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Tales From the Lone-Lands for The One Ring RPG Announced

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The One Ring RPG: Tales From the Lone-Lands 

Delve deeper into Middle-earth. Free League Publishing has announced Tales From the Lone-Lands, the second expansion for the multiple award-winning 2nd edition of The One Ring Roleplaying Game, based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

The expansion is a beautifully illustrated hardback compendium containing six brand-new adventures. All are set in the lone-lands of north-western Middle-earth and the adventures can be played individually, or as part of a larger tale. 

The One Ring RPG: Tales From the Lone-Lands includes:

  • A Troll-Hole, If Ever There Was One and Kings of Little Kingdoms are relatively self-contained adventures, but still hint at a growing danger. 
  • Messing About In Boats involves directly one member of the Company, in an unexpected way! 
  • Not To Strike Without Need and Wonder of the Northern World follow the slow infiltration of spies of the Enemy. 
  • The Quest of Amon Guruthos challenges the heroes to battle an ancient evil. 

All the adventures in the Tales of From the Lone-Lands expansion assume that the time frame is the same as the one in The One Ring RPG — the years around 2965.

Unboxing: Carbon Grey RPG: Deluxe Boxed Set

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In Carbon Grey, you take on the role of heroes struggling against a seemingly unstoppable empire with world-conquering aspirations.

The roleplaying game published by Magnetic Press Play features the return of the D6 System by West End Games!

We open up and show off the Complete Tabletop Boxed Set which features:

  • Hardcover rule book
  • Twenty-one detailed miniatures varying in scale from 32mm heroes and enemies to a giant 96mm cannon walker
  • Sturdy 3-panel Game Master screen
  • 140 character and item cards
  • A large 24 x 36″ world/battle map
  • Twelve d6 (5x stone dice, 5x light dice, 2x wild dice) with custom pips
  • Eight boards of punch-out map tokens

Check out a pretty impressive package and get yours!

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Atomic Empire
Amazon (Core rulebook)

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The Record Braking Pathfinder RPG Humble Bundle Extended!

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Pathfinder

Humble Bundle and Paizo have announced the one-week extension of the So You Wanna Try Pathfinder Book Bundle. The Book Bundle is Humble’s most successful to date, selling over 100,000 bundles of Pathfinder Roleplaying game PDFs. It has raised over $180,000 for Code for America, a national nonprofit, which helps municipalities and government institutions implement programs based on open-source software solutions.

Paizo and Humble created a special digital deal to help players access Pathfinder and support a great open-source cause. Inside this bundle, you’ll find a complete set of digital assets to get you started playing Pathfinder—and inspire you to keep playing for many adventures to come. This includes over $400 in rulebooks, world guides, adventures, and accessories—with top-notch high-fantasy lore and art.

All save one of the products in this bundle are PDFs that you can redeem with codes at the Paizo Store, one code per tier. There are three tiers to this bundle, starting at $5 and ending with a digital $25 tier. The last tier also includes the Pathfinder Adventure Path: Abomination Vaults for Foundry VTT.

Humble Bundles offer great deals and support great causes. Purchasers get a say in how much of their donation goes to each participant at checkout.

The So You Wanna Try Pathfinder Humble Bundle will end on March 2 at 11 am PST.

The Walking Dead Universe RPG Coming to Kickstarter on March 14

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The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game

Free League Publishing has revealed that the official The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game is coming to Kickstarter on March 14, 2023, offering early PDF access to the Core Rulebook long before its Fall 2023 retail release.

The Walking Dead Universe RPG is a co-production between AMC Networks and the award-winning tabletop publisher, who are working closely with key forces behind the franchise, including Chief Content Officer of The Walking Dead Universe, Scott M. Gimple, and Head of AMC Networks Publishing Mike Zagari. The RPG series will introduce new story elements while drawing inspiration from the current series and upcoming spin-offs. 

