RPG News Roundup 12-30-2023
Hello, this is the RPG Crawler and welcome once again to my RPG News Roundup, this time for December 30th, 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. As it is the very last week of the year, expect the news this week to be very, very light.
With that, let’s go right into computer and console role-playing game news.
Dragon Quest Tact International is shutting its servers down. A free to play, tactical rpg based on the Dragon Quest franchise, it has been available on mobile platforms since 2021. The international version will shut down on February 29th, 2024.
Then, Front Mission 1st Remake is getting a free content update. A remake of a Super Famicom era tactical rpg, the new update will be slated for 2024. It'll include some new single player scenarios, local multiplayer mode, and new characters.
It looks like Cassette Beasts is getting a multiplayer feature. This open world, monster collecting rpg has been available since early this year.
The Bustling World is set for some time in 2024. It looks like it’ll be an open world style RPG set in ancient China. It’ll have survival, farming, building systems, even the ability to create a city and run a country.
Not sure how much an RPG this one is, but Tales of Seikyu is also slated for some time in 2024. It’ll be one of those fantasy farming/life sim style games, where you try to run a countryside inn in an area inspired by Japan, with various yokai wandering around.
Due to the rather light roster of new releases this particular week I will be covering some, shall we say, lower end offerings.
Phantasy Series Reference Opus is available for free, and is a party based, turn based jrpg in a classic retro style, inspired by early 90s era RPGs, and goes from fantasy to sci-fi in genre.
There is one simply called Fighting. A battle role playing game where you defeat enemies one on one in battles gaining experience points and coins to upgrade your gear.
Then, Planecraft is a 2.5 D sandbox game. Not sure how much of an rpg it is, but it lets you build a settlement on the surface, grow crops, allow settlers to run your farm, but also explore a multi level dungeon below.
Finally, there is Kings Call. A free to play, trading card based, browser based card battler with rpg elements. It lets you summon creatures, cast spells, and face different monsters.
And now, let's move on to tabletop gaming news. We will dive right in to minor and pdf releases.
Home-Base Handbook for Pathfinder second edition is a guide to custom player bases. It includes rules for constructing and staffing player bases, plus unique rooms with special bonuses downtime activities or income sources. It also includes guides for running encounters in player bases, as well as three home based concepts ready to play.
Adventure Ripples has two adventures for 5th Edition. A Memory in Ice takes place in a remote village where an unsettling phenomenon has become part of life for the inhabitants, causing them to experience memory loss. Then, Frozen Vendetta deals with another remote town, where a tiefling has arrived to exact justice for her family and village.
Island of Zaerth is supposedly a 5th edition compatible game. It deals with an island that hosts the creations of an evil corporation, which reigned long ago before centuries of war. Having been forced to hide on the island, it has created more and more abominations over the years.
Dragori Games has some offerings for the Tanares RPG for 5th Edition. There is the Campaign Sourcebook that details a campaign where high fantasy combines with eldritch horror. The book contains various factions and organizations, religions, various regions and realms, and over 70 new monsters. There is Adventure in the Realms of Madness, the details of the penumbral plane for Tanares. It includes eight chapters of adventures for levels 3 to 11. Finally there is the Players Guide to Tanares, the details four classes, 16 new subclasses, new species, et cetera.
Grim Press has Unearthed Spoils volume 16 Winter Fae. It is a 5th edition supplement that offers the Circle of the Winter Fae for Druids, Hibernal Hunter Conclave for Rangers , the Beekeeper background, various glacial spells, midwinter magic items, and various fae, as well as a level 6 adventure.
Darkthan Publishing has The Art of Dying, a 5th edition module, with rules for vampirism and therianthropy, various Gothic horror theme magic items, maps, creature blocks, and more.
Then, Holiday Hijinks: Presents in Peril is a holiday themed 5th edition one shot that has the adventures summoned by desperate elves clad in green and white. They are looking for help to deal with a threat to “the one in red”.
Likewise, Violent Night is another holiday themed adventure. Inspired by Christmas songs, it includes a 29 page adventure for level six characters , 10 home brewed monsters, various potions, magic items, spells and more.
