So many amazing RPG supplements this week, a couple of which have been covered in interviews (referenced below). Three have great Halloween vibes as well. Vaesen gets a haunted city with adventures and a large map, Liminal Horror gets a box set of six pamphlet adventures and the base rules, and Colonial Gothic has a book with Lovecraft underpinnings. Castles & Crusades gets flights of angels to offset the unclean, and Traveller gets a new sandbox setting awash with pirates and raiding aliens. There is a new jungle setting for Dungeons & Dragons, and finally there are a couple of interesting dice sets out.
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City of My Nightmares by Free League Publishing
Codex Exaltum by Troll Lord Games
Colonial Gothic Guidebook by Rogue Games
Liminal Grimoire by M. Allen Hall
The Borderland by Mongoose Publishing
Fool’s Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds Campaign Box Set | Fool’s Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds Campaign Setting | Fool’s Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds GM Screen by Hit Point Press
The Pure Knight dice set | Anarchy dice set – Halfsies (resin) by Gate Keeper Games
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City of My Nightmares by Free League Publishing
- SYSTEM: Vaesen
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement with separate map and newspaper handout
- RETAIL PRICE: $44.95
- DESCRIPTION: The PCs face the unspeakable horrors lurk in the dark alleys, crawl underneath the cobblestone streets, and soar through the twilight skies above. In this campaign in four parts, the PCs are invited to the 19th century capital (Stockholm but can be adapted to London, Prague or any Gothic city) to investigate a series of grisly murders, only to become embroiled in a much deeper mystery involving the very origins of the Society itself and threatening to throw the city into utter chaos. Includes a separate large map of Stockholm with a newspaper handout (format 400x558mm).
Codex Exaltum by Troll Lord Games
- SYSTEM: Castles & Crusades
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $29.99
- DESCRIPTION: Includes angels ranging from the Cherubim to the Seraphim and Malakim. These and other creatures, good and pure, hail from planes that represent the polar opposite of the Wretched Plains, home of foul evil and the unclean. Complete with setting rules, adventure hooks, and more.
Colonial Gothic Guidebook by Rogue Games
- SYSTEM: Colonial Gothic Fourth Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
- OTHER RPG NEWS: Colonial Gothic: An Interview with Richard G. Iorio
- DESCRIPTION: Originally intended for the core rulebook, this companion volume gathers the cut chapters, deeper lore, and unrevealed truths together. It includes new professions, powers, insights, and terrors rooted in the strange and the historical. The PCs learn that what they always feared is real. What hides behind the Revolution is older than the colonies. And from its long slumber, it is waking up.
Liminal Grimoire by M. Allen Hall
- SYSTEM: Liminal Horror
- PRODUCT TYPE: trifold pamphlet box set with six adventures
- RETAIL PRICE: $39.95
- OTHER RPG NEWS: Liminal Horror: An Interview with Josh Domanski and Zach Hazard Vaupen
- DESCRIPTION: Includes six adventures, a guide to linking the adventures together into a campaign, tools for solo play, an abbreviated Liminal Horror rules summary, printable character sheets and accomplice cards (for solo play), character sheets and other supplemental game materials on 8.5" x 3.5" leaflets, and everything fits in a 9" x 4" box.
The Borderland by Mongoose Publishing
- SYSTEM: Traveller
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
- DESCRIPTION: The Borderland, between the Imperium and Aslan Hierate, holds both danger and opportunity. Pirates stalk the outer planets while alien bands of Aslan raid under-developed worlds. However, survivor populations hide among the ruins of lost colonies, and rumors promise that hidden bases and lost treasures wait to be discovered. Shadowy corporations and ramshackle alliances vie for control of the space lanes, while the reclusive stakeholders of Tech-World pursue their extreme lifestyles and personal agendas with extreme vigor. The PC Travellers both need to tread lightly as well as carry a big stick; fame and glory lie just a heartbeat from disaster. GM Referees will find a semi-isolated sandbox campaign. Not too big to get lost in but far enough away from other systems to maintain focus.
Fool’s Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds Campaign Box Set | Fool’s Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds Campaign Setting | Fool’s Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds GM Screen by Hit Point Press
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2014 Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: box set/hardcover campaign setting/GM screen
- RETAIL PRICE: $120/$60/$15
- DESCRIPTION: A deadly jungle based adventure and campaign setting based on the animated YouTube series Fool’s Gold. The PCs try to find out what happened to the ancient Foreclaimers who disappeared thousands of years ago, leaving ruins, mysteries, mechanical dragons and dinosaurs, and awesome treasures behind. Fool’s Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds Campaign Box Set contents: Fool’s Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds Campaign Setting (also available separately), 120 reference cards, a double-sided map, and three sheets of cardboard standees with bases. Fool’s Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds Campaign Setting covers: an adventure, alchemy and harvesting, Curse and Wilder Magic charts with hundreds of chaotic effects, over 30 spells and a new sub-school: Oneiromancy, four races including the Foreclaimers and the honorable Weavers, eight subclasses, character backgrounds like the Cursed Soul and Gold Shaper, 35 plus deadly monsters, new items and gear that can be crafted, setting guide to the Bellowing Wilds region of the world of Ambria including the gods, Felix’s personal house rules, and character sheets of the Fool’s Gold crew. The Fool’s Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds GM Screen is also available.
The Pure Knight dice set | Anarchy dice set – Halfsies (resin) by Gate Keeper Games
- SYSTEM: RPGs that use dice
- PRODUCT TYPE: each a set of seven dice
- RETAIL PRICE: $14.95 each
- DESCRIPTION: The Pure Knight dice are the purest glimmering white with crimson numbers with a shield of Sir Galahad icons. Shimmers with subtle micro-glitter. The Anarchy dice feature a semi-translucent half-&-half color arrangement, a pearlescent swirl within each color, and a smooth blend where the two colors meet. Top view they appear to be one color, when viewed from the bottom appear to be an entirely different color, and when viewed from the side they appear to be two layers of color. Each die has the high and low numbers centered on the color halves.
