Armour Astir Advent: Playtest $5.00

Armour Astir Advent: Playtest: $5.00

Publisher: Briar Sovereign

Armour Astir: Advent is a high-fantasy roleplaying game about striking back against an authority that seeks to control you.

It is a game of rival pilots clashing in steel-clad Astirs, of soldiers holding their own against the odds, and of spies and diplomats twisting the world to their ends. It is not a game of careful preparation or pleasant truces;

It's hard to change the world without taking a risk.

Armour Astir: Advent is a PBTA game where the players use their wits, expertise, and their huge enchanted suits of armour to fight against an oppressive regime. As in in-development project, the playtest version of Armour Astir: Advent is available for free! If you just want to try out the game, you don't need to pay a penny. An in-progress version of the full rules, up to date with artwork from nearly a dozen artists and fiction by myself and guests, is available for purchase elsewhere and will be for sale here once complete.

Featuring;

• Four 'Channeler' playbooks - magical mecha pilots who stride into battle in a custom Astir
• Four 'Support' playbooks - the engineers, spies and diplomats whose skills lie off the battlefield
• Customised Astirs - players may pick from examples, or design their own mech as part of character creation
• Health/Harmless combat - players must force their opponents into a corner by making them take risks or putting them in peril
• Simple Factions & Conflict Turn - The Authority makes claims and gains hold on Factions who must block their efforts

If you have feedback, concerns or criticism, feel free to contact me at weregazelle@gmail.com with the subject 'Playtest Feedback (Armour Astir)'.

Price: $5.00

XII: INNER DEMONS Playtest Demo $0.00

XII: INNER DEMONS Playtest Demo: $0.00

Publisher: Witch & Craft Games



Demons are real. Parasitic beings only loosely related to the creatures of myth, they feed on suffering, devouring the traumas of the weak and downtrodden.You are the poor soul who has experienced a very special kind of trauma, so special that it’s caught the eye of a truly dangerous enemy, the most monstrous and impossible of their kind. With the help of a ragtag band of lesser demons who certainly don’t have your best interests at heart, or perhaps another human with a kindred soul and no clue what they’re getting into, you have twelve days to confront the suffering that has been plaguing you... or face a very unfortunate end indeed.

XII: INNER DEMONS is an urban survival horror fantasy tabletop role playing game, set in a world much like our own, but with a lurking layer of supernatural predation and nightmare just out of sight. The players take up the roles of either mortal humans, thrust into a deadly game to confront their worst fears or be devoured by a nightmarish, otherworldly threat, or lesser demons working alongside these humans in search of power and to escape the ensuing collateral damage when one of the strongest members of their kind tears its way into the world to devour a human.

With twelve days before an Archdemon rips through the fabric of reality to devour one of the humans (and any unfortunate others who happen to be caught up along the way), it’s up to the players to stop it. To do so, they must hunt down six Seals, anchor-points that have tied themselves to the target human’s greatest traumas and fears, and unravel them before they can pull the Archdemon into reality. But these Seals are guarded by monstrous servants and other demons, eager to stall the players and feast on their delicious fear all the while. It’ll be up to them to either overcome those demons, or face their own and resolve the root of the trauma that powers each seal.

Between the pages, XII: INNER DEMONS  uses a straightforward and flexible 3d10 system, with an emphasis on easy to use abilities and quick and efficient mechanics. Players always roll 3d10 (or sometimes more) and count up the number of dice that have rolled over a target number: The more successes they get, the better they manage to do whatever it is they’re doing. Players can modify these rolls by purchasing Competences (for humans) or Powers (for demons), which allow them to add extra dice to their pool, though they’ll still only ever pick three dice to choose from. These Competences and Powers also give abilities and effects for players to use, from direct information from the GM to extra dice on different rolls to things like shapeshifting, possession, and wanton destructive force. XII is best played with groups of 4-6 players with one player as a GM, though is flexible enough to allow larger or smaller groups easily.

This is an open playtest demo of XII: INNER DEMONS, available for free for anyone interested. We'll be aiming to start a kickstarter for the finalized version of the game soon, complete with a full print run!

Price: $0.00

Tetrarch Basic Rules $0.00

Tetrarch Basic Rules: $0.00

Publisher: Inglorious Rabble Games

Curious about tetrarch’s basic game system?

