RPG Sales of 2024

Explore a vampire setting for 5e with an expansive hex-crawl

The Horrors in Harnox is a mini-setting book that contains a vast 2000 square-mile catalogue of explorable hexes to be used in a hex-crawl style of play where players explore Harnox and attempt to survive in its dark and dangerous corners. Covering the Duchy of Harnox is over 50 hexes that represent 6 miles of terrain. In these hexes, there are various points of interest ranging from social encounters, settlements, dungeons and combat encounters.

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VTT Map Pack with System-Neutral Setting and Five-Encounter Mini-Adventure

This addon map pack for Roll20 VTT includes five richly illustrated encounter maps, one regional exploration map, and a page full of themed tokens depicting the tropical setting of Malady Island. The maps feature artistically incorporated gridlines in areas where players are likely to traverse, reminiscent of the commercially printed battlemaps used in in-person tabletop games. The tokens include a variety of creatures like giant insects, spiders, and lizards, along with objects such as thatched-roof huts, a campfire, wooden canoes, a fallen log, spiderwebs, a stone circle, and a fish-drying rack. Where applicable, the maps include line-of-sight barriers for dynamic lighting.

The Maps​

• Malady Island (22x20 regional map)
  
  
• Cuttlefish Cove (38x35 encounter map)
  
  
• Chasm Crossing (26x29 encounter map)
  
  
• Obsidian Cave (38x20 encounter map)*
  
  
• Jungle Meadow (32x26 encounter map)
  
  
• Spider Shrine (26x33 encounter map)*
  

*Includes line-of-sight barriers for dynamic lighting.

Setting & Encounters​

Besides the artwork, Tropical Island Sandbox features a neatly organized library of system-neutral journal entries describing Malady Island and its inhabitants, including members of a malign cult who worship an evil spirit at an obsidian shrine in the shape of a colossal spider. The library also includes five encounters, one for each encounter map. Taken as a whole, the encounters form a mini-adventure called The Shrine of the Obsidian Spider. Additional journal entries include exploration guidelines, magic items, random tables for boons and banes (hazards), plus a list of adventure hooks to get your players to the island. For your convenience, there is a second instance of each encounter map, pre-populated with tokens and notes corresponding to the included encounters.

All of the written content is system-agnostic, geared toward d20-based game systems, and can be scaled for PCs of varying levels. Stat blocks for specific game systems are not included. Instead, the relevant journal entries steer you in the right direction for stats or help you determine them on the fly. To assist with scalability, a basic system for setting difficulty levels for your PCs' current power level is also included.

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The Player's Handbook is the essential reference for every Western Tails role-player. It contains character creation and advancement rules, occupations and skills, exploration and combat, equipment, spells, and so much more. Use this book to create exciting characters from many different species and backgrounds. Let yourself stand out each time you play with a foreign nationality, occupation, drawbacks, or species.

Western Tails immerses you in a world of adventure set against the backdrop of the wild west. You can explore abandoned mines, stop a group of bandits trying to rob a train, or search ancient ruins and battle monsters. Gain experience and power as you trek across uncharted lands with your companions.

The west always needs more heroes. Will you answer the call and see how long you can survive in the harsh old west?

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Effective March 6th, we began the process of closing Bards and Sages Publishing. The details of that decision can be found on our website at bardsandsages.com.

As part of the process, all rights to any short stories we published in our various anthologies will revert to their original authors on August 1st, and those published in our magazines will revert by the end of the year. We are not retaining those rights nor are we reassigning them to another publisher. To give folks the opportunity to grab any titles they were interested in before we remove them from circulation, we have placed all of our publications available at Drivethrufiction and Drivethrurpg on sale for 99 cents (except those that were originally free. They are still free to download),

If you are an author that previously published with us and you want to obtain print copies of an anthology or magazine issue before it is no longer available, please email me directly at jdawson@bardsandsages.com.

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Gardening can go horribly, horribly wrong.

