This week sees a new setting along with warlock support for D&D. There are lots of extras for RPGs like bean bags, a shelf file, and dice. Harn has a revised kingdom book, there is a freaky magic book for the OSR, and three new RPGs in two books by Possum Creek Games.
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Tal’dorei Reborn by Darrington Press
Warlock Grimoire III by Kobold Press
The Shelf File of Holding by Goodman Games
Roll Inish! Initiative Beanbags by Beadle and Grimm’s
The Book of Gaub by Lost Pages
Republic of Tharda (2022 Edition) by Columbia Games
Venture and Dungeon | The Flower Court by Possum Creek Games
One Ring Dice Set by Free League Publishing
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 to customers through kickstarter or as print on demand.
Tal’dorei Reborn by Darrington Press
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover setting and map
- RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
- DESCRIPTION: Covers the locations, people, creatures, and character options of Critical Role's Tal’Dorei continent and is set two decades after the conclusion of Critical Role Campaign 1. Contents: a guide to each major region, story hooks, nine subclasses, five backgrounds, magic items such as the Vestiges of Divergence, dozens of creatures, new lore and updated stat blocks for each member of Vox Machina, and an 18” x 24” foldout map of the Tal’Dorei continent.
Warlock Grimoire III by Kobold Press
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $24.99
- DESCRIPTION: Inside, find revelations and testimonials on monsters, magic, locales, and lore for fantasy adventures: bearfolk and their honey axes, ravenfolk steeped in magic, druid secrets, astral moons, weather of the Wastes, the village o Redtower in the shadow of the Scarlet Citadel, locals of the Southlands, sites of legend from the interplanar Stross Library to Terminus Island at the very edge of the world, options for dungeons and new perspectives on their design and integration, rumors of the Dragon Empire and the dragons, new subclasses, backgrounds, spells, magic items, monsters, and more. Presents all the content from issues 20–28 of Warlock and also includes the Warlock Guide to the Planes.
The Shelf File of Holding by Goodman Games
- SYSTEM: systemless
- PRODUCT TYPE: cardboard holder for RPGs
- RETAIL PRICE: $20
- DESCRIPTION: A custom-printed shelf file designed for holding adventure modules, hardcover RPG books, and boxed sets. All four exterior panels feature hand-painted art. Three inch wide spine is thick enough to fit two big hardbacks, about 25 modules, or one to two RPG boxed sets. Also holds boxed games that are in letter-sized dimensions. Includes pre-printed spine to identify the contents. Made of durable corrugated cardboard, the shelf file is die-cut to shape and easily folds into position.
Roll Inish! Initiative Beanbags by Beadle and Grimm’s
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition/RPGs with initiative
- PRODUCT TYPE: initiative bean bags
- RETAIL PRICE: $25
- DESCRIPTION: Yeah, this appears to be a real thing. Isn’t RPGing a great hobby? A player rolls initiative. The GM figures their place in the order and throws their bean bag initiative at them. No lists required, no forgetting the initiative order. Of course, when combat ends all the players will throw the bags back at the GM. Could be good or bad depending on where you’re sitting. For AD&D 2E or Free League’s Year Zero RPGs like Alien you can likely just throw the bags, no rolling by the players required.
The Book of Gaub by Lost Pages
- SYSTEM: OSR
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $25
- DESCRIPTION: If 25 bucks in bean bags doesn’t appeal, how about a book of creepy magic that takes inspiration from horror like The Babadook, Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark, and The Shining. Includes 49 spells and small fictional tales, 00 terrible catastrophes to invoke when its vile magic goes awry, 20 monsters along with insidious rituals to turn them to your gain, 49 bizarre paraphernalia, and adventure hooks and simple sorcery rules.
Republic of Tharda (2022 Edition) by Columbia Games
- SYSTEM: HarnWorld
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $39.99
- DESCRIPTION: The Thardic Republic is a large, prosperous nation in western Hârn. Unique among the Hârnic realms, it is neither a feudal nor tributary monarchy but a plutocratic state governed by a republican senate. The Republic is dominated by a few dozen clans who have parlayed agricultural and commercial wealth into status and position. Bureaucracies of civil servants manage the daily affairs of government, with rival families vying for influence when new appointments are made. Conflicts of interest are common and the resulting system of government has been described as both incredibly selfish and surprisingly functional. The Republic is bordered by the kingdoms of Kanday and Rethem. Relations with both are presently peaceful but tense. Two tribal nations range along the frontier: the ruthless Tulwyn and the wary, often violent Gozyda.
Venture and Dungeon | The Flower Court by Possum Creek Games
- SYSTEM: unique
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover core rulebook
- RETAIL PRICE: $30
- DESCRIPTION: In Venture and Dungeon, Venture explores introspective heroic fantasy while Dungeon is about teens playing games of their own. Venture provides magic-filled forests and looming castles, champions in shining armor and vagabonds with dazzling charm, markets of ill-repute and duplicitous authorities, and uncaring gods high above always asking, “What do you do next?” PCs travel through a fantasy world, making their way across the terrain while learning about themselves and each other. Dungeon provides trap-riddled school hallways, dragons in the boiler room, the endless grid of suburbia, doodles of monsters in the margins of planners, and a grinning game master always asking, “What do you do next?” The PCs are teenagers on the verge of the greatest danger of their lives, whether that danger is the vast dungeon they explore once a week, or the existential terror of high school. The Flower Court introduces the Crystal Age; to the neon spires of the glorious Chrome Dynasty in the Plastic Empire. The nobility of the Crystal Age blurs the lines between pop divas, celebrities, warlords, and despots. If I’m understanding this correctly, the PCs are lifted up to the silicon gardens from the concrete jungle below and play warlord-babes and slaughter-divas of the nobility who focus their minds on the most important task facing the celebrities—marriage and love. The Flower Court is the place where the powerful come together to flirt and debate and, just occasionally, murder each other. So it’s the nouveau riche with a little bit of murder.
One Ring Dice Set by Free League Publishing
- SYSTEM: The One Ring
- PRODUCT TYPE: eight dice set
- RETAIL PRICE: $40
- DESCRIPTION: Engraved custom dice with a Sauron theme.