• Look no further; here is an overview of the basic rules of tetrarch.
• Includes the basics of the system, an introduction to combat, using skills, and the basics of the magic system.

Price: $0.00

Osmond Ward $14.78

Osmond Ward: $14.78

Publisher: Connor Heighton

A Steampunk Heavy Weird West Tabletop RPG set in a Victorian era world plagued by intelligent undead, world ending weapons, magic, and gunsmoke.

Ah.... welcome. Kick off those dusty boots, will you? Listen to the tale of Osmond Ward, the City That Touched the Stars.

Our Story Begins in the year 1242. The war had finally ended, after close to two hundred years. The world was in grand and open celebration. Champagne and Beer flooded the streets and turned it gold, and men and women returned to their homes, tired, depressed, and alone in the world.

It is in this time that the Grand Engineer, Oma Fareen, unveiled the fruits of a hundred years of artificial life and isolation - Osmond Ward, a small city built into the mountains.

Over the next four hundred years, due to Oma's Prestige and her clockwork marvels, the city rapidly grew, twisting and turning in on itself, pressing ever upward and onward to the skies above.

You have just landed in Osmond Ward, in the year 1742. Spring has fallen upon Osmond Ward, and all sparkles and shines to greet the new day. That is but an illusion, however. Something dark lurks, far beyond the railways and well driven city streets. You can sense it on the winds, feel it in your bones. A long forgotten enemy stirs. This is how we begin.....

Welcome, Iron Walkers, to Osmond Ward.



As a system, Osmond Ward is meant to be run in a similar vein as other D20 Systems, with various modifications including an advantage and disadvantage based skill system, grit pools, Death as a balancing act, and more.

Osmond Ward is meant to be run by a party of 3 or 4 players and a Dungeon Master ("World Weaver"), newly coming off of DND or other d20 systems, but can be enjoyed by newbies and smaller parties as well. If the people in question have played a d20 system before, they will be aware of the more basic intricacies of this system, but there is many interesting bits and bobs that keep the game entertaining for the inquisitive mind.

So.

Shall we begin our story?

Price: $14.78

Fax in Tenebris $5.00

Fax in Tenebris: $5.00

Publisher: The Goat's Head

Fax in Tenebris is a roleplaying of knights, horror, and faith.

You play a band of holy Crusaders descending deep into an ancient crypt in search of a lost artifact: the Chalice.

As you delve ever deeper, you will confront not only shadows and horrors, but your own creeping doubts. Dwell too long in these suspicions, and a Crusader may turn away from the Light Divine—instead indulging in vile sin.

At its core, Fax in Tenebris is about keeping your faith in the face of fear and doubt: faith in the Light Divine, faith in your quest, and faith in your friends.

Fax in Tenebris is meant for short-form play: one session is common, you might push it as far as three or four.

Over the course of a game of Fax in Tenebris, you will face beasts of the shadow, accrue and expel doubts, delve deeper into the crypts, and eventually become marred with wounds and sin. The game has a strong horror element, as well a high likelihood of players turning on

each other. Even if you can persevere and find the Chalice, it may not herald the answers you desire.

Veritas vincit.

You can find the playbooks and other sheets necessary for playing here: Fax in Tenebris Playbooks.

Price: $5.00

Vaesen - Nordic Horror Roleplaying $24.99

Vaesen - Nordic Horror Roleplaying: $24.99

Publisher: Free League Publishing

Welcome to the Mythic North – northern Europe of the nineteenth century, but not as we know it today. A land where the myths are real. A cold reach covered by vast forests, its few cities lonely beacons of industry and enlightenment – a new civilization dawning. But in the countryside, the old ways still hold sway. There, people know what lurks in the dark. They know to fear it.

Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying is written by Nils Hintze and based on the work of Swedish illustrator and author Johan Egerkrans. Vaesen presents a dark Gothic setting steeped in Nordic folklore and the old myths of Scandinavia. The game mechanics utilize an adapted version of the awardwinning Year Zero Engine.

Key features:

· Ten ready to use archetypes let you create a character in minutes – or use the included life path tables and let the dice decide.

