RPG Print News – Troll Lord Games, Melsonia Arts Council, and More

A town and surrounding lands designed by Gary Gygax is back in print for Castles & Crusades. There is also a new adventure and Troika! also has an adventure focused on a kidnapping demon bird named THOG. A deck of insult cards is out for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition and related RPGs. There are also supplements for Forbidden Lands, Into the Odd, Savage Worlds, and MÖRK BORG. Plus the Cypher System has modern magic including a centaur barista and a magic coffee shop campaign setting. At first I thought it was a centaur ballista, but I read too fast.

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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Castle Zagyg Yggsburgh classic reprint | Visiting Death by Troll Lord Games

• SYSTEM: Castles & Crusades
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover with maps/softcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $59.99/$9.99
• DESCRIPTION: Beneath the shadows of the ancient, dreaded Castle Zagyg stands the fortified town of Yggsburgh. Beyond the protective covering of the town’s walls and the deep waters of the Urt and Nemo Rivers, lie a vast rolling countryside from the Lonely Valley to the Uplands. Includes the town of Yggsburgh and 60 different geographic locales. The map charts over 1500 square miles of adventuring terrain, and each geographic locale has one or more adventures associated with it for PCs of fourth level and above. There are over 600 NPCs, 50 random encounter and event tables, new monsters, magic items, and spells. In Visiting Death, death stalks the village of Chenye. When Meng Xin’s prosperous rule was cut short by a mysterious poison, his brother Xianluo seized power, plunging Chenye into an era of darkness during his reign. The dead and buried Xianluo returns from the grave, seeking to torment the village once more with the dead rising. On behalf of the current village chief, the PCs face undead Xianluo, the chief’s vengeful father.

The Hand of God by Melsonia Arts Council

• SYSTEM: Troika!
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $23.05
• DESCRIPTION: The PCs kidnapped from their dreams by the demon bird THOG and trapped in his nest at the top of an ancient miles-high statue towering above the temple quarter of Troika. The PCs seek to escape. Includes: a traditional pointcrawl, 14 locations, two dungeons, and a giant statue. With an emphasis on treasure, social encounters, and factions.

Deck of Many Insults by Loke Battle Maps

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: deck of 100 cards
• RETAIL PRICE: $17.99
• DESCRIPTION: 100 insults like: You’re about as bright as a stone golem and twice as dense. PCs can use these to antagonize any adversary and ensure verbal victory while dealing out devastating mockery.

Forbidden Lands Bloodmarch Velvet A3 Map by All Rolled Up

• SYSTEM: Forbidden Lands The Bloodmarch
• PRODUCT TYPE: velvet map 420 x 300 mm
• RETAIL PRICE: $28.95
• DESCRIPTION: A velvet map of The Bloodmarch of the Forbidden Lands. Official Free League licensed product. Watermark will not be on the map itself.

The Alchemist and Their Magical Craft | The Wig Maker's Finger by Max Moon Games

• SYSTEM: Troika!/Into the Odd
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover/hardcover with ribbon
• RETAIL PRICE: $6/$25
• DESCRIPTION: The Alchemist and Their Magical Craft is a Troika! background and a lightweight set of alchemical crafting rules including a table of alchemical ingredients and a Magnum Oopsies table for when alchemy goes terribly awry. The Wig Maker's Finger is a one-shot adventure. Bastion’s upper crust enjoy having a fancy prosthetic finger. When a poor wig-maker can’t afford such a luxury he hires the PCs to burgle him one of these extraneous yet extremely fashionable digits.

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Tephrotic Nightmares by Exalted Funeral

• SYSTEM: MÖRK BORG
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $45
• DESCRIPTION: A hexcrawl adventure campaign in which the PCs gather a crew, set sail, and embark upon the grey waves with a sharpened blade and a mouthful of ash. Contains: hardcover with open spine binding and black ink edges, a GM-facing map of the Sea, a player-facing map of the Sea, a ship combat hex map, and punch-out cardboard ship combat chits. The Arsonist's fires burned the book and exposed its spine like a gaping, blackened wound. This enables the book to lay flat on the table. The page edges are soaked in black ink which has dried to form a sealing crust, requiring it to be torn open. Either page by page or by grabbing the whole thing and breaking it like a bone. To read the book, the would be reader must first defeat it.

