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This item is a pre-order item with an expected release date of Q2 2025 Orders containing a pre-order items WILL NOT SHIP until the final pre-order item is able to be shipped. Dates and product details are subject to change as new information from the manufacturer is updated. Vigilante's Handbook is a sourcebook of street-level action and adventure for your Mutants & Masterminds RPG campaign. This book provides everything you need to stand up and push back against the over whelming corruption and inequality that threatens so many, often without the deep pockets or impressive powers the four-color heroes rely on. This sourcebook features guidelines for creating street-level vigilantes, from low-powered brawlers to high-powered but maligned heroes who work from the shadows, and optional rules for overwhelming enemies with your menacing presence or fearsome reputation and for gauging and tracking your hero's reputation. Vigilante's Handbook also looks at what kinds of predators prowl the urban jungle, from murderous cops and sleezy politicians to criminal masterminds and assassins, and introduces a flexible template system, separating your villains' role from their powers. The world of Earth-Prime is also expanded with a gazetteer of Ferroburg, a city of corruption and struggle in desperate need of heroes. Welcome to a world where your compassion, your human decency, and your ability to take a punch mean more than your satellite headquarters and fancy costumes. Welcome to the Streets.

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Published by NDPDesignDistributed by Deernicorn Distro Welcome to World Wide Wrestling: Second Edition! This award-winning game of professional wrestling action enables you to create your own professional wrestling franchise through play, showcasing satisfying and surprising storylines. It’s about feuds, championships, betrayal, and righteous victory. It’s about the clash of good and evil on the grandest stage. It’s about whether you’ve got what it takes. And, in the end, it’s about what the audience thinks of your efforts. In World Wide Wrestling, Creative (the GM role) sets up the show, orders the card and books the matches ahead of time. The players choose archetypical pro wrestling Gimmicks, like the Monster, the Veteran, the Luchador, and so on as the base for their character. Wrestlers play through what Creative has planned, but they have the ability and autonomy to pursue their own feuds, set up their own matches and swerve Creative’s booking. Creative’s job is to make it look like that was the plan all along. Characters are the wrestler as a professional; this means that you play out both their on-screen costumed persona, and their backstage efforts to maintain and progress their careers (and the ways the two effect each other). Through play focused equally on action in the squared circle and events behind the scenes, you will discover who has what it takes to become a wrestling legend. World Wide Wrestling is Powered by the Apocalypse. A simple 2d6+stat modifier system resolves the wrestlers iconic actions, like Working the Audience, Cutting a Promo and in-ring Wrestling. Play is mostly conversation, punctuated by occasional rolls and resolutions of the outcomes. The Gimmicks are broad templates customized by the player to suit their wrestling character, and characters advance over time by working matches with their biggest rivals, getting over with the audience and gaining Championships. Advancement comes in the form of raising stats, gaining valets or manager, gaining custom Moves and manouvers, changing Gimmick to evolve the character over time, and more.   Components and Details Soft cover, full-color book. 260 pages. Includes PDF with purchase Number of players: 3-8Style: Powered by the Apocalypse. GM & Dice.Creator: Nathan D Paoletta Press and Accolades RPG Review: The World Wide Wrestling RPG – Shut Up & Sit Down My New Year’s resolution is to play more indie role-playing games – Polygon

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Published by Possible World GamesDistributed by Deernicorn Distro The Details of Our Escape is a new tabletop roleplaying game from ENnie Award-winning game designer Tyler Crumrine, two-time Eisner-nominated comics artist Linnea Sterte, and Windham-Campbell Prize winner in fiction Renee Gladman. Played with a standard 28-tile set of dominos instead of dice, players control a caravan of over 2000 people in search of a new home. What they’re leaving and what kinds of strange & wonderful sights they encounter along their journey is up to you. Which groups continue all the way to the caravan’s final destination, however, is up to fate. Original short fiction and dual-color illustrations are included throughout. Optimized for 2-7 players, alternate rules for both solo and large-group play are also included. The Details of our Escape can be played as a single-session one-shot, spread over multiple sessions to create a campaign, or used as a session-zero to create characters and settings to play in an alternate system. COMPONENTS & DETAILS 40-page dual-color zine with beautiful illustrations and short story segments alongside the game rules 2 cut-out domino pages PDF included Number of players: 2-7 playersStyle: Domino-based storytelling gameCreators: Tyler Crumrine, Renee Gladman, and Linnea Sterte