· Quick and flavorful rules for combat, investigations and horror.

· Rules for developing the player characters’ headquarters during campaign play.

· A detailed gazetteer of the Mythic North setting and the town of Upsala.

· A score of bloodcurdling vaesen to encounter, all beautifully illustrated by Johan Egerkrans.

· An introductory Mystery called The Dance of Dreams.

Price: $24.99

Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Adventure Game $29.95

Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Adventure Game: $29.95

Publisher: River Horse Games

Hello, and welcome to Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: The Adventure Game (we call it ‘the Labyrinth’, for short).

This book contains everything you need to play in and run your own version of the Labyrinth. Have you ever asked the question: what if Sarah asked the Helping Hands to go up rather than down? Have you ever wondered how you would have fared in this dangerous and exciting world? Have you ever wanted to shape a world with your mind, like Jareth? This game allows you to answer these questions and more with the help of your friends and a couple of dice.



Above all else, this book gives you the tools to create your own stories in the fantastical world created by Jim Henson and Brian Froud. We hope you enjoy exploring their world, and making it your own.

Price: $29.95

Primordial $1.00

Primordial: $1.00

Publisher: Free League Publishing

I've been working on this for a while, but I think I need a bit of feedback with the rules.

So Feedback welcome... The second half which has more about the rules I'll try to get out in the next year or so.

I also need a good cover image so if you have samples that might be interesting please send contact details.



You are an immortal spirit, eternal, growing, hungry with the potential for unlimited power…

In your quest for growth and power will you be kind comforting, or bitter and malevolent.

Don’t get me wrong, you can still die, but after the shattered remains of your physical body is reabsorbed into the aether, it will reform on the plane in which you die.

The Primordial era was the first moments of existence when time fist started ticking. It is a time of chaos when magic flowed freely and strongly in all of the planes of existence. So much power in fact, that the planes themselves were created and destroyed regularly.  Oceans, mountains and continents, Ha! Created in a moment and destroyed just as quickly.

Price: $1.00

Eureka 1st Edition $1.00

Eureka 1st Edition: $1.00

Publisher: Ol' Buddy Creates

Roll the dice in two seperate styles, strike to the depths of your power where all stats matter, and raise claim to your freedom from a mad doctor's game in this horror roguelike TTRPG.

Price: $1.00

You are in a tavern $7.36

You are in a tavern: $7.36

Publisher: Christian Amauger

YOU ARE IN A TAVERN is a fast-paced  GMless role-playing game for 3-5 players with narrative mechanics to encourage roleplay and interaction between the players.

The tavern (or the inn) is literally a commonplace in a fantasy medieval setting. This is where heroes meet. It is there that a more or less mysterious sponsor give them their quest. It's here than the adventure begins, before the dungeon, its traps, its monsters and its treasures.

And if in fact what was happening at the tavern was the real adventure?

Price: $7.36

NEUROCITY $6.00

NEUROCITY: $6.00

Publisher: Gavriel Quiroga

Neurocity is a subterranean city complex crowned by a glitched digital sun  ruled by an ever watchful supercomputer named I.S.A.C. 

Crushed under the unbearable weight of the system lies you; A citizen in this technological nightmare. Will you yield your personality and obey? Or perhaps you will dare to find the truth about this forsaken place you were born into? 

 Featuring a tailor-made system with emphasis on storytelling and game mechanics that deal with stress and how it affects personality. Each character will display 5 attributes LOGIC, PERSONALITY, INSTINCT, TECHNOCRACY and VIOLENCE.

A closed society on the bring of collapse suffering an involution from digital to analog technology due to scarcity of materials and constant recycling of components!

All characters have a chance to become TRANCERS. Citizens that spontaneously manifest psychic abilities and are heavily persecuted by the authorities!

6 different super computer personality archetypes to choose from! From the cryptically silent Cinematique to the manipulative Doppelganger!

A Director's only chapter will provide several different dark origins and mind bending reasons behind the origin of Neurocity ensuring high replay value!

Choose from 5 different Functions in the dystopian society of Neurocity: ENFORCER, TECHRUNNER, CARDINAL, MONITOR and VECTOR!

Create your own character or choose one of the five different fully pregenerated characters!

