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Bang! The Bullet

2024-08-16T13:14:53+01:00

Vendor: DV Games
Type: Board & Card Games
Price: 39.99

Card Game, 3-8 Players, Ages 8+, playing time around 20-40 minutes

BANG! The Bullet! is the deluxe version of BANG! and its expansions. Coming in a deluxe bullet-'box' it contains:

- BANG! - Third Edition with reworked cards and rules
- Dodge City - Second Edition with reworked cards and characters
- High Noon - Second Edition
- High Noon II (A Fistful Of Cards) - Second Edition
- Two new exclusive High Noon cards - "New Identity" and "Handcuffs"
- Three new characters - Uncle Will, Johnny Kisch, and Claus "The Saint"
- Two blank cards
- One silver sheriff badge

Released: Essen 2007.

The Cthulhu Hack (hardcover) + complimentary PDF

2024-08-16T12:40:24+01:00

Vendor: All Rolled Up
Type: Role Playing
Price: 29.99

The Cthulhu Hack is a standalone game of investigation and dealing with the sanity-shattering shock of facing Things Best Left Unknown. The book includes simple mechanics to handle threats and investigation, ready-to-play archetypes and a flexible character creation system, horrors and an overview of the Mythos, and a complete modern day adventure, Save Innsmouth.

156 pages hardcover A5 book.

This Game is a KILLER: Alien on Board

2024-08-07T15:54:59+01:00

Vendor: Smirk & Dagger
Type: Board & Card Games
Price: 14.99

For 3-10 players, ages 10+, playing time is around 10-15 minutes.

This Game Is KILLER is a hilariously deadly party game about being hunted by an alien life form aboard a cramped cargo vessel in deep space. The object is simple: Survive at any cost — and remove the alien threat before it kills you all.

In a round, you will be dealt two cards. Each can be played as either your position on the ship (i.e., where you are) or an action (what you do). On a turn, you play one card, then after everyone has finished, play reverses and comes back around, with you playing the second card for whatever you didn't choose the first time. Thus, you always have one position and one action.

Then the alien's location is revealed. If you share that location and you have the highest priority number, you're dead. If a crew member's action kills you, you're dead. In fact, death comes pretty quickly in this game — then ten minutes later, you are all jumping back in to play again. With a bit of skill and luck, however, you may be able to isolate the alien at one of the locations that let you jettison it into space, along with any fellow crew members who happen to be there.

This isn't a deduction game; it's horror survival...if horror survival were funny.

We Deal In Lead + complimentary PDF

2024-08-01T16:40:27+01:00

Vendor: By Odin's Beard RPG
Type: Role Playing
Price: 29.99

We Deal in Lead is a 88-page, full-colour weird west gunslinger TTRPG by Colin Le Sueur for 1 or more players. Set in a strange post-apocalyptic world eerily close to ours, where the borders of time and space wear thin. You are Gunslingers, mythic champions holding off the forces of chaos with lead and grit.

You look to those closest to you, fellow gunslingers of the Order of the King. The arduous trek across the bleached desert is over and now you stand before a slip door. Though tested, the fellowship of your Order stands true.

You grasp the worn sandalwood grip of your artefact gun and twist open the door. You gasp as the sharp sea air hits your lungs. Gulls caw and the foam sprays your face like a baptism. You step through to another reality.

After all, there are other worlds than these.

Features:

Combat and exploration gameplay designed for 1 or more players, including solo or group play.
Streamlined d20 roll-under rules based on Cairn, Into the Odd, and Knave.
Hard-hitting gunslinger combat with new gun mechanics.
Includes an introductory Gunslinger adventure: Swampwater Shootout.
Generate a random adventure with the excursion generator or consult the oracle for solo play.
Compatible with other Cairn adventures and settings; journey with your gunslingers into other genres and times.
Recruit heroes from other worlds to join your quest, even those fallen to death; death is just another door, after all.
Keep the bonds of fellowship strong within your Gunslinger Order and your aim will remain true.
Wilderness survival and exploration through a world that has moved on — the known and unknown lands are dangerously unpredictable.
Friend and train beast companions to act as your eyes, ears, or fangs, including hawks, wolves, and bumblers.

Runecairn Bestiary + complimentary PDF

2024-08-01T16:35:40+01:00

Vendor: By Odin's Beard RPG
Type: Role Playing
Price: 27.99

Runecairn Bestiary is a 64-page tabletop RPG supplement for Norse fantasy roleplaying game Runecairn, adding 100 new monsters and rules for creating or converting even more.

You reach the summit of the frozen mountain, shrieking wind whipping around the broad shield protecting your exposed face. You grit your teeth as you see the terrifying figure standing before you, burning red eyes peering within an icy white skull. The dead thing raises its arms and the two corpses laying frozen next to it shudder to life, hissing with rage.

You ready your shield and raise your bearded axe high above your head. You scream a prayer to the lost gods and charge forward...

The Bestiary Includes:

100 dangerous new monsters inspired by Norse mythology to terrify adventurers.
55 stunning and evocative illustrations from Kim Diaz Holm, Felipe Faria, and more.
Guidance on creating your own monsters for Runecairn.
Tips on converting existing monsters from Cairn and other Into the Odd games.

