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C&C Adventure Supplement: Rogues Gallery

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Aug 082013

C&C Adventure Supplement: Rogues Gallery

$9.99 SRP

Every game has them; hosts of unnamed, faceless, personality-lacking brutes that mock both players and CKs with their amorphous shapes. Well wait no more longer. C&C finally gets its first rogue’s gallery. Brought to you by the skilled hands of Shane Moore, the wildly popular author of the Abyss Walker novels, this rogue’s gallery is replete with an army of Non Players Character. All races. All classes. This rogues gallery has them all.

Each NPC comes complete with statistics such as attributes, hit points and standard armor class. They also have names, alignments and all the other bones of a good NPC, but more than that these NPCs have faces, personalities, descriptions. Each NPC is individually treated, including goals and desires.

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PF Pawns: Shattered Star: Adventure Path Pawn Collection

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Jul 052013

PF Pawns: Shattered Star: Adventure Path Pawn Collection

$19.99 SRP

Key monsters and NPCs from the Shattered Star Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with the Shattered Star Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop fantasy RPG!

Printed on sturdy cardstock, each pawn presents a beautiful full-color image of a monster or NPC from the Shattered Star campaign, including giants, constructs, ancient undead, Lovecraftian horrors, and dozens of unique NPCs also suitable for representing player characters. Designed for use with the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary Box, each cardstock pawn slots into a size-appropriate plastic base from that collection-making them easy to mix with traditional metal or plastic miniatures-and supplements the Bestiary Box’s creatures, together providing pawns for nearly every Shattered Star encounter. With tons of distinct creature images, the Shattered Star Pawn Collection brings to life the enemies and allies from all six adventures of the Shattered Star Adventure Path.

D&D Shattered Keeps Map Pack from Wizards of the Coast

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Dec 042012

D&D Shattered Keeps Map Pack

Release Date: Dec 18th 2012

$ 11.95

Foldout battle maps for your D&D campaign. Dungeon Masters need awesome maps to create memorable encounters. This pack contains 3 full-color, double-sided, 21″ x 30″ battle maps with 1-inch scale grids. One map features two never-before-seen encounter locations: a besieged keep and a ruined, fortified manor. The other two battle maps are picked up from out-of-print products. You can even combine the maps in this map pack to create huge encounter areas. All the maps provide attractive, reusable terrain suitable for any D&D campaign. Map Pack products are compatible with all editions of the Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game and are designed for use with D&D miniatures.

What DM doesn’t need more maps thanks Wizard of the Coast for making more of these for us.

New D&D Products to help your Games from Wizards of the Coast

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Nov 252012

D&D Dungeon Tiles: Ruins of War

Release Date: Nov 20th 2012

$ 11.95

Build Your Own the Battlefields Your tabletop never looked better! With this pack of customizable terrain tiles, you can add a new dimension to your Dungeons & Dragons adventures. Easy to set up and infinitely expandable, this pack allows you to create the adventures you want to play. Pick up additional packs to create larger, more elaborate encounters. This pack contains six durable, double-sided card stock sheets of illustrated terrain, with die-cut tiles you can use to create battlefields and warzones in your campaign. Use this product and other Dungeon Tiles accessories to make great D&D encounters that enhance your roleplaying game experience

D&D Dungeon Command: Curse of Undeath

Release Date: Nov 20th 2012

$ 39.99

Bury Your Enemies Dungeon Command is a head to head miniatures skirmish game for 2 players. Assemble your warband, choose your battlefield and crush your enemy! The Dungeon Command: Cure of Undeath Faction Pack contains a complete undead warband, ready to play right out of the box! You can also create your own warbands using multiple Faction Packs and challenge other players. In addition to their use in Dungeon Command, these miniatures can also be used in the D&D RPG, with their cards further usable with D&D Adventure System board games(Catle Ravenloft, Wrath of Ashardalon, and The Legend of Drizzt) Each Dungeon Command Faction comes in its own box, containing twelve pre-painted, non-random, plastic miniatures (plus the cards, tiles, and rules for the game) Included Miniatures Dracolich, Skeletal Lancer, Disciple of Kyuss, Hypnotic Spirit, Lich, Necromancer, Skeletal Tomb Guardian, 2 Warrior Skeletons, Vampire Stalker, Gravehound, 2 Zombies

