RPG Print News – OSR, Shadowrun, and More

So many worlds to explore this week. Play as a bug-sized questing knight, a Shadowrunner in Cairo, and face flower dragons as a high-fantasy adventurer. For the GM, there a variety of monsters available along with miniatures and battle maps. Finally, explore the villages and engage with fellow animals in a pastoral world as a humanoid animal traveler.

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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Beetle Knight by Brooklet Games

• SYSTEM: OSR
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover core rulebook zine
• RETAIL PRICE: $14.95
• DESCRIPTION: The PCs are bug-sized arthropod Knights designated by the Iridescent Order as protectors of the realm of Litterfall. The PCs are duty-bound to travel the world, investigate mysteries, and help those in need. Unexplained phenomena and deep history permeate the world and challenge the PCs. Arthropod characters are drawn from diverse cultures based on every bug imaginable and populate the cracks and hollows of Litterfall. Litterfall is a patchwork ever-changing land, everything divided up by several ancestral claimants.

Risks & Rewards by Catalyst Game Labs

• SYSTEM: Shadowrun - Sixth World
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
• DESCRIPTION: A Sixth World campaign book set in Cairo, a place of mystical power, opportunities, and vast riches for those PCs bold enough to claim them. In the wake of a devastating shadow war, several corporations are looking toward Cairo to fortify and further expand their newly won power and influence or to halt their imminent demise. The PCs can try to use these changes to their advantage or die trying.

The Field Guide To Floral Dragons: Flower Dragon Bestiary | The Field Guide To Floral Dragons: Flower Dragon Bestiary Deluxe | The Field Guide To Floral Dragons: Flower Dragon Bestiary Box Set | The Field Guide To Floral Dragons: Flower Dragon Bestiary Box Set Deluxe by Hit Point Press

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement and box set
• RETAIL PRICE: $39.99/$59.99/$79.99/$99.99
• DESCRIPTION: Flowers and dragons combined with a dash of magic create a fabulously floral The Field Guide To Floral Dragons: Flower Dragon Bestiary. Each flower-inspired dragon is described in depth, with tales of the floral dragons’ origins, their biology and habitats, and details of their relationships with people and the other floral dragons. Within margin notes a tale of curiosity, despair, revenge, and hope unfolds. Contents: over 25 stat blocks for floral dragons, pests, pollinators & fungi; 10 magic items and poisons inspired by floral dragons; and detailed lore explaining the dragons’ origins, habitats, and how to roleplay them. The Field Guide To Floral Dragons: Flower Dragon Bestiary Deluxe has gold-foil and has a black faux leather hardcover. The Field Guide To Floral Dragons: Flower Dragon Bestiary Box Set includes the hardcover book, two double-sided foldout battle maps, GM screen, and 24 player reference cards all in a slipcase. The Field Guide To Floral Dragons: Flower Dragon Bestiary Box Set Deluxe includes the deluxe hardcover book, foldout battle maps, GM screen, and player reference cards all in a gold-foil edition slipcase.

Monster Vault 2 | Monster Vault 2 (Limited Edition) by Kobold Press

• SYSTEM: Tales of the Valiant
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $59.99/$79.99
• DESCRIPTION: More than 300 new devils, aberrations, animals, and more. Includes extensive appendices, simplified stat blocks, and monster bundles. Monster templates include psychic, fey-blessed, fiendish, and more. PCs face the inscrutable machinations of Tynan the Twilight Queen, hope to survive the destructive force of the void harbinger, and can try to escape a bar brawl unscathed. The Limited Edition has a unique cover.

Epic Encounters: Sanctuary of the Steelborn | Epic Encounters: Realm of the Titan by Steamforged Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: box sets with unpainted miniature(s)
• RETAIL PRICE: $54.99 each
• DESCRIPTION: The Steelborn are a mystery, their armored forms designed for war. They travel the world in enormous carriages that serve not only as engines of war but also as vast workshops where the Steelborn are forged and repaired. Inside the Epic Encounters: Sanctuary of the Steelborn: 20 miniatures with seven unique sculpts of mechanical soldiers, an encounter booklet with story hooks and tips, and a double-sided encounter map. In the frozen wastes of the north, where the wind howls like a grieving spirit, something terrible shakes the very bones of the land in the Realm of the Titan. Many claim that a construct too massive to move, too heavy to do anything but sink into the permafrost, could never exist. Yet, when the cold is at its cruelest, the Titan crushes entire settlements beneath its iron stride. Includes: an encounter with story hooks and tips, a double-sided battle map, tokens, and the huge Titan itself (120mm base). Can be used as a finale to Sanctuary of the Steelborn.

Wanderhome (Third Edition) by Possum Creek Games

• SYSTEM: Belonging Outside Belonging
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover core rulebook
• RETAIL PRICE: $50
• DESCRIPTION: The softcover option is now available. PCs are traveling animal-folk in a pastoral fantasy world filled with grassy fields, mossy shrines, herds of chubby bumblebees, opossums in sundresses, salamanders with suspenders, starry night skies, and the most beautiful sunsets. PCs might include a tamarin who dances with small and forgotten gods, a leporine mail carrier who relies on moths to get packages where they belong, a little lizard with a big heart and a mysterious past, and more. No matter what, the PCs are always traveling animal-folk who go from village to village seeing the length and breadth of all the world of Hæth. The seasons change as the PCs travel, and the PCs themselves change with them.

Big Book of Battle Maps: Bastions and Strongholds by Loke Battle Mat

• SYSTEM: RPGs that use battle maps
• PRODUCT TYPE: spiral bound book of lay-flat battle maps
• RETAIL PRICE: $29.99
• DESCRIPTION: Features: maps including gaming hall, guildhall, druidic grotto, divine church, observatory, and more along with cut-out tokens for creating alternate room designs.

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