RPG Print News – Modiphius, Green Ronin, and More

This week includes more support for D&D and new classes for Pathfinder 2E and Pathfinder 1E . Sci-fi also gets a boost with ships for The Expanse, Klingons for Star Trek Adventures, and revised Romulans for GURPS Prime Directive 2020.

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The Dragon's Hoard Issue 9 | The Dragon's Hoard- Issue 10 | Legendary Loot Cards Deck #1 | Legendary Loot Cards Deck #2 by Legendary Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements/80 card decks
• RETAIL PRICE: softcovers $12.99 each/decks $19.99 each
• DESCRIPTION: The Dragon’s Hoard Issue 9 includes the following articles. The Treasure Trove with magic items like the wand of wall building, singularity grenade, fractured phylactery, and blade-eating battleaxe. Basker’s Books with new spells like withering touch, spiked crevasse, litany of rebuke, and phoenix wings. Class Acts covering new class options like the new elemental savant, school of alchemy, and oath of exorcism. And Marvelous Monsters featuring the undead huecuva, the carnivorous boulder okpe, and the explosive cannon golem. The Dragon’s Hoard Issue 10 features the articles that follow. The Treasure Trove features magic items like tcrypt warden’s plate and crown of iron sorcery! Basker’s Books includes new spells like awakened from death and skeleton crew. Class Acts covers new class options like the penumbra sorcerous origin and college of astrology. Marvelous Monsters unleashes the sin-eating jaracha and the dreadful carreta nagua, the carriage of the dead. Legendary Loot Cards includes dozens and dozens of illustrated magic items that come with complete rules. Each deck also has bonus rules for epic attunement. Examples from Deck #1 include the plate of the white wyrm and the cuirass of miracles. Magical implements include the spellbounce wand and staff of draconic power. Weapons examples are the burning skull mace and biting blade of ten thousand blossoms. All-purpose tools include the gauss ring and sledge of the great bear. Deck #2 includes the pyroclastic rod and the staff of the fey queen. Magical implements include the bountiful scroll case. Weapons examples are the redflame trollblade and hurricane harpoon. All-purpose tools include the feareating ring and rod of shadow puppetry.

Legendary Sorcerers | Legendary Spiritualists | Second Edition Classes - Emissary by Legendary Games

• SYSTEM: Pathfinder 1st Edition/Pathfinder 1st Edition/Pathfinder 2nd Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $15.99/$16.99/$11.99
• DESCRIPTION: Legendary Sorcerers focuses on spellcasters gifted with magical power altered by the origin of their power. The legendary sorcerer is a fully redesigned version of the core caster class, with a unique class feature that grants spellcasting flexibility, makes cantrips more useful, and expands bloodlines to allow customization of inherent powers rather than fixed advancement. Includes 13 bloodlines like the Aberrant Sorcerer, who mutates with each spell cast and the Undead Sorcerer, whose magic curses those it touches. Also includes six archetypes and over 24 spells and feats. Legendary Spiritualists introduces the mysterious spiritualist and a larger-than-life phantom ally. A specialist in necromantic arts and communication between the living and dead, the Spiritualist can cover a number of different roles in play. Includes different Metaphysical Arts, enhanced phantom’s emotional foci, and archetypes both for the master and phantom Also includes archetypes, feats and spells, rules for variant multiclassing and characters of other classes who want to add a little occult to their career, and an unsettling iconic for the Legendary Spiritualist- the grim Minos Bonifar with his incognito familiar, Rigil. Second Edition Classes - Emissary includes a class that melds the magic of arcane empires with the supportive skill of a trained ambassador. Includes five imperial origins like the fiery sands of flame with their regal war scepters and more than 40 class feats from levels 1-20. Also has the emissary multiclass archetype and several new mundane weapons used by those far-off empires.

Ships of the Expanse By Green Ronin

• SYSTEM: The Expanse Roleplaying Game
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $34.95
• DESCRIPTION: Spaceship supplements are great for sci-fi RPGs and this one includes over 30 all with deck plans. Spaceships are the arteries that connect the planets, moons, stations, and colonies of the Solar System. From shuttles and racing pinnaces to lumbering ice-haulers and massive warships, this sourcebook describes them all. Includes histories, rules, and details on over 30 classes of spaceships, plus info on famous named ships like the LDSS Nauvoo and the Rocinante. Also features new ship qualities and flaws, details on space stations, rules for maintenance and repair, info on buying and selling cargo, new fleet command and crew stunts, and much more.

The Klingon Empire GM Toolkit By Modiphius Entertainment

• SYSTEM: Star Trek Adventures
• PRODUCT TYPE: GM screen, adventure, and double-sided poster map
• RETAIL PRICE: $45.99
• DESCRIPTION: GMs for Klingon PCs know they are seeking honor and glory. What better way to start than with a GM screen, an adventure, and a double-sided poster map of Klingon space and the Alpha and Beta quadrants? The four-panel gamemaster screen includes rules for the 2d20 system and reference tables needed during play. And a Klingon warship is wrapped around the player facing side. It also provides six double-sided reference sheets including the actions of each role aboard a Klingon Defense Force warship, Momentum spend reference tables, and conflict rules references. I find it ironic that the Klingons named their conquering navy Defense Force but maybe it was a translation issue. The adventure can be used as a one-shot or as part of a larger campaign. Finally, the A2-sized map depicts Klingon space with Klingonese labels, and on the reverse, a map of the Alpha and Beta quadrants, focused on the Klingon Empire. Qapla'!

Romulans (Revised, 4th Edition) By Amarillo Design Bureau (ADB)

• SYSTEM: GURPS Prime Directive 2020
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $24.95
• DESCRIPTION: A revised version (2021 updates) of the book from 2005. Includes information on these distant cousins of the Vulcans including details on the royal family, the role of the praetor, the great houses and how they wheel and deal in the back hallways of the palace, the role of the Intendance Department, intelligence services and praetorian teams, colony planets, the previously-unknown suppressed races along the galactic rim, development of the cloaking device, and much more.

 

[Egg Embry]

Nice space theme with the final few. I want to pick up that Expanse expansion. ;-)

 

[Charles Dunwoody]

Nice space theme with the final few. I want to pick up that Expanse expansion. ;-)

I really like that each ship gets a deck plan.

 

[Egg Embry]

I really like that each ship gets a deck plan.

Yep, that is awesome! No arguments there!

 

[Marc_C]

Ships of the Expanse for the win. Been waiting for this book for a while.