{"id":21072,"date":"2017-09-08T03:38:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T17:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/?p=21072"},"modified":"2017-09-08T03:38:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T17:38:28","slug":"products-of-note-sept-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/products-of-note-sept-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"RPG Industry Products and Projects Of Note (Sept 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nI get far more invitations to review products and Kickstarter campaigns and the like than I could ever hope to satisfy. Every few months I gather several of these together for a round-up set of mini-reviews. This time around, with Christmas Shopping on the immediate horizon, I have no less than 25 products to bring to your attention. Not all of these are new; some had simply escaped my gaze until now.<\/p>\n

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I’m always proud of the way the RPG community responds to tragic events. Hurricane Harvey has brought out the usual standards of generosity. That said, I wish there was a relief bundle for the victims of the Indian floods (Harvey: 48 dead, India\/Nepal\/Bangladesh: 1600 dead) that I could link to, and of course, as I write this, Hurricane Irma is heading toward the East Coast, having already lashed Puerto Rico: 7 dead (so far) and this Category 5 hurricane is now the 5th strongest storm ever recorded, with winds of 297km\/h (gusting to 360 km\/h) (that’s 184.5 and 223.6 mph for those more familiar with the older scales).\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1. Harvey Relief Bundle (Fainting Goat Games)<\/h3>\n

The numbers speak for themselves in this bundle. $420.37 worth of products – 65 of them – for $25, with all proceeds going to hurricane relief. There are far too many products to list separately. Click on the link below and see for yourself what is included.<\/p>\n

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2. Heroes For Harvey (Legendary Games)<\/h3>\n

I’ve linked (further below) to a couple of other projects in the Legendary Games repertoire. This is a small bundle by them and their affiliated companies containing three products for $9.99 (normal value $22.57) with all proceeds going to disaster relief, especially those areas that are not the main focus of attention.<\/p>\n

You get Aetheric Heroes (10 Pathfinder Characters, 2 from each of the races within the Aethera Campaign Setting); Nautical Heroes (8 Piratical Characters, normal Pathfinder\/D&D races); and Legendary Planet: Planetary Heroes (8 pre-generated characters for the Legendary Planet campaign\/setting).<\/p>\n

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3. D3 Adventures products (D3 Adventures)<\/h3>\n

Jason Yarnell (owner at D3 Adventures) has a GoFundMe set up by his sister to help out all the damages and destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey. Jason himself is a regular contributor to charities and good causes, as a google search for “Jason Yarnell gofundme” will soon show. One way that you can support the cause is by buying a D3 Adventures product (Complete List from RPGNow<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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3a. Extras! Cosmic Criminals (D3 Adventures)<\/h5>\n

Five villains constructed using the Mutants & Masterminds rules designed to challenge “Galactic” heroes. These should translate readily into multiple genres and settings.<\/p>\n

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3b. Extras! Mystical Guardians (D3 Adventures)<\/h5>\n

“When evil hides in the shadows and corrupts the souls of innocents, when it attacks the mind more than the body, when the threat is too insidious for normal adventurers, it is time for Mystical Guardians. The Planar Blooded have gathered to fight against dangers that normal adventurers are unable to oppose.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Used singly or as a group, these Mystical Guardians are rife with possibilities. For example, they might decide that part of the universe needs to be quarantined from a growing danger – with the PCs and their world\/realm\/plane on the wrong side of the quarantine line. Or they might be persuaded that the PCs pose a threat, thanks to the manipulations of an enemy (of either or both). The very concept of “threats too insidious for normal adventurers” is full of potential! The concepts are rich enough that they could be allies, enemies, or something even more dangerous in between the two extremes.<\/p>\n

I could use this in a Fantasy, 7th Sea\/Pirates, or Superhero campaign, and possibly in a Pulp campaign.<\/p>\n

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3c. Quantum Collapse (D3 Adventures)<\/h5>\n

“What if there were parallel universes endlessly stacked upon each other like pages in a book? What if there were millions of versions of you, spread out through the multiverse? What if someone figured out how to make you more powerful… by eliminating those parallel ‘yous’?”<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s the premise of The One<\/a> starring Jet Li, but it is also the central concept of Quantum Collapse, a game setting based on the Mutants And Masterminds 3E rules architecture. As a GM with a campaign that integrates Parallel and Alternate Worlds, anything along these lines naturally sparks interest.<\/p>\n

