RPG Print News – Catalyst, Pacesetter, and More

Dungeons & Dragons 5E gets new magic items and rules for selling and buying magic items including magic shops, and new adventures and adventure prep tools. Basic D&D also gets new campaign length adventures. Shadowrun gets a supplement, an art portfolio, and combo real world calendar with maps and adventure hooks. There are also three compact RPGs about scientists in exo-suits, helping a ghost remember living, and likely dying as ghost hunting reality TV stars thrown into a real haunted house.

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T1 The Thing in the Valley (D&D 5E) | Path of the Vanished (BX) | The Lost Triptych (BX) by Pacesetter Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition/Basic D&D
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure/hardcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $10/$45/$50
• DESCRIPTION: The Thing in the Valley is designed for 4-6 PCs of 3rd to 4th level. Farmers, herdsmen, and woodsmen of Riversmeet have fallen victim to a mysterious and horrific creature. The call has gone out to summon the PCs to put an end to the terror. Now I want to know what the thing is. Path of the Vanished is designed for characters levels 1-7. Ruthless pirates make entire villages disappear in a single night; no survivor or corpse has been recovered. Darker still is the purpose that drives these new raiders as those that they captured do not appear in any of the black markets, near or far. The PCs are tasked to stop the pillaging. The Lost Triptych is a campaign for characters level 8-12. Minions of a rival deity have stolen a sacred artifact of a PC’s order with the intent to transform it to suit their own nefarious machinations. They have brought the holy device to the Mountain of Whispers, home to evil sycophants and zealot soldier. The precious artifact has been broken into separate pieces and hidden in secret locations to make it harder to recover. No doubt, the high priest Miltotok is preparing the rituals and spells to make the device a vessel for evil at this very moment. The PCs must kill Milotok, recover the pieces, and put both the artifact and their world right again. These adventures really sound intriguing and if anyone has run or played one I’d love to hear how it went.

Wanderer's Guide to Merchants & Magic | Wanderer's Guide to Merchants & Magic - Item Card Deck by Eventyr Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement/deck of 120 cards
• RETAIL PRICE: $34.95/19.99
• DESCRIPTION: Rules for trading and buying magic. Includes: 23 magic shops, 120 magic items, prices for over 300 magic items, four adventures and rules for trading and pricing magic items. The 120 magic items from the book are also available as a deck of cards.

Endless Encounters (D&D 5E) | Endless Encounters - Dungeons (BX) | Endless Encounters - Dungeons Collector's Edition (D&D 5E/BX) by Pacesetter Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition/Basic D&D/both
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $50 each/collector’s $75
• DESCRIPTION: An encounter and adventure generator for characters level 1-10. Includes dozens of charts to generate encounters with just a few dice rolls. Random encounters can be combined to design an entire dungeon. Charts include illumination, room type, room contents, traps, monsters (full statistic blocks), treasures, and more. EE: Also has 53 new monsters and 64 new magical items. Wraps up with a complete sample dungeon for each level with room descriptions and full-color map and all ten levels connect and form a mega-dungeon with more than 500 encounters.

Hack & Slash | Shadowrun Art Portfolio #1 | Shadowrun RPG 16-Month Calendar (Game Maps, 2023) by Catalyst Game Labs

• SYSTEM: Shadowrun - Sixth World (City Edition Seattle, 6th Edition)
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplements/RPG art/calendar with maps and hooks
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.99/$39.95/$19.99
• DESCRIPTION: Hack & Slash has tools and rules to explore the full range of the Matrix. With new programs, complex forms, qualities, and much more. Resonance, Dissonance, the Deep Foundation, and more can introduce elements of chaos to the normally orderly Matrix. The Shadowrun Art Portfolio tells a story through art with forty images that are easy to remove and display to create immersion in the sights of the Sixth World. For the Shadowrun Calendar each month has a map and a plot hook to go with it. Play the game, use the map, and then put it back in your wall to keep track of some of the largest conventions and critical dates in Shadowrun history—all pre-printed on the calendar.

Substratum by Pandion Games

• SYSTEM: unique using D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, D20
• PRODUCT TYPE: digest sized softcover core rulebook and adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $5
• DESCRIPTION: A scientists-in-exosuits survival RPG. While the cracks that split the planet open are letting the deadly hazards out, the PC scientists will make their way in. The molten core of the planet was consumed to power an interdimensional portal. The PCs need to figure out how to fix the core, reach the portal, and close it. Multiple deadly hazards detected. Probability of reaching core 12.2%. Chances of survival greater than 0.0%. DESCENT APPROVED.

Ghostboy by Dinoberry Press

• SYSTEM: unique
• PRODUCT TYPE: trifold pamphlet
• RETAIL PRICE: $8
• DESCRIPTION: Two to three PCs each take on the role of an aspect of the world as a ghost explores it, remembering their past and coming to terms with the changes that have occurred since they left the material world behind. A melancholic game of reflection but can also be joyful. Remember to thank the ghost for its time and never play this game again.

Killer Ratings by Bannerless Games

• SYSTEM: unique
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover core rulebook one shot
• RETAIL PRICE: $20
• DESCRIPTION: A one-shot, zero-prep, rules-light roleplaying game for three to five PCs. The PCs are the cast and crew of a terrible paranormal investigation show on the verge of cancellation. The good news is the PCs secured the rights to film the season finale in “the most haunted location in America.” The bad news is the place is actually haunted. In short, the PCs are loud, campy reality TV stars who blithely walk into one of the worst places on earth and most of them won't survive. But however it shakes out, it will make for great TV.

 

[mach1.9pants]

Is the thread title an error... Goodman, Legendary, C7....

 

[dave2008]

You listed the system on several of these as simply: "Dungeons and Dragons." What does that mean? Does that mean 5e?

 

[Crusadius]

Looks like the title is an accidental copy-paste from a previous thread.

 

[Charles Dunwoody]

Updated. Thanks everyone.