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Castles & Crusades Classic Monsters The Manual

Monsters abound. They litter the halls of our collective games like so much debris; wandering monsters, laired beasts, plane walkers, horrid thoughts that linger upon the edge of our imagination. Monsters abound, but as any gamer of any stripe knows, you can never have too many creatures for these a the grist of the mill that is our game.

The early days of gaming saw some of the most classic and amazing creatures. Weird beasties derived from the minds of people influenced by a genre of fiction that was in its prime, when fantasy truly meant the fantastic. Castles & Crusades has touched upon them from time to time, but by and large they have remained in the background. Until Now.

Kim Hartsfield, long-time veteran of classic gaming, brings many of these monsters back to life. Anyone who games with Kim knows he runs a hard-knock game of classic dimensions and epic adventures. Kim revisits the old monster books, MM II and the Fiend Folio, plying their pages for all those classic monsters that mystified and horrified young gamers of every stripe. From the tarrasque to the peryton, from the mighty-small dune stalker to the nightshade, Kim brings it all back to the table.

Castles & Crusades Classic Monsters The Manual is available at RPGNow.com.

27.03.2012. 17:51

[Bulldogs!] Redwing's Gambit

The crew of the delivery ship Haldis is en route to drop off a high-ranking politician on a remote world, but something isn’t right. Someone is sowing mistrust among the crew. The ship has been sabotaged. When Xax, the ship's young medical intern, disappears, it's clear the situation is serious. Can Marrl, the security chief with serious anger management issues, and Cass Leary, the cool cyborg captain, get to the bottom of this before it's too late? Is Xax even still alive? Who's behind all this, and what do they stand to gain?

This is a novella about conspiracy and paranoia in the space-lanes by Monica Valentinelli set in the shared science-fiction universe of the Bulldogs! RPG.

Redwing's Gambit is available at DriveThruFiction.com!

26.03.2012. 10:01

Moonstone's Vampires and Werewolves are at war!

Which monster will win?

Vampire: Dracula and the Undead Legions

Returning from the shuddering shadows, Moonstone once again proudly presents a collection of all-new, blood-draining, fang-filled short stories written by some of today's creepiest, most disturbed fiction entertainers in the business!

So lock up the doors, take good care not to invite any strangers inside... and curl up with this compilation of ten brand-new tales of bloodsucking terror, featuring everybody's favorite fanged fiends, the vampires... including terrifying tales of the King of the Vampires himself, Dracula!

Werewolves: Dead Moon Rising

A monster/horror prose fiction anthology featuring our favorite ferocious and furry fiends, werewolves! The blood will run red in the dead of night as both horror-fiction and comic book writers alike unite to bring you an unlucky 13 chilling tales of howling horror.

With stories by Elaine Bergstrom, Tom DeFalco, Dave Dorman, Clay Griffith, William R. Halliar, C.J. Henderson, David Michelinie, Christopher Mills, Mike Reynolds, Beau Smith, Paul D, Storrie, Dave Ulanski, and Fred Van Lente!

The PDF eBook editions of both of these titles are on sale for only $1.99 for a limited time! Choose your side!

Check out all of Moonstone's horror titles that are available now at DriveThruFiction.com!

24.03.2012. 08:19

Falling Scales Chapter One

The World of Darkness is terrifying, broken place. It has all of the problems and tragedies of our own, familiar world, but monsters also lurk in the shadows. Their presence makes the world more dangerous in a plethora of ways. Some of the supernatural beings prey on people in a literal sense — vampires drink the blood of the unwary, for instance, and crazed beasts hunt down people for their flesh. But other such beings simply make the world unsafe. They wage their secret wars and claim their territories and they all seek to keep the unknowing masses out.

Knowledge is like water. It seeks to escape. It finds its own level. It seeps into everything, and no matter how well-maintained the secret, someone eventually learns it. In the soul of every living being in the world is the potential to know, to become part of this secret. And now, one brilliant woman has decided that the world can no longer afford to be ignorant.

Falling Scales is the first installment in a multi-part chronicle. While these stories are meant to build on one another, they are also written so as to be useful and playable on their own. The only book necessary to run Falling Scales is the World of Darkness Rulebook. If your troupe wishes to play through this story using characters from one of the other World of Darkness games (or even a mix of several!), information for doing so is provided.

Falling Scales Chapter One is available at RPGNow.com.

22.03.2012. 14:00

2300AD for Mongoose Traveller

2300AD games range from interstellar exploration and interstellar war, down to the gritty streets and the mega-cities of the human Core. This is a game about people, and their rise to the stars. Aliens are a part of the 2300AD milieu, but the focus of the game is on Humans.

2300AD strives to obey the laws of the universe as we know them. The stutterwarp drive, the technology that allows humanity to travel faster than light, is the sole departure from this. Some of the other technologies bend the laws a little, but that’s from the standpoint of the early 21st century. Three hundred years in the future is a long time. There are no blasters or laser swords in 2300AD, no magic anti-gravity or artificial gravity – just guns and helicopters, spin habitats and spaceplanes. At the same time, though, 2300AD is a game, not a hard-and-fast technical simulation.