This is a 78-page supplement priced at $14.95.It is available through .\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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3d. Extras! Quantum Collapse Issue 0 (D3 Adventures)*<\/h5>\n

Something purely super-heroic in genre at first glance, this is a single character for Quantum Collapse – but when you are talking about parallel worlds, the term “Single character” takes on new meaning! ‘Hurricane’ is presented at five different power levels, and four separate parallel-world variations are also provided, along with contextual information on the worlds from which these alternatives derive.<\/p>\n

Extras! Quantum Collapse #0 costs $2.49 and is . However, it is also included in the Harvey Relief Bundle listed below.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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4. RPG Creators Relief Fund<\/h3>\n

The Roleplaying Game Creators Relief Fund<\/a> (RCRF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization founded to provide financial assistance to tabletop roleplaying game creators suffering hardship due to medical emergencies, natural disasters, and other catastrophic situations.<\/p>\n

You can donate directly through their website (link above) or through DriveThruRPG<\/a>.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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5. The Gamemaster’s Worldbuilding Journal by Rick Hershey (Purple Duck Games)<\/h3>\n

Purple Duck are one company whose products I wish I could promote more often, just because Mark Gedak seems to be such a stand-up guy. What can I say about this product? “…forms, documents, and sheets created to cover all aspects of world design”. Comes in 5 formats: Watermarked PDF (one copy of each form and print what you need when you need them) just $4.95; Hardcover book (standard) 840 pages in 10 chapters for $59.99; Hardcover book (premium) 1050 pages in 12 chapters for $100.99; and combinations, which have a small discount. The extra two chapters are designed to divide the world into 10 regions instead of the standard 8. The description also lists form-fillable PDF versions of each of the sheets and a compiled version with all the forms in a single PDF with listing this amongst the purchase options; my presumption is that these come with any of the PDF purchase options.<\/p>\n

Available from DriveThruRPG<\/a>.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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6. Kaigaku by Jacob DC Ross (Thunderegg Productions)<\/h3>\n

Thunderegg very kindly sent me a review copy of the Premium Edition in hopes that I would be able to promote their RPG System. Unfortunately I never got the chance to delve into it in any depth.<\/p>\n

The system is available in two formats: the basic no-frills, no-art edition () which contains everything that you need to play, and the 72-page Premium Edition, which is currently discounted from $10 to just $5 for the PDF or $25 for the softcover, which adds 20 more schools, crafting rules, and lots more setting info, from this page at DriveThruRPG<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kaigaku is a retroclone that blends simple OSR rules and inspiration from famous samurai-themed games of the past; it can be used to play intense duels between bushi, wars of words among courtiers, ninja missions, and more.<\/p>\n

This is an active and growing RPG subcommunity, oriented around their Google+ community<\/a>, which has already added four game supplements, each interesting in their own ways:<\/p>\n

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7. Samurai Dice (Thunderegg Productions)<\/h3>\n

Samurai Dice is “a brand new system that blends the fast-paced dice rolling of games such as Yahtzee and Farkle with tactical decision-making and a deep story”. The action takes place in the same world as Kaigaku (above). This is a FREE playtesting release of the Basic Rules in PDF format, a prelude to a Kickstarter campaign to fund production of both the Basic Edition and Story Edition, which will include Factions, Scenarios, and a couple of decks of cards that will modify the tale you tell with each game.<\/p>\n

When playtime was less restricted by the vagaries of public transport and busy modern lives, we used to set aside 45 minutes or so at the start of each day’s play for a quick card or board game, just to lubricate our imaginations, get the “fun juices” flowing, and engage in sociable behavior with people actually playing in some other game – there were usually three or four and sometimes as many as six or seven different games being played simultaneously when the ‘games club” (formally, The NSW Wargamers) was in full swing.<\/p>\n

This is exactly the sort of game that would have been a regular alongside favorites such as Grass, Blue Max, Naval War, and Hacker. If you’ve ever noticed that some of your players are more engaged and active in your second hour at the table, this could be your answer.<\/p>\n

