RPG Print News – Monte Cook Games, Kobold Press, Green Ronin Publishing, and More

This week add settlements to your D&D game, take young players on wilderness adventures, explore the world of Midgard, and fight the undead during the end of the world. Also a new adventure from Monte Cook Games, a solo RPG about being a vampire, time traveling, more end of the worlds games, and an Asian themed horror adventure.

Warlock Grimoire II by Kobold Press

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $24.99
• DESCRIPTION: Includes information on a variety of topics about Midgard including content from issues 11-19 of Warlock. Includes details on new halflings, dwarves firearms and ships, ready to go NPCs, clockwork druids, artifacts, gothic horrors, boss monsters, planar locations, 10 subclasses, 7 backgrounds, 9 feats, 29 complete NPCs, 2 diseases, 24 spells & invocations, 96 magic items & equipment, 42 monsters, the mysteriously desolated Southlands city of Iram, and the secrets of Grandmother herself, Baba Yaga.

Spectacular Settlements by Nord Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $50
• DESCRIPTION: Includes settlement builder chapters, NPCs, and a wide variety of other tables. In addition, there are 64 fully-realized pre-generated settlements, each with their unique artwork and a full color map, ready to be slotted into any game world.

Harpers Tale by Saturday Morning Scenarios

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure book
• RETAIL PRICE: $39.95
• DESCRIPTION: Ten forest based adventures for younger players. Takes PCs from 1st to 10th level and culminates in a confrontation with the source of a plague within their homeland.

Lost-Citadel-The GM Screen by Green Ronin Publishing

• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover GM screen
• RETAIL PRICE: $14.95

Lost Citadel by Green Ronin Publishing

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover setting sourcebook
• RETAIL PRICE: $54.95
• DESCRIPTION: Seven decades ago, civilizations ended and the dead woke. Whether the doors to the Underworld blew open or the god of the dead went mad, the dead have come to shambling life. In a city called Redoubt, the living hide. The setting covers history, races, religions, and cultures of the world of Zileska and how they fell. Also includes new classes, feats, items, and rules as well as a host of new undead. Includes a full-color double-sided poster map of Redoubt and its surrounds and original fiction by award-winning dark fantasist Elizabeth Hand.

Time Traveler's Codex by Green Ronin

• SYSTEM: Mutants & Masterminds Third Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $39.95
• DESCRIPTION: PCs can travel through time with new advantages, powers, and equipment and six hero archetypes like the quantum alien or the temporal tourist. GMs get a brief history of time travel on Earth-Prime, optional rules, suggested power levels, and temporal dangers. Also includes six time-shaking village archetypes like the immortal conqueror and the future perfectionist as well as dozens of minions.

It's Raining Cats and Dinosaurs by Monte Cook Games

• SYSTEM: No Thank You Evil!
• PRODUCT TYPE: adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $24.99
• DESCRIPTION: Includes four adventures and several character and monster standups. Adventures include Into the Closet, and features NPCs like Woodlynn the Bee Queen and Mister OddSwallow, as well as a kind giant and a lost cloud.

The Halls of Arden Vul Vol V by Expeditious Retreat Press

• SYSTEM: OSRIC
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover adventure book 5th of 5 volumes
• RETAIL PRICE: $55
• DESCRIPTION: This fifth volume of five volumes contains thirty-three maps for this megadungeon in print. When combined with the other volumes, the entire five volumes include 2,162 encounter descriptions, 10 levels, 149 new monsters, and 332 magic items that together create a super dungeon for PCs to explore.

The Obsidian Gate by Wyrd

• SYSTEM: Penny Dreadful: Through the Breach
• PRODUCT TYPE: adventure book
• RETAIL PRICE: $25
• DESCRIPTION: A four-act adventure that brings the Fated back to Earth to stop an oni-worshiping cult and the immortal spirits they have summoned from another plane of existence. Along the coast of Japan in a sleepy seaside town an ancient evil stirs. A doomsday cult plots and plans for the most opportune time to release the ancient evil that hides behind the Obsidian Gate.

Lost Roads by Buried Key

• SYSTEM: unique
• PRODUCT TYPE: digest softcover core rulebook
• RETAIL PRICE: $15
• DESCRIPTION: PCs are migrants journeying through a harsh, unforgiving fantasy world. Humans ruined their world and now wander a damaged world. PCs wield the magic of nature and bear the scars of survival. Uses a D6 die pool resolution system with varying degrees of success and failure and has eight magical Domains for up to 40 unique combinations. Play includes adventures along the road and rest while taking refuge.

Thousand Year Old Vampire

• SYSTEM: unique
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover multi-foiled digest-sized core rulebook
• RETAIL PRICE: $45
• OTHER NEWS COVERAGE: interview before the kickstarter and experience with the game
• DESCRIPTION: Play a vampire hunting in the shadows. Experience a solo life consumed by the remorseless crush of memory over millennia. You prowl seeking souls on which to feed. You remember almost nothing else. In your grave you hear whispers of a song in a language you have forgotten. In a museum far away hangs your portrait in oil by a master five hundred years dead —you might once have been lovers but the diary you kept then is forever lost.

Maximum Apocalypse Core Rulebook | Maximum Apocalypse Gamemaster Guide | Maximum Apocalypse Monster Manual by Rock Manor Games

• SYSTEM: unique
• PRODUCT TYPE: core rulebooks
• RETAIL PRICE: $24.95 each, $19.95 for the MM
• DESCRIPTION: PCs are immersed in a world ravaged from multiple extinction level events. They explore ruined cities and wander the wasteland searching for food and salvage. They fight everything from invading aliens to roaming zombies to sentient machines. The Core Rulebook contains rules for character creation including PC occupations from before the world fell, skills, exploration, scavenging, combat, crafting, equipment, vehicles and much more. The Gamemaster Guide includes rules to create environments and formulate scenarios. Several premade scenarios are also provided. The Monster Manual contains seventy-two monsters that include brief introductions to these monsters, their motivations, and briefly, how to create them.

 

[Ghost2020]

I've never heard of Maximum Apocalypse, thanks for the heads up!

Also the Cats and Dinosaurs cover isn't the final cover, that threw me off a bit.

 

[Charles Dunwoody]

I've never heard of Maximum Apocalypse, thanks for the heads up!

Also the Cats and Dinosaurs cover isn't the final cover, that threw me off a bit.

I think Maximum Apocalypse looks like a great RPG.

The cover must have been recently updated by Atomic Empire in the last week. I updated the image. Thanks!

 

[Earth2Carnifex]

Harper's Tale actually looks like it might be a fun adventure even for adults, of course that may just be me. I admit I am a 14 year old boy in my heart, or at least that is what my wife says, but I am not sure if that is a compliment or not.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Ah, good reminder on Arden Vul. Now that I finally hve a job, time to start picking up the hard copies

 

[MidnightBlue]

I can't say enough good things about Thousand Year Old Vampire. Simply amazing...

 

[Redwizard007]

Just received my clearance sale copy of "Spectacular Settlements." WOW! The condition of the book is better than 90% of the stuff on bookstore shelves. There is no reason they needed to cut the price in half for some bent corners on the cover, but it was enough of a savings for me to take a shot on a publisher I wasn't familiar with. So, thanks, I guess. Now I need to take a dive into their other books.

Thanks, OP, for finding me another place to go for quality content.