RPG Print News – Mongoose, Bedrock Games, and More

Quite the mix of RPGs and RPG support this week. Mongoose Publishing Traveller gets a box set to aid in creating star systems and Dungeons & Dragons gets magic school miniatures and a horror supplement. WizKids has two new box sets for most RPGs with an encounter and all needed miniatures and battle maps to run them. There are new spells for Pathfinder First Edition, and Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate and Shadowrun get a criminal supplement and adventures respectively. Through the Breach gets a supplement also with criminal elements, and there is also a new school comedy RPG along with dice as well as tokens for Hunter: The Reckoning.

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

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Sector Construction by Mongoose Publishing

• SYSTEM: Traveller
• PRODUCT TYPE: box set
• RETAIL PRICE: $59.99
• DESCRIPTION: Jumpstarts creativity to develop sectors of the referee’s own making, with a focus on the Foreven sector, an area adjacent to the Spinward Marches.

Adventures & Academia: First Class - Cunning & Divine | Adventures & Academia: First Class - Arcane & Might by Steamforged Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: each has six unpainted miniatures with 25 mm bases
• RETAIL PRICE: $29.95 each
• DESCRIPTION: Cunning & Divine: dragonborn paladin, catfolk rogue, firbolg bard, half-elf and awakened squirrel rangers, tiefling cleric, and half-orc druid. Arcane & Might: owlkin wizard, human sorcerer, dwarf warlock, lionfolk Barbarian, turtle monk, and elf fighter. Free PDF character sheets and a themed D&D 5E one-shot adventure are available on the publisher's site.

Prison Break | Wagon Ambush by WizKids

• SYSTEM: systemless
• PRODUCT TYPE: box sets with miniatures
• RETAIL PRICE: $29.99 each
• DESCRIPTION: Prison Break is an encounter for most RPG systems with everything needed to run it included: a scenario booklet, pre-painted and 2D acrylic miniatures including a sheriff and guard dog, WarLock Tile map dressings like doors and walls, and map tiles. Wagon Ambush is another encounter for a variety of RPGs. The box contains: scenario booklet, two double-sided map tiles, merchant (2D miniature), horse (pre-painted miniature), two pack mules (pre-painted miniatures), four bandits (2D miniatures), a two-wheel cart, and two logs.

Book of Magic - Spell Codex Volume 1 | Book of Magic - Spell Codex Volume 2 by Jon Brazer Enterprises

• SYSTEM: Pathfinder First Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover spell supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $24.99 each
• DESCRIPTION: Bringing together all the spells from nearly two dozen companion sources, the Book of Magic: Spell Codex Volume 1 and Book of Magic: Spell Codex Volume 1 each have spells updated for clarity and expanded to cover classes introduced after their original publication. Over 170 spells for all 26 spellcasting classes from wizard to bloodrager, cleric to paladin, psychic to medium. Short descriptions make it easy to discover and find that perfect spell.

Sons of Lady 87 by Bedrock Games

• SYSTEM: Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
• DESCRIPTION: PCs explore the criminal life of the southern empire, a place of thieves, bandits, killers, and prostitutes. They can join the Eighty-Seven Killers and serve Lady 87 as she secures her power against encroaching forces that push feuding criminal sects towards war. Includes: overview of Fan Xu Prefecture, sects, guidance for managing sect wars, a full overview of the criminal organization the Eighty-Seven Killers, new Kung Fu Techniques, profound techniques, equipment, monsters, a regional map, advice on running Ogre Gate campaigns, and more. The book was developed around campaigns where the PCs are criminals but it also serves righteous campaigns by providing enemies for law-abiding characters.

Whisper Nets by Catalyst Game Labs

• SYSTEM: Shadowrun
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
• DESCRIPTION: A book of adventures for PC runners. Shadowrunners make their living off whatever scraps fall from megacorporate tables including information. In this campaign, runners learn some of the corps dirty secrets, and they have the chance to use these secrets for their own benefit. From trading favors to gaining protection for themselves to selling info to the highest bidder, the runners will have the chance to shape the megacorporate pecking order and make good money for themselves. How the megacorporations react is part of the adventure.

