Two box sets drop for Twilight: 2000, and Tales of the Valiant lands as a variant rule set for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition. D&D also gets various supplements for Fateforge. Supplements are also available for Shadows of Esteren, and DCC Classics RPG gets a starter collection for a great price.
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Hostile Waters | The Black Madonna by Free League Publishing
Tales of the Valiant - Two Book Slipcase | Tales of the Valiant - Player's Guide | Tales of the Valiant - Monster Vault | Tales of the Valiant - Game Master's Screen by Kobold Press
Deadpool Role-Plays the Marvel Universe by Marvel Comics
Encyclopedia 2 - Netherworld | Cankerous Infestation | GM Kit Netherworld - Screen and Cartography Set | Traveling in the Netherworld & Deck of 50 Cards | Treasures of the Netherworld by Studio Agate
Occultism | The Monastery of Tuath by Studio Agate
DCC First-Time Fan Kit by Goodman Games
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Hostile Waters | The Black Madonna by Free League Publishing
- SYSTEM: Twilight: 2000
- PRODUCT TYPE: boxed sets
- RETAIL PRICE: $41.80 each
- DESCRIPTION: Hostile Waters is a modular expansion to play in a marine environment loosely based on Pirates of the Vistula for the first edition of Twilight: 2000. Includes new combat and travel rules for marine environments, military watercraft large and small, new factions for the PCs to tangle with, new plots to unravel, and new scenario sites to explore including the USS Maine Ohio-class nuclear submarine. It also describes the two sample waterways the Vistula river and the Göta Canal. Contents: rulebook, 26 river and lake encounter cards, 16 modular marine environment battle maps, six scenario site battle maps, battle map tokens for boats and ships of various sizes, a double-sided full-color 864x558mm travel map for northern Poland and southern Sweden connecting the maps in the core RPG. The Black Madonna is based on the first edition adventure updated and written by the original author, Frank Frey, and Chris Keeling. Includes new rules, new weapons, an overview of the Silesia region of Poland, new encounters, new factions for the PCs to encounter, new scenario sites to explore, and details on the Black Madonna itself and its secrets. Inside: rulebook, 16 new encounter cards, six battle maps for specific locations, three battle maps for close quarters combat, and a travel map.
Tales of the Valiant - Two Book Slipcase | Tales of the Valiant - Player's Guide | Tales of the Valiant - Monster Vault | Tales of the Valiant - Game Master's Screen by Kobold Press
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition variant core rules
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover core rulebooks/GM screen
- RETAIL PRICE: $129.99/$59.99/$59.99/$19.99
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- DESCRIPTION: The Gift Set Slipcase includes the Player's Guide and Monster Vault in a slipcase and a is a Black Flag Roleplaying game. The Player's Guide includes a new Lineage and Heritage system, Talents and Backgrounds, modified spellcasting and martial abilities to enhance PCs in combat, and downtime rules. The Monster Vault contains over 400 monsters along with GM guidance on roles and tactics and rules for Game Master Doom points. Includes classic fantasy monsters like dragons and giants, new monsters suitable for any fantasy or science fantasy world such as mechadrons and robots, and terrors from the Void like star crows and the mighty void dragon. The Game Master's Screen comes with a character sheet.
Deadpool Role-Plays the Marvel Universe by Marvel Comics
- SYSTEM: Marvel Multiverse RPG
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $9.99
- DESCRIPTION: The first comic-sized, one-shot adventure for the Marvel Multiverse RPG. Players can play as Deadpool and his team with new character profiles or as their own PCs in a fourth-wall breaking adventure. Includes a comic story lead-in by Cullen Bunn (Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe).
Encyclopedia 2 - Netherworld | Cankerous Infestation | GM Kit Netherworld - Screen and Cartography Set | Traveling in the Netherworld & Deck of 50 Cards | Treasures of the Netherworld by Studio Agate
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition Fateforge
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement/adventure/GM screen and maps/supplement and deck of 50 cards/deck of 30 cards
- RETAIL PRICE: $50/$20/$30/$40/$25
- DESCRIPTION: Encyclopedia 2 - Netherworld details two major iconic features of Eana: its underground world, the Netherworld, and its most dangerous foe, Canker. Includes their history, their secrets, and related magic items. Adventures focus on urban schemes in cities of below, and perilous voyages into niyerdae—wild lands in perpetual darkness. A major antagonist, Canker is a complex entity, simultaneously a plane, a godlike power, and a life form. Also includes more than 120 magic items, including fell blasphemies filled with Canker’s deleterious energy and glyphs that can alter the environment of subterranean regions. Cankerous Infestation is a collection of five adventures for characters level three to 14, featuring different aspects of Canker and its ravagers. Canker is on the prowl in the dark tunnels of the Netherworld, looking for any opportunity to expand its influence and reach the surface. The GM Kit Netherworld - Screen and Cartography Set includes a game screen and map set of the Netherworld of Eana. Traveling in the Netherworld & Deck of 50 Cards includes 50 incidents involving underground hazards along with cards to match. Treasures of the Netherworld is a deck of 30 cards in tarot format of magic items related to the Netherworld and Canker. Each card shows an illustration, a description and a technical profile for the item.
Occultism | The Monastery of Tuath by Studio Agate
- SYSTEM: Shadows of Esteren
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplements
- RETAIL PRICE: $30 each
- DESCRIPTION: Occultism covers occultism in Tri-Kazel with many details about the skills of occultists, the forbidden arts of sorcerers, and the mysterious visionary powers of mediums. New Disciplines are introduced, rules on sanity, an occult organization called The Circle of Emergence, and a scenario filled with occult and supernatural dangers including two new creatures: the Bogeyman and the Diwelank. The Monastery of Tuath focuses on the Temple faction and features a large investigation scenario. Other contents include: an aid sheet which tackles the commitment to one order of the Clergy, the organization of the spiritual life as well as the optional rule of the Six Vows and its impact on the Characters, some details about the daily life of the monks and the organization of the monasteries, and a religious institution of the Temple in a Gwidrite valley.
DCC First-Time Fan Kit by Goodman Games
- SYSTEM: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover rules, adventure, GM screen, mystery pregen PCs, and dice
- RETAIL PRICE: $45
- DESCRIPTION: Not a new product but basically a starter set for DCC RPG. Includes: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG – Softcover Edition, Sezrekan’s Sanguivorous Solids (dice), DCC RPG Judge’s Screen, DCC Scratch-Off Character Sheets (PC with stats revealed during play), and Dungeon Crawl Classics #79: Frozen In Time. Frozen In Time is a great adventure that mixes sci-fi (a crashed space ship) with fantasy frozen setting. The adventure can be played as a 0-level funnel or with first level PCs, allowing for great replayability.