The game is directed by Free League co-founders Tomas Härenstam and Mattias Johnsson Haake, with Nils Hintze as lead writer, Gustaf Ekelund and Martin Grip as lead artists, and Genuine Entertainment’s Joe LeFavi as producer and brand manager on the game series. 

In The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game, players are challenged to enter the unforgiving, post-apocalyptic sandbox and learn how to survive and thrive in this new world order. Pushing the boundaries of the survival genre, each group can tailor their RPG experience to suit their own interests and play style.

Expect the stress and stakes to be high. Boasting a new spin on Free League Publishing’s award-winning Year Zero engine, players must not only hone their physical skills, but deeply explore what makes them tick – confronting how the hardships of this world naturally impact what they’re capable of, in the best and worst of times.

Free League Launches New Licenses For Year Zero Engine and Dragonbane

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Year Zero Engine

Free League Publishing has released two new open game licenses for community creators – a Free Tabletop License (FTL) for the Year Zero Engine and a third-party license for the upcoming Dragonbane fantasy RPG. The Year Zero Engine FTL comes with a massively updated Standard Reference Document (SRD). Free League is inviting feedback on all three documents before they are finalized and officially lau nched.

The work on these new community content licenses was initiated last year but was intensified during the debates last month around Wizards of the Coasts’ OGL v1.0, on which the previous Year Zero Engine (YZE) license was based. The two new licenses are completely independent, developed by Free League and the US law firm Nolan Heimann.

The new Year Zero Engine FTL is designed to be fair and easy to understand and use for creators. It gives creators an irrevocable, worldwide, and royalty-free right to use the Year Zero Engine Standard Reference Document (YZE SRD) and freely publish their own roleplaying material based on it. A draft of the YZE FTL can be found here.

Alongside the new YZE FTL, the YZE SRD itself has been given a massive overhaul and update, based on the developments of the Year Zero Engine in recent years. The new SRD adds rules for chases, vehicles, travel, and magic, and introduces the new “step dice” version of YZE found in Twilight: 2000 and the Blade Runner RPG. The new YZE SRD v0.9 draft can be accessed here.

Free League invites the community to feedback on both the Year Zero Engine FTL and the SRD on its forums. They will both be finalized and officially launched in a few weeks.

The Year Zero Engine (YZE) in various iterations has been used in most Free League RPGs in recent years, including Mutant: Year Zero, Coriolis, Tales From the Loop, Forbidden Lands, ALIEN, Vaesen, Blade Runner RPG, and the upcoming The Walking Dead Universe RPG. The YZE is an accessible, fast and adaptable rules framework that encourages story-focused and player-driven playstyles.

A Module for Dragonbane

Beside the YZE FTL, Free League has also presented a third-party license for the upcoming Dragonbane RPG, which was successfully Kickstarted last year. This license allows creators to freely publish RPG supplements explicitly compatible with Dragonbane, and to place the A Module for Dragonbane logo on the front cover.

A draft of the Dragonbane third-party license can be found here. Once finalized, it will also be translated for use in other languages – primarily Swedish, as Dragonbane is a translation of Free League’s new edition of Scandinavia’s first and biggest tabletop RPG Drakar och Demoner. Free League invites the community to feedback on the Dragonbane third-party license on its forums.

The Dragonbane license is intended for third-party supplements for the game, not new standalone games, and thus does not have an SRD. This license is similar to the Free League Workshop community content program on DrivethruRPG, but allows creators to freely choose where to share or sell Dragonbane modules without paying any royalties to anyone.

Dragonbane

Release: Q3 2023
A legend is reborn. Dragonbane is the new and reimagined edition of Sweden’s first and biggest tabletop roleplaying game Drakar och Demoner. A new take on the classic fantasy RPG full of magic, mystery, and adventure. The new edition is designed from the ground up to facilitate fast-paced fantasy adventures, with very little prep time and adventures that are a breeze to run.