Rosewood Abbey (Carved from Brindlewood) + complimentary PDF (via code in book)

2024-07-14T12:25:52+01:00

Vendor: The Rolistes
Type: Role Playing
Price: 22.00

Note: a code for the electronic version of this book is included in the book

Rosewood Abbey is a roleplaying game about upholding the truth no matter the consequences.

It is inspired by Umberto Eco’s novel The Name of the Rose, its 1986 film adaptation, and the British mystery television series Cadfael.

This Carved from Brindlewood (PbtA) game is for 3 to 6 players. It works well for one-shots but truly shines for short campaigns, thanks to its unique "Rumor Mill" story-building mechanism.

The Fratres Herodoti comprise an informal brotherhood of scholars who swore an oath to knowledge and truth. The mysteries these Friars, the player characters, investigate are often mundane and unrelated to one another.

Nonetheless, at the Abbazia di Palissandro, Rosewood Abbey, other monks and their flock are prone to interpret situations as either the work of God or that of maleficent spirits. As rumors spread out of proportion, the papacy becomes compelled to settle the veracity of alleged miracles or heresies.

Will the Friars uphold their oath?

Rosewood Abbey is rooted in Walloon, Flemish, and European folklore often irreverent towards religion.

The game isn’t intended as a comment on contemporary religious beliefs and practices.

"Carved in Brindlewood" means it is directly adapted from the roleplaying game Brindlewood Bay with the blessing of the author, Jason Cordova.

Content

Rulebook: Manga-inspired PUR bound booklet, size B6 (125mm x 176mm).
Soft cover with removable color dust cover.
184 pages black & white interior.

Credits

A game designed by Kalum from The Rolistes Podcast.
Rules Editor: Chris S. Sims.
Cover art by Kalum, based on "Saint Benedict Reviving a Monk Killed by the Devil" by Hans Leonard Schäufelein (circa 1505)

Circus Flohcati

2024-04-22T10:36:31+01:00

Vendor: Grail Games
Type: Board & Card Games
Price: 15.99

For 2-5 players, ages 7+, playing time is around 15 minutes.

In Circus Flohcati, players collect acts from the flea circus to score points, with the game containing ten types (colours) of acts, with acts being valued from 0-7 points.

On a turn, you can choose one of the face-up cards on the table and add that to your hand or flip the top card from the deck and add it to the cards on display. If you flip an action card, you must take that action — often stealing a card from an opponent — then your turn ends. If you flip a card of the same colour as any face-up card, then you instead discard the newly revealed card and your turn ends with you getting nothing. Otherwise, you again face the same options: Collect a face-up card or reveal a new card.

If on your turn you have three cards of the same value in hand, you can play this trio on the table for a guaranteed 10 points. The game ends either when someone reveals that they have all ten acts in hand or when the deck has been exhausted. You score only for the highest-valued act of each colour, so either avoid taking duplicate colours or ditch them in trios. If you have all ten acts in hand, score a 10-point "gala show" bonus. Whoever has the highest score wins.

Return to Dark Tower Fantasy Roleplaying + complimentary PDF

2024-03-21T13:34:19+00:00

Vendor: 9th Level Games
Type: Role Playing
Price: 39.00

Enter an epic fantasy world, take on perilous quests, raise an army of warriors and wizards, and defend your Kingdom from the malevolent forces of The Tower! If your heroes cannot defeat the Adversary in just one year, the nefarious plots and machinations of the evil mastermind will come to fruition.

Over the course of a series of procedural generated adventures, your party will assemble soldiers and allies, and acquire powerful magic and lore, to attack the Dark Tower and defeat the Evil within. The game will be focused on a short campaign experience and will blend epic action with classic dungeon delving.

Return to Dark Tower RPG is built on 9th Level Games’ polymorph roleplaying system and is part of the Mazes Fantasy Roleplaying family. Return to Dark Tower is a stand-alone game but its contents will be easily compatible with existing MAZES products.

Mutants in the Next + complimentary PDF

2024-03-21T11:26:11+00:00

Vendor: J-K Games
Type: Role Playing
Price: 23.50

LET'S EXPAND EVOLUTION!

Mutants in the Now reintroduced animal anthropomorphic action to modern role-playing. But the possibilities of life outstrip any single tome, opening up whole new vistas for players and gamemasters alike.

With 144 new species and breeds, increasing the total to over 275 total animal options, there’s more mutants than ever! With genemods, you can step beyond what nature intended. And the introduction of cryptids, mythical beasts, and Mokumon inject fresh strangeness into the array of animals.

New options for character creation:

Human-born mutants, humans who take on bestial mutations.
Wild, random mutations, from bioluminescence to thagomizers.
Age rules let you play a fledgling foal or a wizened walrus!
(Extra) ordinary humans; They aren’t even mutants at all, weird.

But there’s more: new combat styles, new psionic powers, new skills, new equipment, and more percentile tables than you can roll a die at!

Lastly, villains get their turn with a extended section: the robotic, mutant-catching minions of Proteus, Inc., the secret ninja tricks of Atama-Ryu, the post-apocalyptic future of Mutant Earth, and the all-new psychic menace of Sal Sidney and the Doom Toons!