RPGGamer has a series of new fantasy classes for 5th edition. Each one is detailed, and suited to a particular theme. There is the cartographer, the hunter, the physician, the tactician, and the trader.
Flawless Walrus has A set of 5th edition subclasses, this time for the Souls of Drevland setting. Each is offered separately and include the Tidal Cleric, Way of Dominance, Dynamic Fighter, Stoneheart Sorcerer, Spellfade Rogue, and Resonant Barbarian.
And then Solomani has a series of 5th edition offerings . One is Wizards & Machineguns, a supplement that adds rules, classes, and equipment, for a science fantasy setting. It includes four new races, four new classes, 11 spells, 47 monsters, various future tech, and setting rules. The other offerings are a set of subclasses for the Skyfortress setting, and similar science fantasy setups. There is a Child of the Atom, Mockery and Mechromancer.
The Undead Asylum is a Shadowdark gauntlet inspired, to put it mildly, by the Dark Souls series. It has the players assuming the roles of undead characters who have lost many memories of their past lives and are trying to escape the asylum in which they are trapped. With each death, they lose a bit of their humanity and risk going full hollow.
Menagerie Press has the Stalith Sky-Arc for Shadowdark. Suited for level three to five characters, it features a shrine of Madeera, long desecrated and abandoned by her faithful.
Wormwood, from Historical Analog Gaming Society, is a Dungeon Crawl Classics campaign supplement set in the year 536 AD. It mixes historical context with medieval folklore and classic elements of fantasy fiction. It offers character creation, lore, mass combat, social status, equipment, estates rules, trade goods and services, magical treasure, dungeon delving, wilderness exploration, and much more in Western Europe.
Champions of the Goblin Market is available in print. It is a zero level adventure for Dungeon Crawl Classics, featuring a Midsummer Festival where a girl is stolen by goblins and her sister goes to save her.
The Prison of the Ice Demon is a first edition/OSRIC compatible adventure for level 9 to 11 characters. It details a frozen land with chilling adversaries
Adventures in Filbar has the Sacking of Jok, an OSR style adventure scenario for first level PCs. It’s a sort of scenario designed around an evil warlord destroying the characters’ home.
The Tabletop Engineer has Delver Guild Collections, a series of offerings for OSR systems containing various material. There is Searcher’s Relics, which contains 48 pages of new and unique one shot magic items. Obsidian Pages Tomes contains various new and unique magical tomes and spellbooks. Delver Society Scrolls contains magical scrolls, while Guild Adventures collects 12 dungeon adventures together.
Role&Roll has three more entries in their Wilderness Region series, each of which offers an OSR and Knave compatible expanse of wilderness. There’s #15 Coastline, and #16 Savanna, each covering a different type of terrain. They also have #17 Floating Island, which goes into the more fantastic and details a floating island in the air.
Stellagama has Scoundrels, Xenos, and Cyborgs for White Star and similar sci-fi OSR systems. This supplement includes four new classes, 8 new Psionic powers, 4 new starships, 3 new ship modifications, 7 weapons, rules for cryogenic suspension, rules for resuscitation, repairing dead robots, and more.
Blue Star Forest is an OSR style scenario with a fantasy world forest exploration that uses the Transdimensional Lite and Transdimension Adventures rules, but with conversion notes for other rpg systems.
Into the Sapphire Mines is a one shot EZD6 adventure, that details an abandoned mine that opens into an underground tunnel system with an ancient colony of crystal arachnids. It includes maps, 5 encounter areas, a location, faction, and NPC lore, procedural generation rules, some custom magic items, tables, and maps.
The Mad Hermit’s Almanac is a collection of useful charts, articles, tables, topics, etc, for use with fantasy tabletop RPGs. This issue, #1, includes a Dice Oracle, a random conversation topic table, and so forth.
Theater of Epic Roleplaying Game is a tabletop RPG with an emphasis on theatricality. It has the director customizing characters for the actors to then handle according to the storyline, and utilizes a straightforward system that is compatible with other d20 based retroclones.
Philip Reed Games has Additional Treasures Three, a supplement for Dragonbane, which contains a deck of 54 cards containing various treasures for Dragonbane, and expands on the prior two volumes. There’s also Deck of Old-School Encounters, which compiles 72 random encounter cards for fantasy RPGs, both are available in print.
