1/🧵 A new dawn rises upon Gubat Banwa! 🌅
Greetings, everyone, Kadungganan, it's been awhile. Thought I’d get us all up to speed on some major updates: a new look, a true first edition, mechanics reworks and changes, a GenCon Quickstart, and the current status of the project.
You Kadungganan, whose strikes and voices match a hundred: seize Heaven's thunderclaps, and rob the moon a bit of its splendor in a Tactics RPG of Drama and Martial Arts set in The Sword Isles!
Brandish your blades, ready your hearts: GUBAT BANWA comes to KICKSTARTER! Link ⬇️
The time has come. Raise the sails, sound the horns, bang the gongs! Glory awaits. It's time to sail the sky and seize heaven's thunderclaps! ⚔️⚡️🔥
Gubat Banwa's KS is LIVE NOW! ⬇️🔗
REJOICE! IN THE GLORY OF COMBAT! 🪷⚔️⚡️
The Thunderbolt Strikes! Gubat Banwa, the Martial Arts War Drama RPG is out now!
⚔️Ballistic martial arts grid combat!
🌺Larger than life war drama!
⚡️A unique Southeast Asian martial art fantasy setting of love and violence!
We understand how challenging it can be to find visual resources for Gubat Banwa characters, so we want to announce that we're working on a visual character creator tool to help ease character creation! 🌩️
Watch out for it 👀⚔️
O, dear one, who hast found this scroll writ upon storms: seize heaven’s thunderclaps.
The Festival of the Reddest Night approaches: will the tide be stemmed? Will you master violence and rejoice in the glory of combat?
May you become Concordant.
Cover for GUBAT BANWA 1E!
The time has come. Raise the sails, sound the horns, bang the gongs! Glory awaits. It's time to sail the sky and seize heaven's thunderclaps! ⚔️⚡️🔥
Gubat Banwa's KS is LIVE NOW! ⬇️🔗
🎺 Gubat Banwa 1e Public Playtest is out! While it's still not completely done, having some more content needing to be imported, it is close to it's final state and some feedback on the balancing and gamefeel of many things is needed. Link below!
In
#GubatBanwa
, a Kadungganan progresses thru 12 LEGENDS, split into 3 RANKS: WARRIOR, HERO, and KING. Each of these Ranks express martial prowess, their relative Fame (or infamy) and their closeness to Glory, as well as framing what kind of adventures they might be up to!
GUBAT BANWA is a tactical martial arts and war drama
#TTRPG
set in The Sword Isles, a violent archipelago set aflame by warring mandalas. Inspired by Filipino Martial Arts, Folklore, Tactical RPGs, and Classical Philippines!
PRINCESS MURDERS THE HERO is a Southeast Asian Hyperfantasy romp through the Sword Isles, building upon Gubat Banwa! It's inspired by Hiligaynon Serials, Silat films, Wuxia and Xianxia, and Asian Dramas
did you guys know there's a porcelain period southeast asia nusantara silat eskrima arnis martial arts fantasy book about a binukot choosing violence and trying to kill the hero of prophecy
Hey
#GubatBanwa
! We've released PDF 1.04, which sharpens the game a bit more to a fine polish, and even has a new generator and art as a treat! Please do update your PDFs! Link to the Changelogs below~
👹 GUBAT BANWA 1E PLAYTEST 3! ⚔
The third playtest of the final document of Gubat Banwa is out!
🔥 New Astrology-esque Alignments for Narrative Character Creation!
⚔ Revamped Combat system with Drum-based "initiative" and rolls inspired by Skirmish Wargames!
Check it out!
GUBAT BANWA is a martial arts fantasy TRPG of larger-than-life martial heroes fighting through a cruel and violent trichiliocosm to prove their Conviction! Wield the Thunderbolt and find your Violence, Kadungganan, to decide the fate of the world! Link ⬇️!
🎨:
@marmastry
GUBAT BANWA is a ballistic martial arts tactics and drama RPG where you play as KADUNGGANAN, peerless martial artists, striving in the SWORD ISLES, inspired by Medieval Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian Folklore, and Filipino Martial Arts! Link below~
FIERCE art by
@ghostprinceee
!
Crumbling under the weight of the Wheel of Violence, you must take the land's reins and become something else: Chakravartin? Devaraja? Shah? Sultan? Hari? Diyos? Maharaja? Whatever it may be, Kadungganan, you must REJOICE IN THE GLORY OF COMBAT!
The free GB Quickstart is out!
