Elemental Knight - The Legend of Zelda: Reclaim the Wild

09 Mar

Wild on the Web: Confraria de Arton

While I was digging around in the website’s statistics, I discovered that there was another short article written about us – in Portugese! You can check it out here.

Much like the last article about us, this one praises the book’s professional-looking design and core gameplay systems – at least, near as I can tell through Google Translate.

Thanks, Confraria de Arton!

02 Mar

Version 1.03

I did not expect this many small tweaks and changes for version 1.03 or Reclaim the Wild. Hoo boy.

On top of that, this version features a totally revamped Monster Creation system. It’s now much less focused on point-for-point crunch, and has been reorganized to raise questions in the order that GMs actually encounter them when building a new baddie. I’m looking forward to seeing how people use it!

As ever, you can get the new version of the PDFs here (Mediafire), or you can use this new Google Drive mirror (Google Drive).

Check out below for the full changelog!

Adventure Ideas: Song of Storms

The Zelda franchise has more than its fair share of memorable, catchy songs, each with its own potent magic. Of these, the Song of Storms might be the most well-remembered, inspiring people to create remixes, covers, and even their own lyrics for the Magical Song.

While the Song of Storms is rolled into the Wind’s Requiem in Reclaim the Wild, that doesn’t mean you can’t base a few adventures around it. Players will be sure to follow up any quest hook that’s flavored with this favorite song, in the hopes of learning it for themselves.

The desert town of Sunken Dune relies on the skilled dancer Palanhi, playing the Song of Storms, for their survival. The town receives no natural rainfall, and the nearest oasis is three days’ travel away. When desert thieves kidnap Palanhi away, the town is beside itself with panic. When the Heroes valiantly rush in to try and rescue her, however, they learn a startling truth – Palanhi asked to be kidnapped. The Heroes can either return her to her gilded cage, learn the song (and perhaps teach it to someone else in town), or, perhaps, find some more permanent solution to the town’s water problem.
A strange clock-maker is visiting Zora’s Domain, and selling music boxes for cheap. Everyone loves their tinkling tunes, and they echo off of the grotto walls beautifully. However, the music boxes hide a secret: they’re actually a clever kind of time bomb. In less than a day, the music boxes will all change their tune to the Song of Storms, and begin playing simultaneously. This will surely flood the Zora’s homeland, and cause a cascading torrent to wash away everything downstream, the question remains – why?
The town of Ilghaz has an annual festival for the Song of Storms. At the opening ceremony, the town’s choir gathers at an ancient monument, and sings the Song of Storms together, symbolically washing away the town’s sins. This year, however, the rains are red, and full of toads – an ill omen, to be sure. Is it truly a potent of bad things to come? A sign of some strange effect in the local lake? Or perhaps, as the town’s Mayor insists, some kind of magical prank?

19 Feb

Wild on the Web: GeekNative

So here’s a fun thing – we got a mention on a website! There’s a short article about Reclaim the Wild over on GeekNative.com, by their founder. While it’s not an in-depth review or anything, it is pretty positive.

In fact, I wanted to call out one very nice pull-quote:

… a quick look at Reclaim the Wild suggests a production and layout skill that rivals some paid products. – Andrew Girdwood

Thanks, GeekNative!

15 Feb

The Master Sword

The Hero’s triumph on Cataclysm’s Eve
Wins three symbols of virtue.
The Master Sword he will then retrieve,
Keeping the Knight’s line true.

Reclaim the Wild intends for players to play all-new Heroes, rather than rehashing Link and his adventures. However, the time might come when you want to have the Master Sword show up in your game. Perhaps Link himself makes an appearance, and needs your Heroes’ help to accomplish a task and save the day. Alternatively, perhaps Link died, or was never born – and hitherto-unknown Heroes must now take up the Master Sword and do what needs be done.

Famously, the Master Sword is rarely the most powerful sword Link wields. Sometimes it’s rusted, a shadow of its former glory; sometimes it’s blessed by a Great Fairy or even a Goddess, imbued with incredible power. As such, we present the Master Sword in a variety of states, below.