RPG Print News – Ghostfire Gaming, Mongoose, and More

Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition gets a new setting, lots of new rule support, traps, and a trap filled adventure. New supplements drop for Traveller. Exalted Funeral has four supplements for four different popular RPGs covering a new setting, a city in turmoil, and everything owl. Finally, there are hefty Kitty dice available.

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.

Sebastian Crowe's Guide to Drakkenheim by Ghostfire Gaming

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement and setting
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.99
• DESCRIPTION: Features the all-new apothecary class, an intelligence-based spellcaster whose esoteric powers combine medical science and occult magic. Includes over 50 spells that deal acid, necrotic, or poison damage. Tool feats provide new ways to improve weapons and armor, build traps, brew potions and scribe scrolls, and more. There are also new subclasses for twelve classes, all linked the dark fantasy World of Drakkenheim. Political conflict consumes Drakkenheim which is also haunted by otherworldly abominations. A continental gazetteer includes NPCs, adventure hooks, and events involving terrible monsters.

Starship Operator's Manual | Bounty Hunter by Mongoose Publishing

• SYSTEM: Traveller
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.99 each
• DESCRIPTION: The Starship Operator's Manual covers all aspects of life aboard the starships of Charted Space. Not how to build and fly custom starships, but what it is like to work and live on one. It covers the workings of manoeuvre and jump drives, how to operate advanced sensors, and exactly what a PC’s role on a starship entails. Includes a complete walkthrough of the Scout/Courier, Far Trader and Safari Ship. Bounty Hunter is a new style of campaign. Exendable, not paragons of virtue or honor, bounty hunters take contracts to bring in marks, dead or alive. Rivalling far trader captains in the light years spent travelling, bounty hunters value getting the reward above everything else. Covers rules for Reputation, the system by which a bounty hunter’s pay, contracts, and support are measured. Also features dedicated equipment, vehicles, ships, bounty hunting agencies, contracts, safe houses, hideouts and adversaries.

Ballads of Oræd | Arkos | Owlmanac | Month of Misery by Exalted Funeral

• SYSTEM: Old-School Essentials/Troika!/Shadowdark/MÖRK BORG
• PRODUCT TYPE: deluxe hardcover with GM screen/hardcover/hardcover/softcover zine
• RETAIL PRICE: $45/$25/$22/$15
• DESCRIPTION: Ballads of Oræd contains a fantasy world with all its monsters, treasure, and quests. As the PCs walk along the western coast, they imagine setting sail to visit the Wish Wyrm in the Hills of Alchemy to ask for a boon. Or perhaps stay on land. Tales of the north: renegade golems, treacherous warlocks, and lycanthrope cult. A fossilized wyvern the size of a mountain range lies to the south, whispered to be stirring to life. To the east: dragons, giants, and vampires rule, while bestial folk claim what little is left. Arkos, the City-Sphere of Law, is a high-stakes science-fantasy setting and adventure. Vea, one of its founding gods, has turned tyrant. But nothing, not even a war amongst the gods, can stop Arkos’ legendary nightclubs from opening their doors. Includes: random tables for names and nightclubs, encounters for each of the city’s five wards, five Gods of Law, two dungeon crawls, a deadly pointcrawl, new enemies like Terror Visions and Angry Angles, new spells such as Astral Disco and Dopplegang, 11 Backgrounds including Rogue Automatic and Spellsinger, a subway system with random tables, dozens of NPCs, four nightclubs, four factions, and a blister-punk band that is now a hedonistic movement. Owlmanac includes: Owl Ancestry and Nine Owl Classes (the Orac-Owl, Owlchemist, Owldritch Knight, Vowlkyri, and more), Duck Dungeoneer, ShadowBark dogs, Rover Class, and rules for a new Pork Ancestry and Destroyer Class. Also has new talents, spells, potions, runes, lore, and magical items, improvised weapons, piecemeal armor, critical hits, and more. Month of Misery includes over 31 days worth of content featuring EVEN MORE TEETH: an altar of sacrifice, ways to help cope with the misery, and a fishing mini-game (No game is complete without a fishing mini-game. This is surely a necessary addition). It's a compilation of responses to the MÖRKTOBER 2023 prompts put out by Exeunt Press with additional content and professional editing.

The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #47 | The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #48 by Legendary Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
• RETAIL PRICE: $12.99/$11.99
• DESCRIPTION: The Dragon’s Hoard is a monthly anthology of magic items, spells, monsters, and more from the ongoing Legendary Loot Patreon along with dozens of new elements. The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #47: magical items like the concussive rod and funereal mantle, new spells such as bones of the earth and inevitable defeat, class options including the Iridic Mage and the Guardian and Strife domains, monsters ranging from the sinister shadow collector to the terrifying feargaunt. The Dragon's Hoard - Issue #48 includes a focus on dreams. The cunning bow and ring of maniacal devices are examples of new magic items, new spells include etheric shards and oneiric horror, this time there are also traps such as gravitic disaster and rapture of endless impalements, rules for Dreamscapes and the dream-walking penthe race are covered, and monsters including the malevolent dream spectre and dream-devouring havriveen are ready to stalk the PCs.

Original Adventures Reincarnated #8: Grimtooth’s Old School Traps | Fifth Edition Fantasy #26: Against the Thieves Guild by Goodman Games

• SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
• PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement/softcover adventure
• RETAIL PRICE: $49.99/$10.99
• DESCRIPTION: A collection of traps from the old days and a brand new adventure to run using those traps.

Kitty-Clacks Dice Set - Quantum with White Cats (7) by Black Oak Workshop

• SYSTEM: great with RPGs with cats
• PRODUCT TYPE: seven 19mm dice set with Kitty symbol in place of highest number
• RETAIL PRICE: $15
• DESCRIPTION: This standard RPG set of dice are sized up to match the 19mm d6s, so they chonky. Comes in 10 variations and each of the dice features a Kitty icon on the max face to go with the theme.

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