The deerfolk are diminutive mouse deer people descended from the Almighty Trickster Pilandok. He once fooled a kingdom into thinking he was a sultan. As punishment, Pilandok was cut up into a thousand pieces, and the pieces became the deerfolk. Of course, Pilandok is still alive.
The Thunderhead Keens! ⛈️⛈️
Due to unforeseen circumstances and the need to build a larger audience, we've delayed the Campaign to OCTOBER to be able to gather even more strength across the lands.
Check out the links below to get updated!👇👇
"...Born from a piece of bamboo that floated in from the Endless Sea after multiple cosmogonies. They arose after a great king eagle pecked them out from their bamboo vessels."
NEW KAWAYANON ART for GUBAT BANWA!
⚔ ⚔At the ready, Kadungganan! ⚔ ⚔
Tear Heaven from its pedestals! The Wheel of Violence turns ever on- don't you want to forge this world anew? 🔥 🔥 🔥
A whole new look is in the works for Gubat Banwa, starting with a new cover layout!
A lot of Gubat Banwa's DNA owes itself to fellow tactical RPG juggernauts such as D&D4e, Lancer RPG, and Strike! RPG. The game's THUNDERING TACTICAL BATTLE System, combines high octane martial arts with precise positioning and volatile movement, creating a dramatic combat arena!
GUBAT BANWA is Tactical Martial Arts and War Drama in Fantasy Medieval Philippines. Play as the prestigious Kadungganan, the warrior elite of the Sword Isles, and play to live, die, and know. Prove your conviction, and rejoice in the glory of combat!
Early Access 3 out below!
EVERY PEASANT A KING, EVERY KING A GOD. POINT YOUR BLADES TO HEAVEN: VIOLENCE UNTIL GLORY!
Gubat Banwa is an Epic Fantasy Tactics RPG of Bleeding Heart Melodrama and Earth Shattering Tactical Martial Arts set in THE SWORD ISLES: a fantasy Southeast Asia! 1.4 is out now!⬇️
ONEFLOOR is working on Gubat Banwa's Soundtrack! For use in your games as well as getting the general mood, it's an orchestral/hip-hop/traditional Southeast Asian fusion that encapsulates Gubat Banwa's style and ultraviolence!
The beautiful flower trichiliocosm of Gubat Banwa is packed with an intensely diverse set of Folk that thrive and live within.
Any of them can become Kadungganan.
Now more than ever, the Sword Isles need these honorable braves. Choose your Principle, and prove your Conviction!
WARRIORS OF THE MOST HIGH. SACRIFICIAL BERSERKERS. THOSE WHO FURY, TRIUMPHING IN ADVERSITY.
MARTYRS go into a sacred war trance known as FURY, which they sink into with sacred death rites. Their faith will lead them to death, and they rejoice.
New MARTYR art by
@Dylbriones
!
🌩️ Heaven Trembles As We Cleave The Seas! 1.6 is out. The text will be going out soon to our editor. On the path to glory!
⚔️ Revamped mechanics for kinetic martial play and heroic drama.
🌙 Mechanics for emphasizing the spirituality and ritual of the isles.
🔥 Math fixes!
🔗⬇️
GUBAT BANWA is martial arts fantasy RPG, inspired by the refulgent cultures of Southeast Asia, where you play as KADUNGGANAN! Revel in larger-than-life war drama, ballistic tactical grid gameplay, deep buildcrafting, and decide the fate of a world reaching heaven by violence!
A king's daughter is sent to be wed to a lunar prince. An alliance between two realms.
A storm riddles their goal. A mad god rouses his Chosen One.
A demon goddess awakens the daughter to her heritage. She forges her own path.
One in where the princess murders the hero.
If you run you gain one. But if you move forward, you gain two ⚔️
May's character poll winner has been decided!
The Witch from Mercury is coming to the Sword Isles
Details in the post ⬇⬇⬇
From Dios Buhawi to Tamblot to gender-shattering Babaylan, the asug and datu: Gubat Banwa rises from the divinity of non-Western gender, takes pride in standing alongside fellow queers.
Happy Pride and Wrath and Love to all. Let your expression cut like swords until Glory!❤️🔥⚔️
We'd like to extend our most sincere thanks to everyone who has made it possible for us to reach our goals in just below a day❤️🔥
Now, the beyond beckons.
Our STRETCH GOALS present the opportunity to take Gubat Banwa further, humble as they may seem! 🧵
The time has come. Raise the sails, sound the horns, bang the gongs! Glory awaits. It's time to sail the sky and seize heaven's thunderclaps! ⚔️⚡️🔥
Gubat Banwa's KS is LIVE NOW! ⬇️🔗
EARLY ACCESS 4!