Legend of Ghost Mountain | Action Deck | GM Screen with The Ashen Monk Uprising Adventure | Legend of Ghost Mountain Box Set by Pinnacle Entertainment

• SYSTEM: Savage Worlds
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $39.99/$19.99/$19.99/$149.99
• DESCRIPTION: Ghost Mountain is a sacred site containing a physical gate to the underworld, and the Ghost Wardens make sure the dead pass through peacefully. But something has gone wrong, the dead rebel, and commit atrocities against the living. The Ghost Wardens must set things right. The Ghost Wardens draw mystical martial arts techniques from strong emotions. The Legend of Ghost Mountain Box Set contains: Legend of Ghost Mountain (192-page hardcover book with hero creation, a history and gazetteer, Savage Tales, a bestiary of various foes, and a ten-chapter Plot Point Campaign in which the PCs must make world-changing decisions and lead the battle against an army of the rebellious dead), Archetype Pack of cards also including Emotion and Power reference cards, Legend of Ghost Mountain Pawns with six sheets, Map Packs that are 30" x 24" and double-sided laminated maps, poster sized cloth map of the Central Empire, GM Screen with The Ashen Monk Uprising Adventure, Action Deck, dice, bennies, mass battle playmats, and 24 adversary cards.

It's Only Magic by Monte Cook Games

• SYSTEM: Cypher System
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
• DESCRIPTION: If you ever needed stats for a centaur barista, here you go. Tools and advice for integrating magic and the supernatural into any modern game along with an included setting: a magic coffee shop campaign. Inside: foci, descriptors, rules for magic cozy or grand, magical creatures like haunted cars and Bloody Mary, species descriptors for PCs, a bonus second campaign setting, and three adventures.

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[sevenbastard]

The page edges are soaked in black ink which has dried to form a sealing crust, requiring it to be torn open. Either page by page or by grabbing the whole thing and breaking it like a bone.

Huh? The book is purposely hard to use and I probably risk a chance of ripping stuff?

Artpunk might have gone to far this time. The premise of the book sounds fun but adventures at some point are about usability function over fasion. Also spending the extra hours on fine tunning the adventure versus the presentation is probably makes for a better game experience.

But can we go further? Give me a book with matte black pages with glossy black words that you can kind of read by moving it in the light. Give me an adventure that is written on a 24 by 36 framed black velvet painting of a unicorn where the words are written in special ink and only appear under a black light. Give me an adventure that looks like a pack of cigarettes, but when you unroll the cigarettes each has a part of the adventure inside. Make the adventure a rotary dial phone it's more retro than even cassettes.

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

For those who haven't seen it already, this is the setting map for Hand of God:

Pretty darned nifty. You can just see some of the temple spires of the city of Troika down at the bottom there.

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

Make the adventure a rotary dial phone it's more retro than even cassettes.

Heck with that, how about the whole adventure is written in Morse code and all interactions with the GM have to use the telegraph key it comes with? If that sells we can try semaphore flag campaigns and adventure paths using heliographs next.

The steampunk crowd might actually go for that, now that I think about it.

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

Huh? The book is purposely hard to use and I probably risk a chance of ripping stuff?

You're probably expected to use a paper knife, like you were an upper class twit in a freaking Charles Dickens novel.

 

[stormwriter]

You're probably expected to use a paper knife, like you were an upper class twit in a freaking Charles Dickens novel.

There was a video from Max Moon Games on instagram opening it.

 

[Superchunk77]

Oooo, velvet Forbidden Lands maps. Now there's something I want but do not need!

 

[dead]

Any news on the rest of the Castle Zagyg lineup? Are they updating the whole line (including previously published volumes) to the new Reforged ruleset?

 

[daoloth]

Huh? The book is purposely hard to use and I probably risk a chance of ripping stuff?

Artpunk might have gone to far this time. The premise of the book sounds fun but adventures at some point are about usability function over fasion. Also spending the extra hours on fine tunning the adventure versus the presentation is probably makes for a better game experience.

But can we go further? Give me a book with matte black pages with glossy black words that you can kind of read by moving it in the light. Give me an adventure that is written on a 24 by 36 framed black velvet painting of a unicorn where the words are written in special ink and only appear under a black light. Give me an adventure that looks like a pack of cigarettes, but when you unroll the cigarettes each has a part of the adventure inside. Make the adventure a rotary dial phone it's more retro than even cassettes.

Torn open isn't a great description from my experience with the book. You bend them slightly and then come apart. The author spent the time fine tunning the adventure and it shows. The artists spent the time on the presentation and it shows. It's a great looking book and from a reading point of view a great adventure. We'll see how it goes when I get it to the table.

 

[dead]

... To answer my own question. Troll Lord's have said Castle Zagyg Yggsburgh "will eventually be updated, but for now, you can get it exactly as it appeared in 2008." So I'll wait for the updated version when they roll out the full Castle Zagyg line.