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Published by Aaron LimDistributed by Deernicorn Distro Spectres of Brocken is a role-playing game about making friends and then years later going to war against them in giant mechs. Make up some young, naive, messy trainee mech pilots. Find out who you are. Find out who you are to each other. Find out what you want in the world. Years later, find each other on the field of battle, each in your own fearsome custom mechs. Find out who you’ve become. Find out what you’ve all done to get here. Find out what costs you would pay to get what you want in the world. You can play Spectres of Brocken with 2-4 players, without needing any one player to take a game master role as everyone shares responsibilities as players for running the game. You could also designate an experienced player to facilitate the game and provide prompts and rules guidance. The game system is largely inspired by the No Dice, No Masters system used in Dream Askew and Dream Apart, by Avery Alder and Benjamin Rosenbaum. COMPONENTS AND DETAILS 120-page full color book PDF download included Number of players: 2-4 playersStyle: GMless storytelling game, modified No Dice No Masters system.Creators: Written by Aaron Lim

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Published by Far Horizons Co-opDistributed by Deernicorn Distro Outliers is a single-player journaling game in which you play a research assistant trying to do their job in an absurd environment. You may be fresh out of college, but one look at your syrup-leaking laptop shows you that this is no ordinary lab, despite what the disembodied voice of the Principal Investigator (P.I.) tells you.  As you recruit participants, collect data, and perform miscellaneous tasks around the lab, recording your daily activities in your lab notebook, you can only hope that the lab gets awarded a new grant before the money runs out. That’s not to mention the Institutional Review Board (IRB), which will shut the study down if you stray too far from procedure. It shouldn’t be hard to stay on track when your participants are clones, time travelers, and cryptids . . . right? COMPONENTS AND DETAILS 18-page full-color spiral-bound book PDF download included Number of players: SoloStyle: Solo journaling game, tumbling tower and playing cards.Creators: Written by Samantha Leigh

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Published by Good Luck PressDistributed by Deernicorn Distro Your world is about change, and you with your skills of divination and foresight, are the only one who can see it. In the last week of the old world, each of your visitors will play a part in the changes yet to come but they come to you with their own questions. Advise them and lead them down a path towards the future, pulling their strings of fate. Auspex is a tarot-based solo journaling game of world building and divination. Build your world: small, complicated, and about to change, and those that inhabit it that seek out your gifts. Using esoteric tarot spreads you will answer their questions and help shape the future of the world to come. Divine your visitors and their pressing personal questions, then choose a spread to answer their burning questions, interpreting the cards between their meanings and what they represent in spreads such as Hand of Glory, Dead Crow, and Rose and Thorn. COMPONENTS AND DETAILS 44-page black and white zine PDF included Tarot cards not included Number of players: 1Style: Solo tarot-based journaling gameCreators: Written by Seb Pines, edited by Will Jobst

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Published by Aaron LimDistributed by Deernicorn Distro An Altogether Different River is a GM-less roleplaying game meant for 2 to 4 players and a single session of about 3-4 hours. It is about creating a Town together, and seeing how it changes through the lens of those who left it and returned, and those who stayed throughout. It is about returning home and grappling with what has and hasn’t changed. At the start of the game, you will collaboratively build a Town out of several elements. You will draw two maps for the Town: one for the Town Then, and one for the Town Now. You then create your characters and choose whether they left the Town and returned, or stayed throughout the period. You also highlight certain questions you want to explore through your characters and relationships. You will track this through a relationship map which you draw between the Towns. Then you introduce and explore different aspects of the Town and play through different scenes to flesh out the Town and the characters, seeking to answer the different questions you have. COMPONENTS AND DETAILS 28-page black-and-white zine PDF download included Number of players: 2-4 playersStyle: GMless world-building gameCreators: Written by Aaron Lim

