The Forsaken Realms v1.03 — The Forsaking

The Forsaken Realms — v1.03

The Forgotten Realms is now The Forsaken Realms — new name, same game, and the biggest
release yet: a completely rewritten main quest with a real backstory, a major performance fix,
world-map treasure chests, a new game engine under the hood, and a long list of fixes from
player feedback.

⚠ Please start a New Game

This release reworks the main quest from the ground up, changes how the world is generated, and
(as part of the rename) moves the game's data folder — old saves will not see the new story and
may behave oddly. A fresh start is strongly recommended, and worth it.

The story: The Forsaking

The realm now has its history. You are its Guardian, sealed away three thousand years ago on the
Night of Chains by five planeswalkers — and the five Seals they cut from your stolen power are
what drained the world to grey ash. Now they've returned to claim the corpse. Wake, rebuild,
raise your banner, and take back the five Seals from the five thrones.

• Rewritten main quest line: an extended opening that teaches the world (ruined towns,
  surviving towns, restoration), a new "Raise the Banner" quest arc (Capitol, guards, mines,
  shops, research), and a rewritten Chapter 1 ending with a hook for what comes next.
• The Warden: the mage who wakes you now has a name, a purpose, and all-new dialog.
• Quest guidance arrows now point at the right destination for every tutorial step — the
  nearest ruined town when you need to restore one, a surviving town when you need to find
  survivors, your own town when it's time to build.
• Already built something before its quest appears? The quest now recognizes it retroactively —
  no more being asked to build a Capitol you already have.

Day-end lag: fixed for real

The stutter at end of day that got worse the longer you played is gone — three separate causes
found and eliminated (late-game days went from ~1 second of freeze to under a fifth of that,
and it no longer grows over time).

New: world-map treasure chests

Chests now spawn across the world with a mix of finds behind them: free loot, a Thief Merchant
selling at a discount, duplicating a card from your active deck, a straight-up ambush, an
illegal 8-fighter Arena bracket, and more.

Early game difficulty: enemy tiers now pace properly

Multiple bugs let high-tier "(Master)" enemies — including endgame Legends — roam the map from
day 1. All spawn paths (roaming, quest spawns, and the AI's attacking mages) now respect the
weekly difficulty progression: week 1 is Apprentice/Adept country, stronger tiers unlock as the
weeks pass.

Engine update

Now built on Forge's 2.0.15 (08.26) daily — including their new main-menu artwork, duel
backdrops, a rewritten movement-input system, and all upstream card fixes since 08.19.

And more

• New game name, new icon treatment, new title screen art
• Restored neutral towns show proper town icons on the minimap (not ruins)
• Discord link is now a real clickable button on the welcome page
• Town-restoration rewards display properly (they were always granted — now you can see them)
• Ruined/player towns are ~15% larger; many towns hand-polished in this release's map pass
• Extensive diagnostic logging so bug reports can be pinpointed from a single log file

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Version history

v1.02 (from v1.01)

The Trader building (early-game Gold→Wood/Stone conversion, upgradeable to an Exchange at your
Capitol) · Colorless rune teleports home to your Capitol · ante buy-back now tells you the price
when you can't afford it · all 5 AI capital Arenas fixed (4 were silently inaccessible) ·
Commander-only cards and duplicate Sol Rings no longer leak into rewards · Eldrazi Prison opened
up as a real, finishable 7-boss endgame dungeon · 41-item + 39-boss rebalance · macOS/Linux
launchers · full internal review pass.

v1.01 — The Fair Fight Update (from v1.00)

Player move speed 32→40 · more starting life on every difficulty · starting Wood/Stone doubled
and building costs halved · Heavy/Blessed Armor moved to Mythic · the eight Legendary dungeons
clearly marked as endgame (triple-skull warning) · smarter ante re-rolls (no repeats, better
rarity) · deck limit 20→50 · balance knobs documented in config tables/settings.json.

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Notes

• Tested on Windows PC. The game is HARD on purpose — see the in-box GAME_GUIDE.md.
• Feedback: Discord https://discord.gg/TTRPKc9HYJ · support: Ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/thesaguy

Built on Forge (GPLv3). Unofficial Fan Content permitted
under the Wizards of the Coast Fan Content Policy.

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📱 Android (experimental — testers wanted!)

First-ever Android build. It has not been tested on a real device — neither of us owns an
Android — so you, the sideloaders, are the test. Please report back on Discord either way!

