RPG News Roundup 12-2-2023
Hello, this is the RPG Crawler and welcome to another RPG News Roundup, this time for December 2nd, 2023, where each week I take a look back at the week in tabletop, computer, and console role-playing game news and bring you the highlights.
With that, let’s dive right on into computer and console role-playing game news.
Svarog’s Dream is set for release on December 4th. It’s an isometric style action RPG where you are a soul who has awakened in the underworld, and who can inhabit living hosts as you explore between worlds.
It looks like Final Fantasy VII Ever Crises is getting a PC release on December 7th. It has been available as a free to play title on mobile devices for a few months now. It’s a single player title that covers events from prior Final Fantasy VII entries, plus new content dealing with a young Sephiroth.
Unforetold: Witchstone is set to hit early access on January 25th of 2024. It looks to be a sandbox RPG with turn based gameplay, a setting with contribution from Ed Greenwood, with an influence system that allows you to engage with several factions.
Penny Blood: Hellbound looks like it’ll be an action roguelite that’ll be a prequel to the upcoming Penny Blood, itself a spiritual successor to Shadow Hearts. It’ll be set in a 1920s era gothic horror setting, and have you trying to escape an otherworldly prison. While slated for third quarter of next year, it’ll have a closed beta on December 14th, before hitting early access in February.
Dragon’s Dogma II has its release date set on the steam page. It looks like it’ll hit on March 21st of next year, and is available to pre-purchase. Sequel to the action rpg/creature slaying Dragon’s Dogma, the sequel looks like it’ll try to preserve some of the best parts of the game, including the use of Pawns to flesh out your party.
The Legend of Legacy HD Remastered has its release date set. Looking to hit on March 22nd of next year, on Switch, PS4 and 5, as well as PC, it is an HD remaster of a 3DS era RPG, that follows a party of 7 heroes.
King Arthur: Knight’s Tale is getting an expansion. Set for release next year, Legion IX will have you playing the undead legion. King Arthur: Knight’s Tale is a sort of strategy/tactical RPG based on a dark fantasy version of Arthurian legend.
It looks like Destiny 2’s expansion The Final Shape is getting a delay. Originally slated for February, it’ll now be launched on June 4th of next year. It looks like it’ll wrap up the storyelling thus far on the series.
Path of Exile: Affliction was announced. A new expansion for free to play action RPG Path of Exile, it’ll have the player entering a blighted wood, looking to find Wisps to burn away the Affliction. It looks like it’ll include the usual mix of new content, as well as some changes to gameplay.
Vampire Dynasty was announced. Slated for some time next year, it’ll be another entry in the Dynasty series of sim rpgs. Instead of focusing on some historical style of town development or the like, this one will have you playing in a fantasy horror setting in a fictional Balkan country.
Roguelike Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs: The Thrilling Steamy Maze Kiwami looks to be getting a PC release. It was released for PS4 in Japan a few years ago. The PC release will have English support, as well as a number of other languages.
Circle of Swords was announced. Developed by a solo developer, it looks like it’ll be a classic party based isometric RPG inspired by classic Infinity and Aurora engine games, and with a focus on dungeon crawling. There is a demo available.
As far as actual releases go, only a few things really stood out. Noctuary is an anime styled JRPG where two young illuminators set forth to try to become ‘Arborangers’, in a colorful, fairy tale world.
Then Cross Blitz hit early access, and is a roguelike deckbuilder RPG where you explore the world, level up, craft new cards, in order to build a deck to use against further challenges.
Onward toward Tabletop gaming news, it looks like WotC had a number of announcements. It looks like the 2024 edition of the Core Rulebooks that are totally not a new edition promise will be coming out on May 21st of next year. On the same day, a new adventure that goes all the way to level 20: Vecna: Eve of Ruin will be released. Another adventure collection, Quests from the Infinite Staircase will be dropping on July 16th, with supposedly updated versions of classic adventures.
Aside from these upcoming releases, Unearthed Arcana has a new playtest packet out that touches on Barbarians, Druids, and Monks, as well as some spells and weapons. It also looks like D&D Beyond will be adding a few new third party products, in particular Grim Hollow: Lairs of Etharis, as well as Dungeons of Drakkenheim.
Then it looks like backerkit is going to be sponsoring an Indie RPG Creator Summit with Goodman Games. Held online through zoom, it’ll have a number of panels and guests touching on a variety of topics that will be extremely useful to independent tabletop rpg developers. Slated for January 8th to the 10th of 2024, registration is open on December 13th.
Onward toward minor and pdf releases, we’ll start with Immortal Blood Revised: Book of the Damned, a Pathfinder 1st edition supplement that offers a new take on vampires. It offers a new system for vampiric progression, the Crimson Kindred template, with this new revision refining the system and streamlining it.
Then, Studio M- has Akasha Retold-Mysteries and Trinities. It seeks to rework some of the original akashic magic system’s classes, helping to standardize and rebalance them, all for Pathfinder 1st edition.
Legendary Games has Ultimate Cities for Pathfinder 2nd edition, an expansion that details building and ruling domains, and includes new civic actions, rules to build villages into cities and towns, new buildings, improvements, and so much more.
Eldritch Osiris has Monstrous Beasts: A Guide to Friend them, which offers a set of options for Pathfinder 2nd edition including a metamorph class, new takes on existing material from Pathfinder, new equipment, a new vehicle, even a level 4 adventure.
Orphaned Bookworm has Breath of Life: The Archivist for Pathfinder 2nd edition. It’s a rework and conversion of a popular 3.5 edition spellcasting scholar class, including a full 20 level progression, feats, spells, spellbook mods, new magic items, creatures, etc.
Down the Rabbit Hole is available in both Pathfinder 2nd edition and D&D 5th edition versions. It’s an adventure for 1st level characters, that has the party heading to Wonderland, where they’ll need to save Alice from a strange corruption.
