We're all over the place again this week - far off in space, lost civilizations, hidden worlds in the shadows, and lands of giants! Let's go!
Earthdawn Fourth Edition Player’s Guide
Fans of the Earthdawn setting have been through some rough seas, so to speak, as many creative visions have combined and, in some cases, clashed over bringing the best ideas they could into the game and the setting so well loved by so many.
Perhaps no signal so clearly declares the return of the great name of FASA back to the gaming hobby than this release.
An age of magic once existed in our world. Lost to history, this time is remembered in the echoes of myth and legend. Humans lived alongside the other Namegiver races—dwarf and elf, troll and ork, windling, t’skrang and obsidiman. The wild places of the world were home to griffins, shadowmants, and other fantastic beasts.
The land was once besieged by the Horrors, foul creatures from the depths of astral space that sought to feed upon and destroy all that was living and good. Their time—the time of the Scourge—has passed, and the people have returned to the surface, reclaiming the lands that were once their home.
Brave heroes band together to explore the land of Barsaive, fighting the Horrors that remain, and protecting their homes and families from those that would enslave them.
The Player’s Guide provides you with the rules for playing characters from First to Eighth Circle, with all the talents, spells, and other tools needed to forge your own legends in the Earthdawn Roleplaying Game!
The Fourth Edition is the newest version of the classic fantasy role-playing game. While this edition revises many of the existing rules systems, the core mechanics and assumptions remain the same. This edition also updates the game setting, advancing the timeline several years. Products using previous editions of the Earthdawn game can be used with Fourth Edition, but may require some conversion to be fully compatible.
Ghosts in the Black
Let’s take another flight out into the Black friends, with no less an accomplished guide than the inestimable Robin Laws. Ghosts in the Black is a full-length campaign in six parts!
You and your Crew will have to perform some thrillin’ heroics over the course of five, unique Episodes to uncover a legendary Alliance warship’s dangerous secrets.
As you play through “Six Cylinders Make a Right”, “Prisoner 3102Y”, “Tombstone Bullets and a Graveyard Mind”, “Hellhound Trail”, and “The Big Dark” you’ll find out just how mighty powerful the Alliance truly is. The story, which is rooted in the Unification War, will provide you with hours of Firefly fun!
Night’s Black Agents: Double Tap
What you don’t want on ya is someone trained in the techniques and abilities found in the latest GUMSHOE supplement, Double Tap. Along with tons of other juicy bits unique to the special way this system plays, there’s a huge list of “all the guns!”
Included –
This time, it’s not just a headshot. Better go for the double tap.
Larger than Life
When one of the RPG Superstars kicks something into play, it’s almost always worth taking a serious look. This one brings giants into your Pathfinder campaign in…
(Wait for it.)
A big way.
Rocks will shatter, trees will ignite, bones will break!
Since the beginning of the RPG hobby, giants have been monsters to reckon with. Even the weakest giant towers over its foes and wreaks havoc with sheer physical strength. Give it armor, magic items, and the power of frost, fire, or lightning, and your players have real problems.
Larger Than Life: Giants for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game gives you everything you need to bring these terrifying titans to your table. This 76-page book by RPG Superstar Mike Welham offers Thursir, Hill, Frost, Stone, Fire, Cloud, and Storm Giant NPCs—plus new spells, feats, and gear to strike terror into the hearts of puny adventurers.
Highlights include:
Science Fiction Month Sale
Let’s round this week out by pointing you to the huge sale on many things sci-fi at DriveThruRPG. This particular weekend sees extra savings for Eclipse Phase and Traveler: The New Era. There’s a lot more, though, so click the banner and explore the depths of space at a deep discount!
(I… I actually typed that, didn’t I?)
~~~
Here in the States, we celebrate Memorial Day. Known for pool parties and barbecues and another reason to take Mondays off, it's easy to forget why we're having the long weekend at all.
We play our games, often full of battles against terrible odds and acts of heroism. We do so, safe and secure in our homes and our club centers and our other places of gathering, in no small measure thanks to the sacrifices made by those who took up arms to defend us and our country.
This is not an invitation to debate; we might discourse at great length over the decisions made by leaders to send uniformed citizens into harms way for any of the myriad reasons they were sent. What is not up for debate is that each and every death should be honored by those of us remaining. They should be remembered thankfully.
That is what Memorial Day is, and on that day, I will raise my glass and give thanks for the last measure of devotion granted by those who served.
For all of us, thanks to them...
...the Adventure Continues!
~SPF
Earthdawn Fourth Edition Player’s Guide
Fans of the Earthdawn setting have been through some rough seas, so to speak, as many creative visions have combined and, in some cases, clashed over bringing the best ideas they could into the game and the setting so well loved by so many.
Perhaps no signal so clearly declares the return of the great name of FASA back to the gaming hobby than this release.
An age of magic once existed in our world. Lost to history, this time is remembered in the echoes of myth and legend. Humans lived alongside the other Namegiver races—dwarf and elf, troll and ork, windling, t’skrang and obsidiman. The wild places of the world were home to griffins, shadowmants, and other fantastic beasts.
The land was once besieged by the Horrors, foul creatures from the depths of astral space that sought to feed upon and destroy all that was living and good. Their time—the time of the Scourge—has passed, and the people have returned to the surface, reclaiming the lands that were once their home.
Brave heroes band together to explore the land of Barsaive, fighting the Horrors that remain, and protecting their homes and families from those that would enslave them.
The Player’s Guide provides you with the rules for playing characters from First to Eighth Circle, with all the talents, spells, and other tools needed to forge your own legends in the Earthdawn Roleplaying Game!
