So we’ve seen a whole truckload of new items in the run up to GenCon. And because you may want them before you get up there, or you want to make sure you get them before the rest of your group… here you go!
Renegade Games – GI Joe RPG Beginner Box : Boot Camp
Includes a ‘playing the game’ booklet, first and second adventure books, 8 pregenerated characters, dice and a GM screen. All designed to be an entry into the GI Joe RPG universe.
Renegade Games – Transformers RPG Beginner Box : Roll Out
Includes a playing the game booklet, first and second adventure books, 8 pregenerated characters, dice and a GM screen. All designed to introduce you to the Transformers RPG universe.
Marz Press – Blood and Thunder : Ultimate Book of Mighty Deeds
This DCC compatible book gives you 150 Mighty Deeds of Arms taken from the pages of the Appendix N literature. Deeds that allow you to sever limbs, crack skulls and perform awesome strikes. Tandem Deeds allow you to work with a partner to emulate deeds from sword & sorcery fiction. There are also Mighty Peasant Deeds which can help your Zero become conquering Heroes. This book brings the kind of combat the infamous Appendix N intended.100+ pages of information at your fingertips.
Breaker Press – The Protectorate of Jenulane (for DCC)
a one-on-one adventure for characters levels 0-2. includes detailed NPCs, new monsters, rumors, a sandbox location and variable encounters along with 8 story hooks to introduce the adventure. The Tower of house Jenulane was once a bastion of protection for the surrounding countryside, home of the order of Gorhan the Helmed Vengeance. Now it lies, corrupted and no longer serving it’s purpose. But those who dare venture inside can still find the chivalric teachings in it’s library. Can you find these tomes or will you fall, being another victim of its foul occupants?
Modiphius Entertainment – Fallout Factions : Nuka-World
a new miniatures skirmish game set in the Wasteland universe. Lead your crew of raiders to control the territory and make your Scavvers, Psychos and more grow and change. Includes rulebook, tokens, dice, rosters, The Operators and The Pack crews, tape measure, dice, battle map and everything else you need to play.
8 bit Zombie – Neon Lord : Riders of the Burpwarp
13 new classes for Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastleand. 90+ pages of information, tables and more.
Swordfish Islands – Maze Rats
a RPG of dungeon exploration and survival.
DIY RPG – ORCS! : High Octane adventure
for 4 to 6 3rd level characters using the DCC ruleset. Inspired by Mad Max and Snowpiercer the party must make their way through a train battling to the engine and taking control. Includes a new Gunslinger class as well.
Catalyst Game Labs – Shadowrun Final Bets
a new campaign book for Shadowrun, Sixth World set in Paris. A hotbed of Shadow action, the runners must show they have what it takes – and in the process may well shape the fate of the world.
Grand Gamers Club – Tir Na Nog
1-5 players (ages 14 and up) work to create a story from the Otherworld in this card based competition. Plays in about half an our to an hour depending on players.
Jester Games – Barbarian Kingdoms
2-6 players vie for control of 5th Century Western Europe. Intuitive rules make jumping in easy. Strategy and resource management will help determine the winner. Battle, bribe and use your circular economy mechanics to bring victory
Tim Roberts – Be Like a Crow Solo RPG
the player takes on the role of a Corvid – exploring the world, completing objectives and meeting other creatures as you collect weird and wonderful objects.
Dungeons & Lasers (Archon Studios) – City Bits Bundle
furniture, refuse piles, thrones, bells, stoves, banners and more. 93 different pieces in a single boxed set.
Dungeons & Lasers (Archon Studios) – Flying Pirates Airship
a flying boat with a large gas bag, cannons, blades and more. Includes modular segments and optional props to create the airship of your pirating dreams.
Dungeons & Lasers (Archon Studios) Undercity Hideout –
a 206 piece underground lair with walls, doors, pools, pillars and more. Create a hideout, dungeon, lair and other underground fantasy areas.
Dungeons & Lasers (Archo Studios) – Deuslair Core Set
99 different models ranging from unique personalities like Esme the Vampire to multiples of common creatures like Chaos Orc Slave with multipose possibilities.
Gnarledmonster – Beyond the Borderlands issues 1-3
Three different issues, each creates an OSR hexcrawl in the area around the keep (issue 1), underground in the areas around the keep (issue 2) and in a shifting ruin atop an ancient elven city (issue 3). All in full color with all the information you need to use them in an OSR RPG game.
Contention Games – Slay the Spire : The Board Game
1-4 players, ages 12 and up. Plays in around an hour, up to 2 depending on the players. The cooperative deck building adventure challenges you to craft a deck, deal with bizarre creatures, discover relics and finally defeat the Spire. Includes miniatures, game cards, cards, tokens and everything you need to play.
Nord Games – The Oracle Story Generator
Events based story generation system. Five uniquely themed 60 card decks to help create a prompt with actor, action, subject, intent and development. Contracts, Bounties, Epic Adventures, Political Intrigue, Relics & Artifacts and SImple Side Quests. Over 250 million possible combinations.
Renegade Games – Hunter the Reckoning : Alma Maters
Over 50 concise ready to use academic-themed locations, four institutions, two antagonist groups, new player options, rules to expand research and investigation along with even more source material.
The Gauntlet – Brindlewood Bay
a RPG combining cozy murder mystery and cosmic horror elements. Play a group of elderly women and help the authorities solve murder cases in a picturesque New England town. Reveal twisted cults and dark conspiracies and save your community from things that lurk in the shadows.
Hurst & Alvarado – The Frost Spire
a Winter themed old school 3rd level adventure dedicated to fathers with disobedient children.
The Elf king hungers for the young and on cold nights, his wives move to the mortal world to steal away the bad children. This OSR adventure is designed for multiple possibilities.
Osprey Publishing – Stargrave : Dead or Alive
This new supplement helps you generate solo bounty hunting scenarios. Includes different settings and locations, complications and includes a host of outlaws. Hundreds of different scenarios to play… all without another player required.
Tuesday Knight Games – World Championship Russian Roulette
2-6 players compete in this press-your-luck bluffing game. Earn points bidding on the number of pulls you can survive. Fast play, intense bluffing and much more.
Sit Down! Games – Open Season
Decorate your lair with trophies from the things who have ransacked your dungeon. Use synergistic abilities to generate points and actions to have the best parlor ever. 2 to 4 players, games lasting about 15 minutes per player. Designed for ages 10 and up.
Tuesday Night Games – Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG
You and your crew explore space, derelict spacecraft and deal with alien life forms. Includes players guide, Warden’s manual, scenarios, Warden screen, maps, pawns and more.
Tuesday Night Games – Mothership Deluxe
everything the basic box has as well as a 64 page, 52 page and 48 page adventure and a whole lot more source material.