Art of the Genre has a few more entries into the Folio series. There’s 24, part five of the Curse of Roslof Keep set of adventures, with both 1st and 5th edition stats included, as well as The Folio 25, which covers the sixth part of the same Curse of Roslof Keep adventure set.
Spiel Knights has One Page Dungeon Compendium 2023 edition, which includes a collection of all of the 2023 One Page Dungeon Contest entries, a total of 112 one page dungeons. They also have Aarlstrom’s Magical Wand Shop, a collection of over two dozen wands for fifth edition and similar systems.
Grim Press has two bundles of the Unearthed Spoils collections. Each one collects a set of five entries in the series of 5th edition content into one bundle, with one covering issues 6 to 10, then issues 11 to 15.
Onyx Lunacy RPG has two fifth edition adventures. There’s Midsummer Mischief, suitable for level 3 characters, involving a midsummer festival with unusually high stakes. Then there’s Cursed in the Crowswood. Suited for level 3 characters, this one details a town where children are going missing, with the forest seeming to claim them.
Privateer Press has The Cold Road Home, a short adventure for the Iron Kingdoms: Requiem campaign, where the party means to escort the eldest living Nyss back to the Shard Spires, as his own death draws near.
Adventures in Maksur: Tavern Troubles is a fifth edition adventure for level 4 adventurers, also compatible with Black Flag. It has the High Duke putting a bounty on a creature wandering the sea, so the party must compete among the various crews seeking it out.
The Haunting of Frostbite Hollow is another 5th edition adventure, this one a one shot where a prosperous mine in an icebound village has had its miners vanish, and an eerie, glowing stone monster set loose.
Lost in Song is another 5th edition adventure, this one a small one for two level 5 characters, all about saving a boy’s life.
The Hag, The Bear, and the Goblins is a fifth edition adventure set about the village of Oakridge, where a farmer’s son has fallen into a coma. A local hag has a cure, but is unwilling to help, so the party must convince her.
The Horrors in Harnox is a 5th edition mini setting book containing a vampire themed hex crawl. It contains over 50 hexes with various points of interest, monsters, settlements, and so forth, along with three dungeons.
Flavor Text Adventures has a few fifth edition chapters based around cooking, each with some in game content and some real life recipe. There’s Fire Mephit and Owlbear.
Gabrilo Despint has Town of Mirella, a setting for fifth edition that presents a peaceful town with questionable leadership. It includes eight NPCs, five establishments, fourteen locations, some tables, maps, etc.
Elicmo is a fifth edition setting that contains over 50 magic items and over 140 creatures in a bestiary, compiled from various multiple campaigns that the author ran over time, along with a world map and details on Elicmo’s history.
Oldtown is another 5th edition supplement, this one detailing a mystery filled old town, ready to be dropped into play. It’s suited for level 10 to 11, and includes maps, lore, a few encounters, and so forth.
Kobold Press has Book of Blades: Naval Battles, another entry into the fifth edition compatible book of blades series, this one covering crewing ships, along with naval warfare rules, weather effects, ship movement, etc.
Stairway to Heaven is an entry in the Monsters of Rock series for 5th edition, and includes an adventure and homebrew rules, several heavy metal themed celestials, some battlemaps, tokens, items, spells, feats, and more with that same theme.
GamingBrew has a subclass for cleric, in the Madness domain, which features clerics that draw knowledge from a realm divorced from reality.
The Oakheart is a new character race for fifth edition, featuring a sort of woodland guardian, noble warriors made of wood. Along with some subraces for them.
The Commander is a fifth edition class focused around boosting allies. It includes six subclasses, a few weapons and magic items, and a few new feats to support them.
Sidequest Issue 29 from Icarus Games is another entry into the monthly magazine with fifth edition and Pathfinder 2nd edition material. This one has a City Leviathan, a creature with a full civilization on its shell, an iconic human paladin, handling player character owned businesses, and lore on some ravens in service to a god of murder. They also have Annual Year 2, a collection of issues 13 to 24 in one volume.
Then, Yum DM has D12 Issue 30, which collects rpg related material, this time on Deities and Demigods. It includes worldbuilding, an example pantheon, a tour of the elemental planes, divine favors, and more.
RPGGamer has a few offerings for Shadowdark. The Haunting of Blackthorn Manor, Shadowdark version is an adventure for beginning characters, that features an ominous manor just outside a peaceful village, said to have been abandoned for so long that no one can recall the last time someone set foot inside. Then there’s Welcome to Misthaven, for Shadowdark. It’s a guidebook for a settlement on an island in a treacherous swamp, this time statted out for Shadowdark of course. It’s a town under siege by undead. Finally, there’s Highland Horrors for Shadowdark, a sourcebook that details creatures and lore from Scottish Mythology, statted for that system.
From Wandering Mage, there’s Codex Magica, a collection of 21 new magic items for OSR and Shadowdark, with four armor, 4 works of alchemy, 5 wondrous items, 4 magic weapons, and 4 magical implements.
The Spattered Patina of Barbarous Blades is a DCC RPG compatible adventure, this one suited for characters of levels 3-5. It involves facing off against a demon tainted Federal regiment from the nineteenth century, as it tries to free its dark lord.
Crusader’s Chronicle Issue 3 from The Basic Expert is a collection of material for OSR games, this time offering a sort of Traveller inspired solo set of rules that treats classic classes like careers in the Traveller system.
The Accurst Lords is a level 5 to 7 adventure for first edition style retro clones and OSR systems. It takes place in a village during Yuletide, and has the party hired to track down and rescue a trade emissary from the nearby elven lands, who has gone missing, at a nearby abandoned manor.