It's time for mutants to be a little extra.

IT'S THE NEXT MUTATION.

"Mutants in the Now might qualify as rules heavy? At the very least, it qualifies as awesome."
—Tsiklani

"Mutants in the Now is great, it has just enough math to make you like 85% sure you did everything right, but then you can actually play it, whereas TMNT&OS is just kind of moving numbers around until you're tired and need a nap, then it doesn't work."
—Nemo

"yeah mutants in the now is dope and next is gonna be amazing"
—Pixelscum

"God I want to play this game again."
—ebag51

"I'm now going to try and run everything in Julian Kay's Mutants In the Now instead of 5e."
—Ezra

- Words by Julian Kay, (two-time Ennie-winning, one-time The Awards-winning game designer; Level 99 Games, Pelgrane Press, Green Ronin),
- an adventure by Crystal Frasier (Gamma Flight, Pathfinder: Spiral of Bones, Cheer Up),
- tables by Ewen Cluney (Golden Sky Stories, Magical Fury, Kagegami High),
- art by
  - Sophie Campbell (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shadoweyes, Wet Moon),
  - Fábio Fontes (Pixel Tactics, Millennium Blades, Buck Up and Drive!), and
  - Darren M.A. Calvert (Mutants & Masterminds, Acquisitions Inc.)
- and funded through Kickstarter!
Rules for playing "human-born" mutants, normal humans, age rules for both young and old characters, and gaining "wild", unpredictable mutations beyond one's species, vastly expanding the options for character creation.
Over 140 additional animal species, over 200 additional mutation traits, and over 100 wild mutations! With additional tables, new species, and new species updates all together, there's much more to explore for new games and incorporate for existing campaigns.
Over 20 new combat styles, from the familiar like Capoeira, Lucha, or Tae Kwon Do, to sports styles like Baseball, Football, or Hockey, or the strangeness of Wuxia beggar styles or fighting with the desperation of a cornered rat.
Over 25 new psionic powers of mind and matter: new powers for every category, and adding whole new types of powers including Astral Avatism, Ergoplasmic Weaponry, Memetic Masks, and so much more!
Over 20 new skill packages and over 250 human occupations that expand professions without invalidating the old ones, with associated skills and abilities.
New equipment packages, gimmicks, and weapons, including jet packs, goopberries, and experimental armaments.
An expanded section for villains and allies, including the security forces, military robots, and secret plans of Proteus Inc., more agents, mutant genin, and ninja tricks of the trade for Atama-Ryu, the future menace of the mutant fox Vespera, and the psychically animated Doom Toons!
A full adventure of mutant menace and corporate crime: Tully's Monster!
SO MANY MORE TABLES for fleshing out backgrounds for mutants of all types, adding flavor to non-player characters, and twists on villainous forces.
Includes an alternate "arachnid-free" version that removes tarantula and arachnid references for arachnophobes, and an errata sheet for physical purchases.
192 pages, expanding the core by over 150%!
Many other things I could count up as large quantities!

Requires Mutants in the Now to play.

Brindlewood Bay RPG

2024-03-13T11:58:09+00:00

Vendor: The Gauntlet
Type: Role Playing
Price: 31.99

A Cozy Murder Mystery Game

Brindlewood Bay is a tabletop roleplaying game that combines Murder, She Wrote with H.P. Lovecraft. In it, you play a group of elderly women, members of the local Murder Mavens Mystery Book Club, who help the authorities solve murder cases in a picturesque New England Town. Over the course of their investigations, they become aware of a dark occult conspiracy that connects the cases, and will eventually have to face that conspiracy in order to save their community. The game is low-prep and easy to play no matter your experience with tabletop roleplaying games.
The Kickstarter edition of the game includes:

168 page core book, greatly expanded from the original release
Character sheet
Reference sheets
Classic and Alternate Maven Moves
Mystery sheets: Dad Overboard, All Hallow's Scream, The Great Brindlewood Bay Bake-Off, Jingle Bell Shock, A Murder Most Mucky, Exit Stage Death
Dark Conspiracy sheet

Heat: Heavy Rain expansion

2024-01-17T13:14:37+00:00

Vendor: Days of Wonder
Type: Board & Card Games
Price: 31.99

This expansion introduces:

One new driver w/ all essential player specific components in orange (now allows up to 7 racers)
Two new maps (Japan & Mexico)
New upgrade cards (introducing the purple drop - a different cooldown that allows the player to take a heat card from their discard pile and place it back into their engine)
Submerged track sections (must spend an extra heat for down shifting gears in these sections)
More heat, stress, championship, sponsorship, and event cards.

BattleTech: Eridani Light Horse Hunter Lance

2024-01-08T13:11:27+00:00

	Vendor: Catalyst Game Labs Type: Miniatures Price: 32.99
Unleash the Eridani Light Horse Hunter Lance on your enemies! Included is the new Sagittaire, as well as a re-posed Banshee, and new variants of the Cyclops and a jumping Thunderbolt—no assembly required—along with four MechWarrior pilot cards and four Alpha Strike cards. Perfect for BattleTech and Alpha Strike action!

