RPG Print News – Warhammer, Old-School Essentials, and More

New adventures are out for Old-School Essentials, Shadowdark, and Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition based on milk chocolate, out of their minds faeries, and purple worms respectively. Dungeons & Dragons also gets a new edition of science-fantasy rules including ground vehicles and aircraft (plus railcannons, which D&D was lacking). There is also support for rangers and rogues in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and book based rules including a new class for Outcast Silver Raiders. A new pirate RPG, Powered by the Apocalypse, is out. Finally, there are dice with tiger cubs and ducks inside (not real ones, minis).

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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Quick Delve #1 - Milk by Necrotic Gnome

• SYSTEM: Old-School Essentials
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover zine
• RETAIL PRICE: $12
• DESCRIPTION: Designed for PCs of level two to four. Beneath the mountain, merfolk confectioners craft the most exquisite chocolate truffles in existence in a lake of milk until production mysteriously halts. The PCs are tasked with getting production started again. But the wicked Chocolatier and her sinister sweets stand in their way.

Deft Steps Light Fingers by Cubicle 7

• SYSTEM: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fourth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $39.99
• DESCRIPTION: Support for ranger or rogue PCs. supplement for playing Characters in the Rogue or Ranger class. Rogues prefer not to make their living through honest labor, but acquire coin through trickery, extortion, or theft. Many rogues worship Ranald the god of Tricksters, a religion that is banned in many provinces. Rangers travel the wild places of the Old World and live off the land. Taal, the god of the wild, is often followed by rangers and their ilk, and his cult is described in detail. Inside: careers such as the Forger, Muleskinner, Poacher, Gamekeeper, and specialized Priests of Taal and Ranald and corresponding Miracles. Also includes ideas for carrying out thefts, confidence tricks, and forgeries, endeavors and events tied to long-term criminal activity, running a criminal gang, law breaking with rules for trials, tracking rules, and hunting and poaching rules.

Faster, Purple Worm! Everybody Dies, Vol. 1 by Beadle and Grimm’s

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover adventure collection
• RETAIL PRICE: $45
• DESCRIPTION: Every group of first level PCs dreams of a long adventuring career full of daring victories and blazing glory. But for every lucky hero there are a dozen unfortunate ones who take on the wrong quest or challenge an epic monster far beyond their abilities. Based on the streaming show Faster Purple Worm! Kill! Kill!, each of these 15 one-shot adventures provides PCs with a wild ride on the way towards their inevitable demise facing a legendary creature from the history of Dungeons & Dragons.

Amethyst Quintessence | Amethyst Revelations by Dias Ex Machina

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcovers
• RETAIL PRICE: $69.99 each
• DESCRIPTION: Quintessence covers adding technology-based rules including vehicle combat and firearms to high fantasy roleplaying. Has 11 new races, more than 30 backgrounds, eight new classes based around technology, over 30 archetypes, high tech gear from powered armor to railcannons, ground vehicles, aircraft, and 30 plus monsters. Revelations covers new races, backgrounds, archetypes, and new regions in Europe and Africa. There are five classes like the pleromancer who forces living spells and over fifty new monsters. Includes the history of the cybernetic angels and technologies including organic weapons, mecha, and sand skiffs.

Rapscallion | Rapscallion GM Screen | Rapscallion Skull Dice Pack by Magpie Games

• SYSTEM: Powered by the Apocalypse
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebook/screen/five pairs of six-sided dice
• RETAIL PRICE: $39.95/$24.99/$24.95
• DESCRIPTION: The PCs, part of a crew of misfit pirates with their own ship, explore the waters of the Great Sea hunting treasure. The PCs might duel atop heaving ship decks and commit dark deeds to protect those they care about, but they cannot escape the vices that haunt them. PCs may be a haunted captain possessed by a thousand vengeful ghosts or a dark sea-sorcerer who made a deal with a demon for power. Features: 10 character playbooks, three ship playbooks, PC troubles and vices that compel them, and all the rules needed for swashbuckling adventure. A GM Screen is also available. Each die in the Skull Dice Pack is pearlescent and engraved with a unique dread-pirate skull. Includes five pirate colors from across the great sea.

Forest of Exile by Exalted Funeral Press

• SYSTEM: Shadowdark
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover zine
• RETAIL PRICE: $20
• DESCRIPTION: An adventure for low-level PCs who are asked to protect a village, aid fey exiles, and seek out who or what has wreaked chaos in the Forest of Exile. Creatures of Faerie, threatened and driven out of their minds by some unknown terror on the twilight plane, are seeking refuge in a ruined castle deep within the ancient Grimwood Forest. The PCs may be able to help, if they uncover the hidden threat to both the village and the faeries. Also includes nine magic items and 18 monsters.

Hexen: Volume 1 - The Antiquarian Anthology by Exalted Funeral Press

• SYSTEM: Outcast Silver Raiders
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover zine
• RETAIL PRICE: $20
• DESCRIPTION: A rules supplement that includes the Antiquarian, a class that manipulates dusty pages of lost esoteric knowledge, along with memories and keepsakes to expand PCs’ backgrounds. Details a system of Stress, Horror, and mind-bending Epiphanies to add sanity threatening effects to a campaign. Also includes Eldritch Artifacts full of power and corruption along with the Celebrants of Aengus Óg, a heretical arcane cult. The cult includes two detailed encounters and two mapped adventuring locations to explore.

Dice: Silver with Tiger Cub (7) | Dice: Gold and Teal with Duck (7) by Old School Dice & Accessories

• SYSTEM: RPGs that use dice
• PRODUCT TYPE: seven dice each
• RETAIL PRICE: $17.99 each
• DESCRIPTION: Acrylic dice with an animal mini inside: d4, d6, d8, d10, d10 (00-90), d12, and d20.

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