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The Crew Companion is a player''s guide for The Expanse RPG that greatly expands character options with a plethora of new specializations, talents, gear, enhancements, and stunts. Not to mention advanced rules for tech, including black market implants like those of Clarissa Mao in the novels. You''ll also find many new spaceships suitable for Player Characters, plus new ship qualities and flaws. GMs will find useful new options for the Churn and advanced rules for Interludes. Take your Expanse character to the next level with The Crew Companion!

The Valiant Adventures Hero''s Handbook gave you the rules to make characters and play the game. Now, its companion volume presents worlds from the Valiant Universe for your games. The Worlds of Valiant sourcebook details eight iconic settings and includes character write-ups for over 80 heroes and villains. These characters are also usable in any Mutants & Masterminds RPG campaign. Gamemasters can run their adventures and campaigns in these Valiant settings: Britannia, The Deadside, Earth, The Faraway, New Japan, Space, The Stalinverse, or The Unknown. Worlds of Valiant also makes a great reference book for comic readers. Jump into the Valiant Universe today!

The Gamemaster''s Kit is a key accessory for your Valiant Adventures RPG campaign. It features a sturdy and practical 3-panel hardback screen with all the reference material you need to run the game. The kit also includes 4 quick reference cards and a combat tracker that you can write on with wet or dry erase markers. The Valiant Adventures Gamemaster''s Kit is the perfect complement to the Hero''s Handbook and Worlds of Valiant.

Comic fans know the Valiant Universe is home to classic characters like Bloodshot, Shadowman, Faith, Dr. Mirage, and X-O Manowar. Gamers know Mutants & Masterminds is the World''s Greatest Superhero RPG. Now these titanic forces combine to bring you the Valiant Adventures Roleplaying Game. If you''ve ever wanted to be part of the Valiant Universe, now you can! Create your own character or play one from the comics. Adventure in Britannia, The Deadside, Earth, The Faraway, New Japan, Space, The Stalinverse, or The Unknown. The Mutants & Masterminds rules, renowned for their adaptability, have been customized to reflect Valliant''s signature gritty realism and give you an easy way to create your own character. Pick an archetype, make a few quick customization choices, choose a power set, and you''re ready to play! The Valiant Adventures Hero''s Handbook is your starting point, a core rulebook with all the rules you need to play. Pair it with the Worlds of Valiant sourcebook (available separately) to complete the experience.

Sword & Planet adventure for the 21st Century! Swords of the Shadow Planet is a complete roleplaying game introducing players to Duar, a lost world hidden from the eyes of Earth. Play sun worshiping aerial nomads, Neandertals transported from Earth''s past, heroes of living stone, or intelligent dinosaurs as they unravel the mysteries of the Shadow Planet. Make characters in minutes with the easy-to-learn DARE System and get started right away using the included adventure Scoundrel From Zevar. Is Duar in our solar system? Is it even in our time? Explore its secrets in Swords of the Shadow Planet!

The Modern AGE Basic Rulebook and its supplements present a hugely flexible toolkit that can handle anything from alternate history and gothic horror to urban fantasy and post-apocalyptic adventures. Now Modern AGE Powers is here with the definitive expansion of the game''s extraordinary abilities. Covering magic, psychic phenomena, mutations, exotic origins, and extraordinary items, this book provides support for everything from technologically superpowered heroes to cyberpunk post-humans. Though designed for Modern AGE, Powers is also useful for GMs of other Adventure Game Engine RPGs, like Fantasy AGE and Blue Rose.

The Fifth Season GM''s Kit is a collection of resources that helps you run adventures on the tabletop. It provides a sturdy Game Moderator''s screen that displays stunts and other essential information. Four quick reference cards provide further assistance with commonly used rules, and a game tracker you can write on with wet and dry erase markers that help keep encounters organized. The booklet features a new adventure, Ruin-Under by Nell Raban. The Game Moderator''s Kit is the perfect complement to the Fifth Season: Roleplaying in the Stillness core rulebook. Get it on the tabletop today!

All that is required for evil to flourish is for good folk to do nothing. When society fails--when corruption or hatred or apathy take root--the helpless and the marginalized suffer first. And all too often heroes must rise from the ranks of the dispossessed, not to impose their will on others, but to provide the same safety and justice so many others take for granted. The Vigilante''s Handbook is a sourcebook of street-level action and adventure for your Mutants & Masterminds campaign. This book provides everything you need to stand up and push back against the overwhelming 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 corrupt cops and 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.