The Fourth Edition is the newest version of the classic fantasy role-playing game. While this edition revises many of the existing rules systems, the core mechanics and assumptions remain the same. This edition also updates the game setting, advancing the timeline several years. Products using previous editions of the Earthdawn game can be used with Fourth Edition, but may require some conversion to be fully compatible.
Ghosts in the Black
Let’s take another flight out into the Black friends, with no less an accomplished guide than the inestimable Robin Laws. Ghosts in the Black is a full-length campaign in six parts!
You and your Crew will have to perform some thrillin’ heroics over the course of five, unique Episodes to uncover a legendary Alliance warship’s dangerous secrets.
As you play through “Six Cylinders Make a Right”, “Prisoner 3102Y”, “Tombstone Bullets and a Graveyard Mind”, “Hellhound Trail”, and “The Big Dark” you’ll find out just how mighty powerful the Alliance truly is. The story, which is rooted in the Unification War, will provide you with hours of Firefly fun!
Night’s Black Agents: Double Tap
What you don’t want on ya is someone trained in the techniques and abilities found in the latest GUMSHOE supplement, Double Tap. Along with tons of other juicy bits unique to the special way this system plays, there’s a huge list of “all the guns!”
Included –
- Sample clues, special spend benefits, and a model Tactical Fact-Finding Benefit for each Investigative ability, along with information, tips, and best practices from cloning a cell phone to hosting a seance to the slang of spycraft!
- For the General abilities, lists of sample clues if they can be used investigatively and more key information and best practices. A new optional Mastery rule keeps your dice hot on every roll — plus over 25 new Cherries!
- 20 new maneuvers, from Alibi to Thrown Clear by the Blast, plus 60 Achievements to add flavor, focus, and flexibility to your play.
- Adaptive Tradecraft and the Cartagena Rules let you low-tech your way out of trouble — and high-action your way back into it!
- More spytech for any mode, from custom face masks to RFID sniffers to jetpacks to EMP weapons — and the “Q Rule” for that laser watch you’ve always wanted!
- Because you demanded it — a big list of guns, customized for 22 clandestine, military, and police groups from SEAL Team Six to the Swiss Guard. Plus eight Gun Cherries — never waste another 6! — and lots more gun gadgets from the CornerShot to UV-emitting bullets to net grenades!
- New rules for adapting the acclaimed night’s black agents Thriller Chase rules to contests of hacking, sneaking, and tracking — plus Manhunt rules for agents hunting monstrous masterminds.
- For Directors, 26 Cameos give you living, breathing NPCs complete with their own clues, and 26 Establishing Shots give you exciting settings to put them — and your agents — into.
- Discover the horrific secrets of the chupa, the ekimmu, the homunculus, and the penanggalan — and recoil from the nosferatu, a complete vampire build straddling the line between biotech and blasphemy. A complete list of vampiric powers lets you build your own bloodsuckers faster than ever.
- Finally, the Suspyramid models war within a Conspiracy, tips for solo-agent play let you lay on the Burn, and variant builds send your campaign to the Victorian Era, WWII, or the depths of the Cold War!
- So consider this the next level, a higher pay grade and higher-than-double-0 clearance. It’s time to take the fight to the Conspiracy.
This time, it’s not just a headshot. Better go for the double tap.
Larger than Life
When one of the RPG Superstars kicks something into play, it’s almost always worth taking a serious look. This one brings giants into your Pathfinder campaign in…
(Wait for it.)
A big way.
Rocks will shatter, trees will ignite, bones will break!
Since the beginning of the RPG hobby, giants have been monsters to reckon with. Even the weakest giant towers over its foes and wreaks havoc with sheer physical strength. Give it armor, magic items, and the power of frost, fire, or lightning, and your players have real problems.
Larger Than Life: Giants for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game gives you everything you need to bring these terrifying titans to your table. This 76-page book by RPG Superstar Mike Welham offers Thursir, Hill, Frost, Stone, Fire, Cloud, and Storm Giant NPCs—plus new spells, feats, and gear to strike terror into the hearts of puny adventurers.
Highlights include:
- Berserkers and Avalanche Riders!
- Dung Boulders and Magma Boulders!
- Chieftains, war mammoths, and dire animal companions!
- New stone giants spells from the bones of the earth!
- The runes and metalcraft of the mystic thursir!
- Empyreal weapons and armor of the storm and cloud giants!
Science Fiction Month Sale
Let’s round this week out by pointing you to the huge sale on many things sci-fi at DriveThruRPG. This particular weekend sees extra savings for Eclipse Phase and Traveler: The New Era. There’s a lot more, though, so click the banner and explore the depths of space at a deep discount!
(I… I actually typed that, didn’t I?)
~~~
Here in the States, we celebrate Memorial Day. Known for pool parties and barbecues and another reason to take Mondays off, it's easy to forget why we're having the long weekend at all.
We play our games, often full of battles against terrible odds and acts of heroism. We do so, safe and secure in our homes and our club centers and our other places of gathering, in no small measure thanks to the sacrifices made by those who took up arms to defend us and our country.
This is not an invitation to debate; we might discourse at great length over the decisions made by leaders to send uniformed citizens into harms way for any of the myriad reasons they were sent. What is not up for debate is that each and every death should be honored by those of us remaining. They should be remembered thankfully.
That is what Memorial Day is, and on that day, I will raise my glass and give thanks for the last measure of devotion granted by those who served.
For all of us, thanks to them...
...the Adventure Continues!
~SPF