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8. Demon Cults & Secret Societies by Jeff Lee (Kobold Press)<\/h3>\n

For D&D 5e, this features 13 organizations that should readily translate to any fantasy game (and selected Pulp\/Modern\/Superhero campaigns, to boot). Each has its own agenda, details of their command structure (and the people currently occupying those roles), a selection of acolytes\/soldiers and minions, adventure seeds, cultish plots, and schemes, and related artifacts, magic items, spells, and the occasional variant monster that makes each of these a unique proposition for inclusion anywhere that you can make them fit!<\/p>\n

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9. Tyranny and Manipulation (Purple Duck Games)<\/h3>\n

“It happens with every experienced gaming group. As Game Master, you can’t put your players up against a creature of appropriate CR without hearing them accurately estimating its AC, hp, and special defenses. Throw a high CR monster at them and you might be serving them XP on a silver platter or guaranteeing a Total Party Kill. It isn’t your fault. It isn’t your players’ fault either. Invariably a group that plays together a long time learns the game better. You can accept this and watch your encounters get decimated. You can move on to a different game, kissing your shelf of gaming books and the money you invested in them goodbye for now. Or, you can break out the secret weapons.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Featuring rules to change the landscape of every encounter, even your veteran players will be scrambling to keep up with your unpredictable challenges.<\/p>\n

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10. Crisis Of The World Eater Complete (LPJ Design)<\/h3>\n

This is a compilation of 4 linked adventures into one epic tale for the Pathfinder RPG. But I’ve linked not to the product but to a bundle that adds 4 more related adventures to the story, including a prequel, for just $22.99, or a little more than twice the compilation. How long the bundle will be available, I don’t know.<\/p>\n

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11. Modern Adventures (Higher Grounds Publishing) – Kickstarter<\/h3>\n

d20 Modern took the 3.x system and adapted it to a modern-day setting, but ultimately, all that you could use were sections of the 3.x core rules.<\/p>\n

This represents the other side of the coin of that concept – a modern-day adaption of the Pathfinder rules which includes principles for the modern-day descendants of the inhabitants of the Bestiary, with the implication being that virtually any Pathfinder supplement can be integrated into the setting. A troll serving behind the counter of the local 7-11? An Orcish Motorcycle Gang? Delving the Tomb Of Horrors with your heroes armed with Grenades and AK-47s? Or with Superpowers, with a little adaption on your part? “…everything you expect from a modern setting including computer hacking, firearms, vehicles and aircraft. You’ll also get all of the races such as Elves, Dwarves and Gnomes in addition to some new, never-before-seen races available for play.”<\/p>\n

I can’t speak to how lavish the interior art will be, but can state that the publishers have been quite generous in including art in the press kit. The book cover is shown above, and one of the interior images, below.<\/p>\n

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This is a Kickstarter campaign with 18 days to go as I write this, which has so far acquired pledges of $1850 toward their $2000 goal. That says to me that it is almost certain to achieve it’s funding goals. What’s more, fulfillment will be by DriveThruRPG, which really minimizes the risks involved (assuming that the funding goals are achieved).<\/p>\n

Personally, I would love to see them achieve the $20,000 stretch goal, unlocking a supplemental volume with 23 conspiracies. This would be of value to any GM (the amount of value might vary with genre).<\/p>\n

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12. 1930s American Surnames (dicegeeks.com)<\/h3>\n

This 3-page PDF contains two d100 lists, one of common surnames and one of uncommon. This is the sort of thing that every modern GM needs to have up their sleeves for emergency usage, especially if you have trouble naming NPCs on the fly.<\/p>\n

And the best news of all: It’s free<\/strong><\/em> from RPGNow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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13. Popular American Names for Near Future Settings (dicegeeks.com)<\/h3>\n

…Except for this one, which does the same thing for modern \/ near future characters – for the same price! Contains Eight d100 tables, including the 200 most popular male and female christian names in both 2000 and 2017. There is a surprising amount of drift in this, something that fascinates me every time I stumble across an analysis of it.<\/p>\n

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14. Stargates (Legendary Games)<\/h3>\n

