RPG Print News – Cairn, Monty Python RPG, and More

All these years writing about RPGs, and I finally get to discuss a GM sash. Cairn is a complete RPG in a box designed for old school gaming with a focus on emergent play. The quirky Weird Heroes of Public Access is back in hardcover. Every GM should have a sash but only Heads of Light Entertainment currently do. Old and new adventures for DCC RPG are available along with an RPG about adventuring goblins. There are also dice towers and trays with iconic D&D art.

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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Cairn Second Edition by Space Penguin Ink

• SYSTEM: OSR
• PRODUCT TYPE: box set
• RETAIL PRICE: $60
• DESCRIPTION: PCs explore a dark and mysterious Wood filled with strange folk, hidden treasure, and unspeakable monstrosities. The Wood surrounds and divides their realm and anyone (or anything) that has not yet sworn fealty is at risk. The Root is the realm of mystery and horror underneath the Wood and does not care for the petty divisions aboveground. PCs have three attributes and use a roll-under d20 resolution. PC creation is quick and random, adventures are challenging and reward careful exploration, and combat is frenetic and deadly. Includes: Player's Guide, Warden's Guide, an adventure module, a GM screen, and a character sheet pad all in a sturdy box.

Head of Light Entertainment Sash by Exalted Funeral

• SYSTEM: Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme - A Role-Playing Game (Sensible Middle Class Edition)
• PRODUCT TYPE: GM sash
• RETAIL PRICE: $19.95
• DESCRIPTION: A truly great Head of Light Entertainment wears a sash so every player knows who is leading the way. The Head of Light Entertainment runs the game using a variety of different personas. The sash will also help the other players remember which of them is changing personas during a game. It likely has other uses as well.

Weird Heroes of Public Access by Get Haunted Industries

• SYSTEM: unique d6 dice pool
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook
• RETAIL PRICE: $35
• DESCRIPTION: The PCs are quirky public access TV personalities battling monsters, facing angry moms, and outsmarting juvenile delinquents to save their beloved town of Fairhaven. Time is of the essence as the PCs race to uncover Fairhaven's darkest secrets and keep their show from getting canceled. This updated hardcover version of the rules includes: complete game rule designed to get weird, selections from Tales From Fairhaven 1 and Tales From Fairhaven 2, the WHPA Station Manager's guide, and over 20 pages of new content. Rob reviewed this game a few weeks ago.

Goblinville by Narrative Dynamics

• SYSTEM: unique
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover core rules
• RETAIL PRICE: $20
• DESCRIPTION: The PCs are broke goblins who travel to dangerous and fantastical places like dungeons to find treasure and make rent. Character creation goes quickly, is collaborative, and generates goblins with lots of personality. The core resolution system shares narrative pacing between players and the GM, keeping the focus on clear stakes and tough choices. It's a PC-driven dungeon crawler that works for both short, punchy sessions as well as long campaigns. In addition, going to town is also a key source of adventure and improving the town is a core part of PC advancement.

Murder House! by Marz Press

• SYSTEM: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $19.99
• DESCRIPTION: Part investigative mystery, part escape room challenge, and all adventure. The PCs are in a wealthy recluse’s will to be read at the mysterious Ives Manor. But the crumbling estate hides dark secrets. As night deepens sinister forces begin to stir. Trapped and hunted, the PC guests must unravel the chilling mystery of the manor to escape before otherworldly monstrosities, mind-bending puzzles, and cunning riddles claim them all. Contains: 26 player handouts and game aids, the revenant class: a haunted soul who has returned to the land of the living to exact their revenge, unique creatures, magical items, treasure, and more.

Tome of Adventure #5: DCC Horror | Tome of Adventure #6: Holiday Adventures | Tome of Adventure #7: Magic, Gods, and Demons by Goodman Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover adventure collections
• RETAIL PRICE: $59.99 each
• DESCRIPTION: Collections of classic DCC RPG adventures. Simply collected together in a hardcover; does not appear anything additional has been added or that the adventures have been directly connected in any way. Hole in the Sky is a particularly good one. Add Frozen In Time for a 0 level funnel for the winter adventures: The Forlorn North Adventure Path. DCC Horror: Level 0: They Served Brandolyn Red, Creep, Skrag, Creep!, and The Gobbler Witch’s Harvest; Level 1: Shadow Under Devil’s Reef and The Corpse The Love Built; Level 2: It Consumes! and Night of the Bog Beast; Level 3 and up: The Web of All Torment and The Sinister Sutures of the Sempstress. Holiday Adventures: Level 1: The Old Gods Return; Level 2: Trials of the Toy Makers, The Doom That Came to Christmas Town, Came the Monsters of Midwinter, and Love in the Age of Gongfarmers; Level 3: Love Mutants of Castle Heartache and Advent of the Avalanche Lords; and Level 4: Twilight of the Solstice. Magic, Gods, and Demons: Level 0: Hole in the Sky; Level 1: Tower of the Black Pearl, Intrigue at the Court of Chaos, The One Who Watches From Below, and Dragora’s Dungeon: Level 3 plus: Bride of the Black Manse, The Making of the Ghost Ring, and Against the Atomic Overlord.

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• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons
• PRODUCT TYPE: dice towers and dice trays
• RETAIL PRICE: $24.99 each
• DESCRIPTION: Dice towers and dice trays with iconic D&D art.

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