The Blade Runner RPG is here for deep roleplaying and facing difficult choices. D&D gets an adventure. Vast Grimm using the Mörk Borg system is dark and grim in an 80s metal kind of way and the core rulebook is supported with a screen and a book of adventures. There are also lots of dice options, including four Vast Grimm themed sets with spellbook boxes and lore cards. Sundial Games has a space dice set and an unusual calendar/solo adventure played daily throughout the year.
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Blade Runner RPG by Free League Publishing
Isle of the Dreaded Accursed by JVC Parry
Vast Grimm Core Book | Adventures in the Volatile Verse 1 | Vast Grim Bad --- GM Screen by Infinite Black
Dice Set - The Grimm Cyan and Black with Magenta (10) | Dice Set - The Grimm Cyan and Black with Silver (10) | Dice Set – THEY Magenta and Black with Cyan (10) | Dice Set – THEY Magenta and Black with Silver (10) by Infinite Black
Galaxy Dice (7) | 2023 Quest Calendar by Sundial Games
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Blade Runner RPG by Free League Publishing
- SYSTEM: Year Zero Engine
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook with sewn binding
- RETAIL PRICE: $47.95
- OTHER NEWS COVERAGE: YZ Worldbuilding: Blade Runner (geeknative.com)
- DESCRIPTION: In an alternative future Los Angles filled with corruption and poverty PCs are Blade Runners, plain clothed police offices with unique specialties, personalities, and memories. PCs explore ethical and moral difficulties through their Blade Runner and learn what it means to be truly human. They just might have to choose between their life or their humanity. Not a beer and pretzels RPG but it isn't meant to be. PCs increase in ability withs a push and pull dual mechanism: Promotion Points and Humanity Points. Promotion Points net LAPD training, specialized gear, and possible pay raises. They make life better and the job easier. Humanity Points raise skills. But they require doing the right thing which is usually the hard thing and could lead to the loss of Promotion Points if exposed. It is hard to get both at the same time.
Isle of the Dreaded Accursed by JVC Parry
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $24.95
- DESCRIPTION: An adventure for tier two characters. When the high priest of the sea goddess Elvirath becomes obsessed with necromancy, the goddess’s once beautiful temple is desecrated with hideous undead that used to be her most devout worshippers. She unleashes her wrath. Ships founder on the sharp rock, sailors die of foul plagues, and powerful creatures from the deep are surfacing again to prey on the surface world. The PCs need to placate the goddess by offering a sacrifice.
Vast Grimm Core Book | Adventures in the Volatile Verse 1 | Vast Grim Bad --- GM Screen by Infinite Black
- SYSTEM: Mörk Borg
- PRODUCT TYPE: digest-size hardcover core rulebook/softcover zine/GM screen
- RETAIL PRICE: $34.99/$11.99/$19.99
- DESCRIPTION: In Vast Grimm, it has been 663 years since a plague of parasitic würms was released and those who the würms infected have become known as The Grimm. PCs are drawn into an adventuring Legion from eight character classes like the MAnchiNe, Emo|Bot, and The Harvester. It also has charts for Irritating Idiosyncrasies, Misspent Youth, and Battle Scars. Rolling dice to determine everything about a PC makes sure it feels like they will not live long. Includes Fatuma’s prophecies of how the universe will demise with rules on how these Torments will occur in gameplay, 20 pieces of technomagic that when used improperly can implode causing Cataclysmic Condemnations, pharmaceuticals for those who can’t physically escape to find other means to get away, six würms to get infected by which wreak havoc on body and mind each with a Parasitic Pain and Parasitic Pleasure chart to roll randomly on each day, random ships, monstrous abominations, GM charts, treasure, and more horrible stuff like a starting adventure. Adventures in the Volatile Verse 1 is a collection of adventures along with new Tributes and a d12 Steal from the Dead chart. The Bad --- GM Screen has a collection of charts including two not found in the core rulebook: Wandering Grimm and a Fumble Chart.
Dice Set - The Grimm Cyan and Black with Magenta (10) | Dice Set - The Grimm Cyan and Black with Silver (10) | Dice Set – THEY Magenta and Black with Cyan (10) | Dice Set – THEY Magenta and Black with Silver (10) by Infinite Black
- SYSTEM: anything that uses dice
- PRODUCT TYPE: ten dice in a matching spellbook box printed on holographic paper with a magnetic clasp
- RETAIL PRICE: $29.99 each
- DESCRIPTION: Each set includes a 4-sided die, three 6-sided dice, an 8-sided die, a 10-sided die, a 10-sided percentile die, a 12-sided die, and two 20-sided dice. Each Grimm dice set also comes with a lore card with a new prophecy from the Book of the Grimm. Each THEY dice set includes a lore card drawn from the Book of THEY.
Galaxy Dice (7) | 2023 Quest Calendar by Sundial Games
- SYSTEM: anything that uses dice/unique solo
- PRODUCT TYPE: seven full size polyhedral dice/calendar and solo adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $5.99/$25
- DESCRIPTION: Galaxy Dice are blue, turquoise, purple glitter dice: d4, d6, d8, d10, d%, d12, d20. Perfect for a Vast Grimm or Starfinder RPG campaign. The Quest Calendar features a story driven adventure that will be told day by day, with plenty of quests, loot items, characters, and combat. It is a single-player role playing game that takes place on a page-a-day style calendar. Play it for a couple of minutes each day over the year and see how well your decisions shape your character. A clever new way to play a solo RPG.