Potent Polearms Revisited collects 13 magical weapons. System agnostic, they of course focus on various polearm weapons.
Darkest Delves is a set of rules for torchlight and darkness for Ironsworn: Delve style adventures. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon and Torchbearer, the brief rules include the torchlight rules, advice for handling light and darkness, incorporating various assets, some oracle tables, and some Dark Truths.
Night of the Gallowgrim is a system agnostic folk-horror fantasy adventure, meant to be used with various fantasy roleplaying games. It includes adventure locations, NPCs, weird magic items and effects, the information on an ancient cult, and a bonus faerie adventure.
Quill & Quest is a cozy solo writing-RPG, where you play a journalist in a quiet fantasy town, writing reports on the goings on within it.
Never Mind the Dice Rolls, Issue 28 is another entry in that tabletop RPG magazine series, this one containing information on surviving a TPK, a review of the Alien tabletop rpg, a guide to Intel gathering in games, and a scenario for Liminal.
The Timeless Tomb of Tir’za’nthel from Onyx Path is a tasty bit for Scion 2nd edition, which features an undiscovered planet to explore, with the burial tomb of the Scion of Nodens.
Prisoner Omega for SMASH is a superhero focused scenario revolving around a death-trapped prison, where the characters have to play through the games of the supervillain Enigma.
Call of the Waves is a case file for Grim Noir RPG, this one featuring a Shipment of bootleg whiskey, with the invesitgators sent to figure out what happened to it. It includes pre-made characters, two dozen clues, descriptions of locations and NPCs, a map, etc.
Finally there’s Sanctuary & Sentinel, a pair of Gmless games that tell the story of a place of power. One is a worldbuilding narrative game, while the other is a journaling game about a guardian within the place.
And with that, let's take a look at RPG 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. Mentioned here is not an endorsement, but is for informational purposes only.
As with the rest, there are only a few things that caught my eye this week.
The Bustling World, which I mentioned earlier in the computer game announcement section has a kickstarter going on, so there’s that.
Although not an RPG product in of itself , there is a Kickstarter up for the Wayfinder Compass from the Pathfinder system. It looks to create a prop based on the device used by members of the Pathfinder Society in the world of Golarion. It looks like aside from a physical object, there will be stretch goals unlocked to provide in game cards for the item and other materials.
Under the Indigo Moon looks to be a one shot adventure with mechanics compatible with 5th edition, d20 systems, Pathfinder first and second editions, and Shadowdark. This one shot features an area where conflict between a Baron and a Circle of Druids has reached a boiling point. It looks like it'll allow you to pick either side to join with.
Eclipse of the Magus-King looks to be a solo 5th edition dungeon crawl. In the form of a game book, it offers a mapless combat system, multiple paths, tiered encounters, and more. It has you wandering through a Magus-King's abandoned palace.
Diego Pisa Artworks has Trinket Hunters for 5th edition, Pathfinder, and OSR systems. It offers a number of trinkets, with illustrations and background, to offer your players.
Finally, Jason DM has D100 tavern events list. With 100+ events in situations for a role playing game, with a focus on 5th edition compatibility.
And with that, I will wrap things up here. As always links will be below. I hope that you all have a wonderful New Year's, and I look forward to seeing what comes up in 2024. For now, this has been the RPG Crawler, with my RPG News Roundup for December 30th, 2023. 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 goodbye.
