RPG Print News – Columbia Games, Raging Swan, WizKids, and More

Finding treasures like the giant mimic mini for Dungeons & Dragons is one of the great reasons to be a gamer. There is also a modest Lovecraft adventure for D&D as well as a massive 1400 page setting with augmented rules. There is plenty of support for OSR games, locations for HarnWorld, and extras like cards and miniature docks for fantasy RPGs. There is also one sci-fi adventure and an RPG based on a Netflix show.

Note: RPG Print News covers new RPG releases and some classics, reprints, and sales available from retailers. It does not cover products that are only available directly to customers through kickstarter or as print on demand.

Giant Mimic by WizKids

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons
• PRODUCT TYPE: 28 mm unpainted miniature living toilet
• RETAIL PRICE: $4.49
• DESCRIPTION: Oh crap, this outhouse really bites.

What Happened to Evy Ashwood by Midnight Tower

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $26.95
• DESCRIPTION: A Lovecraftian mystery adventure designed for a group of three to five 6th-level characters. A former student from the Academy of Alchemy, Evy Ashwood has been missing for over a week and her uncle is worried. The PCs need to travel to her tower home and find out what happened to her. She might have been doing strange experiments, but really what could go wrong? Includes: a new monster the Harak’ye, the magic item The Book of the Unknown (a legendary artefact), aa collection of small and incredibly smart cats, and more than 30 original high-quality color illustrations and artworks along with detailed high-resolution maps.

Fateforge Tetraology Box Set by Studio Agate

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons
• PRODUCT TYPE: massive boxed set with four hardcovers and more
• RETAIL PRICE: $199.99
• OTHER RPG COVERAGE: Change the World as a Fate-Chosen in the Fateforge Core Rulebook
• DESCRIPTION: The big one! Look at this thing: the 1400 page Fateforge Tetralogy (Adventurers, Grimoire, Creatures, Encyclopedia), Game Leader’s screen, three adventures (Fort Ardracco, The Chronolith, The Butterfly Dirge), two maps (Eana and Free city), and a Player’s Guide. Fateforge is an epic, sword and sorcery roleplaying game using augmented rules for D&D. PCs discover the universe of Eana and its many unique civilizations, find the lost portals of the Travelers, and ascend the stairs of the Fateforge. Plus there is a cool sounding adventure called The Butterfly Dirge which really should be performed by Iron Butterfly. And I thought 3.5 was a big ruleset at 960 pages.

Razor Coast - Bundle Pack (Swords & Wizardry) by Frog God Games

• SYSTEM: Swords & Wizardry
• PRODUCT TYPE: bundle of three books
• RETAIL PRICE: $155
• DESCRIPTION: Includes: Razor Coast: Pirates. Long banished horrors. With tentacles. Gore. Coasts with forgotten riches and forbidden secrets. Freebooter’s Guide: Dark heroic swashbuckling and terror in the Age of Sail with new races, new core classes, new spells, new equipment, new magic items, unique animal companions and more. With additional material specific to the Razor Coast mega-campaign including new organizations, religions, details on Port Shaw – the adventurers’ home base – and a history of the Razor Sea. Heart of the Razor: Includes four adventures: Jungle Fever, Angry Waters, Sinful Whispers, and The Black Spot.

Wondrous Expeditions - Forests Card Deck | Wondrous Expeditions - Forests Bookmark by Lore Smyth

• SYSTEM: systemless
• PRODUCT TYPE: 50 double-sided cards/bookmark with tassel!
• RETAIL PRICE: $19.95/$7.95
• DESCRIPTION: The Wonderous Expedition – Forests Card Deck include 50 locations and 250 story prompts, such as sights, sounds, monsters, quest hooks, and magical effects. I included the $8 bookmark as a gag. If you actually buy it please post here and let me know. Bonus points if you buy it as an affiliate sale. Thanks in advance.

Harn Parnan Castle | Harn Laket Keep by Columbia Games

• SYSTEM: HarnWorld
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $14.99 each
• DESCRIPTION: Each location describes the settlement's history, government, religion, economics, and military forces. Each also includes color GM and player maps of the settlement and other locations and brief descriptions of many local craftsmen and other locations. Parnan Castle The town is an important trade hub and traditional heart of the Ilviran faith in the region. Powerful clans back rival candidates for the post of magistrate and seek to influence the decision of the Senate. Laket Keep of the Kingdom of Melderyn is a frontier fort and center of administration for a borderland region. This area is a vast area of wilderness only under the most tenuous control.

