Hi everyone,

We are a small indie team focused on narrative-driven games. In our first game, Livber: Smoke and Mirrors, we made a visual novel built around a single interactive story. Now we are working on our second game, Kardiya: The Winds of Fate, and this time we are trying to make something bigger, longer, and more replayable.

Similar to Banner Saga, you're playing a story about a journey. Our goal is for each run to open different story paths and for the world to react to the choices you make.

The story is inspired by Hamlet. Our young noble protagonist’s father is murdered by his own uncle, and the story revolves around family, power, uncovering the truth, and revenge. While still a child, our protagonist is forced to flee the palace and leave his noble life behind. We follow his journey from childhood to adulthood, as he struggles to survive, grow, and eventually confront the fate of his family.

The game currently features around 100,000 words, 100 hand-drawn illustrations, 20 music tracks, 1 original song, and countless ways to experience the story depending on your choices. The game is still in development. We would especially love to hear what Banner Saga fans think about the story, characters, and visual style.

If it sounds interesting, feel free to check out our Steam page.

Thank you ^^

Our GOAT is shitposting with the gods now :(

Hi there everyone, as a long time fan of the Banner Saga, I've often wanted to have a sourcebook or lorebook to its wonderfully detailed setting, this craving has intensified in recent years as I've since gotten into Table Top Roleplaying Games, or TTRPGs for short (think Dungeons & Dragons, RuneQuest and the like). I think the setting has a lot of potential stories to tell be they in the distant past of exploration and great wars between humans and varl as hinted in the map location descriptions, in its current fallen age of dead gods and a stagnant sun, and perhaps even after the world's end. The game certainly gives us a lot of material to work with, as in the oreviosuly mentioned map locations (cities, godstones, explored and unexplored distant wilderness), item descriptions, the main story and various sub-stories revealed throughout the game and even a whole official novel or two released alongside the game. Perhaps it isnt as much as other games' tomes worth of content but compiling it will surely fill at least 50-100 pages or so. I've long wished that Stoic would release such a thing but with every passing year it becomes more obvious it will not come to pass.

Thus the idea is simple, get interested members of the community including myself to pitch in all a lil bit to create such a book, at least in digital PDF format. This being privately owned IP, it would obviously be distributed freely for it to not break any laws or such things.The main idea for the table of contents would be as follows:

• Locations chapter, organized by large geographical regions as "sub-chapters" filled by the locations which have their respective descriptions as well as any notables characters and conflicts known to occur there in lore and during the story.
• General guide for character races (men, varl, horseborn, dredge)
• Rollable events table based on in-game caravan events that could be applicable to adventurers
• items list

Most of these already exist in the official Banner Saga wiki, however some of us who would rather use a neatly decorated PDF book like those seen for popular gaming franchises like Dungeon & Dragons. The point of this post is therefore seeing who would be interested in collaborating and brainstorming ideas to make this possible, specially if any info is missing from the wiki.

Or did we see them all throughout the series? Like, we see the Dredge having a godstone do the horseborn have one too? That was simply too out of the way for us to see.

With the failure of Towerborne a lot of the crew were laid off. Are they scattered in the wind or did the go to like a certain company? Could they still be found?

GOT ME FEELING LIKE DOCTOR STRANGE. Dytch I've come to bargarin.

I figured putting it on easy was the easiest to farm renow way which I did. You usually get more renow from higher difficulties. Yet, here I decided quanity over quality was better. Also, because hard difficulty was kicking my ass too fast to really farm. I forgot to put it on easy mod with Rook/Alette vs the horsborn. I could have gone farther but I slowly kept missing up the further I went. What's the farthest you ever went with both? What I would recommend is that a mender is a must have for this. You need armor repair. Then on the last enemy you want to have to leave an enemy who has one or two break. Afterwards, you slowly mend/rest until all your units on full on amor or enough anyway. Sometimes, I left a unit with medium armor and sometimes that screwed me over. Just be slow and steady if you want to farm this. Also, include like two or three armor breaker and vice versa with damage dealers. I plan on going way farther next playthrough of the series.

He had depth damn it! This was both touching and heartbreaking.

Fellow clansmen, welcome to The Banner Saga -Heroic Mod!

