RPG Print News – Troll Lord, The Merry Mushmen, Noxweiler Berf, and More

Fantasy and sci-fi options this week. And The Merry Mushmen, Troll Lord, and Noxweiler Berf walk into a tavern. All of them tell tales about their RPG labors. Castles & Crusades gets a book on dungeons, Old-School Essentials and D&D get a monster and background book on faeries (and D&D gets another monster book and tokens as well) and Berf brings the wisdom of his TTRPG miniature painting skills. And there’s more, this time for sci-fi! The Terminator RPG brings time traveling action to RPGs and Dune - Adventures in the Imperium RPG has new adventures ranging from Arrakis, into space, and to planets like Giedi Prime and Kaitain.

Note: RPG Print News covers new RPG releases and some classics, reprints, and sales available from retailers. It does not cover products that are only available directly to customers through kickstarter or as print on demand.

Engineering Dungeons by Troll Lord Games

• SYSTEM: Castles & Crusades
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $9.99
• DESCRIPTION: Includes tools to create from scratch a varied array of dungeon experiences such how to stock monsters, their treasures, and design their lairs. GMs are assisted with answers to: who, where, and why a dungeon exists, as well as how the dungeon itself is experienced: light, odors, and extreme temperatures. Traps engineered to challenge even the bravest and most cunning are covered. Dungeons hold the lost chambers of other worlds where shadows hide monsters both foul and fair. However, it is in dungeons that adventurers are most likely find gold, glory, fame, and more in the forgotten tombs of dead kings, in wizard's mazes, or the warrior's stronghold. Or a horrible death and an unmarked grave.

A Folklore Bestiary (Old-School Essentials) | A Folklore Bestiary (D&D 5E) by The Merry Mushmen

• SYSTEM: Old-School Essentials/Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $44.95 each
• DESCRIPTION: Full of whimsical, spooky creatures like giants and faeries inspired by the weird corners and informed by the creepy knowledge of actual folktales and superstitions. Includes enough material to design whole scenarios around each monster. Every monster has one to three pages of gameable material: adventure hooks, magical items, spells, dungeons and hex crawls, and more.

The Terminator RPG | The Terminator RPG - Quick Start | The Terminator RPG - Director's Pack | The Terminator RPG - Campaign Book | The Terminator RPG - Limited Edition Campaign Book (White) by Word Forge Games

• SYSTEM: S5S System (D10 based)
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook/softcover/screen and extra rules/hardcover campaign adventure supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $55/$10/$30/$37.50/$65
• DESCRIPTION: PCs face the terror and desperation of facing unstoppable killing machines. The book is designed as a toolbox to allow the Director to create their own campaigns or one-shots, including detailed campaign arcs, campaign seeds, mini-missions, NPCs, weapons, detailed locations, and enemy characters. PCs are either pre-generated characters or created from the future, past, or present—including even an alternate you from a divergent timeline. Combat, survival, and investigation are all dealt with in the rules, along with vehicle combat, time travel, and computer hacking. The Quickstart allows for a one shot experience to try the system and the Director’s Pack has a screen and extra information. The Campaign Book includes 15 interlinked missions.

Masters of Dune | Masters of Dune (Collector's Edition) by Modiphius Entertainment

• SYSTEM: Dune - Adventures in the Imperium RPG
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover campaign adventure supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $52/$81
• DESCRIPTION: The Collector’s Edition features a blue leatherette cover with silver foil debossing. A campaign that can be run on its own or as a continuation of the Agents of Dune boxed set. PCs play as the renowned House Nagara or create a new House to tame Arrakis. Through nine chapters, the PCs will: seek out the elusive Fremen to gain their trust and allegiance by navigating their mysterious customs and rituals, engage pirates in space battles on behalf of the mysterious Guild, visit the deadly House Harkonnen on the industrial hellscape of Giedi Prime, mine spice on Arrakis to quench the insatiable need of the Imperium, discover the wisdom of the secretive Bene Gesserit by passing their deadly tests, engage in politics on Kaitain against the Emperor and the Landsraad council, and travel from Arrakis across the Imperium to seek new allies, resources, and favors that might tip the balance of power in the universe.

Tome of Beasts 3 (Limited Leather Edition) | Tome of Beasts 3 | Tome of Beasts 3 - Pawns by Kobold Press

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplements/pawns
• RETAIL PRICE: $79.99/$49.99/$44.99
• DESCRIPTION: One monster looks like a potion that leaps free when its bottle is unstoppered and attaches to a PC’s face. I have to admit that’s pretty epic. From the artic to swamps, monsters represent. Some example monsters: void knights, breakwater trolls, prismatic dragons, royal chimeras, voidclaw zombies, tar golems, witchwillows, kobold drake riders, and hellfire giants. The Limited Leather Edition has a foil-stamped cover, deluxe endpapers, and a ribbon bookmark. The Pawns depict monsters from the book in paper miniature format.

Lost Omens - Pathfinder Society Guide (Special Edition) by Paizo

• SYSTEM: Pathfinder 2nd Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: special edition hardcover
• RETAIL PRICE: $59.99
• DESCRIPTION: This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark. The Pathfinder Society is a globe-trotting organization of adventurers, scholars, and warriors all dedicated to exploration, collecting lost knowledge and treasure, and sharing it with the world. This book covers everything from the basics of membership, to the Society's various factions, to the various lodges littered throughout the Inner Sea region. New rules: equipment, wayfinders, and support for Pathfinder-related archetypes.

Arcane Arts - The Dungeoneer's Guide to Miniature Painting and Tabletop Mayhem by Andrews McMeel Publishing

• SYSTEM: fantasy RPGs
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $29.99
• DESCRIPTION: Provides a number of milestone “quests” that go from the first steps of selecting a miniature figure, to understanding the visual cues that come from their choice of color and texture, to developing scenic basing and preparing miniature for game-play. Professional miniature painter and instructor Noxweiler Berf demystifies the miniature painting process for the beginner and offers new perspectives and encouragement for advanced TTRPG miniature painters. And Noxweiler Berf is such a great name I’m borrowing it for use as a future NPC.

 

[Egg Embry]

I need to grab a copy of The Terminator. While I'd never use The Terminator alternate Egg option, it's cool that they put it into the game!