RPG Print News – Odin’s Beard, Sons of the Singularity, and More

Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition gets an adventure featuring a mighty colossus, and there is an adventure set in Morocco for Call of Cthulhu. Exalted Funeral has an eclectic selection including a free print fantasy adventure (two left, I snagged one). The Power Rangers RPG and Transformers RPG both get supplements. And the three Worlds of Quiroga RPGs using a custom 2d6 system and heavy on art are all available, each with a unique setting. Finally, the Cypher System gets a book of creatures.

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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Colossus Wake by Odin’s Beard

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $30
• DESCRIPTION: An adventure for three to five third level characters who enter a lost valley warded by a powerful ancient magic colossus that has awakened and turned destroyer. The PCs must traverse the Occluded Valley and scale the Colossus before it leaves annihilation in its wake. Key encounter information all on same page. Includes new spells, eight new monsters, a new elven subrace, cleric domain: Nightmare, and powerful magic items forged by gods and chaos.

The Blessed and the Blasphemous by Sons of the Singularity

• SYSTEM: Call of Cthulhu Seventh Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $64
• DESCRIPTION: A seven-scenario campaign set in multiple cities in Morocco at the onset of World War 2 through to 1941. Drawing on Morocco's rich culture and history, each scenario can be played independently or as a full campaign. Includes descriptions of several key locations in Morocco and Algeria including Casablanca, Fes, Rabat, Mers el Kebir, and Illizi along with 24 pre-generated characters. Filled with art, maps, and other useful Keeper's Aids.

Chaotic Neutral | Green Dawn Mall (DAMAGED and DISCOUNTED) | Citadel of Ice (free!) by Exalted Funeral

• SYSTEM: Old-School Essentials/unique/The Fantasy Trip
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplements/maps
• RETAIL PRICE: $25/$11/$0
• DESCRIPTION: Chaotic Neutral is a 48-page comic book and 24-page adventure module of magic, adventure, and storytelling with an 80s edge. For parties of four to five third level characters. Also includes a three page Chick Tract inspired story. Green Dawn Mall is not new but is a damaged copy at half price: PCs search for a lost friend in a mall alive with oddities and terror. Citadel of Ice is an adventure for four to six veteran characters of 37 points or higher. A wealthy temple is perched on an iceberg which has broken loose from the coast and is drifting in the ocean. The PCs journey to the floating tomb and try to take its treasure before it melts. They join zealous Enokian priests and the savage followers of Ekajag who are trapped together on the rapidly sinking iceberg. Meanwhile, wyverns circle overhead and horrible beasts roam the surface and underside of the frozen labyrinth.

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Beneath the Helmet | The Enigma of Combination by Renegade Game Studio

• SYSTEM: Power Rangers RPG/Transformers RPG
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcovers
• RETAIL PRICE: $45 each
• DESCRIPTION: In Beneath the Helmet the PC teenage Rangers must balance saving the world with the challenges of everyday life. And sometimes face a principal or boss is more of a monster than they appear. Includes: downtime rules, detailing a home base, creating a team, a new core Role: the Dark Ranger, and alternate Role paths: the Aqua and Graphite Rangers. New threats include Mesogog, Sledge, and Lord Arcanon along with their henchmen and minions. Has new rules for mortal threats from the landlord who doesn't accept "saving the day" for rent to the politician who sees Power Rangers as a threat. Rounded out with key characters from Dino Thunder and Dino Charge. The Enigma of Combination presents everything that PCs need to create a Combiner character, as well as everything a Game Master needs to run a Combiner campaign. Introduces a multitude of new Influences, Origins, and Role Focuses such as Binary Bonded or being a member of a Gestalt Team. Also includes new gear including methods to make existing weapons larger and more deadly and tools for running a Combiner campaign including plot hooks, Threats, and allies.