Happy new year, let us harvest merit from the ancestors and may the spirits grant us blessings. Gubat Banwa EA 4 is another narrative addition on top of 3. It's much smaller than 3, but it provides the final scaffolding for running games in the Isles of Violence.
The time has come. Raise the sails, sound the horns, bang the gongs! Glory awaits. It's time to sail the sky and seize heaven's thunderclaps! ⚔️⚡️🔥
Gubat Banwa's KS is LIVE NOW! ⬇️🔗
🪷PEACE AND LOVE USED LIKE A BLADE WILL CONQUER⚔️
GUBAT BANWA'S FREE QUICKSTART and MUSANGHARI, a GUBAT BANWA MODULE have both been updated. Want easy ways to get into Gubat Banwa's system and setting? Check them out!
Hey
#GubatBanwa
! We've released PDF 1.04, which sharpens the game a bit more to a fine polish, and even has a new generator and art as a treat! Please do update your PDFs! Link to the Changelogs below~
“Ah, the would be heroes, are you? Let us see if you are worth my steel. Death, either way, shall be a reward.”
KAPITAN NITIDA, THE SWORD DEVIL, brings with him a giant ginunting, forged in the fires of dying angels, known as the Iyong Katotohanan, which means “Your Truth”.
Our eyes fall upon the Five: petals trapped in a sunbeam, a square shaped flower with a single star in the middle. The Five Great Mandalas are the most expansive cultures of Gubat Banwa. At 100k, we will be able to explore these Mahamandalas with premium art and writing.
🌩️ Heaven Trembles As We Cleave The Seas! 1.6 is out. The text will be going out soon to our editor. On the path to glory!
⚔️ Revamped mechanics for kinetic martial play and heroic drama.
🌙 Mechanics for emphasizing the spirituality and ritual of the isles.
🔥 Math fixes!
🔗⬇️
LUNAR KNIGHTS. CHIVALROUS POETS. FAITHFUL PANDITA. One of the most powerful mahamandalas in Gubat Banwa, conquering in their Divine Striving for Goddess, is inspired by the various Sultanates of Southeast Asia! STRIVE EVERMORE FOR GODDESS: AKAI!
Paulion ka nako sa sulad. Maytang pasayloan ko nimo balahalang ginoo Jamiyun kulisa sa kining pagsalundong!
Mangahas mi sa ilayang suba didto sa Baguio para sa Renfaire PH, kita unya ta didto! Makatan-aw mo sa among kinaraan'ng sinul-otan!
#RenfairePH
For the $70k Stretch Goal we'll be able to work on a full art version of FLOWERS OVER DALUMAT, a full Narrative Cycle from Legend 1-8 that covers the war-torn island of DALUMAT, the mysteries within it, as well as its connection to an ancient lost kingdom!
Let me tell you what happens at the moment when Lightning and Thunder strike and resound at the same time. It is there where you will find Jamiyun Kulisa, it is there you will find indiscriminate justice, Jamiyun Kulisa’s God-Searing Lightning.
Gubat Banwa comes to KS on 27!
HEAVENSPEARS are warriors that have learned the truth: no gods, no rulers. And so, they shed their attachments, they UNBIND themselves from the earth, and soar through the sky like a snaking dragon.
Heavenspear for GUBAT BANWA, a Lightning (DPS) Discipline by
@illsvillainy
!
The time has come. Raise the sails, sound the horns, bang the gongs! Glory awaits. It's time to sail the sky and seize heaven's thunderclaps! ⚔️⚡️🔥
Gubat Banwa's KS is LIVE NOW! ⬇️🔗
SOUND THE GONGS!⚡⚡
Something colossal waits for us in the horizon.
Do not let the tides lose you! 🌊🌊
Join us and stay in the loop by signing up for our mailing list on our ✨new website✨:
"Witness our glory."
Ancient guardians, sacred priests, and keepers of vast lore. The KINGDOM OF BA-E, the oldest polity in all the Sword Isles, one of the major polities that will change the world of
#GubatBanwa
, a PH Fantasy Martial Art War Drama
#ttrpg
!
#RPGSEA
⚔ THE KRIS ⚔
While there are many well-crafted blades in the Sword Isles, the Kris stands out as a blade specially crafted to be used in war, unlike many other blades that are multipurpose by design. It symbolizes royalty, martial prowess, and heirloom wealth.