Install:

1. On your Android device (Android 8.0+), download forsaken-realms-1.03-signed-aligned.apk
   from the assets below.
2. Tap the downloaded file and allow your browser/file manager to install unknown apps when
   prompted (the game is signed by us, not the Play Store).
3. Grant the storage permission the app asks for — it stores the game data it downloads.
4. On first launch, tap Download when offered the resource files (~180 MB — use Wi-Fi).
   The app restarts itself when finished. After that it plays offline.
5. Works alongside the official Forge app — different app, different data.

Reporting: whether it works or crashes, please tell us on Discord
(https://discord.gg/TTRPKc9HYJ) — include your device model and Android version, and if it
misbehaves, the screen where it happened. (assets.zip in the file list below is downloaded
by the app automatically — you don't need to grab it yourself.)

The Forsaken Realms v1.02

The Forsaken Realms — v1.02

A big one: a new economy building, a real fix for the ante buy-back reports, a life/item
rebalance pass, a previously-unreachable Legendary dungeon finally opened up, all 5 AI capitals'
Arenas working correctly, a fix for Commander-only cards leaking into regular reward pools, a
quality-of-life rune upgrade, and a full internal review pass over everything since v1.01.

Thanks

Special thanks to VigilantSera, whose suggestions and feedback shaped a lot of what's in this
release and v1.01 before it. Early, detailed feedback like this is exactly what a young project
needs — much appreciated.

New: the Trader building

A cheaper, earlier-game alternative to the Capitol-only Exchange — buildable in any town. Converts
Gold into Wood/Stone at a markup (worse rates than Exchange, no Shards trading), so you don't have
to wait until you've built a Capitol to start converting spare gold into building materials. Build
one specifically at your Capitol to unlock upgrading it into a full Exchange.

New: the Colorless rune takes you home

Once you've built a Capitol, your starting rune now teleports you just outside it instead of back
to Spawn — a real "return to base" option for when you need to check in on your territory. Before
you have a Capitol, it still works exactly as before.

Fixed: ante buy-back "never offered" after a dungeon loss

Root-caused from two fresh log captures: the mechanic was actually working correctly — you simply
weren't told when you couldn't afford the buy-back price, which reads exactly like the option had
vanished. The popup now tells you the price and what you're short by, instead of staying silent.

Fixed: 4 of 5 AI capitals' Arenas were inaccessible

Green's Arena worked; the other four were silently missing their interactive trigger entirely —
you could walk right up to the building and nothing would happen. All 5 capitals now have a
working Arena with their own correct color-themed opponent pool and rewards.

Fixed: Commander-only cards and extra Sol Rings leaking into regular play

Root-caused a specific leak: a boss-reward deck referenced dozens of extra Sol Ring and Arcane
Signet printings (plus every two-color Signet) that bypassed the game's existing exclusion list
entirely — that's why Sol Ring could turn up more than once in a single deck, and why dead-weight
Commander-only support cards kept showing up as loot. Closed the gap and moved the exclusion list
into its own easy-to-edit file (config tables/restricted_cards.json) so more problem cards can
be added later without a code change.

Rebalanced: 40+ life items, 39 Legendary bosses

• 41 items across the game got a rarity or price adjustment so their power level matches what
  they actually do (see the in-box notes if you're curious about specifics).
• The 8 Realm-of-Legends-ported "Legendary" dungeons' bosses had their life rescaled onto this
  game's own difficulty curve — they were quietly numerically ordinary despite the red-skull
  warning; now they hit harder, matching the promise.

Fixed: Eldrazi Prison was a dead end

Only this Legendary dungeon's entry hall was ever finished — all of its inner doors were disabled.
It's now a real, finishable 7-boss dungeon: all 6 titans plus a true final encounter you can
actually reach if you track down what its two gates need.

Also in this release

• macOS and Linux launchers are now included in the download (.command for double-click,
  .sh for a plain shell) — previously only Windows got a working launcher in the zip.
• Buy Back's rules text and building menus are more informative across the board.
• Start-menu version label now shows both the engine build and the game's own version/date.
• A full internal review of everything changed since v1.00 turned up and fixed several smaller
  correctness issues before they were ever likely to be hit in play — a building-upgrade button
  that could be tapped even while visibly disabled, a possible crash path if the new restricted-
  cards file gets emptied or deleted by hand, and (related to the macOS/Linux launchers above) the
  executable permission not actually making it into the downloaded zip until this release.
• Assorted build-tooling and packaging speedups (nothing player-facing).

