RPG Print News – Goodman Games, Metis Creative, and More

So much Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG and Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition this week. Dozens of adventures, roaming exploration across the Purple Planet, and PCs experiencing an awakening robot consciousness. There is also a monster book and GM screens. Finally, adventures and historical Jerusalem and Cairo drop for Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition along with needed character creation rules.

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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Dungeon Denizens (DCC) | Dungeon Denizens (D&D 5E) | Dungeon Denizens Game Master Screen (DCC) | Dungeon Denizens Game Master Screen (D&D 5E) | 2-Page Dungeon Delves (DCC and D&D 5E) by Goodman Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG/Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover monster book/GM screen/softcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $69.99/$79.99/$19.99/$19.99/$15.99
• DESCRIPTION: Dungeon Denizens is a monster of a book containing over 550 fully developed monsters that lurk everywhere: dungeons, forests, swamps, oceans, mountains, cities, and even other dimensions. Each entry includes full-color art, ecology, evocative lore, and tactics. The DCC version includes three new spells, new patron information, new weapons and equipment, 15 new magic items, curses, monster templates, new critical hit tables, and more. The D&D version has 37 aberrations, 56 constructs, 93 monstrosities, 38 fiends, 64 beasts, 40 plant-like creatures, and more. The Dungeon Denizens Game Master Screen is a GM screen with tables and reference charts for DCC and Quick Templates for D&D. 2-Page Dungeon Delves (DCC and D&D 5E) includes over 20 two-page adventures set in a wide variety of environments for variable character levels. Each Delve is exactly two pages long and features one or more monsters from Dungeon Denizens, a map, an illustration, and three to five encounter areas.

Historica Arcanum - The Sigil of Jerusalem | Historica Arcanum - Era of the Crusades by Metis Creative

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $59.99 each
• DESCRIPTION: Historica Arcanum - The Sigil of Jerusalem spans levels one to 10. It is filled with massive dungeons, legendary NPCs, handouts, and a branching storyline. The year is 1182, and the PCs face an eldritch threat, awakening deep below in the catacombs of Jerusalem and the dunes of Cairo. The PCs must carve their path to fight back against the eldritch forces, corrupted knights, accursed beasts, and mythical creatures. Historica Arcanum - Era of the Crusades is a setting guide that explores the sprawling open world of two legendary cities in 1182: Jerusalem and Cairo. Includes quests, character highlights, and cultural articles along with: character creation, subclasses, bestiary, the rules and guides for the deck of the damned and knightly orders, and professions.

Tomes of Adventure Vol. 1-4 Slipcase Special Edition | Tome of Adventure Vol. 1 | Tome of Adventure Vol. 2 | Tome of Adventure Vol. 3 | Tome of Adventure Vol. 4 by Goodman Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
• PRODUCT TYPE: four hardcovers in a slipcase/hardcover collections of adventures
• RETAIL PRICE: $219.99/$49.99 each
• DESCRIPTION: Not every volume in Tomes of Adventure Vol. 1-4 Slipcase Special Edition is new, but collecting them together for the first time in a slipcase is. Has new art by Doug Kovacs and contains Tome of Adventure Vol. 1, Tome of Adventure Vol. 2, Tome of Adventure Vol. 3, and Tome of Adventure Vol. 4. Tome of Adventure Vol. 1: DCC #66.5: Doom of the Savage Kings, DCC #67: Sailors on the Starless Sea, DCC #68: People of the Pit, DCC #69: The Emerald Enchanter, DCC #70: Jewels of the Carnifex, DCC #71: The 13th Skull, and DCC #72: Beyond the Black Gate. Tome of Adventure Vol. 2: Emirikol Was Framed! DCC #73, Blades Against Death DCC #74, The Sea Queen Escapes DCC #75, Colossus Arise! DCC #76, Well of the Worms DCC #76.5, The Croaking Fane DCC #77, Fate’s Fell Hand DCC #78, and Frozen in Time DCC#79. Tome of Adventure Vol. 3 collects seven adventure modules published for the DCC Lankhmar campaign setting. Tome of Adventure Vol. 4 is a level 4 hex exploration-style adventure spanning scores of leagues. On the Purple Planet, the PCs are flung across the universe to be left to die beneath a weirdling sun and its sickening rays. The PCs must cross hundreds of miles of alien wasteland, where they face predatory creatures, deadly mushroom jungles, and thousands of factious savage man-beasts locked in an endless war. The PCs have the opportunity to assume mastery of their own warbands, pit faction against faction, plumb ancient burial mounds, respect the age-old taboos, and experiment with deadly artifacts.

Purple Planet Judge's Screen | Tome of Adventure Vol. 4 - The Purple Planet (Limited Edition) by Goodman Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
• PRODUCT TYPE: GM screen/limited edition hardcover
• RETAIL PRICE: $10
• DESCRIPTION: The Purple Planet Judge's Screen has tables and reference charts for the Purple Planet. Tome of Adventure Vol. 4 - The Purple Planet (Limited Edition) is a limited edition of Tome of Adventure Vol. 4 described above.

