Malborn - Arcanum Worlds

Three Core Books of Malborn

The campaign. The prison. The handbook.

Malborn: Old Hunger

Escape the Prison. Then Break Back In.

Old Hunger was never built to reform criminals. It was built to make an entire city afraid.

Begin in chains, stripped of status and equipment, and survive long enough to escape Malborn’s infamous prison fortress. Then return as experienced vigilantes, break back into the prison you once fled, and descend into forbidden levels where even the wardens fear to go.

What Awaits Within

2 complete adventures that can be played separately, together or as an extension of Malborn: City of Masks
Prison politics, contraband, work details, alliances and rival inmates
Multiple approaches to escaping and later infiltrating Old Hunger
18 new monster entries, plus crime lords, corrupt wardens and legendary inmates
220+ pages of adventure

You escaped Old Hunger once. Now someone is asking you to go back.

Malborn: City of Masks

Become the Vigilante the City Deserves

Old Hunger has been breached, and some of the most dangerous criminals in the known world are loose.

Become a masked vigilante in a city where noble houses, criminal syndicates and corrupt authorities compete for power. Hunt escaped killers, investigate conspiracies, infiltrate criminal strongholds and wage war against Malborn’s Kingpins—while deciding how far you are willing to go in the name of justice.

What Awaits Within

A complete level 1–8 campaign
Hunt criminals across the Pit, Cesscourt and Upper City
10 signature villains, plus an extensive Rogues Gallery of enemies
Detective work, heists, rooftop pursuits and vigilante justice
400+ pages of missions, monsters, treasures, noble houses and criminal syndicates

Malborn needs heroes. It may have to settle for vigilantes.

Malborn: Vigilante’s Handbook

Create the Person. Become the Mask.

Create more than an adventurer. Create a double life.

Define the profession you live by, the event that drove you to vigilantism and the person who keeps you grounded. Then build the masked identity Malborn will come to know, with new subclasses, species, equipment, spells and rules designed for life as a vigilante.

What Awaits Within

8+ new subclasses and 4+ playable species
25+ pieces of specialized vigilante equipment, plus new spells
7 Vigilante Backgrounds that define who you were, why you took the mask, and who deserves punishment
A guide for how to create your vigilante alias, appearance, costume, methods and reputation

Who you are matters. Who you become when you put on the mask matters more.

Brought to You by Arcanum Worlds

An independent tabletop RPG publisher led by veteran RPG designer James Ohlen.

Selected Tabletop Work from Arcanum Worlds & James Ohlen

Heroes of Baldur’s Gate

Odyssey of the Dragonlords Remastered Edition

Minsc & Boo’s Journal of Villainy

The Stygian Passage

Chains of Asmodeus

Free 128-Page
Vigilante’s Guide

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Get the free 128-page edition of the Malborn Vigilante’s Guide and discover the city, its vigilantes, and what awaits before the campaign launches.

Inside the guide

A first look at the city of Malborn and the prison of Old Hunger

5 Subclasses, 3 Species, 6 Vigilante Backgrounds, 43 Vigilante Items

Vigilante Guise System, Maps, Wanted Posters and More

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Become the Mask

Create the person Malborn knows by day and the vigilante it fears by night.

Build a civilian identity with its own profession, relationships and reputation, then create a vigilante guise with a unique name, appearance and methods.

Both identities matter in play. Protect your secret, use each life to open different doors, and face the consequences when the two begin to collide.

An Entire City, Mapped from Rooftop to Underworld

Malborn features more than 1 million square feet of meticulously detailed city maps, hand-drawn by John Stevenson. Streets, interiors, furnishings and hidden passages are all rendered for exploration and combat.

Every map is designed for both VTT play and full-color printed battle maps, turning the city itself into your tabletop battlefield.