More weird and wonderful TTRPG stuff this week. Three adventures set in the Mothership RPG setting of the Tunaverse. The Mecha Hack is back in print. A new RPG of pocket-sized PC monsters using the Into the Odd rules. Finally, there are standees for Dragonbane and a set of dice to generate millions of results.
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 as print on demand.
The Hands that Feed by Spicy Tuna RPG
Outsourced: The Luko Fin Corp Deception
Broadcasting Violence!
SYSTEM: Mothership The Tunaverse
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement/hardcover supplement/softcover zine
RETAIL PRICE: $39.95/$31.95/$12.95
DESCRIPTION: The Tunaverse is an interlocking universe for Spicy Tuna RPG Mothership adventures. Each adventure is standalone, but includes ties to the other released adventures for the PC crew to explore more fully. Broadcasting Violence! takes place on a station that houses a The Slice News station, one of the megacorporations in The Hands that Feed. The Hands that Feed is a modular campaign split into three sections: missions, multi-station sandbox, and corporations. Includes a rescue mission, a sabotage mission, a survival mission with three battling factions and mass alien assimilation, and a special ops mission while the PCs are hunted by three killers. Four stations provide home bases with dozens of connections between them and four storylines to escalate tensions and change. The eight corporations include dozens of NPCs, services, and items. Also includes tips to run each corporation and a bonus mission. Outsourced: The Luko Fin Corp Deception is a modular survival thriller campaign of intrigue, discovery, and a combination of corporate and space horrors. Contains info on the largest mercenary corps in the sector. They make personnel who know too much "accidentally" disappear. Also has a short campaign and two mission toolkits: each can generate a hexcrawl or tunnel system and covers alien horrors stalking the PCs. Finally, includes alternative loadout weapon tables, random downtime tables, eight mercenaries, and random mission tables for three mercenary corps. In Broadcasting Violence! the PCs are trapped on Tyrian Station trying to survive. The Haze Presence kills people off one by one, broadcasting the killings before they happen. The PCs have to figure out what to do about stopping the next killing. Not gonna lie, that sounds pretty cool. A track advancing in real time alternates between premonitions of the next death and the death occurring. Covers 18 locations that the PCs crawl through to stop the horror while surviving both the growing hysteria of space truckers and denizen survivalists and the Haze Daughter's killing spree.
Mecha Hack bundle by Absolute Tabletop
The Mecha Hack
The Mecha Hack: Mission Manual
Aether Nexus
SYSTEM: The Black Hack
PRODUCT TYPE: bundle/softcover zine/softcover supplements
RETAIL PRICE: $37.99/$14.95/$24.95/$29.95
DESCRIPTION: Appears to be a new printing. I missed it when it first debuted so covering it now. The bundle includes both The Mecha Hack and The Mecha Hack: Mission Manual. In The Mecha Hack, the PCs build a unique mecha and customize it with add-ons: modules, weapons, armor, and consumables. The mecha PCs overcome challenges with a speedy and simple d20 roll-under resolution mechanic and enjoy that unique mecha feel with simple rules for overheating reactors, supporting allies, and tactical combat with cover and difficult terrain. The Mecha Hack: Mission Manual includes 40 one-page missions ranging from chases to salvages to skirmishes, new rules, including four new chassis and four new pilots like the merc and the vet, enemies, modules, equipment like micro-missiles, PC options, HARD MODE rules, a GM’s toolbox, more than 30 brand new enemies (kaiju, starships, combining/ transforming mecha, and more), and more. Aether Nexus combines mecha and magic in a high fantasy world shattered by calamity and preserved by aetheric knights clad in artifact armor. Features a full ruleset including Skyship hulls, unique PC aetheric knights and their Apparatus, and a host of GM tools including a bestiary of enemies, adventures, and inspirational roll tables.