Apparently RPGGamer also has an adventure for Dragonbane – The Realm of Frost and Fear. In a village near some woods, children have begun to vanish, and the party comes upon a search party looking for them.
A Bestiary of Enchanted England is a bestiary designed for Magonomia, a tabletop rpg of Renaissance Wizardry. This one deals with authentic little known legends from England, with lore, plot hooks, and illustrations.
Cubicle 7 has a few things for various Warhammer products. There’s Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Taverns of the Old World, a supplement that contains several inns, detailed out to be able to be used in a snap for an adventure location. Then there’s Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound Ulfenkarn: City at the Edge of Death. This one is a complete city guide for running Ulfenkarn based games, with a history of it, rules for running the game with the Grim and Perilous Ruleset, various city locations, adventure locations, and so on.
Sabre Roleplaying Game 3rd Edition: Starships is a supplement for the sci fi rules of Sabre rpg that details ships, ship modifications, weapons, systems, how to use ships as a base of operations, ship specific talents, crew duties, and more.
Mongoose has Reach Adventure 8 – Makergod for Traveller. Set in the Outrim Void, it deals with some raiders whose raids have become so thorough that they’ve reduced local areas to a pre-starflight level. The group heads there, only to find something happening.
Onyx Path has Laboratory of the Diabolical Doctor, a tasty bit for Trinity Continuum: Adventure! It details the lab of a doctor of bad reputation, where she works on a device that can transmute flesh to spirit matter.
Chaosium has Call of Cthulhu 40th Anniversary Limited Edition Keeper Rulebook, which contains not only the core rules, background, spells, guidance, etc, for the Call of Cthulhu game, but also essays and other writings from Call of Cthulhu writers, as well as The Haunting scenario, which was excluded from the 7th edition Keeper Rulebook. There’s also the separately available Keeper Tips, a collection of tips and guides for running Call of Cthulhu across a variety of topics.
Pelgrane Press has a few offerings for Trail of Cthulhu. There’s Fearful Symmetries, where you play a group of magicians exploring the magickal revival. Then there’s the companion book The Book of the New Jerusalem, set in the 1930s, wherein a magical war is brewing in Britain.
The Life, Death, and Undeath of Sherman Glimp is a supplement for Weird Heroes of Public Access RPG, that deals with a fellow from Fairhaven who uncovers an ancient horror in town.
API Worldwide: Canada is a supplement for Apocalypse Prevention, Inc. 2nd Edition that details uh, Canada. It includes information on Canada’s history, supernatural threats, the various groups operating there, with new equipment, magic, playable races, and a pre-written adventure.
Finally, Free League has a few offerings for the Walking Dead Universe RPG. There’s the core rules, where you get all the information you need to play characters within the Walking Dead Universe, utilizing rules based on the Year Zero engine. Then there’s a Starter Set that includes a condensed rulebook, a full length survival mode scenario, some pre-generated characters, and maps.
With that, let’s take a look at crowdfunding campaigns. Remember that contributing to a crowdfunding campaign should be done only at your own risk. Doing so is no guarantee of even receiving a product. Mention here is not an endorsement but is for informational purposes only.
And it looks like there’s a couple video game RPGs that bear mention. Arisen Force: Vonimir looks like it’ll be a pixel art RPG with an action combat system, with a focus on exploration, teammates to recruit, and so forth. It looks like there’s a demo available on Steam.
Then it looks like Shadow Quest looks to be an old school rpg on mobile. It lists things like Bard’s Tale, King’s Bounty, Ultima, Might and Magic and so forth as inspirations, and looks to be both tile based and have more in depth NPC interactions.
With tabletop rpg crowdfunding, there’s The Camden Vampire, which will be a fifth edition gothic mystery set in a Victorian era setting. It features a Lady who is said to be involved with vampirism, and has the party go from pub, to manor, to catacombs below.
The Burning of the Old Year will be a holiday themed investigative adventure for fifth edition. Suited for first level, it involves a death and the influence of evil while a neighborhood is about to deal with a new year celebration.
A Holly Jolly Supplement will be a fifth edition collection of magic items, subclasses, and monsters, with holiday themes.
12 Days of Christmas D&D Item Pack looks to be a collection of 12 Christmas themed items, for 5th edition. So exactly what it says on the title. Although it looks like if they hit some stretch goals they’ll add more.
Setting Guide to Retia looks to be a fifth edition supplement focusing on an industrialized continent of Somnus Domina, with three new classes, many subclasses, spells, stat blocks, adventure hooks, many new races and subraces, backgrounds, firearms rules, magic items, artifacts, gameplay options, lore, monsters, etc.
Satjiza’s Darkest Charms will be a kind of supplement, mostly system neutral but with fifth edition compatibility, with a new romancable character, various story hooks, and a half dozen arcane charms, featuring a merfolk trickster.
Bukana Bestiary looks to be a fifth edition supplement for the WakeSong world, with a set of creatures based on Filipino Myth, with the land of Bukana inspired by the pre-colonial Philipines and Indonesia. If it’s successful, it looks like it’ll pave the way for a proper setting book as well.
People from Aithaleia will be a collection of 10 Fifth edition NPCs based on persons from the Italian Renaissance. Each will have their own story, portrait, secret, and a few ideas on how to incorporate them into a campaign. It’ll be available in English and Italian.
Wild and Far Frontiers is to be a fifth edition campaign setting and supplement with a Old Western theme. Set in a land that combines firearms, train robberies, and other such things with fantasy, fearsome beasts, and the like. This looks like another one that’ll be available in both English and Italian.
Knock! Issue 4 will be another entry into a series of OSR based material, with a mix of articles and insight, tables, rules suggestions, monsters, and more, over 200 pages of material.
