The Flame of Heroes Must Light a Dark World!

Welcome to a world of dark roads and deep magic, where you can match wits with Baba Yaga, set sail for uncharted islands with minotaur corsairs, and face the fury of the giants in the icy north!

The Midgard Heroes Handbook for 5th Edition has everything you need to create a character for a 5th edition Midgard campaign, including full details on 11 new races and 4 variants on standard races. Roll up a trollkin barbarian, a ravenfolk fighter, a kobold rogue, and more.

You also get:

• more than 48 new class options, including new bard colleges and paladin oaths
• martial, ranger, and rogue archetypes—and new weapons and gear
• a new druid circle and a dozen new cleric domains including Beer, Justice, and Moon domains
• sorcerous bloodlines, new warlock pacts, and strange arcane traditions
• 20 backgrounds from the Southlands to the distant North,

And nearly 300 new spells from the fan-favorite Deep Magic series, including shadow magic, clockwork magic, battle magic, rune magic and more!

The shadow roads are open, and the World Serpent stirs in its sleep. Adventure awaits the bold!

Design: Chris Harris, Dan Dillon, Greg Marks, Richard Green, and Shawn Merwin

Additional Design: Jon Sawatsky, Michael Ohl, Rich Howard, Scott Carter, and Wolfgang Baur

Development and Editing: Steven Winter

Cover Art: Aaron Miller

Interior Art: Helge C. Balzer, Gabriel Cassata, Kremena Chipilova, Josh Hass, Russell Jones, Jason Juta, Guido Kuip, Marcel Mercado, Florian Stitz, Bryan Syme, Egil Thompson, Damon Westenhofer, Michael Witmann

Art Direction: Marc Radle

Layout and Graphic Design: Marc Radle

Publisher: Wolfgang Baur

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