Runecairn: Advanced Rules + complimentary PDF

2023-11-19T11:41:10+00:00

Vendor: By Odin's Beard RPG
Type: Role Playing
Price: 9.50

Berserkr. Ferocious and powerful, wade into battle with no armour upon your back, wielding a massive two-handed sword and call upon the power of beasts to strengthen your attacks.

Pyre. Shape flame as a blacksmith shapes iron, calling upon ravenous fire to burn and purge and channel primal forces through your own two hands.

Balance favour and sorrow or read the runes to guide your way solo through a pre-written adventure, or conjure a random dungeon crawl with the delve generator.

Navigating the world of Nine Realms can be a lonely endeavour, but thankfully there are kindred spirits available to assist with jolly cooperation.

Runecairn: Advanced Rules is a 20 page, black and white RPG supplement for Norse fantasy roleplaying game Runecairn, adding new starting classes and optional rules. Runecairn is based on Cairn by Yochai Gal, with streamlined rules, fast character creation, and gameplay based on exploration and player choice.

Advanced Rules Includes:

2 new advanced starting classes: Berserkr, Pyre
New options for solo play with a rune-based oracle
New random delve generator for creating Norse dungeons
New options for 3 or more players with summoned allies and invasions

Requires Runecairn Core Rules to play.

Runecairn: Beneath the Broken Sword + complimentary PDF

2023-11-19T11:39:47+00:00

Vendor: By Odin's Beard RPG
Type: Role Playing
Price: 8.00

The world as you knew it is gone, destroyed in the war that was. You awake in crumbling ruins, lost and trapped in a cycle of death. You must seek the fire within and escape to weave your own fate.

You are an adventurer, lost and adrift. You must navigate the Cave of Echoes, retrieve your weapons and equipment, acquire your mead flask, and overcome the stone demon to escape further into the Nine Realms.

Death is not the end.

Beneath the Broken Sword is a 12 page, black and white adventure for Norse fantasy RPG Runecairn, and serves as an introductory dungeon crawl for new adventurers.

Beneath the Broken Sword Includes:

Play designed for two players, one Warden and one Adventurer.
12-room tutorial dungeon intended to introduce new players to the system and world of Runecairn.
A dangerous new monster to be overcome, the stone demon.
8 new Omens within the Cave of Echoes to test the Adventurer.

Requires Runecairn Core Rules to play.

Runecairn: Core Rules + complimentary PDF

2023-11-19T11:37:18+00:00

Vendor: By Odin's Beard RPG
Type: Role Playing
Price: 16.00

In a long forgotten age, a raging war shattered and devastated the worlds of gods and men. Now green life blooms amidst the ruins of the lost worlds. Wondrous and terrible beings roam the Nine Realms. Civilisation stumbles forward, fresh and reaching.

Fate carves the skein anew but there are loose threads, lost long ago in the wars, with no place in the tapestry. These threads must seek the fire within and weave their own path.

Strap on your bearded axe and linden wood shield, delve into the forsaken barrow and cleanse the draugr within. They will overhwhelm you at first so prepare to die. But when you wake up at the bonfire, you'll know what to expect for your next attempt. Parry their attacks, disarm them, and hack them to pieces. Defeat the mad jotunn within and claim the soul remnant they protect.

Death is not the end.

Runecairn: Core Rules is a 44 page, black and white RPG zine, which includes a Norse fantasy setting, a full game system, and character creation rules for adventures set after Ragnarok destroyed most of the Nine Realms of Norse mythology. Runecairn is based on Cairn by Yochai Gal, with streamlined rules, fast character creation, and gameplay based on exploration and player choice.

Core Rules Includes:

Play designed for two players, one Warden and one Adventurer.
Full rules for play, based on the streamlined Cairn system and with mechanics inspired by the Dark Souls game series.
Death is not the end as Adventurers re-awaken at a bonfire when slain.
Four starting classes with unique weapon and item abilities: the hearty warrior with an axe and shield, the nimble scout with dual knives, the cunning seer with a staff and runestone magic, and the spirited skald whose voice channels the power of the gods.
Dynamic combat filled with devastating weapons, reactive magic, and reactive abilities.
30 forceful runestones spells for the cunning seer and 26 versatile sagas for the resolute skald.
15 unnerving and mysterious monsters drawn from tales of Norse mythology.

CBR+PNK: Augmented Edition + complimentary PDF

2023-11-19T11:09:05+00:00

Vendor: Mythworks
Type: Role Playing
Price: 23.50

CBR+PNK (Cyber plus Punk) is a minimalist Forged in the Dark RPG for one-shot sessions in the cyberpunk genre. You play as a team of RUNNERS — mercs, criminals, activists living on the edge and running in the shadows of a gritty, ultraviolent world — on their LAST RUN.

Built for One-Shots, CBR+PNK features a minimalist version of the acclaimed Forged In The Dark spread across 12 double-sided four panel pamphlets.