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Cassette Beasts: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1321440/Cassette_Beasts/
The Bustling World: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2724650/The_Bustling_World/
Tales of Seikyu: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2340520/Tales_of_Seikyu/
Phantasy Series Reference Opus: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2188740/Phantasy_Series_Reference_Opus/
Fighting: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2715260/Fighting/
Planecraft: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2697360/Planecraft/
Kings Call: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2674290/kings_call/
Home-Base Handbook [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465252/home-base-handbook-pf2-a-guide-to-custom-player-bases?affiliate_id=902296
Adventure Ripples [Affiliate Links]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465120/a-memory-in-ice?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465123/frozen-vendetta?affiliate_id=902296
Island of Zaerth [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/463731/island-of-zaerth?affiliate_id=902296
Tanares [Affiliate Links]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464263/tanares-rpg-for-5e-player-s-guide-to-tanares?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/463965/tanares-rpg-for-5e-adventure-in-the-realms-of-madness?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464281/tanares-rpg-for-5e-campaign-sourcebook?affiliate_id=902296
Unearthed Spoils 16 [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465267/unearthed-spoils-016-winter-fey-5e?affiliate_id=902296
The Art of Dying [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464921/the-art-of-dying-module-for-5th-level-characters?affiliate_id=902296
Holiday Hijinks [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464883/holiday-hijinks-presents-in-peril?affiliate_id=902296
Violent Night [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465013/violent-night-a-christmas-carol?affiliate_id=902296
Fantasy Classes [Affiliate Links]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464513/fantasy-classes-cartographer?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464514/fantasy-classes-hunter?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464515/fantasy-classes-physician?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464516/fantasy-classes-tactician?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464517/fantasy-classes-trader?affiliate_id=902296
Souls of Drevland [Affiliate Links]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464737/tidal-cleric-souls-of-drevland-5e-subclass-supplement?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464738/way-of-dominance-souls-of-drevland-5e-subclass-supplement?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464736/dynamic-fighter-souls-of-drevland-5e-subclass-supplement?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464735/stoneheart-sorcerer-souls-of-drevland-5e-subclass-supplement?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464734/spellfade-rogue-souls-of-drevland-5e-subclass-supplement?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464733/resonant-barbarian-souls-of-drevland-5e-subclass-supplement?affiliate_id=902296
Skyfortress [Affiliate Links]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464578/wizards-machineguns-5e?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465089/child-of-the-atom?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465091/mockery?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465090/mechromancer?affiliate_id=902296
The Undead Asylum [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464892/the-undead-asylum?affiliate_id=902296
The Stalith Sky-Arc [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465346/shadowdark-the-stalith-sky-arc?affiliate_id=902296
Wormwood [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464346/wormwood?affiliate_id=902296
Champions of the Goblin Market [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465096/champions-of-the-goblin-market-print-pdf?affiliate_id=902296
Prison of the Ice Demon [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464899/the-prison-of-the-ice-demon-1e?affiliate_id=902296
Sacking of Jok [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465297/au1-sacking-of-jok?affiliate_id=902296
Delver Collections [Affiliate Links]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465311/delver-guild-collections-searchers-relics?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465309/delver-guild-collections-obsidian-pages-tomes?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465307/delver-guild-collections-delver-society-scrolls?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465306/delver-guild-collections-guild-adventures?affiliate_id=902296
Wilderness Regions [Affiliate Links]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464903/wilderness-region-coastline-15?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465202/wilderness-region-savanna-16?affiliate_id=902296 https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465394/wilderness-region-floating-isle-17?affiliate_id=902296
Scoundres, Xenos, and Cyborgs [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465286/scoundrels-xenos-and-cyborgs?affiliate_id=902296
Blue Star Forest [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465027/blue-star-forest?affiliate_id=902296
Into the Sapphire Mines [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464682/into-the-sapphire-mines-an-ezd6-one-shot-adventure?affiliate_id=902296
The Mad Hermit's Almanac [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464826/the-mad-hermit-s-almanac?affiliate_id=902296
Theater of Epic [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464995/theater-of-epic?affiliate_id=902296
Additional Treasures Three for Dragonbane [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/463322/additional-treasures-three-a-supplement-for-dragonbane?affiliate_id=902296
Deck of Old-School Encounters [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/463489/deck-of-old-school-encounters-systemless-fantasy-rpg-cards?affiliate_id=902296
Potent Polearms Revisited [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465062/potent-polearms-revisited-13-magic-weapons-from-off-the-beaten-track-system-agnostic?affiliate_id=902296
Darkest Delves [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465278/darkest-delves?affiliate_id=902296
Night of the Gallowgrim [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465044/night-of-the-gallowgrim?affiliate_id=902296
Quill & Quest [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465205/quill-quest?affiliate_id=902296
Never Mind the Dice Rolls Issue 28 [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465129/never-mind-the-dice-rolls-issue-028?affiliate_id=902296
The Timeless Tomb of Tir'Za'Nthel [Affliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464215/the-timeless-tomb-of-tir-za-nthel?affiliate_id=902296
Prisoner Omega [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464090/s-m-a-s-h-prisoner-omega?affiliate_id=902296
Call of the Waves [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465244/call-of-the-waves-a-case-file-for-grim-noir-rpg?affiliate_id=902296
Sanctuary & Sentinel [Affiliate Link]: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/465058/sanctuary-and-sentinel?affiliate_id=902296
The Bustling World: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/firewogames/the-bustling-world
Wayfinder Compass: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/type40/wayfinder-compass-for-paizos-pathfinder
Under the Indigo Moon: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mtnlandgames/under-the-indigo-moon
Eclipse of the Magus King: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dmdenz/eclipse-of-the-magus-king-a-solo-5e-dungeon-crawl
Trinket Hunters: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2029996743/trinket-hunters
D100 Events List: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jasondm/d100-tavern-events
With that, let’s go right into computer and console role-playing game news.
