RPG Print News – Free League, Mongoose, and More

Twilight: 2000 gets a box set inspired by the first edition all about urban conflict and a book of starships is available for 2300AD . Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition gets all the accessories: battle maps and monster tokens, themed coins in a themed bag, miniatures, and dice . There is an adventure about faeries and a book of new items for Pathfinder Second Edition. A supplement of new rules volume 2 is out for Mörk Borg and there is a kit out for Broken Compass with a screen and dice and bit more plus another screen and toolkit is out for Hunter the Reckoning.

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 only through kickstarter or as print on demand.

Urban Operations by Free League Publishing

• SYSTEM: Twilight: 2000
• PRODUCT TYPE: box set with two 558x432 mm maps
• RETAIL PRICE: $59.99
• DESCRIPTION: Rules and support for adventures in urban environments. The expansion is loosely based on the classic module The Free City of Krakow from the first edition. Includes new combat and travel rules for urban environments, close quarters fighting, new factions for the PCs to tangle with, new scenario sites to explore, and introduces the new plot concept to create longer story arcs. It also describes the two sample towns Krakow and Karlsborg in text and maps. Contents: softcover rulebook, 16 new Encounter Cards, 14 modular battle maps, four scenario battle maps, 54 battle map tokens, a double-sided full-color city travel map for the example towns of Krakow and Karlsborg, and a double-sided full-color battle map for the Wawel castle in Krakow and Karlsborg Fortress.

Ships of the Frontier by Mongoose Publishing

• SYSTEM: Traveller 2300AD
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
• DESCRIPTION: Contains 81 stations, drones, fighters, freighters, landers and warships from across human space, along with a selection of ships used by the three space-faring alien species at the edge of Human space: the Pteranodon-like Sung; the odd little biotech masters, the Pentapods; and the hulking, vaguely-insectoid Kaefers, unrelentingly hostile and bent on conquest. The 33 colony worlds and countless outposts are scattered across three intricate and complex Arms of stars and anchorages that allow starships to hop from star to star, 7.7 light-years at a time. Starships are required so that all these worlds can engage in trade, diplomacy, exploration, and combat.

Box of Adventure: Coast of Dread by Loke Battlemats

• SYSTEM: fantasy RPGs
• PRODUCT TYPE: magnetically sealed box of 24 battle maps and over 300 cut out tokens
• RETAIL PRICE: $35
• DESCRIPTION: Modular battle maps can be used individually or line them up to create larger encounter areas. The hundreds of cut out tokens depict monsters and adversaries.

Humblewood Coin Set and Pouch | Humblewood: Dungeon Master Screen by Hit Point Press

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition Humblewood Campaign
• PRODUCT TYPE: 20 coins and small fabric pouch/DM screen
• RETAIL PRICE: $19.99/$14.99
• DESCRIPTION: A Coin Set of 20 colored metal coins (10 copper coins, 5 silver coins, 5 gold coins) and Pouch all with Humblewood designs. A Dungeon Master Screen with Humblewood depicted on the front and inside: actions in combat, conditions, movement rules, travel pace, common birdfolk abilities, cover, humblescratch cipher (yanking this as a name for a later NPC engaged in skullduggery), NPC name chart, store details, encounter details, and more.

Tome of Beasts 3 Seven Dice Set by Kobold Press

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition Tome of Beasts 3
• PRODUCT TYPE: seven dice
• RETAIL PRICE: $19.99
• DESCRIPTION: Seven acrylic dice that features engraved icons and the Bone Lord design from Tome of Beasts 3.

Dragonlance - Warrior Set by WizKids

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: six miniatures
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
• DESCRIPTION: Includes six miniatures featuring heroes who participate in large scale military battles: Iriad of the Kagonesti, Tem Temble, the Solamnic Knight Levna Drakehorn, Hrigg Roundrook, Andir Valmakos, and Ayik Ur.

Into the Feyweald | Faerie Herbalism by Legendary Games

• SYSTEM: Pathfinder Second Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $12.99/$11.99
• DESCRIPTION: Into the Feyweald is a 1st-level adventure suitable for all ages, but designed for those new to roleplaying and those on the younger side. The PCs enter a world of adventure in the realms of faerie as guests at the fairy queen Pryozha's celebration feast. The festivities are interrupted by the creepy, crawly spider-riders serving the wicked witches of the woods. The PCs must take up the quest to find the hidden grove where Yaldira the witch works her dark magic, turning the forest sickly and rotten. There, in the dark pits of her lair, they must stop her from awakening her cruel queen from her crystal tomb to save the woodland realm. Faerie Herbalism introduces dozens of new items imbued with the primal power of nature that PCs can cultivate and create. These herbal items incorporate potencies suitable for every item level, from simple vital herbs and belladonna to wolfsbane and nepenthe. Rules are included for finding, growing, buying, and selling magical herbs of every kind, as well as cultivated magic items from the mystic wood known as minameith to forge into weapons of woodland war.

Book of Misery: Volume 2 by Exalted Funeral

• SYSTEM: Mörk Borg
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover zine
• RETAIL PRICE: $18
• DESCRIPTION: Available again. Companion to Book of Misery Volume 1, Volume 2 includes more classes, weapons, monsters, magic items, hirable goons, and adventures.

Broken Compass RPG: Narrator Accessory Kit by Cool Mini or Not

• SYSTEM: Broken Compass
• PRODUCT TYPE: GM screen and extras with dice
• RETAIL PRICE: $34.99
• DESCRIPTION: Includes a GM screen, four fortune passports for players, a double-sided map, and nine dice.

Storyteller’s Screen and Toolkit by Renegade Game Studios

• SYSTEM: Hunter the Reckoning (5th Edition)
• PRODUCT TYPE: GM screen
• RETAIL PRICE: $30
• DESCRIPTION: The four-panel Storyteller’s Screen displays all-new art on the front and key reference tables on the back. The Storyteller’s Toolkit is full of additional rules covering more situations (whether investigation or combat), a list of witnesses for inspiration, and a complete story for one or more evenings of play.