This week brings many adventures. Three adventures for Mothership and a system neutral fantasy setting. There are several other adventures for a variety of other RPG systems. There is also a new RPG using Powered by the Apocalypse.
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The House Always Wins | Curse of the Hat Man by Tim Orbermueller Games
Rampant by RV Games
The Dark of Hot Springs Island by Swordfish Isles
Quick and Dirties #1 - Return to the Decaying Manse | Quick and Dirties #2 - Pendulus Pillaged | Quick and Dirties #3 - Protecting Sir Grumpferd by Crumbling Keep
Claw Atlas by Possible Worlds Games
Children of UMA | Minisub Mania by 3.2.1 Action
Fight Item Run by Possible Worlds Games
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The House Always Wins | Curse of the Hat Man by Tim Orbermueller Games
- SYSTEM: Mothership
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventures
- RETAIL PRICE: $16/$14
- DESCRIPTION: The House Always Wins covers the Dream, a sector-wide broadcast event featuring death, gore, and everything in between. PCs run through room after room of corporate branded murder to win a prize of any wish desired that the major four corporations have the power to grant. Includes: over 20 traps, 20 sponsored rebrands adding modular effects to each area, four corporate sponsors and what they want, and a backdrop of the city of Salnati on the planet Dalmorus VIII where the games are hosted. Curse of the Hat Man is a spooky shore leave adventure where the PCs have traveled by caravan across the Endo Placia desert to Lionel's Caravanserai. When night falls, however, a strange figure in a hat and trench-coat begins haunting the halls, producing terrifying living nightmares, and killing staff and guests. Haunting encounters that escalate as time passes, three frightening floors to explore, and six detailed NPCs with their own motivations and reactions.
Rampant by RV Games
- SYSTEM: Mothership
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $12
- DESCRIPTION: A minimalist adventure that takes place on Geppetto Station, a secret corporate research facility orbiting a desolate planet. PCs spend their time as a new maintenance, and they become acquainted with the ship’s AI, Annie.
The Dark of Hot Springs Island by Swordfish Isles
- SYSTEM: system neutral
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover setting supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $60
- DESCRIPTION: A high fantasy sandbox adventure comprised of two books: one for players and one for the GM. A Field Guide to Hot Springs Island is written "in-character" and can be used by characters in the game world to help identify plants and monsters, translate ancient languages, and as a resource of advice and rumors. The Dark of Hot Springs Island is a hexcrawl with 75 locations and 26 maps (ogre villages, ruined elven city, volcanic lair of a vain efreet, etc.), seven factions, 87 interconnected NPCS, and 300 problematic treasures. Finally, 448 random events and encounter motivations. No stats for monsters or prepackaged treasure parcels. No levels are assumed, and there is no path of advancement through this tropical wilderness.
- SYSTEM: Marching Order RPG
- PRODUCT TYPE: fold out six panel adventure posters
- RETAIL PRICE: $5 each
- DESCRIPTION: Return to the Decaying Manse: Headmeister Dunberger Geiterheim was attacked by wererats in the old Decaying Manse and he blames the PCs. The Headmeister wants the PCs to clear out every last wererat so he can return to his favorite brewery. He’s offering to pay but of course he isn’t telling the whole truth either. Pendulus Pillaged: The wizard Pendulus Startalker is really on a tear again. He is standing in the town square without his pants on, screaming at anyone that will listen: “The 9th house of Gyridon has intersected the Plane of Burning Retribution! Repent, oh humble servants of Rotbottom.” If he’s out here, though, no one is back at his house watching the rest of his stash. Looks like it’s time to pillage a wizard’s house. Protecting Sir Grumpferd: The PCs need the work this week, so they begrudgingly agreed to protect Sir Grumpferd on his journey. According to the knight, it’s just a short walk through the woods and he’s paying in coin. Except that are a lot of angry goblins trying to kill him. What should have been a simple walk in the woods is quickly turning into a hike from hell.
Claw Atlas by Possible Worlds Games
- SYSTEM: Beak, Feather, & Bone
- PRODUCT TYPE: 24 high quality prints on 100# uncoated paper—doubles of 10 maps (20x), 2 new BFB community role inserts, and 2 rules variants inspired by them
- RETAIL PRICE: $12.95
- DESCRIPTION: Along with 10 new city maps there are also two additional community roles, allowing faction randomization with a d12 rather than a d10. Also has two new Hunter- & Mapmaker-inspired optional rules that add monsters to cities and let the GM create maps during play.
Children of UMA | Minisub Mania by 3.2.1 Action
- SYSTEM: 3,2,1…Action!
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover adventure/softcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $34.95/$19.95
- DESCRIPTION: Children of Uma: The PCs each play a Hellsing, a member of a band of wayward orphans doing what they must to survive in post-apocalyptic Kansas. The fate of the wasteland they call home is in their hands. The adventure features over 36 supercharged vehicles including ATVs, cars, dune buggies, helicopters, motorcycles, and even monster trucks. The PCs will drive, fight, and sneak their way through a futuristic Dust Bowl, where roving bands of misfits are all looking for the same thing; a way to live and see another day. Minisub Mania: The PCs are Hellsings and their leader, Shark, has gone missing. Rumors suggest he is being held prisoner at Oceanus, a secret undersea base where horrific experiments occur. The PCs hob in minisubs to ride to the rescue.
Fight Item Run by Possible Worlds Games
- SYSTEM: Powered by the Apocalypse
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover core rulebook
- RETAIL PRICE: $30
- DESCRIPTION: The PCs begin in a chamber and there are monsters; once they’ve defeated the monsters, they proceed to the next chamber where there are more monsters. Chambers also have items, treasures, puzzles, and mysteries. When the PCs have collected the adequate gear to advance to the next level of the dungeon, they come to the chamber with the passage, staircase, portal, or alien warp pad to continue forward. In addition, the players tell a collaborative story of mystery and adventure, plant and build upon evocative details at every chance, and explore the lives and relationships of characters traveling together.
