Wyldwolf Games today announced Axis Saga: The War of Silence, a dark fantasy horror setting for Dungeons & Dragons 5E (2014 and 2024), with its Kickstarter campaign set to launch on April 14, 2026.
Created by Wyldwolf Games, a Minneapolis-based game store that got its start with professional Game Master-led tabletop experiences, private game rooms, events, and beginner-friendly programming. Developed through years of real campaigns, real players, and community storytelling, Axis Saga: The War of Silence is designed as a living world shaped by play, consequence, and stories that help influence future canon. Set in a 16th-century-inspired world threatened by spreading portals, rising corruption, and the despair of something called “The Great Silence”, the project is built to support “morally complex storytelling and high-stakes play.”
“We wanted Axis Saga: The War of Silence to feel like a world shaped by hard choices, real consequences, and moral gray areas rather than a traditional good-versus-evil fantasy setting,” said Chase McAllister, founder of Wyldwolf Games. “That philosophy came out of years of community-driven play, where player choices and table stories helped shape the setting itself.”
With its setting, systems, and creative foundation already in place, Axis Saga: The War of Silence enters Kickstarter as a world already in motion. At the center of that experience is The Gift, Axis’ distinct take on vampirism, which introduces a player-facing system shaped by temptation, restraint, and agency rather than a traditional curse-based framework..
Axis Saga: The War of Silence Includes:
- Toolkit for Game Masters, featuring maps, factions, NPCs, a bestiary, a sealed GM section with hidden lore and plotlines, 12 subclasses, 1 custom class, and more than 500 monsters, items, spells, feats, and additional gameplay options.
- Support Beyond the Book, including VTT, terrain, maps, audio, miniatures/STLs, and gameplay tools designed to bring the world to life at and away from the table.
- A Living-World Ecosystem, shaped in part by player stories and designed for long-term engagement.
- Distinctive Systems, including Raids, Resonance, The Gift, and the Silence Template, that expand how the world is experienced in play.
- Enhanced Rulesets for 5E, including streamlined combat, updated death saves, progression refinements, and other quality-of-life improvements.
- Major Campaign Hooks, including the Inquisition, the Redeemers, the Portal Crisis, and the growing threat of the Great Silence, to fuel high-stakes adventures.
- Two Ready-to-Play One-Shot Adventures for groups ready to enter the world immediately.
- Professional Game Master Support, with Wyldwolf Games planning to run Axis Saga campaigns and adventures both in person and virtually.
The campaign marks the next step in bringing the project to the wider tabletop community in hardcover and digital formats, with major partner support spanning VTT, terrain, maps, audio, miniatures/STLs, maps, and gameplay tools, including Roll20, Dwarven Forge, Michael Ghelfi Studios, and Eldritch Foundry, alongside additional collaborators across the broader play ecosystem
Axis Saga: The War of Silence launches on Kickstarter on April 14. Visit AxisSaga.com to follow the campaign, sign up for updates, and be among the first to support the project when it goes live.
Images via Wyldwolf Games
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