RPG Print News – Legendary Games, Exalted Funeral, and More

Dungeons & Dragons has the next issue of a supplement filled with magical items, spells, class options, and monsters. The Year Zero Engine (Alien and Blade Runner system) gets a pulp setting with a bit of a movie feel. Exalted Funeral has support for both Mörk Borg and Troika! Vampire the Masquerade gets blood for the blood gods. And if you don’t want dice or a GM, there is a setting for ghost PCs now available along with extra optional bling.

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The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #19 by Legendary Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $12.99
• DESCRIPTION: Supplement with brand new options. Magnificent magical items like the invincible cuirass, rod of nettles, sea strider boots, and ring of delayed doom. Spells for almost every 5E spellcaster like castigate, sleepwalk, predator’s rhythm, and wandering star motes. Class options like the arcane dabbler, oath of zeal, and arena fighter. Creatures across every challenge level like the sinister attic whisperer, the glorious bralani, and the doomed Llorona.

Temples & Tombs by Gallant Knight Games

• SYSTEM: Year Zero Engine
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover digest core rulebook
• RETAIL PRICE: $24.99
• DESCRIPTION: PCs play through fast-paced adventures popularized in pulp magazines that led to films like Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Mummy (1999), and Romancing the Stone. Includes a Luck mechanic that provides more dice for added chances of success, but with a chance to "run out of luck". Hero mechanic for additional chances to succeed. Condition-based consequences so that heroes never die (but may be on the run). A scene structure that helps guide play to emulate the GM’s favorite action/adventure story.

QVKE Borg: Foul Adventures in a Doomed Dimension | Doorway to Blasphemy | Pork Borg (full color pamphlet) | Lord of Acid | Beyond Man | Pax Reptiliana by Exalted Funeral

• SYSTEM: Mörk Borg/QVKE Borg/Mörk Borg/Mörk Borg Vast Grimm/Troika!/ Troika!
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $18/$12/$5/$5/$10/$20
• DESCRIPTION: QVKE Borg provides rocket launchers for Mörk Borg. Writhing with eldritch hatred, the QVKEMOTHER: SHUB-NECHURATH and her infinite armies stand poised to bring this realm under her sway. She seeks to unseat the Two-Headed Basilisks, disprove their apocalypse, and usher in one of her own from across the void. Besides rocket launchers it also has explosives, buckshot, and lightning in honor of the atmospheric, action-packed shooter videogames of the early 1990s. Contains: a bestiary of 13 monsters, two god-like horrors: CHTHON and SHUB-NECHURATH, a character class: the SLIPGATE RANGER, an armory of eight WEAPONS, and five RANDOM TABLES. In the first adventure for QVKE Borg, Doorway to Blasphemy, the PCs hunt a vile heretic on behalf of the Inquisition of Galgenbeck to find and bring (at the very least) their heart back to the Great Cathedral so it may be put on trial and judged. The heathen has taken refuge in a keep overgrown and pulsing with an aura not of this Dying World and the PCs hunt will end through the Doorway to Blasphemy and with explosions. In Pork Borg, the PCs are pitted against a mysterious villain said to be transforming the townsfolk into pigs. Includes: a quick list of rumors, a five room mini-dungeon, and the Candlestick Man: an evil NPC with nefarious plans. Lord of Acid is a mini hex crawl involving lots of crazed acid worshipping cultists. The adventure includes: seven enemies, four Tributes, and seven hexes to explore and probably die in. Sh@# King Saule has put out a hit on a filth priest who has taken over the king's beloved Acid Farms. A treasure trove of wealth and power to the one that brings in the traitor’s head. Beyond Man features far-flung post-human weirdness like the Ursiform Vaccuumorph and The God-Emperor's Failson. Who needs a golden barge when you've adapted your body for interstellar travel, right? Humankind continues blindly, furiously hurtling through space, in its eternal quest for the Next Big Thing, or at least something that will suck a little less. Includes six new Backgrounds for use with Troika!, the world's second favorite RPG. In Pax Reptiliana the horrors are mundane and the desperation isn't so much quiet as deadened. It's the cyberpunk future we were promised/threatened with, sans the cool. Includes: 82 pages with new content and illustrations with no form of humor is too low (puns and cheap visual gags), d66 PC Backgrounds to indulge paranoid fantasies, 12 unique Sites inhabited by over 30 dead-inside NPCs, 20+ Cryptids (Hologhosts, Chupacabras, Giant Sludge Worms as well as, of course, Reptoid and Gray aliens), 13 mind blowing spells, and a bunch of random Stuff: Meat Guns and Nanotube Plugs and hard-earned Gipperscrip oh my.

Cults of the Blood Gods (5th Edition) by Renegade Game Studios

• SYSTEM: Vampire the Masquerade (5th Edition)
• PRODUCT TYPE: modules
• RETAIL PRICE: $24.99 each
• DESCRIPTION: Blood for the blood gods! In Cults of the Blood Gods, Kindred build and are drawn to faiths for myriad reasons. The exertion of power over a flock. Satisfying their Hunger and their Beasts. Reassurance of the possibility of redemption. These cults dedicated to blood gods are among the most insidious, damning sects of Kindred. Whether for power, salvation, or transcendence, all Kindred cults wallow in blood. Includes the incestuous Clan of Death and the malignant Church of Set — arguably the largest vampire cults of all — both of which believe in a destiny that will enable them to impose their wills on the world of the living and the dead.

Our Haunt | Our Haunt - Glow in the Dark Enamel Pins by Possum Creek Games

• SYSTEM: unique GMless diceless
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover digest core rulebook/glow in the dark enamel pins
• RETAIL PRICE: $34.95/$9.95
• DESCRIPTION: The PCs are ghosts. They are in a house they don’t recognize. They have a handful of memories, and these memories are brief moments and flashes of barely something. The Living are nearby, and they encroach on their space, making their demands. Worse, there is a Thing in the Walls. It is ancient, inhuman. Hungry, yearning. Angry. Glow in the Dark Enamel Pins if you want all the bling.

 

[Nathaniel Lee]

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