I’m getting ready to start another D&D campaign and can always trust Wizards of the Coast to have great stuff for me

Never Unprepared: Game Master’s Guide from Engine Publishing

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Nov 242012

Never Unprepared: Game Master’s Guide

Release Date: Nov 2012

$ 19.95

Whether you’re new to game mastering or have been running the same campaign since 1974, Never Unprepared: The Complete Game Master’s Guide to Session Prep will help you prepare for games faster, avoid common pitfalls, and have more fun in the process. To our knowledge, this is the first book entirely devoted to the process of prepping for tabletop RPGs. Ten years in the making, Never Unprepared is award-winning author Phil Vecchione’s epic rock ballad to game prep. A project manager and veteran game master, he draws on extensive experience to present flexible systems for developing or optimizing your own unique approach to game prep. Phil’s work has previously appeared on GnomeStew.com (silver ENnie Award winner for Best Blog, 2010 and 2011) and in Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters and Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game.

I was looking to start up another RPG and thanks to the stuff from Engine Publishing It might go even smoother this time.

New Source Books for Only War from Fantasy Flight Games

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Nov 072012

Only War: Core Rulebook

Release Date: Nov 2012

$ 59.95

Only War is a standalone Warhammer 40,000 roleplaying game experience in which players take on the roles of soldiers in the Imperial Guard, the galaxy-spanning armies of the God-Emperor. Fully compatible with FFG’s other Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay titles, this comprehensive game system explores a previously unseen side of life in the Imperium of Man. Join the ranks of brave men and women inducted into the God-Emperor’s armies, trained to fight and sent off to far flung stars and systems to hold the line against the coming night. Despite overwhelming opposition, or perhaps because of it, these fearless soldiers are bound to each other by a code of brotherhood and honour. They are the thin line that protects the Imperium from complete and utter destruction. They are the Imperial Guard.

Only War: Game Master’s Kit

Release Date: Nov 2012

$ 24.95

Guide your squad to success over their mission with The Game Master’s Kit for Only War! This helpful resource features a sturdy Game Master’s screen, which displays eye-catching Only War art on one side and a wealth of convenient references on the other. In addition, The Game Master’s Kit includes a 32-page full color booklet with a complete adventure, a selection of useful NPCs, and helpful advice for GMs about managing comrades and more.

You know you always wanted to be a Capt. in that squad of Imp guard on the battle field now play it a little closer to home in a RPG version from Fantasy Flight Games and see what you can really do or will you just run and wet your pants when the Deamon Prince attacks.

Rise Of the Runelords Pawn Collection From Pathfinder coming in August

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Jul 122012

Rise o/t Runelords AP Pawn Collection

$ 15.99 SRP

Key monsters and NPCs from the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with this collection of more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop fantasy RPG! Printed on sturdy cardstock, each pawn contains a beautiful full-color image of a monster or NPC from the Rise of the Runelords campaign, including goblins, dragons, giants, ogres and dozens of unique NPCs that are also suitable to represent player characters. Each cardstock pawn slots into a size-appropriate plastic base from the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary Box, making them easy to mix with traditional metal or plastic miniatures. With multiple pawns for commonly encountered creatures and tons of distinct creature images, the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path Pawn Collection brings the friends and foes of Pathfinder’s original campaign alive like never before!

The GM and His Show

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Dec 132011

Being a game master, or a GM, is in many ways like being a director of a motion picture. Both the GM and the director are responsible for the well being of their show. Not only must both maintain the integrity of what is unfolding before the cast, but both also moderate the flow of information. Continue reading »