RPG Print News – By Odin’s Beard, Kobold Press, Renegade, and More

Dungeons & Dragons 5E gets two supplements full of adventures. There are also dice and bookmarks. G.I. JOE RPG allows for Cobra PCs. Mothership gets several supplements and new adventures. Plenty of other options for BESM, cyberpunk, and dark fantasy as well.

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Tales from the Wastes | Prepared! The Expanded Collection by Kobold Press

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Wastes of Chaos
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement of adventures
• RETAIL PRICE: $39.99 each
• DESCRIPTION: Tales from the Wastes: fast-paced adventures set in twisted locations packed with interesting NPCs. Inside: 15 single-session adventures for levels 1-18 playable separately or in sequence, 5 full-page full-color maps, dozens of illustrations, new monsters, magic items, and easy prep for running the adventures. The Prepared! Expanded Collection offers 31 easy-prep, short, one-shot adventures ranging from levels 1 to 15, The collection includes: 24 adventures originally published in Prepared! and Prepared 2! and seven new adventures.

Cobra Codex Sourcebook by Renegade Game Studio

• SYSTEM: G.I. JOE RPG
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $50
• DESCRIPTION: Rules for PCs to create a Cobra character, as well as everything a GM needs to run a Cobra campaign. The global criminal organization known as Cobra is recruiting, looking for the meanest and most ruthless potential operatives for their dastardly schemes. Features: character options for Cobra characters and Joes, Influences, Origins, Focuses, equipment including experimental equipment and shields, mutations and cybernetic equipment, new threats and NPCs, and Pressure – an original mission for Cobra characters.

Hull Breach Volume 1 | Breach of Contract | Agent Class by Anodyne Printware

• SYSTEM: Mothership
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement/pamphlet supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $50/$25/$5
• DESCRIPTION: Hull Breach Volume 1 is a collection of 26 adventures and supplements. Breach of Contract aims be the definitive authority on dystopian corporate law and teach the reader to think, act, and negotiate like a megacorporation. Includes general counsel on legal concepts, tools, and mechanics, and eight in-universe and customizable player handout contract. Example: the Artificial Intelligence End-User License Agreement covers terms of use for a ship’s AI, including disaster protocols in the event of an ethics deviation. Supplementary benefits: new Lawyer class who navigates contractual mazes and thrives on high-stress, NPC lawyer tables, tables including legal urban legends and contract-signing rituals, and a secret mythical bonus contract which may hold the key to toppling megacorporations. But why do that when you can sign up now and be a cog in the machinery of a megacorporation?! Speaking of which, the Agent Class conducts subterfuge, surveillance, and infiltration missions on behalf of corporate handlers and with or against their embedded crews. Includes: operational training on corporate security exploits, interrogation techniques, and more; new item loadouts with spy-tech gadgets like the Trinket Gun and Patch Bomb; Warden guidance for subterfuge-style missions; and an optional “hidden role” Secret Agent play mode where no one knows who to trust.

Bloom by Tuesday Knight Games

• SYSTEM: Mothership
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $10
• DESCRIPTION: A clandestine research facility has recently discovered an ocean-floor moss with far-reaching potential. Subterfuge and breached quarantine quickly result in catastrophe. The infectious moss consumed both the facility and the staff that studied it, leaving only monstrous life in its wake. Unaware of this disaster, an envious rival department turns to the black market to hire a team of hapless mercenaries (the PCs), tasking them to infiltrate the labs and steal coveted samples of this would-be miracle moss.

Howl by By Odin’s Beard

• SYSTEM: Cairn
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $22
• DESCRIPTION: The PCs are shipwrecked on a desolate shore, cursed by demonic forces, and surrounded by undead horrors at every turn. Sounds fun, sign me up! They must brave the lost caverns and solve the curse of the Barghest to make it out alive. Inspired by English folklore and Ravenloft. Set in the world of Boroz, an accursed and mist-shrouded land filled with dangerous creatures and eldritch influence. Includes 20 horrifying monsters from the dim-witted wereowl to the terrifying gharblest.

Danger Gal Dossier by R. Talsorian

• SYSTEM: Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0. Second Edition, Version 2.01
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $40
• DESCRIPTION: In the Dark Future, Danger Gal is Night City’s premiere investigation and security NeoCorp. Danger Gal’s archives contain information on everything and everyone worth knowing. Includes over 100 NPCs, ranging from newly inducted gang members to powerful cyberpsychos, factions of Night City from Edgerunning Crews and Nomad Packs to Boostergangers and elite Trauma Team squads, and guidelines you need to Night City denizens to life. Also has new mission set in Night City featuring the one-and-only Danger Gal and a mysterious second faction.

The Dread of Night by FableTop Productions

• SYSTEM: Powered by the Apocalypse
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $25
• DESCRIPTION: The land of Gradina has been plagued by relentless beasts, horrors unseen, and despair beyond imagination from an event deemed "The Day of Beasts." The PCs take part in history as they explore a world that has been thrust into a new age of darkness and calamity. In this combat oriented system, PCs play as Hunters who traverse and defend a world dealing with monsters for the first time and learning how to navigate this now-dilapidated land.

BESM Uresia - Grave of Heaven by Dyskami Publishing

• SYSTEM: BESM (Big Eyes, Small Mouth) Fourth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.95
• DESCRIPTION: Collects nearly the entirety of S. John Ross’s extensive works on Uresia over the past 20 years starting with a Second Edition expansion in 2004. This version adds new material and game content. Provides a general overview of the world setting, delves into several specific locales more closely, and suggests many new character templates and options.

Soulmist Spell Cards | Soulmist Bookmarks by Black Lantern Productions

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition Soulmist
• PRODUCT TYPE: deck of 60 cards/five bookmarks
• RETAIL PRICE: $19.99/$9.99
• DESCRIPTION: Spell Cards includes spells from the world of Soulmist. The Bookmarks are each tied to one of the races of Fyera, decorated with their emblems as well as an iconic character of that race

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[Egg Embry]

As always, lots of good here. I gotta get Danger Gal Dossier.