Blade Runner RPG, Delta Green, and Mothership all get new adventures and Horror on the Orient Express for Call of Cthulhu is on sale for a couple more days. Old-School Essentials and Pathfinder get new classes and additional setting and rule support and there is a zine for system-free/Mothership/Mörk Borg. Finally, there is a character sheet journal for Dungeons & Dragons 5E and wooden meeples with PC art for use as miniatures.
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Case File 02: Fiery Angels by Free League Publishing
Meridian by Arc Dream Publishing
Kavlov's Sanctuary by The Dungeon’s Key
Mechanical Monsters | Mechanical Heroes by Legendary Games
MeatCastle GameWare Annual #1 by MeatCastle
Warped Beyond Recognition by Paradiso
until April 19 save $40 on: Horror on the Orient Express by Chaosium
Borg-like: Small Party Sets - Series 2 by Severed Books
Griffon's Saddlebag - Character Binder by Hit Point Press
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.
Case File 02: Fiery Angels by Free League Publishing
- SYSTEM: Blade Runner RPG
- PRODUCT TYPE: box set adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $41.80
- DESCRIPTION: The Blade Runner PCs are assigned to question a suspect arrested while trying to infiltrate the Wallace Corporation Memory Vaults. The case leads the PCs to explore the boundaries of Replicant technology and its consequences presented as an array of physical, mental, and moral challenges. This boxed adventure set includes: 11 handouts including a variety of in-world artifacts and Esper photos, seven full-color maps, a custom manila envelope for evidence, and 14 cards for non-player characters.
Meridian by Arc Dream Publishing
- SYSTEM: Delta Green
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $19.99
- DESCRIPTION: In the dying days of summer 2018, two investigators drive to Joplin, Missouri to investigate the finances of a rural shelter for homeless youth. It looks like poison to careers that are already on life support. Except that the ghostly lights of tall tales rise over the black woods and the leaves whisper with memories beyond life and death.
Kavlov's Sanctuary by The Dungeon’s Key
- SYSTEM: Old-School Essentials
- PRODUCT TYPE: hardcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $42
- DESCRIPTION: The PCs explore the dread-filled halls of Kavlov's Sanctuary and uncover the ancient secrets and betrayals that could determine the fate of the world. The PCs may choose to attempt to stop the ritual circles from being activated and prevent a demon’s escape. Or they might take on the role of the villain, seeking to unleash untold destruction on the world by freeing the demon from its bonds. What's inside: seven classes like the Mycotic Fiend and Disgraced Court Alchemist each with six morbid abilities to choose from, the Village which is filled with NPCs and rumors along with needed services to mourn the loss of a PC, 13 dungeons of increasing difficulty in the Dreaded Hills filled with tribes and monsters plus new magic items. Also has a Wilderness filled with location like the carnivorous keep and deadwoods and Bog Witch's Wares with over 30 unique and powerful items to purchase like ogre’s heart and vampire’s ashes. Finishes up with wandering monster tables for the wilderness, deadwoods, and bog.
Mechanical Monsters | Mechanical Heroes by Legendary Games
- SYSTEM: Pathfinder Second Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplements
- RETAIL PRICE: $29.99/$16.99
- DESCRIPTION: Mechanical Monsters includes 130 creatures made of shiny chrome and grisly gears ranging from clockworks and cybernetics to mad scientists and magitech. Sci-fi influences infuse fantasy with elements of future tech from far realms beyond the stars, ancient empires with lost technology, or curious artificers and alchemists working together to blend science and sorcery. Creatures include gear-punk steamwerks golems, sinister cranial dissectibots, fey like the asteray and epokasite fixer, fiends like the composite alorbidaemon and endbringer devil, and living spirit-machines like the chinjugami and an array of inevitables. New character options from Mechanical Heroes include new ancestries like the techno-organic auttaine with their modular clockworks, the armor-plated divymm, and the energized phalanx complete with background lore and 24 heritage feats like Constricting Integrated Toolset and Reactor Siphon. Also has the Cyborg archetype and the Mechwright class. Over 80 Nanite, Necrotech, and Technopath feats range from Cybernetic Physiology and Resilient Chassis to Omniscient Telemetry and Photonic Annihilation Cannon. Mechanical gear options like magfeet and subdermal explosives are available along over 30 spells like nanite surge and mechakinesis.
MeatCastle GameWare Annual #1 by MeatCastle
- SYSTEM: system-free/Mothership/Mörk Borg
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover zine
- RETAIL PRICE: $12.95
- DESCRIPTION: Collects the first year of supplements originally released in the monthly MeatCastle GameWare newsletter. Includes: standalone microgame, mega-minimalist 12-word nano-TTRPG, a sci-fi/science fantasy town and planet setting, a weird science fiction 3-hex campaign starter, a fantasy encounter of massive mimicry new classes for Mothership (Altered, Voidtouched, and Galactic Gong Farmer) as well as randomly-generated collectible synthetic pets and stealth and speed spacecraft, and anti-chaotic creatures sworn to the Lord of Order for Mörk Borg.
Warped Beyond Recognition by Paradiso
- SYSTEM: Mothership
- PRODUCT TYPE: softcover supplement
- RETAIL PRICE: $18
- DESCRIPTION: The PCs explore a research vessel in deep space, uncover the site of a terrible series of experiments, and discover their ultimate purpose if the test subjects don’t get to them first while trying to avoid descending into madness. Also has house rules and various tools for Wardens to streamline and spice up their games.
until April 19 save $40 on: Horror on the Orient Express by Chaosium
- SYSTEM: Call of Cthulhu Seventh Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: two hardcover volumes adventure
- RETAIL PRICE: $49.99 with PDF until April 19 at Chaosium ($89.99)
- OTHER RELATED GAME: Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game Kickstarter
- DESCRIPTION: Winner of the 2015 Gold ENnie for Best Adventure, this reprint of the 2014 boxed set covers 19 scenarios across 700 pages. PC investigators travel from London, to Paris, and to the ancient city of Constantinople to search for pieces of an artifact while a cult tries to stop them.
Borg-like: Small Party Sets - Series 2 by Severed Books
- SYSTEM: Mörk Borg
- PRODUCT TYPE: six wood meeples with character art in a pocket card size tuck box
- RETAIL PRICE: $15
- DESCRIPTION: A fanged deserter, esoteric hermit, wretched royalty, and more to depict PCs or NPCs. Wood, double sided, 28-33mm and 10mm thick.
Griffon's Saddlebag - Character Binder by Hit Point Press
- SYSTEM: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- PRODUCT TYPE: 5”x7" leatherette journal
- RETAIL PRICE: $30
- DESCRIPTION: The journal is a 3-ring binder and comes complete with custom designed and illustrated character sheets in five designs, three wet-erase overlays, five card sleeve sheets (up to 20 magic item cards), and 35 lined pages for notes.
