RPG Print News – Melsonian Arts Council, Chaosium, and More

The OSR gets a swamp based hex crawl. A collection of short adventures drops for Call of Cthulhu. Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition gets a new campaign setting. Star Trek is back in a second edition with GM support. Finally, Shadowrun gets a supplement and a reprint of first edition and Xcrawl Classics is back as well including dice, tokens, and a collection of adventures.

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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Fever Swamp Remastered | Fever Swamp Remastered Deluxe Bundle by Melsonian Arts Council

• SYSTEM: Original D&D and OSR clones
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplements (deluxe also with PC and boat counters)
• RETAIL PRICE: $34/$55
• DESCRIPTION: A hex-crawl swamp adventure returns to print. Features: 15 hex map locations, two dungeon locations, the rotten cult-ridden town of Clink, a mobile map feature: the Corpse Pile, six isolated swamp clans with their own customs and peculiarities, nearly 20 new monsters to find and get eaten by, river boat rules including sinking and fighting from on board, sickness and infections, and six horrible swamp witches. New in this remastered edition: a new dungeon location, five new swamp witches, reworked swamp dweller clans, and new boat and travel rules. The Fever Swamp Remastered Deluxe Bundle includes Action Pack 1: River Boats, a set of counters and sheets of different sized boat counters and player tokens to represent the party and their hirelings, their position in combat, and whether they have fallen into the turbid black waters below. Suffer no more ambiguity in swamp combat.

No Time to Scream by Chaosium

• SYSTEM: Call of Cthulhu (Seventh Edition)
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover book of adventures
• RETAIL PRICE: $29.99
• DESCRIPTION: Three short-play scenarios for a single evening of around two hours of mystery and horror. Each scenario includes four pre-generated investigators. Something is wrong with the PCs’ friend Professor Thomas. Unfortunately, they didn't know that when they arrived at his charming woodland cabin only to run into his horrific secret. A doctor's body lies next to an autopsy table and the corpse he was examining has vanished with the only clue a set of bloody footprints. A devilish gory game of hide and seek ensues for the PCs. The PCs, a band of US Treasury agents, raid an illegal whiskey distillery hidden in Alaska's Chugach Mountains. The sun is setting and then the really bad things come out to play.

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Solasta | Star Trek Adventures (Second Edition) | Star Trek Adventures Game Toolkit by Modiphius Entertainment

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition/2D20
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover setting/hardcover core rulebook/screen and more
• RETAIL PRICE: $44.99/$60/$42
• DESCRIPTION: In Solasta, PCs explore ruins and dungeons for legendary treasures, learn the truth of the cataclysm that broke the world, and try to stop it all from happening again in a setting based on Solasta: Crown of the Magister computer game. A thousand years have passed since the Cataclysm. Evil forces seek to harness powerful magic once wielded by the ancient masters of old. If the PCs can’t stop them, the world is doomed. PCs are a crew journeying across the galaxy from the 21st through to the 32nd century in Star Trek Adventures. Features: updated version of the 2d20 System rules, a primer on Star Trek (worlds, species, and the scientific concepts), 14 PC species (examples: Andorian, Cardassian, Klingon, and Vulcan), 15 starship classes and starships (Federation, Klingon, and more), dozens of NPCs and creatures including Dominion and others, and more. Star Trek Adventures Game Toolkit contains a GM screen, an A2-sized map of the Galaxy as of the mid-23rd century, eight double-sided reference sheets, a 40-page booklet containing: 17additional spaceframes, five new starship mission profiles, and five new starship talents.

Shadowrun (First Edition, Anniversary Reproduction) | Final Bets by Catalyst Game Labs

• SYSTEM: Shadowrun/Shadowrun - Sixth World
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rules/hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $50 each
• DESCRIPTION: In Shadowrun, the blending of technology and human flesh began in the late 20th century. Then Magic returned to the world, and Elves, Dwarfs, and Trolls threw off their human guise and assumed their true forms. In the world of 2050, PCs are shadowrunners living in the megaplexes that loom like monsters casting long shadows. When the megacorps want something done in the shadows, it’s a Shadowrun they need, and they come to the PCs. PCs might be a Technomancer, sliding like a whisper through the databases of giant corporations, spiriting away information. Or perhaps a PC might be a Street Samurai, an enforcer for hire whose combat skills and reflexes make them the ultimate urban predator. Or perhaps a Mage, one with the ability to wield and shape the magical energies that now surround the Earth. In Final Bets, the vastness of Paris beckons, full of plots, schemes, money, power, and beauty. PCs Shadowrun in a city full of shifting alliances forming in the most elite parts of the city.

Xcrawl Classics Core Rulebook | Xcrawl Classics Core Rulebook (DJ Skull Edition) | Xcrawl Classics Reference Booklet | Xcrawl Classics Dice Set (14) | Xcrawl Classics Mojo Tokens | Xcrawl Adventure Pack by Goodman Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebooks/softcover booklet/dice/tokens/collection of adventures
• RETAIL PRICE: $59.99/$69.99/$9.99//$39.99/$35/$69.95
• DESCRIPTION: Xcrawl Classics Core Rulebook includes a fantasy world where the most popular sport is Xtreme Dungeon Crawling. The PCs pit themselves against manufactured dungeons live-streamed via spellphones throughout the North American Empire. Each dungeon is designed by a Dungeon Judge (or DJ) who builds arenas filled with horrific monsters, lethal traps, magical hazards, and challenging puzzles. The PCs risk life and limb for endorsement deals and corporate sponsorships, slaying foes for fabulous cash prizes. The Xcrawl Classics Core Rulebook (DJ Skull Edition) also includes limited “DJ Skull” cover artwork by Doug Kovacs in two dramatic foil colors. The Xcrawl Classics Reference Booklet contains almost every table from the Xcrawl Classics Core Rulebook core rulebook. The Xcrawl Classics Dice Set (14) are in gold and black with d4, d6, d8, d10, d%, d12, and d20 plus d3, d5, d7, d14, d16, d24, and d30. The Xcrawl Classics Mojo Tokens helps the PCs track teamwork. XCC Adventure Pack contains XCC adventures zero, one, two, three, four, five, and six with exclusive foil covers.

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[sevenbastard]

Shadowrun (First Edition, Anniversary Reproduction)

As much as seeing that cover brings back a ton of memories, the 1st edition of Shadowrun was a little rough. The 2e was better presented and cleaned up.

Still that cover is fire.

Ranks up with the Moldvay Basic, and 1e PHB as showing the game as it should be played.

( as long as you don't stop to think about why a corporation has a fancy computer terminal in a dirty alley)

 

[Paragon Lost]

I'm hoping that they'll do a 2nd edition Shadowrun reprint. I still feel to this day that 1st/2nd edition Shadowrun was a much better ttrpg experience than the recent couple of editions. (shudder)

 

[Weiley31]

Still that cover is fire.

Ranks up with the Moldvay Basic, and 1e PHB as showing the game as it should be played.

( as long as you don't stop to think about why a corporation has a fancy computer terminal in a dirty alley)

I always thought it was an ATM when I was a little kid.