D&D 4E Encounters - Elder Elemental Eye
Written by Jonathan Thomas Fay
The Elder Elemental Eye
D&D Encounters is a weekly Wednesday ongoing in-store campaign, playable in one encounter per week (approximately 1-2 hours play time). Players earn experience and treasure for their characters as they participate in a compelling ongoing story arc that lasts for a few months.
Running from February 22nd to May 9th, 2012.
Adventure Background
The Elder Elemental Eye introduces an ancient evil threat in the dark god Tharizdun to the
Forgotten Realms® for the first time. Players explore the maddening depths of a secret temple
devoted to one of the most feared entities across the planes.
Pre-register on our website now to guarantee your spot!
On January 9th, Wizards surprised us with the announcement (covered in NY times) of a 5th edition of D&D in the works.
On January 28th and 29th, Wizards hosted their first playtest for DnD Next in Fort Wayne, IN. I was so upset that I heard about it after the fact... I mean Indiana is next door. The problem? The playtest is protected by NDA.
You can read the official Wizards summary of the event here. Hopefully this article will save you lot of time and cut straight to what is known and what is not known at this point.
Wizards assembled a dream team of D&D designers. Their design goal is to create a quintessential D&D (no pun intended), capturing the feel of all editions. The hope is that players who were alienated by radical design choices in 4th edition will return. Wizards is setting out on a great experiment to involve the community in the design of the game over the next year. The D&D Experience late January was the first such event.
Using the D&D Next group on the Wizard's site, you can participate in the feedback. There are blog posts about mechanics, seeking player input. And, of course, a whole forum for what have so far been extremely civilized and intelligent discussions. Here, your game design suggestions will become the property of Wizards.
So I have been mulling over the forums and various websites, trying to glean fact from fiction. Since I spend pretty much a whole day reading, I thought I might share.
Pathfinder Battles Miniatures - Heroes and Monsters
Pathfinder Battles Mininatures - Heroes and Monsters Are here!
Singles and Boosters Available now!
Buylist here!
New Role Playing Game Releases Late December 2011
Starfleet Battles: Captain's Log #44
Captain's Log #44 includes exciting fiction (A Call to Arms, the story of the Klingon Invasion on Day One), Background (the history of the LDR fleet, how Gorn elections work), new ships (eight jumbo auxiliaries for Star Fleet Battles, four battle tugs for Federation Commander, four new ships for Starmada, seven scouts for A Call to Arms), new scenarios (for SFB, FC and F&E), news (awards, Q&A, Input Guide, Why?, Proposals Board, Background Questions), tactics (Victory at Origins and Command Notes for FC, Tactical Notes for F&E, Term Papers and Platinum Victory for SFB, notes and basic tactics for ACTA), rules updates (Space Boar monster, Ask Admiral Vanaxilth for SFB, Peladine with ships from Module E4; Q&A and rulings for F&E), playtest rules (battle tugs for FC, five new cards for Star Fleet Battle Force), and lots more!
Masks 1000 Memorable NPC
Masks provides game masters with 1,000 system-neutral NPCs suitable for use with any roleplaying game, plus GMing advice, three indexes, and the tools to make your characters unforgettable. Featuring a foreword by RPG industry legend Wolfgang Baur and written by the award-winning authors of GnomeStew.com and Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, Masks is the ultimate NPC resource. Masks is over 300 pages of vivid characters, gorgeous artwork, and inspiring material for GMs. This book was designed to have a place on every game master's shelf, and to provide characters for years -- even decades -- of gaming.
Pathfinder: Dark Path: Curse of the Golden Spear 3
You came to Kaidan, escorting a merchant and the gift he carried, a gift meant for a powerful Kaidanese lord. Yet this gift bore a powerful curse and now, unless you can reclaim the golden spear, you will be forever trapped in Kaidan. A dark path lies before you, full of wicked undead, vicious demons and unnatural warriors. To survive The Curse of the Golden Spear you will need all of your skill, cunning and bravery. The third of a three part campaign, The Dark Path is an adventure set in the cursed land of Kaidan and is suitable for a group of 7th level characters. Drawing inspiration from Japanese folklore, Kaidan is a land of horror and mystery. Demons stalk the land in human form, the dead seldom rest easy, and life is cheap. This adventure continues the story which began in The Gift and Dim Spirit, introducing players and game masters alike to the cursed realm of Kaidan.