And then there’s Gary’s Appendix Issue 4, a zine with sword and sorcery articles for OSR systems, especially Old-School Essentials and the like. Inspired by the old Dungeon Master’s Guide, it’ll include information on adventure creation, equipment and items, locations, weather encounters, and much more.
Let Us Build a Tower looks to be a dungeon crawl adventure set in bronze age Babel. Compatible with OSR systems, it has you attempting to climb a tower to the throne of heaven, with tables, beasts of Babel, player guides, and so on.
Lair of the Silver Rings will be an OSR adventure, this one written for OSRIC, although there should be a fifth edition compatible version. Suited for level 1, it looks to try to be the first in a series of 20 adventures designed to take characters up through the ranks. This one deals with disappearances in the alleys of a city.
The Fantasy Trip Bestiary and Foes 2 from Steve Jackson Games looks to fund a hardcover book with many creatures for The Fantasy Trip, with basic stats, descriptions, habitat, etc. There’ll also be STLs for printable minis.
2d6 Realm looks like it will be a roll and write solo overland crawler, in the same sort of series that 2d6 Dungeon is from. This one will expand the rules for overland travel and adventure.
Van Gogh’s Mysterious Mansion looks to be a standalone mystery RPG based on a d20 system, set in 19th century Paris. Your group is basically set to investigate the mysterious death of Van Gogh and the disappearance of one of his most famous paintings.
Fates of Mankind looks to be a tabletop rpg that will use its own d12 based system. Set in the classical era, it’ll feature an alternate history first century BCE, in a Roman dominated mediterranean world, except one where magic exists.
Endeavor Universal Role Playing Game looks to be a new take on a generalist system, suited for playing heroic characters in a variety of genres. It’ll include in depth rules to handle various technology levels of gear, and function off of a dice pool style system.
The Start Here Roleplaying Game is a sort of introductory RPG system, designed to be fast and easy to learn and suitable for people just starting to look at roleplaying games.
Ker Nethalas looks to be a dark fantasy, solo and co op dungeon survival RPG, from Blackoath. It has you condemned to death and put into the tunnels of Ker Nethalas, the city below, where you must survive. It’ll use a d100 style system, with random dungeon generation, various character builds, survival mechanics, a unique bestiary, and so forth.
Ave Nox looks to be a system neutral megadungeon. Containing a world sealed away for half a millennia, it’ll feature themes of forgotten history and exploration.
The Night Watch will be a pamphlet style tabletop RPG plus Dungeon Synth album. The core game will feature various persons looking to defend their villages during the night, patrolling against various incursions, while the music will be available in both MP3 and CD format.
Spirit Fall looks to be a post apocalyptic tabletop RPG set in New York. After demons have annihilated humanity, survivors now try to eke out a life within the ruins of the concrete jungles, sticking to safe zones where they can.
Myriad of Monsters will be a monster collecting style RPG, based on the Powered by the Apocalypse ruleset, and heavily based/inspired by Pokemon. It looks to maintain that creature capturing sort of feel while also being relatively quick to play.
Finally there’s Game Master’s Guide to Fairies, Witches, and Fairytales, a system neutral offering that looks to adapt fairy lore and folk tales to be more helpful to game masters looking to incorporate that into their games.
And with that, we’ll wrap things up here. This has been the RPG Crawler with my RPG News Roundup for December 2nd, 2023. As always, links will be below. If you like what you’ve seen, remember to leave a like, comment if you have any feedback, and subscribe for more RPG content. Until next time, take care and good bye!
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RPGGamer [Affiliate Links]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/461970/the-haunting-of-blackthorn-manor-for-shadowdark?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/461973/welcome-to-misthaven-for-shadowdark?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/461971/highland-horrors-for-shadowdark-scottish-mythological-beasts-unleashed?affiliate_id=902296
Codex Magica [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/461438/codex-magica-i-new-magic-items-for-osr-and-shadowdark?affiliate_id=902296
The Spattered Patina of Barbarous Blades [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/454395/the-spattered-patina-of-the-barbarous-blades?affiliate_id=902296
Crusader's Chronicle Issue 3 [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/462325/crusader-s-chronicle-issue-3-december?affiliate_id=902296
The Accurst Lords [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/462124/sosr9-the-accurst-lords?affiliate_id=902296
The Realm of Frost and Fear [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/462338/the-realm-of-frost-and-fear-for-dragonbane?affiliate_id=902296
A Bestiary of Enchanted England [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/450848/a-bestiary-of-enchanted-england?affiliate_id=902296
Warhammer [Affiliate Links]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/461787/warhammer-fantasy-roleplay-taverns-of-the-old-world?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/387764/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-soulbound-ulfenkarn-city-at-the-edge-of-death?affiliate_id=902296
Sabre 3e Starships [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/462135/sabre-rpg-3e-starships?affiliate_id=902296
Traveller - Reach Adventure 8: Makergod [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/462203/reach-adventure-8-makergod?affiliate_id=902296
Laboratory of the Diabolical Doctor [AFfiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/462006/laboratory-of-the-diabolical-doctor?affiliate_id=902296
Call of Cthulhu [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/462310/call-of-cthulhu-40th-anniversary-limited-edition-keeper-rulebook?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/462413/call-of-cthulhu-keeper-tips?affiliate_id=902296
Pelgrane Press [Affiliate Links]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/461947/trail-of-cthulhu-fearful-symmetries?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/461948/trail-of-cthulhu-the-book-of-the-new-jerusalem?affiliate_id=902296
The Life, Death, and Undeath of Sherman Glimp [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/462123/the-life-death-and-undeath-of-sherman-glimp?affiliate_id=902296
API Canada [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/460318/api-worldwide-canada-2nd-edition?affiliate_id=902296
The Walking Dead Universe [Affiliate Links]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/458995/the-walking-dead-universe-rpg?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/458999/the-walking-dead-universe-rpg-starter-set?affiliate_id=902296
