Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition gets a new post-apocalyptic world with Broken Weave and various fantasy D20 RPGs get new adventures, rules, and monsters. The Dream Shrine looks particularly interesting: an escape room style adventure that takes place on the back of a 300' tall woolly mammoth. There is also a post-apocalyptic adventure (not D&D) and support for Shadowrun - Sixth World, My Little Pony RPG, and Werewolf.
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Broken Weave | Deck of Broken Things | Broken Weave GM Screen by Cubicle 7
Yearbook #11 | The Mutant Menace of Lab 47 by Goodman Games
The Dream Shrine by Brad Kerr and Skullfungus
Mediterranean Monsters (Pathfinder Second) by Legendary Games
Smooth Operations by Catalyst Game Labs
Knights of Canterlot by Renegade Game Studios
Scent of Decay | Red Tundra (Free RPG Day 2024) by Renegade Game Studios
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Broken Weave | Deck of Broken Things | Broken Weave GM Screen by Cubicle 7
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover setting/deck of 52 cards/GM screen and adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $59.99/$21.99/$29.99
- DESCRIPTION: PCs in Broken Weave strive to rebuild a shattered world in the aftermath of apocalypse. Magic is broken, the gods are dead, and a tragic fantasy world has all but forgotten what it once was. The PCs fight for their lives and their communities or watch the last threads of hope break apart forever. Includes: rules for five character classes in place of D&D classes, harvesting monsters, traveling, the corrupting force of Decay, the flickering light of Hope, a bespoke trail language to decipher, founding and growing a community over generations, nightmarish creatures, and mechanics for converting D&D monsters into the world. The Deck of Broken Things converts D&D monsters to the Broken World. GMS can apply bizarre Decayed Transformations to turn any creatures into a nightmarish abomination: add strange new abilities, inflict twisted mutations, and apply tragic curses. The GM draws a card and applies the effect. The GM Screen includes the new Hope and Decay rules that are unique to Broken Weave and comes with a 28-page introductory adventure featuring Broken Weave themes and features. PCs face a desperate fight for survival as they race to stop a titanic monster from destroying their home and killing the people they love.
Yearbook #11 | The Mutant Menace of Lab 47 by Goodman Games
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition and DCC RPG/Mutant Crawl Classics RPG
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement/softcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $29.99/$10.99
- DESCRIPTION: Yearbook #11 contains new monsters, traps, adventures, game design advice, essays, articles about Goodman Games’ Road Crew, convention appearances, interviews and more, plus plenty of great full-color pictures documenting everything Goodman Games got up to in 2023. The Mutant Menace of Lab 47 is a third level adventure that mixes post-apocalyptic adventure with UFO conspiracy theory.. A surprise attack leads the PCs to discover a secret Ancient facility predating the Great Disaster. The PCs must match wits and weapons with a sinister cult that looks to the night sky for answers. The PCs are opposed by mutants of terrestrial and extraterrestrial origin as they try to thwart the cult that would unleash both upon the world of Terra A.D.
The Dream Shrine by Brad Kerr and Skullfungus
- SYSTEM: OSR
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $16
- DESCRIPTION: A compact dream-world escape-room style adventure. The PCs wake up in a bed on a bamboo platform on the back of a 300' tall woolly mammoth. Pink sky and orange desert surround them. Elephant-shaped balloons drift lazily out of an opening in the mammoth's back. The PCs enter the Dream Shrine and if they master its challenges might just escape with their lives. Contains the bonus adventure: Forest for the Trees.
Mediterranean Monsters (Pathfinder Second) by Legendary Games
- SYSTEM: Pathfinder 2nd Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $32.99
- DESCRIPTION: Creatures with illustrations from across the Mediterranean Sea, from adamastor to zorra berradeira. Monsters range from minor menaces like the greedy gatto mammone and clever ozaena to dangerous fiends like the furious alecto and sly h’awouahoua. There are dread dragons like the cuélebre and tarantasio, and titans of destruction like the towering talos and storm-wracked adamastor. In addition, there is a variety of new versions of basilisks, centaurs, cyclops, pegasus, gorgons, harpies, hydras, medusas, and titans. Developed with a creative team of over a dozen authors and artists from the folklore of Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, Malta, and Sardinia.
Smooth Operations by Catalyst Game Labs
- SYSTEM: Shadowrun - Sixth World
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
- DESCRIPTION: Smooth Operations focuses on the face option for players who want to emphasize the social element of the game. With details and mechanics of how to make a face character function as part of the team, it includes augmentations, adept powers, character qualities, and more.
Knights of Canterlot by Renegade Game Studios
- SYSTEM: My Little Pony RPG
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $35
- DESCRIPTION: Transforms a My Little Pony RPG into an epic fantasy campaign. PCs experience tales of adventure, friendship, and magic, whether it’s a game of Ogres and Oubliettes, dealing with the Pillars of Equestria, or as part of a questing or scholarly society dedicated to the ideals of Equestria. PCs may be a swift archer, charming bard, mighty fighter, wise magician, cunning rogue, or powerful witch who delve into dungeons. Adds new spells, magical Perks, and mysterious Threats.
Scent of Decay | Red Tundra (Free RPG Day 2024) by Renegade Game Studios
- SYSTEM: Werewolf: The Apocalypse Fifth Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement/softcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $35/$0.01 with another purchase
- DESCRIPTION: Between the rent-a-cops, the wasp fomori and the malicious spirits, life in the company town of Milton gets harder every day for the PCs. The PCs are a single pack of Garou trying to scrape off the rot to turn Milton into territory they actually want to hold despite the Scent of Decay. Features: three adventures, guidance for character creation and session zero, and plug-and-play scenes showing Garou relationships with humans and their world. In Red Tundra, the PCs return to their home town to find the very rich have been shooting wolves from helicopters out in the Canadian wilds. The PCs, as werewolves and sword protectors of the earth, must protect their wolf cousins from the cruel sport. Not new this month (a June release) but only a cent if you buy it with the other adventure.