Each box contains:

5x Runner Files - The character playbook, also containing all the player-facing rules— character creation, stress, special actions, recovery, etc. Dry erase compatible.
Framework - Provides further guidelines for the GM on applying Consequences, general advice, on the fly /RUN creation tables and rules for campaign play.
Mind the Gap - A fast-paced /run ideal for introducing both players and GMs to the system, easily scalable for more experienced participants.
+WEIRD - Make the dystopia brighter and stranger by injecting +WEIRD. Build scenarios wherein Magic works side by side with Tech. Use Psionics as tool of resistance.
Mona Rise: Megalopolis - Heavily inspired by William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy, this scenario features an European urban complex controlled by three megacorps and dirty work to be done. It comes with factions, new threats, sample cyberware and additional tables to build and conduct runs.
PRDTR - Inspired by films like Predator, Annihilation and Firebase, PRDTR is a complete search & rescue scenario with a relentless, adaptable hunter on the character's track. This /run is set on a lunar terraforming colony, compromised after an insurgence.
Cyberpunk Hunters - A /plugin designed to enable new sets of challenges, dynamics and rewards. Provides premade HUNTERS (operatives focused on taking down the characters), and rules to quickly build, modify, and incorporate them into your CBR+PNK /runs. Dry erase compatible.

Published: 2023
Designer: Emanoel Melo
Layout: Emanoel Melo, Raul Rinaldi
Cover Artist: Luis Melo Mona Rise: Megalopolis by Leonardo Azevedo Cyberpunk Hunters by Catscratcher Studios

Boxed Set - 4.4 x 8.5 x 1 inches, 15 pamphlets.

Vast Grimm Core Book (MÖRK BORG compatible)

2023-10-09T15:53:51+01:00

Vendor: Infinite Black
Type: Role Playing
Price: 27.50

Prepare to Die... Vast Grimm is a brutal, horrific, disgusting, infectious, rules-light, art heavy, sci-fi RPG. THEY spewed forth parasitic würms spreading like a plague across the universe. Will you survive? Or will you become one of the Vast Grimm? Each miserable day that passes the universe inches closer to its inevitable demise. Vast Grimm is a rules-light RPG where everyone must band together in order to keep humanity alive.

This book includes the core rules, classes, monsters, lore, and a starting adventure.

On the Pages

A brief history – How The Six set out on a pilgrimage to the Primordial Mausoleum of THEY, in the year zer0. These truly devout disciples unleashed a plague of parasitic würms when they unsealed the ancient tomb. It has been 663 years since that day, those who thewürmsinfected have become known as The Grimm.
Locations across the ‘verse – A look at some of the places your Legion might explore while playing.
The Endings – Fatuma’s prophecies of how the universe will demise with rules on how these Torments will occur in gameplay.
8 Fast & Easy Steps to Character Creation – Rolling dice to determine everything about your character sure makes it feel like they will not live long. This includes 8 character classes like the MAnchiNe, Emo|Bot, and The Harvester. It also has charts for Irritating Idiosyncrasies, Misspent Youth, and Battle Scars to really give your character that extra level of filth.
Tributes – 20 pieces of technomagic that when used improperly can implode causing Cataclysmic Condemnations.
Pharmaceuticals – Because those who can’t physically escape often find other means.
Würms – 6 different würms to get infected by, wreaking havoc on your body and mind. Each includes a Parasitic Pain and Parasitic Pleasure chart to roll randomly on each day until you either die or the würm tires of your meat suit.
Optional Rules – For your Legion’s background, random starting ships, and devastating Cataclysmic Condemnations.
Monstrous Abominations – Nasty things to challenge your Legion’s fortitude.
Quick Rules – All you need to dive in and start playing.
GM Charts – Tables for Adventure Sparks, Random Encounters, Abandoned Ships, Cosmic Treasures, Stealing from the Dead, and more.
An Introductory Adventure – Death Aboard the Conundrum, a broken-down science ship is believed to have a piece needed to build The Gate of Infinite Stars. This relic could fetch a king’s ransom in cred sticks, or maybe even secure you and your Legion a way out of this ‘verse. It includes random charts so the adventure can be replayed numerous times.

Vast Grimm is an independent production by Infinite Black and Creature Curation and is not affiliated with Ockult Örtmästare Games or Stockholm Kartell. It is published under the MÖRK BORG Third Party License. MÖRK BORG is copyright Ockult Örtmästare Games and Stockholm Kartell.

Under Hollow Hills + complimentary PDF

2023-03-30T15:41:22+01:00

Vendor: Lumpley Games
Type: Role Playing
Price: 35.50

Under Hollow Hills

There is a traveling circus under the Hollow Hills.

It travels by moonlight, small wagons creaking in the night silence. It travels lost roads, where fireflies and whisps hover to watch it pass, where goblins peer down from their treebranch perches, and owls. It travels the night world and the day world, fairyland and the living earth, and places otherwise, and no border can keep it. It has mysteries to pose, drama to perform, it has music, juggling, acts of death-defying peril, pratfall comedy. It has dangerous secrets to tell.

Step up, step up. Come great, come small, come revelers all!

