Campaign World.

The definitive Campaign Sourcebook for The Iron Realm Setting. The dungeon maze has long been essential to classic roleplaying. The Iron Realm takes this a step further. The Maze is infinite and there is no escape. Hints of such a game were only whispered in earlier works, suggesting a world so dark that most players and game masters dreaded to even imagine it. Yet there are some who dare. My answer to you - The Iron Realm Dark Fantasy RPG Setting. Bring the focus back to where it belongs. Deadly danger. Traps. The unknown. Dark corridors. Creatures. A desperate fight to survive in a world of utter darkness. The Iron Realm Campaign Essentials & Character Guide gives you what you need to invoke such a world for your own roleplaying games.
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The Iron Realm: Adventure Log & Strategy Guide
The Advice and Strategies you need to WIN.

Within these pages you are given the action - chapter by chapter. The clues. The expert advice. And the strategies you need - straight from the game's creator and into your hands. This is the Maze Master's deepest wisdom for securing the greatest treasures, taking advantage of the best tactics, and enjoying the richest roleplaying that a fully loaded Iron Realm Campaign has to offer. Yet this volume also serves as a comprehensive Adventure Log - for the character that YOU create - including space for gaming stats, maps, logs, notes, challenges, profiles, histories, transcendent disciplines, powers, treasures, and much, much more. No longer will you have to fumble through a mess of pages at a critical life or death moment. All you need is here in a handsomely compiled portfolio for your ease of use and enjoyment.
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The Iron Realm: Solitaire Dungeon Design & Maze Master's Guide
Realize your own Solitaire MegaDungeons.

The Solitaire Dungeon Design & Maze Master's Guide gives you everything you need to design your own random Solitaire Dungeons & Mazes.  The book is System Neutral, and so is easy to use with any game system for which you want to design your own solitaire mazes for solo play.

The book is arranged to highlight every consideration of Maze Design, including the dungeon theme, key locales, the villain and his lair, creatures, traps, tricks, treasures, the method for random mapping, miniatures, and much, much more.  Fully supported with a complete set of 20 gaming aids and templates, I will walk you through every feature available for designing the ultimate dungeon (or megadungeon!) to challenge even the most die-hard adventuring party.
Designed for the game master who wants to play solo, but also perfect for creating an immersive world for a gaming group, the Dungeon Design & Maze Master's Guide gives you everything you need for designing a dungeon on the fly, providing surprises at every turn so that even the Maze Master never knows what dangers are coming next.
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The Iron Realm: Solitaire Roleplaying & Maze Master's Guide
Solitaire Roleplaying System & World Building for your own Campaign.

The Solitaire Roleplaying and Maze Master's Guide gives you everything you need to design your own expansive Campaign World, Characters, Legends, and History. The book is System Neutral, and so is easy to use with any game system for which you want to design your own RPG world.

The book is arranged to highlight every consideration of Solo Roleplaying, including the method for Solo Roleplaying, key locales, world building, history, legends, character backstories, relics, nation building, cities, character descriptions, and much, much more. Fully supported with a complete set of 20 gaming aids and templates, I will walk you through every feature available for designing a rich and immersive campaign world (or megadungeon!) to tantalize and intrigue even the most die-hard masters of the game.

Designed for the game master who wants to play solo, but also perfect for creating a compelling world for a gaming group, the Solitaire Roleplay & Maze Master's Guide gives you everything you need for creating characters, legends, history, key locations, unique magic items, and more. Take this book and begin your own foray into Solitaire Roleplaying. Create worlds and characters for your own enjoyment, play through them with the included tips for solitaire play, or share them with your friends for the most compelling and immersive experience yet.
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The Iron Realm: Solitaire Tribe Creation & Maze Master's Guide
Create and detail your own Custom Character Tribe for your own Iron Realm Campaign.

The Solitaire Tribe Creation and Maze Master's Guide gives you everything you need to create your starting Character Tribe for The Iron Realm Campaign Setting, Characters, Powers, Backstories, and More. The book is the third book in The Maze Master's Series of Books from The Iron Realm - and is designed to be used with the other books in that series.

The book is arranged to highlight the Seven Major Character Types - while also detailing all four of the Unimai (Unicorn Maidens) Character Types. Each of the eleven Types given in this book come with a custom character record.

Designed for the game master who wants to get everything possible out of The Iron Realm Dark Fantasy Setting, the Solitaire Tribe Creation & Maze Master's Guide gives you everything you need for fully detailing your tribe - making them battle ready for their first foray into the Eternal Maze.
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The Iron Realm: Solitaire Creature Creation & Maze Master's Guide
Create and detail stats for unique and enigmatic Creatures for your own Iron Realm Campaign.

The Solitaire Creature Creation and Maze Master's Guide gives you everything you need to detail your Iron Realm Campaign Setting with Creatures, Villains, and Adversaries that are true to the dread of a deadly MegaDungeon of Horrors. Creature Tribes, Stats, Encounters, Negotiatons, Combat Rules, and More. The book is the fourth book in The Maze Master's Series of Books from The Iron Realm - and is designed to be used with the other books in that series, such as Solitaire Dungeon Design.

