A new island for Hot Springs Island and a new RPG about the novel Fifth Season. Age of Vikings, Night Hunters, Nightfell, and Dungeons & Dragons 5.5 all get supplements. Finally, there is a double-sided poster map for Dolmenwood, miniatures for Shadowrun, and new dice for Halloween.
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 as print on demand.
Shipwrecked in the Swordfish Islands by Swordfish Islands
SYSTEM: The Dark of Hot Springs Island
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $60
DESCRIPTION: A system neutral sandbox and toolkit built around a 10.5 square mile island with 12 points of interest, seven mapped locations, and an interwoven network of NPCs quick to pull new marks into their schemes and games of chance. The oaken keel of a mighty ship is torn open by the drowned peaks of ancient mountains scattering the PCs across the waves. The shipwreck is only the beginning with threads pulling the PCs towards other islands in the archipelago, past a sixty foot albino crocodile, and down secret paths to an extradimensional palace beyond the stars. In addition, a vicious trading company seeks to squeeze every last drop of value from the shores and beyond if it can find them.
Fifth Season - Roleplaying in the Stillness by Green Ronin Publishing
SYSTEM: Adventure Game Engine
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook
RETAIL PRICE: $64.99
DESCRIPTION: N.K. Jemisin’s multiple Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth trilogy is now a tabletop RPG. The PCs live in a vast, furious land that is home to thousands of settlements where people gather for safety. Each member prepares for the next Fifth Season, those cataclysmic events when Father Earth himself rages against humankind. Players build a settlement together, create PCs, and try to use the wisdom of the ancient Stone Lore to face challenges such as bandits and dangerous volcanoes as they fight to survive. PCs pick a use-caste such as the mighty Strongback or a social outcast Orogene (possessed of earth powers they struggle to contain), select a specialization such as Safeguard (deadly protectors) or Diplomat (silver-tongued speakers), and choose a motivating drive such as the prepared Survivor or the ambitious Achiever. The PCs fight to nurture their settlement so that it grants better equipment and higher chances of survival. PCs have access to stunts and talents and in addition to advice the GM is provided with various challenging foes and chase rules. Also has rules for relationships and bonds and contains two adventures.
Age of Vikings - Companion by Chaosium
SYSTEM: Age of Vikings
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $47.99
DESCRIPTION: Contains four adventures and a short campaign designed to be played over multiple sessions. Offers creation guidelines for PCs from other cultures including Byzantine Greeks, English, Finns, Irish, Scandinavians, Scots, and Slavs. Also has rules for nonhuman characters such as dwarfs, elves, giants, sealskins, and even ravens. It includes a detailed sample region, the Eastern Stronghold Fjord. Finally, covers creating Icelandic communities complete with important characters and their relationships all with a single roll of the dice.
Night Terrors by Kobold Press
SYSTEM: Tales of the Valiant Night Hunters
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $39.99
DESCRIPTION: PCs become a light against the darkness in gothic adventures and dark fantasy inspired by the Dread Villains of Night Hunters. 12 adventures for levels 1–16, with a unique villain at the center of each. Example adventures: PCs attempt to exorcise a dark presence ensnaring a mad monarch or attempt to survive eldritch horrors and corrupted angels of the Deep Void.
Nightfell Bestiary by Grim Moon Studio
SYSTEM: Pathfinder Second Edition Nightfell
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $39.99
DESCRIPTION: Contains more than a hundred creatures born from corruption, forgotten myths, and the lingering presence of the Echoes of Death. From cursed beasts to spectral abominations, every monster reflects the bleak and haunting tone of the world of Iùrmen and can be used by GMs to create dark and unforgettable encounters.
The Mages' War - Magic vs. Machines by Critical Crafting
SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5.5
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $59.99
DESCRIPTION: PCs can join the ongoing war raging between the technocratic Order of the Blank and the insurrectionist Arcanuum mages. They can choose between science and magic, high tech and fantasy. Includes: an adventure of technocratic invasion, 10 encounters for levels one to 20, 27 foes, clockwork and neurograft templates, 49 Items and an artifact, 18 sigils, eight spells and 9 epic casting spells, 23 warps, three races, three subclasses including the Arcanuum wizard, 13 grafts, 20 feats, 11 deficiencies, the iron colossus and terravator mechs, two backgrounds, traps, environments, and histories.
