Dragonbane gets a book of monsters and playable kin, while playable aliens and a new adventure lands for Traveller. Old-School Essentials in two books and Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland, both built using D&D Basic, get eight and one new adventures respectively. NPCs and new organizations populate Shadowrun. Brindlewood Bay is a new setting Powered by the Apocalypse that also has an accompanying book of new mystery adventures. Finally, GUMSHOE has a new bundle deal for some classic horror RPG books.
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Dragonbane Bestiary by Free League Publishing
Aliens of Charted Space: Volume 4 | Reach Adventure 8: Makergod by Mongoose Publishing
Old-School Essentials Official Adventure Scenario: Adventure Anthology 1 | Old-School Essentials Official Adventure Scenario: Adventure Anthology 2 by Necrotic Gnome
Space Bulk by Super Savage Systems
Falling Point by Catalyst Game Labs
Brindlewood Bay | Nephews in Peril!: A Collection of New Mysteries for Brindlewood Bay by The Gauntlet
GUMSHOE Starter Kit Bundle by Pelgrane Press
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Dragonbane Bestiary by Free League Publishing
- SYSTEM: Dragonbane
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover monster supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $41.80
- DESCRIPTION: From fairies to hippogriffs includes no less than 63 creatures brought to life in text and art, as well as a random encounter and a seed for a complete adventure. Among these fantastic beings, there are nine new playable kin, each with their own unique ability. Works with the Monsters Standee Set. Most (but not all) of the art was previously published in the Bestiary for the earlier edition of Drakar och Demoner from 2016.
Aliens of Charted Space: Volume 4 | Reach Adventure 8: Makergod by Mongoose Publishing
- SYSTEM: Traveller
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement/softcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $59.99/$19.99
- DESCRIPTION: Aliens of Charted Space: Volume 4 explores four species within Charted Space. The Suerrat are a human subspecies that claim to be a Major Race, as they independently developed interstellar travel based on generation ships but as they had not developed jump technology, others do not accept their claim. One of the oldest species associated with the Hive Federation, the Za’tachk are a peaceful (some would say cowardly) species with a natural tendency for structure and organization have made them invaluable running the vast Hiver bureaucratic machine. The Gurvin are a hexapod species resembling Terran otters and as consummate traders and merchants, they are the commercial backbone of the Hive Federation. A cat-like semi-humanoid species, the Tezcat are violent and warlike, and through the unification of the Shaper Church they have established a pocket empire. This book also contains rules for creating Travellers from each species. In the Reach Adventure 8: Makergod, the raiders of Oghma mercilessly prey upon the blighted star systems of the Outrim Void. When the PC Travellers get caught up in an Oghman raid, they find themselves going to the raiders’ home world which has deep, dark secrets.
Old-School Essentials Official Adventure Scenario: Adventure Anthology 1 | Old-School Essentials Official Adventure Scenario: Adventure Anthology 2 by Necrotic Gnome
- SYSTEM: Old-School Essentials
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover adventure collections
- RETAIL PRICE: $20 each
- DESCRIPTION: Adventure Anthology 1 offers a variety of scenarios for low-level characters capped off with a high-level challenge. For levels one to three: an abandoned workshop is filled with magical secrets and unique treasures. But has something new moved in? For levels two to three: a sewer lair haunted by a heretical cult of the Maggot God and hideous monster. For level three PCs, an adventure to investigate and uncover sinister secrets hidden within a corrupted temple. Finally, PCs of ninth level plus must escape from a doomed comet hurtling through space that is inhabited by distinct factions and fearsome foes. In Adventure Anthology 2, mid-level PCs face off against forces murky and maleficent. In the first of two adventures for PCs of levels one to three uncover the dark secrets of a newly opened burial mound and clash with uncharacteristically lively skeletons. In the second adventure, the PCs brave the slime-filled lair of an ooze dragon, its greasy minions, and some necrotic gnomes. PCs of levels four to six confront an eldritch plague and an evil death cult in their profane stronghold. Finally, PCs of levels six to eight venture into the cursed ruins of an ancient temple once inhabited by a rakshasa.
Space Bulk by Super Savage Systems
- SYSTEM: Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $30
- DESCRIPTION: The game is built on top of D&D Basic, and the setting is post-apocalyptic Earth, where magic mixed with technology from the 1980s. In this adventure, the PCs venture deep within Khaos ridden derelict space ships to find strange tech and meet new Xenos. And kill them. Includes a random generator supplement to build wild locations to pit scumdog adventure parties up against Xenos. In the included adventure, The Screamin’ Banshee space truck has been missing for hundreds of years and has suddenly appeared in Neo-Terraxx’s Space. It’s up to the “brave” PC scumdogs to embark with a Government team to get in there and find out what happened.
Falling Point by Catalyst Game Labs
- SYSTEM: Shadowrun
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
- DESCRIPTION: Profiles ten people and organizations standing on a precipice. Sometimes they’re the ones who might go over the edge; other times they’re looking at someone else they can push. Either way, they’re going to play a significant role in unfolding events, so PC runners better know about them before they run into them in the shadows.
Brindlewood Bay | Nephews in Peril!: A Collection of New Mysteries for Brindlewood Bay by The Gauntlet
- SYSTEM: Powered by the Apocalypse
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover books
- RETAIL PRICE: $42 each
- DESCRIPTION: Brindlewood Bay combines a cozy murder mystery with Lovecraftian horror. PCs are a group of elderly women solving murder mysteries in their quaint New England town while uncovering the threads of a dark occult conspiracy that connects the cases. The game is low-prep and easy to play. Includes six murder mysteries and the Dark Conspiracy campaign. Nephews in Peril! includes 13 new murder mysteries, seven special Sweeps Week mysteries, expanded setting material for the town of Brindlewood Bay, and more. Mystery locations range from the carnival to cliffs to the whaling museum. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soulless is one of the mysteries and a great title.
GUMSHOE Starter Kit Bundle by Pelgrane Press
- SYSTEM: GUMSHOE
- PRODUCT TYPE: book bundle
- RETAIL PRICE: $69.95
- DESCRIPTION: Not a new product but instead a discounted bundle of three related horror RPG titles for Gumshoe. The Esoterrorists are intent on tearing the fabric of the world apart and the PCs are elite investigators out to stop them. Fear Itself plunges the PCs, ordinary people, into a disturbing contemporary world of madness, horror, and violence. Use it to run one-shot sessions in which few (if any) of the PCs survive or as an ongoing campaign in which the PCs gradually discover more about the terrifying supernatural reality which hides in the shadows. The Book of Unremitting Horror depicts thirty horrific creatures, nightmarishly intimate, often created from human vice, or let loose by human greed. They are the ugly crawling things under the rock of everyday, sane reality.