In the world of the Blue Rose RPG, both good and evil have touched the natural world. The Light reached down and invested some animal--called rhydan--with souls, sapience, psychic power, and a deep need to fight against the wickedness of the world. Where Shadow has crept into the wilderness, it has given rise to abhorrent shadowspawn, things that rise against the Light and seek to spread their corruption far and wide. Touching the Wild is half shadowspawn bestiary and half rhydan player''s guide, so useful to both Narrators and players. The bestiary presents shadowspawn of various power levels, making foes both fair and foul to face down the heroes of a Blue Rose chronicle. The player''s guide offers advice for playing rhydan--including the option of an all rhydan chronicle--as well as a variety of talents, specializations, arcana, and equipment uniquely suited to rhydan characters. Light and shadow, friend and foe, Touching the Wild enhances any Blue Rose chronicle.

Leap into sword and sorcery RPG adventures with the Fantasy AGE Core Rulebook! Powered by the popular Adventure Game Engine (also used in The Expanse, Modern AGE, and Blue Rose RPGs), Fantasy AGE is easy to learn and a fun to play. Character creation is simple: pick an ancestry, pick a class (mage, rogue, warrior, or envoy), pick a specialization (duelist, diplomat, pirate, sword mage, and more), and jump into the action. The heart of the game is the stunt system, which brings dynamism and drama to the table. Roll doubles on 3d6 to pull off heroic maneuvers in combat, cast mightier spells, perform amazing feats of physical and mental prowess, or even cut a rival down to size with a few clever words. The Fantasy AGE Core Rulebook gives you everything you need to play, from special talents and arcane magic to practical Game Master advice and challenging monsters. Start your adventures in Breakwater Bay and experience the Stranger Shores campaign setting. Set sail for the legendary city of Freeport or tempt fate by going deeper into the mist-shrouded seas. The Fantasy AGE Core Rulebook is fully compatible with all previous Fantasy AGE releases, but new players can start right here. Explore the Stranger Shores, use another fantasy setting of your choice, or create your own--Fantasy AGE is your portal to a new age of adventure!

Strange aliens both friendly and fearsome fill this tome of creatures designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game! From the gravity-manipulating frujais and planet-killing novaspawn to space goblins and security robots, the creatures in this codex will challenge adventurers no matter what strange worlds they''re exploring. What''s more, player rules for a host of creatures let players not just fight aliens, but be them! Inside Starfinder Alien Archive, you''ll find the following: * Over 80 bizarre life-forms both classic and new, from the reptilian ikeshtis and energy-bodied hallajins to robotic anacites and supernatural entities from beyond the realms of mortals. * Over 20 races with full player rules, letting you play everything from a winged dragonkin to a hyperevolved floating brain. * New alien technology to help give your character an edge, including weapons, armor, magic items, and more. * A robust NPC-creation system to let Game Masters build any aliens or creatures they can imagine. * New rules for magical monster summoning, quick templates to modify creatures on the fly, and more! The pocket edition presents the same contents in a smaller sized softcover for a lower price and better portability.

Readers of The Expanse novels have thrilled to the adventures of the crew of the Rocinante. Now its your turn to make your mark! Abzus Bounty presents six full-length scenarios designed for a new crew of characters in The Expanse Roleplaying Game. They embark on a series of adventures, from a fateful discovery in the rings of Saturn to acquiring their own ship to a deadly confrontation that could change the course of history for the entire solar system. Abzus Bounty is the perfect way to kick off a new campaign. Get ready for launch!

The Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder''s Guide is an indispensable resource for aspiring and experienced Game Masters alike. It provides advice and examples on such topics as designing entertaining and effective encounters, crafting interesting locations, customizing adversaries, and much more. It also includes tables to help generate campaign elements when a bit of spontaneity and randomness is desired. Each chapter in the Campaign Builder''s Guide is devoted to a different topic, each approached with a mix of advice, mechanical assistance, and ultimately ready-to-use examples. Whether you''re designing your own pantheon of fantasy deities for a campaign or seeking to alter settings, characters, and rules to emulate a particular sub-genre of fantasy, the Campaign Builder''s Guide has the advice and tools you need.