A wide array of tables and resources. From character backgrounds and random events to plot hooks, computer archetypes personalities and live civic loyalty tests!

Fully illustrated with insane, black and white cyber-noir artwork!

400% FUNDED IN KICKSTARTER!

Price: $6.00

Jackknife Trail $0.00

Jackknife Trail: $0.00

Publisher: Harrington Martin Books

Jackknife Trail is a complete action role playing, frontier exploring, character leveling, hunt and grab, loot finding, adventure game that's built around the usage of a single deck of ordinary playing cards. If you're familiar with the Cards & Catacombs rules, you'll have no problem adjusting.

This game is designed to function as a solitaire experience as well as a group-based crawl. Jackknife Trail is made to accomodate almost any sized group of players you could gather.

Inside you'll find rules on how to build gritty frontier characters utilizing six unique classes and an array of unique items and advancements. Pray the cards are in your favor as you set out into the punishing wilds of Old West.

Your characters grow in power as you explore and build your party into prominence. The ability to enhance your rifles and pistols through the concept of infusing them with items of their same kind, using various parts, some local help, and a keen mind, creates an incentive to keep playing and a series of clear creation goals that will spark your desire for dominating on the prairie.

Using a simple character creation process, you'll build characters and venture forth, hoping the cards and their numeric variables are your friends. But be prepared to make several characters. The cards can get... nasty.

Jackknife Trail will bring you endless possibilities through a design that thrusts you right into the action and places you on a course for countless western adventures.

Price: $0.00

Into the Bronze $12.00

Into the Bronze: $12.00

Publisher: Lantern's Faun

Into the Bronze is a RPG of sword, sorcery and sandals in Mesopotamia from the Bronze era.

The plains between the Tigris and Ephrates rivers hide silent, gloomy valleys where demons and lesser gods devise their evil plans. Defy the gods of Sumeria, behold the beginning of civilization.

Created as a Into the Odd hack, ItB drinks from the same source as the old school games.

• 36 available backgrounds, 6 of which have access to a modular magic system by magical intonations. 
• Several tables for creating scenarios and hexagons of your own bronze lands. 
• A bestiary with its own creatures for players' immersion. 
• A beautiful layout 
• Awesome public domain images
• Character sheets in A4 and Letter paper size for free here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/319708/Into-the-Bronze-Character-Sheets

Price: $12.00

GMD CORE RPG $14.99

GMD CORE RPG: $14.99

Publisher: GMD Online

You've read the books, watched the TV Series & Films...

Now grab some dice and friends, and

BECOME THE HERO YOU WERE BORN TO BE

GMD CORE RPG

ONE GAME TO PLAY THEM ALL...

A universal story system

Any genre, any story, anywhere, any time

Fast and easy no-nonsense Rules

Enjoy our exciting interactive Cinematic Combat System

Play the odds by improving chances to win in our Opposed Dice System by using Tactical Decisions, Specialisations and Perks

Countless Heroes, Villains, Powers and Spells, Limited only by your imagination...

Price: $14.99

Revenge of the Dinosaurs: A Micro Chapbook RPG $0.50

Revenge of the Dinosaurs: A Micro Chapbook RPG: $0.50

Publisher: Micro RPG

You are lost, lost in the strange valley of prehistoric creatures. Deep within a cave, you can't recall how you ended up here. However, you know you must get out. Can you forage your way through the cave and escape to the jungle above?

Revenge of the Dinosaurs is a Micro Chapbook RPG--an ultra-light roleplaying game that fits in a single folded chapbook. Simply print off the two rules pages back-to-back, fold in half, and you have a completely playable Micro Chapbook RPG.

This chapbook acts as a preview of the upcoming Death in Dino Valley Deluxe Core Rulebook in the Micro Chapbook System.

These rules are specially designed for solo play on a grid map or graph paper but may also be used as quick and simple rules for a traditional GM run RPG game. Combine with other Micro Chapbook RPGs for extra options!

This file includes both the full-color and printer-friendly versions.

Price: $0.50

The Elephant & Macaw Banner Roleplaying Game $24.99

The Elephant & Macaw Banner Roleplaying Game: $24.99

Publisher: Porcupine Publishing

 Welcome to a world of muskets and magic! 

