The Stormlight Handbook is out along with a starter set and adventures. MAZES includes a bundle of rules and campaign play. Mothership gets an adventure. Finally, there is a new war-torn setting and an adventure using MÖRK BORG.
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Stormlight Handbook | Stormlight Starter Set | Bridge Nine | Welcome to Roshar | The First Step by Brotherwise Games
MAZES Bundle | MAZES Fantasy Roleplaying | MAZES Handbook for the Player | MAZES City of Skull by 9th Level Games
Under the Skin by Space Penguin Ink
Farewell to Arms REDUX | Farewell to Arms REDUX boxed set by riverhead games
A Feast for a Sphinx by Evlyn Moreau
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Stormlight Handbook | Stormlight Starter Set | Bridge Nine | Welcome to Roshar | The First Step by Brotherwise Games
- SYSTEM: The Cosmere Roleplaying Game: d20
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook/box set/softcovers
- RETAIL PRICE: $59.99/$24.99/$12.95/$11.99/$14.99
- DESCRIPTION: Using the Stormlight Handbook, the PCs adventure in the world of Roshar from Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive series. Rules are roll high on a 20-sided die. For dramatic or risky rolls add a 6-sided die with resulting Complication or Opportunity activates. PCs are built using talent trees for six heroic paths and nine Radiant paths. The Stormlight Starter Set contains a condensed rulebook, the adventure Bridge Nine (also sold separately), battle maps, tokens for every character and creature in the adventure, six pregenerated characters, six initiative cards, six standard RPG dice plus a plot die. Also included in the Stormlight Starter Set, Bridge Nine is a first-level adventure. GMs get a series of scenes designed to teach the game`s rules. For PCs, it serves as an introduction to the Stormlight campaign setting. Welcome to Roshar serves as a visual guide to Roshar’s flora, fauna, cultures and magic while steering clear of story spoilers. GMs can use this booklet to introduce the PCs to Roshar, a unique fantasy world. The PCs, ordinary people, must rise and become heroes in The First Step Adventure. PCs begin with blank character sheets and as the story progresses, each player’s choices determine the character they create. Together, the PCs determine the fate of a convoy ambushed by a vengeful shardbearer. Contains the basic rules required for play.
MAZES Bundle | MAZES Fantasy Roleplaying | MAZES Handbook for the Player | MAZES City of Skull by 9th Level Games
- SYSTEM: polymorph
- PRODUCT TYPE: three book bundle/hardcover/softcover/hardcover
- RETAIL PRICE: $89.99/$39.95/$14.95/$39.95
- DESCRIPTION: The MAZES bundle contains three books, also all sold separately. MAZES Fantasy Roleplaying is classic sword and sorcery dungeon crawling with award-winning simple modern rules and ready to play without a lot of preparation. Designed for one-shots and conventions. Every PC uses one die and there is no math. MAZES Handbook for the Player includes 17 character classes, nine lineages (as classes), eight spellbooks, rules on alignment, and more. Options range from the classic fighter and elf to the acrobat to the more modern sorcerer and warlock. The spell casting classes use a simplified "spellbook" system with cantrips, spells, and rituals. In MAZES City of Skull the Witch Kings destroyed everything with their dread magic. The PCs struggle to survive in the last city alive on a sea of dust and sand. Without magic and treasures uncovered from the ruins and mazes scattered across the Waste, even the great City of Skull will fall to darkness. Includes a complete world gazetteer along with rules for hexcrawling, character advancement, and more. Also includes: religion, hazards, monsters, broken gods of the salt waste, 24 classes, three lineages, random treasure and magic item generation, and Ioun Stones (magical crystals that give powers).
Under the Skin by Space Penguin Ink
- SYSTEM: Mothership
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover zine
- RETAIL PRICE: $10
- DESCRIPTION: Life is cheap and trust is costly out here on The Rim. The PCs are an urgent mission with a hideous twist: any character, including the PCs, may be the monster in disguise without even realizing it themselves. Includes: the labyrinthine outpost of Rizzo’s Rest soon to be nothing more than corpses and ash, the flesh-molding Monster who preys on isolated victims and split parties, eight NPCs with fully-detailed character sheets to be used as replacement PCs once they start dying, a dilapidated shuttle that might be the only exit off this doomed planet and the entry to a life as interstellar outlaws, a method to secretly track who the Monster is and how likely it is to be a unwitting PC, and Rizzo’s Rest’s unofficial guard dog who is very eager to investigate strange sounds echoing in the darkness.
Farewell to Arms REDUX | Farewell to Arms REDUX boxed set by riverhead games
- SYSTEM: MÖRK BORG
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook/collector’s box set
- RETAIL PRICE: $41/$102
- DESCRIPTION: In Farewell to Arms REDUX the PCs are on the war-sodden front lines, fighting for a cause that they don't even understand or believe in. There are no heroes, only death. The dying lands witnessed a petty squabble over territory morph into all out war and turn into destruction of the natural world in a race to claim a newly discovered resource. In addition, the mountains move, rivers bloat and shift, trees swell and extend their reach as the world itself joins the conflict. Inside: lore describing the start of the war, 12 war-twisted classes, rules for massive battlefield decisions that may kill the PCs, SHOCK and GAS! mechanics, firearm combat integrated with melee conflict, war Scrolls, tools and items for war including armor, and four unique factions each with their own specialties and lore. The Farewell to Arms REDUX boxed set contains: Farewell to Arms REDUX, four books with one for each major faction, a 17” x 22” double-sided Dying Lands/War Room legacy map, four sheets of stickers to update the map, 50 A5 character sheets, 50 A5 squad sheets, solo rules trifold, four subfaction postcards, and a metal pin.
A Feast for a Sphinx by Evlyn Moreau
- SYSTEM: MÖRK BORG
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $15
- DESCRIPTION: A dungeon crawl of gold and tragedy set in the secluded village of Kalldalen and the ancient temple that lies beneath. Once hidden from the dying world, the call of the mysterious Sphinx has drawn in greedy plunderers and scum of all kinds, desperate for the ultimate reward: a wish fulfilled, no matter the cost. Contents: a 12-room dungeon, tables (rumors, encounters, looting, and more), deadly creatures including the fearsome Sphinx, and adventure seeds.
