Dungeons & Dragons 5.5 gets new rules for PCs playing monsters, a book of new rule options, and a new option for inspiration using a d24. BESM and Shadowrun get new world books focused on realitypunk anime and the means streets respectively, and a book of creatures and adversaries is out for Achtung! Cthulhu. Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG gets a new adventure. Finally, Shadow Scar is a new RPG of spies and martial artists fighting supernatural monsters.
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.
BattleZoo Ancestries Living Legends by Roll for Combat
BattleZoo Ancestries Living Legends (Limited Edition)
SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5.5
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover monster book
RETAIL PRICE: $59.99/$79.99
DESCRIPTION: PCs can play as 14 monster ancestries: angels, arboreals, cerebrophages, devils, evil eyes, fusions, gargoyles, giants, golemborn, lamias, psychopomps, sphinxes, swarmbloods, and werecreatures. Each monster includes in-depth information about each creature’s culture, society, and history. Rules includes for each option.
BESM - Imago by Dyskami Publishing
SYSTEM: BESM (Big Eyes, Small Mouth)
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $34.95
DESCRIPTION: PCs explore a world of realitypunk anime adventures inside a futuristic realm’s regions, peoples, alliances, monsters, heroes, villains, and its history. Imago is one of seven Prime Worlds of the Anime Multiverse setting. Features game stats for equipment, weapons, vehicles, high-tech artifacts, and NPCs along with advice for running realitypunk anime adventures.
Shadow Scar by R. Talsorian
SYSTEM: Mosaic System die six dice pool
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook
RETAIL PRICE: $60
DESCRIPTION: The PCs are part of the Shadow Scar Agency in a world of Japanese mythology, the legends of ninja, anime like Full Metal Alchemist, and stories of secret agents like the Men in Black. What a combo. To avert the apocalypse, the gods tore a hole in reality: a long shadow scar. Izanami and her monstrous army were banished through this scar, but chaos reigned beyond the shadow scar. In banishing their enemy, the gods unleashed thousands of monstrous creatures onto many worlds. To defend the multiverse, the gods created the Shadow Scar Agency: an organization of people from many worlds trained in ninjutsu and armed with high tech tools and magical artifacts to hunt down their vicious adversaries. PCs are drawn from four different worlds: the magical realm of Nakatsukuni, the steam powered smoggy realm of Steel Court, the 1920s pulp comic realm of 5th Street, and the high tech spacefaring realm of Refuge. Also includes 40 enemies, ranging from common thugs to powerful, brutish oni.
Horrors of the Secret War by Modiphius Entertainment
SYSTEM: Achtung! Cthulhu
PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $48
DESCRIPTION: Over 75 weird critters and more mundane beasts. Includes animals like a monkey or an elephant which can be used as familiars, companions and even mounts. Details new individuals, units and entities including allies like Pork Chop or Headless Harry and adversaries such as Black Sun’s Zaubererjäger or Nachtwölfe’s fearsome Juggernaut. Also features a section devoted to Invidious Cults and Infernal Sects, detailing the cults, complete with rules and background with maps, of the old ones. Creatures cover classic mythos creations like Dholes or Spiders of Leng, along with the new loathsome Sand Dweller and fiery Seed of Kol’Valassam. Concludes with a sanity-challenging selection of Elder Gods, Outer Gods and Great Old Ones.
Asphalt Jungles by Catalyst Game Labs
SYSTEM: Shadowrun - Sixth World Sixth Edition
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
DESCRIPTION: A campaign book of factions and urban grit set in Motor City. The streets are changing. The Effects of the Disian Shadow War created massive power vacuums. No one escaped unchanged, from the largest syndicates to the lowliest street gangs. The PCs need to establish who reigns in the urban jungles as old factions battle for power and new ones are born of the shadows and violence. To avoid becoming just another body cooling in the gutter, the PCs must muster their courage and force of will to run the streets successfully and forge their own destiny.
The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #64 by Legendary Games
SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5.5
PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $13.99
DESCRIPTION: New rules content from the ongoing Legendary Loot Patreon with dozens of new illustrations. Magic items like School of Eyes and Gorgon's Stonemail are inside, spells like Fairy Ring Retreat and Feast on Fear are included, it features traps like the death mold and hampering webs, as well as covering character options like the Divinely Inspired background and an entire set of Avatar Feats, and includes new monsters including the disgusting globster and towering sphinx colossus.
The Golden Idol of En-Tridar by Split the Party Games
SYSTEM: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
RETAIL PRICE: $14.99
DESCRIPTION: A city and dungeon crawling adventure for four to seven first level player characters that is filled with puzzle solving, trap detection and avoidance, so many secret passages, and intense close-quarters melee. The Golden Idol of En-Tridar challenges all comers for the taking. Possession of the idol bestows on its owner unfathomable Luck and extreme fortune. To seize it, the PCs must enter a magically-created dungeon and face devious traps, ferocious spider-pig abominations, insanity-inducing puzzles, an undead cyclopean monster, and more.
24-Sided Die by Goodman Games
Terror from the Underdeep - Inspiration Tokens
SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons: Advanced Advantage/Dungeons & Dragons 5.5
PRODUCT TYPE: a die/12 tokens
RETAIL PRICE: $3.95/$13.49
DESCRIPTION: A that 24-Sided Die can be used for advantage. Instead of rolling 2d20 and taking the best just move up to a d24. I also use a d24 in place of a d20 for big bads to give them a little extra umph. One per character class, the 12 Inspiration Tokens can be used by the GM to reward PCs with advantage. One option is that a PC can turn in an inspiration token to roll a d24 instead of a d20.