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I’m Sorry Did You Say Street Magic is a GMless city-building story game. Discover and imagine a city filled with life and vivid detail, packed with a myriad of neighborhoods, landmarks, and residents. Discover their true names, and the ways that they intersect—then set events in motion that will change or alter their relationships. Players collaboratively explore the city they create together. Each turn, a player adds either a Neighborhood, a Landmark, or a Resident, nesting cards inside of each other to showcase and spotlight the relationship between the city’s inhabitants, and the places where they live. These cards are then complicated by Events that take place in the city: festivals, elections, ceremonies, natural disasters, mysteries, or discoveries that change the flow and focus of play. As you play cards, you unearth the city’s true names — quirks and qualities that make this place wholly, intrinsically unique. I’m Sorry Did You Say Street Magic was originally conceived as a hack of Microscope, by Ben Robbins. Components and Details Soft cover – black and white book, 54 pages. PDF – full color copy of the game & black and white copy of the game PDF – printable cheat sheet for easy rules reference. PDF – Easy Streets quickstart decks for setting generation. Number of Players: 2-6 players, 3+ hour sessionStyle: GMlessCreators: Caro Asercion with art by Shannon Kao. Press ” I’m Sorry Did You Say Street Magic is an absolutely charming game and one I hope you find just as spellbinding as I did.” – Meeple Mountain Contributors Illustrations are from You Canʼt Get There From Here, a zine by Shannon Kao.Layout consultation by Quinn Vega.Edited by Kai Gee, with sensitivity reading by Pidj Sorensen.

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Lighthouse at the End of the World Tend the light.Fend off the dead.In all things, persist. You play a lighthouse keeper at the furthest reaches of civilization. Your tormentors are numerous: the crushing solitude, the chaotic weather, the penal colony nearby, and a legion of unquiet dead conspire to erode your sanity until one of them claims you.  You may well die. But you will not go quietly. With a die, a tower, a deck of cards and a handful of coins, you will reveal why you came to be here, document the uncanny perils and numbing drudgery of life in the lighthouse, and explore the unraveling mystery of your ghostly companions. For discovering their true identities may be the one way to end their suffering… and consequently your own. Live or die, by the end of Lighthouse at the End of the World you will have penned a strange tale of doom, perseverance and grace in the face of certain oblivion.

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2023 Ennies Judges' Spotlight Winner2023 Indie Groundbreaker Award nominee for Most Innovative2024 CRIT Awards nominee for Best Solo TTRPG Speak into the Void. Night after night, you sit alone with your thoughts, your music, and a microphone. Whether you come to your radio show with somber attitude or joyful spirit, you use the music that moves you to etch something fleeting and beautiful into the big empty. You never know who is listening. VOID 1680 AM is a 28 page zine written by Ken Lowery, with cover art by Jordan Witt and custom radio diagrams by Dylan Todd. VOID 1680 AM by Ken Lowery is licensed under the Creative Comrades License Agreement 1.0. There are other voices in the darkness. With a deck of cards, a six-sided die and a stack of music, you will build a playlist, invent and interact with Callers to your show, and evolve their stories over as many broadcasts as you like. No matter their motivations, they simply must be heard. In that way, you are very alike. VOID 1680 AM includes rules for single-session and ongoing play, instructions to have your show broadcast on the airwaves as an Affiliate, and even a way to add your voice to a library of Callers that other DJs can use in their own games. In this game, you can... Build a 12 song playlist Invent and interact with Callers Evolve the stories of your Callers over multiple shows Have your show broadcast on AM and YouTube Add your voice to an archive of Callers for others to use VOID 1680 AM is a 28 page sourcebook written by Ken Lowery, with cover art by Jordan Witt and custom radio diagrams by Dylan Todd. VOID 1680 AM by Ken Lowery is licensed under the Creative Comrades License Agreement 1.0.

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2024 Crit Award for Best Indie TTRPG2024 Crit Award for Best Cover Art "The folks at Scryptid Games are thoughtful and clever, and the ode to synanthropes that they've created in Psychic Trash Detectives is beautiful and profoundly odd." —Avery Alder, designer of Dream Askew, Monsterhearts 2, and A Quiet Year Psychic Trash Detectives is a shared-GM game inspired by guidebook-style TTRPGs and a pulpy, punk ethos that demands a shift in how games and literature are defined. You do not need roleplaying experience to play—just open the book and start to read. If you have played a TTRPG before, you'll find that Psychic Trash Detectives offers an immersive storytelling experience unlike any other. You and the other players will use actual trash to generate elements of the game world, resolve questions, and push the story forward. You'll use whatever trash you bring to the game space (or whatever trash is there already). Plus, you'll create the setting of the game together too, mapping out on a hand-drawn map the weird places where your characters find their favorite trash. And when it comes to the psychic trash visions, you'll play weird, surrealist mini-games to determine the supernatural messages and memories, such as: Memory collage. Each player shares a vision of one 5-second interaction that occurred with this trash in the past 24 hours. Discuss how these visions may answer the question. Psychic sketching. Each player either closes their eyes or uses their non-dominant hand to privately sketch a picture that answers the question asked at the top of the scene. Erasure poetry. The Protagonist chooses a piece of trash from the playing space or someone’s private trash stash that has words on it. Each player blacks out one of the words, revealing a new meaning within the text. Musical inspiration. Randomly select a song from the musical playlist you’ve been playing. Listen to the song together and discuss how the title, music, and/or lyrics answer the question. And more! Written by game designer and published fiction writer Brigitte Winter, Psychic Trash Detectives is a full color core game book illustrated by A.V.Eerie, who creates the amazing queer webcomic Along the River Phoria. In addition to containing the full Psychic Trash Detectives roleplaying game, it also features poetry and fiction inspired by the world of the game by: jason b. crawford Deidre Delpino Dykes Nino McQuown Nat Mesnard Tonee Moll A.E. Osworth Tyler Vile Tristan B Willis Dustin Patrick Winter