JAMIYUN KULISA. He who lives in the Clouds, Thunder, and Lightning. Splitter of the sea, he once in a spat killed Indira Suga, his beloved wife, and thus was the region of the cosmos ended.
JAMIYUN KULISA, BROTHER THUNDERBOLT, for
#GubatBanwa
! by
@breezamiii
Pilandokan are diminutive mouse deer people descended from the Almighty Trickster of Akai history, Pilandok. Small and slender in stature, none of them reaching taller than 5'5".
PILANDOKAN are the mousedeer Folk that you can play as in Gubat Banwa! Art by
@lntpblk
WHERE WILL YOU BE AT THE END OF THE WORLD? In Gubat Banwa, you play as KADUNGGANAN, powerful warrior-braves, larger than life knight-satariyas who have the power to define the next world.
DO NOT FORGET TO CUT. A SWORD IS USED FOR CUTTING. Gubat Banwa is coming to KS, link ⬇️!
Asungtawo. The dogfolk are the faithful warriors of Apu Balatik, who followed him to the ends of heaven. As a gift for their faithfulness, Apu Balatik blessed all dogs with the cunning ability to hunt down all things.
Dogfolk by
@indignoir
!
#RPGSEA
#GubatBanwa
MAKAGAGAHUM! THE POWER ALMIGHTY, GRACE OVERWHELMING, KING OF KINGS, LORD OF LORDS, UNITARY AND TRINITY! ABA, ABA, GLORY TO THEY NAME, ANCIENT OF DAYS, 8 PART SOBRIQUET, MOST SUBLIME, TRANSCENDENT OF TRANSCENDENTS!
Makagagahum by
@kolokomiks
for GUBAT BANWA and PMTH!
Let's break down the martial arts in this scene! 🧵
Cortador⚔️Kasuba
Cortador wields a plated kris adorned with an anting-anting while his gayang remains sheathed. His yawa-tainted hand is his live hand.
Kasuba wields a bahandi flowering bangkaw.
It's almost time for glory!⚔️
We have ONE WEEK LEFT for the Gubat Banwa KS ⛈️
Hit the NOTIFY ME ON LAUNCH button to get this out! Help us spread the word! 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Anitu is the word for ritual worship across the Sword Isles. Sometimes, it also refers to the gods, souls, and ancestors worshipped to: Anito, Hanitu, hantu. They all arrive from a shared culture in the distant past when even gods were not born.
We apologize for the vagueness, we've put together a reference on Notion for some questions that have come up regarding our recent announcement.
Thank you so much for your understanding, For further questions and concerns, please reach us thru our e-mail.
The time has come. Raise the sails, sound the horns, bang the gongs! Glory awaits. It's time to sail the sky and seize heaven's thunderclaps! ⚔️⚡️🔥
Gubat Banwa's KS is LIVE NOW! ⬇️🔗
EVERY PEASANT A KING, EVERY KING A GOD. EVERY GOD A STORM, EVERY STORM A KADUNGGANAN!
This is most likely our last public release before we go into Kickstarter backer spoilers! Check out Gubat Banwa First Edition (v1.5)! With a whole slew of new stuff, and new formatting! Link ⬇️
MENDER, a River/Thorn Discipline: with poultices and herbs, they impair foes and invigorate allies, descended from an ancient tradition of healing and herbology, masters of the Four-Part Soul. Art by
@illsvillainy
, pub by
@togidemi
It is 1AM here in the PH and I, award-winning SEA-inspired Fantasy TTRPG, Gubat Banwa need you to click NOTIFY ME ON LAUNCH on our Kickstarter link or else I will SOB 🥺🥺🥺🥺
You Kadungganan, whose strikes and voices match a hundred: seize Heaven's thunderclaps, and rob the moon a bit of its splendor in a Tactics RPG of Drama and Martial Arts set in The Sword Isles!
Brandish your blades, ready your hearts: GUBAT BANWA comes to KICKSTARTER! Link ⬇️
If you run you gain one. But if you move forward, you gain two ⚔️
May's character poll winner has been decided!
The Witch from Mercury is coming to the Sword Isles
Details in the post ⬇⬇⬇
With 2 days left until the KS launch, let us celebrate the team that made it all possible. They have given Gubat Banwa their all and deserve their flowers. 💐
Check out this thread for all their links🔗🔗
Glory is a neverending river, Kadungganan. Our Kickstarter is successfully funded! Thank you to everyone that shared it around, we're about to give ya'll one of the most beautiful ttRPGs around. Until glory, Kadungganan!
ALL AT ONCE YOU ARE POWERFUL AND INDESTRUCTIBLE.