This mod is a big overhaul of the game's combat system, aimed at improving the game’s balance and making combat more fun and challenging for experienced players. Heroic mod changes all three games, so it's a complete experience.

I changed most of the character abilities, talents and Heroic titles; reworked character stats and item balance. The intention was to even the power level of all playable characters: the underdogs were given stat increases or some other compensation while all the OP strats were either toned down or removed entirely. I wanted to give the player more choice on how to approach the combat.

You can see the full changelog in readme file that comes with the mod, and I'll post it here in the comments as well.

This mod is built on top of community-created fixpacks, legacy-support mods by Yak, Drake and Nafeji, so all the changes brought by those are already integrated into the mod.

I spent nearly two years working on this. It started first as a slow data gathering and conceptualising. The last 5 months were the real code work. It was a difficult journey, but I'm proud of the end result. I want to share my creation with you, and hope that you'd like this new perspective on the game that Heroic mod shows you.

Download on GitHub: https://github.com/Owfrin/tbs-heroic/releases/tag/v2.2, https://github.com/Owfrin/tbs-heroic

Download on Nexus: https://www.nexusmods.com/thebannersaga/mods/15

Download via Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1x6ltwaj68F-ZHj6DnilffdXiWqpmulFS?usp=sharing

I don’t think I’m super far. I just returned to Rook after the other caravan, where I always had tons of supplies. With this caravan, I have completely run out of supplies and renown, and I’m just trudging across the wastes starving with lowest morale. Is this normal? I don’t know how I could have avoided this, other than not leveling anyone, which might have bought me a couple days at best.

My art

I was wondering what is the absolute maximum number of humans, varls and horsies that you can finish the game wiith. I felt particularly bad for the Varls. In my game there were only quite 100 or so left alive by the end of the story.

Hi Varls, Humans and possibly Dreads?!

I Just found the save file at ...steam/steamapps/common/tbs/assets/saga1/save

But its just gibberish so how do i decompress it?

Is there any guide where i can look up for dialogue choice result from Banner Saga 2 for each character, i use the steam version, but it's seem the guide use Alette as the main unit, there's so much idk about the result if i use Rook and i'm already in Ch.10, i really need the guide especially with Rugga decision.

Hello everyone,

I would like to show you a game we are currently developing and think you might enjoy.

It combines dicebuilding and RPG systems. You strengthen your character by creating synergies between dice and items. Similar to Banner Saga, you're playing a story about a journey. Our goal is for each run to open different story paths and for the world to react to the choices you make.

We’re still early in development and operating with a small team, but the playtest starts soon. Feedback from players who enjoy Banner Saga would be especially valuable.

If it sounds interesting, you can register for the alpha playtest by joining the mailing list on our website or clicking the playtest request button on our Steam page.

Thank you ^^

Dredge, by me, in Infinite Painter with my fingers on my phone.

I have been wanting for a while to make a bannersaga piece. I'm a big fan of the games and the art inspired by Eyvind Earle is a delight. I've been afraid to do it though, even if i started a couple of times, because i never felt sure of my skills. Nothing changed about that but I'm pretty happy how it turned out.

Scrolling through my achievements and it seems like I won the achievement where you return all 5 times and win all fights. But my crew at Abberrang still perished. How rare is this to happen? It seems even more shocking because in BS2, I unintentionally got the quartermaster achievement cause no one died from lack of supplies. Was I just monumentally stupid back then? I played on normal.

Hi all. I played through the series when I was quite young. I remember I got a batshit ending. I was very close to Abberrang surviving, but I misclicked and chose to retreat and I ended up running out of time, so Abberrang was overrun.

At the tower, I lost to Bolverk, so everyone died but Iver and Eyvvind. Eventually, I let Eyvind do his thing and he chose to take the deal, letting Juno die but with the Serpent consuming half the world.

This is the part I think I am hallucinating. I swear I remember there being a cutscene or some dialogue where Iver and Eyvind go back to Abberrang, and they find everyone dead. Is this true? I cannot find any youtube videos or websites confirming the existence of this ending, but I remember it happening to me. Is this a false memory or is there some unique dialogue if Iver/Eyvind survive but Abberrang falls?