RPG Print News – Chaosium, Cubicle 7, Osprey, and More

Iron Kingdoms: Requiem for D&D5E, Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, Dieselpunk, Call of Cthulhu, and Lustria all have print products out this week.

Iron Kingdoms: Requiem for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition gets a new setting, adventures, and monsters all set in western Immoren. D&D also gets boxed sets each one with an adventure, miniatures, and battle maps. There are adventures for Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. Dieselpunk gets support with a new RPG of mad science and haunted streets, and Call of Cthulhu gets a map of Arkham. Finally, Lustria has arrived for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

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RPG Print News covers recent RPG releases and some classics, reprints, and sales available from retailers. It does not cover products that are available directly to customers only through Kickstarter or as print on demand.

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Into the Deep Wild | Deep Wild Expeditions | Monsternomicom The Lost Pages by Privateer Games
  • SYSTEM: Iron Kingdoms: Requiem Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
  • PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook
  • RETAIL PRICE: $35
  • DESCRIPTION: Into the Deep Wild provides a thorough look at the wild regions of western Immoren and the peoples and creatures that live within them. In this expansion: options for playing bog trog, croak, and gatorfolk; two wilderness-themed classes: the monster hunter and the warlord; and new subclasses, gear, magic, and warbeasts. Deep Wild Expeditions features four adventures of survival, exploration, and danger in a land where the untamed wilderness is just as deadly as the monsters that lurk within. PCs can hunt for a legendary pirate treasure, uncover the connection between a series of murders and the empire of Lord Carver, get caught between a tribe of bog trogs and their gatorfolk oppressors, and traverse the swamps and confront the ambition of a hungry god. Monsternomicom The Lost Pages includes a host of new monsters that lurk in the wilderness of western Immoren. Included: over 100 new monsters such as the blighted servants of the dragon Everblight and his dragonspawn as well as classic monsters from every era of the Iron Kingdoms including never-before-seen creatures.
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Return to the Starless Sea by Goodman Games
  • SYSTEM: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
  • PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
  • RETAIL PRICE: $17.99
  • DESCRIPTION: A giant adventure consisting of both a zero-level funnel and a 1st level adventure. The adventure can be played as an at-home tournament, serve as a sequel to DCC #67 Sailors on the Starless Sea, or be used to launch a brand new campaign. The PCs must match wits and brawn with leviathans, dragons, and the melt-men to oppose the Chaos Lord.
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Sky ov Crimson Flame (2nd Printing) | Blights ov the Eastern Forest (2nd Printing) by Owl Knight Publishing
  • SYSTEM: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
  • PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventures
  • RETAIL PRICE: $13.49/$26.95
  • DESCRIPTION: Sky ov Crimson Flame is a 0-level adventure. Woefully unprepared peasant PCs battle with flayed madmen, suffer the suckling bite of winged cherub head-bats, and journey through the stygian depths of a dreadful keep filled with secrets and macabre mayhem to put an end to a ritual that will bring about a eon of Chaos. Blights ov the Eastern Forest is a 1st level campaign that sends PCs on a dangerous mission to cleanse the evil that spawns from the very roots of the woods. Covers 11 adventure locations to explore as well as a bestiary of horrors to encounter. Includes 16x24in poster map.
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Epic Encounters - Savannah of the Gnoll Pack | Epic Encounters - Rage of the Gnoll Warseeker by Steamforged Games
  • SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
  • PRODUCT TYPE: boxed sets including miniatures
  • RETAIL PRICE: $54.99/$49.99
  • DESCRIPTION: Relentless, gnawing hunger drives the monsters of the Savannah of the Gnoll Pack. Hunger has always been the force that animates the gnoll. Red in tooth and claw, the gnoll pack emerges from the savannah to bring savagery and destruction. Comes with 20 miniatures, a double-sided game mat, and an adventure book complete with plot hooks. A relic of a bygone age this terrifying engine of destruction is driven by the Rage of the Gnoll Warseeker. The Gnoll Warseeker is can be used as a standalone boss encounter or combine with the compatible warband Savannah of the Gnoll box. Includes a 100 mm gnoll warseeker, an illustrated game mat, an encounter booklet, and tokens.
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Tomorrow City: Dieselpunk Roleplaying by Osprey Games
  • SYSTEM: unique dice pool
  • PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook
  • RETAIL PRICE: $35
  • DESCRIPTION: PCs explore a world of dark science and dieselpunk action. Features quick character creation and a dice pool system. PCs can join the Underground and fight the crime and corruption at the heart of Tomorrow City, sell dieselpunk tech and occult knowledge as troubleshooters for mysterious paymasters, and hunt down spies and science-run-amok. PCs can be weary sky rangers, fringe scientists, and radium-powered veterans. Tomorrow City stands as an oil-stained beacon of hope, but a secret war rages on its streets. Diesel-born monstrosities stalk the alleyways, air pirates strike from the wastelands, mad scientists continue their dark work, occultists manipulate the city's strange geometry, and secret societies plot in the shadows.
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Arkham Street Plan Map Poster by Chaosium
  • SYSTEM: Call of Cthulhu
  • PRODUCT TYPE: unfolded map in a rolled tube
  • RETAIL PRICE: $17.99
  • DESCRIPTION: A detailed 1922 Town of Arkham Street Plan map unfolded, as the version that comes included in Arkham is a folded map. Also available as a framed art print and in other premium formats.
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Lustria | Lustria Collector's Edition by Cubicle 7
  • SYSTEM: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (Fourth Edition)
  • PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
  • RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
  • DESCRIPTION: Contains articles on: the history of Lustria from the coming of the enigmatic Old Ones, the great temple-city of Tlaxtlan that is home to a multitude of Lizardmen, the ruined temple-city of Quetza and an old lair of the Skaven of Clan Pestilens, a Norse foothold of raiders and traders to the north of Lustria where adventurers may get rich quick or get killed, a High Elf fortress and port, The Vampire Coast home to Arch-Commodore Luthor Harkon and his court of the undead, new rules for explorer careers, founding and managing a settlement, Lizardmen of several different species, events and endeavors, parasitic diseases, monstrous creatures of the Lustrian jungle, and fully playable Skink Characters. The Lustria Collector's Edition is wrapped in faux leather cover textured like the scales of a huge reptilian beast in the teal associated strongly with the Lizardmen. Gold foil and dark green details illustrate a decoration of the Solar Engines of the Old One Chotek. The spine of the book is rounded with raised hubs and the paper edges are edged in gold color.
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aramis erak

