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The Maelstrom Companion
Publisher: Arion GamesThe Maelstrom RPG, published in 1984 was a small but popular game, released partly on the success of the Fighting Fantasy books, also from Puffin. Written by Alexander Scott, a teenager at the time, the game soon gathered a loyal following. Despite being in print for only a short time, the game has developed something of a cult following, and the herbal section has inspired many net-based RPG herbals.
In 2007, Arion Games acquired the license to re-release the original book as a pdf, and since its re-release has been very popular. However, the 24 years of game design since the original release have produced many new thoughts and theories, and Arion Games wanted to bring the game into the 21st century. Thus the companion was born. We wanted to plug a few gaps in the available livings, expand and clarify the combat system, especially gunpowder weapons, expand the magic system and provide some setting information. And here it is! We hope that this book will enhance your Maelstrom games and campaigns, and provide even more Tudor adventure.
Contents:
1. Character Creation Expanded
2. Game Mechanics
3. Maelstrom Campaigns
4: Expanded Maelstrom Magic
5: The
6: Price Lists
7: Town of Bury St Edmunds
8: The People of Bury St Edmunds
9: Life in Bury St Edmunds
Appendix 1: Alchemical Recipes 120
Appendix 2: Reference Tables 129
Revised Character Sheet 143
Bibliography & Inspiration 145
Index 147
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Collection of Horrors: Body of Evidence
Publisher: White WolfOfficer Hutchinson swept over the brutality with dispassion and diligence. With every picture he took, with every swab of the blood, he told himself he was a servant of justice. He was a part of the team that was going to put that asshole away for life. For the past three years, detective Chuck Chalmers mentored and inspired him to whatever minor greatness he’d achieved.
As he looked over the chalk outlines, he knew there was something he was missing. That’s why he’s the junior detective. He looked to his mentor. “Officer Chalmers, there’s something here I’m not seeing.”
The senior officer glances back from his cell phone. “If you think you’re missing something, it’s your mind telling you that you can’t accept the simplest answer.” He didn’t even stop hammering the keypad while he spoke. “Now get back to the picture-taking, Hutchinson.”
“Officer Chalmers, are you alright? You haven’t been yourself lately,” Hutchinson said, concerned. He didn’t even get an answer. Hutchinson shrugged and snapped a few more shots from another angle.
The Collection of Horrors is an anthology of Storyteller tools inspired by the Horror Recognition Guide that you can either use in conjunction with the Guide or as part of your existing Hunter: The Vigil chronicle.
Each story kit in the Collection of Horrors (which you can buy individually, as a bundle or as a subscription) contains variety of appropriate tools; usually an SAS scene, a character with a character sheet, and props ranging from maps and reports to print out and hand to your players, to short imbedded audio files that you can play at your gaming table. These kits represent a collection of evocative story tools that you can write a story around, drop into an existing SAS or even string together. They aren’t stories in their own right, but rather pieces that you can snap together into whatever shape you want. Using the Guide can add even more props and ideas to this anthology, but it’s not required to use the various story kits in the Collection of Horrors.
Please note: Due to the nature of the embedded audio file, it cannot be paused, rewound or fast-forwarded once started.
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Road to Revolution: Puncture the Blackened Vein
Publisher: 0one GamesWelcome to The Road to Revolution Campaign Arc; a series of adventures designed for use with the 3.5 version of the world’s most popular role-playing game. Set in the Great City, this epic campaign takes characters from their humble beginnings, all the way to powerful adventurers upon whose actions the City will come to depend. The Campaign Arc contains six adventures in all, each written by the original authors of the Great City Campaign Setting. Arc adventures can be played individually or linked with others in the series to create a complete campaign.
Puncture the Blackened Vein is the fourth adventure of the series, written by Lou Agresta and Rone Barton.
Schemers will scheme and killers will kill
But sayeth the Zaelites, bind them she will!
Kindrogga Zael, the Mistress of Slaughter
Pain is her son and cold be her daughter!”
– Mad Zaelite in the Square of the Eleven Prayers.
More than the Temple Ward is at stake when a clan of Kortezian zealots and their generations-old scheme to fulfill a divine prophecy threatens to unleash an ancient evil.
This massive 70 pages adventure will take you through the Temple Ward of the Great City.
You can play this adventure alone or as part of the Road to Revolution campaign arc.
Puncture the Blackened Vein is a high-level urban adventure appropriate for four characters of 8th – 10th level..
Fascinating NPCs.. or foes?
The module features the beautiful artwork by Eric Lofgren and Hugh Vogt.
Additional material about the Great City and the Temple Ward can be found in the following titles:
UA001 - The Great City Campaign Setting
BB004 - Øone’s Blueprints Backdrops: Temple of the Silver Lady
BLU20 - Øone’s Blueprints: The Great City
BLU24 - Øone’s Blueprints: The Great City, Temple Ward
BLU36 - Øone’s Blueprints: The Great City, Prophet Court
A final Mega-Battle
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Modern Dispatch (#134): Warriors Beneath The Waves
Publisher: RPG ObjectsThis issue is intended to provide new material and adventure hooks for ocean-going adventures set in the world of Soldiers and Spellfighters. You will need Modern20 and Soldiers and Spellfighters20 (both from RPGObjects) to make best use of it.
