RPG Print News – Necrotic Gnome, Columbia Games, and More

This week is good for tieflings, goblins, and punks. D&D has a supplement with new rules, tieflings, and reprinted character sheets and Old-School Essentials also gets a supplement with new rules along with an adventure. HarnWorld gets locations and Mothership gets new pamphlet supplements. Finally, there is support for punks and a newly updated one player RPG.

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

BroadSword Monthly #17 August 2021 by DMDave

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $25
• DESCRIPTION: Issue #17 Highlights: The Burning Borderlands – a full-length campaign of ten adventures, 40 creatures, eight magic items, character race: the Cactusfolk, and druid character option: Circle of Wastelands.

Div-Tieflings by Solace Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $17.99
• DESCRIPTION: Includes a history and background information about the mischievous Div-Tieflings, alternate racial traits for any Tiefling, new class options: the bardic seducer and the fighter usurper, and new adventure locations to challenge any player.

Player Character Record Sheets (Reprint Edition) by Tony DiTerlizzi

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: character sheets
• RETAIL PRICE: $24
• DESCRIPTION: Each character sheet features an original character designed by award-winning artist, Tony DiTerlizzi. Also included is a supplementary short backstory for each character that can be used as an NPC or as the premise for a PC. Each of these characters have a miniature available from Dark Sword Miniatures.

Carcass Crawler #1 "New Classes, Thief Skills, Black Powder Firearms" by Necrotic Gnome

• SYSTEM: Old-School Essentials
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover digest sized zine
• RETAIL PRICE: $10
• OTHER RPG COVERAGE: Played It Review of Old-School Essentials
• DESCRIPTION: Includes the following. Six new classes: the acolyte, the gargantua, the goblin, the hephaestan, the kineticist, and the mage. Three new races: the gargantua, the goblin, and the hephaestan. Renaissance-style Black powder weapons. Optional fighter combat talents. Optional thief skills using a d6. Optional guidelines for adjudicating thief skills and attempts by other characters to perform similar tasks.

In the Shadow of Tower Silveraxe by Gelatinous Cubism Press

• SYSTEM: Old-School Essentials
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $15
• DESCRIPTION: The Gemthrone Wilderness is a region that is the subject of speculation on cold nights in the glow of a tavern hearth. Some talk of the magnificent treasures that have laid untouched for centuries in dark dungeons, just waiting to be pilfered—followed by another who interjects with the dangers of such notions. The PCs do believe such tales knowing that there is always some truth to even the most unbelievable stories if one just knows what rumors to listen for.

Noron's Way | Zerhun Fortress by Columbia Games

• SYSTEM: HarnWorld
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $9.99/$14.99
• DESCRIPTION: Noron's Way is named for an ancient road leading from Gardiren in Kaldor to Lorkin in Orbaal. Noron's Keep sits near the mid-point of the road. The trail ends at a ferry landing on the Anoth River. For most of its length, Noron's Way is little more than a rugged and often-muddy trail through mist-shrouded hills and brackish marshlands filled with disease, barbarians, and gargun. It is a lonely road with very little traffic because of the unpredictable and excessive tolls exacted by the enigmatic Noron. Special attention is given to Barsothe Falls, an impressive cataract with an evil reputation, and Gilfwydd's Landing, from which fishermen ferry travelers across the river. Zerhun is also the name of a stronghold of the Kingdom of Azadmere and the seat of Crown Prince Khazar Tarazakh. It is one of Hârn's most impressive engineering achievements and has long guarded the southern approaches to the kingdom. Covers the settlement's history, government, religion, economics, and military forces. It includes color GM and player maps of the settlement and color floor plans of the fortress barbican and main living areas, as well as the wharf and mercantylers' hall.

Chromatic Transference | Hacker's Handbook by Tuesday Night Games

• SYSTEM: Mothership
• PRODUCT TYPE: pamphlets
• RETAIL PRICE: $15
• DESCRIPTION: Chromatic Transference is suitable for characters of any level in a survival horror setting and is sure to pose a challenge to even the most battle hardened party. The top secret Ukweli-4 research facility was built to study a strange meteorite, inside of which is a color never before seen by human eyes. Due to an accident, the original researchers have long since died, leaving the facility an empty tomb. Includes a spooky crawl through an abandoned laboratory with a map key and player handouts. The Hacker's Handbook includes all the tools you need to create robust hacking challenges. It includes: the Exploitation Loadout, intuitive and simple rules and guidelines for building Networks to hack, a Response table for when hacks fail, and a new system for "User Accounts" that allow everyone (not just Hackers) to get in on the action. Plus a new equipment section with tons of tools, decks, gear, and single-use software to aid in intrusion attempts.

Mystic Punks Quickstart Rules by Exalted Funeral Press

• SYSTEM: Mystic Punks
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover quickstart
• RETAIL PRICE: $15
• DESCRIPTION: PCs delve deep into occult mysteries and explore beyond Star Valley High School. In addition to character creation, gameplay, and initial worldbuilding, the adventure Crackdown At Ivy Park is included to launch a campaign of horror and intrigue.

Disciples of Bone & Shadow - Conquered Sun Edition by Exalted Funderal

• SYSTEM: unique
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover core rulebook
• RETAIL PRICE: $25
• DESCRIPTION: A one player game. With a free-form character creation system you will be able to create new characters and start delving into ruins, caves, and exploring the wilderness of the Twilight in a matter of minutes. With the help of the tables and systems found in the rule-book you will be able to generate a fresh, new world on the fly, with no previous preparation required. Takes place in the world of Uzrun, a tidally locked planet where survival is possible only in the region known as the Fractured Dominion. It is in this harsh world you will try to survive in the shadow of the perennial Fortresses, in a land where only the strongest survive, and those seeking the power found in sorcery will only find corruption and madness instead.

Free RPG Day One Cent Items - Noble Knight Games

• COST: $0.01 each for each $15 spent
• DESCRIPTION: Free RPG Day 2021 items.