Dragon Quest Tact International is shutting its servers down. A free to play, tactical rpg based on the Dragon Quest franchise, it has been available on mobile platforms since 2021. The international version will shut down on February 29th, 2024.
Then, Front Mission 1st Remake is getting a free content update. A remake of a Super Famicom era tactical rpg, the new update will be slated for 2024. It'll include some new single player scenarios, local multiplayer mode, and new characters.
It looks like Cassette Beasts is getting a multiplayer feature. This open world, monster collecting rpg has been available since early this year.
The Bustling World is set for some time in 2024. It looks like it’ll be an open world style RPG set in ancient China. It’ll have survival, farming, building systems, even the ability to create a city and run a country.
Not sure how much an RPG this one is, but Tales of Seikyu is also slated for some time in 2024. It’ll be one of those fantasy farming/life sim style games, where you try to run a countryside inn in an area inspired by Japan, with various yokai wandering around.
Due to the rather light roster of new releases this particular week I will be covering some, shall we say, lower end offerings.
Phantasy Series Reference Opus is available for free, and is a party based, turn based jrpg in a classic retro style, inspired by early 90s era RPGs, and goes from fantasy to sci-fi in genre.
There is one simply called Fighting. A battle role playing game where you defeat enemies one on one in battles gaining experience points and coins to upgrade your gear.
Then, Planecraft is a 2.5 D sandbox game. Not sure how much of an rpg it is, but it lets you build a settlement on the surface, grow crops, allow settlers to run your farm, but also explore a multi level dungeon below.
Finally, there is Kings Call. A free to play, trading card based, browser based card battler with rpg elements. It lets you summon creatures, cast spells, and face different monsters.
And now, let's move on to tabletop gaming news. We will dive right in to minor and pdf releases.
Home-Base Handbook for Pathfinder second edition is a guide to custom player bases. It includes rules for constructing and staffing player bases, plus unique rooms with special bonuses downtime activities or income sources. It also includes guides for running encounters in player bases, as well as three home based concepts ready to play.
Adventure Ripples has two adventures for 5th Edition. A Memory in Ice takes place in a remote village where an unsettling phenomenon has become part of life for the inhabitants, causing them to experience memory loss. Then, Frozen Vendetta deals with another remote town, where a tiefling has arrived to exact justice for her family and village.
Island of Zaerth is supposedly a 5th edition compatible game. It deals with an island that hosts the creations of an evil corporation, which reigned long ago before centuries of war. Having been forced to hide on the island, it has created more and more abominations over the years.
Dragori Games has some offerings for the Tanares RPG for 5th Edition. There is the Campaign Sourcebook that details a campaign where high fantasy combines with eldritch horror. The book contains various factions and organizations, religions, various regions and realms, and over 70 new monsters. There is Adventure in the Realms of Madness, the details of the penumbral plane for Tanares. It includes eight chapters of adventures for levels 3 to 11. Finally there is the Players Guide to Tanares, the details four classes, 16 new subclasses, new species, et cetera.
Grim Press has Unearthed Spoils volume 16 Winter Fae. It is a 5th edition supplement that offers the Circle of the Winter Fae for Druids, Hibernal Hunter Conclave for Rangers , the Beekeeper background, various glacial spells, midwinter magic items, and various fae, as well as a level 6 adventure.
