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Forbidden Kingdoms

tabletop role-playing game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ5467350 ↗
Source-derived summary

Forbidden Kingdoms is a pulp magazine-inspired setting for Dungeons & Dragons and d20 Modern, written by R. Hyrum Savage and Dave Webb, and published by OtherWorld Creations.

Forbidden Kingdoms is set on an alternate history Earth, between the years 1889 and 1939. The setting includes rules for magic, psionics and martial arts, as well as weird science.

References

Pook, Matthew (2002-11-20). "Forbidden Kingdoms: Master Codex (Review)". Pyramid. Steve Jackson Games. Retrieved 2008-03-13. (originally appeared in d20 Weekly)

Savage, R.H. & Webb, D. Forbidden Kingdoms (OtherWorld Creations, 2001).

Webb, D. & Savage, R.H. Paris: The Spectral City (OtherWorld Creations, 2003).

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1889, 1939, 2002, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001. The account is most persuasive where Forbidden, Kingdoms and tabletop can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as tabletop role-playing game. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5467350. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1889, 1939, 2002 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Forbidden Kingdoms” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.