About the Game

In Under Hollow Hills, you play the performers, planners, and crew of a traveling circus. You’re fairies and mortal humans, of various kinds and descriptions, but one and all you’ve found your way to the circus and now you travel with it. You make your way through fairyland and the human world, performing wherever you go, in street fairs and crossroads markets, in vacant lots, fairy palaces, amphitheaters, and among the standing stones. You perform for great and small, and to you, a child’s birthday in a town park is as important as the command of the the great Crowned Heads of fairyland.

Wherever you perform, you change: you change the seasons, you change the fortunes of those you perform for, you change their hearts. You change yourselves. This is the game: we change.

Content warning: Elements of fairytale violence, horror, and sexuality. If you know your fairytales, you know we mean it.

Suitable for adults & teens.

The Playbooks

The Boondoggle Hob: goblin kind, ringmaster, cook, and heel dragger, always there to comment upon others’ work.
The Chieftain Mouse: mousey kind, valorous and loyal, planner and overseer of work, always there with an observation.
The Crooked Wand: witchy kind, fortune teller and conjurer, planner and problem solver, always there with a secret to tell.
The Crowned Stag: fairy nobility, regal and generous, ringmaster and host, always there, gorgeous and flirty.
The Feather-Cloak: shifty kind and a bird, aerialist and tumbler, resourceful and humble, always there with advice and gossip.
The Interloper: a human being who’s intruding into fairyland in disguise, to steal fairy treasure. You’ve taken up with the circus because you think it will lead you where treasure’s to be had.
The Lantern Jack: pisky kind, enchanting, full of fun and malice, clown and juggler, purveyor of trinkets and refreshments, always there as a voice of reason.
The Lostling: a human being lost or stolen into fairyland long ago. Performer, collaborator, problem solver, always there with encouragement and insight.
The Nightmare Horse: unique and yourself, dweller in the night sky and in deep water, opener and closer of doors, star of the circus. You’re always there as a dangerous friend.
The Seeker: a human being, come boldly into fairyland to win back something the fairies stole from you. You’ve taken up with the circus because you think it will lead you to what was taken.
The Stick Figure: a made thing given life by magic, serious and naive, clown and worker, always there, trying to fit in.
The Troll: powerful, undignified, and patient. Performer and spectacle, worker and problem solver, always there to lend a hand.
The Winding Rose: flora kind, tough and beautiful with no patience for fools, performer and barker, always there with a smile and a cutting line.

Come Great • Come Small • Come Revelers All
No Other Like It Under the Hollow Hills

About the Downloads

Under Hollow Hills
328 pages, full color, fully bookmarked & indexed
Printouts: Playbooks & Obvious Plays
Play material for printing: 13 core playbooks & obvious plays sheet
Printouts: Occasion, Playbill, Tour, & Obvious Plays
Play material for printing: GM's sheets, session sheets, & obvious plays sheet

Into the Cess and Citadel + complimentary PDF

2023-03-30T12:39:41+01:00

Vendor: Wet Ink Games
Type: Role Playing
Price: 27.50

Roads beyond counting and buildings that block the very sun. A city that stretches without measure and whose secrets are without number...

A sprawling metropolis, built on the bones of cities long forgotten, it is as every bit as colorful and chaotic as it is deadly and unforgiving. It is ruled from the glistening Spires above; The Nobles, demigods of flesh made gold, who’s tyrannical whims ebb and flow like bloody tides across the city. Yet, as tall as the city towers above, so too does it descend below, where dark and terrible things roil with hunger beneath the cobblestone streets...

This city eats people. Never forget that.

Into the Cess and Citadel is a supplemental TTRPG book for those seeking to incorporate a strange, colorful, and terrifying city into their role-playing game. Presented within the book is a comprehensive guide to running adventures or campaigns within a fantastical city, along with an overhaul of the adventuring system to better accommodate the unique challenges and benefits of a sprawling urban environment.

Into the Cess and Citadel is designed to turn the traditional city into a more immersive dungeon-like adventure setting. The book provides rules for everything from small urban-dungeon exploration to a total urban conversion with a world filled with disasters, factions and encounters that react to the player's actions. Along with these rules are a series of generators for creating an urban environment from a 6-mile district down to a single building and an essay on how best to run your urban adventures.

The book contains:

Rules for traveling and surviving in a city; including exploration, traffic, and hazards.
Tools for generating unique urban factions and their complicated relationships.
Guides for running each of the urban environments presented within the book and pointers on how they differ from dungeons or wilderness.
Step-by-step guides for generating and running three unique city landscapes: the sprawling Megacity, the dungeon-like Undercity, and the dangerously opulent Spires.
Hundreds of tools, hirelings, contraband and services both mundane and strange.
Unique districts to explore and exploit, from the grand libraries of the Archivists to the industrial hellscapes of the Foundry.
Dozens of tables for dressing shops, streets, NPCs and more.
50+ monsters ranging from Depraved Aristocrats, Sewer Walruses, and Dire Pigeons
Magical artifacts, curious spells, diseases, 100 locations and more…
All written in a system-neutral format for use in most role-playing games.

With tools and options for Players and Referees alike, Into the Cess and the Citadel is a complete resource for a foray into the urban adventure or a total urban conversion.

