Hello everyone, Darryl here with this week’s gaming news! More details about the Dark Souls RPG, new Level Up 5e products announced, RuneScape getting a tabletop RPG, and more!
Don’t forget, you can keep up with all the week’s gaming news with Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk! This week, Morrus and Peter talk about the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook Monsters of the Multiverse!
In case you missed it elsewhere on EN World this week:
EN Publishing announced several new products for the Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition line. First we have To Save a Kingdom, a new adventure that takes characters from Level 1 to Level 15 following up on the introductory adventure Memories of Holdenshire. Next is the Dungeon Delver’s Guide, a collection of new tools for players and narrators both to facilitate underground adventures including new player options, new equipment, new magic, new regions, and several pre-made dungeons. Finally, we have Voidrunner’s Codex, a sourcebook to add space opera science fiction to your Level Up games. The book features new heritages, classes, starships, psionic rules, and more all ready to bring your Level Up game into the future. No release dates have been set at this time, but we’ll get more information about these books throughout the coming year.
Modiphius released a free quickstart set for Homeworld Revelations. The 68-page PDF features the starter rules for Homeworld Revelations, an adventure that sends a team of archeologists searching a thousand-year-old spaceship wreck for artifacts, and five pre-generated characters. Homeworld Revelations uses Modiphius’s 2d20 System and is based on the Homeworld real time strategy video game series that follows aliens exiled from their home planet after it was destroyed by the Taiidan Empire for developing hyperspace jump technology. The quickstart PDF is available for free from DriveThruRPG, while the core rules are expected for release in May 2022.
Steamforged announced a new tabletop roleplaying game based on RuneScape, the free MMORPG. RuneScape was originally released in January 2001 as a browser-based MMORPG which later got a stand-alone client. The game is still running and is actively updated with over 200 million accounts created over its lifetime, setting a Guinness World Record for the largest free MMORPG. From the press release:
RuneScape is scheduled for release later this year, and Steamforged is currently running a survey for existing RuneScape players to give their input on the tabletop RPG version.
Details are coming out about the upcoming Dark Souls roleplaying game from Steamforged. The dark fantasy roleplaying game will use 5e, but will be adapted to fit the dark lore and tactical combat of the Dark Souls series. The rules will include new character classes, an entirely new magic system, and stats for many of the monsters from the video game franchise. From the press release:
Pre-orders for the hardcover will begin in February in anticipation of a Spring 2022 release.
IDW announced a new comic book based on iconic Dungeons & Dragons characters Minsc and Boo as a prequel for the Baldur’s Gate III video game. From the sales solicitation:
The 100-page book is written by Jim Zub with art from Max Dunbar, Nelson Daniel, Dean Kotz, and Francesco Martarino with cover art from James Biggie and will hit comic book stores this April with a retail price of $5.99.
Edge Studio announced the third edition for Midnight: The Legacy of Darkness for 5e based on the Fantasy Flight Games campaign setting. The gritty fantasy setting places the players in opposition to the forces of the Shadow who have taken over the land. The free cities of humans have been crushed, the elves driven into the deep wood, the dwarves besieged inside their mountain fortresses, and the lieutenants of the wicked god Izrador rule the shattered kingdoms with steel and cruelty. The updated version of the setting will feature 13 new cultural variants unique to the world, a Heroic Path system, new unique feats and spells, a detailed guide to the setting, and a collection of “adversary profiles”. Midnight was originally published by Fantasy Flight Games from 2003 to 2009 and was adapted into a film, Midnight Chronicles, in 2010. This marks the first update since the product was announced at the joint FFG/Edge panel at Gen Con 2020.
Fat Dragon Games and Humble Bundle released the Dragonlock and Ravenfell 2D and 3D printable terrain bundle this week. This bundle includes 3D printable terrain from the Dungeonlock series along with accessories and miniatures plus 2D terrain from the E-Z Dungeon and Ravenfell sets that can be printed on standard inkjet and laser printers for construction into amazing 3D terrain. This bundle benefits Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and runs until Thursday, February 3. The Black Library is back with another bundle of ebooks for the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 worlds. This bundle features 25 DRM-free ebooks for $18 at the top level with works covering Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, The Horus Heresy, and more. This bundle benefits the EveryLibrary Institute and runs until Thursday, February 17.
That’s all from me for this week! Don’t forget to support our Patreon to bring you more gaming news content. If you have any news to submit, email us at news@enpublishingrpg.com, and you can get more discussion of the week’s news on Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk every week. You can follow me on Twitch to get notifications when I go live, subscribe to Gamer’s Tavern on YouTube for videos on gaming history, RPG reviews, and gaming Let’s Plays, or you can listen to the archives of the Gamer’s Tavern podcast. Until next time, may all your hits be crits! Note: Links to Amazon, Humble Store, Humble Bundle, and/or DriveThru may contain affiliate links with the proceeds going to the author of this column.
Don’t forget, you can keep up with all the week’s gaming news with Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk! This week, Morrus and Peter talk about the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook Monsters of the Multiverse!
In case you missed it elsewhere on EN World this week:
- EN5ider #435 is a new Monstrous Menagerie for Elemental Geists, the rare remnants of elementals that stay behind after they’re destroyed on the Material Plane.
- The sixth issue of the Awfully Cheerful Engine is here, Orcs & Oubliettes, a fantasy adventure inspired by the works of Terry Pratchett.
- Jeremy Crawford explained the new lore changes coming in Monsters of the Multiverse and across the Dungeons & Dragons line.
