RPG Print News – Darrington Press, Chaosium, and More

Break out the d12s, Daggerheart is now available. Supplements are out for D&D, DCC RPG, and the OSR including the remarkable The Stygian Library. Basic Roleplaying, Outgunned, Shadowrun, and Good Strong Hands all get supplements as well.

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

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Daggerheart by Darrington Press
  • SYSTEM: unique fantasy 2d12
  • PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook and set of 279 cards
  • RETAIL PRICE: $59.99
  • DESCRIPTION: A high fantasy RPG from Critical Roll focusing on narrative and combat. Contains: character creation, creating shared worlds, adventure and encounter building advice, campaign building, dynamic adversaries and environments, player best practices, and the art of GMing.ng, and more. The box of illustrated cards securely clasps with a magnet and includes: 18 Ancestry Cards including robots and frogmen, two sets of nine Community Cards providing unique Features, 54 Subclass Cards like the Nightwalker Rogue and the Winged Sentinel Seraph, 18 Subclasses, and 189 Domain Cards with each class combining two Domains which are evocative suites of abilities.
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Age of Vikings by Chaosium
  • SYSTEM: Basic Roleplaying
  • PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook
  • RETAIL PRICE: $59.99
  • DESCRIPTION: PCs play landowners in medieval Iceland, a vibrant land on the edge of the known worlds. The PC, adventure as Vikings who seek honor and glory. Includes: hero creation rules including Passions, family history, and Icelandic nicknames as well as BRP rules including skills, conflict resolution, hero development, and extensive rules for ships and seafaring, including naval combat. Also cover Icelandic magic: rules for combining different Norse runes to cast powerful spells as well as the shamanic practice of seiðu (historically included prophecies, divination, channeling the gods and goddesses, and performing spells that influence weather). There is a full bestiary of enemies both magical and mundane and an introductory adventure.
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The Stygian Library by SoulMuppet Publishing
  • SYSTEM: OSR
  • PRODUCT TYPE: cloth covered hardcover adventure
  • RETAIL PRICE: $41.26
  • DESCRIPTION: A point-crawl adventure set in an infinite extraplanar library, updated in a new edition. The PCs explorations generate a new route each visit, resulting in different vistas being unlocked with every return. Works well for generating a zero prep session or a campaign. Every room includes mystery, charm and baroque gloom, so that the various visits are not only novel but also tightly themed. Created via a partnership between SoulMuppet Publishing and Dying Stylishly Games. Makes a great companion to The Gardens of Ynn.
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Outgunned Adventure by Two Little Mice
  • SYSTEM: Outgunned Director’s Cut rules engine (Quickstart PDF)
  • PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook
  • RETAIL PRICE: $51.35
  • DESCRIPTION: A pulp table top RPG inspired by movies like Indiana Jones and the Mummy. PCs play brave adventurers in search of an invaluable treasure. Contains all the basic rules needed to play pulp adventures. PC options include The Captain, The Daredevil, The Hunter, The Smuggler, The Technician, and more.
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Lore of Aetherra: Dark Symmetry by Hit Point Press
  • SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2014 Edition
  • PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
  • RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
  • DESCRIPTION: The next installment in the Lore of Aetherra saga started in Lore of Aetherra: The Lost Druid although it can be played on its own as well. The PCs explore the underwater city of Chrysalea and its technological mystery. The Mother Tree is dying. Breaking their millennium-long isolation, Queen Lillius sent a lone spy to Fano above to search for Gilgazo, the one person who can restore the ailing tree before it brings about the ruin of the City Beneath the Lake. Includes the city, the adventure, Aethercraft rules for crafting, 12 subclasses, five pre-made player characters, over 50 magic items, 40 plus NPCs and monsters.
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Seeds of Decay by Spattered Ink Games
  • SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
  • PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
  • RETAIL PRICE: $69.99
  • DESCRIPTION: A campaign setting, bestiary, and adventure. Decay from a crack in the world is leading into the forest, twisting its creatures into terrible abominations. PCs can play tiny adventurers who as unlikely heroes must save the forest from denizens of decay. Includes: the forest, the adventure spanning levels one to eight, over 60 monsters, 30 plus spells, over 30 items with illustrations, inventions, contraptions, and foraging.
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Dungeon Crawl Classics #108: The Seventh Thrall of Sezrekan by Goodman Games
  • SYSTEM: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
  • PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
  • RETAIL PRICE: $10.99
  • DESCRIPTION: A 0-level funnel that includes exploring a wizard’s tower, going on a wilderness journey, and braving the evil citadel of the Seventh Thrall of Sezrekan―a figure known only as “the Litch.” When the tower of a powerful wizard is raided by evil warriors, it’s up to the PCs, the wizard’s untrained retainers, to come to their master’s rescue by opposing the Seventh Thrall, a vile minion of the dreaded archmage, Sezrekan.
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Margin Calls by Catalyst Game Labs
  • SYSTEM: Shadowrun: Sixth World
  • PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
  • RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
  • DESCRIPTION: A plot sourcebook that follows on the from events from Lethal Harvest. In the wake of a recent shadow war between metahumans and monsters, the corporate landscape has been forever altered. The powerful fell, other players rose from the ashes like a phoenix, while still others remained in the shadows. The PCs are pulled in again because this game is never over; the corporate landscape always holds opportunities for those with the guts to seize them. But opportunity always comes with risk, because at the end of the day, when the margins are called and it’s time to square up, there’d better be enough assets to cover or it’s game over.
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What is Light Without Dark by Nerdburger Games
  • SYSTEM: Good Strong Hands
  • PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
  • RETAIL PRICE: $24.99
  • DESCRIPTION: In Reverie, the PCs are fantastic creatures and their newly arrived human allies who work to save their home of Reverie from destruction by the faceless, malevolent force known as the Void. This supplement includes things lost and hidden, often for reasons that are grim, dangerous, or sad. Venturing outside the fantastical world of Reverie, PCs have a chance to visit the lost realms, lands sundered from the world. Additional rules include new folk to play, strange magics to wield, and ancient artifacts to unearth. GMs get guidelines and tools to build stories in these hidden realms pulling out the lost for the PCs to explore, for what is light without dark?
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I'd love to know how sales are for that DCC adventure. Ought to provide some data on just how badly Goodman Games is going to be hit over the debacle with City State and associating with Judges' Guild after their 2020 promise not to. Easy to say you're boycotting a company, not so easy to hold yourself to it when tempted by new shinies.

Not the best product for that, though. This is what, the fifth or sixth funnel they've done for the game in ~100 products? How many of those things does anyone need? A regular adventure would have been a better reflection of customer pushback just by virtue of being more broadly appealing.
 




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