Neurocity: Colorblind Edition | Hell Night | Warpland by Worlds of Quiroga

• SYSTEM: unique 2d6 system
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebooks
• RETAIL PRICE: $42/$40/$40
• DESCRIPTION: Neurocity: Colorblind Edition is a dystopian noir thriller which seeks to challenge the PCs’ perception of reality and authority as citizens in a technological nightmare. Neurocity is a subterranean city complex crowned by a glitched digital sun ruled by an ever watchful supercomputer named I.S.A.C. The PCs must either yield their personality and obey or dare to find the truth about the forsaken place they were born into. In Hell Night powerful demons, rulers of Hell, have escaped Hell and are now breaking havoc on Earth. Even worse, an angel has come with an ultimatum: remove the deserters from Earth by dawn or Heaven storms the gates of Hell. The PCs must gather their unholy arms and cursed relics and hunt down these dangerous, demonic fugitives. Cosmic balance lies in the PCs’ hands as they blaze through the gates of torment on a thundering hell ride. This Doom Biker RPG is filled with eye-melting illustrations akin to a heavy metal album cover. PCs play as one of five character classes such as Slayers, Reapers, or Fallen in Hell or on Earth. Warpland is a world twisted by the technology of an extinct civilization. The sky delivers mutagenic maelstroms that change forever both the landscape and its people. Abysses punched in reality corrupt the living with infectious energy. PCs live in a new Dark Age where academia and scientific pursuits end in a death sentence. Only brave people like the PCs challenge the status quo and dare seek hidden ancient artifacts. This RPG is classless, filled with dozens of mutations, and features random tables from sky phenomena to encounters in the wastes of Arkanar.

Cypher System Bestiary by Monte Cook Games

• SYSTEM: Cypher System
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover monster book
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
• DESCRIPTION: Over 125 distinct creatures plus dozens of variants and the tools to create hundreds of interesting alternate versions. Includes names, pets and companions, lairs, alternate traits and abilities, and more along with fold-out pages for key creatures and topics. Creatures are presented in a new stat block format to make running them easier and also includes lore, fascinating details and supporting information, and options to customize the creature: with different names, alternate special abilities and traits, interesting looks, distinct motivations, companions or pets, lair designs, unique mechanics, and more.

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[Wofano Wotanto]

We played through Citadel of Ice a while back. Wound up with a TPK (incredible run of bad die rolls did us in) but it was enjoyable as far as we got. At $8 it was a decent value. Free, it's a no-brainer if you own TFT and don't own it already. David Pulver does good, reliable work IMO.

 

[Ghost2020]

I have the Cypher System Bestiary, it's fantastic. There are several extra fold out pages, a really cool presentation that I've not seen before in gaming or in a bestiary.
One downside is that there are a few entries that are duplicates from the Cypher System Rulebook. They're expanded, so that's nice, but I would have preferred zero duplication. All in all, it's a good purchase if you're a fan of that system.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Colossus Wake, punctuation issues in the title aside, looks really cool. Instead of trying to make Shadow of the Colossus into a whole supplement, putting giant monsters everywhere, doing it as a single focused adventure seems like a much smarter way to go. I could definitely see running this.

 

[dave2008]

Colossus Wake, punctuation issues in the title aside,...

I think that is intentional. It sounds much better than the possessive (I assume that is what you are talking about)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I think that is intentional. It sounds much better than the possessive (I assume that is what you are talking about)

It sounds better to you? I feel physical pain in my neck every time I see the title without the apostrophe it needs.

 

[dave2008]

It sounds better to you? I feel physical pain in my neck every time I see the title without the apostrophe it needs.

I get that, but actually speak the two phrases. To me, "Colossus Wake" sounds better.

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

It sounds better to you? I feel physical pain in my neck every time I see the title without the apostrophe it needs.

Granted, although "Wake of the Colossus" seems like a fair compromise. Alternatively, you could add an "s" and get "Colossus Wakes", which isn't bad either and takes advantage of the other definition of the word.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Granted, although "Wake of the Colossus" seems like a fair compromise. Alternatively, you could add an "s" and get "Colossus Wakes", which isn't bad either and takes advantage of the other definition of the word.

And it's an active verb, which is generally better writing for stuff like this.

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

And it's an active verb, which is generally better writing for stuff like this.

I think we can all agree anything's better than "Wakey, Wakey, Little Colossus" would be. The only merit there is the oxymoron.

Also, it's way too close to the "Wake Up, Little Atlas" children's book by Ayn Rand. Don't need that kind of consumer confusion.