Arisen Force: Vonimir: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/contraria/arisen-force-vonimir/description
Shadow Quest: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/shadow-quest-rpg-new-oldschool-rpg-on-mobile#/
The Camden Vampire: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sf1/the-camden-vampire
The Burning of the Old Year: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gmsatelier/the-burning-of-the-old-year
A Holly Jolly Supplement: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thebetagamers/a-holly-jolly-supplement-5e
12 Days of Christmas Item Pack: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mizogames/12-days-of-christmas-dandd-item-pack
Setting Guide to Retia: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nat19/somnus-domina-retia-a-dandd-5th-edition-handbook
Satzija’s Darkest Charms: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/quillstinyquests/satzijas-darkest-charms-system-neutral-and-5e-1
Bukana Bestiary: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pineboxllc/bukana-bestiary-a-5e-wakesong-supplement
People from Aithaleaia: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/342813572/people-from-aithaleia-10-npcs-inspired-by-the-renaissance
Wild & Far Frontiers: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/526038778/wild-and-far-frontiers-a-5e-setting
Knock! Issue Four: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/896102915/knock-issue-four
Gary’s Appendix: Issue 4: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1580058713/garys-appendix-issue-4
Let Us Build a Tower: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/calebwimble/let-us-build-a-tower
Lair of the Silver Rings: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjdayton/tod1-lair-of-the-silver-rings-rpg-osr-adventure-module
The Fantasy Trip Bestiary: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjgames/the-fantasy-trip-bestiary-and-foes-2-stl-miniatures
2d6 Realm: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/drmgames/2d6-realm-a-classic-overland-crawler-solo-player-game
Van Gogh’s Mysterious Mansion: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vgmm/van-goghs-mysterious-mansion
Fates of Mankind: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fatesofmankind/fates-of-mankind
Endeavor: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/endeavorrpg/endeavor-universal-roleplaying-game
The Start Here Roleplaying Game: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-start-here-roleplaying-game#/
Ker Nethalas: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1775185920/ker-nethalas-into-the-midnight-throne
Ave Nox: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/appalachia-gothic/ave-nox
The Night Watch: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/st-caedmon-studios/the-night-watch-0
Spirit Fall: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spiritfall/spirit-fall-a-post-apocalyptic-ttrpg
Myriad of Monsters: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tobitodnd/myriad-of-monsters-the-creature-capture-ttrpg
Game Master’s Guide to Fairies, Witches, and Fairy Tales: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyhulse/game-masters-guide-to-fairies-witches-and-fairytales
With that, let’s dive right on into computer and console role-playing game news.
Svarog’s Dream is set for release on December 4th. It’s an isometric style action RPG where you are a soul who has awakened in the underworld, and who can inhabit living hosts as you explore between worlds.
It looks like Final Fantasy VII Ever Crises is getting a PC release on December 7th. It has been available as a free to play title on mobile devices for a few months now. It’s a single player title that covers events from prior Final Fantasy VII entries, plus new content dealing with a young Sephiroth.
Unforetold: Witchstone is set to hit early access on January 25th of 2024. It looks to be a sandbox RPG with turn based gameplay, a setting with contribution from Ed Greenwood, with an influence system that allows you to engage with several factions.
Penny Blood: Hellbound looks like it’ll be an action roguelite that’ll be a prequel to the upcoming Penny Blood, itself a spiritual successor to Shadow Hearts. It’ll be set in a 1920s era gothic horror setting, and have you trying to escape an otherworldly prison. While slated for third quarter of next year, it’ll have a closed beta on December 14th, before hitting early access in February.
Dragon’s Dogma II has its release date set on the steam page. It looks like it’ll hit on March 21st of next year, and is available to pre-purchase. Sequel to the action rpg/creature slaying Dragon’s Dogma, the sequel looks like it’ll try to preserve some of the best parts of the game, including the use of Pawns to flesh out your party.
The Legend of Legacy HD Remastered has its release date set. Looking to hit on March 22nd of next year, on Switch, PS4 and 5, as well as PC, it is an HD remaster of a 3DS era RPG, that follows a party of 7 heroes.
King Arthur: Knight’s Tale is getting an expansion. Set for release next year, Legion IX will have you playing the undead legion. King Arthur: Knight’s Tale is a sort of strategy/tactical RPG based on a dark fantasy version of Arthurian legend.
It looks like Destiny 2’s expansion The Final Shape is getting a delay. Originally slated for February, it’ll now be launched on June 4th of next year. It looks like it’ll wrap up the storyelling thus far on the series.
Path of Exile: Affliction was announced. A new expansion for free to play action RPG Path of Exile, it’ll have the player entering a blighted wood, looking to find Wisps to burn away the Affliction. It looks like it’ll include the usual mix of new content, as well as some changes to gameplay.
Vampire Dynasty was announced. Slated for some time next year, it’ll be another entry in the Dynasty series of sim rpgs. Instead of focusing on some historical style of town development or the like, this one will have you playing in a fantasy horror setting in a fictional Balkan country.
Roguelike Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs: The Thrilling Steamy Maze Kiwami looks to be getting a PC release. It was released for PS4 in Japan a few years ago. The PC release will have English support, as well as a number of other languages.
Circle of Swords was announced. Developed by a solo developer, it looks like it’ll be a classic party based isometric RPG inspired by classic Infinity and Aurora engine games, and with a focus on dungeon crawling. There is a demo available.
As far as actual releases go, only a few things really stood out. Noctuary is an anime styled JRPG where two young illuminators set forth to try to become ‘Arborangers’, in a colorful, fairy tale world.
Then Cross Blitz hit early access, and is a roguelike deckbuilder RPG where you explore the world, level up, craft new cards, in order to build a deck to use against further challenges.
