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Enter the world of Middle-earth with The One Ring™, the official tabletop roleplaying game based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Designed specifically to evoke the atmosphere of The Hobbit™ and The Lord of the Rings™, the game contains rules for creating heroes and sending them off on adventures in a land threatened by the growing Shadow.  This beautifully illustrated, full-colour hardcover manual presents Middle-earth as it was twenty years after Bilbo Baggins’ remarkable disappearance and unexpected return. The great events narrated in The Lord of the Rings™ are still fifty years away, leaving plenty of room to narrate stories worthy of an epic. Now in its second edition, The One Ring™ comes with updated and revised rules, a new visual style, and a focus on the land of Eriador — the lone-lands west of the Misty Mountains. Among its key features are: Rules for travelling across the land (Journey), facing frightening foes (Combat), and meeting the personalities of Middle-earth (Council). Thorough advice for the Loremaster on how to bring Middle-earth to life, including rules for magical treasure, the Shadow, and the Eye of Mordor. In-depth information on six Patrons — individuals sponsoring the adventures of the Player-heroes — including Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey. A bestiary containing a spread of adversaries, from lowly Orc Soldiers and Highway-robbers, to monstrous Cave-Trolls and Barrow-Wights. Rules to create your very own Nameless Things — unknowable beings from the dark corners of the world. A complete Landmark adventure, The Star of the Mist, with extra support for new Loremasters, in the form of tutorial advice throughout. The One Ring, Middle-earth, and The Lord of the Rings and the characters, items, events, and places therein are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Middle-earth Enterprises (SZC) and are used under license by Sophisticated Games Ltd. and their respective licensees. All rights reserved.

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The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying 5E Return to Middle-earth with The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying, a brand new adaptation of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien using the rules for 5E. Based on the second edition of The One Ring™ roleplaying game by Francesco Nepitello, the beautifully illustrated full-color hardback volume The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying contains everything you need to create exciting adventures set in the world’s most popular fantasy setting - six original heroic cultures from the land of Eriador, six new classes, a host of terrifying adversaries, and comprehensive rules for journeys, councils, wondrous artefacts, and the subtle magic of Middle-earth.

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Eriador, the lone-lands described in The Lord of the Rings™, comes alive as never before in this supplement for The One Ring™, the official tabletop roleplaying game based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. A region often described as deserted becomes a crucible for adventure, offering many hours of gameplay.★ Chapter 1: Fog Over Eriador offers a description of the regions that once were part of the kingdom of Arnor, with a focus on the city of Tharbad.★ Chapter 2: A Gathering Storm provides the Loremaster with a set of narrative elements aimed at building a possible future for the land of Eriador as a whole.★ Chapter 3: Landmarks adds twelve sites of interest in the style of the one presented in the core rules. Made in Lithuania.

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The official BLADE RUNNER RPG propels players into the streets of Los Angeles as Blade Runners with unique specialties, personalities – and memories. The game pushes the boundaries of investigative gameplay in tabletop RPGs, giving players a range of tools to solve an array of cases far beyond retiring Replicants.Sci-Fi Action.Corporate intrigue.Existential character drama.Moral conflict.Full-color hardback book.

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This is the Starter Set for the official BLADE RUNNER Roleplaying Game. A neon noir wonderland that will take your breath away, one way or another. An evocative world of conflflicts and contrasts that dares to ask the hard questions and investigate the power of empathy, the poison of fear, and the burden of being human during inhumane times. An iconic and unforgiving playground of endless possibilities that picks you up, slaps you in the face, and tells you to wake up. Time to live. Or time to die. 80-page condensed rulebook. 56-page booklet Electric Dreams – the first full-length Case File for Blade Runners to crack. Huge full color map of Los Angeles in 2037 in format 864mm x 558mm.

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 The Symbaroum Monster Codex makes the settlements, woods and vales of the Davokar region more dangerous than ever before! More than a hundred creatures, monsters and abominations are crammed together between these covers – some of them well known, others only mentioned in legends and fairy tales; some unstoppably hungry, others open to negotiations; some presented in detail, others with only short descriptions. Combined with the guidelines on how to create creatures of your own, the content of this bestiary should provide material for hundreds of hours at the gaming table!                                                                                                                          Featured content: More than thirty fully described and illustrated creatures with the potential to be at the center of unique adventures and challenges in Symbaroum. A whole section consisting of short descriptions and stats of generic non-player characters, monsters, beasts and abominations. The new categories Flora and Phenomenon along with thirty-seven new monstrous traits, adding to the nineteen already in the Core Rulebook.

