Ivan Sorensen

Designer Writer

Game designer behind Five Leagues from the Borderlands and Five Parsecs From Home, both now published by Modiphius.

Ivan Sorensen designed Five Leagues from the Borderlands, the solo and co-op fantasy adventure wargame. It first came out in 2018 from his own label, Nordic Weasel Games, and Modiphius publishes the Third Edition, its first time in print.

Its sister game is Five Parsecs From Home, his solo sci-fi wargame, which Modiphius also publishes.

Games

Painted art of two sword-wielding adventurers fighting a huge pale beast with a tentacled maw in a torchlit stone hall

Five Leagues from the Borderlands

Ivan Sorensen's solo and co-op fantasy adventure wargame, published by Modiphius. You run a warband of adventurers through a campaign the book generates for you, one random table at a time.

Skirmish · 1–2 players · Mini-agnostic · $25

Christian Quintot's cover art: a pack of hooded green goblins with knives and picks rushes three torch-bearing adventurers in a firelit underground hall

Five Leagues from the Borderlands: Deep Below

Ivan Sorensen's standalone underground spin-off of Five Leagues from the Borderlands, published by Modiphius. A solo warband game about looting the ruins of a fallen underworld kingdom, and your characters can cross over to the main game and back.

Skirmish · 1+ players · Mini-agnostic · $15

Painted cover art of a hooded soldier in a red-visored helmet firing a heavy energy gun through smoke, with a pink-haired crewmate leaping in behind and a woman aiming a rifle on the right

Five Parsecs From Home

Ivan Sorensen's solo sci-fi adventure wargame, published by Modiphius. You run a ragtag starship crew through a campaign of jobs, rivals, and random events, and every campaign turn has a fight.

Skirmish · 1+ players · Mini-agnostic · $27