Charlie does not use AI in any of his writing. The first two stories by Charlie featuring the questing soldier Hart and his biomechanical partner Hollow now available for Kindle on Amazon. He is a participant in the Noble Knight Affiliate Program and the OneBookShelf Affiliate Program, both of which are affiliate programs that provide a means for participants to earn 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.
BattleZoo Ancestries Living Legends by Roll for Combat
BattleZoo Ancestries Living Legends (Limited Edition)
SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5.5
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover monster book
RETAIL PRICE: $59.99/$79.99
DESCRIPTION: PCs can play as 14 monster ancestries: angels, arboreals, cerebrophages, devils, evil eyes, fusions, gargoyles, giants, golemborn, lamias, psychopomps, sphinxes, swarmbloods, and werecreatures. Each monster includes in-depth information about each creature’s culture, society, and history. Rules includes for each option.
BESM - Imago by Dyskami Publishing
SYSTEM: BESM (Big Eyes, Small Mouth)
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $34.95
DESCRIPTION: PCs explore a world of realitypunk anime adventures inside a futuristic realm’s regions, peoples, alliances, monsters, heroes, villains, and its history. Imago is one of seven Prime Worlds of the Anime Multiverse setting. Features game stats for equipment, weapons, vehicles, high-tech artifacts, and NPCs along with advice for running realitypunk anime adventures.
Shadow Scar by R. Talsorian
SYSTEM: Mosaic System die six dice pool
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook
RETAIL PRICE: $60
DESCRIPTION: The PCs are part of the Shadow Scar Agency in a world of Japanese mythology, the legends of ninja, anime like Full Metal Alchemist, and stories of secret agents like the Men in Black. What a combo. To avert the apocalypse, the gods tore a hole in reality: a long shadow scar. Izanami and her monstrous army were banished through this scar, but chaos reigned beyond the shadow scar. In banishing their enemy, the gods unleashed thousands of monstrous creatures onto many worlds. To defend the multiverse, the gods created the Shadow Scar Agency: an organization of people from many worlds trained in ninjutsu and armed with high tech tools and magical artifacts to hunt down their vicious adversaries. PCs are drawn from four different worlds: the magical realm of Nakatsukuni, the steam powered smoggy realm of Steel Court, the 1920s pulp comic realm of 5th Street, and the high tech spacefaring realm of Refuge. Also includes 40 enemies, ranging from common thugs to powerful, brutish oni.
Horrors of the Secret War by Modiphius Entertainment
SYSTEM: Achtung! Cthulhu
PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $48
DESCRIPTION: Over 75 weird critters and more mundane beasts. Includes animals like a monkey or an elephant which can be used as familiars, companions and even mounts. Details new individuals, units and entities including allies like Pork Chop or Headless Harry and adversaries such as Black Sun’s Zaubererjäger or Nachtwölfe’s fearsome Juggernaut. Also features a section devoted to Invidious Cults and Infernal Sects, detailing the cults, complete with rules and background with maps, of the old ones. Creatures cover classic mythos creations like Dholes or Spiders of Leng, along with the new loathsome Sand Dweller and fiery Seed of Kol’Valassam. Concludes with a sanity-challenging selection of Elder Gods, Outer Gods and Great Old Ones.
Asphalt Jungles by Catalyst Game Labs
SYSTEM: Shadowrun - Sixth World Sixth Edition
PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
DESCRIPTION: A campaign book of factions and urban grit set in Motor City. The streets are changing. The Effects of the Disian Shadow War created massive power vacuums. No one escaped unchanged, from the largest syndicates to the lowliest street gangs. The PCs need to establish who reigns in the urban jungles as old factions battle for power and new ones are born of the shadows and violence. To avoid becoming just another body cooling in the gutter, the PCs must muster their courage and force of will to run the streets successfully and forge their own destiny.
The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #64 by Legendary Games
SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5.5
PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
RETAIL PRICE: $13.99
DESCRIPTION: New rules content from the ongoing Legendary Loot Patreon with dozens of new illustrations. Magic items like School of Eyes and Gorgon's Stonemail are inside, spells like Fairy Ring Retreat and Feast on Fear are included, it features traps like the death mold and hampering webs, as well as covering character options like the Divinely Inspired background and an entire set of Avatar Feats, and includes new monsters including the disgusting globster and towering sphinx colossus.
The Golden Idol of En-Tridar by Split the Party Games
SYSTEM: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
RETAIL PRICE: $14.99
DESCRIPTION: A city and dungeon crawling adventure for four to seven first level player characters that is filled with puzzle solving, trap detection and avoidance, so many secret passages, and intense close-quarters melee. The Golden Idol of En-Tridar challenges all comers for the taking. Possession of the idol bestows on its owner unfathomable Luck and extreme fortune. To seize it, the PCs must enter a magically-created dungeon and face devious traps, ferocious spider-pig abominations, insanity-inducing puzzles, an undead cyclopean monster, and more.
24-Sided Die by Goodman Games
Terror from the Underdeep - Inspiration Tokens
SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons: Advanced Advantage/Dungeons & Dragons 5.5
PRODUCT TYPE: a die/12 tokens
RETAIL PRICE: $3.95/$13.49
DESCRIPTION: A that 24-Sided Die can be used for advantage. Instead of rolling 2d20 and taking the best just move up to a d24. I also use a d24 in place of a d20 for big bads to give them a little extra umph. One per character class, the 12 Inspiration Tokens can be used by the GM to reward PCs with advantage. One option is that a PC can turn in an inspiration token to roll a d24 instead of a d20.
Charlie does not use AI in any of his writing. The first two stories by Charlie featuring the questing soldier Hart and his biomechanical partner Hollow now available for Kindle on Amazon. He is a participant in the Noble Knight Affiliate Program and the OneBookShelf Affiliate Program, both of which are affiliate programs that provide a means for participants to earn 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.
