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Meet the Creator
A conversation with designer Tom Termini about the origins of The Hidden Territories.
Crowdfunding preview
The Hidden Territories:
Special Edition
A solo and cooperative fantasy adventure board game of hexcrawling, quests, factions and emergent story in the Kingdom of Westri.
Coming first to Kickstarter. Later campaign and late-pledge availability may follow through Gamefound or Indiegogo.
You are adventurers
Explore dangerous places. Make choices. The world reacts and remembers.
The Hidden Territories is a rules-complete, system-led fantasy adventure board game for one to four players. You cross a vast hex map, commit Attribute dice to Actions, resolve Encounters and branching entries in the Tome of Twistime, and leave visible consequences behind in the world.
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The Hidden Territories: Game Overview
An introduction to the world, components and scope of the game.
The game
A complete fantasy adventure system in one box.
Travel across Westri, follow rumours, discover Landmarks, confront Denizens, meet named Strangers and become entangled in pressures already moving through the kingdom.
There is no Game Master and no scripted route. Action Cards, committed Attribute dice, 2d6 tables, cards, Conditions and the core components resolve play.
Inside the box
Built around core components.
The First Edition prototype demonstrates the scale of the physical game. The Special Edition will refine the presentation, materials and packaging as production specifications are locked.
Core components
Four books. One living territory.
The rules, branching adventures, geography and named actors are divided into dedicated references so the table can find what it needs without collapsing the world into a single rulebook.
Rules Codex
The executable procedures for Actions, travel, combat, Conditions, recovery and world-state change.
Tome of Twistime
Contained branching adventures keyed to Encounters, Events, Landmarks and the changing state of play.
Gazetteer
The spatial reference for Westri: its five hundred map hexes, regions, settlements, Landmarks and points of interest.
Notable Personages
Named actors embedded in factions, places and rivalries, each resolved through visible system guidance.
Map and trackers
The Kingdom of Westri, the Quest Tracker, seasonal and lunar state, Threat, and other shared campaign surfaces.
Cards, dice and tokens
Action, Encounter, Event, Rumour and Stranger decks with Attribute dice and physical state markers.
Decades in the making
This did not appear overnight.
The Hidden Territories began as a tabletop campaign in the late 1970s. Over decades it evolved through handwritten notes, home-built maps, playtests, prototype boxes, commissioned illustration and repeated redesign into the First Edition shown here.
A world built to explore
Peril, wonder and consequence.
Licensed classic fantasy art, newly commissioned illustrations and original work developed across the game’s long history give Glatheriel a varied visual record rather than a single polished veneer.
Designed for long campaigns
Hours and hours of extended play.
The Hidden Territories is not intended to be completed in a weekend. Each expedition uncovers only a fraction of Westri. Locations, quests, Strangers, Encounters, Landmarks, Rumours and Events recombine through visible state and procedural tables.
The game draws upon a home campaign begun in the late 1970s, decades of fantasy gaming, choose-your-own-adventure books, mythology, folklore, sword-and-sorcery fiction and the hard lessons of repeated physical prototyping. The result is an original, GM-less adventure board game in which players choose, the system resolves, and Glatheriel remembers.
Planned campaign structure
Premium editions without fragmenting the game.
Every physical pledge is intended to provide a complete playable game. Higher tiers will emphasize presentation, collectability and additional reference material rather than withholding core gameplay.
Tier I
Explorer Edition
Complete game. Final contents and price: TBD.
Tier II
Special Edition
Premium presentation and upgraded components. Details: TBD.
Tier III
Collector Edition
Limited, numbered and presentation-led. Details: TBD.
Tier IV
Scholar Collection
Collector package with expanded world-reference material. Details: TBD.
Potential add-ons
Physical artefacts and useful extensions.
These are under production review and are not yet promised campaign rewards.
Print and collector items
Cyclopedia of Glatheriel · poster or enlarged map · campaign journal · T-shirt · lapel pin · additional dice · signed bookplate or art print
Digital and future items
STL standee files as a possible stretch goal · professionally printed resin standees as a later retail accessory · downloadable campaign material
Digital companion
The website is part of the road ahead.
The core website and backer information will be available independently of stretch funding. More ambitious online capabilities may be unlocked during crowdfunding.
Always available
Project updates, errata, downloads, rules clarification, campaign registration and the foundation for recording Adventure Logs.
Possible digital goals
Shared Campaign Chronicle, expedition tools, interactive Gazetteer, searchable World Atlas and aggregate world-state views.
Road to release
From campaign to table.
Kickstarter launchAutumn 2026→ProductionQ1 2027→FulfilmentQ3 2027
Every hero needs a quest
The road into Westri is nearly open.
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