• A roleplaying game of adventure & exploration
• Suitable for mature players and young adults
• Simple battle rules with compelling choices
• Distinct and flavourful supernatural powers
• The unique, magical and terrifying creatures of Brazilian folklore
• No prior knowledge of Brazil required! 

The Elephant & Macaw Banner is an award-winning fiction series that tells the adventures of the Dutchman Gerard van Oost and the Yoruba Oludara during their travels through a fantastic version of sixteenth-century Brazil. These stories, based on Brazilian history and folklore, have been enjoyed by readers around the world.

Now it’s time to immerse yourself in this world of Brazilian fantasy, a setting full of adventure, magic and monsters, in which you will find endless opportunity to invent new stories. Create your own heroes and have your own adventures in this magical world!

Contents

• Chapter 1: Player's Guide – Introduction, Skills, Resolution System, Characters, Equipment, Battle Resolution, Supernatural Powers
• Chapter 2: Brazil in the Year 1576 – The Peoples, Portuguese Settlements, Indigenous Villages, The Jungle, The Sea, Journeys, Provisions
• Chapter 3: Mediator's Guide – Running Adventures, Commerce, Bestiary (magical & mundane), Special Items
• Chapter 4: Introductory Adventure – "The Fires of Bertioga"
• Appendices: The Elephant & Macaw Banner Roleplaying Game in the Classroom, Timeline from 1500 to 1650, Bibliography, Pre-generated PCs, Quick Reference, Character Sheet

The Characters – 'So what do I actually do?'

To oversimplify, the player characters of The Elephant & Macaw Banner RPG – like Oludara and Gerard in Christopher Kastensmidt's original stories – travel from place to place exploring Brazil, meeting people of different cultures and helping them to fight off monsters from Brazilian folklore as well as human villains. It's no surprise that the world of EAMB is often referred to as "The Brazilian Witcher".

In the book you'll find everything you need to create adventurers from a dozen or so of the major cultures native to Brazil, as well as more recent arrivals from Europe and Africa. Wherever they're from, your characters will soon be out of their element as the road leads ever onwards to new and exciting discoveries!

The System 

There are no character attributes in EAMB – only skills, which you can develop to three levels: Apprentice, Practitioner and Master. They range from general skills like horse-riding or swimming, to more specialized training in things like navigation, music, weapons, academia and languages. You gain learning points over the course of your adventures that you can spend on improving any skill.

When a player wants to use their character’s skill to resolve a challenging or risky situation, the outcome s not certain, and something serious is on the line, we call this a feat. You attempt a feat by rolling three six-sided dice, adding a bonus for your skill level (and sometimes equipment) and seeing if it meets the target number: typically 12 for an easy feat.

Some skills are very special indeed. They control the supernatural powers granted by Faith, Breath, and Ifá.

Faith is the product of divine blessings and devotion to the Christian church, tied to the use of divine graces to perform miracles.

Breath is the fundamental expertise of the pajé, the shaman and healer of the native peoples. The concept of spiritual breath is based on the importance of air, respiration, breath and the connection between these and the spirit world.

Ifá comes from the study of the teachings of Orunmila, brought to Brazil from Africa. Through this study, iyaláwos and babalawos learn how to prepare medicines and the techniques of divination to consult the orishas.

Price: $24.99

Guilds & Glory $2.99

Guilds & Glory: $2.99

Publisher: Myriad Heroes

A dice game of heroic fantasy adventure.



Threats gather, and when one is quelled, two more spring up like the heads of a hydra. There are opportunities here for any adventurers with the courage to face them. It is a time of heroes, banding together to fight, for their guilds, and for glory!



Aims of the game: to become the most powerful guild in the city by recruiting heroes, sending them on quests, and earning glory, whilst keeping the realm from being overrun by gathering threats.

What you will need: pencil, paper and some six-sided dice.

Players: Solo or up to four. Allow for approximately two hours per player.

Includes: 

• A complete dice-driven rule system for one-shot games.
• Guild name generator (from 36 to 46,656 variations)
• Hero generator (4 base classes, 36 specializations)
• Quest generator (5 tiers, 180 quest challenges)

These may also be used as inspirational tools for heroic fantasy RPG storytellers.

