There are more than just pre-written tavern locations in the guide as Eldermancy have also created characters, items and monsters associated with each location. There’s even new mechanics.
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Dark Trails RPG rebrands as Weird Frontiers to avoid a fight with Chaosium
Dark Trails is based on the works of HP Lovecraft and draws on Cthulhu mythos.
Palace of the Vampire Queen: The first commercially-published D&D adventure goes back on sale
Two different publishers seem to be claiming the rights to publish and sell Palace of the Vampire Queen.
The mythic RPG Everway returns for a Silver Anniversary Edition
The Everway campaign is to fund a Players book, a Gamemasters book and a deluxe Fortune Deck. All things going well there will be two sets of additional Vision collection cards and other add-ons.
9th Level Games brings us Rebel Scum: The Anti-Fascist Space Opera RPG
Rebel Scum will use 9th Level Games’ Polymorph system. Chris O’Neill is the designer, Adriel Wilson, the producer and Zane Graves is the illustrator.
Nightfall Games gives us a first look at The Terminator RPG
The S5S-powered Quick Start is already available as a Pay What You Want to download on DriveThruRPG.
Basic World Building: OSE Extras for Neverland
Neverland has several factions vying for control and player characters could be drawn from some of these factions. Coming from one of these factions or joining one could open up extra options for PCs.
Monsters of the Wilderness: 100 new 5e creatures
Curious to see how Cawood’s production efforts stack up? Good news. The Monsters of the Wilderness: Arctic Region is free, completed and available as a PDF to check out.
Flesh and wires: The Gaia Complex
Towards the end of the 21st century, the third world war, which became known as the Resource War, pushed mankind to the brink of destruction and brought ruin to the Earth’s atmosphere.
How to handle romance and sexuality in RPGs
Romance and sexuality in RPGs can involve a great deal of OOC emotional investment. Since our PCs’ emotions are key here, we need to be comfortable delving into that territory.