- Beth Rimmels has an in-depth review of Modenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse which came out this past Tuesday.
- Beth Rimmels also reviewed the first episodes of the The Legend of Vox Machina.
- Egg Embry interviewed Jerry D. Grayson from Khepera Publishing about the new edition of GODSEND.
- Rob Wieland reviewed the “pastoral fantasy” roleplaying game Wanderhome by Jay Dragon.
- The fan site Dragonlance Nexus turned 21 this week, starting back in January 2001 to create Dragonlance material for D&D 3.5.
- The first documents for The Known World, the campaign setting that would eventually become Mystara, have been found and archived online by Shannon Appelcline.
- Lewis Pulsipher’s newest Worlds of Design talks about the art of improvisation in roleplaying games.
- Mike Myler is back with another Mythological Figure, this time the queen and founder of the city of Carthage, Dido.
- Don’t miss out on the newest RPG crowdfunding projects ending soon with Egg Embry’s RPG Crowdfunding News and keep up with all the new print RPG releases with Charles Dunwoody’s RPG Print News.
EN Publishing announced several new products for the Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition line. First we have To Save a Kingdom, a new adventure that takes characters from Level 1 to Level 15 following up on the introductory adventure Memories of Holdenshire. Next is the Dungeon Delver’s Guide, a collection of new tools for players and narrators both to facilitate underground adventures including new player options, new equipment, new magic, new regions, and several pre-made dungeons. Finally, we have Voidrunner’s Codex, a sourcebook to add space opera science fiction to your Level Up games. The book features new heritages, classes, starships, psionic rules, and more all ready to bring your Level Up game into the future. No release dates have been set at this time, but we’ll get more information about these books throughout the coming year.
Modiphius released a free quickstart set for Homeworld Revelations. The 68-page PDF features the starter rules for Homeworld Revelations, an adventure that sends a team of archeologists searching a thousand-year-old spaceship wreck for artifacts, and five pre-generated characters. Homeworld Revelations uses Modiphius’s 2d20 System and is based on the Homeworld real time strategy video game series that follows aliens exiled from their home planet after it was destroyed by the Taiidan Empire for developing hyperspace jump technology. The quickstart PDF is available for free from DriveThruRPG, while the core rules are expected for release in May 2022.
Steamforged announced a new tabletop roleplaying game based on RuneScape, the free MMORPG. RuneScape was originally released in January 2001 as a browser-based MMORPG which later got a stand-alone client. The game is still running and is actively updated with over 200 million accounts created over its lifetime, setting a Guinness World Record for the largest free MMORPG. From the press release:
RuneScape is scheduled for release later this year, and Steamforged is currently running a survey for existing RuneScape players to give their input on the tabletop RPG version.
Details are coming out about the upcoming Dark Souls roleplaying game from Steamforged. The dark fantasy roleplaying game will use 5e, but will be adapted to fit the dark lore and tactical combat of the Dark Souls series. The rules will include new character classes, an entirely new magic system, and stats for many of the monsters from the video game franchise. From the press release:
Pre-orders for the hardcover will begin in February in anticipation of a Spring 2022 release.
IDW announced a new comic book based on iconic Dungeons & Dragons characters Minsc and Boo as a prequel for the Baldur’s Gate III video game. From the sales solicitation:
The 100-page book is written by Jim Zub with art from Max Dunbar, Nelson Daniel, Dean Kotz, and Francesco Martarino with cover art from James Biggie and will hit comic book stores this April with a retail price of $5.99.
Edge Studio announced the third edition for Midnight: The Legacy of Darkness for 5e based on the Fantasy Flight Games campaign setting. The gritty fantasy setting places the players in opposition to the forces of the Shadow who have taken over the land. The free cities of humans have been crushed, the elves driven into the deep wood, the dwarves besieged inside their mountain fortresses, and the lieutenants of the wicked god Izrador rule the shattered kingdoms with steel and cruelty. The updated version of the setting will feature 13 new cultural variants unique to the world, a Heroic Path system, new unique feats and spells, a detailed guide to the setting, and a collection of “adversary profiles”. Midnight was originally published by Fantasy Flight Games from 2003 to 2009 and was adapted into a film, Midnight Chronicles, in 2010. This marks the first update since the product was announced at the joint FFG/Edge panel at Gen Con 2020.
Fat Dragon Games and Humble Bundle released the Dragonlock and Ravenfell 2D and 3D printable terrain bundle this week. This bundle includes 3D printable terrain from the Dungeonlock series along with accessories and miniatures plus 2D terrain from the E-Z Dungeon and Ravenfell sets that can be printed on standard inkjet and laser printers for construction into amazing 3D terrain. This bundle benefits Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and runs until Thursday, February 3. The Black Library is back with another bundle of ebooks for the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 worlds. This bundle features 25 DRM-free ebooks for $18 at the top level with works covering Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, The Horus Heresy, and more. This bundle benefits the EveryLibrary Institute and runs until Thursday, February 17.
That’s all from me for this week! Don’t forget to support our Patreon to bring you more gaming news content. If you have any news to submit, email us at news@enpublishingrpg.com, and you can get more discussion of the week’s news on Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk every week. You can follow me on Twitch to get notifications when I go live, subscribe to Gamer’s Tavern on YouTube for videos on gaming history, RPG reviews, and gaming Let’s Plays, or you can listen to the archives of the Gamer’s Tavern podcast. Until next time, may all your hits be crits! Note: Links to Amazon, Humble Store, Humble Bundle, and/or DriveThru may contain affiliate links with the proceeds going to the author of this column.
