Grimtooth's Traps is back for DCC RPG along with an adventure that features some of the traps, and the RPG also gets a third party adventure. PC criminals pull off heists in a new RPG from the makers of Troika!, and there is an adventure centered around beach crawling (sunscreen and swimming). Speaking of Troika!, there is an adventure of metalheads on a road trip out for it. An adventure is out for Avatar Legends RPG. Finally, Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition gets a monster book, an adventure path, and a GM screen of traveling .
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Grimtooth's Old School Traps | Against the Thieves Guild by Goodman Games
Swyvers by Melsonian Arts Council
A Day at Barracuda Beach by All Rolled Up
Tome of Horrors - Enemies of the Valiant | The End of Everything (Collector's Edition) by Frog God Games
Pilgrims of the Goblin Road by Witch Pleas Publishing
Wasted Youth by Exalted Funeral
Uncle Iroh's Adventure Guide by Magpie Games
GM Screen - Terrain & Random Encounters by Loke
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Grimtooth's Old School Traps | Against the Thieves Guild by Goodman Games
- SYSTEM: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement/softcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $49.99/$10.99
- DESCRIPTION: Contains 150 plus classic traps remastered for DCC RPG. In addition, it includes essays from RPGs creators recounting the impacts of these traps (on both characters and the game industry) over the decades. Against the Thieves Guild, an adventure for second level characters, features numerous traps pulled from Grimtooth's Old School Traps (that book not required for this adventure) plus several new traps. The PCs must retrieve a magical lockbox secured in a vault secluded in a trap-laden dungeon.
Swyvers by Melsonian Arts Council
- SYSTEM: unique
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook
- RETAIL PRICE: $42
- DESCRIPTION: PCs are a gang of criminals that scarper through heists in The Smoke and The Midden, and if they’re lucky make it out with a few extra shillings. The Smoke is the greatest city in the world, filthy and sprawling like a burst pustule spilled across gangrenous flesh. Beneath in The Midden interconnected passages of built-over streets, basements, tombs and hidden lairs are where criminals lurk, beasts squat, and lost wealth resides. Every group of PC Swyvers have their own Smoke. The GM generates the city, starting from a core of districts. They use generation tables to flesh out and expand their rotten city. Also includes hired goons, dogs of all cut and caliber, death and dismemberment, how to have a proper funeral for your mates, 'orrible diseases, bloodsucking aristocrats, gambling debts, dogfighting, jealous lovers, apprentice Swyvers (Putterers), fences, bribes, leverage, blackmail, Knotland Yard, agents of the church, ghouls, hussars, vampires, a magic system using blackjack, a starting adventure, and more.
A Day at Barracuda Beach by All Rolled Up
- SYSTEM: OSR
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover beach hex crawl adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $18.49
- DESCRIPTION: A one-shot hexcrawl. PCs explore the beach and water in search of fun and relaxation, enjoying such activities as building sandcastles, and playing mini-golf to earn Chill Vibes. They start with sunscreen and money but will it be enough? And can they avoid the barracuda that gives the beach its name. Yes, this is an actual hex crawl with beach and water activities to earn Chill Vibes as the PCs strive to just relax. It is awesome.
Tome of Horrors - Enemies of the Valiant | The End of Everything (Collector's Edition) by Frog God Games
- SYSTEM: Black Flag Roleplaying/Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover monster book/collection of two hardcovers, GM screen, and booklet in a slipcase
- RETAIL PRICE: $45/$200
- DESCRIPTION: Tome of Horrors - Enemies of the Valiant has more than 200 creatures including NPCs, Winter Holiday Specials, and creatures from Tehuatl (a South American-themed locale), along with the main volume of creatures. None of these creatures have been published in previous Tome of Horrors collections. The End of Everything (Collector's Edition) includes the regular hardcover, the alternate cover hardcover, the GM screen, and the booklet of printed stretch goals in an exclusive, shrink-wrapped slipcase. A campaign and setting book imbued with the investigative cosmic horror of the Cthulhu mythos that takes PCs from first through 12th level.
Pilgrims of the Goblin Road by Witch Pleas Publishing
- SYSTEM: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $11.99
- DESCRIPTION: A first level adventure Inspired by The Canterbury Tales, a medieval epic that covers stories from pilgrims on a journey. PCs travel with a treasure-laden caravan of pilgrims braving haunted hill forests and fey country, facing an assault by fanatic goblins and threats from within perhaps even from the PCs themselves. Competing agendas among the PCs intersect with the secret missions of raiders and innocent travelers, whose stories are steadily unveiled as the path becomes ever more perilous. The PCs strive to save what lives and loot they can, while battling their way to safety through puzzling traps, cunning foes, and a horde of undead.
Wasted Youth by Exalted Funeral
- SYSTEM: Troika! Get in the Van
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $12
- DESCRIPTION: I really like this type of work. This fine supplement is a niche within a niche within a niche (a supplement for one out of three options for a supplement to Troika!). PCs are a metal band in the 1980s and on the road they find skins, cops, rednecks and of course lots of Combat Rock. This mini-campaign uses the hardcore scene as a setting so glam and thrash bands need not apply. Just sayin’.
Uncle Iroh's Adventure Guide by Magpie Games
- SYSTEM: Avatar Legends RPG
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $39.99
- DESCRIPTION: Includes four character playbooks, five adventures (set in the eras of Kyoshi, Roku, the Hundred Year War, Aang, and Korra) that can be connected into one campaign, 10 NPC Legends such as Lu Ten, and Toph Beifon with each able to teach special techniques, and details on Jasmine Island and its famous tea.
GM Screen - Terrain & Random Encounters by Loke
- SYSTEM: system-agnostic or Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: GM screen
- RETAIL PRICE: $20
- DESCRIPTION: Long and low, this screen features 100 random encounters as well as random tables and journey building tools.
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