Dungeons & Dragons 2014 and Pathfinder First Edition receive new third party support with monsters and magic respectively. Outgunned and Outgunned Adventure both continue to grow with supplements and GM screens. Adventures arrive for both Through the Breach and Kult: Divinity Lost. Finally, the Cypher System gets a supplement for a haunted, magical Old West.
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Big Bads Box Set - Big Bads and Creatures & Curios | The Big Book of Big Bads | Big Bads Creatures & Curios | Big Bads - GM Screen by Hit Point Press
Outgunned RPG: Action Flicks, Volume 2 | Outgunned RPG: Director Screen | Outgunned Adventure RPG: Mission Dossier - Fall of Atlantis | Outgunned Adventure RPG: Adventure Screen by Two Little Mice
The Bardess’ Library Issue #6 Magic by Legendary Games
Penny Dreadful -The Vile Volume by Wyrd Games
Together Unto Death | Gallery of Souls by Modiphius Entertainment
High Noon at Midnight by Monte Cook Games
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Big Bads Box Set - Big Bads and Creatures & Curios | The Big Book of Big Bads | Big Bads Creatures & Curios | Big Bads - GM Screen by Hit Point Press
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 2014
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplements and GM screen
- RETAIL PRICE: $120/$60/$60/$14.99
- DESCRIPTION: The Big Bads Box Set comes with The Big Book of Big Bads, Creatures & Curios, and a GM Screen along with four double-sided battle maps. All but the maps also sold separately. The Big Book of Big Bads strives to include the biggest, baddest boss monsters. Each Big Bad has a backstory along with a roleplay a tactics guide. Inside: 31 Big Bads of CR 5 to 30, 30 minions, 33 magic items, campaign frames linking multiple Big Bads, and a guide to organization for PCs that adds feats, ranks, and NPCs. Big Bads Creatures & Curios includes over 100 monsters and 100 magic items. PCs may attempt to evade the deadly toxins of the other-worldly abezrogest, or engage in battle with the undead battleshee. Magic items include a glimpse into the honey-coated mysteries of bees with the ring of bee secrets and a dagger made from the tooth of a fallen god which can bring down the heavens. Also has random roll tables for the magic items. The GM Screen has info specific to The Big Book of Big Bads.
Outgunned RPG: Action Flicks, Volume 2 | Outgunned RPG: Director Screen | Outgunned Adventure RPG: Mission Dossier - Fall of Atlantis | Outgunned Adventure RPG: Adventure Screen by Two Little Mice
- SYSTEM: Outgunned and Outgunned Adventure
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement/GM screen/softcover adventures/GM screen
- RETAIL PRICE: $44.99/$24.99/$19.99/$24.99
- DESCRIPTION: Outgunned RPG: Action Flicks, Volume 2 is a collection of ideas, mechanics, tips, and tools to help GMs make adventures in different settings and genres. Inside are 11 setting ideas: Star Knights wielding the Power against the Darkness, the Wild West, an eternal war between Angels and Demons, PCs versus the Old Ones, PCs as beat cops, PCs facing off against dinosaurs, zombies trying to eat everyone, PCs as cartoon animals, post-apocalyptic survival, fantasy adventuring, and net running. The Director Screen has tables from Outgunned. Mission Dossier - Fall of Atlantis contains mini cinematic campaigns that include everything need to play without any additional set-up: adventurers, enemies, rivals, and more. The Adventure Screen has tables for Outgunned Adventure.
The Bardess’ Library Issue #6 Magic by Legendary Games
- SYSTEM: Pathfinder First Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $14.99
- DESCRIPTION: The Bardess’ Library is an anthology of material with each issue having a different theme. This month’s theme is magic. Inside: class options for bards, magi, rogues, sorcerers, witches, and wizards along with archetypes for magi, wizards, oracles, and animal companions. Two arcane-themed oaths for paladins, metamagic feats, mythic arcane schools, spells, feats, magic items for arcane casters, improved familiars, and traditions for arcane casters. Finally, includes stats for a powerful wizard, Pearl Buttercup, at four levels of ability: beginner, intermediate levels, high levels, and maximum power.
Penny Dreadful -The Vile Volume by Wyrd Games
- SYSTEM: Through the Breach
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $30
- DESCRIPTION: Six one-shot adventures that were previously only available as PDFs. The PC Fated face horrors in the slimiest, creepiest, and crawliest parts of Malifaux. In Night of the Carver Carving Day draws near, which can only mean one thing: an infamous and murderous scarecrow has returned to hunt in Malifaux City. Sailors gone missing and rumors of a terrible creature in the river lead the PCs to try to uncover what lurks beneath the waters in The Ferryman. The PCs discover that a manor in the Resurrectionist-filled Barrows may well be haunted. Perhaps the previous owner's experimentations with Soulstones have created this Ghost House. A murder victim returns to ask the PCs for assistance solving her own killing in 'Til Death Do Us Part in a race against time to bring the perpetrator to justice. Bubbling Up From Below, a sunken ship in the Bayou much is far more than it appears as the PCs unknowingly prepare to open up a prison kept deliberately locked. A Mimic's last will and testament asks the PCs to settle some of his outstanding debts with over Neverborn residents calling Malifaux City home in Memento Mori.
Together Unto Death | Gallery of Souls by Modiphius Entertainment
- SYSTEM: Kult: Divinity Lost - Fourth Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventures
- RETAIL PRICE: $20.65 each
- DESCRIPTION: Two adventures back in print again for Kult: Divinity Lost - Fourth Edition, an R rated horror RPG updated to more modern times in this edition. In Together Unto Death two PCs are Enwildened Gods whose father has hunted and brutally murdered their many incarnations throughout the eras. Now, reincarnated in modern New York City, the PCs learn of their origins and fight for survival. Gallery of Souls takes place in 1951, Los Angeles. The PCs are criminals caught by a mob boss. To repay their debts they have to find an artist named Christian Starker. What they don’t know is that they have been thrown into a fight between a Death Magician and a Lictor. Includes 4 pre-made characters.
High Noon at Midnight by Monte Cook Games
- SYSTEM: Cypher System
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
- DESCRIPTION: PCs ride across a haunted, magical west where hungry tumbleweeds roam, cursed beasts slink through arid canyons, and demons in spurs drink whiskey. Fortunes are decided one cursed bullet at a time. Has weird-west foci, descriptors, and other character options to build a Trigger-Happy Gunslinger who Spits Fire and Lead or a Slick Lawman who Hits the Saloon. Eerie and terrible creatures include the deadly card shark and the reclusive chupacabra. Optional rules for integrating card games into the setting. This western campaign setting with ancient horrors and magic also has three adventures and two Cypher Shorts.
