RPG Print News – Mongoose Publishing, Troll Lord Games, and More

This week war comes to Traveller. There are fantasy villages and Wonderland as a setting along with additional fantasy adventures and rule extras including ships. Power Rangers RPG and Transformers RPG both get supplements. Finally, there is a dice set including a stack of d6s that form a dragonborn in a winter coat who doesn’t look quite right.

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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Opening Moves | War Fleets of the Fifth Frontier War by Mongoose Publishing

• SYSTEM: Traveller The Fifth Frontier War
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.99 each
• DESCRIPTION: In Opening Moves, violence turns a normal day on the starport concourse lethal. An uprising on-planet and a Zhodani battlefleet inbound are the first signs that the Fifth Frontier War has begun. With the system under attack, the PC Travellers must escape before the starport is overrun. The PC Travellers race across District 268, where they experience terror and denial, heroism, and the sheer stupidity involved in the first days of the Fifth Frontier War. War Fleets of the Fifth Frontier War details warships from both the Third Imperium and Zhodani Consulate, from battleships to covert operations vessels and third-line warships of the Imperial Colonial Fleet. Includes deck plans and notes on variants, roles and deployment. Any of these ships can be the focus of adventure. Escorts, scouts, logistics ships and raiders all play their part.

Engineering Villages by Troll Lord Games

• SYSTEM: Castles & Crusades
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $10.99
• DESCRIPTION: Provides all the information needed to quickly establish small, settled communities, specifically hamlets and villages. Inside: types of villages such as serpentine and circular, purpose-driven settlements ranging from proto-agricultural to resource-based hamlets, settlement patterns, village life and economy, architecture of village homes including longhouses and rooftop designs, construction materials like brick or wattle, daily life and challenges of hamlet dwellers, and ready-made tables and charts.

Wonderland | Adventures with Friends - A Collection of RPG One-Shots | The Map Library by Andrews McMeel Publishing

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover setting/hardcover adventure collection/battle map collection
• RETAIL PRICE: $35/$35/$79.95
• DESCRIPTION: In Wonderland, PCs follow the White Rabbit down the hole, but have to be careful where he leads. Drawing on the books and poems of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by author Lewis Carroll, this setting focuses on dungeons and leans into combat. Like Neverland and Oz, it has secrets to explore and social interactions to navigate, but with a change in setting and focus. Adventures with Friends complies four former digital-only one-shot adventures, along with some new material, together in one collection. From whimsical visits to the Fey Fayre to solving a mystery for the Spike Patch Grove gaterfolk these are adventures designed to be completed in a single session. Also includes tear out battle maps and easy papercraft projects. The Map Library includes 100 hand-drawn dry-erasable battle maps. Includes all the maps from Adventures with Friends from the Goblin Hob Restaurant in the Fishy Business one-shot to the Frozen Graveyard in Crossed Bones.

The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #50 | Ultimate Ships by Legendary Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition/Pathfinder Second Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $12.99/$13.99
• DESCRIPTION: The Dragon's Hoard is a monthly anthology of magic items, spells, monsters, and more from Legendary Games' ongoing Legendary Loot Patreon along with new elements. Includes: magical items like the scrapper’s axe and spellfury staff, new spells like intellect fortress and labyrinthine wilds, traps such as crushing chamber and stormbolt stairs, class special features including the Mastermind rogue and the acrobatic Warrior of the Cirque, and monsters like the creepy boreal wight and the glorious dream dragon. Ultimate Ships includes rules for sailing, building, and battling ships which provides for ship-to-ship combat, special piloting actions and ways to handle every possible situation on the high seas, and simplified rules to make naval combat quicker and easier. Includes an armada of ships to buy, as well as over 15 modifications for customizing them, from Magical Reinforcement and Rams to Concealed Weapon Ports and Movable Decks. Has rules for fleet combat, allowing PCs to command a fleet of dozens of vessels. Also includes rules for shifting terrain on-board a ship, special alchemical and magical ammunition for siege weapons, rules to combine ship-to-ship combat with a standard encounter, and more.

Through the Shattered Grid | Technorganic Secrets by Renegade Game Studios

• SYSTEM: Power Rangers RPG/Transformers RPG
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $45 each
• DESCRIPTION: Through the Shattered Grid collects aspects from across the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and other comics in the BOOM! Universe. Includes the first two non-Ranger Roles: The Magna Defender and The Guardian of Eltar. Contains three new Influences and seven new Origins such as the Coinless Resistance and Void-Touched Hero. There are 15 Contacts like Grace Sterling and the AI XI as well as untrustworthy ones like Drakkon, Lord in Exile. Finally, there are 42 Threats including Eltarian super-team Sentry Force Four and Spa’ark, the Death Ranger. With the power of the Technorganic Secrets, PCs will be ready to leap into the Beast Wars or dive into animal forms. Features: origins and influences for Cybertronians who take the forms of beasts including Fuzor combinations and how to unlock the power of Transmetal forms, Threat Stats and Contacts (the Maximals, Dinobots, Predacons, Vehicons, and other teams), 13 new General Perks, five new weapons, new shields, animal companion rules, and guidance for creating Beast Wars-style campaigns.

Dice: Three Kobolds in a Winter Coat (nine dice) by Noble Knight Games

• SYSTEM: RPGs with kobolds especially with roll 3d6 for ability scores or just use with Kobolds Ate My Baby!
• PRODUCT TYPE: nine dice (three d6s together depict a “dragonborn” in a winter coat)
• RETAIL PRICE: $19.99
• DESCRIPTION: A nine piece swirled red resin set engraved with articles of clothing inked in bright white. Included are three d6 that form a totally normal dragonborn in a wig and winter coat. No kobolds around here, not at all.

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Dice Envy (not Noble Knight) also has other "three ____ in a coat" dice sets, including a cute goblin one.