Tribes (supplement)

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Tribes is a series of role-playing game supplements by Heathen Thorn Enterprises. These small, black-and-white photocopied booklets are about 14–19 pages long and add regional content to fantasy campaigns in the eastern realms of the world of Oth. The volumes survey Karak (the Branded Land), Kikeb (the Savage Land), Dark Farl (Land of Horror), and the Hinterlands of Eastern Oth. Each booklet includes a detailed map, background lore, Gamemaster notes with creature statistics, and seeds for adventure ideas. Oth’s inhabitants fall into four main groups: humans, subhumans, Umans, and Sull. The rugged geography has fostered relative isolation and diverse cultures, and these profiles are meant to be used in fantasy campaigns. Stewart Wieck reviewed Tribes in White Wolf magazine (issue #22, 1990) and gave it 4 out of 5, noting that Heathen Thorn has created a variety of diverse mythologies and belief systems for Eastern Oth.