Onward toward Tabletop gaming news, it looks like WotC had a number of announcements. It looks like the 2024 edition of the Core Rulebooks that are totally not a new edition promise will be coming out on May 21st of next year. On the same day, a new adventure that goes all the way to level 20: Vecna: Eve of Ruin will be released. Another adventure collection, Quests from the Infinite Staircase will be dropping on July 16th, with supposedly updated versions of classic adventures.
Aside from these upcoming releases, Unearthed Arcana has a new playtest packet out that touches on Barbarians, Druids, and Monks, as well as some spells and weapons. It also looks like D&D Beyond will be adding a few new third party products, in particular Grim Hollow: Lairs of Etharis, as well as Dungeons of Drakkenheim.
Then it looks like backerkit is going to be sponsoring an Indie RPG Creator Summit with Goodman Games. Held online through zoom, it’ll have a number of panels and guests touching on a variety of topics that will be extremely useful to independent tabletop rpg developers. Slated for January 8th to the 10th of 2024, registration is open on December 13th.
Onward toward minor and pdf releases, we’ll start with Immortal Blood Revised: Book of the Damned, a Pathfinder 1st edition supplement that offers a new take on vampires. It offers a new system for vampiric progression, the Crimson Kindred template, with this new revision refining the system and streamlining it.
Then, Studio M- has Akasha Retold-Mysteries and Trinities. It seeks to rework some of the original akashic magic system’s classes, helping to standardize and rebalance them, all for Pathfinder 1st edition.
Legendary Games has Ultimate Cities for Pathfinder 2nd edition, an expansion that details building and ruling domains, and includes new civic actions, rules to build villages into cities and towns, new buildings, improvements, and so much more.
Eldritch Osiris has Monstrous Beasts: A Guide to Friend them, which offers a set of options for Pathfinder 2nd edition including a metamorph class, new takes on existing material from Pathfinder, new equipment, a new vehicle, even a level 4 adventure.
Orphaned Bookworm has Breath of Life: The Archivist for Pathfinder 2nd edition. It’s a rework and conversion of a popular 3.5 edition spellcasting scholar class, including a full 20 level progression, feats, spells, spellbook mods, new magic items, creatures, etc.
Down the Rabbit Hole is available in both Pathfinder 2nd edition and D&D 5th edition versions. It’s an adventure for 1st level characters, that has the party heading to Wonderland, where they’ll need to save Alice from a strange corruption.
Art of the Genre has a few more entries into the Folio series. There’s 24, part five of the Curse of Roslof Keep set of adventures, with both 1st and 5th edition stats included, as well as The Folio 25, which covers the sixth part of the same Curse of Roslof Keep adventure set.
Spiel Knights has One Page Dungeon Compendium 2023 edition, which includes a collection of all of the 2023 One Page Dungeon Contest entries, a total of 112 one page dungeons. They also have Aarlstrom’s Magical Wand Shop, a collection of over two dozen wands for fifth edition and similar systems.
Grim Press has two bundles of the Unearthed Spoils collections. Each one collects a set of five entries in the series of 5th edition content into one bundle, with one covering issues 6 to 10, then issues 11 to 15.
Onyx Lunacy RPG has two fifth edition adventures. There’s Midsummer Mischief, suitable for level 3 characters, involving a midsummer festival with unusually high stakes. Then there’s Cursed in the Crowswood. Suited for level 3 characters, this one details a town where children are going missing, with the forest seeming to claim them.
Privateer Press has The Cold Road Home, a short adventure for the Iron Kingdoms: Requiem campaign, where the party means to escort the eldest living Nyss back to the Shard Spires, as his own death draws near.
Adventures in Maksur: Tavern Troubles is a fifth edition adventure for level 4 adventurers, also compatible with Black Flag. It has the High Duke putting a bounty on a creature wandering the sea, so the party must compete among the various crews seeking it out.
The Haunting of Frostbite Hollow is another 5th edition adventure, this one a one shot where a prosperous mine in an icebound village has had its miners vanish, and an eerie, glowing stone monster set loose.
Lost in Song is another 5th edition adventure, this one a small one for two level 5 characters, all about saving a boy’s life.
The Hag, The Bear, and the Goblins is a fifth edition adventure set about the village of Oakridge, where a farmer’s son has fallen into a coma. A local hag has a cure, but is unwilling to help, so the party must convince her.
The Horrors in Harnox is a 5th edition mini setting book containing a vampire themed hex crawl. It contains over 50 hexes with various points of interest, monsters, settlements, and so forth, along with three dungeons.
Flavor Text Adventures has a few fifth edition chapters based around cooking, each with some in game content and some real life recipe. There’s Fire Mephit and Owlbear.
Gabrilo Despint has Town of Mirella, a setting for fifth edition that presents a peaceful town with questionable leadership. It includes eight NPCs, five establishments, fourteen locations, some tables, maps, etc.
Elicmo is a fifth edition setting that contains over 50 magic items and over 140 creatures in a bestiary, compiled from various multiple campaigns that the author ran over time, along with a world map and details on Elicmo’s history.
Oldtown is another 5th edition supplement, this one detailing a mystery filled old town, ready to be dropped into play. It’s suited for level 10 to 11, and includes maps, lore, a few encounters, and so forth.
Kobold Press has Book of Blades: Naval Battles, another entry into the fifth edition compatible book of blades series, this one covering crewing ships, along with naval warfare rules, weather effects, ship movement, etc.
Stairway to Heaven is an entry in the Monsters of Rock series for 5th edition, and includes an adventure and homebrew rules, several heavy metal themed celestials, some battlemaps, tokens, items, spells, feats, and more with that same theme.
GamingBrew has a subclass for cleric, in the Madness domain, which features clerics that draw knowledge from a realm divorced from reality.