Gain Thunderbolts them by describing actions in cool ways or willingly delving into drama, to the detriment of others. Spend them to shatter fate!
This SEAsian Martial Fantasy War Drama RPG comes to Kickstarter on SEPTEMBER 27!
The ancient sky king Rajah Lawin was slain by Jamiyun Kulisa's Thunderbolt. The king's electrified blood turned into the PAK-AN birdfolk in mid-air. However, Jamiyun Kulisa asked Amihan and Habagat, the Elder Monsoons, to never allow the pak-an to fly, even with their wings.
WITCHES. WARDENS. SAGES. The Confederation of Apumbukid spans the entirety of the Sword Isles, connecting each and every of the disparate communities into a fight against increasing Disharmony and Needless Violence. HARMONY REQUIRES EQUALITY: APUMBUKID!
The higher tiers of pledging in Gubat Banwa let you have the GUBAT BANWA BOX SET, a dream of the team to be able to have since the beginning. The box includes character standees, a battle grid, the Quickstart Rules, and the Sword Devil booklet!
When Rajah Lawin was killed by Jamiyun Kulisa with his Thunderbolt, Rajah Lawin’s electrified blood coagulated and formed into the Pak-an in mid-air 🌩
With the (possibly) final edition almost in sight, our folk art gets an upgrade, starting with the Pak-an!
Art by
@lntpblk
WARLORDS. MERCHANTS. CONQUERORS. Inspired by the colonized polities of Southeast Asia, this mahamandala has fended off the invaders, but adopted the colonizer's form of state and more... Yet their redemption is at hand! LET THE MOUNTAINS SHAKE THE PILLARS OF HEAVEN: VIRBANWA!
WARBANDS are the only means of a Kadungganan to survive the Sword Isles. Built up off bonds between fated brothers, they arise from fated bonds between heroes and warriors common in SEAsian stories and hero-tales. Change the world together or be not at all.
Gubat Banwa 1.42 comes out right now! An across the board tweak to the NPC numbers that makes them less of a complete pushover and endangers Kadungganan. Math is always tricky to get right in both play feel and statistical balance, so we're working towards refining that!
Will your Kadungganan be enshrined in Gubat Banwa?⚔️
The Maharaja Tier of our KS not only guarantees backers an exclusive box set and a deluxe digital package but to see your very own OC illustrated in the pages of Gubat Banwa! 🔥
Want in? KS link below!👇👇
It is with utmost joy that we announce that the final version of Gubat Banwa, GUBAT BANWA 1E, is releasing tonight with a new title: JUNGLE TOWN, and it is proudly COMPATIBLE with the world's greatest roleplaying game: D&D 5e!
Unsheathe your bejeweled blade, with its golden hilt. Imbued with the endless light of a thousand ancestors... use it to cut. Use it to shear. Use it to pave the Golden Path to the Future.
WEIGHT IN GOLD, the Ba-e track, by
@Hwareon
for Gubat Banwa!
"With our dragon boats we shall split the seas, and the serpent shall swallow the sun!"
Regal Raiders, ferocious merchants, and wealthy nobles, the RAJAHNATE OF GATUSAN, a league of 999 Chiefdoms, is one of the major polities set to change the world in
#GubatBanwa
!
SUTRA. VAJRA. CHAKRA. MANTRA.
You can PRE-ORDER a PHYSICAL HARDCOVER or a BOX SET of GUBAT BANWA's Core Rulebook through Backerkit! Don't miss the chance to have a physical version of the SEAsian Martial Fantasy RPG! You also get access to early access to everything!
Kawayantawo. The bamboo folk are those born from a piece of bamboo that Aloated in from the Endless Sea after multiple cosmogonies. They arose after a great king eagle pecked them out from their bamboo vessels, and gave them man and woman roles.
"Glory is an endlessly flowing river." 🌊🌊
v1.2 of Gubat Banwa First Edition has been updated with proper tweaks, fixes, clarifications, and changes. The work is not done, the text will find glory! Link below. Also featuring the new cover!
⚔ ⚔At the ready, Kadungganan! ⚔ ⚔
Tear Heaven from its pedestals! The Wheel of Violence turns ever on- don't you want to forge this world anew? 🔥 🔥 🔥
A whole new look is in the works for Gubat Banwa, starting with a new cover layout!
COME TO THE PROVING GROUNDS, WARRIORS AND SAINTS ALIKE. From the instruments and bells of
@Hwareon
is the Apumbukid track, PROVING GROUNDS!
Whole song in the Youtube Link below!