The biggest news is not only can you now have G.I. Joe face not just the Transformers but also the Power Rangers either in collaboration or perhaps conflict but also that you have rules to do so fairly and are designed to work together. May be one of the coolest RPG things I have seen and my 80s child rejoices as the Pink Power Ranger punches Cobra Commander right in the face. Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition gets a supplement chock full of new rules, a book of mechanical monsters (also for Pathfinder 1E), and a massive three world campaign setting with many new rules. Basic and Expert D&D/Old-School Essentials now have a book full of nearly 200 NPCs. Another box set is out for Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Dying Earth. And a new RPG of bloody conflict is available: DIE RPG.
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The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #30 by Legendary Games
Mechanical Monsters (D&D 5E) | Mechanical Monsters (Pathfinder 1E) by Legendary Games
Affinity Luxury Complete Set by Dias Ex Machina
Best Supporting Actors by Gaming Ballistic
Field Guide to Action and Adventure Crossover Sourcebook | Power Rangers RPG - Standee Pack 1 by Renegade Game Studios
Dying Earth Stretch Goals Collection by Goodman Games
DIE RPG by Rowan, Rook & Decard
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.
The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #30 by Legendary Games
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $11.99
- DESCRIPTION: New magical items like the life lance wand and moon dust, new spells for every spellcasting class like moonbridge and death pact, new item rules such as the mysterious inubrix alloy and psychically resonant mindglass, and monsters across every challenge level including the glorious auwaz couatl and the implacable kastamut.
Mechanical Monsters (D&D 5E) | Mechanical Monsters (Pathfinder 1E) by Legendary Games
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition/Pathfinder First Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
- RETAIL PRICE: $29.99 each
- DESCRIPTION: Over 140 creatures born from mad scientists using magitech, clockworks, and cybernetics. Includes gear-driven goliaths from low-level mecha-minions like walking eye robots, rust-risen undead, and ferrofluid oozes to titanic annihilator robots, magnetoclusters, heavy metal elementals, and clockwork leviathans. Creatures span the spectrum of technological advancement, from primitive ironrot lichen to sorcerous soulbound shells, gear-punk steamwerks golems and sinister cranial dissectibots, to advanced android assassins and nanite storms. Mechanical creatures are not limited to the mortal realms of the Material Plane: includes technocurious fey like the asteray and epokasite fixer, fiends like the composite alorbidaemon and endbringer devil, and living spirit-machines like the tsukumogami and more than half a dozen inevitables.
Affinity Luxury Complete Set by Dias Ex Machina
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: RPG supplement collection
- RETAIL PRICE: $159.00
- DESCRIPTION: Includes a trilogy of worlds each with unique ideas and rules but sharing similar themes, names, and even a common menace. Select one setting or shift between all three. Based on but not required: Ultramodern5 which offers alternative weapons, opponents, and more classes. Conestoga: Humans and aliens find themselves trapped upon a gargantuan alien ark and forced to explore the catacombs of the strange vessel, scavenging and crafting technology. Factions battle for control over resources, technology, and the secrets of their new home. Includes the geospoiler, hydromancer, tempest, and thermal classes as well as over 40 different mecha with more than 150 upgrades and over 45 new monsters. Paradise: The god-like Aegis rule the other worlds from their perch within Abraxas, manipulating conflicts between kingdoms while forbidding both magic and machines. Heroes explore truly alien landscapes while harnessing the ability to alter reality through an ancient magical language. Has the talisman-based abecedarian class and over 80 new magic items. Torus: a combo of art-deco, steampunk, and post-apocalypse with PCs traveling by railroad in a weird-west fantasy world searching for treasures from a forgotten past. PCs can harness chaos magic with the oxomancer class, cast spells via a new spellcasting system involving real cards, and wield over 100 new firearms.
Best Supporting Actors by Gaming Ballistic
- SYSTEM: Old-School Essentials
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
- RETAIL PRICE: $30
- DESCRIPTION: NPCs to cover roles as adversary, ally, person encountered in a tavern, or as a pre-generated PC to get a game going fast. 172 ready-to-play characters built as individual each with a brief story, describing something of their past, motivations, and important details. Some must resort to duplicity, cunning, seduction, and guile to get by. Others prefer to handle things with blunt heavy objects. Some bring extra tools to otherwise-mundane professions.
Field Guide to Action and Adventure Crossover Sourcebook | Power Rangers RPG - Standee Pack 1 by Renegade Game Studios
- SYSTEM: Essence 20: G.I. JOE RPG, Power Rangers RPG, and Transformers RPG
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $55
- DESCRIPTION: This one is pretty amazing. The Field Guide to Action and Adventure provides advice for all three games individually plus options for combining characters or threats in an epic crossover adventure. Features: nine new influences, four origins, three factions, 10 Perks, and a new role, new rules for chases and puzzles and traps into the campaign, and GM advice. Power Rangers RPG - Standee Pack 1 contents: 191 full color standees depicting Threats, NPCs, or potential PC Power Rangers along with 28 plastic bases.
Dying Earth Stretch Goals Collection by Goodman Games
- SYSTEM: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Dying Earth
- PRODUCT TYPE: boxed set
- RETAIL PRICE: $59.99
- DESCRIPTION: Inside: casebook of new rules, a three-panel judges screen with tables specific to the DCC Dying Earth setting, a pad of DCC Dying Earth character sheets, two spell librams of starting spells for magicians and vat-things, an issue of the Goodman Games Gazette, and a Dying Earth art folio
DIE RPG by Rowan, Rook & Decard
- SYSTEM: unique
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook
- RETAIL PRICE: $59.95
- DESCRIPTION: PCs are trapped in a fantasy world stitched together from their obsessions, dreams, and nightmares. They must either get home safe or work to stay there forever. Based on the comic of the same name by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans. PCs are a group of flawed and desperate real-world people (Personas) who are sucked into a cursed roleplaying game and take on the form of heroes, villains, and power players (Paragons). Some want to go back to the real world while others might want to stay forever. Every PC must agree whether to stay or go, and dead people cannot vote. It can get pretty bloody.