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The Lord of the Rings™ 5E Loremaster's Screen & Rivendell Compendium A deluxe Loremaster’s screen in landscape format for the The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying 5E. It features beautiful art on the outside and a host of useful tables and important information on the inside, while keeping the Loremaster’s schemes hidden from the eyes of inquisitive players. The Rivendell compendium contains information about The Last Homely House, including a map of the valley and a plan of the house itself. Some of Rivendell’s inhabitants are included, including Elrond, who can be used as a new patron. Finally, there are also new rules for how to create High Elf Player-heroes.

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Shire™ Adventures 5E Shire™ Adventures is a beautifully illustrated hardback 5e supplement for The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying, offering all you need to take your first steps into Middle-earth and experience the adventures Hobbits get up to (when they cannot avoid it!). Explore the Shire with a thorough description of its four farthings and five exciting ready-to-play adventures, fully playable also by taking on the roles of some Hobbits whose descendants will go on to do extraordinary things, such as Primula and Rory Brandybuck, Paladin Took, and Bilbo Baggins himself!

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Within these pages you will find four spine-tingling cases for Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying. This book contains four standalone Mysteries, one for each season of the year.A Dance with Death – Travel to the green vales of Dalarna in the springtime to investigate strange events in a remote village.Fireheart – During the summer heatwave of the century, journey south to the ironworks of Smolandia and confront a fearsome adversary.The Devil on the Moor – On the autumnal moors of Denmark, find yourselves in a struggle between the ways of old and the designs of modernity.A Winter’s Tale – Cross the Baltic Sea and brave the wintry forests of Ingria, where an unknown being stalks the night beneath glittering stars.

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The Heart: a roiling tear of unreality beneath the city of Spire.Within its borders, there are routes to unknown places, great secrets, shrines to long-dead gods, and monsters the like of which have never been seen on the surface world. In the Heart RPG, players take on the role of delvers – strange, desperate, broken people exploring the nightmare city in search of the object of their obsessions.Take your first steps into the City Beneath with this streamlined version of the rules for the Heart RPG. This document includes:★ All the rules you need to adventure, go mad and die in the Heart★ Five pre-generated characters with space for advancement – the magic- addicted Junk Mage, the zealous Heretic, the noble Vermissian Knight, and more★ An adventure, Drowned, which sees you rescuing vital components from a lost settlement to put a stop to coral-boned monsters flooding the Church of the Moon Beneath with salt water

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In DIE: The Roleplaying Game, players take on the roles of authentically flawed people from the real world who gather together to play a game and are dragged into a magical realm. What are they prepared to sacrifice to escape? What are they prepared to sacrifice to stay? Built by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, the creative duo behind the comic of the same name, this 408 page book gives players all the tools they need to build a bespoke world out of the obsessions and dreams of their friends. The game is published by Rowan, Rook and Decard (Spire: the City Must Fall, Heart: the City Beneath). It includes: Six unique character classes adapted straight from the comic; Easy-to-learn dicepool mechanics and lots of advancement options; Pages of advice on running DIE as a one-shot, a long campaign, or anything in-between; A bestiary by some of the best writers in the business (Gareth Hanrahan, Adrian Tchaicovsky, Becky Annison, and more); Exclusive intro comic from DIE Artist Stephanie Hans and dozens of new pieces throughout, provide an easy upsell and give players the equipment they need to get the most out of their purchase.

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Adventure Pack 4 features two scenarios that in different ways relate to the growing internal divisions within the Ambrian realm. Call of the Dark plays out in the northern territories of the Lost Land of Alberetor, where the player characters will accompany a lowborn noble who is looking to prove the status of her family. The second adventure, Retribution, initially deals with the search for a person who has gone missing in the city of Kurun, but is soon shown to involve events which may have serious consequences for the relationship between the peoples of the Davokar region. Naturally, the player characters have a chance to influence the outcome of the stories, provided that they handle all the challenges that stand between them and a happy ending.

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Alberetor welcomes you with open arms, and extended claws! In the fifth episode of the Chronicle of the Throne of Thorns for the acclaimed Symbaroum RPG, you will find the epic adventure The Haunted Waste along with support for creating your own adventures in the lost lands of the south and in a war-torn Ambria. The people of the Davokar region are again threatened by war and famine, and this is before an even deadlier aggressor appears, shaded by the tall trees at the edge of the forest.