MÖRK BORG Compatible: DEMON DOG

2023-03-03T13:16:29+00:00

Vendor: Nightfall Games
Type: Role Playing
Price: 24.99

Mature Readers only, mate. This book has what some may call 'rude words.'

Demon Dog is a role-playing game set in a medieval history that never was. You play "Dogs", revenants that were snatched from purgatory by Demon Barons, seeking redemption and a pint. You're not a hero now and you weren't one before you lived, but you're possibly making things better, or worse, or at the very least less boring.

This book here, its got Nightfall Games' splatterpunk style and dark humour, but they've cranked it up to 12 cause this here game is an ode to punk and the OSR revival. An' just cause we use words like "ode" an' shite, don't mean we didn't make an awesome game. Demon Dog is an irreverent game set in an irreverent age. It is MÖRK BORG, punk-style.

A full colour, high-quality A5-sized book, including all you need to pick up and play Demon Dog:

80 messy pages of background, art, stats and rules.
A brief look at the world and history of the Dogs.
The six Demon Barons and their back story.
Background for the world of Demon Dog.
A smattering of locations for the Dogs to get drunk in and kicked out of.
Loads of creatures and baddies to stick the boot into.
Fun tables to chuck dice at.

Demon Dog is based on MÖRK BORG, a fantastic lightweight and brutal system that gets out of the way as much as it can, allowing you to get your havoc on without getting bogged down with complicated tables and stuff. MÖRK BORG is a rules-lite doom metal album of a game in the OSR genre and Demon Dog takes the same thesis and applies it to the Punk aesthetic.

While inspired by MÖRK BORG and is compatible with it, Demon Dog is a stand-alone product. You can smash together the ideas in both books or pull ideas from one into the other!

Heat: Pedal to the Metal

2022-11-11T16:31:25+00:00

Vendor: Days of Wonder
Type: Board & Card Games
Price: 62.50

For 1-6 players, ages 10+, playing time is around 30-60 minutes.

Based on simple and intuitive hand management, Heat: Pedal to the Metal puts players in the driver's seat of intense car races, jockeying for position to cross the finish line first, while managing their car's speed if they don't want to overheat. Selecting the right upgrades for their car will help them hug the curves and keep their engine cool enough to maintain top speeds. Ultimately, their driving skills will be the key to victory!

Drivers can compete in a single race or use the "Championship System" to play a whole season in one game night, customizing their car before each race to claim the top spot of the podium. They have to be careful as the weather, road conditions, and events will change every race to spice up their championship. Players can also enjoy a solo mode with the Legends Module or add automated drivers as additional opponents in multiplayer games.

Fedora Noir

2022-10-14T14:49:24+01:00

Vendor: Less Than Three Games
Type: Role Playing
Price: 33.00

Fedora Noir is a collaborative role-playing game of corruption, loyalty, passion, and betrayal, told in the style of a film noir.

How far will the Detective go to solve the case? Can the Partner and the Flame be trusted? And what will the Hat think when it all goes sideways?

Designed for a quick and easy start, and featuring a chapter structure that guides you through the arc of a classic detective movie, you can begin your game in minutes and tell a unique story each time you play.

4 players. 2 hours. No prep, no dice, no GM.

Mothership Compatible: Dying Hard on Hardlight Station

2022-10-14T14:44:26+01:00

Vendor: Magnum Galaxy Games
Type: Role Playing
Price: 14.50

Die Hard meets Alien in this thrilling escape from a hijacked station, made for the Mothership® Sci-Fi Horror RPG.

In Dying Hard on Hardlight Station, your team of grizzled PCs will be torn between saving friends locked in the Healthtek facility or crawling to freedom in the vents of the corporate-controlled Hardlight Station, all while avoiding capture by the brutal Blackshield Mercenary Company. However, unbeknownst to all, Blackshield’s invasion has caused the containment protocols at the Healthtek facility to malfunction. Now, in the bowels of the station, something horrible has awoken, and, after a long, torturous sleep, hungers to feed. Dying Hard on Hardlight Station is a 28-page, full-colour adventure zine designed to work as a one-shot, mini-series, or as a part of your ongoing Mothership® (or any other Sci-Fi RPG) campaign. Its control panel layout is table-ready and packed with efficient, evocative details big on imagination and light on overlong prose; each page is stuffed with unique locations, scheming NPCs, and terrifying horrors on the hunt. A night on Hardlight Station is one you won’t soon forget.

Sci-fi mayhem and a horde of haunting horrors await in the pages of Dying Hard on Hardlight Station, including:

Four Station Locations - Mapped out and loaded with loot tables, adventure hooks, custom encounters, and interesting NPCs.
Three Original Factions - The Blackshield Mercenary Company, Station Administration Nakatomi Solutions Inc, and Healthtek AG with their ravening Alien Hybrids. Each vying to come out on top in the battle for the station.
The Hardlight Station Gazetteer - a guidebook filled with shops, entertainments, NPCs and jobs for your crew... should anyone survive the initial adventure.
Custom Art and Professional Design - bringing the whole adventure alive in glorious red, black, and white.

