This week, all fantasy all the time plus fantasy Cthulhu. Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition gets new rules, a massive adventure and setting, and encounters complete with miniatures. Pathfinder First Edition gets a new class and the OSR gets a new setting and rules along with an adventure for Adventures Dark and Deep and Swords of Cthulhu. A demon idol mini is also available, having escaped from the cover of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook.
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.
Whispers of the Woods by Heltung Storytelling
SYSTEM: OSR
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook
RETAIL PRICE: $33
DESCRIPTION: A minimalistic RPG in which the PCs are 18th-century villagers on a journey into mysterious, dark woods. Focuses on storytelling, making difficult decisions, and weaving a collaborative, intertwined narrative. Illustrated with art based on old linocuts and filled with story hooks, tables, and plot points. Inside: Seven roles like Hunter and Crone, character creation using many random tables, collaborative rules for fighting and resolving issues, solo and GM-less play rules, a hex map generator with dozens of encounters supported by random tables and plot hooks, and more.
The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #61 by Legendary Games
The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #62
SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
RETAIL PRICE: $12.99 each
DESCRIPTION: The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #61 includes magical items like Mastodon Stout and Cursed Puppet Theater, new spells such as Crimson Confession and Boots on the Ground, trap including the caltrop burst and dragging hook, new special features like the beautifully verdant Anabagua race and Auroran paladin oath, and monsters ranging from the alien byokk to the death-loving lantern goat. Inside The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #62: magical items like the Veil of Allure and Flask of Whirlwinds, Death Hail and Defiled are new spells, traps include the bleeding walls and the double death, new feats like Armored Comfort and Practiced Defender alongside class options like the Circle of Winter and Seaspray Warden, and rounds out with creatures like the eerie corpse candle and the ravenous astral devourer.
Legendary Classes - Wanderer by Legendary Games
SYSTEM: Pathfinder First Edition
PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $9.99
DESCRIPTION: The Wanderer is a class inspired by tropes and themes in old Western and samurai films. A hybrid between the gunslinger and swashbuckler with a dash of the samurai class sprinkled in, but with 50 different deeds that can be learned. Examples: hardened glare to make enemies rethink their actions and shrug it off to stay in the fight in the direst circumstances. Also adds weapons like the nodachi and katana sheath.
War from the Stars – E1 BRW Games
SYSTEM: Adventures Dark and Deep Swords of Cthulhu
PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
RETAIL PRICE: $7.95
DESCRIPTION: This module contains both a Lovecraftian fantasy adventure and a complete mini-setting. Isolated, backwards, and content to keep to itself, the Eventide Valley has always been a place of mystery and a source of rumor and legend. The PCs come to this valley to discover its secrets and find an opportunity to guard the peaceful shepherding village of Argylby, which has been the victim of raids by a force known only as the Outer Ones.
Epic Encounters: Glade of the Evil Oak by Steamforged Games
Epic Encounters: Forest of the Damned
SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
PRODUCT TYPE: boxed adventure with unpainted miniature(s)
RETAIL PRICE: $54.99 each
DESCRIPTION: Deep in the heart of the forest, there is a glade with a solitary twisted oak of monstrous proportions, the Glade of the Evil Oak. A tree corrupted by forces beyond mortal understanding. Includes a scale-able boss encounter with story hooks and tips, a double-sided battle map, 24 tokens, and 1 huge evil oak miniature (100mm base). Forest of the Damned comes with 17 miniatures (six unique sculpts), an encounter booklet with stats and story hooks, and a double-sided encounter map. PCs find a walk in the woods turning into a heart-stopping encounter. They must test their skills against the ferocious foliage lurking in the undergrowth.
Crown of the Oathbreaker by The Midnight Tavern
Crown of the Oathbreaker Bundle
SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
PRODUCT TYPE: 916-page hardcover adventure path/book plus bundle
RETAIL PRICE: $84.99/$139.99
DESCRIPTION: Crown of the Oathbreaker includes over 40 dungeon maps and three regional maps with over 100 locations on each ranging from a cursed kingdom to the Feyrealm, taking characters from first to 15th level. Trying to break a curse, the PCs explore lands ravaged by the curse and uncover dark secrets from the past of a royal family. Along the way, the PCs travel to the Feyrealm, the Shadowrealm, and Hell, where they will face hard moral dilemmas before a chance to save the crown by defeating a mad witch-knight hungering for revenge. Also includes over 200 NPCs with illustrations based on the actual photos of members of the Elderbrain community, 30 plus magic items, 80 and counting monsters and templates, dozens of subclasses, and over 40 spells and feats. Crown of the Oathbreaker Bundle also comes with 127 cards in two decks, including NPCs, magic items, spells, feats, and factions. Additionally, a GM screen is included and covers the effects of the Midnight Curse, four separate 1d100 tables of random encounters, and more. Furthermore, the set has seven polyhedral dice along with a dice bag.