Install & play

1. Install Java 17 or newer (64-bit): https://adoptium.net
2. Download The-Forsaken-Realms-v1.02.zip below and unzip it anywhere.
3. Run The Forsaken Realms.exe (Windows), The Forsaken Realms.command (macOS —
   double-click; if macOS blocks it as from an unidentified developer, right-click → Open once),
   or The Forsaken Realms.sh (Linux/plain shell).

Saves live in %APPDATA%\ForgottenRealms (Windows) or the equivalent per-platform app-data folder.
If you already play stock Forge, the card-art cache is shared automatically — no re-downloading
gigabytes of images — and your Forge install is otherwise completely untouched.

Feedback

Still early days — balance feedback and bug reports are very welcome:
Discord: https://discord.gg/TTRPKc9HYJ · Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thesaguy

Built on Forge (GPLv3). Unofficial Fan Content permitted
under the Wizards of the Coast Fan Content Policy.

The Forsaken Realms v1.01 — The Fair Fight Update

The first balance patch, built directly from launch feedback — thank you to everyone who played
and especially to those who sent detailed critiques. The early game is still meant to be a
fight, but it should now be a fair one.

Balance

• Player move speed raised (32 → 40)
• More starting life on every difficulty: Easy 21, Normal 16, Hard 11, Insane 9
• Starting Wood & Stone doubled (Easy 200/200, Normal 100/100) — and Hard/Insane now start
  with a seed amount (50/50 and 25/25) instead of nothing
• All Wood/Stone building costs halved — construction, repairs, upgrades, town restoration,
  and the Capitol itself (gold/shard costs unchanged)
• Heavy Armor and Blessed Armor (+15 life) are now Mythic — they were dramatically
  undercosted for this world's life totals

Legendary Dungeons

The eight dungeons ported from Realm of Legends (plus the Eldrazi Prison) are now clearly marked
as endgame content: a red triple-skull on the minimap and a warning at the door. Their power
level is intentionally far above the surrounding world — now you'll know before you walk in.

Quality of Life

• Ante re-rolls are smarter: they remember your last 5 rolls (no repeats) and prefer
  Uncommon-or-better cards
• Deck limit raised from 20 to 50
• Eldrazi Prison finally has a distinct icon on both the world map and minimap
• Balance knobs documented: config tables/settings.json now explains every value, including
  the new side-quest timer length and AI attacking-mage counts

Notes

• Tested on Windows PC only. The game is HARD on purpose — see the in-box GAME_GUIDE.md.
• Feedback: Discord https://discord.gg/TTRPKc9HYJ · support: Ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/thesaguy

Built on Forge (GPLv3). Unofficial Fan Content permitted
under the Wizards of the Coast Fan Content Policy.

The Forsaken Realms v1.00

The first public release. A free, standalone single-player adventure card game built on the
Forge card-game engine: five rival colors wage a slow war for territory while you build towns, raise
your Capitol, manage Wood/Stone/Gold/Shard economies, research new card expansions, and fight
through hundreds of rotating dungeons — with a full Forge rules engine underneath.

1,500+ enemies · 330+ dungeons · 33,000+ cards to find · 640+ items

Install & play

1. Install Java 17 or newer (64-bit): https://adoptium.net
2. Download The-Forsaken-Realms-v1.00.zip below and unzip it anywhere.
3. Run The Forsaken Realms.exe (or The Forsaken Realms.cmd).

Saves live in %APPDATA%\ForgottenRealms. If you already play stock Forge, the card-art cache
is shared automatically — no re-downloading gigabytes of images — and your Forge install is
otherwise completely untouched.

Highlights

• Per-color reputation with real consequences (Partner discounts → War lockouts)
• Living territory: five castles expanding and contracting daily, capturable towns, a player
  Capitol with exclusive buildings
• Day/night cycle that changes battlefield strength by terrain
• Rotating dungeon world with story-safe permanence rules
• Progressive set unlocks driven by exploration and research
• Wood & Stone economy, weekly paydays, hireable guards, ante tournaments with re-roll/buy-back
• A complete in-box player guide (GAME_GUIDE.md)

Feedback

Early release — balance feedback and bug reports are very welcome:
Discord: https://discord.gg/TTRPKc9HYJ · Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thesaguy

Built on Forge (GPLv3). Unofficial Fan Content permitted
under the Wizards of the Coast Fan Content Policy.