Seven Sinners by Mana Project Studio

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition and OSR
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover sourcebook
• RETAIL PRICE: $19.99
• DESCRIPTION: A collection of cultists, demons, and relics that aims to convey a universal feeling understandable by any culture or individual: the fear of being found guilty. It is the corrupt vision of a world that presents the deadly sins in a concrete, overwhelming, and terrifying way. Contains images and text of a mature nature, including violence and sexual themes, intended for an adult audience.

From Shadows by Wyrd Games

• SYSTEM: Through the Breach
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $40
• DESCRIPTION: Pulls back the curtain on the Ten Thunders syndicate and their expansive criminal empire. Provides Fated with the ability to play as a Descended, someone whose past influences their present. PCs can also harness the power of Ceremonial spells to cast old Magia in new ways, access updated Elemental Immuto, and find troves of valuables waiting to be sold to the highest bidder.

Knights of the Round Academy | Knights of the Round Academy - Dice Set (24) by MS EDIZIONI

• SYSTEM: unique
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook/24 dice
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.99/$25
• DESCRIPTION: A heavily narrative role-playing game inspired by Shonen anime, ‘90s super and real robot anime, and Japanese school comedies. PCs are called Students and are defined by their Traits – words or short sentences that describe something they can do, what they have studied, or something they simply have talent for. Every Student has to juggle ruthless rivals, grueling training, teenage love affairs, and monsters from the past of a planet split by war. The dice set includes 6d4, 6d6, 6d8, and 6d12.

Hunter The Reckoning Premium Token Pack by Renegade Game Studios

• SYSTEM: Hunter: The Reckoning 5E
• PRODUCT TYPE: 15 tokens
• RETAIL PRICE: $20
• DESCRIPTION: These premium tokens are used to track Danger, Despair, and Desperation. Contains: five orange Danger tokens, five black Desperation tokens, and five gray Despair tokens.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I wonder why Mongoose went the route of creating a box set? According to Drive Thru, which only has the pdf, here's what you get:
Included in the Sector Construction Guide:

• The Sector Construction Guide, a book that takes you through the process of creating a sector from scratch
• Two-sided poster map with both Foreven sector and a blank sector for the referee to start from scratch
• Forms and Charts booklet
• Pad of blank world maps

 

[doctorhook]

Has WizKids offered map tiles in any other products before? And does anyone know who the artist is?

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Has WizKids offered map tiles in any other products before? And does anyone know who the artist is?

They often add map tiles to various Heroclix/Mage Knight items. Not sure about D&D/RPG specific items

 

[overgeeked]

Bedrock Games

The publisher of many RPG Pundit games. Do we know who the author is? Is it yet another pen name for the Pundit?

 

[Bedrockgames]

The publisher of many RPG Pundit games. Do we know who the author is? Is it yet another pen name for the Pundit?

I wrote it (Brendan Davis, owner of Bedrock Games)

Also just for accuracy we published one book by RPG Pundit called Arrows of Indra. When we first started we used to publish other writers and designers but for quite some I have been the one writing the books (working usually with two other designers in my game group)

 

[Charles Dunwoody]

The publisher of many RPG Pundit games. Do we know who the author is? Is it yet another pen name for the Pundit?

Yes we do. No it's not. What other pen names does he use?

 

[Knightfall]

I really want that Sector Construction book!

 

[Mongoose_Matt]

I wonder why Mongoose went the route of creating a box set? According to Drive Thru, which only has the pdf, here's what you get:
Included in the Sector Construction Guide:

• The Sector Construction Guide, a book that takes you through the process of creating a sector from scratch
• Two-sided poster map with both Foreven sector and a blank sector for the referee to start from scratch
• Forms and Charts booklet
• Pad of blank world maps

No other reason than we had a bunch of things to pout in it that would not reasonably fit in a book (pad, poster map, wanting to separate out the forms from the core material). Plus, boxes are fun.