Otherworld Demon Idol by Crooked Dice Game Design Studio
SYSTEM: OSR
PRODUCT TYPE: 28mm unpainted white metal miniature with a 20mm plastic slottabase
RETAIL PRICE: $4.59
DESCRIPTION: The demon idol from the cover of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook is back. Both eyes unpried.
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.
Whispers of the Woods by Heltung Storytelling
SYSTEM: OSR
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook
RETAIL PRICE: $33
DESCRIPTION: A minimalistic RPG in which the PCs are 18th-century villagers on a journey into mysterious, dark woods. Focuses on storytelling, making difficult decisions, and weaving a collaborative, intertwined narrative. Illustrated with art based on old linocuts and filled with story hooks, tables, and plot points. Inside: Seven roles like Hunter and Crone, character creation using many random tables, collaborative rules for fighting and resolving issues, solo and GM-less play rules, a hex map generator with dozens of encounters supported by random tables and plot hooks, and more.
The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #61 by Legendary Games
The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #62
SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
RETAIL PRICE: $12.99 each
DESCRIPTION: The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #61 includes magical items like Mastodon Stout and Cursed Puppet Theater, new spells such as Crimson Confession and Boots on the Ground, trap including the caltrop burst and dragging hook, new special features like the beautifully verdant Anabagua race and Auroran paladin oath, and monsters ranging from the alien byokk to the death-loving lantern goat. Inside The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #62: magical items like the Veil of Allure and Flask of Whirlwinds, Death Hail and Defiled are new spells, traps include the bleeding walls and the double death, new feats like Armored Comfort and Practiced Defender alongside class options like the Circle of Winter and Seaspray Warden, and rounds out with creatures like the eerie corpse candle and the ravenous astral devourer.
Legendary Classes - Wanderer by Legendary Games
SYSTEM: Pathfinder First Edition
PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $9.99
DESCRIPTION: The Wanderer is a class inspired by tropes and themes in old Western and samurai films. A hybrid between the gunslinger and swashbuckler with a dash of the samurai class sprinkled in, but with 50 different deeds that can be learned. Examples: hardened glare to make enemies rethink their actions and shrug it off to stay in the fight in the direst circumstances. Also adds weapons like the nodachi and katana sheath.
War from the Stars – E1 BRW Games
SYSTEM: Adventures Dark and Deep Swords of Cthulhu
PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
RETAIL PRICE: $7.95
DESCRIPTION: This module contains both a Lovecraftian fantasy adventure and a complete mini-setting. Isolated, backwards, and content to keep to itself, the Eventide Valley has always been a place of mystery and a source of rumor and legend. The PCs come to this valley to discover its secrets and find an opportunity to guard the peaceful shepherding village of Argylby, which has been the victim of raids by a force known only as the Outer Ones.
Epic Encounters: Glade of the Evil Oak by Steamforged Games
Epic Encounters: Forest of the Damned
SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
PRODUCT TYPE: boxed adventure with unpainted miniature(s)
RETAIL PRICE: $54.99 each
DESCRIPTION: Deep in the heart of the forest, there is a glade with a solitary twisted oak of monstrous proportions, the Glade of the Evil Oak. A tree corrupted by forces beyond mortal understanding. Includes a scale-able boss encounter with story hooks and tips, a double-sided battle map, 24 tokens, and 1 huge evil oak miniature (100mm base). Forest of the Damned comes with 17 miniatures (six unique sculpts), an encounter booklet with stats and story hooks, and a double-sided encounter map. PCs find a walk in the woods turning into a heart-stopping encounter. They must test their skills against the ferocious foliage lurking in the undergrowth.
Crown of the Oathbreaker by The Midnight Tavern
Crown of the Oathbreaker Bundle
SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
PRODUCT TYPE: 916-page hardcover adventure path/book plus bundle
RETAIL PRICE: $84.99/$139.99
DESCRIPTION: Crown of the Oathbreaker includes over 40 dungeon maps and three regional maps with over 100 locations on each ranging from a cursed kingdom to the Feyrealm, taking characters from first to 15th level. Trying to break a curse, the PCs explore lands ravaged by the curse and uncover dark secrets from the past of a royal family. Along the way, the PCs travel to the Feyrealm, the Shadowrealm, and Hell, where they will face hard moral dilemmas before a chance to save the crown by defeating a mad witch-knight hungering for revenge. Also includes over 200 NPCs with illustrations based on the actual photos of members of the Elderbrain community, 30 plus magic items, 80 and counting monsters and templates, dozens of subclasses, and over 40 spells and feats. Crown of the Oathbreaker Bundle also comes with 127 cards in two decks, including NPCs, magic items, spells, feats, and factions. Additionally, a GM screen is included and covers the effects of the Midnight Curse, four separate 1d100 tables of random encounters, and more. Furthermore, the set has seven polyhedral dice along with a dice bag.
Otherworld Demon Idol by Crooked Dice Game Design Studio
SYSTEM: OSR
PRODUCT TYPE: 28mm unpainted white metal miniature with a 20mm plastic slottabase
RETAIL PRICE: $4.59
DESCRIPTION: The demon idol from the cover of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook is back. Both eyes unpried.
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.