The Oakheart is a new character race for fifth edition, featuring a sort of woodland guardian, noble warriors made of wood. Along with some subraces for them.
The Commander is a fifth edition class focused around boosting allies. It includes six subclasses, a few weapons and magic items, and a few new feats to support them.
Sidequest Issue 29 from Icarus Games is another entry into the monthly magazine with fifth edition and Pathfinder 2nd edition material. This one has a City Leviathan, a creature with a full civilization on its shell, an iconic human paladin, handling player character owned businesses, and lore on some ravens in service to a god of murder. They also have Annual Year 2, a collection of issues 13 to 24 in one volume.
Then, Yum DM has D12 Issue 30, which collects rpg related material, this time on Deities and Demigods. It includes worldbuilding, an example pantheon, a tour of the elemental planes, divine favors, and more.
RPGGamer has a few offerings for Shadowdark. The Haunting of Blackthorn Manor, Shadowdark version is an adventure for beginning characters, that features an ominous manor just outside a peaceful village, said to have been abandoned for so long that no one can recall the last time someone set foot inside. Then there’s Welcome to Misthaven, for Shadowdark. It’s a guidebook for a settlement on an island in a treacherous swamp, this time statted out for Shadowdark of course. It’s a town under siege by undead. Finally, there’s Highland Horrors for Shadowdark, a sourcebook that details creatures and lore from Scottish Mythology, statted for that system.
From Wandering Mage, there’s Codex Magica, a collection of 21 new magic items for OSR and Shadowdark, with four armor, 4 works of alchemy, 5 wondrous items, 4 magic weapons, and 4 magical implements.
The Spattered Patina of Barbarous Blades is a DCC RPG compatible adventure, this one suited for characters of levels 3-5. It involves facing off against a demon tainted Federal regiment from the nineteenth century, as it tries to free its dark lord.
Crusader’s Chronicle Issue 3 from The Basic Expert is a collection of material for OSR games, this time offering a sort of Traveller inspired solo set of rules that treats classic classes like careers in the Traveller system.
The Accurst Lords is a level 5 to 7 adventure for first edition style retro clones and OSR systems. It takes place in a village during Yuletide, and has the party hired to track down and rescue a trade emissary from the nearby elven lands, who has gone missing, at a nearby abandoned manor.
Apparently RPGGamer also has an adventure for Dragonbane – The Realm of Frost and Fear. In a village near some woods, children have begun to vanish, and the party comes upon a search party looking for them.
A Bestiary of Enchanted England is a bestiary designed for Magonomia, a tabletop rpg of Renaissance Wizardry. This one deals with authentic little known legends from England, with lore, plot hooks, and illustrations.
Cubicle 7 has a few things for various Warhammer products. There’s Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Taverns of the Old World, a supplement that contains several inns, detailed out to be able to be used in a snap for an adventure location. Then there’s Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound Ulfenkarn: City at the Edge of Death. This one is a complete city guide for running Ulfenkarn based games, with a history of it, rules for running the game with the Grim and Perilous Ruleset, various city locations, adventure locations, and so on.
Sabre Roleplaying Game 3rd Edition: Starships is a supplement for the sci fi rules of Sabre rpg that details ships, ship modifications, weapons, systems, how to use ships as a base of operations, ship specific talents, crew duties, and more.
Mongoose has Reach Adventure 8 – Makergod for Traveller. Set in the Outrim Void, it deals with some raiders whose raids have become so thorough that they’ve reduced local areas to a pre-starflight level. The group heads there, only to find something happening.
Onyx Path has Laboratory of the Diabolical Doctor, a tasty bit for Trinity Continuum: Adventure! It details the lab of a doctor of bad reputation, where she works on a device that can transmute flesh to spirit matter.
Chaosium has Call of Cthulhu 40th Anniversary Limited Edition Keeper Rulebook, which contains not only the core rules, background, spells, guidance, etc, for the Call of Cthulhu game, but also essays and other writings from Call of Cthulhu writers, as well as The Haunting scenario, which was excluded from the 7th edition Keeper Rulebook. There’s also the separately available Keeper Tips, a collection of tips and guides for running Call of Cthulhu across a variety of topics.
Pelgrane Press has a few offerings for Trail of Cthulhu. There’s Fearful Symmetries, where you play a group of magicians exploring the magickal revival. Then there’s the companion book The Book of the New Jerusalem, set in the 1930s, wherein a magical war is brewing in Britain.
The Life, Death, and Undeath of Sherman Glimp is a supplement for Weird Heroes of Public Access RPG, that deals with a fellow from Fairhaven who uncovers an ancient horror in town.
API Worldwide: Canada is a supplement for Apocalypse Prevention, Inc. 2nd Edition that details uh, Canada. It includes information on Canada’s history, supernatural threats, the various groups operating there, with new equipment, magic, playable races, and a pre-written adventure.
Finally, Free League has a few offerings for the Walking Dead Universe RPG. There’s the core rules, where you get all the information you need to play characters within the Walking Dead Universe, utilizing rules based on the Year Zero engine. Then there’s a Starter Set that includes a condensed rulebook, a full length survival mode scenario, some pre-generated characters, and maps.
With that, let’s take a look at crowdfunding campaigns. Remember that contributing to a crowdfunding campaign should be done only at your own risk. Doing so is no guarantee of even receiving a product. Mention here is not an endorsement but is for informational purposes only.
And it looks like there’s a couple video game RPGs that bear mention. Arisen Force: Vonimir looks like it’ll be a pixel art RPG with an action combat system, with a focus on exploration, teammates to recruit, and so forth. It looks like there’s a demo available on Steam.