Plus, thanks to the 1365 backers that brought this project to life on Kickstarter, each purchase of Dying Hard on Hardlight Station will also include:

decrypted/the.nakatomi.papers - A 32 page, in-world bonus zine packed with even more original art, compelling story hooks, new monsters, lore, and NPCs for your games.
Hardlight Radio - Three emergency broadcasts, two sci-fi Christmas carols, and three ambient remixes totalling 8 original audio tracks to enhance your games.
GM Screen and Printable Maps - A digital GM reference for key factions and NPCs along with printable maps for your home or virtual tabletop.

Requires Mothership® Sci-Fi Horror RPG to play.

Beak, Feather, & Bone

2022-10-14T14:35:05+01:00

Vendor: Possible Worlds Games
Type: Role Playing
Price: 12.00

“Best Tabletop RPGs With No GM” – Dicebreaker.com
“Most Innovative RPGs of 2020” – Indie Game Developers Network
“Best Games of 2020” – Tabletop Gaming Magazine

Beak, Feather, & Bone is a collaborative worldbuilding tool as well as a competitive map-labeling RPG. Starting with an unlabeled city map, players are assigned community roles before taking turns claiming and describing locations. Players draw from a standard 52-card deck to determine a building's purpose and then describe its beak (reputation), feather (appearance), and bone (interior). As buildings are claimed, a narrative for the town and its inhabitants emerges, including major NPCs and shifting power-dynamics.

Inspired by map-making games like Avery Alder's The Quiet Year and archetype-focused RPG systems like Meguey & Vincent Baker's Powered by the Apocalypse, Beak, Feather, & Bone is a zine-length game including rules of play, 11 community roles illustrated by Austin Breed, a map by Jonathan Yee, and optional lore & GM tips for running games in a city populated entirely by ravenfolk (or kenku, tengu, etc.).

While default play is lightly competitive, rules variants for solo, cooperative, and character-focused play are included as well. Similarly, while the illustrations and GM notes provided will help inspire a ravenfolk city, the beak/feather/bone labeling system can be used with any map, game genre, or populace.

Mutants in the Now (Revised) + complimentary PDF

2022-07-08T10:50:52+01:00

Vendor: J-K Games
Type: Role Playing
Price: 19.50

LET'S MUTATE ALL OVER AGAIN!

In the ‘80s and ‘90s, they ruled the streets, kick-flipping off of villainous faces and slipping into the shadows. Then, they vanished from the world of tabletop gaming.

But they’re back. And ready to KICK BUTT.

Mutants in the Now is a retromodern retake on the mutant animal role-playing games long past and left behind by licensing. Mutants fight to survive, thrive, and make the world better for themselves and humanity.

With well over a hundred species of animals, few mutants will be the same! Species range from the tiny earthworm to the massive whale. Play a placid pika or fierce wolverine! Everything from a common Corgi to the rare axolotl. Forge your unique existence!

Combat styles, psionic powers, and distinct backgrounds further define your chimeric character! Whether it’s the street fighting of Jailhouse Rock, the “double jumps” of Telekinetic Boosting, or being a defender of a secret enclave, there’s numerous ways to build a unique mutant all your own.

Meanwhile, conspiratorial corporations, nouveau ninja, and extradimensional evildoers are up to no good. Go on adventures from the alleyways to orbit in a modern world where the shadows are filled with strangeness. Carve a place in the world as weird as you are!

IT'S FOR THE ANIMALS.

I ran character creation and created a thoughtful, scholarly otter doctor and he's everything to me now. Check this game out, folks. - HopperAustria

Can confirm that Mutants in the Now is both rad and reasonably-priced, and that you should definitely buy a copy if you didn't already back it. - Grassy Gnoll

Adding my voice to the chorus saying Mutants In The Now is good. Buy this game! - Tsilkani

Wow. Just wow. - Cavenir

Words by Julian Kay (two-time ENnie-award winning freelancer; Level 99 Games, Pelgrane Press), art by Fábio Fontes (Pixel Tactics, Millennium Blades, Buck Up and Drive!) and funded through Kickstarter!
Over 130 animal species and over 200 mutation traits. Use your Genetic-Organic Optimization Points (GOO-P) to build a unique mutant!
Fourteen combat styles as traditional as Aikido and as wild as tricking, along with the natural combat forms of animals and "improvisational panic".
Psionic powers of mind and matter: biokinesis, telekinesis, telepathy, and more.
Intensely playtested rules that call back to the games of the 1980s, but with modern refinements. Light tactical combat, investigation, social mechanics, gimmick equipment, montages, and much more!
Human allies, either built from scratch by players or rolled up by random generation. Don't just fight baddies, make friends!
Fully-formed villains ready to menace, from the Proteus Corporation to the otherdimensional Voxnax Velacuss. Will the powerful have their way?
A rough layout inspired by the TRPGs of the early '80s!
SO MANY RANDOM TABLES.
Includes an alternate "arachnid-free" version, previously exclusive to the Kickstarter, that removes tarantula and arachnid references for arachnophobes. (Only available for the digital version.)
128 pages plus character sheets, mutation worksheets, and combat reference sheets ready to print. For three to six players (including gamemaster) and three to six hour game sessions.