Another great week of amazing RPGs for all tastes. Pendragon is back for all your knightly needs. A nautical adventure for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition and DCC RPG splashes down along with a horror themed adventure for Mutant Crawl Classics. The first edition of Mothership has landed in amazing boxed set options. For anime bounty hunter enthusiasts, track down the Cowboy Bebop RPG complete with screen, chips, and dice options. Finally, Orc Borg explodes into action like spores spewing orcs, complete with arcane and divine magic: runic TECHNOWIZARDRY and good old-fashioned YELL PRAYERS.
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Pendragon | Pendragon - Leatherette | The Grey Knight by Chaosium
Chaos Before the Mast (D&D 5E) | Chaos Before the Mast (DCC RPG) |
Mothership Core Set | Mothership Deluxe Set by Tuesday Knight Games
Horror at the MERCC by High Dive Games
Cowboy Bebop RPG: Core Rulebook | Cowboy Bebop Roleplaying Game - Deluxe Core Rulebook | Cowboy Bebop Roleplaying Game - Big Shot Screen | Cowboy Bebop Roleplaying Game - Woolong Poker Chips | Ed Smile Dice Set | Ein Dice Set | Spike Spiegel Dice Set | Swordfish II Dice Set by Mana Project Studio
Orc Borg by Rowan, Rook & Decard
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Pendragon | Pendragon - Leatherette | The Grey Knight by Chaosium
- SYSTEM: d20 roll under
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook/leatherette core rulebook/hardcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $49.99/$90/$24.99
- OTHER RPG NEWS: Pendragon Starter Set: A Review
- DESCRIPTION: Pendragon is set during the glory and grandeur of King Arthur's Britain. PCs pursue Glory, overcome life-and-death struggles, cross blades with ruthless enemies, and fight for love and justice in a world of brutal medieval realism. Includes: the world of King Arthur and the role of Knights and nobility, six pre-generated character, Traits and Passions, Skills, combat injury and recover, Favors, Honor, Glory, Afflictions, Obsessions, Directed Traits, Ideals, ransoms and equipment lists, rules for The Winter Phase downtime period, and a Coat of Arms generator. The Grey Knight jeopardizes Arthur's right to rule is jeopardized by accusing the King of murdering children. Sir Gawaine steps forth to defend the King's honor, but Merlin foresees this champion will die at the hands of the Grey Knight. So of course the PC knights are sent to find the treasure that holds the key to defeating this vile foe and save the life of Sir Gawain and the kingdom itself. Includes two prequel scenarios that bridges The Sword Campaign from the Pendragon Starter Set to this adventure.
Chaos Before the Mast (D&D 5E) | Chaos Before the Mast (DCC RPG) |
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition/Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG by Gaming Honors
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $9.99 each
- DESCRIPTION: A nautical adventure for four to six second-level characters. PCs have the chance to sing sea shanties, swab the decks, and battle the creatures of the deep. Somewhere in the middle of the ocean lies a wizard’s prized possession, and he’s offered the PCs a handsome reward for retrieving it while sailing onboard the Intrepid Eel. The PCs will work and play alongside the crew, brave fierce squalls, battle the cursed ship Albatross, and face the monster of the sea, the Dread Grampus. Ok, that actually sounds pretty cool.
Mothership Core Set | Mothership Deluxe Set by Tuesday Knight Games
- SYSTEM: unique 2d6 system
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebooks
- RETAIL PRICE: $42/$40/$40
- DESCRIPTION: A deadly sci-fi horror RPG of PCs working for a living in the deadliness of space while even deadlier monsters try to kill them. What’s in the box? Mothership Core Set: Four rulebooks: Player’s Survival Guide (1E), Warden’s Operation Manual, Unconfirmed Contact Reports, and Shipbreaker’s Toolkit; Another Bug Hunt introductory adventure, D100 dice set and panic die, 12+ punchboard pawns, double-sided poster map in monochrome, and a monochrome tri-fold mini warden’s screen. Mothership Deluxe Set has all of the above except the Tri-Fold Full-Size Warden’s Screen is full color and the box also includes the following adventures: Dead Planet, A Pound of Flesh, and Gradient Descent.
Horror at the MERCC by High Dive Games
- SYSTEM: Mutant Crawl Classics
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $11.99
- DESCRIPTION: A second level, horror themed adventure. The Holy Medicinal Order needs the PCs’ help. They have recently found some mutated rodents in possession of healing artifacts of the ancients. These artifacts must have come from a local anomaly, something like a hill but not natural at all. The PCs investigate the anomaly and strange magic powers of the ancients.
Cowboy Bebop RPG: Core Rulebook | Cowboy Bebop Roleplaying Game - Deluxe Core Rulebook | Cowboy Bebop Roleplaying Game - Big Shot Screen | Cowboy Bebop Roleplaying Game - Woolong Poker Chips | Ed Smile Dice Set | Ein Dice Set | Spike Spiegel Dice Set | Swordfish II Dice Set by Mana Project Studio
- SYSTEM: unique
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebooks/screen/poker chips/sets of nine dice
- RETAIL PRICE: $54.99/$109.99/$27.99/$17.99 each for chips and dice
- DESCRIPTION: PCs experience memorable adventures as a handful of bounty hunters, roaming the entire solar system. The universe mixes jazz with westerns and film noir with buddy cop movies. The PCs will change, face their troubled past, and either invent a future for themselves or get stuck into their memories. The Big Shot Screen also includes a Cowboy Bebop solar system map and character sheets from the anime series including Faye, Spike, and Ein the corgi. Also has some pre-generated Session Sheets to get started right away.
Orc Borg by Rowan, Rook & Decard
- SYSTEM: Mörk Borg
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $23
- DESCRIPTION: The PCs are ORCs who SMASH, BURN and KILL their way to a front row seat at the Apocalypse. They fight and pray and scheme and tinker and howl for a place in heaven on the DERELICT, a great big fused-together junk rocket smashing through space. The PC ORCS spore and scrap, host raucous parties, stage daring raids, and build murderous idols to their mad gods to gain their favor. DOOM comes when the Derelict will crash into heaven and disgorge every dead-hard big-toothed greenskin in a glorious tide of violence. Includes rules for piloting, fighting and stealing legendary Big Robots such as BANG TEN THOUSAND and MASSIVE PROBLEM, two types of space magic: runic TECHNOWIZARDRY and good old-fashioned YELL PRAYERS, a D12 weapon table that's stretched out to four pages so the weapons are drawn really big, a custom Apocalyptic Prophecy table, playing a cyborg or ORCBORG, eight musical genres including PIANOHAMMER and TRASH CANNON, and a bestiary including bloodthirsty demons and grotty aliens and cultish humans.
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