Dragonbane

They Grow Up So Fast is a new expansion for the Tales From the Loop RPG

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Tales From the Loop They Grow Up So Fast

Return to the ’80s as they never were! Free League Publishing has announced They Grow Up So Fast, a new campaign expansion for the award-winning Tales From the Loop RPG. A pre-order is available now with immediate access to a complete PDF.

Everything changed on that fateful day. Looking back, I know that whatever we did changed our lives forever. The sky ruptured and something strange came through. It was a great adventure that showed us how little we knew about the universe. It was scary and yet magical. I wish we could do it again.

In these four adventures, which together form a campaign spanning the seasons of a year, the Kids will be tested to the limits of their abilities. When an ordinary camping trip turns into something else, they will discover that friends come in all sizes and forms, and even from different worlds. Together they will go on an adventure they will never forget.

This book includes:

  • A four-part campaign taking place in the UK Loop of Norfolk Broads.
  • Extensive information on the Norfolk Broads Loop and the area surrounding it.
  • Tips on how to set the campaign in the Swedish and US Loops.
  • New art, maps, and handouts.

Continue the hunt with these Hunter: The Reckoning releases!

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Hunter: The Reckoning Lines Drawn in Blood

What lines are you willing to cross when you push back against the evil that walks among us? Hunter: The Reckoning Lines Drawn in Blood presents a series of four stories that can be played individually or linked together to tell an entire chronicle.

  • Pressure Test: Ghostly incursions are far more than the weight of individual sorrow.
  • Outsiders: The residents of a small town break an ancient pact and pay the price.
  • Blur the Lines: Occult symbols at a murder scene drag Hunters into a race against time.
  • Alone in the Dark: Far from city lights, a nest of monsters pull the strings of a lonely northern town.

Hunter: The Reckoning Lines Drawn in Blood is the first sourcebook for the new edition of Hunter: The Reckoning includes 4 all-new stories that can be played individually or strung together to tell an entire chronicle!

Hunter: The Reckoning Lines Drawn in Blood

Bring your stories of desperate measures for Hunter: The Reckoning to life with the Hunter: The Reckoning Storyteller’s Screen and Toolkit. The four-panel Storyteller’s Screen displays all-new art on the front and key reference tables for the Storyteller on the back, all the while keeping your notes and rolls secret. The Storyteller’s Toolkit is full of additional rules advice covering more situations (whether investigation or combat), a list of witnesses for Storyteller inspiration, and a complete story you can use for one or more evenings of play.

The Hunter: The Reckoning Storyteller’s Screen and Toolkit includes an intro story that can be played over 1 or 2 sessions and a list of 50 witnesses to inspire Storytellers!

Step up your game with the Hunter: The Reckoning Premium Token Pack! These premium tokens are designed to track Danger, Despair, and Desperation. These tokens provide a visual and tactile way to track the Danger and Desperation of the group and individual player’s fall to Despair! Includes 5 40mm poker-chip tokens for each!

Track your Hunter cell’s Danger, Desperation, and Despair in a tactile and visual way with these 40mm poker-chip tokens!

Hunter: The Reckoning Premium Token Pack

Vampire: The Masquerade gets a Player’s Guide and Rivals sees Justice & Mercy

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Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition Roleplaying Game Players Guide

The Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition Roleplaying Game Players Guide consolidates 7 clans of Kindred not included in the core Vampire: The Masquerade rulebook: Banu Haqim, Hecata, Lasombra, The Ministry, Ravnos, Salubri, and Tzimisce with their iconic Discipline powers including Oblivion and its Ceremonies! This book is the perfect companion to the Core Rulebook for any player!

Features:

  • Collects previously published Discipline Powers, Blood Sorcery Rituals, and Thin-Blood Alchemy Formulae, plus includes over 40 new additions.
  • Contains new systems and advantages for coteries, including clan coterie merits for each of the 13 great clans plus Caitiff, Duskborn, and Salubri
  • Includes guidelines and advice for non-traditional chronicles, including Thin-blood, troupe-style, virtual play, and play without a Storyteller!

The Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition Roleplaying Game Players Guide will retail for $50 and is expected to be released in June 2023.

Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition Roleplaying Game Players Guide
Vampire: The Masquerade Rivals Justice & Mercy

The Banu Haqim are judges and lawbringers with both martial and sorcerous tools at their disposal. The Salubri are a clan on the run, simply trying to survive – alone if necessary. Rarest of all the clans, their mending abilities are second to none. You may play these two clans head-to-head or integrate them with your other clans to create new strategies with Vampire: The Masquerade Rivals Justice & Mercy!

The Salubri are rare, so rare in fact that you may only have one in play at a time! Don’t worry though, they come with a slew of tools to make a single-vampire coterie viable!

The Banu Haqim are a clan steeped in tradition, with a strong sense of justice. They aren’t afraid to punish Vampires that transgress, even through unauthorized diablerie if necessary! Check out our first look at some of the expansion’s cards on YouTube, and look forward to more previews soon!

Vampire: The Masquerade Rivals Justice & Mercy
Vampire: The Masquerade Rivals Justice & Mercy

Starfinder Society faces “The Year of Fortune’s Fall” for Year 6

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Starfinder Society Year 6

Paizo has announced that the new Year 6 Starfinder Society metaplot will center around a mysterious and powerful criminal syndicate and be called The Year of Fortune’s Fall. It will begin at PaizoCon Online 2023, over Memorial Day Weekend in May. It will run for a full year and told over the course of seven Starfinder Society Scenarios.

Paizo Starfinder Society Developer, Jessica Catalan, gives the setup:

The Starfinder Society stands proud and united, yet trouble gathers on the horizon. When a mysterious and powerful criminal syndicate, dubbed the Organization, enacts a bloody attack within the Pact Worlds, First Seeker Ehu Hadif vows to bring an end to their predations. Yet, this attack is only the opening salvo in a plot destined to doom millions. It’s up to you to unravel the plans of the Organization and bring the group’s leaders to justice! Will the Starfinder Society emerge triumphant or will the Organization be our downfall?

The Year of Fortune’s Fall metaplot kicks off with Starfinder Society Intro: Year of Fortune’s Fall, an adventure for 1st- to 4th-level characters written by Mahpiya. This exciting scenario is centered on a gala celebration hosted by the Grand Museum of Qabarat on Castrovel. This scenario debuts at PaizoCon Online 2023, alongside one other Starfinder Society Scenario.

There are seven Starfinder Society Scenarios that directly influence the Year of Fortune’s Fall metaplot. Each will be marked with a special metaplot icon on the cover.

With the launch of Year 6, the following species will become “always available” for Organized Play: gnoll, hanakan, kiirinta, quorlu, raxilite, and shimreen. Four other species will become purchasable with Achievement Points: kobold, psyacnoid, scyphozoan, and uplifted bear. Additionally, many species that were showcased in Starfinder Interstellar Species, such as contemplative and urog, will have a reduced point cost to unlock.

New players can read about the story so far and start playing Starfinder Society today.

Fanroll teams with Kobold Press to get a Fire, Ice, or Witch dice set

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HUZZAH! Fanroll has partnered with Kobold Press – a boutique publisher of core fantasy roleplaying games, sourcebooks, and adventure in the tabletop RPG market – You may know them from the hits: Tome of Beasts I-III and Creature Codex for 5th Edition!

Kobold Press’ most recent project – Deep Magic 2 has already surpassed more than $675,000 on Kickstarter! Deep Magic 2 is an expansion for every spellcaster! They have brewed up and playtested some truly astonishing options. With Deep Magic Volume 2, you can master new mechanics like true name magic, create arcane adversaries, and expand your repertoire with hundreds of new spells for every casting class. It includes new subclasses like the Oath of the Spellsworn and an entirely new base class, the Witch!

Check it out today and back their project to claim your Fire, Ice, or Witch dice set!

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