When a druidic grove messes up their experiments and creates a plantlife abomination with dreams of world domination, somebody has to deal with it. The daring heroes must survive mushroom people, muscular plants, and secure a dryad's assistance as they delve deeper into the grove. Periculum, the plant overlord, must die—but what will the heroes do if the dryad's life is tied to his?

A 5e adventure for all-around fun. From murderhobo-ing to roleplaying, this adventure is designed to entertain—and probably kill—everyone.

This adventure is designed for 3-5 players at Level 7 and lasts 10-15 hours. What to expect:

• New, exciting monsters,
• A set of beautiful, hand-drawn maps,
• A mix of roleplaying, exploration, and combat, with emphasis on the last two,
• Deadly encounters,
• Multiple ways to tackle the same challenges.

A self-contained adventure that can be played by itself or easily inserted into any campaign!

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Weird Races 5 is a book of playable races for the 5th edition rules of the world's most popular role-playing game. It contains 10 races that range from the weird to whimsical.

The book takes species from the Odd Space rpg, along with new species created for the Center Space game, and coverts them to the 5th Edition rules. The new species are only loosely set in the Center Space universe, so they can easily be adapted to any 5E game and genre. It includes contains racial traits and feats for each race and some suggestions for adapting them to other genres.

The book contains the following races
Boibul: A species resembling tentacled sea cucumbers
Colony: A fungal species made up of millions of tiny individual creatures
Friri: Armadillo-like creatures that can access ancestral memories
Jijth: Plant creatures that can blend perfectly in with their surroundings
Leral: Six-limbed sloth-like creatures that live symbiotically with moss
Obix: Strange creatures of extra-planar origin that can steal the skins of others
Pikik: Adorable hamster-like creatures that can be surprisingly fierce
Rogrol: Gargoyle-like creatures with skin hard as stone
Wovog: A species of pig-like humanoids with hard heads and stubborn minds
Yeb: Odd creatures dependant on a spice that provides extrasensory perception

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Hârndex is an alphabetical, general reference source book for gamemasters using HârnWorld. It includes the following information:

Geographical Entries
Every settlement shown on the Hârn Regional Map is listed, as are some that are not on the map. Entries give the name of the holder, the liege, and approximate population, plus historical and biographical notes as applicable. Populations include nearby villages that owe fealty or taxes directly to the local government. Most other features shown on the Regional Map are also listed, including rivers, lakes, mountain ranges, etc. The grid location of all geographical features is given.

Economic and Guild Entries
The guilds common to Hârn are listed in Hârndex, along with a wealth of information about Hârn’s economy.

Religious Entries
The religious information given in the general Hârn article is greatly expanded in Hârndex. Entries can be found on each deity and religious order.

Cultural/Political Entries
All of the cultures and states named on the Cultural-Political Map (in the Hârn article) are described in Hârndex. There is an entry for each barbarian tribe, each kingdom, and most unique creatures.

A Note on this Edition
This third edition of Hârndex is a compilation of the entries from the first and second editions, published in 1983 and 1990 respectively. It also contains material from the “Hârnic Dictionary” that was published as part of HârnPlayer in 1994. Additional text, illustrations, and maps in this edition have been taken from Hârn material published by Columbia Games between 1983 and 2014.

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Across the Multiverse (5th Edition)

Hundreds of ivory-colored archways litter the planes, from Outer to Material, like silent sentinels awaiting the command to activate. If some- one has a key, he can unlock the power of these gateways and travel across the multiverse to limitless adventure!

This 5e supplement provides a primer and gazetteer for GMs who wish to expand their fantasy campaign beyond a single nation, world, or setting. By using the glyph gates and a ready-made adventuring organization that the PCs can be a part of, the GM will find he or she can use any 5e rule, spell, monster, or item they wish as characters travel with ease from place to place. Push the boundaries of a standard fantasy campaign as you go across the multiverse!

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