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!

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.

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.

Do you want to add dungeons or depth to the travel segments of Ironsworn? Do you want prompts to create dungeons with a motif and / or theme for any fantasy dungeon crawl or even hex crawl? If so, buy this now! It's a great resourced even without the Ironsworn rpg. Speaking of which, you can get Ironsworn as a free PDF and I cannot recommend it highly enough!)

Absolutely brilliant addition to Ironsworn which adds depth and variety. Some of the option rules really bring the game to life.

This adds depth and complexity as you see fit to an already amazing system. These books are worth the physical + PDF if you can afford it! Thanks Shawn for an amazing system, and "Me, Myself, and Die"; & Geek Gamer for introducing it to me!

Angel's Citadel reviewed this product. You can check out our thoughts here: https://angelscitadel.com/2021/09/24/review-ironsworn-and-ironsworn-delve/

Super useful, it expands Ironsworn wonderfully with a pack of tools for creating random scenes and challenges in a variety exploration environments. Apart from traditional dungeons, there are forests, swamps, ruins, sea caves and more. The method for generating and running these environments can be used in Ironsworn, but also easily adapted for D&D or any other rpg story that wants to explore a dangerous place.

Hello,

this is a worthy addition to Ironsworn RPG. In my youth I played a lot of TRPG with my friends. Now with a family this is not easy. However, playing solo in a narrative manner is possible with Ironsworn.

Delve adds new monsters, and many more. Buy this product, if you play Ironsworn. Great!

brgds Lars

This is an outstanding supplement to a very well-deseigned tabletop RPG. It is about the same length as the core rules, so with this book one basically doubles the amount of source material available for playing Ironsworn. It adds an entire, completely option, but incredibly cool set of moves and quests to Ironsworn that allows the player to add greater variety and detail to the gameplay. It introduces new "denizen" species of the Ironlands, and it even provides a large number of "pre packaged" Delve sites and maps out their locations, in case the player would rather use a more developed world than generate one de novo. I personally prefer to generate my own, but I have to say that the ones Shawn (the author) provides are quite interesting and add a ton to the atmosphere and setting of Ironsworn.

Once again I am blown away by the quality of not just the rules but the setting. As someone who normally hates it when RPG writers mix their setting with the rules, no one is more surprised than I am that I would say such a thing. But the setting is so well thought out, and dovetails so perfectly with the basic gameplay of swearing iron vows and all the rest of it, that I am incredibly pleased that Shawn put them together as one, and did not separate them into 'gameplay' and 'setting' books.

You can, of course, entirely ignore the setting and do your own homebrew world without any problem at all. You don't have to do "Iron" vows or live in "Iron" lands (people on the Discord have names like "bloodsworn" for blood vows, and maybe living in the bloody lands or something similar, for example), but I certainly won't be ignoring the setting in my game play. I love it to death and can't wait to see even more.

I love this book and its predecssor (the free-to-download core rules) so much that even though I already own the full PDF versions, I just today ordered hardcovers of both. I did this partly because I like physical books, but partly to show support for the author -- here's hoping he keeps making Ironsworn-related supplements for years to come.

Another fantastic product from Shawn T. As if Ironsworn could get any better...it has with this supplement. It merges with the core rules effortlessly and the extra mechanics even improve what was already 10/10. A purchase item as opposed to free, but glad to pay and support Shawn T. Shawn is so talented I will buy his next release without even looking at any reviews. Especially with the prospect of Starforged!

Ironsworn Delve expands on the already fantastic core experience. I can no longer play without delving the depths and using the optional rules. And I can't play any other RPG and explore without thinking the Theme and Domain system is better.

Ironsworn is free, but I gladly paid for the hardcover to support Tom and his beautiful craftsmanship. Delve is a must-have addition. It's modular nature encourages you to pick what parts will make the experience deeper and richer, with little effort.

This is VERY GOOD material for a very amazing game, you need it in your life if you enjoy Ironsworn and supporting Shawn Tomkin (the author) for their generous free Ironsworn offerings is something we should all be doing!

Out of all the free and/or storytelling systems I've purchased/looked at, I've played exactly none of them; Ironsworn was the first one that was a real gaming system. Delve expands that system and adds a focus on site exploration, but it's not just for dungeons; you can also use it for creating and exploring wilderness areas. It adds some delving specific moves and some elements that can be used in Irownsworn as well. It's not a necessary purchase to get the most from Ironsworn, but it is an excellent adition to it and an easy recommendation to purchase.