Legend
I agree that Osprey has been flying under the radar with intriguing ttrpgs.
I've bought 3... each is a different system.
Paleomythic: system left me cold, setting materials great. Playable. d6 dice pool, dice = total traits, +1 die if trait applies.
Romance of the Perilous Land: Arthuriana. System is basically streamlined d20 SRD
Jackals: a fantasticized levant at the time of the bronze age collapse. System percentile based, Damage mechanics a bit crunchy, but they increase damage capacity.

I've read a bit of one of the others, and it was yet another system. It's a stable, but a stable of wild ponies, not a matched wagon team...
 

Eyes of Nine

Everything's Fine
I've bought 3... each is a different system.
Paleomythic: system left me cold, setting materials great. Playable. d6 dice pool, dice = total traits, +1 die if trait applies.
Romance of the Perilous Land: Arthuriana. System is basically streamlined d20 SRD
Jackals: a fantasticized levant at the time of the bronze age collapse. System percentile based, Damage mechanics a bit crunchy, but they increase damage capacity.

I've read a bit of one of the others, and it was yet another system. It's a stable, but a stable of wild ponies, not a matched wagon team...
Yes absolutely, it's a mixed bag from what I've heard, but on the whole I hear good things in aggregate
 

Von Ether

Legend
I've bought 3... each is a different system.
Paleomythic: system left me cold, setting materials great. Playable. d6 dice pool, dice = total traits, +1 die if trait applies.
Romance of the Perilous Land: Arthuriana. System is basically streamlined d20 SRD
Jackals: a fantasticized levant at the time of the bronze age collapse. System percentile based, Damage mechanics a bit crunchy, but they increase damage capacity.

I've read a bit of one of the others, and it was yet another system. It's a stable, but a stable of wild ponies, not a matched wagon team...
Admittedly, it seems that for many companies, a house system with a few odd balls tossed in here and there is the way to go .

OTH, it is refreshing to see a publisher who is willing to judge a game without a system bias.
 
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aramis erak

Legend
Admittedly, it seems that for many companies, a house system with a few odd balls tossed in here and there is the way to go .

OTH, it is refreshing to see a publisher who is willing to judge a game without a system bias.
Only if the systems they pick are good - but what they'r seeming to use is interesting setting, without regards to quality of rules.

Note also: The free version of Romance of the Perilous Land is the same mechanics as the commercial version by Osprey, but the commercial version has more setting info. It's also an interesting take on the "Arthurian in almost historical Britain" - but picking a bit over a century earlier than Mr. Stafford did in Pendragon.
 

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