This week, PCs range from monster truckers hauling freight while dealing with frightful creatures to the last remnants of humanity dealing with mutation and a haunted past. PCs can also run through a lengthy Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition adventure seeking lost magic weapons, try solo play as a Caretaker with a Giant Companion on journey quest, or play as an aquatic race in Apocalypse Prevention, Inc. PCs can also face the dangers of a new drug bringing the real possibility of gods into their CY_BORG world.
Note: RPG Print News covers recent RPG releases and some classics, reprints, and sales available from retailers. It does not cover products that are available directly to customers only as print on demand.
Monster Truckers: Long Haul into the Worstlands by Table Cat Games
SYSTEM: Tricube Tales
PRODUCT TYPE: core rulebook and setting
RETAIL PRICE: $30
DESCRIPTION: PCs are classic movie monsters who drive big rig and escort vehicles. Yeah, that does sound cool. Long ago humans and monsters went to war. The humans won. Monsters folk are forced to do the jobs that are too dangerous for humans to do like driving trucks in the Worstlands. Strange, weird, and dangerous creatures like gremlins and evil mutated turkeys roam the broken land, and the truckers cross paths with them while delivering freight. Bandits around every corner. Forgotten weapons of war lay waiting to be activated. And don't forget the undead Highway Patrol, patrolling and enforcing laws that no longer exist. The PC monsters must do whatever it takes to stick it to the (hu)man. Inspired by '70s trucker movies, classic movie monsters, a bit of Adventure Time and Mad Max, and the freewheeling freedom of being out on the open road. Includes two adventures and a cardstock CB microphone.
Avalon Rising Core Rules by Black Site Studios
Avalon Rising GM Screen
Emerald Light
Happy Phone
SYSTEM: 2DX (uses Trait Dice and Skill Dice where lower rolls represent greater success)
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook/GM screen/softcover supplement/zine
RETAIL PRICE: $44.99/$23.99/$23.99/$14.99
DESCRIPTION: The PCs are part of humanity that ages ago sealed itself inside Avalon 01, a vast megastructure of concrete, steel, and neon. Within its infinite corridors and hidden depths, survival depends on navigating a fractured society each part clinging to life in its own way. A mysterious power sustains Avalon, but it also corrupts. Energy leaks twist the city, birthing anomalies and horrors. The PCs must confront these terrors, or see their city fall to dark forces. Inspired by 80s sci-fi, cassette futurism, and cyberpunk classics. The Avalon Rising GM Screen is a GM screen. Emerald Light is an adventure designed for three to four players. Includes key NPCs, locations, factions with multiple outcomes shaped by player choice, and guidance for tying the adventure into a larger campaign. Happy Phone was once a shining example of corporate efficiency, but it now stands silent. Its offices are pristine. Its systems are online. But no human employees remain, only a handful of Sim-Droids. The PCs arrive to investigate a missing team, a system failure, and a delayed report. As the PCs move deeper into the building, it becomes clear that Happy Phone is connected to the dark energy that powers Avalon 01.
The Mystery at Blythe by Unknown Archives
SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover adventure
RETAIL PRICE: $38.99
DESCRIPTION: An adventure taking PCs from first level to 10th level. Moldark Denholm, a dragonborn druid, sought the mythical vorpal sword and forged a pact with Zadar, the god of bloodshed. Moldark slaughtered his kin and founded a dark religion in honor of Zadar. But Hazan, the god of healing, used the staff of the magi to stop Moldark and Zadar. Both gods were destroyed in a cataclysmic battle, and the weapons vanished. Their locations remain unknown, and the PCs seek to find the weapons before their enemies do.
