March 2012
38 posts
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KantCon 2012 →
KantCon is a tabletop game convention that caters to all kinds of tabletop gamers, including role-playing gamers, board gamers, card gamers, and miniatures gamers. We are completely community-funded by gamers all around the world, and bring a fun, safe, three-day gaming experience to the Kansas City area every July. We have people who come from as far away as Vancouver, BC to KantCon, and it...
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Spirit of the Century Presents: The Dinocalypse... →
When the Century Club is called in to prevent the assassination of FDR, it’s just another day on the job — but what they discover puts not just the President, but the entire world in jeopardy. With psychic dinosaurs taking over Manhattan and beyond, it’s up to Sally Slick, Jet Black, Mack Silver, and the other Centurions to save humanity — from extinction! The Dinocalypse Trilogy is...
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Bumps in the Night →
A new collection of five game scenarios entitled “Bumps in the Night.” This collection was written by John H. Crowe III and is set in the classic Call of Cthulhu era in the early part of the 20th Century. All five scenarios use the Call of Cthulhu Basic Role Playing mechanics, but none of them are based on the Cthulhu Mythos. Instead the players will have to face obscure horrors from...
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Adventures Dark and Deep: A Curious Volume of... →
What would 1E have looked like if its creator had been allowed to continue to develop it back in 1985? That’s the question that Adventures Dark and Deep tries to answer.
This book is designed as a supplement for use in RPGs such as Labyrinth Lord, OSRIC, 1st Edition AD&D, etc. It has the new character classes that Gary Gygax outlined in Dragon Magazine back in the early 1980’s,...
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Advanced Encounters: Alternate Objectives →
Alternate Objectives is a DM resource and advice book. It describes ways to run encounters where the PCs have a mission beyond slaying the monsters, such as protecting the king from assassins, or escaping before an entire army descends upon the heroes. The book will offer both advice for building your own encounters, and sample encounters that you can drop directly into your own game. (The sample...
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HELLAS: Worlds of Sun and Stone RPG →
Hellas: World of Sun and Stone is an exciting pen and paper roleplaying game(RPG). A fusion of high drama, action-adventure, romance, mythology-infused space opera and science fiction. Hellas is an epic space opera in the style of ancient Greek culture and legend. Every player character is a Hero in a story that you will help create, with the power to influence the settings and elements of the...
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HELLAS: Swords and Sandals →
HELLAS is an epic space opera roleplaying game (RPG) in the style of ancient Greek culture and legend. Every player character is a Hero in a story that you will help create, with the power to influence the settings and elements of the game. HELLAS spans multiple generations, allowing for the continuation of the epic story even after the death of a Hero, in the style of the epic poets of old.
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Mermaid Adventures, an RPG of Undersea Fun →
A ‘lite’ traditional RPG geared toward a younger audience. In this game, players of all ages take the role of different types of underwater people that reside in Atlantis, the kingdom beneath the sea. Mermaid Adventures takes a lot of inspiration from The Little Mermaid, but also the adventurous elements of Hook or the fantastic elements of movies like Stardust.
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NeoExodus Adventure: Origin of Man for Pathfinder... →
The NeoExodus Adventure Origin of Man for Pathfinder RPG is a project with the goal of designing an adventure, Origin of Man, to be released August 2012 during the international gaming convention known as Gen Con. The Origin of Man adventure will serve as an introductory adventure and showcase of the NeoExodus: A House Divided campaign setting and its unique differences from all the other gaming...
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Within the Devil's Reach →
Within the Devil’s Reach is a set of three introductory adventures for Dungeon World. You are adventurers from Devil’s Reach, a little town on the backside of nowhere and people have been disappearing. To make matters worse there are a lot of new faces in town including some weirdo that the mayor brought but no one quite knows why. But the worst bit is that there is a cave, just...
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Final Twilight Urban Fantasy Card Game →
Final Twilight is an urban-fantasy expandable card game. In it, players take on the role of characters, modern knights and mages, dueling in the shadows, carrying on a war that has lasted for centuries! Players construct their own decks with characters from the setting, each with their own skills, powers, and tactics, in a wide assortment of cards, competing to take back the night or to claim it...
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Artisan Dice →
As any gamer worth their salt knows, your geek cred at the gaming table is directly proportional to the size of your dice bag. But if you really want to wow your fellow players at the next gaming session then you need a set or three of custom handmade high quality Artisan Dice!
RISUS Free Adventure Project 2012 →
A kick-to-free project to produce free adventure material for Risus: The Anything RPG. The first module will be trad-fantasy (or the Risus idea of trad-fantasy) with more to come as the pledges determine! High-quality adventure modules in the Mighty Risus Manner, complete with lifelike stick-figure art and comparably fancy cartography!
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Mythic Hero →
Mythic Hero is your guide to the mythologies of the world for gaming. It describes dozens of mythologies, with character sheets for gods, heroes, monsters, and other mythological beings, as well as information on their cosmologies, magical practices, and more. The character sheets are written up using the HERO System, but the information in the book is useful for any RPG.
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Admiral o' the High Seas - Naval Adventures... →
We’re producing a short sourcebook for naval adventures in role-playing games, in particular Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder (and possibly other systems, based on pledges). We’d like your support. Many of the most famous explorers and adventurers of history and fiction traveled by ship, but fantasy role-playing games seldom give much love to the high seas. There are whole realms...
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School Daze →
If you like narrative-driven roleplaying games with light systems, and easy character creation, you’ll love School Daze. It’s gaming, in a high school setting, and it rocks. High school is a time that everyone remembers. We see it everywhere: in movies, and books, and music. But what we see there isn’t real high school, and neither is School Daze. School Daze uses high school as...
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Tectonic Craft Studios New Line of War Games... →
How many times have you spent all that time personalizing your army, maybe with friends or at a local gaming store, only to fight an epic battle on a plain grass/wasteland board with a few uninspired hills, drab buildings, and a few generic accent pieces? Tectonic Craft Studios is looking to change that. They’re looking to start making terrain as a continuous and evolving line of tabletop...
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Edition Wars, by Gamer Nation Studios →
Edition Wars is a fun-filled, tongue-in-check standalone strategy card game for 3-5 players, where you become a Gamemaster slavishly devoted to your edition of the game! In the effort to champion your edition, you will compete to be the first to assemble a complete group of six Gamers. But this simple task is complicated by the fact that the other Gamemasters are trying to steal your Gamers out...
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Dwimmermount: An Old School Fantasy RPG... →
Since 2009, readers of Grognardia have been tantalized by reports from the exploration of James Maliszewski’s sprawling and mysterious mega-dungeon. Inspired by pulp fantasy and science fiction, and originally created as the centerpiece for his home campaign, Dwimmermount has also been an essential vehicle for Grognardia’s rediscovery of the roots and potential of roleplaying games...
Player's Companion for the Adventurer Conqueror... →
With the Adventurer Conqueror King System™ Player’s Companion, you will get: 6 new character classes, including the dwarven machinist, dwarven spelunker, elven ranger, mystic, priestess, and shaman. 144 character generation templates with pre-selected proficiencies, spells, and equipment options to create archetypes such as the Aristocrat Bard, Buccaneer Thief, Gladiator Fighter, or...
