A wide range of interesting table top RPG supplements are available this week. Mothership gets two new adventures, Dungeons & Dragons gets two adventures along with a book of side quests, and Liminal Horror also gets a creepy adventure. Pendragon gets a core rulebook for GMs and Torg Eternity gets support for Pan-Pacifica. Finally, a book of battle maps is available again for Shadow Scar.
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Unconfirmed Contact Reports | Another Bug Hunt by Tuesday Knight Games
Playthings by Space Penguin Ink
Macdeath | The Frozen Beacon by Critical Kit LTD
Quartershots Book II - Lairs & Labyrinths by Deck & Dice Games
Pendragon Gamemaster's Handbook | Pendragon Gamemaster's Handbook - Leatherette by Chaosium
Delphi Missions - Pan-Pacifica | Kanawa Operations | Pan-Pacifica GM Pack | Pan-Pacifica Map Pack 2 | GM Screen - Pan-Pacifica by Ulisses Spiele
Giant Book of Shadow Scar Battle Maps by Loke Battle Maps
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Unconfirmed Contact Reports | Another Bug Hunt by Tuesday Knight Games
- SYSTEM: Mothership
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
- RETAIL PRICE: $20 each
- DESCRIPTION: Unconfirmed Contact Reports includes over 40 unique, fully illustrated strange entities and horrendous monstrosities. Also comes complete with a section on home brewing monsters as well as over 100 in-world prompts. In Another Bug Hunt, the PCs must check on a remote terraforming colony. When they arrive, they find it abandoned and the aftermath of a bloody attack. Includes a new alien species: the Carcinids and three competing factions.
Playthings by Space Penguin Ink
- SYSTEM: Liminal Horror
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $15
- DESCRIPTION: PC investigators wake to find themselves unknowingly trapped inside a demi-plane of plastic, a world which caters not to them but to the needs and entertainment of another. Childlike solutions and logic rule the day for PCs in this world of nascent horror where the only hope is to escape. Includes: 36 new backgrounds from the Executive Doll (with ‘90s cellphone and pantsuit!) to the plastic commando, a point crawl through Barb’s House of Dreams, and new horrors like the suffering knotted slinky or the dreaded Tin Robot.
Macdeath | The Frozen Beacon by Critical Kit LTD
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventures
- RETAIL PRICE: $6 each
- DESCRIPTION: Macdeath is a murder mystery adventure for four to five first level PCs. Set in the Feywild, the PCs must perform a play for The Queen of The Summer Court and then solve the heinous murder of a cast member. Includes tips on running a murder mystery, two magical items, and a play for PCs to perform. For four to five 10th level PCs, The Frozen Beacon has, for centuries, remained dormant. The beacon has now been lit. Standing on the border of the frozen wastes, the village of Oxdrift, isolated by heavy snowfall and beset by sub-zero temperatures, is in danger of being abandoned. The locals think the lighting of the beacon is related to the harsh weather. The PCs travel to the Frozen Beacon and confront the malevolent forces that dwell there. Includes new monsters (ice mage and ice wight) and new spells and magical items (ice blade, frozen beacon, and ice lightning.
Quartershots Book II - Lairs & Labyrinths by Deck & Dice Games
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $25
- DESCRIPTION: Packed with 22 side quests that defy the expectations of the PCs from a lonely medusa who's just starved for a little attention, or the PCs realizing that the underground oasis they've hallucinated is actually the lair of sentient carnivorous fungi that've been slowly digesting them. Includes ready-to-use player hand-outs from compelling clue-filled journals to a dungeon maze map that burns up at the worst possible time.
Pendragon Gamemaster's Handbook | Pendragon Gamemaster's Handbook - Leatherette by Chaosium
- SYSTEM: Pendragon
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook
- RETAIL PRICE: $49.99/$99.99
- DESCRIPTION: Expands the setting of the game: highlights of important characters and time periods, courtly intrigue, and many strange and wondrous beasts, spirits, fairies, and fiends. Includes in-depth discussions of religion and magic. In addition, a section is dedicated to ‘Arthurian Acts’. These expanded rules cover events such as tournaments, seduction, and an entire system for running Feasts, where gossip, courtesy, and Honor hold sway. There are also rules for running battles, from the smallest skirmish to the most legendary clash of arms. Finally, two all-new scenarios are covered. The Adventure of the Crucible, intended for starting characters, introduces lords, ladies, allies, and rivals as the Player-squires earn their spurs in a time of anarchy and desperation. In The Adventure of the King's Gambit, the County of Sarum faces annihilation when the Saxons of Wessex launch an invasion. The Player-knights must attempt to break through enemy lines and ride for aid in time.
Delphi Missions - Pan-Pacifica | Kanawa Operations | Pan-Pacifica GM Pack | Pan-Pacifica Map Pack 2 | GM Screen - Pan-Pacifica by Ulisses Spiele
- SYSTEM: Torg Eternity
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement/softcover adventure/GM pack/double sided poster battle map/GM screen and pre-gen PCs
- RETAIL PRICE: $29.99/$14.99/$29.99/$14.99/$29.99
- DESCRIPTION: Delphi Missions - Pan-Pacifica includes 10 adventures all set within different parts of Pan-Pacifica, including an adventure designed for solo play. Designed for Alpha and Beta Clearance PC Storm Knights. Includes new foes to battle and challenges to face. Kanawa Operations details how GMs can use heists to focus on objectives like sabotage, increasing or decreasing reputations, or hacking into a network. Dr. Y has discovered a potential cure for the jiangshi virus, but Dr. Y has gone missing. The PC Storm Knights must find out what happened to the illustrious doctor and provide needed assistance to help stop the contagion that continues to ravage the population of Asia. The Pan-Pacifica GM Pack contains a dry-erase map of Pan-Pacifica shows all the invasion zones across China, North and South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Taiwan, and parts of Australia. Threat cards have one side that faces the players with defense numbers to calculate attacks. The other side has special abilities and attacks listed for the GM. Tokens depict monsters and foes. The Pan-Pacifica Map Pack 2 is a double-sided poster battle map. GM Screen - Pan-Pacifica also includes 16 full-color archetypes and their character sheets such as the martial-arts themed Everyman Hero, the Patriot Arms Power Suit Pilot, and the lethal Corporate Assassin.
Giant Book of Shadow Scar Battle Maps by Loke Battle Maps
- SYSTEM: Shadow Scar
- PRODUCT TYPE: spiral bound lay flat book of battle maps
- RETAIL PRICE: $46.99
- DESCRIPTION: First published in 2024. Includes 62 maps of the high fantasy lands of Nakatsukuni, the pulp noir 5th Street, steam driven Steel Court, and the Sci Fi Refuge. The maps work with wet-erase, dry-erase, and other non-permanent markers. Could be used with Pan-Pacifica for Torg Eternity as well.