Darkthan Publishing has The Art of Dying, a 5th edition module, with rules for vampirism and therianthropy, various Gothic horror theme magic items, maps, creature blocks, and more.
Then, Holiday Hijinks: Presents in Peril is a holiday themed 5th edition one shot that has the adventures summoned by desperate elves clad in green and white. They are looking for help to deal with a threat to “the one in red”.
Likewise, Violent Night is another holiday themed adventure. Inspired by Christmas songs, it includes a 29 page adventure for level six characters , 10 home brewed monsters, various potions, magic items, spells and more.
RPGGamer has a series of new fantasy classes for 5th edition. Each one is detailed, and suited to a particular theme. There is the cartographer, the hunter, the physician, the tactician, and the trader.
Flawless Walrus has A set of 5th edition subclasses, this time for the Souls of Drevland setting. Each is offered separately and include the Tidal Cleric, Way of Dominance, Dynamic Fighter, Stoneheart Sorcerer, Spellfade Rogue, and Resonant Barbarian.
And then Solomani has a series of 5th edition offerings . One is Wizards & Machineguns, a supplement that adds rules, classes, and equipment, for a science fantasy setting. It includes four new races, four new classes, 11 spells, 47 monsters, various future tech, and setting rules. The other offerings are a set of subclasses for the Skyfortress setting, and similar science fantasy setups. There is a Child of the Atom, Mockery and Mechromancer.
The Undead Asylum is a Shadowdark gauntlet inspired, to put it mildly, by the Dark Souls series. It has the players assuming the roles of undead characters who have lost many memories of their past lives and are trying to escape the asylum in which they are trapped. With each death, they lose a bit of their humanity and risk going full hollow.
Menagerie Press has the Stalith Sky-Arc for Shadowdark. Suited for level three to five characters, it features a shrine of Madeera, long desecrated and abandoned by her faithful.
Wormwood, from Historical Analog Gaming Society, is a Dungeon Crawl Classics campaign supplement set in the year 536 AD. It mixes historical context with medieval folklore and classic elements of fantasy fiction. It offers character creation, lore, mass combat, social status, equipment, estates rules, trade goods and services, magical treasure, dungeon delving, wilderness exploration, and much more in Western Europe.
Champions of the Goblin Market is available in print. It is a zero level adventure for Dungeon Crawl Classics, featuring a Midsummer Festival where a girl is stolen by goblins and her sister goes to save her.
The Prison of the Ice Demon is a first edition/OSRIC compatible adventure for level 9 to 11 characters. It details a frozen land with chilling adversaries
Adventures in Filbar has the Sacking of Jok, an OSR style adventure scenario for first level PCs. It’s a sort of scenario designed around an evil warlord destroying the characters’ home.
The Tabletop Engineer has Delver Guild Collections, a series of offerings for OSR systems containing various material. There is Searcher’s Relics, which contains 48 pages of new and unique one shot magic items. Obsidian Pages Tomes contains various new and unique magical tomes and spellbooks. Delver Society Scrolls contains magical scrolls, while Guild Adventures collects 12 dungeon adventures together.
Role&Roll has three more entries in their Wilderness Region series, each of which offers an OSR and Knave compatible expanse of wilderness. There’s #15 Coastline, and #16 Savanna, each covering a different type of terrain. They also have #17 Floating Island, which goes into the more fantastic and details a floating island in the air.
Stellagama has Scoundrels, Xenos, and Cyborgs for White Star and similar sci-fi OSR systems. This supplement includes four new classes, 8 new Psionic powers, 4 new starships, 3 new ship modifications, 7 weapons, rules for cryogenic suspension, rules for resuscitation, repairing dead robots, and more.
Blue Star Forest is an OSR style scenario with a fantasy world forest exploration that uses the Transdimensional Lite and Transdimension Adventures rules, but with conversion notes for other rpg systems.
Into the Sapphire Mines is a one shot EZD6 adventure, that details an abandoned mine that opens into an underground tunnel system with an ancient colony of crystal arachnids. It includes maps, 5 encounter areas, a location, faction, and NPC lore, procedural generation rules, some custom magic items, tables, and maps.