- A new Fey Race, the shape-changing Selkies.
- Full statted NPCs ready for use in your Modern20 game, including: commandos and mages of both Entente and Central powers and marhlbender (sea elves) and selkie NPCs.
- 3 new creatures for Modern20: the baleen whale, the giant squid and demon
- New Magic Items for Modern20: Selkie Dry Bag, Selkie Cloak, Amulet of the Seafolk
- A handful of World War One era naval vessels statted out for Modern20
- Adventure hooks for sea-faring adventuring in Soldiers and Spellfighters20
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Rifts Index & Adventures - Volume One
Publisher: Palladium BooksRifts Index & Adventures: Volume One is a combination index, sourcebook and adventure book!
The Index is a comprehensive reference that indicates which title and what page players and Game Masters can find specific characters, O.C.C.s, R.C.C., skills, psionics, magic spells, magic items, weapons, vehicles, equipment places, Erin Tarn, monster, D-Bees, the Coalition States, adventures, etc!
The Rifts Index includes the following titles: Rifts RPG, Sourcebook One, Sourcebook 3: Mindwerks, Rifts Conversion Book One, rifts Conversion Book 2: Pantheons of the Megaverse, Rifts Mercenaries, Dimension Books 1 & 2, and World Books 1-6 (Vampire Kingdoms, Atlantis, England, Africa, Triax & The NGR, and South America One)
Highlights Include:
- An indes that is a G.M.'s dream: compiled by Craig Crawford.
- Over 40 pages of adventures, advenure ideas and source material set in North America.
- Hints of things to come in Rifts World Book 11: The Coalition War Machine.
- Adventures by Kevin Siembieda, Jolly Blackburn, and others.
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The Rifter #14
Publisher: Palladium BooksThe Rifter is a synthesis of Game Master and Players' Guide, talent show, fan forum, sourcebook and fun for the entire Megaverse of Palladium RPGs. Every issue, unique and informative.
Issue number 14 is packed with material for Palladium Fantasy, Heroes Unlimited, and Ninjas & Superspies, along with Rifts and lots of great ideas and source material.
- Question and Answers.
- Palladium Fantasy RPG adventure, magic and monsters.
- Ninjas & Superspies adventure into the past to fight evil in all its guises.
- Heroes Unlimited - Atorian Empire Sneak-Preview.
- Nightbane Short Story.
- Rifts life and adventure in a Fadetown.
- Rifts: The conclusion of the Lone Star comic strip by Perez.
- Rifts Hammer of the Forge (fiction).
- Palladium news & coming attractions.
- 112 pages of fun!
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Mobsters
Publisher: Runestone Entertainment28mm mobsters.
8 different characters, in both colour and black & white.
Print on cardstock.
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Bikers
Publisher: Runestone Entertainment28mm bikers.
8 different characters, in both colour and black & white.
Print on cardstock.
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Cruel Evolution
Publisher: Skortched Urf' Studios"They call it Black Fry-Day without the first clue what really happened. Good Friday of 2012,the year the Mayans said the machines and theanimals would all rise up against mankind. That’s the day the world died."
Cruel Evolution is the frist release for the Salughterhouse Earth setting from Chris Filed and Otherverse Games. Presented here are a host of Post-Apocalyptic Mutations, new Player Species, new Feats, new Spells and a sourcebook dripping with flavor as it recounts the horrors of the aftermath of "Black Fry-Day" and the new world inhabited by the few survivors left to see it.
The Earth died on "Black Fry-Day, and the survivors went to war in the ashes. A new world demands a new generation of warrior; magic and rage and desperation and un-dying hope have all conspired to breed a new era of heroism. Welcome to Slaughterhouse Earth.
To view a full Flash demo of this product, click on a page corner below.
-This gritty, violent D20 Modern/OGL setting is intended for mature, adult gamers due to the subject matter.
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Big Iron Vault #1
Publisher: Big Iron VaultA Killer First Issue!
Our first issue's cover is a wonderful watercolour painting by Rising Stars of Manga award winning artist Lanny Liu. It is called the Dragon and the Knight, both are taking a break from fighting to read BIV #1. As you should too!
In this issue ...
A complete new game by Keith Foo entitled Mysterious Circumstances. It is a new style of "Beer and Pretzels" RPG that is meant to take only three hours to complete. Simple, yet entertaining it will no doubt provide hours of "down time" fun while taking a break from your usual campaign.
We were blessed to have Shelly Mazzanoble be part of our first issue. Renowned as the author of Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress she has been instrumental in encouraging the explosion of women gamers we see today.
In addition, we have ongoing columnists working on such topics as Living with a Gamer, Coming out of the gaming closet, The best store in the GTA and Keith Hackwood's deep dive into the gamer's psyche with Through the Mountains of Qaf and plenty more campaign material that can help you flush out your world. Our tough but fair reviewer of old school games checks out Castles & Crusades in the column Kickin' It Old School.
To add even more value, www.thehobbykingdom.com has generously provided a $10 CDN gift card in the magazine as part of their ad. Bring a copy of Big Iron Vault #1 to their retail store, show them that you support independant publishers to receive your bonus. (Due to logistics you need to be there in person, printing of the advertisement is allowed and one card per family while the offer lasts.)
So why not get an issue today? With all this value it's really a no brainer!
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