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This item is a pre-order item with an expected release date of Q2 2025 Orders containing a pre-order items WILL NOT SHIP until the final pre-order item is able to be shipped. Dates and product details are subject to change as new information from the manufacturer is updated. The earliest TTRPG adventures collide with the earliest power metal in high fantasy rock and roll adventures for 5e and OSE! Inspired by the first three records from Richie Blackmore's Rainbow, this black and white zine, fully illustrated by the incredible Steve Winchell, includes the following three connected adventures:"Catch the Rainbow": Suspended high above the land by magicks unknown, the magnificent Castle Blackmore stands as the sole remaining triumph of a civilization long past. But every Year of the Fox, for but one day, a luminous rainbow bridge appears to connect the lands below to the castle above. What treasures does Castle Blackmore hold? (already published in a prior zine, but newly illustrated, re-edited, and updated for OSE)"Stargazer": An encounter with a fortune teller jogs your foggy memories of visiting a magical place of power. Before you can hope to find your way back, you'll have to contend with an enigmatic enemy and unlock the secrets held by the night sky -- and within yourself."L.A. Connection": Strangers in the strangest land of all! Powerless and alone in a world seemingly without magic, your party must enter the Gates of Babylon at all costs, and discover the truth behind this bizarre L.A. connection.

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This item is a pre-order item with an expected release date of Q2 2025 Orders containing a pre-order items WILL NOT SHIP until the final pre-order item is able to be shipped. Dates and product details are subject to change as new information from the manufacturer is updated. Saved by the Morph combines Power Rangers RPG action with Saved by the Bell plots. This week: "Check Your Mate". Are you ready to take on a Russian exchange student in your district's chess championship finals? What if that exchange student was secretly a kaiju monster? Sounds like morphin' time! Saved by the Morph runs on Renegade's Essence20 system, which powers the official Power Rangers RPG. Rules will be taught at the table, so no familiarity with the system is needed (but it's not too far from D&D). GM will provide everything players need, including character sheets, but feel free to bring your own dice and be ready to get in the sitcom spirit!

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This item is a pre-order item with an expected release date of Q2 2025 Orders containing a pre-order items WILL NOT SHIP until the final pre-order item is able to be shipped. Dates and product details are subject to change as new information from the manufacturer is updated. That Rug is a rules-lite tabletop RPG where you'll build a game world using one of those ubiquitous city rugs for kids (We all remember those, right?). The players roleplay as spunky kid investigators attempting to unearth a strange, scary, and probably supernatural plot unfolding in their hometown. More than a nostalgic throwback, That Rug is perfect for any group that wants to tell stories about kids confronting the unknown, whether a mid-80s alien encounter, something specific to your own life, or an original tale altogether.That Rug can be played start-to-finish in a few hours with one GM and 3-5 players. The story is collaborative, with every player creating key characters and plots. Conflicts are resolved using simple and propulsive wagering mechanics, requiring no dice at all. And if you need a "that rug," we've included an illustration in the zine too.

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This item is a pre-order item with an expected release date of Q2 2025 Orders containing a pre-order items WILL NOT SHIP until the final pre-order item is able to be shipped. Dates and product details are subject to change as new information from the manufacturer is updated. Get out your scissors, pens, and crayons! This wonderful, colorable, cuttable, rippable companion craft and journaling book is for use with Teatime Adventures and Tea Pets and includes maps, activities, coloring pages, character sheets, journaling resources, and more all on 150+ perforated pages.

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