Amazing RPGs drop this week, including adventures and adventure support for Call of Cthulhu and Advanced Fighting Fantasy. A brand new RPG, Through the Hedgerow, is out full of time traveling Fay fighting hags and undead. Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition gets pawns and magic items. Finally, a couple of otherworldly and wild RPG supplements are out. You just have to read about those below. Truly weird.
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The Order of the Stone | Keeper Decks (Second Edition) by Chaosium
Through the Hedgerow: A Roleplaying Game of Rustic Fantasy by Osprey Games
Adventure Creation System | The Forest of Doom by Arion Games
Tales of the Valiant - Monster Vault Pawns | Tome of Beasts 1 - Pawns (2023 Edition) by Kobold Press
Magic Item Compendium I |Magic Item Compendium II | Ultimate Guide to Foraging, Harvesting & Natural Discovery by Nord Games
Intermediary Mund (Cover 1) | Intermediary Mund (Cover 2) by Exalted Funeral
Ultracosmic by Mottokrosh Machinations
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The Order of the Stone | Keeper Decks (Second Edition) by Chaosium
- SYSTEM: Call of Cthulhu RPG and optionally Pulp Cthulhu
- PRODUCT TYPE: adventure hardcover/four decks of 48 cards each
- RETAIL PRICE: $42.99/$29.99
- DESCRIPTION: The Order of the Stone is a complete campaign in three parts for 1920s era PCs. The PCs face an ancient horror unearthed by an archaeological team in Ireland and imprisoned in three stone vessels. The foul entity sets its followers on a journey to free it from its prison, crossing the Atlantic to New England and the backwoods of rural Massachusetts. Includes handouts, six pre-generated PC investigators, and detailed deck plans of the ship the SS Champagne. Every card of the Keeper Decks (Second Edition) contains new art and many cards have updated names, characteristics, and descriptions. 48 cards depict a range of friends and foes with game characteristics and backstory elements for use as NPCs or when needed, PCs. Effects of phobias, manias, or episodes of madness are covered in 48 cards and can be dealt when a PC acquires a new affliction. Also includes summary cards for each of the Bouts of Madness. Game statistics and supporting historical information for melee weapons, items, and Cthulhu Mythos artifacts are covered in another 48 cards. Finally 48 cards describe all manner of strange, ill-fated, and disastrous situations that can affect, hinder, and trouble PCs. Can be introduced at random, given in secret at the table, and/or used to spark adventure ideas.
Through the Hedgerow: A Roleplaying Game of Rustic Fantasy by Osprey Games
- SYSTEM: Checks & Balances unique system
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook and setting
- RETAIL PRICE: $35
- DESCRIPTION: PCs embrace hope and heroism as gifted mortals and Fay creatures who fight across time in an eternal battle for the soul of the countryside. PCs are Knights of the Briar Company and Champions of the Light, whether by choice or by compulsion. The PCs are charged with protecting the soul and magic of the land against the agents of the Dark, who seek only destruction and chaos. This eternal battle is fought across time, from the war-torn Dark Ages and 17th Century to the upheaval of the Industrial Revolution and during World War Two. Fay options include sorcerous birds, animated scarecrows, intelligent spiders, and other beings. Other PCs can be a mortal marked by destiny and plucked from their time. The Checks & Challenges makes wits, imagination, charm, and mysticism as important to overcoming problems as combat. PCs seek out powerful magical treasures, safeguard legendary locations, and outwit and outfight wicked Fay lords, fanatical witch hunters, scheming hags, and the brooding Raven Margrave’s undead hordes.
Adventure Creation System | The Forest of Doom by Arion Games
- SYSTEM: Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
- RETAIL PRICE: $70.95/$39.95
- DESCRIPTION: The Adventure Creation System contains a huge number of tools, tables and details to create settings, adventures, quests and stories for both GMs and players. Detailed chapters and rules include: settlements, dungeons, wilderness, social systems and politics, rumors, villains, quests, rewards, treasures, and more. Only crazy PCs would risk an encounter with the unknown perils that lurk in the murky depths of Darkwood Forest or as GMs call it: The Forest of Doom. So of course the PCs go on a quest in the forest in a desperate race against time to find the missing pieces of the legendary Hammer of Stonebridge to protect the villagers of Stonebridge against their ancient doom.
Tales of the Valiant - Monster Vault Pawns | Tome of Beasts 1 - Pawns (2023 Edition) by Kobold Press
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: boxes of pawns no bases (Pawns Base Assortment)
- RETAIL PRICE: $34.99 each
- DESCRIPTION: Over 400 monster pawns, from tiny critters to colossal behemoths, are found in Tales of the Valiant - Monster Vault Pawns. Fully 300 pawns featuring fearsome new monsters from the Tome of Beasts 1 (2023 Edition) from tiny to huge are found in the Tome of Beasts 1 - Pawns (2023 Edition).
Magic Item Compendium I |Magic Item Compendium II | Ultimate Guide to Foraging, Harvesting & Natural Discovery by Nord Games
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: decks of 250 cards/hardcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $50 each
- DESCRIPTION: Each deck of magic items range in power and rarity and include the following types: weapons and armor, potions and powders, rings and wondrous items, staves and wands, and black market loot. The Ultimate Guide to Foraging, Harvesting & Natural Discovery expands on The Ultimate Guide to Alchemy, Crafting & Enchanting item creation system with a comprehensive guide to ingredients that can be foraged in the wilds or harvested from creatures. Includes hundreds of plants, minerals, fungi, and more, divided across 12 environment types. New downtime activities are also included. Finally, it contains 200 magic items and the recipes required to craft them.
Intermediary Mund (Cover 1) | Intermediary Mund (Cover 2) by Exalted Funeral
- SYSTEM: Old-School Essentials or Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover zines
- RETAIL PRICE: $20 each
- DESCRIPTION: A campaign setting, a bestiary, an art book, and a religious tome. Very trippy and artsy. Basically half art book, half illustrated campaign journal, and half GM resource. Yes, I saw the math also. Includes dual stat blocks for monsters, NPCs, and magic items also.
Ultracosmic by Mottokrosh Machinations
- SYSTEM: Hypertellurians - Fantastical Thrills Through the Ultracosm
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover zine
- RETAIL PRICE: $26
- DESCRIPTION: In Hypertellurians, PCs are Hypertellurians (one of six archetypes) who adventure the length and breadth of the Ultracosm, in retro science fantasy style. Ultracosmic is a zine full of support for that RPG including: rules, items, fiction, four adventures, and two adventure locations each with factions, characters, plots, and hooks.