Into The Ish bundle by Prismatic Wasteland
Into the Ish - Red Version
Into the Ish - Blue Version
Vile Mountain
SYSTEM: Into the Odd
PRODUCT TYPE: bundle/softcover zines
RETAIL PRICE: $64.75/$25.95/$25.95/$15.95
DESCRIPTION: Into The Ish bundle includes all three items also available separately. The difference between Into the Ish - Red Version and Into the Ish - Blue Version: the color on the cover, the monster descriptions, and a few version-exclusive monsters. PCs play as pocket-sized monsters instead of ordinary adventurers in a parody world of dreams and adventures. These monsters fight each other with elemental attacks while . traversing the Pokapocalyptic landscape left after the mysterious disappearance of all humans. The PCs search the world for rare Technique Machines, collect badges, and evolve into better monsters. Includes; 15 pocket monsters with over 100 unique move sets and two evolutions each, rules covering elemental type effectiveness, moves that lower accuracy for auto-hit combat, status effects like poison, and 33 enemy monsters. Vile Mountain is a parody of the original funhouse dungeon, White Plume Mountain, reimagined as a Pokapocalyptic ruin filled with hostile pocket monsters and devious traps set by a legendary wizard. That wizard sends a letter via mail-delivering dragon to the PCs to entice them to travel to his dungeon. The adventure includes treasures like new Technique Machines, 5 new moves, 27 new enemy monsters, and designer commentary.
Friends & Foes Standee Set by Free League Publishing
SYSTEM: Dragonbane
PRODUCT TYPE: 79 cardboard standees (no bases but those are in the main rules box set above)
RETAIL PRICE: $24.99
OTHER RPG NEWS ON GEEK NATIVE: Worldbuilding Dragonbane and Worldbuilding Dragonbane: Path of Glory
DESCRIPTION: Guards, ruffians, orcs, and skeletons along with NPCs from the Path of Glory and Arkand – City of Waves and Flames.
d10 Place Value Dice (7) by Koplow
SYSTEM: GM needing values from 0 to 9,000,000
PRODUCT TYPE: seven place value dice
RETAIL PRICE: $9
DESCRIPTION: Includes: 0; 00; 000; 0000; 00000; 000000; and 0000000.
Charlie does not use AI in any of his writing. Adventures of the questing soldier Hart and his biomechanical partner Hollow: Amazon Kindle short stories. Participant in the Noble Knight Affiliate Program and the OneBookShelf Affiliate Program, which provide a means earning money by advertising and linking to Noble Knight Games and DriveThruRPG respectively. Charlie on Facebook. Posts and articles posted here by others do not reflect the views of Charlie Dunwoody. If you like the articles at EN World please consider supporting the Patreon.
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 as print on demand.
The Hands that Feed by Spicy Tuna RPG
Outsourced: The Luko Fin Corp Deception
Broadcasting Violence!
SYSTEM: Mothership The Tunaverse
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement/hardcover supplement/softcover zine
RETAIL PRICE: $39.95/$31.95/$12.95
DESCRIPTION: The Tunaverse is an interlocking universe for Spicy Tuna RPG Mothership adventures. Each adventure is standalone, but includes ties to the other released adventures for the PC crew to explore more fully. Broadcasting Violence! takes place on a station that houses a The Slice News station, one of the megacorporations in The Hands that Feed. The Hands that Feed is a modular campaign split into three sections: missions, multi-station sandbox, and corporations. Includes a rescue mission, a sabotage mission, a survival mission with three battling factions and mass alien assimilation, and a special ops mission while the PCs are hunted by three killers. Four stations provide home bases with dozens of connections between them and four storylines to escalate tensions and change. The eight corporations include dozens of NPCs, services, and items. Also includes tips to run each corporation and a bonus mission. Outsourced: The Luko Fin Corp Deception is a modular survival thriller campaign of intrigue, discovery, and a combination of corporate and space horrors. Contains info on the largest mercenary corps in the sector. They make personnel who know too much "accidentally" disappear. Also has a short campaign and two mission toolkits: each can generate a hexcrawl or tunnel system and covers alien horrors stalking the PCs. Finally, includes alternative loadout weapon tables, random downtime tables, eight mercenaries, and random mission tables for three mercenary corps. In Broadcasting Violence! the PCs are trapped on Tyrian Station trying to survive. The Haze Presence kills people off one by one, broadcasting the killings before they happen. The PCs have to figure out what to do about stopping the next killing. Not gonna lie, that sounds pretty cool. A track advancing in real time alternates between premonitions of the next death and the death occurring. Covers 18 locations that the PCs crawl through to stop the horror while surviving both the growing hysteria of space truckers and denizen survivalists and the Haze Daughter's killing spree.
