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Know the road before you walk it. The rules of the wood, the rulings of this table, and the doors that lead in.

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The Rules of Dolmenwood

Dolmenwood is played on the bones of Old-School Essentials — quick to learn, deadly if taken lightly. The complete rules live in the official online reference; the sections below map what you’ll find there.

❦ Open the Dolmenwood Rules Reference ↗

Starting Play

Character statistics, ability scores, alignment, advancement, and languages.

Kindreds

The playable folk of the wood: Breggle (goat-folk), Elf, Grimalkin (fairy cats), Human, Mossling, and Woodgrue.

Classes

Bard, Cleric, Enchanter, Fighter, Friar, Hunter, Knight, Magician, and Thief.

Magic

Arcane magic, Fairy magic, Holy magic, and Mossling knacks — including the enchanter’s runes and sigils.

Equipment, Services & Animals

Adventuring gear, arms and armour, mounts and hounds, lodging, pipeleaf, fungi and herbs, retainers, and specialist services.

Adventuring

Time and movement, encumbrance, hazards, travel and camping, settlements, dungeons, encounters, and combat.

New to the wood? Start with Starting Play and Kindreds, then read the Adventuring core rules. That’s enough to walk in. Everything else you can look up at the table.

This Table’s House Rules

Every table rules the wood a little differently. Ours change how ability scores, hit points, XP, travel, downtime, and death play out — read them before your first expedition. A full copy is kept here on this site as a backup, alongside a link to the canonical version.

⚖ Read the House Rules

Local copy, mirrored from Hilltown Studio · canonical source ↗