RPG Print News – Goodman Games, Legendary Games, and More

D&D gets plenty of support with adventures and new exploration rules and hundreds of magic items. Pathfinder 2E also has many new rule options. Call of Cthulhu and Star Trek Adventures get new condensed rules. Exalted Funeral is back with support for Troika! and Mothership.

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One Night in the Sinister Citadel by Goodman Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $9.99
• DESCRIPTION: An urban-based adventure for a group of 2nd-level characters. PCs will need timely sleuthing and a glib tongue to unravel the mystery behind the Crylla Auction House. Its inaugural event is the sale of a plethora of enchanted items which are sure to draw unsavory buyers and seedy undesirables. Extra security includes the PCs. But the citadel itself has many buried secrets, the local thieves’ guild makes a run for the treasure, and one of the enchanted items has a mind of its own. This adventure is designed to be completed in a single session and includes a new spell as well as a bevy of new magic items.

Tome of Heroes | Tome of Heroes (Limited Edition) by Kobold Press

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
• DESCRIPTION: Rules for new character races and subclasses, weapon options, and powerful spells, as well as new equipment, expanded magic rules, and much more.

Trails & Treasures by EN Publishing

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $59.95
• DESCRIPTION: Contains full rules for journeys and exploration, including details on regions, discoveries, and boons, dozens of exploration challenges, and random encounters of all types. Also contains over 500 magic items and rules for crafting them and pages of advice and tools for creating encounters and running the game.

Historia Adventures Book by Mana Project Studio

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Historia
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
• RETAIL PRICE: $34
• DESCRIPTION: Nine adventures set in the world of Historia, linkable to form a campaign that will accompany the characters from the 1st to the 3rd tier (level 1st-16th level). Set in Vesteria, a merciless land, full of intrigues and populated by anthropomorphic animals.

Faerie Bargains | Legendary Mediums | Conquering Heroes - Pregenerated Characters | Treasury of the City by Legendary Games

• SYSTEM: Pathfinder 2nd Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $14.99/$13.99/$13.99/$10.00
• DESCRIPTION: Faerie Bargains includes 40 mystical bargains with the fey. Rule a land of youth or find true love all wrapped up in a promise and a price that seems but a trifle, until the bargain comes due and the fair folk come to collect. Each bargain grants a benefit once payment is made and there are rules for hidden conditions, escape clauses, tokens, and more, along with how to research and negotiate bargains with different kinds of fey. Includes unique magical items like the cauldron of autumnal bounty and sword of vernal light. Legendary Mediums centers on the skillful and adaptable medium class. Tap into an incredible array of psychospiritual abilities, featuring over 30 class options for binding to spirit and, attuning to the anima, kami, servitor, or the mysterious void. Also has over 100 class feats, focus spells, magic items, skill unlocks, and more. Conquering Heroes includes eight pregenerated PCs. Arkadyus Sakharov, human bastard ranger. Davor Hestruk, half-orc fanatic cleric of the God of Battle. Faunlara "Faun" Daedys, elven treespeaker druid. Hulgrim Underspool, gnome prankster sorcerer. Pollyna Shuryon, changeling bandit rogue. Pyotr Maartis, human gentleman swashbuckler. Quinry Kimm, half-elven courtier bard. Radomir Lytkin, human student wizard. Each character also has specific level advancement information for their first few levels, with further suggestions for developing the character's long-term mechanical build as well as foldable paper miniatures for each character. Treasury of the City covers 36 magic items for every part of the city, from back alleys, to smoke-filled back rooms. Examples: toxic scabbard, forgetful sap, cryptwarden’s plate. ratty robes, sewer suit, scale of endless bureaucracy, pilferer’s gloves, and nightwatch crossbow.

Call of Cthulhu Starter Set (40th Anniversary) by Chaosium

• SYSTEM: Call of Cthulhu
• PRODUCT TYPE: box set
• RETAIL PRICE: $24.99
• DESCRIPTION: PCs are investigators of mysteries, uncovering dark secrets, encountering strange monsters, and thwarting sinister cults. Inside the box are three softcovers: Alone Against The Flames - a solo introductory adventure, starter rules, and three starter adventures. Five ready-to-play game characters, blank Investigator Sheets, six polyhedral dice, and handouts.

Elegy of the Sapphire Adept | The Forest Primordia | Dead in the Water by Exalted Funeral

• SYSTEM: Troika!/Troika!/Mothership
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $12/$20/$10
• DESCRIPTION: In Elegy of the Sapphire Adept, players are hired by The Academy of Xenobotanical Exaltation to discover the source of the insidious blue vines running rampant over the City of Troika. Buildings crumble, walkways collapse, and chaos reigns. Includes: 10 new Enemies and four new Treasures. PCs in the Forest Primordia are lost in the depths of the mirrormind skies, shipwrecked upon an uncharted forest world. Abandoned, hollowed-out spheres float above them, exquisite and doom-laden. Three locales: The Village That Eats Its God Every Night, The Forest Primordia - reverse lightning and drunken trees, and The Deconstructed Ziggurat - a crumbling stronghold with secrets divine and somber. Also 11 new backgrounds, including Mindseed Revelator and Pandemonic Splendorist and new enemies including morose, mechanical knights, and a resurrected Chaos Lord. In Dead in the Water, the PCs come upon an abandoned ship in the middle of nowhere. Crews can explore The Tarcza to discover just what is really going on with two options for play: one clean and one messy for exploring the final fate of those aboard.

Rules Digest - Star Trek Adventures by Modiphuis

• SYSTEM: 2d20
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover core condensed core rulebook
• RETAIL PRICE: $41
• DESCRIPTION: PCs are explorers of Starfleet traveling the final frontier of the Galaxy, where new discoveries await. Duty may take them to the edges of known space, to Federation colonies in need, to the borders of neighboring galactic powers, or into the eye of interstellar phenomena. These rules are a more compact version of the core rulebook and features updated original era layout and art throughout. Previously available only as part of the Tricorder Collector's Box Set. The core rules can be used for any era of play. An extensive exploration of the United Federation of Planets and its galactic neighbors in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. Guidelines for gamemasters on how to run an adventure of exploration and discovery for the crew of a Federation starship. A full catalogue of aliens and antagonists including Klingons and Romulans. Personal logs and intercepted communications by Starfleet Intelligence provide a new perspective on Star Trek and its events.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I'm on that Historia Adv book. Didn't even know it was coming. Thanks