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Endless war against an evil castle from outside our world. Every generation the blood moon rises, and the castle exalts a villain with its dark gifts. They shall command its legions, use its powers to twist reality, and seek the godlike power of the unholy grail. You’re here to stop them. Your bloodlines have fought the castle since its first emergence, and that legacy has granted you endless tenacity, strange powers, or unbreakable faith. Together, you will root out the wards of the castle where they have infested the mundane world, slay the acolytes of the castle’s regent, steal their dark power for your own and banish the regent and the castle with them. But the castle is immortal, and the blood moon will rise again. As generations rise and fall, what tales of heroic action and gothic bloodshed will you tell? With complete game rules, examples of play, GM advice and a prologue that teaches you the game as you go, this book has everything you need to play.

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Spire is a mile-high city riven by oppression and cruelty. The ruling high elf class lord over the subjugated dark elves from ice-rimed palaces while their charges work and die in their factories, gardens, tenements and armies. The time has come for change. Join the Ministry of Our Hidden Mistress, a paramilitary cult devoted to an illegal goddess, and take Spire back at the point of a blade. Hit the ground running and change the city for good with the Spire Quickstart. It includes: Streamlined rules, edited and redesigned for clarity and ease of play. Six pregenerated characters include Bonchance Malrique (a spoiled but brilliant Midwife occultist), Diyell Serpent’s Eye (an ex-military gangster Knight), and Mallory Hemlock (a damaged moonpriest with a taste for murder). Snuff Out The Sun, a starter adventure, which focuses around the murder and replacement of a prominent high elf bishop before (or during!) a spiritually relevant solar eclipse – and is designed to mesh with the Conspiracy Kit, allowing you to continue your campaign with ease.

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Secrets and Lies in the City of Spire. This slim volume contains rules and guidance on making your own bespoke secret society using some of the non-player characters and locations detailed within. Characters such as: Cacophony Gryndel, an amorous widow whose hobbies include sponsoring revolutionary organisations; Brigadier Arneau Destera, a decorated war hero desperate to dethrone the Council; Maji Levecha, an unmasked high elf in charge of a non-Euclidian getaway elevator; Professor Margot Arkemton, a gnoll scholar visiting Spire thanks to some truly labyrinth visa permissions; Father Gavel, an itinerant priest of the god of Breaking and Entering; Captain Calvy Lejeune, a teenager who was put in charge of a city guard garrison as a joke. Each NPC has sets of tables packed with motivations, flaws, leverages, assets and associates to help build a scenario with an emphasis on investigation and player choice; once everything’s set up, it’s up to your players to infiltrate and subvert the organisation to their own ends. Each character and location has been lovingly illustrated by Rowan MacColl.

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YOU are a Royal – half-magic, half-human. You’re one of the court cards from the tarot deck – the impetuous Princess of Wands, the calculating Knight of Pentacles, the empire-building Queen of Wands, and so on. You use magic like a brick through the window of the world.THEY are the Arcane – Death, The Hanged Man, The Devil, The Lovers, The Star. They are reality-bending monsters that wear human skin like a suit.TONIGHT, before dawn, you are going to corner one of them and take their power for your own in a heist the likes of which the worlds have never seen. The city is going to burn. It’s going to be beautiful.ROYAL BLOOD is an 80-page rules-light heist roleplaying game for three or more players and a gamesmaster. To play, you’ll need a deck of tarot cards and a handful of coins.

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The Third Episode in the Chronicle of the Throne of Thorns. A warm welcome to Yndaros. The aching heart of the Ambrian realm, and the stage where episode three in the Chronicle of the Throne of Thrones plays out. This book features resources for both players and Game Masters, describing a new setting, introducing new rules and presenting an epic adventure where the players’ wits, as well as the characters’ abilities, will be pitted against truly daunting challenges.

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The Fourth Episode in the Chronicle of the Throne of Thorns. We wish you a warm welcome to the deadly depths of Davokar. This fourth episode in the Chronicle of the Throne of Thorns does not only feature the adventure Mother of Darkness; it also provides rules for you to stage your own expeditions to the wilder and darker parts of the forest. With this book as your guide, the time is finally here to embark on the journey of every fortune-hunter and explorer’s dreams, to the place the witches call "the Mother of All Darkness." To Symbar.Featured content:• The adventure Mother of Darkness, where the player characters get a chance to explore the ruined city of Symbar. If they survive the journey…• A traveler’s journal written by the e...pedition leader Vidina, meant to be read by both players and the Game Master.• A comprehensive chapter for the Game Master, introducing the older history of the Davokar region and describing developments within and between the game world’s factions.• Two freestanding ruins with color maps, which may be explored as stand-alone adventure landscapes or encountered during the journey to Symbar.• Rules and guidelines for expeditions into Davokar, to be used in order to design or randomly create thrilling treasure hunts and journeys of exploration.• A chapter with rules for new traits, artifacts, creatures and an expanded version of the Bushcraft boon.

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