Double-Sided Player's/Referee's Poster Map of Dolmenwood by Necrotic Gnome
SYSTEM: Dolmenwood
PRODUCT TYPE: double-sided poster map
RETAIL PRICE: $15
DESCRIPTION: A glossy 12" x 18" poster of the Dolmenwood player's map on one side and a referee's hex map on the other side. Or for $30 each, you can get the high quality cloth Cloth Player's Map (Dolmenwood) and the Cloth Referee's Map (Dolmenwood).
Sprawl Runners Miniatures by Catalyst Game Labs
Savage Threats Miniatures
SYSTEM: Shadowrun - Sixth World Sixth Edition and/or Shadowrun – Takedown boardgame
PRODUCT TYPE: five unpainted pre-assembled miniatures packs
RETAIL PRICE: $34.99 each
DESCRIPTION: Sprawl Runners Miniatures features Flywheel (Troll Mage), Boris (Human Street Sam), Bom Bom (Elf Decker), Koko (Ork Technomancer), and Legs (Dwarf Face/Rigger). Savage Threats Miniatures includes an Oni Assassin, Cerberus Hound, Illusionist, The Unseen (Dwarf Ghoul), and a Stalker Chimera.
All Hallow's Eve dice by Old School Dice & Accessories
SYSTEM: RPGs that use dice
PRODUCT TYPE: set of seven acrylic dice
RETAIL PRICE: $11.99
DESCRIPTION: One of each: d4, d6, d8, d10, d10 (00-90), d12, and d20. Size ranges from 16mm to 20mm with blue sides and yellow numbers.
Charlie does not use AI in any of his writing. Adventures of the questing soldier Hart and his biomechanical partner Hollow: Amazon Kindle short stories. Participant in the Noble Knight Affiliate Program and the OneBookShelf Affiliate Program, which provide a means earning money by advertising and linking to Noble Knight Games and DriveThruRPG respectively. Charlie on Facebook. Posts and articles posted here by others do not reflect the views of Charlie Dunwoody. If you like the articles at EN World please consider supporting the Patreon.
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 as print on demand.
Shipwrecked in the Swordfish Islands by Swordfish Islands
SYSTEM: The Dark of Hot Springs Island
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $60
DESCRIPTION: A system neutral sandbox and toolkit built around a 10.5 square mile island with 12 points of interest, seven mapped locations, and an interwoven network of NPCs quick to pull new marks into their schemes and games of chance. The oaken keel of a mighty ship is torn open by the drowned peaks of ancient mountains scattering the PCs across the waves. The shipwreck is only the beginning with threads pulling the PCs towards other islands in the archipelago, past a sixty foot albino crocodile, and down secret paths to an extradimensional palace beyond the stars. In addition, a vicious trading company seeks to squeeze every last drop of value from the shores and beyond if it can find them.
Fifth Season - Roleplaying in the Stillness by Green Ronin Publishing
SYSTEM: Adventure Game Engine
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook
RETAIL PRICE: $64.99
DESCRIPTION: N.K. Jemisin’s multiple Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth trilogy is now a tabletop RPG. The PCs live in a vast, furious land that is home to thousands of settlements where people gather for safety. Each member prepares for the next Fifth Season, those cataclysmic events when Father Earth himself rages against humankind. Players build a settlement together, create PCs, and try to use the wisdom of the ancient Stone Lore to face challenges such as bandits and dangerous volcanoes as they fight to survive. PCs pick a use-caste such as the mighty Strongback or a social outcast Orogene (possessed of earth powers they struggle to contain), select a specialization such as Safeguard (deadly protectors) or Diplomat (silver-tongued speakers), and choose a motivating drive such as the prepared Survivor or the ambitious Achiever. The PCs fight to nurture their settlement so that it grants better equipment and higher chances of survival. PCs have access to stunts and talents and in addition to advice the GM is provided with various challenging foes and chase rules. Also has rules for relationships and bonds and contains two adventures.
