RPG Print News – Goodman Games and More

Dungeons & Dragons gets a supplement of buildings with maps, locations to add to a campaign world, and an updated adventure similar to the Tomb of Horrors. Pirate Borg gets character sheets and the OSR gets new dark weird adventures involving living caves. Crypts & Creatures also gets several new supplements.

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.

Organic Buildings by Headless Hydra Press

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover adventure in two RPG systems
• RETAIL PRICE: $21.99
• DESCRIPTION: Organic Buildings is a supplement to Organic Towns, providing full-page art handouts for twenty different buildings, complete with space to make notes. Each building also includes a sample full-page map.

Amazing Encounters & Places Volume 1 by CZRPG

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $24.95
• DESCRIPTION: Filled with locations that can be used to quickly fill a world. In addition, each location features independent encounters that can be tied into adventures, providing new creatures, magic items, and player options. The content is scalable, with guidance to run each encounter at any level or tier of play.

Crypt of the Devil Lich (Kovacs Cover Art Edition) (5E) by Goodman Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $50
• DESCRIPTION: The cover was a placeholder and might get updated. A re-release adventure for a group of four to six 15th level characters inspired by the dreaded Tomb of Horrors. The PCs are sent into the Devil Lich’s crypt to destroy her before she can return to power, as foreseen in a prophecy. However, the unknowing PCs have actually been tricked into entering her crypt to free her from her prison. If they are truly heroes, the PCs will uncover the deception and defeat the evil Devil Lich before she can unleash her dark designs on the surface world. A detailed introduction chapter including notes on how to adjust the adventure for higher or lower levels, using it during campaign play, notes on how to run the adventure as a team tournament, and the devilish backstory of the Devil Lich and her dark machinations. All new interior artwork and cartography. Dozens of player handouts. Six fully developed pre-generated Player Characters. The original team tournament scoring system.

Pirate Borg Player Character Sheets by Limithron

• SYSTEM: Pirate Borg
• PRODUCT TYPE: 50 double sided, A5 character & ship sheet pads
• RETAIL PRICE: $14.95
• DESCRIPTION: Pirates live short, terrible lives. So lots of characters sheets will come in handy. These come with room on the back for background and personality info, notes, and a whole section for tracking ship's stats and cargo.

Darkest Rock | Stone Over Sky by Severed Books

• SYSTEM: Mörk Borg/fantasy system neutral
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover adventure/softcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $35/$15
• DESCRIPTION: In Darkest Rock, PCs explore a Vile Geyser, a living cave that they can, if they work hard enough, befriend as a massive walking Caver familiar. But death awaits at every turn. No single chamber stands alone -- each one has items or familiars that activate other parts of the environment. Horrid Corpse Worms feed on equally deadly bile-filled Gelatinous Cubes and the Ryja-Krek, a cult who has burrowed into this cave's guts, will kill anyone who jeopardizes their temple. Includes: new weapons and abilities of all six core classes and four classes with brutal abilities. Stone Over Sky is a weird dark adventure for low to mid-level PCs. Masked as a simple hunting and weapons upgrading mission, this delve into a twisting cave become something far more animated than anyone could imagine. PCs may be able to adopt a Caver of their own if they side with the correct ally.

Players' Codex Book One | Players' Codex Book Two - The Planar Grimoire | Dungeon Adventures (Second Printing) | Danger in the Deep | Ruins of Zikx | Smuggler's Run by Pick Up & Go Games

• SYSTEM: Crypts & Creatures
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $10/$10/$10/$20/$14/$7
• DESCRIPTION: Players' Codex Book One includes many new options. Includes: 15 new races including psionic races, half-ogres, Lizardman, tieflings, aasimars, and more. Seven new classes: Anti-Paladin, Oracle, Thaumaturgist, Gunslinger, Psion, Wilder, and Psychic Warrior. Vehicles, airships, new skill (Concentration), psicrystals (psionic familiars), psionic powers and items, optional rules: heroism and multi-class, 36 unique magic items, two unique psionic items, and over 10 new spells. Players' Codex Book Two provides the magic of the Outer. Features: seven new planar and outsider races, five new monster races, planewalker class options (three for each class), and over 100 spells (Arcane, Divine, and Nature) designed for the Outer Planes. Dungeon Adventures includes storyless dungeons. Includes: GM maps and separate player maps, adventures for three to four character two for levels 2-4, two for levels 4-6, and two for levels 9-11. Danger in the Deep is an adventure designed as a level-0 module. PCs, while enduring training from masters, teachers, and instructors in exchange for services rendered, have had their services out to the Major Wildaxe of Ironhammer to help ferry much needed supplies to the Iron Mountains wargront with the Giants of Vultog. Deliver the supplies and come back in one piece. The Ruins of Zikx is a campaign adventure designed for four to five characters at level seven, whose total combined levels should be between 26-33. Works with the Shaleria Campaign Setting book. After a deadly encounter in the dwarven town of Shagour, the PCs have stumbled upon a dark secret which had been hidden for centuries, away from the prying eyes of the world. The local inhabitants have been raised on the legend of Orwid Swamp: an unknown deadly disease that spread throughout the land long ago, and the rise of the undead from the dark murky waters. Now, the PCs find themselves being called upon to put to rest the twisted foulness of the swamp once and for all. Smugglers Run is an adventure designed for four to five players from levels one to two. The PCs are hired to investigate a lost caravan. What seems a simple task that any farmhand could do turns into something much more intriguing.

 

[Weiley31]

The cover was a placeholder and might get updated.

So as a "backer" of the kickstarter, I can shed a bit of light on that. Apparently, the image that is on the cover in your initial post was originally gonna be like the default cover. Unfortunately, it was revealed that the image for the first cover design was plagiarized by the guy that they had doing the cover art, and they had to sadly go with a newer option that looked so-so.

The original image was known as the "Necro-Maria" and was done by a person named Billeisl IIRC.

The default image ended up as thus:

The Doug Kovac image is this:

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The adventure is also not really a re-release, IMO. (I'm also a backer.) This is a 3E adventure that is available as a 5E and DCC adventure for the first time (in two separate versions), and is expanded throughout, including with new art and in a backer-exclusive book featuring an extra level. (I sold mine to Noble Knight, so you may be able to snag it there.)

If you thought that the Tomb of Horrors was A) too easy and B) didn't have enough difficult fights, this is the book for you. As opposed to spending one long and difficult session in the Tomb of Horrors, the Crypt of the Devil Lich will likely take multiple sessions to defeat, assuming player characters survive.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Anyone play Crypts and Creatures?

The books are cheap!

 

[Charles Dunwoody]

Anyone play Crypts and Creatures?

The books are cheap!

I have not. But they caught my attention also.

 

[antiwesley]

I picked up Crypts and Creatures at GameHole last year. It has a very OSR-friendly feel to it, even though it's not OSR.
The designer, whose name escapes me, is a really nice guy, and his sales pitch was what inspired me to pick up the entire set.
It's a very very easy to understand system, and I feel like it's a very good introduction system to people that may not want to play WOTC's finest, as you can pick up everything for this game at the cost of only one WOTC hardcover.

 

[EthanSental]

Plus the crypts and creatures font reminds me of the old font D&D used for various titles way back in the day.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I picked up Crypts and Creatures at GameHole last year. It has a very OSR-friendly feel to it, even though it's not OSR.

Isn't it OSR, but not a retroclone? (The two are overlapping, but not identical.)

 

[Eyes of Nine]

The image of the back of the core rule book says "Simple system based from [sic] the d20 SRD." So maybe it's OSR, but hearkening back to 3rd Ed/d20? (let's not litigate what, exactly, is OSR...)