Plenty of exciting new RPG options this week that range from fantasy to sci-fi. The Wrath & Glory RPG gets a new adventure set in a cobbled together community dangling inside Hive Tertium as does Cain Second Edition, this one set in a gang threatened town and haunted mine. Fate of the Norns - Ragnarök gets a condensed rulebook, Dungeons & Dragons powered Brancalonia gets lots of new support including monsters and new setting details, and a brand new sci-fi setting of humans versus aliens is Powered by the Apocalypse. Finally, Mothership has an oversized deck of NPCs.
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Darktide Extraction by Cubicle 7
Orestruck by Space Penguin Ink
Survivors of the Core Wars by Space Penguin Ink
Runic Game System Rules by Pendelhaven
Last Fleet by Exalted Funeral
Spaghetti Fantasy Bestiary | Furious Lands and Other Dirty Jobs | Bounty Kingdom Gazetteer by Acheron
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.
Darktide Extraction by Cubicle 7
- SYSTEM: Warhammer 40,000 - Wrath & Glory RPG
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover
- RETAIL PRICE: $34.99
- DESCRIPTION: Inquisitor Grendyl dispatches the PCs to a lost region of Hive Tertium to retrieve a lost archeotech cogitator. The ventilation systems breathe life into Tertium, but the depths of the hive are packed with traitors: cultists pledged to the plague god Nurgle, and strange lost sects of the Mechanicus. Contains: a five-part adventure campaign, a guide to the people and places a ramshackle community hanging from the elevator down to the hive, a guide to Hive Tertium, a selection of Hive Encounters, and rewards of gear and status.
Orestruck by Space Penguin Ink
- SYSTEM: Cairn Second Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover zine
- RETAIL PRICE: $20
- DESCRIPTION: The PCs find themselves in a town on the brink: corpse thieves plunder the dead for unknown purposes, a vicious gang hunts men through the streets at night, and the nearby mines have become home to an ossified monstrosity that murders and rends. Includes a forest crawl where the humid mist hides both natural and man-made horrors, townsfolk broadly split into six compelling factions, a massive dungeon recently discovered and filled with ancient relics of unknown power, and mundane and supernatural villains like the carnivorous conifer and the centipedinous Orestruck.
Survivors of the Core Wars by Space Penguin Ink
- SYSTEM: Mothership
- PRODUCT TYPE: 50 4" x 6" cards
- RETAIL PRICE: $30
- DESCRIPTION: An oversized deck of cards depicting 50 NPCs/PCs with full color art on the front and character stats on the back. For use as a back-up PC, henchman, rival, enemy, or employer.
Runic Game System Rules by Pendelhaven
- SYSTEM: Fate of the Norns - Ragnarök
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover condensed rulebook
- RETAIL PRICE: $29.99
- DESCRIPTION: This guide is a quick reference that features only the game rules in a slimmed down optimized digest sized book. Denizens, dwellers, talents and lore are not included. Also includes: Dweller and Denizen creation rules, list of conditions and equipment, explanation of Meta Tags, Thane and After life rules, and Divine boards.
Last Fleet by Exalted Funeral
- SYSTEM: Powered by the Apocalypse
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook
- RETAIL PRICE: $52
- DESCRIPTION: PCs struggle to hold the human race – and themselves – together under attack by an extradimensional fungus network called the Corax that dwells in the same medium that FTL ships travel through. The game focuses on action, intrigue and drama. PCs fight space battles, search for enemy infiltrators, tackle supply shortages, and navigate faction politics. Provides support to create a unique setting and includes a premade setting. The Corax harvest the genetic and neural patterns of victims and send the remains out as soldiers. Twelve playbooks each represent a particular personality, approach, or set of issues to explore. In addition, PCs choose a role within the fleet choosing from a military officer, pilot or marine, engineer or scientist, journalist or civilian leader. Each comes with its own special move. The game’s mechanics push forward the central theme of pressure: a PC can win almost any conflict if they’re willing to pay the consequences that ultimately pushes them to Breaking Point, and the PC lashes out at their friends or hurls themselves into certain doom. Pressure is released by indulging in vices or by building relationships that matter with other characters. Neither route is risk-free.
Spaghetti Fantasy Bestiary | Furious Lands and Other Dirty Jobs | Bounty Kingdom Gazetteer by Acheron
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Brancalonia
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplements
- RETAIL PRICE: $45/$39/$39
- DESCRIPTION: The Spaghetti Fantasy Bestiary includes over 100 monsters of land, sea, sky, and underground typical of Italian folklore, legends, myths and literature. Includes four to six pages of lore for each main monster as well as a map and description of the lair, a card of the "minor" monsters that populate it, numerous adventure hooks, rumors, narrative elements divided by style of play (action, mystery, horror, dungeon crawl, sword and sorcery, etc.), hunting tips, and a special item for each monster to be earned defeating it. Also includes a recipe for cooking monster meat and managing its side effects. Furious Lands and Other Dirty Jobs is an anthology of campaigns and adventures for Brancalonia. From dancing spider-witches to the mythological Scylla and Charybdis; from goblins and mule-demons to the beaches and rocks to the Colombre shark which, once it has chosen its prey, chases it for its entire life. Also has dragons, goblins, witches, mummies, demonic beasts and the Great Monster that looms over all of Brancalonia. She is the Pasta Mater Tenebrarum, culinary goddess and mistress of the Dark Kitchen. Five adventures, a campaign in four episodes, and another campaign with seven episodes and four interludes. 25 new places are found in the Bounty Kingdom Gazetteer. PCs can travel from the crooked Tower of Pisa to the fiery crater of Vesuvius, from forests as old as the world on top of snow-capped peaks to countryside full of peasant witchcraft. A sort of tourist guide filled with fairytale and grimdark, folk horror and sword and sorcery, from literary to pop. Each location includes a general map, area-by-area descriptions, adventure hooks, rumors and more. It also includes 10 new foody backgrounds, 20 notable characters and villains, 30 unique items, and three races.
