ADVENTURER'S DAWN
1 - 4
60-120
14+
Welcome to a living world built from modular decks. Travel across shifting paths, uncover stories shaped by your choices, and fight the corruption spreading through Skyland.
Forge Your Hero
Choose from 10 unique species, each with its own strengths, origins, and ways of surviving the lands of Skyland.
Every species comes with a large character mat and a Species card that flips when you become the Leader, unlocking new abilities and special traits that shape how you explore and endure your journey.
Define Your Combat Style
Choose your path of mastery with 10 distinct Professions. Each one shapes how you fight, adapt, and grow through unique traits, starting gear, and stat modifiers that combine with your chosen species.
Professions are divided into five archetypes: Melee, Ranged, Ether-Based, Hybrid, and Neutral. Each archetype introduces a different rhythm to combat, offering new ways to plan, cooperate, and build your strategy.
Travel the Modular World of Skyland
Skyland unfolds through Path Cards, replacing traditional boards with a living, ever-changing map. Each card represents a step of your journey and can reveal events, allies, or danger.
The Leader, chosen or rotated each turn, selects a destination such as a town or mine. From there, randomly draw and align four Path Cards to shape the route ahead and guide your party through the unknown.
Some Paths may split into Crossroads, forcing the group to decide whether to stay together or move separately. When the party divides, each player continues their own path until fate brings them back together.
Adventure Awaits
Every Path reveals a series of Adventure Cards that must be resolved in order. Each sequence begins with Events that alter the land or climate, followed by Enemies that appear in waves. Next come Interactions, where choices shape quests and outcomes, then Companions that may join your cause, and finally Treasures waiting to be claimed. Each card moves the story forward, creating a journey shaped entirely by your decisions.
Tactical Combat & Big Decisions
Combat in Skyland unfolds across three distinct phases, where teamwork and timing decide everything. Use a mix of tactical choices and D6 & D20 rolls to resolve combat with your party.
Preparation Phase
Before combat begins, players declare their actions in order, starting with the Leader. This is when you coordinate strategies, combine abilities, and decide who takes the front. Once declared, plans cannot be changed, so every call matters.
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Attack Phase | Basic Combat
When combat starts, each player performs their chosen action. Basic attacks use a D6 roll combined with your Strength or Ether, depending on the weapon type. Compare your total to the enemy’s roll to see if the hit lands, then apply your weapon’s damage minus their defense.
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Weapons come in nine types. ranging from physical blades and Guns to Ether-charged Bows and staves, each with unique stats and traits.
Attack Phase | Sigils and Abilities
Instead of attacking, you may channel a Sigil or use an ability. These require meeting their stat condition, then rolling a D20 for success.
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Sigils cover nine elemental disciplines and offer over two dozen powers to master, from barriers and strikes to area effects and healing.
Enemies Attack! | Defence Phase
Once all players act, enemies strike back in their defined order. Each adventurer can choose to Parry, Block, or Evade, but only one.
If you have been staggered before, leaving you open to damage, an ally next in turn can step in to protect you.
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Every combat round is a tactical puzzle of timing, synergy, and risk. A well-placed Sigil or coordinated defense can turn even the hardest battles in your favor.
Face the Bosses of Skyland
Every region can end in a climactic Boss Battle that unfolds in phases. Each Boss Card has two sides: a Standard Phase and an Enraged Phase that activates when flipped.
As the fight progresses and health thresholds are reached, new abilities and effects are unlocked, changing the rhythm of battle. Strategy and preparation are key, as every phase tests your team’s coordination and endurance.
Track your Progression and level up!
Each adventurer comes with a personal tracker mat to monitor growth and status throughout the journey. Use its wheel chips to record your Health, Strength, Agility, Ether, and Cunning, along with a cooldown line for ailment tokens, sigils, or others.
Earn Resonance through combat to level up, unlock new stat points, and shape your build over time. Every victory pushes your character closer to their true potential.
Claim Your Spoils
After every victory, all players gain Resonance, used to enhance stats.
Treasures, gold, and Skyshards are collected and distributed by the Leader, who decides who receives what.
Will you lead with fairness or greed? Every choice leaves a mark on your party.
Will you fight Corruption or Let It Consume You?
Every action leaves a trace of Ether behind. As it darkens, your Corruption Tracker rises.
When it reaches its limit, draw a hidden Alignment card that changes your victory goal.
Your fate remains secret until you decide to reveal who you truly are.
A World Still in the Making
Adventurer’s Dawn is currently in development. Several artworks and components are still being created, and as playtesting continues, some designs may change before the final release.
Every update brings Skyland closer to life. Thank you for following its creation.
Play test it on Tabletop Simulator:
February 21st, 2026
The upcoming demo focuses on one of the 3 regions of the base game.
Help Us Grow Skyland
Cloud Wander Studios is a small, creator-led studio fueled by passion, long nights, and plenty of coffee. Every story, illustration, and piece of music is crafted with care and love. Your support on Ko-fi helps us keep this world alive, funding collaborations with artists, voice actors, musicians, and other creative minds who bring Skyland to life.
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