RPG Print News – Mongoose Publishing, The Lost Bay Studio, and More

Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition gets monster ancestries (with a Pathfinder Second Edition version), a large adventure, and map tiles. Two adventures are out for both MCC RPG and DCC RPG. There are new monsters for Shield Maidens. Finally, a new 90s horror RPG quickstart is out (with a full ruleset to follow) with plenty of adventures: The Lost Bay. 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.

BattleZoo Ancestries - Classic Creatures (D&D Fifth Edition) | BattleZoo Ancestries - Classic Creatures (Pathfinder Second Edition) by Roll for Combat

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition/Pathfinder Second Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $59.99 each
• DESCRIPTION: PCs can become 12 fantastic creatures like sentient dungeons, intelligent weapons, mimics, and slimes. PCs who are extradimensional dungeons manifest an avatar who can go adventure, or can enter their inner dungeon to learn secrets and unlock new power. PCs who are an intelligent weapon use one of several methods to get a body to go on adventures. PC mimics dream of something more than sitting around in a dungeon pretending to be a chest until someone gets greedy. They pursue their dreams as an adventurer with falling back on chest mimicry as a fallback career. PC slimes are oozes who develop a nucleus capable of adapting new special abilities including sapience and the ability to form a vaguely humanoid body when necessary.

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The Lost Bay Quickstart | Elevator Game | Diesel Service | Unit DH-17 | Moe's House of Meat by The Lost Bay Studio

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover setting/deck of 52 cards/GM screen and adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $15/$22/$16/$15/$6
• DESCRIPTION: The Lost Bay is like any other place in the 1990s with a skate park, wild horses, arcade games, and of course ghosts. The PCs, young and wild, dwell here. They are touched by the Weird: it’s in their blood and grants them extraordinary Powers. On a random weekday, PCs could defeat a servant of the Faceless God in a laundromat, acquire a new Power by watching a cursed VHS tape, and feed fresh meat to their zombie cat. Full rules to follow. This quickstart contains three Vibes (playable classes), core rules, and a starter adventure with wild alligators and flamingos. Elevator Game is a deep dive into underground music, urban legend, and the tattoo world. PCs receive three issues of the punk zine Elevator Game (included as player handouts with the GM's guide) contain clues linked to an advertised shop that have experienced mysterious disappearances. Also includes a brand new Vibe: The Mosher. Includes the 40-page GM's guide and the three 8-page issues of Elevator Game (an in-world publication). Diesel Service is an adventure in which the PCs witness a strange hit-and-run car accident that leads them to investigate a caravan of trucks that has been terrorizing the streets of the Bay. Those investigations may lead them to Mile Marker 66, where a summoning ritual will be performed next night if the PCs don’t stop it. Unit DH-17 is a small, ordinary prefab suburban house hides subterranean flesh abominations. Maybe the PCs shouldn’t have accepted that babysitting gig. Moe's House of Meat, a solo adventure, is a seedy restaurant, open 24 hours, and is a well-known spot for teens to congregate. Also, it is the last place several missing people have been seen. The PC starts with $5d6 and stuck in the basement of Moe's, next on the menu, unless the PC can escape.

Ziggurat of the Megaton-Maiden | Ziggurat of the Mega-Maiden (Blackest Night Edition) by 2 Old Guys Games

• SYSTEM: Mutant Crawl Classics RPG/Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventures
• RETAIL PRICE: $9.99 eaach
• DESCRIPTION: Ziggurat of the Megaton-Maiden is a first level adventure. The Mutation Nation have taken over a massive Ancients facility that once supplied the power of the atom to the region and are preparing a ritual that will cause a massive detonation of ancient nuclear technology to allow all to bask in the mutating glow of the Megaton Maiden. Maybe the PCs can stop them and avoid being atomized. Ziggurat of the Mega-Maiden is a speed metal dungeon for second level PCs involving a 20-round race to the top of a ziggurat. The PCs are hunting the Cult of the Mega-Maiden. The Cult seeks to bring the Demon Seed of Deth to the Iron Ziggurat of the Mega-Maiden to break open the Demon Seed and bring the Wrathchild into the world. The PCs are opposed to this plan and seek to stop it.

Saga of the Seasons by Ghostfire Gaming

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition Grim Hollow
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover adventure supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
• DESCRIPTION: A campaign-length adventure covering level ranges from third to eleventh level, that lasts an entire year in-game, taking PCs through the four seasons of the Valikan Clans.

Map Tiles - Dungeons by Kobold Press

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: 24 wet- and dry-erasable 7”x7” map tiles
• RETAIL PRICE: $24.99
• DESCRIPTION: Includes: abandoned feast hall, alchemist’s chamber, ancient crypt, arcane crypt, chessboard hall, crumbling corridors, dungeon forge, dungeon stairs up, giant pit, old library, suspicious chest, treasure hoard, and more.

Dataforge by Mongoose Publishing

• SYSTEM: Shield Maidens
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $44.99
• DESCRIPTION: Provides information on the physiology, territory, culture, and fighting styles of some of Midgard’s most diverse creatures. Huldra are Midgard’s vengeance given form. Made in Fenrir's laboratories, these technological beasts reasserted their will to live and escaped. Intimately connected with Niflheimr, the Sóttar once carried the souls of those who died to the lands of the dead but have degraded into beasts of death and decay. Nature’s wrath given form, the Spriggan have used stealth and cunning to hunt humans throughout recorded history. Fossegrimmen are vicious shapeshifters that live in the waters of Midgard, with younger Fossegrimmen sometimes hunting humanity. Living for hunting, the Trolls’ regenerative features make them immensely valuable to Fenrir’s Research and Development programs. Younger trolls are more likely to being captured, and their clan elders launch devastating attacks against Fenrir installations to rescue them.

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[EthanSental]

Those Kobold press map tiles look nice for a quick set piece encounter….and on sale at noble knight ta boot!

Edit - Picked up the last Map Tiles Dungeon from Noble knight a couple minutes ago although I see they still have a couple other kobold press tiles in different genres in stock.

 

[stormwriter]

Oh interesting, new release for Shield Maidens. Does anyone have reviews about the game in general? I’ve been curious about it because the setting/theme seems interesting, but haven’t found much about it online.

 

[Mongoose_Matt]

Oh interesting, new release for Shield Maidens. Does anyone have reviews about the game in general? I’ve been curious about it because the setting/theme seems interesting, but haven’t found much about it online.

Video review of Shield Maidens right here:

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Roll for Combat could become one of the most important 3PPs.