Then it looks like Shadow Quest looks to be an old school rpg on mobile. It lists things like Bard’s Tale, King’s Bounty, Ultima, Might and Magic and so forth as inspirations, and looks to be both tile based and have more in depth NPC interactions.
With tabletop rpg crowdfunding, there’s The Camden Vampire, which will be a fifth edition gothic mystery set in a Victorian era setting. It features a Lady who is said to be involved with vampirism, and has the party go from pub, to manor, to catacombs below.
The Burning of the Old Year will be a holiday themed investigative adventure for fifth edition. Suited for first level, it involves a death and the influence of evil while a neighborhood is about to deal with a new year celebration.
A Holly Jolly Supplement will be a fifth edition collection of magic items, subclasses, and monsters, with holiday themes.
12 Days of Christmas D&D Item Pack looks to be a collection of 12 Christmas themed items, for 5th edition. So exactly what it says on the title. Although it looks like if they hit some stretch goals they’ll add more.
Setting Guide to Retia looks to be a fifth edition supplement focusing on an industrialized continent of Somnus Domina, with three new classes, many subclasses, spells, stat blocks, adventure hooks, many new races and subraces, backgrounds, firearms rules, magic items, artifacts, gameplay options, lore, monsters, etc.
Satjiza’s Darkest Charms will be a kind of supplement, mostly system neutral but with fifth edition compatibility, with a new romancable character, various story hooks, and a half dozen arcane charms, featuring a merfolk trickster.
Bukana Bestiary looks to be a fifth edition supplement for the WakeSong world, with a set of creatures based on Filipino Myth, with the land of Bukana inspired by the pre-colonial Philipines and Indonesia. If it’s successful, it looks like it’ll pave the way for a proper setting book as well.
People from Aithaleia will be a collection of 10 Fifth edition NPCs based on persons from the Italian Renaissance. Each will have their own story, portrait, secret, and a few ideas on how to incorporate them into a campaign. It’ll be available in English and Italian.
Wild and Far Frontiers is to be a fifth edition campaign setting and supplement with a Old Western theme. Set in a land that combines firearms, train robberies, and other such things with fantasy, fearsome beasts, and the like. This looks like another one that’ll be available in both English and Italian.
Knock! Issue 4 will be another entry into a series of OSR based material, with a mix of articles and insight, tables, rules suggestions, monsters, and more, over 200 pages of material.
And then there’s Gary’s Appendix Issue 4, a zine with sword and sorcery articles for OSR systems, especially Old-School Essentials and the like. Inspired by the old Dungeon Master’s Guide, it’ll include information on adventure creation, equipment and items, locations, weather encounters, and much more.
Let Us Build a Tower looks to be a dungeon crawl adventure set in bronze age Babel. Compatible with OSR systems, it has you attempting to climb a tower to the throne of heaven, with tables, beasts of Babel, player guides, and so on.
Lair of the Silver Rings will be an OSR adventure, this one written for OSRIC, although there should be a fifth edition compatible version. Suited for level 1, it looks to try to be the first in a series of 20 adventures designed to take characters up through the ranks. This one deals with disappearances in the alleys of a city.
The Fantasy Trip Bestiary and Foes 2 from Steve Jackson Games looks to fund a hardcover book with many creatures for The Fantasy Trip, with basic stats, descriptions, habitat, etc. There’ll also be STLs for printable minis.
2d6 Realm looks like it will be a roll and write solo overland crawler, in the same sort of series that 2d6 Dungeon is from. This one will expand the rules for overland travel and adventure.
Van Gogh’s Mysterious Mansion looks to be a standalone mystery RPG based on a d20 system, set in 19th century Paris. Your group is basically set to investigate the mysterious death of Van Gogh and the disappearance of one of his most famous paintings.
Fates of Mankind looks to be a tabletop rpg that will use its own d12 based system. Set in the classical era, it’ll feature an alternate history first century BCE, in a Roman dominated mediterranean world, except one where magic exists.
Endeavor Universal Role Playing Game looks to be a new take on a generalist system, suited for playing heroic characters in a variety of genres. It’ll include in depth rules to handle various technology levels of gear, and function off of a dice pool style system.
The Start Here Roleplaying Game is a sort of introductory RPG system, designed to be fast and easy to learn and suitable for people just starting to look at roleplaying games.
Ker Nethalas looks to be a dark fantasy, solo and co op dungeon survival RPG, from Blackoath. It has you condemned to death and put into the tunnels of Ker Nethalas, the city below, where you must survive. It’ll use a d100 style system, with random dungeon generation, various character builds, survival mechanics, a unique bestiary, and so forth.
Ave Nox looks to be a system neutral megadungeon. Containing a world sealed away for half a millennia, it’ll feature themes of forgotten history and exploration.
The Night Watch will be a pamphlet style tabletop RPG plus Dungeon Synth album. The core game will feature various persons looking to defend their villages during the night, patrolling against various incursions, while the music will be available in both MP3 and CD format.
Spirit Fall looks to be a post apocalyptic tabletop RPG set in New York. After demons have annihilated humanity, survivors now try to eke out a life within the ruins of the concrete jungles, sticking to safe zones where they can.
Myriad of Monsters will be a monster collecting style RPG, based on the Powered by the Apocalypse ruleset, and heavily based/inspired by Pokemon. It looks to maintain that creature capturing sort of feel while also being relatively quick to play.
Finally there’s Game Master’s Guide to Fairies, Witches, and Fairytales, a system neutral offering that looks to adapt fairy lore and folk tales to be more helpful to game masters looking to incorporate that into their games.
And with that, we’ll wrap things up here. This has been the RPG Crawler with my RPG News Roundup for December 2nd, 2023. As always, links will be below. If you like what you’ve seen, remember to leave a like, comment if you have any feedback, and subscribe for more RPG content. Until next time, take care and good bye!
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