Rogue Trader: Hostile Acquisitions
Hostile Acquisitions, a Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay supplement, is a detailed resource for anyone interested in exploring the world of crime in Rogue Trader. Within its pages, players and GMs will find all they need to run a campaign on the far side of Imperial Law. A guide to crime for Explorers with a flexible sense of morality, Hostile Acquisitions also includes a catalog of valuable treasures across the Koronus Expanse waiting to be “liberated.” From new characters and equipment to creating nemeses and running games based on criminal enterprise, Hostile Acquisitions is an invaluable resource for those Rogue Traders who are more rogue than trader.
Pathfinder Fantasy Role Playing Game: Bestiary 3
Unleash a world of monsters! Bestiary 3 presents hundreds of new creatures for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Within this collection of creatures you’ll find grave knights and savage cyclopes, kappa and colossal kaiju, clockwork killers, mysterious sphinxes, imperial dragons, and so much more! Yet not all these monsters need to be foes, as fleet-footed sleipnirs, cunning vanaras, whimsical faerie dragons and more companions from myth and modern fantasy join heroes on the path to legend. In addition, new rules for customizing and advancing monsters and an expanded glossary of creature abilities ensure that you’ll be prepared to challenge your players wherever adventure takes them! The Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 3 is the latest indispensable volume of monsters for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and serves as a companion to the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook and Pathfinder RPG Bestiary.
Item Face Cards: Jade Regent
On the other side of the world, in the courts of the Jade Regent, the right equipment can mean the difference between life and death, honor and shame. This 54-card deck includes beautiful full-color illustrations you can use to give life and visual flair to the items and treasure of the eastern-themed Jade Regent Adventure Path. From ninja weapons like shuriken and kusarigama to eastern armors, scrolls, and more, Jade Regent Item Cards add an exotic element to any Item Card collection and bring a great sense of immersion to any fantasy campaign! GameMastery Item Cards allow heroes to keep track of their equipment in style, and this deck is completely compatible with all of Paizo's other GameMastery Item Card sets. Each of these full-color cards features a beautiful portrait of an item on one side with space on the back to keep notes. GameMastery Item Cards are compatible with any fantasy roleplaying game.
Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Dragon Empires Gazetteer
The mysteries and wonders of the Dragon Empires are finally revealed! The continent of Tian Xia stretches from the polar ice in the north to well south of the equator—a realm where honorable saumrai, devious ninja, martial artistry, strange spirits, and imperial dragons rule. This broad overview of Tian Xia presents details on more than two dozen regions inspired by the mythology of Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, and other Asian touchstones, as well as brand new realms like Wanshou (a swamp nation of slaves ruled by a kraken), the hobgoblin nation of Kaoling, the tengu homeland of Kwanlai, the monster-infested Valashmai Jungle, and the underwater locathah enclave of Xidao. The Dragon Empires Gazetteer also presents five new player character races—the birdlike tengus, reptilian nagaji, shape changing fox like kitsune, reincarnated spiritualists known as samsarans, and the shadowy masters of trickery called the wayang. An overview of life in the Dragon Empires offers a look at a new core pantheon (including more than a dozen brand-new deities), several new factions, and the challenges faced by a land recovering from the recent fall of a continental empire. Grab your katana, ready your best kung fu, and prepare to discover a whole new world of exciting adventure!
Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Mythical Monsters Revisited
This 64-page book takes a detailed look at ten of the most well-known and well-feared monsters from mythology. Within these pages you'll find entries on creatures from the old world to the new, including the chimera, couatl, griffon, harpy, hydra, kraken, medusa, phoenix, sphinx, and wendigo. With each monster getting a chapter of their own, details about history, ecology, lairs, variants, and even their realworld roots provide all the information you'll need to bolster these classic monsters in your game.