“From local system portals to intergalactic wormholes, you’ll find within a detailed system for defining not just the basics like direction and range but mysterious manifestations of transmaterialization energies, the dangers of activating dormant or damaged gateways, including malfunctions like biomutation, psychic backlash, and temporal displacement!” What appeals most to me is that there is content that makes it possible to distinguish between different types<\/em> of interstellar connection – everything from arcane portals to Psychic Bridges. For the Interstellar RPG, 5e – but it’s as close to genre-universal as you’re likely to get, and would be well worth the effort of adaption.<\/p>\n

Stargates costs $5.99 for the PDF or $11.99 for the softcover (or $13.99 for both), available now from DriveThruRPG for both D&D 5e<\/a> and Pathfinder<\/a> game systems.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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15. Alien Bestiary (Legendary Games) – Kickstarter<\/h3>\n

One GM I know has been trying to merge sci-fi and fantasy genres in his games for at least 30 years, largely by using psionics as his bridge between magic and physics. Some of his blends have been more successful than others, to be honest, but anyone who signs up for one of his campaigns (regardless of genre-of-record) knows that aliens and monsters, psionics and sorcery, long-lost tech and a rich and complex background (often only superficially understood in-game, something he achieves by giving the players only superficial understanding of the ‘true history’ of the setting) will all be on the table at some points.<\/p>\n

Legendary Worlds<\/em> treads similar thematic territory, infusing fantasy elements into a futuristic game setting using either Pathfinder or D&D 5e rules systems as the vehicle. The product line is spreading tentacles in multiple directions – “…as part of our continued partnership with Robert Brookes and the gang at Encounter Table Publishing, fans of the awe-inspiring Aethera Campaign Setting
\n will also find dozen more exciting additions to their space-faring saga, from the invading Taur and Aether-touched Infused to the Organic Symbionts, living machine Phalanx, and, of course, the magnificently malevolent Kytons!”<\/p>\n

Personally, my interest in this volume would be infusing its contents into a superhero or sci-fi setting such as my Dr Who campaign. I already have plans to incorporate the aforementioned Kytons into the latter, inspired by the art shown above (at least, I assumed that the art was of a Kyton – it isn’t, it’s a “Bil’djooli Shock Trooper”, by Lance Red – the Kytons are more like “The Puppet Masters” by Robert A Heinlein).<\/p>\n

At more than 200 pages, and having achieved their funding goal of $10,000 and stretch goals every $2000 thereafter (pledges stand at $15,217 as I write, with 24 days to go), this is a Kickstarter that will succeed and can only get better value-for-money.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake, there are ideas here that can be infused into any Sci-Fi\/Superhero campaign, and most Fantasy campaigns to boot. This is definitely a product to consider<\/a>!\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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16. Legendary Planet: To Worlds Unknown (Legendary Games)<\/h3>\n

This is the first of a series of 7 linked adventures to carry a party of adventurers from 1st to 20th level, which I discovered through links included in the press release for the Alien Bestiary,<\/em> above.<\/p>\n

A 100-page PDF ($17.99) or 102-page print volume ($24.99) (or buy both for the discounted price of $29.99), this initially seems like quite a high-priced purchase. But it was the full listing of the contents that persuaded me to list it:<\/p>\n

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17. Tome Of Aliens (Frog God Games)<\/h3>\n

Space is incredibly vast. Such huge volumes need filling with aliens in any Sci-fi \/ Superhero RPG; you can never have too many options at your disposal!<\/p>\n

That’s the purpose of this 48-page supplement – to provide you with 60 more options with which to discombobulate your players. Without look at the actual descriptions, to be fair, there are some that I would not expect to use very often, such as the altogether-too-cutesy “Electric Boogaloo”, and some that I might well want to rename prior to use, like the Liquid-Crystal Dwarf. But there are others that are quite frankly tantalizing.<\/p>\n

The PDF is priced at $9.95 through RPGNow<\/a>.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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18. Further Vistas: Stars & Systems (Draken Games)<\/h3>\n

If you need a lot of aliens to inhabit Deep Space, you need even more planets. The current estimate is that there are 100 Billion planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone, and every discovery of new astronomical weirdness in this area increases the range of possibilities. If you look at an old Sci-Fi RPG, they will tend to divide planetary populations into two types – gas giants and rocky planets. We now know that to have been an utter failure of the collective imaginations of astronomers and sci-fi authors alike. Check out this list of the 25 strangest alien worlds<\/a> that have been discovered so far, or this similar list of ten weirdies<\/a> and have your imagination stretched!<\/p>\n

