RPG Print News – Recently Played and Intriguing RPGs

Not necessarily new this week, but RPGs I have recently run like Amazing Adventures and Moria or done an in depth deep dive into. Normally, this column does not cover print on demand but this week some of the RPGs are available as POD on DriveThruRPG. There are even a couple of PDF only supplement and a collection of used RPGs well worth buying over twenty-five years after going into print. I finish out with some RPGs that sound intriguing but I do not own and have never run. Just to dream a bit of hinted at future adventures and possibilities. Just the core books are displayed this week, but each link has the cover for each product.

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Tales of Argosa | Adventure Framework 68: Caverns of Shennog | Adventure Framework 67: Sky Tower of Belk Xos | Adventure Framework 69: Crypt of Kursaba by Pickpocket Press

• PRODUCTTYPE: softcovers (hardcovers available also)
• RETAIL PRICE: $34.95/$9.95 each
• DESCRIPTION: My next campaign. OSR style rules with both ultra-modern design and layout including color coding things like magic items and monsters in the adventures. Solid d20 chassis with limited hit points, levels, and spell power to create a more grounded sword and sorcery feel. Emergent play is a big focus of this game and dozens of tables help generate adventure seeds and encounters for a variety of locations and situations. The three adventures fit well together especially the first two which deal with lairs related to Shennog, goddess of the night, deceit, and madness. This one is highly recommended.

The One Ring | Peoples of Wilderland (PDF) | Moria – Through the Doors of Durin by Free League Publishing

• PRODUCTTYPE: hardcovers and a PDF
• RETAIL PRICE: $59.71/$2.99/$50.25
• DESCRIPTION: All year long I’m running adventures through the Doors of Durin with a variety of different gaming buddies. The PDF helps to make additional Player-heroes as Moria stretches from Eriador to the Wilderlands. I’m running this one as poor people hunting treasure, hoping to score big, and get out alive before diving too deep and too greedily. Awesome to run, and it feels like I’m right there with the players, facing the long dark road of Moria. Every GM should have a copy of The One Ring and Moria – Through the Doors of Durin.

Amazing Adventures Complete Bundle | Amazing Adventures Manual of Monsters — Free PDF by Troll Lord Games

• PRODUCTTYPE: hardcover rulebooks, softcover adventure, GM screen/free PDF
• RETAIL PRICE: $87.99/$0
• DESCRIPTION: I have covered this RPG, sister RPG to Castles & Crusades, in detail and it continues to receive additional support especially with adventures. Plenty of pulp heroics and cross-overs with fantasy if the GM desires. The Red God is the focus of several adventures with sorcery wielding Nazi cultists being ardent followers and foes of the PCs. The monsters are free in PDF until an updated version monster book is published.

Liminal Horror Investigators | The Parthenogenesis of Hungry Hollow by Space Penguin Ink

• SYSTEM: OSR
• PRODUCTTYPE: softcover core rulebook and hardcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $13/$40
• DESCRIPTION: Liminal Horror is the horror side of the coin to the same ruleset used by the fantasy Cairn Second Edition covered in last week’s column. While Cairn provides plenty of emergent play through world building and having adventures shape the world, Liminal Horror is about normal people facing eldritch horrors and, if they survive, coming out changed and even mutated. The world is dark and filled with unspeakable monstrosities hiding in the shadows. The PCs will be forever altered by encountering weird horrors and strange resonant artifacts that warp reality, mind, and body. Plenty of R and NC-17 body horror along with fear of the unknown all encountered by normal people thrown into terror and darkness. The Deluxe Edition is being worked on currently.

Alternity Player's Handbook | Alternity Gamemaster Guide | Star Drive - Campaign Setting | Star Drive - Alien Compendium I - Creatures of the Verge | Star Drive - The Lighthouse | Star Drive - Star Compendium by TSR

• PRODUCTTYPE: hardcover core rulebooks and setting and softcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $15
• DESCRIPTION: Combined, these core rules and setting books present an entire system of planets for PCs to explore. The Lighthouse is a traveling space station that starfalls between six different systems. Plenty of unique aliens and alien artifacts to encounter and strange new worlds to land on and explore. The Lighthouse also harbors a dark and deadly secret that would make for quite a challenge to present to the PCs.

Possible Future RPG Gems​

I don’t own any of the following RPGs and I’ve never read or played any of them. Each is fascinating to me in its own way. Discovering gems like these RPGs that I might way day decide to buy, prep, and run is why I keep writing this column. I discovered Liminal Horror the same way and that one I have now and plan to run one day.

Memento Mori: Corebook | Memento Mori: Codex Gigas | Memento Mori: Ex Velum by Two Little Mice

• RETAIL PRICE: $55/$45/$45
• WHY: PC Drifters in 14th century Europe decimated by the Black Plague. The PCs are sick with the plague, and it opens them up to a dark world of power, horror, suffering, and opportunity. Because Drifters are determined to fulfill their Dream.

Lost Eons (three booklet pack) by The Lost Bay Studio

• RETAIL PRICE: $34
• WHY: Mutating PCs explore a solarpunk sci-fantasy. PC post-humans seek to understand the inscrutable and terrible forces that create the mysteries and dangers of a far future Earth.

ECO MOFOS!! - Punk Cover | Cathedral of Hope | Tower into Elsewhere by The Lost Bay Studio

• RETAIL PRICE: $48/$7/$14
• WHY: PCs are a group of misfits who have found each other in the wastes and ruins of a fallen world. The past is just a hazy legend, the story scattered over thousands of USB sticks and servers, but the future is theirs to be written. Based on Cairn. Rather than gaining Fatigue, PC Punks fill their inventory with emotional baggage that has specific requirements to be removed. Ok, that is really cool. Cathedral of Hope is a homestead base for PC Punks that can be upgraded. If not taken care of, it will develop in unpredictable ways by itself. The homestead starts out as a small village of small shacks led by an Elder named Estaine Alloy. Tower into Elsewhere provides details on the overgrown halls of Viridian House and beyond the thresholds of reality to the Mountain Underground. People go missing on the full moon, virulent fauna spreads over the town, and a strange wind howls from the derelict tower at the town’s heart. Also includes a selection of new art-themed Adaptations.

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