Spelunker's Docks by WizKids

• SYSTEM: systemless
• PRODUCT TYPE: 12 piece miniature terrain
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
• DESCRIPTION: Ramshackle docks and piers that have been cobbled together from scrap wood with a handful of craft moored here: a pair of simple barrel rafts and a surprisingly well-crafted rowboat. Contains: short boardwalk, long boardwalk, three short piers, rowboat, two six-person barrel rafts, three wooden fishing traps, and a metal fishing trap.

The Secret Name by Raging Swan Press

• SYSTEM: OSR
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover
• RETAIL PRICE: $10.95
• DESCRIPTION: What if the secret name of a god were to become known? To know a being’s true name is to hold power over it. The arcane fetters binding a summoned creature to a conjurer’s command are tied to its name. Celestials, fiends and even gods must yield to the sovereignty of their one, true name and they guard the word that could shackle them to another’s will. But the secret is out.

The Many Lost Loves of Blackstone Tower | Daedalus Rising by Fey Light Studios

• SYSTEM: OSR/Lancer RPG
• PRODUCT TYPE: zines
• RETAIL PRICE: $10 each
• DESCRIPTION: Blackstone Tower is set on a remote island where it stands as a strange and wondrous wizard’s tower. Forged from the strands of the weave of magic and the forces of elemental nature itself, the tower has seen its share of tragedy. The PCs get a chance to explore this watery former abode of mages. There’s also a dragon turtle. Daedalus Rising is a 16-page zine setting that includes an overview of the Daedalus system, planets, and major powers; mission hooks; 10 NPCs; and multiple factions, forces, and plots to discover. Daedalus has been rediscovered by major powers. Union and Harrison Armory work to bring the system under their control, while HORUS struggles to free the human mind from the shackles of the physical.

The Dragon Prince - Tales of Xadia RPG by Wonderstorm

• SYSTEM: Cortex
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.95
• DESCRIPTION: PCs take part in adventures set in the Netflix show's world. Includes new official canon, lore, creatures, and wonders to discover and details on the countries and people that inhabit the world of The Dragon Prince. Also has premade PCs to easily start playing right away.

 

[Charles Dunwoody]

I feel like I'm being honest if I say it was never about plastic "minis" for me.
I did like the old lead miniatures, but it was never that important.

It isn't about plastic minis. As I wrote, it is an outhouse mimic. That thing looks amazing. And it is ridiculous. Both things at the same time. That is an outstanding achievement whether the work is plastic or metal. Absurd and deadly.

 

[Greggy C]

That is an outstanding achievement whether the work is plastic or metal.

I'm not getting it, its a complex mini to create from a technical perspective?

 

[CharlesWallace]

I'm not getting it, its a complex mini to create from a technical perspective?

I can't speak for him, but in my opinion it's a fantastic achievement because it's silly and nostalgic at the same time. 30 years ago, this thing would not.... could not have been produced. That it exists now is awesome.

It's the sort of thing a long time D&D player would immediately understand, but would be a little WTF to an outsider. So when I see it and chuckle, I feel like I'm part of a club. Also, it's childish humor, which I still love... So it just "hits" in all the right ways for me.

 

[Mezuka]

The mimic is awesome too! I imagine painting it and putting on a display shelf in the bathroom!

 

[Greggy C]

It's the sort of thing a long time D&D player would immediately understand, but would be a little WTF to an outsider.

true I played in the 80s then stopped playing to do adult stuff lol.

 

[cavetroll]

It's the sort of thing a long time D&D player would immediately understand, but would be a little WTF to an outsider.

My group always played theatre of the mind, but I like your gate keeping style.

 

[Morrus]

My group always played theatre of the mind, but I like your gate keeping style.

That was thoroughly unnecessary. Knock it off, please.

 

[cavetroll]

That was thoroughly unnecessary. Knock it off, please.

? I mean he is literally sticking his nose in the air saying only "long term dnd players would understand". Well I'm a long term dnd player and I don't understand the fascination for plastic minis. No offense intended.

 

[Morrus]

? I mean he is literally sticking his nose in the air saying only "long term dnd players would understand". Well I'm a long term dnd player and I don't understand the fascination for plastic minis. No offense intended.

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[J.Quondam]

The mimic is awesome too! I imagine painting it and putting on a display shelf in the bathroom!

My eyes see, "It's a mimic impersonating an outhouse!"
My brain says, "It's a bidet with a tongue!"
The rest of me thinks, "I hope I didn't say that out loud!"