Mecha Hack bundle by Absolute Tabletop
The Mecha Hack
The Mecha Hack: Mission Manual
Aether Nexus
SYSTEM: The Black Hack
PRODUCT TYPE: bundle/softcover zine/softcover supplements
RETAIL PRICE: $37.99/$14.95/$24.95/$29.95
DESCRIPTION: Appears to be a new printing. I missed it when it first debuted so covering it now. The bundle includes both The Mecha Hack and The Mecha Hack: Mission Manual. In The Mecha Hack, the PCs build a unique mecha and customize it with add-ons: modules, weapons, armor, and consumables. The mecha PCs overcome challenges with a speedy and simple d20 roll-under resolution mechanic and enjoy that unique mecha feel with simple rules for overheating reactors, supporting allies, and tactical combat with cover and difficult terrain. The Mecha Hack: Mission Manual includes 40 one-page missions ranging from chases to salvages to skirmishes, new rules, including four new chassis and four new pilots like the merc and the vet, enemies, modules, equipment like micro-missiles, PC options, HARD MODE rules, a GM’s toolbox, more than 30 brand new enemies (kaiju, starships, combining/ transforming mecha, and more), and more. Aether Nexus combines mecha and magic in a high fantasy world shattered by calamity and preserved by aetheric knights clad in artifact armor. Features a full ruleset including Skyship hulls, unique PC aetheric knights and their Apparatus, and a host of GM tools including a bestiary of enemies, adventures, and inspirational roll tables.
Into The Ish bundle by Prismatic Wasteland
Into the Ish - Red Version
Into the Ish - Blue Version
Vile Mountain
SYSTEM: Into the Odd
PRODUCT TYPE: bundle/softcover zines
RETAIL PRICE: $64.75/$25.95/$25.95/$15.95
DESCRIPTION: Into The Ish bundle includes all three items also available separately. The difference between Into the Ish - Red Version and Into the Ish - Blue Version: the color on the cover, the monster descriptions, and a few version-exclusive monsters. PCs play as pocket-sized monsters instead of ordinary adventurers in a parody world of dreams and adventures. These monsters fight each other with elemental attacks while . traversing the Pokapocalyptic landscape left after the mysterious disappearance of all humans. The PCs search the world for rare Technique Machines, collect badges, and evolve into better monsters. Includes; 15 pocket monsters with over 100 unique move sets and two evolutions each, rules covering elemental type effectiveness, moves that lower accuracy for auto-hit combat, status effects like poison, and 33 enemy monsters. Vile Mountain is a parody of the original funhouse dungeon, White Plume Mountain, reimagined as a Pokapocalyptic ruin filled with hostile pocket monsters and devious traps set by a legendary wizard. That wizard sends a letter via mail-delivering dragon to the PCs to entice them to travel to his dungeon. The adventure includes treasures like new Technique Machines, 5 new moves, 27 new enemy monsters, and designer commentary.
Friends & Foes Standee Set by Free League Publishing
SYSTEM: Dragonbane
PRODUCT TYPE: 79 cardboard standees (no bases but those are in the main rules box set above)
RETAIL PRICE: $24.99
OTHER RPG NEWS ON GEEK NATIVE: Worldbuilding Dragonbane and Worldbuilding Dragonbane: Path of Glory
DESCRIPTION: Guards, ruffians, orcs, and skeletons along with NPCs from the Path of Glory and Arkand – City of Waves and Flames.
d10 Place Value Dice (7) by Koplow
SYSTEM: GM needing values from 0 to 9,000,000
PRODUCT TYPE: seven place value dice
RETAIL PRICE: $9
DESCRIPTION: Includes: 0; 00; 000; 0000; 00000; 000000; and 0000000.
Charlie does not use AI in any of his writing. Adventures of the questing soldier Hart and his biomechanical partner Hollow: Amazon Kindle short stories. Participant in the Noble Knight Affiliate Program and the OneBookShelf Affiliate Program, which provide a means earning money by advertising and linking to Noble Knight Games and DriveThruRPG respectively. Charlie on Facebook. Posts and articles posted here by others do not reflect the views of Charlie Dunwoody. If you like the articles at EN World please consider supporting the Patreon.
