Cybertron awaits Transforming PCs and 1980s Japan welcomes investigators back for more eldritch monsters. Vast Grimm has four new options from the original creators. Finally, there is a solo RPG in which you play an Apprentice Librarian in a never-ending magical Library.
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Transformers ONE Sourcebook by Renegade Game Studios
The Sutra of Pale Leaves - Carcosa Manifest by Chaosium
Skeleton Crew - Bare Bones Edition | A Grimm Outlook | No Safe Haven | Helltrap Barges by Creature Curation
The Librarian's Apprentice and Song of the Scrpytwyrm Bundle | The Librarian's Apprentice | Song of the Scryptwyrm by Almost Bedtime Theater
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Transformers ONE Sourcebook by Renegade Game Studios
- SYSTEM: Transformers RPG
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $45
- DESCRIPTION: The PC travel to Cybertron as the inciting moves of the Civil War occur. PCs can join the ranks of bots fighting for a better future or take up the banner of the High Guard in their rebellion against Sentinel Prime. PCs can play as Bots, with a unique viewpoint and progression on the quest to get their T-Cog. Includes stats for Orion Pax/Optimus Prime, D-16/Megatron, Elita-1, B-127, Sentinel Prime and his minions, and a mix of bots and Transformers key to the Cybertronian Civil War. Also has new Influences inspired by heroes and villains, new options for using crew capacity, new factions, new influences, and mining gear. Has player guidance for playing allies-to-enemies, traitors, and other complicated party dynamics. There are also locations from across Cybertron such as the Archives and the Iacon 5000 complete with challenges, story hooks, and potential enemies.
- SYSTEM: Call of Cthulhu (Seventh Edition)
- ADDITIONAL SUPPORT: Pulp Cthulhu and The Sutra of Pale Leaves - Twin Suns Rising
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $42.99
- DESCRIPTION: In 1980’s Japan the insidious influence of the Prince of Pale Leaves, also known as the King in Yellow, draws ever closer. Strange portents herald the arrival of Carcosa, the twilight city of wonder and horror. Features: a guide to the book the Sutra of Pale Leaves and its insidious effects, six ready-to-play investigators, a range of NPC confidants, and four adventures. PCs can search for a missing person in Tokyo’s fashion community, investigate a video-game player’s injury sustained during a new computer game craze, plus two more.
Skeleton Crew - Bare Bones Edition | A Grimm Outlook | No Safe Haven | Helltrap Barges by Creature Curation
- SYSTEM: Vast Grimm (Mörk Borg)
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcovers
- RETAIL PRICE: $34.99/$24.99/$24.99/$24.99
- DESCRIPTION: Skeleton Crew - Bare Bones Edition is a text-only rulebook of cinematic and weird sci-fi adventure with the core rules rewritten and re-edited. In the setting, most of humanity has either been infected by parasitic würms, turning them into The Grimm or are already dead. Those who’ve survived band together in Legions, and the PCs take on the role of Legionnaires. Maybe they want to fight back against The Grimm, maybe they just want to scavenge to survive another day, or perhaps they believe the rumors that a Gate of Infinite Stars is being constructed and their Legion may just escape the hellish universe. A Grimm Outlook is a mostly open-ended adventure with some key actions that are inevitable and many supporting tables. Includes a map and adventure in a travel station, a map with NPCs and adventure hooks for a starship, an asteroid cluster with multiple maps, NPCs, and a sandbox adventure. In No Safe Haven, PCs can explore two of the 13 havens of Marauder’s Cryosfear. Space Raiders and other forms of villainy anchor their ships to the planet. Scattered over its barren surfaces are various havens where multiple ships connect by way of boarding bridges. Organized crime, intergalactic wrestling, and a marketplace filled with oddities from around the ‘verse are all waiting for the PCs. Includes five maps, 16 NPCs, new Neuromancy to learn, two creatures, and four classes (Cryosfeared Wrestler, Erdverken Explorer, Gastro Maniac, and Nahtug Engineer). An ever-shifting dungeon crawl in the bowels of ‘verse, the Helltrap Barges were created by the maddened mind of S#!t King Saule. They contain interconnected cameras throughout, giving him and his audience constant access to those in the tunnels. Moving platforms, debris pushed by automated construction vehicles, and other mechanisms in the trash lord’s domain keep the chambers endlessly shifting and changing. Includes three factions, 13 NPCs, new Neuromancy to harness, seven creatures from the sludgy underbelly of the barges, and 61 rooms.
The Librarian's Apprentice and Song of the Scrpytwyrm Bundle | The Librarian's Apprentice | Song of the Scryptwyrm by Almost Bedtime Theater
- SYSTEM: solo using Hints and Hijinx
- PRODUCT TYPE: bundle/cardstock case (pamphlets, bookmarks, and more)/softcover
- RETAIL PRICE: $38.50/$18.45/$19.95
- DESCRIPTION: In The Librarian's Apprentice, you are a solo PC in an Infinite Library that is ever-shifting and sometimes dangerous. It exists in the space between worlds and times. Among the many who call it home are the Librarians, and only those who truly understand it may join their ranks. You seek to do so. On an extended journey into the infinite Great Library, your PC has a task to successfully traverse the Library and retrieve the six documents requested by your Librarian before the day is out. Succeed and you will have completed one more step on your journey to becoming a Librarian yourself. Includes three double-sided trifold brochures of rules and character prompts, character sheet bookmarks, and a library card for the Great Library all contained in a gloss cardstock case. The path of a Librarian’s apprentice is a long one and continues in the Song of the Scryptwyrm. In the infinite and ever-changing Great Library, there lived a fairy tale about an impossible theft. Soon after that, the Scryptwyrm found that a vital song had been stolen from its mind. Continuing your journey to becoming a Librarian., you seek clues from people, places, and things around the infinite Great Library that slowly reveals the culprit. Your PC gathers clues with the aid of Librarian apprentice training, a familiar, and a small oracle deck that reinforces the themes of the Library. Your PC crafts a ritual for reading the deck. The Library has 36 NPCs and 18 locations as well as random generator tables. The game also has secret messages.