Price: $2.99

Shibuyan Knights $15.00

Shibuyan Knights: $15.00

Publisher: AshyFeetGames

Shibuyan Knights, is an Anime style RPG designed to simulate some of your favorite Anime shows and movies. It ships with the steampunk, magical world of Shibuya, where everything works on favors, and where you rise in Reputation Level, you gain more influence and power in the city.

• Based on D. Vincent Bakers Apocalypse World and John Harper’s Blades in the Dark.
• Quick, fast character creation. Play a scheming Roppongan, steampunk Tink, battle toughened Warrior, fist-fighting Monk, Brewer chemist, Arcane mage or a Tsukijan pirate.
• Detailed, high resolution maps of Shibuya, a fantasy city based on modern day Tokyo
• Guilds, institutions and organizations that get your game started, with room for your group’s ideas and imagination too.
• Step by step advice on how to run action-packed adventures.
• Mechanics to custom build your own vehicles, mecha, gadgets spells and bases.
• Shibuyan Knights lets you resolve adventures creatively. Not just combat!
• Tone slides easily from light-hearted to youth oriented to morally gray.
  

Price: $15.00

Star Trek Adventures: Klingon Core Rulebook $19.99

Star Trek Adventures: Klingon Core Rulebook: $19.99

Publisher: Modiphius

GLORY TO YOU AND YOUR HOUSE!

“WE DO NOT FIGHT MERELY TO SPILL BLOOD, BUT TO ENRICH THE SPIRIT.” – EMPEROR KAHLESS II

THE KLINGON EMPIRE core rulebook for the Star Trek Adventures Roleplaying Game takes you to the final frontier of the Galaxy, where new worlds and new civilizations await bold Klingon warriors hungry for glory and honor. Your duties may take you to the edges of known space, to Klingon colonies in need, to the borders of neighboring galactic powers, or into the eye of interstellar phenomena. Your warship and crew represent the best-trained and honorable of Klingon warriors, and your cunning and abilities are needed now more than ever.

A new threat looms from across the Gamma Quadrant, representing a worthy opponent for the worlds of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. Tensions are high and it remains to be seen how the Klingon Empire will get involved. It is a volatile time for the Empire as her brave warriors and bold crews ready for battle against whatever foes present themselves.

This 390 page full color PDF Star Trek Adventures core rulebook contains:

• Guidance on how to create your own Klingon-focused Star Trek stories of honor and glory on the final frontier.
• A complete and updated version of the Star Trek Adventures 2d20 game system.
• An extensive study of the Klingon Empire, including its history, culture, worlds, society, warships, technology, and more.
• Guidelines for novice and experienced gamemasters on how to run Star Trek-themed adventures and campaigns of conquest and exploration for the daring crew of a Klingon warship.
• A large selection of Klingon NPCs from all eras of play, as well as many antagonists, including Federation, Cardassian, Romulan, Borg, and Dominion characters and vessels.
• An introductory adventure designed to quickly get you and your fellow players playing brave Klingon warriors.
• Historical excerpts, personal logs, and intercepted communications, providing a new perspective on Star Trek lore and events.
• Brought to you by an expert Star Trek development team, including award-winning Star Trek novelists, editors, and game designers.

Please note this is a PDF preview of the full title and will be updated with further details before its final release alongside the print book. You will automatically receive updates via email as they are added.

Price: $19.99

Shadowed Alleys $4.99

Shadowed Alleys: $4.99

Publisher: Red Entropy Games

The truth is the world is stranger, scarier than most people imagined.Monsters, magic and occult horrors are real and they’re out there preying on folk who go around unaware of the danger all around them. 

In Shadowed Alleys players take on the role of the oddballs and misfits who investigate occult mysteries, help the folk caught up in them and fight the monsters anyway they can. They are just people with knowledge, skills, determination and (hopefully)some luck on their side going out night after night to fight the darkness anyway they can.

The game is powered by a simplified version of the “Powered by the Apocalypse” rules such as those used for World of Dungeons but modified and altered to suit the urban fantasy genre. So pick up this game and grab your dice if you want a rules-lite system to play out urban fantasy stories like those seen in Angel, Hellblazer/ Constantine and Hunter the Vigil.

Price: $4.99