
- BGG rank
- BGG #4,786
- BGG rating
- 8.5
Five Parsecs From Home: Solo Adventure Wargaming
- 1–2 players
- 90 min
- Complexity 2.9/5
- 2021

Expansion for Five Leagues From The Borderlands: 3rd Edition
2025
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Five Leagues From The Borderlands Compendium is an expansion for Five Leagues From The Borderlands: 3rd Edition released in 2025. It was designed by Ivan Sorensen and its main mechanics are Solo / Solitaire Game.
In the perpetual gloom of the underworld’s massive vaults, strange creatures prey on those eking out a living in the ruins of ancient halls. Only the bravest of adventurers prowl the rubble, seeking forgotten riches and wondrous artifacts. This Compendium gathers the first two expansions for Five Leagues from the Borderlands into a single volume, adding new characters, mechanics, enemies and aberrations to the core game. Additionally, this book features the new standalone Five Leagues game: Deep Below. DEEP BELOW In Deep Below, you take charge of a six-strong warband exploring the underworld’s collapsed keeps and claustrophobic caves. It is both a standalone game and a variant of Five Leagues from the Borderlands, tailored to the deep, dark environment, and integrated to allow characters to transfer between games for an expanded game universe. Deep Below streamlines the core mechanics, offering a full campaign experience with its own character progression. Archetype-based character creation including Rune Magic, a new mystic art. Build your underworld base using Settlements and Structures rules. New origins: Grey Elves, Derzkan, Weaslings, and Windspite Clan Dwarves. —description from the publisher
Five Leagues From The Borderlands Compendium belongs to these categories: Fantasy, Miniatures, and Expansion for Base-game. Its main mechanics are Solo / Solitaire Game. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Five Leagues From The Borderlands Compendium are: Ivan Sorensen. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Five Leagues From The Borderlands Compendium as an expansion for Five Leagues From The Borderlands: 3rd Edition. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Five Leagues From The Borderlands: 3rd Edition to use it. Check that your edition of Five Leagues From The Borderlands: 3rd Edition is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.