Age of Vikings - Companion by Chaosium
SYSTEM: Age of Vikings
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $47.99
DESCRIPTION: Contains four adventures and a short campaign designed to be played over multiple sessions. Offers creation guidelines for PCs from other cultures including Byzantine Greeks, English, Finns, Irish, Scandinavians, Scots, and Slavs. Also has rules for nonhuman characters such as dwarfs, elves, giants, sealskins, and even ravens. It includes a detailed sample region, the Eastern Stronghold Fjord. Finally, covers creating Icelandic communities complete with important characters and their relationships all with a single roll of the dice.
Night Terrors by Kobold Press
SYSTEM: Tales of the Valiant Night Hunters
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $39.99
DESCRIPTION: PCs become a light against the darkness in gothic adventures and dark fantasy inspired by the Dread Villains of Night Hunters. 12 adventures for levels 1–16, with a unique villain at the center of each. Example adventures: PCs attempt to exorcise a dark presence ensnaring a mad monarch or attempt to survive eldritch horrors and corrupted angels of the Deep Void.
Nightfell Bestiary by Grim Moon Studio
SYSTEM: Pathfinder Second Edition Nightfell
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $39.99
DESCRIPTION: Contains more than a hundred creatures born from corruption, forgotten myths, and the lingering presence of the Echoes of Death. From cursed beasts to spectral abominations, every monster reflects the bleak and haunting tone of the world of Iùrmen and can be used by GMs to create dark and unforgettable encounters.
The Mages' War - Magic vs. Machines by Critical Crafting
SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5.5
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $59.99
DESCRIPTION: PCs can join the ongoing war raging between the technocratic Order of the Blank and the insurrectionist Arcanuum mages. They can choose between science and magic, high tech and fantasy. Includes: an adventure of technocratic invasion, 10 encounters for levels one to 20, 27 foes, clockwork and neurograft templates, 49 Items and an artifact, 18 sigils, eight spells and 9 epic casting spells, 23 warps, three races, three subclasses including the Arcanuum wizard, 13 grafts, 20 feats, 11 deficiencies, the iron colossus and terravator mechs, two backgrounds, traps, environments, and histories.
Double-Sided Player's/Referee's Poster Map of Dolmenwood by Necrotic Gnome
SYSTEM: Dolmenwood
PRODUCT TYPE: double-sided poster map
RETAIL PRICE: $15
DESCRIPTION: A glossy 12" x 18" poster of the Dolmenwood player's map on one side and a referee's hex map on the other side. Or for $30 each, you can get the high quality cloth Cloth Player's Map (Dolmenwood) and the Cloth Referee's Map (Dolmenwood).
Sprawl Runners Miniatures by Catalyst Game Labs
Savage Threats Miniatures
SYSTEM: Shadowrun - Sixth World Sixth Edition and/or Shadowrun – Takedown boardgame
PRODUCT TYPE: five unpainted pre-assembled miniatures packs
RETAIL PRICE: $34.99 each
DESCRIPTION: Sprawl Runners Miniatures features Flywheel (Troll Mage), Boris (Human Street Sam), Bom Bom (Elf Decker), Koko (Ork Technomancer), and Legs (Dwarf Face/Rigger). Savage Threats Miniatures includes an Oni Assassin, Cerberus Hound, Illusionist, The Unseen (Dwarf Ghoul), and a Stalker Chimera.
All Hallow's Eve dice by Old School Dice & Accessories
SYSTEM: RPGs that use dice
PRODUCT TYPE: set of seven acrylic dice
RETAIL PRICE: $11.99
DESCRIPTION: One of each: d4, d6, d8, d10, d10 (00-90), d12, and d20. Size ranges from 16mm to 20mm with blue sides and yellow numbers.
Charlie does not use AI in any of his writing. Adventures of the questing soldier Hart and his biomechanical partner Hollow: Amazon Kindle short stories. Participant in the Noble Knight Affiliate Program and the OneBookShelf Affiliate Program, which provide a means earning money by advertising and linking to Noble Knight Games and DriveThruRPG respectively. Charlie on Facebook. Posts and articles posted here by others do not reflect the views of Charlie Dunwoody. If you like the articles at EN World please consider supporting the Patreon.
