Not a good fit for me. Seems like this game is much more for the solo player. If you like games like Fate, you might like this. It depends a lot on filling out the actings by making it up as you go. A few more mechanics than Fate, but still very much like doing improv. I do like the 2d6 plus a 1d10 dice mechanic. The timers are also interesting.

Great addon to the Ironsworn RPG. It adds a good bit, I wouldn't start with it unless your already familiar with Ironsworn as it can give you some analysis paralysis with the sheer amount of options and additional material to explore/generate.

If you've played Ironsworn and enjoyed it, grab this and take it to the next level!

One of the best Solo TTRPGs and my personal favorite of them (technically my favorite is now Ironsworn:Starforged). This is an intuitive system once you get started and can be played solo, co-op, or group. It's system is a heavily modified PbtA engine, which I find that system to be hit-or-miss, but here it is tweaked and used to great effect! I'd recommend this system even for newbies to the solo style of gaming, I'm not sure how easy it would be to pick up for someone who has never played any ttrpg. Check it out for free then come back and buy the print. The print (I bought Hardcover) is great quality and the pages are clean and the book itself is laid-out well. If your a gamer, you'll want this for the shelf.

Fantastic resource for quick reference and use during play. I've used the tables playing other games as well! Highly recommend.

The game is somehow brilliantly simple and incredibly full of depth. While you always feel like a badass there is also real danger around every corner.

Awesome! I have played fable lands and four against darkens but this book feels a total upgrade on solo playing.

A great reference book with some nice new additions; the extra attribute layouts are a nice way to smoothly bend the game into a lighter and more exploratory feel or a (more) grim dangerous one.

A great gameplay loop with an interesting core setting; Ironsworn is a perflect blend of narrative-focused storytelling and flexible but solid gameplay mechanics that reinforce eachother rather than happening to exist in the same space. Impressive depth for a game that could be played almost entirely with a character sheet and 3 dice, would buy again!

I started gaming in the 1970s and am absolutely gobsmacked when I see how awesome and creative designers can be. This is a stark world, a hard world to game in – but one completely of my own crafting. I love how thoughtfully and gently I am read through the creative rocess to build an adventuring world. THANK YOU for this.

As is the case with the Ironsworn core platform, Delve is brilliantly concieved and executed. Delve essentially brings Ironsworn underground, expanding moves, settings, monsters, and oracles to cover the thrills, glories, and tragedies of dungeon-crawling. Delve shares Ironsworn's carefully calibrated balance and has inspired many hours of play. Most importantly, the mechanics serve the action in the game, and not vice-versa. The player's imagination is front-and-center. Top marks.

Ironsworn is an inspired and carefully tuned platform where the mechanics serve the action in the game, and not vice-versa. Everything about Ironsworn is designed to inspire the player's imagination. There is a very good balance among the various moves and the possibility of outcomes ranging from great to terrible. The supplemental material describing the Ironlands and its inhabitants is creative and well-thought-out. This is a superior product.

If you are reading this and own Ironsworn. BUY DELVE. It only improves Ironsworn-in ways far beyond I would have expected. If you are reading this and don't own Ironsworn-go try Ironsworn. It is free. After you fall in love with that game. You will, come back to BUY DELVE. Not only will you not be dissapointed, but it is a great way to support the free Ironsworn system.

At the $12.50 price point Delve is worth buying just for the oracles and tables within. You don't even need to be playing Ironsworn to get use out of a lot of the content in this book.

I can't say enough about how great this game is. Shawn Tomkin is a true master of the ttrpg craft (especially gmless). Ironsworn is so well done that I think we will look at it as the grandfather of all great dmless ttrpgs in the future. After playing Ironsworn I was unsure how it could even be improved upon (until I played Starforged, the sci-fi spiritual successor of Ironsworn). The rulebook can seem daunting at first glance, but it is a very easy read, and the rules are far more simple than they may appear. Most of the book is dice tables/oracles, good rpg advice, and further rules clarification for those who need it/come across a unique situation. The actual rules are quick to read. Ironsworn is as much a guidebook to good ttrping/storytelling as it is a rules system. This is the next evolution of PbtA. If you're a PbtA fan-must buy. If you're not, still check it out.

I bought the special offer. Download and physical books. I haven't recieved my physical copies and it's been 6 months.

Ironsworn Lodestar, in my opinion, is the single most underrated resource & toolkit book I've picked up in the past 6-7 years of any TTRPG system. It's that fantastic, and I sincerely encourage anyone to check this out. The best part of it is, while obviously it is made as a supplement to use for Ironsworn, the enormous amount of GM guidance, random table generators, and worldbuilding tools can be applied to literally any TTRPG. If I had any two resources that can immediately be ported into any TTRPG setting, it would be Worlds Without Numbers, and Ironsworn Lodestar. Both are perfect.

Lodestar shines in that it gives tons of GM guidance for the specific PBtA (or PBtA adjacent/influence) Ironsworn game, and does a FANTASTIC job of presenting overview sections of all move types, categories and descriptions...that are well laid out, ultra intuitive to understand, and all locating in one easy to find doc. I honestly wish game designers made something this intuitive for every system, because more complex systems are dying for something like this, both for GM and player purposes, you can just flip it open and immediately find what you need for any Ironsworn game.

It equally shines as a generic/not tied to Ironsworn resource that is chalk full of random generators for everything from plot, worldbuilding, PC character building, character feelings and personalities, backstories, locations, villages, celebrations & disasters in villages or cities, random encounters, random events...all with tones stretching between happy to sad, to dark and spooky, to chivalrous, to joyful and celebratory to depressing or true danger or tragedy. It also has a fantastic section for name creation of both PCs, NPCs and creature types, as well as locations. Could be used for just about any system and setting that involves high or low fantasy, steampunk, or history.

It's just awesome, and for a resource so inexpensive, everyone should grab a copy. Kudos to the remarkably talented author Shawn Tompkin for creating Ironsworn, Starforged, and this excellent Lodestar resource!