Robotech New Generation
The Robotech core sourcebook you’ve been waiting for . . . only it’s going to be more than you imagine.! Rules for using mecha, power armor and technology from all four eras of Robotech.! Kit-bashed mecha and rules for jury-rigging and combining parts from different generations of mecha.! Freedom Fighter O.C.C.s and resistance organizations.! Rogues and misfits from the three Robotech Wars.! New weapons, vehicles, mecha and more.! Villains, traitors, bandits, Invid henchmen, adventure and adventure ideas galore.
Dungeons and Dragons Lair Assault - Talon of Umberlee
Written by Jonathan Thomas Fay
Talon of Umberlee
If you think you have what it takes to brave the fiercest foes, fight the toughest battles, and conquer the vilest enemies, we have the Dungeons & Dragons play experience for you! Gather your master tacticians and rules experts together to kick down the dungeon doors and begin the assault! D&D Lair Assault is a new Wizards Play Network in-store program that pits tactically-minded players against a super challenge where the difference between victory and defeat is dependent upon your game knowledge, ability to adapt, and a little bit of luck. You'll pit your wits against some of the most difficult encounters you've ever played.Each challenge is a mega-encounter that plays in just a few hours, but many will need to make more than one run at it in pursuit of victory.
Gearing Up for Danger
Each D&D Lair Assault challenge will specify a level. The second D&D Lair Assault, Talon of Umberlee, is 8th level. Players bring characters of the challenge’s level to your scheduled event to participate. Characters higher or lower level than the challenge’s level are not allowed.
We use straightforward rules to equip characters for their deadly battles. Each character receives one magic item of one level higher than their level (level + 1), one of their level (level + 0), and one of one level lower than their level (level – 1). In addition, characters receive gold pieces equal to the value of one magic item of one level lower than their level (level – 1) to buy other equipment they think they’ll need. Each character may have no more than two consumable items (like potions or magic ammunition) equal to or less than the challenge’s level, and no more than one rare magic item. Note that players may equip their characters with magic items that are less than the stated levels if they so choose.
So, to use our 8th level example above, each character would have one 9th level, one 8th level and one 7th level magic item, plus 2,600 gold pieces to spend on other equipment (both mundane and magical).
Upcoming Lair Assault Games
Dec 22nd - 7pm
Jan 5th - 7pm
Jan 19th - 7pm
Feb 2nd - 7pm
Feb 16th - 7pm
March 1st - 7pm
Register on the website to reserve a spot!
New Role Playing Game Releases December 15th, 2011
Warhammer 40,000 RPG: Dark Heresy: Haarlock Trilogy
The definitive series of epic Dark Heresy adventures found in The Haarlock’s Legacy trilogy are together at last in one package. The new packaging of Tattered Fates, Damned Cities, and Dead Stars is ideal for any GM looking to run a campaign with ease and enjoyability.
The Haarlock’s Legacy trilogy offers a satisfying experience for new and veteran players alike, as they travel throughout the Calixis Sector uncovering dark secrets and investigating a suspicious pattern of events. This thrilling adventure transports players into the midst of bloodbaths, power-plays, and sanity-shredding secrets, leading up to a shattering climax that will decide the future of hundreds of worlds.
New Role Playing Game Releases December 9th, 2011
Written by Jonathan Thomas Fay
Dungeons and Dragons: Shadowghast Manor Dungeon Tiles
Contains six double-sided sheets of illustrated, die-cut terrain tiles printed on heavy card stock. This set emphasizes haunted houses and crypts as an extension to the Dungeon Tiles Master Sets.
Dungeons and Dragons: Book of Vile Darkness
Wicked fun is waiting!
Only the most indomitable minds dare look upon the malevolent thoughts and forbidden secrets bound within. This supplement is intended for Dungeon Masters looking to broaden their campaigns to include dark subject matter and the complex challenge of confronting the many dilemmas found within its deepest shadows.
New Role Playing Game Releases December 8th, 2011
Shadowrun: Artifacts Unbound Softcover
• Continues the plot strands introduced in the Dawn of the Artifacts series of adventures. • Explores the hidden powers of the artifacts gathered in the previous adventures and shows the effects they are having in the Sixth World, as well as revealing how they have affected past history. • Provides a flexible plot structure that allows players to follow the parts of the campaign that are most interesting to them; gamemasters may also explore locations in the Sixth World that they find compelling for a campaign setting. • Advances the overall Sixth World plot as the world’s powers continue to vie with each other for dominance. • Introduces a new form of campaign book that provides the concrete information gamemasters need to run a game while also providing flexibility to design the campaign in a way that suits them.