Odyssey of the Giant by Heltung Storytelling
P!lls Fvll of Gods - Rehumanized
SYSTEM: solo unique/CY_BORG
PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventures
RETAIL PRICE: $20/$23
DESCRIPTION: The solo PC in Odyssey of the Giant is a Caretaker experiencing hope, silence, and the weight of companionship. The PC has been chosen to walk beside one of the last Giants and guide them across a land broken by the Cataclysm to a promised haven. The PC faces encounters, shifting landscapes, and the ever-changing moods of the Giant who follows him or her. Every choice shapes the road ahead, and every moment spent together can strengthen or fracture the fragile bond between Caretaker and Giant. Includes random tables, four different types of giants each one with specific needs and skills, a hex crawl, and a day and night cycle. P!lls Fvll of Gods - Rehumanized covers rules and details for a new drug on the streets of CY. Take a pill and the PCs will see gods. War, Death, Code, Pleasure, Money. The gods loom over CY like falling planets, ready to strike and smash the world to pieces. PCs will have to figure out if they are real and if so what to do about these world shaking gods. Includes four new classes (Ronin, Private Eye, Pro Wrestler, and Moonpunk), new weapons and enemies, four + 3d12 gods, random tables, and solo rules.
API Worldwide - Lochs by Third Eye Games
SYSTEM: Apocalypse Prevention, Inc. Second Edition
PRODUCT TYPE: softcover sourcebook
RETAIL PRICE: $19.99
DESCRIPTION: A complete guide to the Lochs and other newly introduced aquatic races. Details on Loch culture including their struggle to adapt to Earth and the research into the Half-Loch phenomenon. Also includes: new reasons, gifts and drawbacks, equipment, cyberware, aquatic magic, new undersea antagonists, aquatic races for PCs (Earth’s original sea race, the Ondine; the power hungry Voltics; curious Linx, the creators of the Contagion; the Scryers; and the newborn Half-Lochs), and an adventure.
The first two stories by Charlie featuring the questing soldier Hart and his biomechanical partner Hollow now available for Kindle on Amazon. Please leave a review! Charlie is a participant in the Noble Knight Affiliate Program and the OneBookShelf Affiliate Program, both of which are affiliate programs that provide a means for participants to earn money by advertising and linking to Noble Knight Games and DriveThruRPG respectively. Charlie on Facebook. Posts and articles posted here by others do not reflect the views of Charlie Dunwoody. If you like the articles at EN World please consider supporting the Patreon.
Note: RPG Print News covers recent RPG releases and some classics, reprints, and sales available from retailers. It does not cover products that are available directly to customers only as print on demand.
Monster Truckers: Long Haul into the Worstlands by Table Cat Games
SYSTEM: Tricube Tales
PRODUCT TYPE: core rulebook and setting
RETAIL PRICE: $30
DESCRIPTION: PCs are classic movie monsters who drive big rig and escort vehicles. Yeah, that does sound cool. Long ago humans and monsters went to war. The humans won. Monsters folk are forced to do the jobs that are too dangerous for humans to do like driving trucks in the Worstlands. Strange, weird, and dangerous creatures like gremlins and evil mutated turkeys roam the broken land, and the truckers cross paths with them while delivering freight. Bandits around every corner. Forgotten weapons of war lay waiting to be activated. And don't forget the undead Highway Patrol, patrolling and enforcing laws that no longer exist. The PC monsters must do whatever it takes to stick it to the (hu)man. Inspired by '70s trucker movies, classic movie monsters, a bit of Adventure Time and Mad Max, and the freewheeling freedom of being out on the open road. Includes two adventures and a cardstock CB microphone.
