Old-School Essentials (Basic/Expert D&D) gets a massive campaign setting trilogy of books along with a zine plus a separate adventure all set in a world of meat, worms, witches, goats, wastelands, and post-apocalyptic vehicles. Detailed adventures are also available for Mothership (set in Vaults of Vaarn), The Lost Bay, and ECO MOFOS!!. Finally, a massive wave of gore and support for the SHIVER RPG includes box starter sets, adventures, robust new rules, new monsters, and more.
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Meatlandia Trilogy | Into the Space Worm by Knight Owl Publishing
Rezvar | Late Night Broadcasts | Tower into Elsewhere by The Lost Bay Studio
SHIVER Blockbuster - Starter Box Set | SHIVER Blockbuster: Legends of the Silver Scream | SHIVER Slasher - Starter Box Set | SHIVER Slasher: Generation Murder | SHIVER Gothic: Secrets of Spireholm by Exalted Funeral
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Meatlandia Trilogy | Into the Space Worm by Knight Owl Publishing
- SYSTEM: Old-School Essentials
- PRODUCT TYPE: three hardcovers and zine/softcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $119/$15
- DESCRIPTION: The Meatlandia trilogy plus a zine all together. The Chaos Gods Come to Meatlandia includes: seven classes (like the body-altering Meat Mage, the honorable Rust Knight, and the mysterious Death’s Hand Assassin), 75 meat magic spells, the City of Meatlandia which is torn by Chaos, Chaos Storms d100 table, and 11 monsters Meat Monsters, and Meat Men. Worm Witch: The Life and Death of Belinda Blood is an in-depth look at the once-peaceful Isle of Annalida. Two classes include the Worm Witch and the Worm Wardens, wormy new spells, new ways to interact with the land, more Meat Men, The Meat Lord’s mighty Dreadnought made of flesh and nightmares and tentacles, Zombie worms and Chaos Worms and Slime Worms, goats, a lake made entirely of blood that grants great power or death, perhaps a Worm Golem, and more goats. The Scourge of the Scorn Lords is a post-apocalyptic fantasy wastelands with psionics and madness-inducing monstrosities. It is a mashup of Mad Max, Fist of the North Star, Dark Sun, and the Beastmaster, with a healthy dose of The Land That Time Forgot for good measure. Scoundrels of the Scorn Lands is stuffed with pre-generated NPCs, hirelings, villains, and adversaries, plus wasteland vehicles and vehicle record sheets. Into the Space Worm is an adventure for three to six characters of levels three to four. Includes: A Dungeon that is a Worm (or a Worm that is a Dungeon), different factions vying to be the first to discover what secrets it holds, demons, spider-headed Kaldanes, an Invaluable Treasure from space, four side quests, 20 monsters, seven treasures, 13 new classes, and a gatefold cover with printed maps.
Rezvar | Late Night Broadcasts | Tower into Elsewhere by The Lost Bay Studio
- SYSTEM: Mothership Vaults of Vaarn/The Lost Bay/ECO MOFOS!!
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
- RETAIL PRICE: $15/$18/$13
- DESCRIPTION: People are going missing in the city of Rezvar and no one knows why. The masses are ruled by Plumber-Banker cartels and extorted by splicer street gangs. In this chaos, a cyborg cult rises in popularity and the threat of violence reaches a boiling point. If the PCs don’t change things, there will be blood in the streets. This adventure includes: nine monsters, Plumber-Bankers, gunmetal monks, a nano-tech jinn, 10 new exotica (magic items), and five factions with quest hooks and NPC generators. Late Night Broadcasts is a dark fantasy, suburban gothic exploration dungeon. Sunny Pines community TV studios offers rare transmissions and airs disturbing images like a TV chef preparing unspeakable ingredients and chilling and disgusting children’s shows. People are obsessed with trying to catch a show and a few even go looking for the station some never to return. The PCs want to confront the twisted TV anchors but haven’t found the station yet. But as the adventure begins and the PCs approach a lot through the pines, there is a faint electrical glow and the remnants of a broadcast tower is spotted rising through the trees. Also includes: a new Vibe (PC class), seven TV hosts, a TV shopping list, and a cutout paper doll. Tower into Elsewhere describes a derelict mansion called Viridian House at the heart of the town of Reve’s Glade. People go missing on the full moon, virulent fauna spreads over the town, and a strange wind howls from the ruins. PCs must brave the overgrown halls of Viridian House, uncover its secrets, and descend past the thresholds of reality to the Mountain Underground. Also includes new art-themed Adaptations, two dungeon areas, and a boss encounter with an ancient wish-makeroll.
SHIVER Blockbuster - Starter Box Set | SHIVER Blockbuster: Legends of the Silver Scream | SHIVER Slasher - Starter Box Set | SHIVER Slasher: Generation Murder | SHIVER Gothic: Secrets of Spireholm by Exalted Funeral
- SYSTEM: SHIVER RPG and SHIVER RPG Archetype Dice
- PRODUCT TYPE: box sets/hardcover supplements
- RETAIL PRICE: $51 each
- DESCRIPTION: PCs bring their favorite scary movies, spooky tv shows, and horror stories to life. The SHIVER Blockbuster - Starter Box Set covers blockbuster horror movies and includes: a condensed rulebook for PCs up to level 5, a set of dice, an adventure, and pre-generated PCs. SHIVER Blockbuster: Legends of the Silver Scream pays homage to some of the world's horror movie masterpieces with stunts, action, and big set pieces. It also has new rules for the actors behind the PCs. Manage their careers across multiple films with special actor abilities and backgrounds. Axe murderers, chainsaw wielding lunatics, and nightmarish shuffling villains fill the SHIVER Slasher - Starter Box Set. Inside the box: essential rules up to level five, dice, an adventure, and pre-generated PCs. Rules for a slasher movie franchise are found in SHIVER Slasher: Generation Murder. Covers everything from secret islands to sending murderers into space covering adventures that explore the life of a crazed film director and the slasher creations his obsession created. Also contains rules for generational characters who survive movie to movie to build a movie franchise feel. SHIVER Gothic: Secrets of Spireholm is a grimy gothic campaign of 10 adventures with the PCs exploring the city of Spireholm, coming together to investigate a high profile murder, and battle with evil within its walls. In addition to the sandbox nature of the city, it also includes monsters like werewolves and vampires, items, weapons, armor, and NPCs. There are rules for long form stories which ties multiple Doom Clocks together into a terrifying Doom Calendar, seven monstrous archetypes from Frankenstein’s monster to vampires for use as PCs, the Slayer Archetype to hunt down monsters, backgrounds, from Plague Doctor to Urchin.