Battletech Jihad Final Reckoning
Jihad: Final Reckoning completes the Jihad plot book series begun with Blake Ascending, wrapping up the final years of the war between the Word of Blake and the Inner Sphere, and establishing the birth of the Republic of the Sphere. This book also provides a snapshot of the postwar universe, laying the groundwork for future campaigns. Also included is a glimpse at the more fantastic weapons and assets the Word of Blake was developing before its final fall—complete with rules for top-secret units, including the Caspar III system and Spectral LAMs.
New Role Playing Game Releases November 21st, 2011
Battletech Technical Readout 3058: Upgrade Record Sheets
Companion volume for Total Warfare and Technical Readout: 3058 Upgrade (though Technical Readout: 3058 Upgrade is not needed to use the Record Sheets: 3058 Upgrade with Total Warfare). A host of additional BattleMech, battle armor and vehicles to play, all completely compatible with the rules from Total Warfare. Includes ready-to-play scenarios and quick-start rules for massed infantry vs. infantry action! Uses the new Total Warfare-style record sheets.
Call of Cthulhu: H.P. Lovecraft Dreamlands
ROLEPLAYING BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP We all dream. For some, dreams can become reality. This book provideseverything needed for Call of Cthulhu investigators to travel down the seven hundred steps, through the Gate of Deeper Slumber, and into the land of dreams. It includes a travelogue of the Dreamlands, a huge gazetteer, statistics for over thirty prominent non-player characters, a bestiary of over sixty creatures, information on the gods of the Dreamlands and their cults, a colorful fold-out map, and more. Also present are six adventures to help get keepers started adventuring in the land of Dream.
New Role Playing Game Releases November 17th, 2011
Pathfinder Adventure Path #52: Forest of Spirits (Jade Regent 4 of 6)
The heroes finally reach the distant land of Tian Xia, only to once again attract the attention of the oni of the Five Storms. But not everyone wants them dead—the heroes must meet a mysterious woman named Miyaro who promises to lead them to allies deep in the Forest of Spirits. These mysterious spiritual guardians—known as kami—reveal that the oni of the Five Storms once dwelt in a fortress known as the House of Withered Blossoms, deep in the forest. Much can be learned at this fortress, but a few of the old inhabitants remain…
Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Book of the Damned—Volume 3: Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Since the first spark of mortal life took form, the daemons have sought to extinguish it. Evil in its purest form, these terrors seek nothing less than the end of all existence. Led by the Four Horsemen—War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death—the armies of Abaddon work to corrupt, consume, and destroy everything around them. Perfect nihilists, the daemons seek only to be the last entities looking down on the dying cinders of the cosmos before they themselves are consumed, and only darkness remains.
GameMastery Flip-Mat: Warehouse
Who knows what criminal conspiracies and deadly deals might unfold amid the maze of merchandise in GameMastery Flip-Mat: Warehouse? With a full suspicious scene on each side, this durable accessory can serve as ambush site or hideout in any tabletop fantasy campaign!
This portable, affordable map measures 24" x 30" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded. Its coated surface can handle any dry erase, wet erase, or even permanent marker. Usable by experienced GMs and novices alike, GameMastery Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master’s arsenal!
SW: Solomon Kane: The Path of Kane
Cut a Righteous Path in a World of Evil. You have seen the path to redemption, a road paved in the blood and bones of the evil you must defeat to save the world from its unholy taint. Face that which prey on men’s dreams, their fears, and their very souls. Walk The Path of Kane. This book provides richer details for the decadent and decaying Old World, the unknown and untamed New World, mysterious and exotic Cathay to the East, and the savagery of the Dark Continent. Over fifty new Savage Tales span the globe, taking Wanderers to new heights of peril. These adventures can be played alone, woven into an existing Wanderers’ journey, or often linked to one another, all as you see fit.
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