Avalon Rising Core Rules by Black Site Studios
Avalon Rising GM Screen
Emerald Light
Happy Phone
SYSTEM: 2DX (uses Trait Dice and Skill Dice where lower rolls represent greater success)
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook/GM screen/softcover supplement/zine
RETAIL PRICE: $44.99/$23.99/$23.99/$14.99
DESCRIPTION: The PCs are part of humanity that ages ago sealed itself inside Avalon 01, a vast megastructure of concrete, steel, and neon. Within its infinite corridors and hidden depths, survival depends on navigating a fractured society each part clinging to life in its own way. A mysterious power sustains Avalon, but it also corrupts. Energy leaks twist the city, birthing anomalies and horrors. The PCs must confront these terrors, or see their city fall to dark forces. Inspired by 80s sci-fi, cassette futurism, and cyberpunk classics. The Avalon Rising GM Screen is a GM screen. Emerald Light is an adventure designed for three to four players. Includes key NPCs, locations, factions with multiple outcomes shaped by player choice, and guidance for tying the adventure into a larger campaign. Happy Phone was once a shining example of corporate efficiency, but it now stands silent. Its offices are pristine. Its systems are online. But no human employees remain, only a handful of Sim-Droids. The PCs arrive to investigate a missing team, a system failure, and a delayed report. As the PCs move deeper into the building, it becomes clear that Happy Phone is connected to the dark energy that powers Avalon 01.
The Mystery at Blythe by Unknown Archives
SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover adventure
RETAIL PRICE: $38.99
DESCRIPTION: An adventure taking PCs from first level to 10th level. Moldark Denholm, a dragonborn druid, sought the mythical vorpal sword and forged a pact with Zadar, the god of bloodshed. Moldark slaughtered his kin and founded a dark religion in honor of Zadar. But Hazan, the god of healing, used the staff of the magi to stop Moldark and Zadar. Both gods were destroyed in a cataclysmic battle, and the weapons vanished. Their locations remain unknown, and the PCs seek to find the weapons before their enemies do.
Odyssey of the Giant by Heltung Storytelling
P!lls Fvll of Gods - Rehumanized
SYSTEM: solo unique/CY_BORG
PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventures
RETAIL PRICE: $20/$23
DESCRIPTION: The solo PC in Odyssey of the Giant is a Caretaker experiencing hope, silence, and the weight of companionship. The PC has been chosen to walk beside one of the last Giants and guide them across a land broken by the Cataclysm to a promised haven. The PC faces encounters, shifting landscapes, and the ever-changing moods of the Giant who follows him or her. Every choice shapes the road ahead, and every moment spent together can strengthen or fracture the fragile bond between Caretaker and Giant. Includes random tables, four different types of giants each one with specific needs and skills, a hex crawl, and a day and night cycle. P!lls Fvll of Gods - Rehumanized covers rules and details for a new drug on the streets of CY. Take a pill and the PCs will see gods. War, Death, Code, Pleasure, Money. The gods loom over CY like falling planets, ready to strike and smash the world to pieces. PCs will have to figure out if they are real and if so what to do about these world shaking gods. Includes four new classes (Ronin, Private Eye, Pro Wrestler, and Moonpunk), new weapons and enemies, four + 3d12 gods, random tables, and solo rules.
API Worldwide - Lochs by Third Eye Games
SYSTEM: Apocalypse Prevention, Inc. Second Edition
PRODUCT TYPE: softcover sourcebook
RETAIL PRICE: $19.99
DESCRIPTION: A complete guide to the Lochs and other newly introduced aquatic races. Details on Loch culture including their struggle to adapt to Earth and the research into the Half-Loch phenomenon. Also includes: new reasons, gifts and drawbacks, equipment, cyberware, aquatic magic, new undersea antagonists, aquatic races for PCs (Earth’s original sea race, the Ondine; the power hungry Voltics; curious Linx, the creators of the Contagion; the Scryers; and the newborn Half-Lochs), and an adventure.
The first two stories by Charlie featuring the questing soldier Hart and his biomechanical partner Hollow now available for Kindle on Amazon. Please leave a review! Charlie is a participant in the Noble Knight Affiliate Program and the OneBookShelf Affiliate Program, both of which are affiliate programs that provide a means for participants to earn money by advertising and linking to Noble Knight Games and DriveThruRPG respectively. Charlie on Facebook. Posts and articles posted here by others do not reflect the views of Charlie Dunwoody. If you like the articles at EN World please consider supporting the Patreon.