Die, Robot! | 101 Hex Encounters on the Purple Planets by Studio 9 Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Purple Planet
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure modules
• RETAIL PRICE: $9.99/$12.99
• DESCRIPTION: To expand its mind, Tetraplex has sent a pulse of 4th-dimensional hyperequations across space, bathing part of the Purple Planet and reaching ready recipients like the robot PCs. The glow burns new code into archaic circuits bringing forth an age of robotic consciousness. The Cs awaken to the dynamic tension between the shackles of their rigid programming made to keep them under the thumb of their fleshy masters and a new code melting away inhibitions to unlock a drive for individual expression and purpose. For the first time in their ancient memory, the PCs will challenge the limits of synthetic life and in Die, Robot! their overlords may well pay the price. 101 Hex Encounters on the Purple Planets contains over 100 encounters developed to add sights, smells, sounds, and other dimensions to the PCs’ wilderness travels specifically crafted to detail the world of the purple planet. Also included are a few mini adventure locations.

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[sevenbastard]

Tome of Adventure Vol. 4 is a level 4 hex exploration-style adventure spanning scores of leagues. On the Purple Planet,

I was super excited about this and backed the Kickstarter. But..........I also didn't read the description just plugged in my CC.

I was expecting the hard cover to have some editing to help combine the adventures and content. But it's really just reprints so the adventure are disjointed and less a hex crawl and more and adventure compilation.

Again my fault for not reading, but I was expecting more editing and integration of the world info into one big section but it's not it spread over multiple sections and very disjointed.

If you don't own any Purple Planet it's a cool read. But in my mind this was going to be so much better.

 

[Distracted DM]

Wow there's a lot of new Goodman Games stuff, huh? Awesome. I'm not too familiar with their modern 5e content- how's their design? say, monsters from their 5e adventures... Anyone familiar?

 

[Distracted DM]

I was super excited about this and backed the Kickstarter. But..........I also didn't read the description just plugged in my CC.

I was expecting the hard cover to have some editing to help combine the adventures and content. But it's really just reprints so the adventure are disjointed and less a hex crawl and more and adventure compilation.

Again my fault for not reading, but I was expecting more editing and integration of the world info into one big section but it's not it spread over multiple sections and very disjointed.

If you don't own any Purple Planet it's a cool read. But in my mind this was going to be so much better.

I noticed in the original Tome of Adventure that some of the text will refer to page numbers from the original publication. So it'll say something like "see ITEM on page 33," but the adventure started on page 64 and the item is actually on page 71. Same lack of editing, or editing misses.

 

[Charles Dunwoody]

Good details on the editing for these Tomes. That is unfortunate that the books haven't been more edited to be a solid finalized version with at least the page numbers updated. Thanks for the FYIs, as I haven't bought these books so wouldn't know these details.

 

[Charles Dunwoody]

Wow there's a lot of new Goodman Games stuff, huh? Awesome. I'm not too familiar with their modern 5e content- how's their design? say, monsters from their 5e adventures... Anyone familiar?

It is good, but as other posters noted buyer beware on some editing challenges. Plenty of third party support as well.

I have some 5E Goodman Games stuff but it is about ten years old. Don't have the new stuff.

 

[Distracted DM]

Good details on the editing for these Tomes. That is unfortunate that the books haven't been more edited to be a solid finalized version with at least the page numbers updated. Thanks for the FYIs, as I haven't bought these books so wouldn't know these details.

The adventures themselves are great- very tight, easily useable for any drop-in. I use DCC adventures for my DnD games often enough for side stuff etc... so the content is absolutely there, but yeah the editing could use touching up here and there.

 

[Charles Dunwoody]

The adventures themselves are great- very tight, easily useable for any drop-in. I use DCC adventures for my DnD games often enough for side stuff etc... so the content is absolutely there, but yeah the editing could use touching up here and there.

Glad to hear it. I've always liked GG adventures. Of course, Goodman Games is not the first RPG company to have editing glitches!

 

[Nightfly]

Wow there's a lot of new Goodman Games stuff, huh? Awesome. I'm not too familiar with their modern 5e content- how's their design? say, monsters from their 5e adventures... Anyone familiar?

The quality of their 5e stuff varies. None of it is bad, but generally it doesn't rise above the level of pretty good either. I haven't yet read a 5e adventure from Goodman that was truly great in the way that Harley Stroh's best stuff is great. I mostly like them because they're short -- they're the length of old modules, which is useful and a refreshing change.

For better or worse, their 5e stuff fits the tone and themes of 5e, so if you're looking for DCC-style wackiness, you won't find a ton. The adventures are less vanilla than WotC's stuff, but not enormously so. I personally wish their 5e modules were more gonzo but I respect them for writing to the edition.

 

[doctorhook]

I’m interested in the DCC Purple Planet stuff. Unfortunately I’m a KS backer in Canada, so I’m still waiting for my own order to be fulfilled a year later even as I’m hearing about these items becoming available in retail anyway. Makes me wonder why I bothered backing the kickstarter…