Throw in the effects of intelligence – terraforming this and exploiting that – and the potential for uniqueness goes way up.<\/p>\n

To begin expanding your horizons sufficiently to “explore” the modern galaxy, you need all the help you can get. And that’s what makes this 45-page PDF so attractive a proposition. For only $2.95, you get 25 star systems (that’s 25 down and still tens of billions to go, according to NASA<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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19. Infinite Space: Hazards: Stellar & Xenobiological (LPJ Design)<\/h3>\n

Something that I am working hard to achieve in my Superhero campaign at the moment is transitioning perceptions of the (misnamed) “Astral Plane” (more correctly: “Buffer Space”) from something that can be crossed at will, or that need only be endured, into a full environment, complete with distinct regions, quirks, unique environmental hazards, and its own residents – if not its own ecosystem.<\/p>\n

A lot of players seem to have a similar attitude to space travel, I’ve found – the hazards (vacuum, radiation, potential wildlife, aliens, etc) are “all known and can be anticipated”. This status quo simply won’t do!<\/p>\n

Enter this game supplement. Six pages long and costing $1.49 through RPGNow<\/a>, it provides sixteen interstellar threats with which to smack your PCs in their complacency. A must for any superhero or sci-fi campaign involving space travel!\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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20. Star Maps – Volume 1 (Fat Goblin Games)<\/h3>\n

20 hex-gridded maps in space with black holes, inky void, planets, asteroids, stars, galaxies, nebulas, and more. Each map is layed out in portrait format (wider across than tall) measuring 12.25″ tall and 18.25″ wide with 1″ hexes. Note that this is no mere PDF, these are the physical maps in printed form – all twenty – for the reduced price of $12.95.<\/p>\n

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21. Epic Races: Racial Abilities Androids (Fat Goblin Games)<\/h3>\n

Hands up, every GM who has ever discovered a blind spot in their imaginations, be honest. Yeah, that’s what I thought – most of us have experienced the odd occasion when everything we can think of has been done before.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometimes, this writer’s block is just temporary, and we get through it on our own, perhaps after a period of extemporizing and delay. Sometimes, we need a spark from someone else’s imagination to kick our own creativity into play. And, sometimes, there’s no time to wait, and you need to use someone else’s creation as though it were your own – at the same time, finding something that your players<\/em> haven’t seen before.<\/p>\n

Some products are better suited to such applications than others. This work may be designed for the Starfinder game system, but it promises to be an example of this type of inspirational resource. It has only one rating – but that one is 5 stars. It may be short, but it won’t put too deep a hole in your wallet at $1.99, so if artificial life (possibly including Golems, Warforged, and similar fantasy analogues) is a factor within your game world, this might just be a worthy investment.<\/p>\n

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22. Starship Deck Plans (Frog God Games)<\/h3>\n

Starship Deck Plans take forever to draw up. I know, I’ve done it the hard way. And I decided then and there, “never again – not if I can help it!”<\/p>\n

That means sourcing deck plans, when I need them, from somewhere else, or abstracting the whole concept. So supplements like this two-page product are perpetually on my shopping list.<\/p>\n

That said, $9.99 is not cheap – not for something of this length. And it’s a PDF, meaning that you have to print it yourself. Normally, the combination of those factors would leave this product out in the cold.<\/p>\n

But there’s one final factor to be considered – the cartographer is Alyssa Faden, and much of her work is absolutely brilliant – check out her Facebook page<\/a>, or the Pathfinder supplement she co-authored Castles Of The Inner Sea<\/a> (Used $7.27, New from $10) at Amazon for proof.<\/p>\n

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Wrap-up<\/h2>\n

Twenty-five products – or ninety-odd if you itemize the bundles. There should be something there for just about everyone. I recommend the Hurricane Relief bundle, the free products, and at least one of the paid products, as the optimum mixture for supporting both the charitable efforts of the industry and the industry itself, but the choice is up to you. Absolutely everything on this list appeals to me in one way or another, so I have high hopes that every reader will discover something worthwhile!\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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