The Traveller Core Rulebook is required to play 2300AD.

2300AD is available at RPGNow.com.

21.03.2012. 14:14

Psionics Expanded: Master the Battle

Strike terror into your enemies with the fifth release in the Psionics Expanded series. With new options for existing psionic classes and a new psionic class—the dread, who turns fears into reality — Master the Battle offers a variety of new psionic options for your game!

Psionics Expanded: Master the Battle offers over 40 pages of new psionic material, including the dread base class, the armored blade, deadly fist, psionic fighter, and shielded blade archetypes, the Guardian and Interceptor paths for the psychic warrior, and the Pain Surge for the wilder. With new feats, powers, prestige classes, and psionic items, even your existing characters can find something to use in this expansion to Psionics Unleashed.

Psionics Expanded: Master the Battle is the fifth release of six for the Psionics Expanded: Advanced Psionics Guide which will add a host of new player options playtested by the psionic community across the globe. Designed by the only publishing company known exclusively for psionic support, this book fills in the gaps left to have a truly all-psionic party. Psionics Expanded will be released as six serialized books, with a final release compiling all six parts into a single Advanced Psionics Guide.

Psionics Expanded requires Psionics Unleashed.

21.03.2012. 08:38

The Art of Exalted PDF & Print

Follow the artistic development of the Exalted role-playing game all the way from its unused concept art to its current second edition splendor. Along the way, you’ll see the world of Exalted brought to life through the talents of the industry’s top artists, including Chris Stevens, Hyung-Tae Kim, Adam Warren and many, many more.

Within, lavish, full-color art combines with commentary on the setting’s important people and places to reveal what makes Exalted one of the most sweeping and epic games on the market, while personal anecdotes by the creators gives a behind-the-scenes peek into the process of illustrating this beloved one-of-a-kind game.

The Art of Exalted is available in PDF and Print editions at DriveThruComics.com!

20.03.2012. 08:26

Battletech and Shadowrun Sale!

Catalyst Game Labs has select Shadowrun and Battletech titles on sale for 25% Off for a limited time!

A Time of War, the BattleTech RPG - More than a simple game of giant robots shooting at each other, the BattleTech universe is a rich tapestry of warfare, intrigue, national politics, and personal honor. You can completely immerse yourself in this amazing setting that remains one of the all-time favorites in the gaming hobby. As Catalyst says, “Choose your life in the universe: a MechWarrior piloting the thirty-foot-tall BattleMechs that turn the tide of any battle; a spy deep behind enemy lines discovering critical secrets; a merchant carrying critical supplies; a scientist unleashing the latest cutting edge technologies? How will YOU become a legend?” On sale for $11.25!

Shadowrun: 4th Ed. 20th Anniversary Core Rulebook - Enter a world where post-modern and trans-human technologies crash headlong into ancient myths and magic. This is the world of Shadowrun, and few other settings have inspired so many gamers. This is the 4th Edition rules set, presented in the special 20th Anniversary Core Rulebook. The the new rules are “simple, integrated, and accessible,” and everything has been greatly enhanced from the original presentation of many years ago. Do you have what it takes to survive the mean streets and truly dangerous wilderness of the world of 2072? On sale for $11.25!

Get these and other titles on sale at RPGNow.com!

19.03.2012. 07:10

Worldbuilding For Writers, Gamers and Other Creators

This concise first volume of Worldbuilding For Writers, Gamers and Other Creators provides straightforward guidance on how to model the astronomical elements of an Earth-like planet for your storyworld setting.

Author and storyworld creator Matthew Wayne Selznick (Brave Men Run -- A Novel of the Sovereign Era) explains the science and helps you through the (basic) math required to:

Select an appropriate star
Figure out the best distance for your planet to orbit that star
Work out the details of gravity, day length, and atmosphere for the planet
Determine when your planet's moon is full

...and much more... all with just a calculator. No advanced degree required!

Worldbuilding For Writers, Gamers and Other Creators is available at DriveThruFiction.com.

17.03.2012. 08:20

Ashen Stars: Terra Nova

The Terra Nova, last of the great luxury liners from the Combine’s heyday, is dead, a victim of disaster now drifting in the space between worlds.

Her final call echoes across the Bleed. The last of the survivors clutch desperately to life, waiting for rescue.

All but one, that is. One of them waits only for a chance to finish the job, uncovering a secret which the Terra Nova has kept hidden for decades.

The price of that revelation will be paid in blood.

Terra Nova is an adventure for Ashen Stars by Leonard Balsera author of Profane Miracles and co-author of the smash hit Dresden Files RPG. It features a novel use of GUMSHOE where the culprit isn’t set in stone in the adventure’s text.

Ashen Stars: Terra Nova is available at RPGNow.com.

15.03.2012. 08:24