The book is arranged to highlight all the required methods for showcasing creatures in your own game - while also offering a full selection of ready-made creatures and associated spells for use in your own Iron Realm Dark Fantasy World.

Designed for the game master who wants to get everything possible out of The Iron Realm Dark Fantasy Setting, the Solitaire Creature Creation & Maze Master's Guide gives you everything you need for fully detailing the dark denizens of an endless maze - making them battle ready for their encounters with characters, challenging them viciously every step of the way.
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The Iron Realm: Solitaire Treasure Trove & Maze Master's Guide
Discover and Design Treasures, Relics, and Magic Items for your own Iron Realm Campaign.

TWICE as BIG - The BIGGEST resource guide for The Iron Realm yet - a mind-blowing 200 pages!

The Solitaire Treasure Trove and Maze Master's Guide gives you everything you need to detail your Iron Realm Campaign Setting with Greater Gems, Relics, magic items, Unique Awards, Legendary Jewelry, Curses, and Currencies that are true to the greatest dreams of avarice and living nightmares of power. The Level Point Pool, the Treasure Gallery, Treasure Profiles, the Basic Treasure System, the Advanced Treasure System, and More.

The book is arranged to highlight many possible strategies and possibilities for the inclusion of fantastic treasures in your own game - while also offering a treasure gallery of ready-made Relics and legendary valuables for use in your own Iron Realm Dark Fantasy World.

Designed for the game master who wants to get everything possible out of The Iron Realm Dark Fantasy Setting, the Solitaire Treasure Trove & Maze Master's Guide gives you everything you need for fully detailing the infinite treasures of an endless maze - making them ready to be uncovered by the characters, with wealth and secret powers ripe for the taking.

Take this book and begin your own foray into Solitaire Roleplaying. Create treasures and magic items for your own enjoyment, hide them into a Solitaire Dungeon of your own design, or have every one of them at the ready to entice your characters in the most compelling and immersive experience yet.
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The Iron Realm: Solitaire Dungeon Arena & Maze Master's Guide
Pit your Arena Tribe against no-holds barred battles in the obscure territory of Occulara.

Includes TWO books - The Dungeon Arena rules and the Gladiator's Guide! Plus Podcast 1 for The Iron Realm: Arena!

A new tale is revealed during each Iron Realm: Arena podcast - collect them all to gain the full story. Make use of The Iron Realm Solitaire Dungeon Arena & Maze Master's Guide as a rules reference for Arena Contests and play along with your own fantasy RPG Miniatures collection. Earn rewards for winning Contests and building your miniatures collection - the guidance you need is to be found within Solitaire Dungeon Arena for realizing the most exciting epic Arena Battles ever known!

This is the Advanced version of The Iron Realm, so you'll want to have your other Maze Master's Guides on hand, too - especially Solitaire Dungeon Design, Solitaire Tribe Creation, and Solitaire Creature Creation. Further books in the collection will also serve well should you wish to employ them - Solitaire Roleplaying and Solitaire Treasure Trove. All books in the Maze Master's Series are custom designed to accommodate the Arena experience - with new volumes to come at a future time.

Purchase this offering and try something totally new. An exquisite audio skirmish to be played with your own RPG Miniatures collection. Included: the Battle Map, the Gladiator's Guide, and of course, The Iron Realm Solitaire Dungeon Arena & Maze Master's Guide. Plus the long-playing 50-minute version of Episode 1 for The Iron Realm: Arena podcast. And you will get the current map, creature profile, scenario, and all the rest as well.

With your newly acquired collection at hand, know that the Advanced Game is fully supported. Visit my Patreon Page each month, for your next Contest - a different podcast - for The Iron Realm: Arena will be featured there under the ARENA tag. Legend Seekers will have access to that podcast and its associated map each month - whilst Deity Tier members will also gain the accompanying Gladiator's Guide for the current Contest.

Whichever you choose, you will be able to play through the skirmish according to the rules given in Dungeon Arena and thereby join in the trials of Quaylen, Anselm, Lucien, and Grace. Most Contests you acquire can be played more than once - in order to advance your Arena Tribe at a pace you choose - and the rules give you hints on designing your own Contests as well, for truly limitless play.
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The Iron Realm: Solitaire Tribe Advancement & Maze Master's Guide
Expand the rules for Iron Realm Characters through the 20th Level of Power.

The book is arranged to highlight the Seven Major Character Types - while also detailing all four of the Unimai (Unicorn Maidens) Character Types, the Zeerum Character Type, the two Gnome Character Types, and the Mazari Dark Elf. Each of the Types given in this book comes with an advanced character record.

Designed for the game master who wants to get everything possible out of The Iron Realm Dark Fantasy Setting, the Solitaire Tribe Creation & Maze Master's Guide gives you everything you need for evolving your tribe - in The Maze or in the Dungeon Arena of Occulara - allowing them every advantage as they delve ever deeper into the Eternal Maze.

The capstone for every Maze Master's Iron Realm collection and your key to power. Iron Realm!
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