The Mad Hermit’s Almanac is a collection of useful charts, articles, tables, topics, etc, for use with fantasy tabletop RPGs. This issue, #1, includes a Dice Oracle, a random conversation topic table, and so forth.
Theater of Epic Roleplaying Game is a tabletop RPG with an emphasis on theatricality. It has the director customizing characters for the actors to then handle according to the storyline, and utilizes a straightforward system that is compatible with other d20 based retroclones.
Philip Reed Games has Additional Treasures Three, a supplement for Dragonbane, which contains a deck of 54 cards containing various treasures for Dragonbane, and expands on the prior two volumes. There’s also Deck of Old-School Encounters, which compiles 72 random encounter cards for fantasy RPGs, both are available in print.
Potent Polearms Revisited collects 13 magical weapons. System agnostic, they of course focus on various polearm weapons.
Darkest Delves is a set of rules for torchlight and darkness for Ironsworn: Delve style adventures. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon and Torchbearer, the brief rules include the torchlight rules, advice for handling light and darkness, incorporating various assets, some oracle tables, and some Dark Truths.
Night of the Gallowgrim is a system agnostic folk-horror fantasy adventure, meant to be used with various fantasy roleplaying games. It includes adventure locations, NPCs, weird magic items and effects, the information on an ancient cult, and a bonus faerie adventure.
Quill & Quest is a cozy solo writing-RPG, where you play a journalist in a quiet fantasy town, writing reports on the goings on within it.
Never Mind the Dice Rolls, Issue 28 is another entry in that tabletop RPG magazine series, this one containing information on surviving a TPK, a review of the Alien tabletop rpg, a guide to Intel gathering in games, and a scenario for Liminal.
The Timeless Tomb of Tir’za’nthel from Onyx Path is a tasty bit for Scion 2nd edition, which features an undiscovered planet to explore, with the burial tomb of the Scion of Nodens.
Prisoner Omega for SMASH is a superhero focused scenario revolving around a death-trapped prison, where the characters have to play through the games of the supervillain Enigma.
Call of the Waves is a case file for Grim Noir RPG, this one featuring a Shipment of bootleg whiskey, with the invesitgators sent to figure out what happened to it. It includes pre-made characters, two dozen clues, descriptions of locations and NPCs, a map, etc.
Finally there’s Sanctuary & Sentinel, a pair of Gmless games that tell the story of a place of power. One is a worldbuilding narrative game, while the other is a journaling game about a guardian within the place.
And with that, let's take a look at RPG 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. Mentioned here is not an endorsement, but is for informational purposes only.
As with the rest, there are only a few things that caught my eye this week.
The Bustling World, which I mentioned earlier in the computer game announcement section has a kickstarter going on, so there’s that.
Although not an RPG product in of itself , there is a Kickstarter up for the Wayfinder Compass from the Pathfinder system. It looks to create a prop based on the device used by members of the Pathfinder Society in the world of Golarion. It looks like aside from a physical object, there will be stretch goals unlocked to provide in game cards for the item and other materials.
Under the Indigo Moon looks to be a one shot adventure with mechanics compatible with 5th edition, d20 systems, Pathfinder first and second editions, and Shadowdark. This one shot features an area where conflict between a Baron and a Circle of Druids has reached a boiling point. It looks like it'll allow you to pick either side to join with.
Eclipse of the Magus-King looks to be a solo 5th edition dungeon crawl. In the form of a game book, it offers a mapless combat system, multiple paths, tiered encounters, and more. It has you wandering through a Magus-King's abandoned palace.
Diego Pisa Artworks has Trinket Hunters for 5th edition, Pathfinder, and OSR systems. It offers a number of trinkets, with illustrations and background, to offer your players.
Finally, Jason DM has D100 tavern events list. With 100+ events in situations for a role playing game, with a focus on 5th edition compatibility.
And with that, I will wrap things up here. As always links will be below. I hope that you all have a wonderful New Year's, and I look forward to seeing what comes up in 2024. For now, this has been the RPG Crawler, with my RPG News Roundup for December 30th, 2023. 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 goodbye.
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