RPG Print News – Alien RPG, Traveller, MÖRK BORG, and More

At the game table, everyone can hear you scream. The Alien RPG is back and evolved, ready to land on your table like a freshly spawned chest burster. Be Like a Crow and Traveller get adventures. Savage Worlds has world and adventure support based on Battlelords of the 23rd Century. Finally, MÖRK BORG gets a card deck of magic gone wrong, a zine covering seedy and grubby taverns, and a free business card full of doom and woe.

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 through Kickstarter or as print on demand.

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Alien RPG Evolved Edition | Alien RPG Starter Set | Rapture Protocol | Alien RPG MU/TH/UR Screen by Free League Publishing

• SYSTEM: Year Zero Engine
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rules/box starter set/box cinematic adventure/GM screen
• RETAIL PRICE: $57.99/$39.99/$39.99/$24.99
• OTHER RPG NEWS: Alien RPG (original) review
• DESCRIPTION: Won Best Game at the ENNIE Awards. Expands upon and fully compatible with the original version and provides new artwork, content, and tools for players and Game Mothers alike. Includes: life path character generation, revised and expanded core rules (stealth, stress and panic), reworked combat rules (covers armor, ammo, grenades, stuns, and spaceships), updates from the film Alien: Romulus, new rules and tools (zero gravity, miniatures play support, and expanded campaign play), the Tartarus Sector campaign setting, and solo play rules. The Alien RPG Starter Set comes with: booklet with abridged rules, expanded edition of Hope’s Last Day adventure, double-sided map with chartered space on one side and Hadley’s Hope terraforming colony on the other, five pre-generated characters, cards (gear, combat initiative, personal agendas, and panic responses), tokens for characters and creatures, rules reference sheets, a supply dial (track resources such as air, ammunition, or time), 10 base dice and ten stress dice, and a plastic miniature of a Xenomorph. Rapture Protocol, a complete cinematic adventure, is designed for three to PCs and features the crew of a small star freighter on a resupply run to a remote industrial colony who become embroiled in a deadly conflict. Contains: the adventure book, a double-sided map featuring the star freighter on one side and the mining base on the other, five pre-generated characters, cards for personal agendas and NPCs, tokens for characters and creatures, and PC maps and handouts. The MU/TH/UR Screen Evolved Edition has the look of a MU/TH/UR ship intelligence interface panel on the outside and useful tables and information on the inside. Keeps notes secret and for the Game Mother only.

The Feathers of Fjörgyn by Critical Kit LTD

• SYSTEM: Be Like a Crow - A Solo RPG
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $6
• DESCRIPTION: As a solo PC, you take on the role of a Corvid with a mission to keep the peace in an unruly world as both gods and humans come into conflict. Before thunder first touched the mountains and the world was still raw with magic, Fjörgyn — the primal Earth Mother — took the shape of a great bird. As she surveyed her lands, she shed three feathers, each carrying the memory of stone, root, and storm. Includes prompts themed around Norse mythology, three new archetypes, and mechanics for Omens.

Reach Adventure 9: The Hellworld Heists by Mongoose Publishing

• SYSTEM: Traveller
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $19.99
• DESCRIPTION: Fighting alongside a rebellion, the PC Travellers find themselves in a series of five different heists set in the Senlis Foederate, a despotic polity of inhospitable worlds in a backwater of the Trojan Reach. The PCs adventures range from robbing a gravrail to rescuing rebels from a base on Magen, then assaulting a prison convoy, accessing a vault, and finally helping their patron in a coup against the government regime. Also includes: ships, vehicles, construction robots, and animal and sophont encounters.

Battlelords of the 23rd Century - Charlie Foxtrot (Savage Worlds) by 23rd Century Productions

• SYSTEM: Savage Worlds
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $60
• DESCRIPTION: Includes six one-shot science-fiction adventures. The PCs take on the role of novice space pirates, heroic Galactic Alliance soldiers, seasoned corporate spies, novice mercenaries, seasoned for-hire criminals, or veteran colony inspectors fighting a war against Arachnid hordes in a universe plagued by the Atlantean nano-swarms. Includes pre-generated PCs, several short fiction stories, and a planetary atlas that is part of the Battlelords’ universe.

ARCANE CATASTROPHES | LAST CALL: Taverns of the Dying Lands, and what's wrong with them | borglite

• SYSTEM: MÖRK BORG
• PRODUCT TYPE: deck of cards/softcover zine/business card sized RPG
• RETAIL PRICE: $11/$11/free
• DESCRIPTION: ARCANE CATASTROPHES is a deck of 52 standard-sized playing cards that expand on the Arcane Catastrophe table in the core MÖRK BORG rules. When magic goes bad, each card adds outrageous complications that change the shape of the current encounter and could possible result in a character-melting magical disaster. The deck is only for the brave, only the strong. Advantages: PCs will look at this deck like a ticking bomb and will be more prone to committing entertaining mistakes. Drawing a card forces a player to reach out and pull their own catastrophe from a special deck giving the whole thing a ritualistic weight. LAST CALL: Taverns of the Dying Lands, and what's wrong with them is filled with everything needed to create a memorable and distinct tavern experience full of adventure hooks and improvised encounters. Inside: a d100 x d100 table with a thousand possible tavern names, d100 NPCs to avoid or party with, d100 rumors (idle banter, lies, the start of a new quest, and more), d100 events ranging from the surely fatal to the merely catastrophic, d100 distinguishing features the PCs will never forget despite their efforts, and dozens of grubby interior illustrations that provide that "someone else had their dirty little hands all over this before me" feeling. In borglite: a business-card-sized RPG, concise rules that are sparse yet robust and pulled with love from the guts of MÖRK BORG, and the feeling you’re being watched.

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