Martial arts duels. Superpowers. Gadgets. Conspiracies. The Modern AGE Companion adds new rules for these elements and more, giving you the tools to customize the Modern AGE Roleplaying Game to fit countless campaigns. Explore new backgrounds, professions, talents and other options to customize character creation for your campaign. Build your own stunts to suit different genres and environments. Master systems for everything from fighting styles to horror. New rules for extraordinary powers, technologies, and organizations, genre inspirations and campaign design tailor the game for players and Game Masters.

The Expanse RPG brings the universe of James S.A Coreys sci-fi novels to the tabletop. Being a GM for such a rich setting is a big job, so The Expanse Game Masters Kit is here to help. It provides a sturdy, full-color GM screen with essential tables and references for game-play on one side and evocative artwork on the other. It also includes 4 quick reference cards that put the stunts and actions at your fingertips, a combat tracker that you can write on with wet or dry erase markers, a set of pre-generated Player Characters, and a complete adventure (The Ganymede Insurance Job) to launch your crew right into the exciting universe of The Expanse!

"The Expanse created by James S.A. Corey."

Welcome to Aldis: City of the Blue Rose! This beautiful, full color sourcebook lavishly details the capital city of the central nation in the Blue Rose RPG, providing players and Narrators alike the tools needed to tell stories using the city as a focus. From the intrigues of nobles in the High Ward to the entertainments in the Middle Ward to the roughest parts of town found in the Outer Ward, this supplement details people, important sites, and historical events of the City of the Blue Rose. Romantic fantasy narratives frequently remain focused around singular locations, giving time and opportunities for heroes to develop friendships, romances, and rivalries with the people to be found there, and this sourcebook provides everything to allow players in a Blue Rose RPG campaign to do just that!

Written with new gamers in mind, this streamlined rulebook offers simplified character creation alongside a selection of ready-made adventures, making it easy for new players and Gamemasters to get into the action. Fully compatible with the entire library of Mutants and Masterminds Third Edition rulebooks and supplements, including the Deluxe Hero''s Handbook, the material in this book is just the first step into a larger world that always needs saving.

Modern AGE roleplaying game allows you to shape the setting to suit your stylewhether its gritty action or high adventure, urban fantasy or a dystopian future. With a new, classless character-building system, twenty levels of advancement, and optional rules for psychic and magic powers, you can create the heroes your world needs. Along with an innovative stunt system, rules for thrilling chases, and an introductory adventure, youll find all the action youre after inside the Modern AGE Basic Rulebook.

The Fantasy AGE Companion provides a plethora of new rules and play options for your Fantasy AGE roleplaying game campaign. This book expands upon the core Fantasy AGE rules and provides alternative game systems so that you can build rules and characters which fit any setting and game you desire.

The Mutants & Masterminds Gamemaster''s Kit is a key accessory for your superhero campaign. It features a sturdy and practical 3-panel hardback screen with all the charts and tables you need to play the World''s Greatest Superhero RPG. The kit also includes 4 quick reference cards and a combat tracker that you can write on with wet or dry erase markers. The Mutants & Mastermind''s Gamemaster''s Kit is the perfect complement to the Deluxe Hero''s Handbook and will help you kick off your game with style. "Price Includes VAT"

Icons Superpowered Roleplaying is a tabletop game of superhero adventure that lets you devise stories of the imagination with your friends, based around the heroes you create. The new Assembled Edition revises and expands the original game, putting all options you want under one cover. Icons features quick character creation, a flexible game system that''s easy to learn, and flavorful rules to give your games that comic book feel. Icons is your all-in-one package for superhero roleplaying adventure: quick, easy, descriptive, and fun!

The Narrator''s Kit is a key accessory for your Blue Rose RPG series. It features a three-panel hardback screen with all the essential game info you need at the game table, and a booklet with 7 optimizable pre-generated characters. It also includes 4 quick reference cards that put the stunts and actions at your fingertips, and a combat tracker that you can write on with wet or dry erase markers. The Narrators Kit is the perfect complement to the Blue Rose RPG and will help you kick off your game with style.

"Where do you get all those wonderful toys? Right here! Gadget Guides is a collection of diverse devices for the Mutants & Masterminds Superhero Role playing Game, from armor and weapons to psychic crystals and steamtech. In this book are twenty-two individual guides, each looking at a particular type of gadget, putting together the effects and modifiers from the Hero''s Handbook to create a catalog of dozens of ready-to-use items. It includes: Weapons from guns and blasters to archaic and martial arts weapons, even weapons of mass destruction!; Constructs like artificial intelligences, robots, piloted mecha, and a wide variety of vehicles; Enhancements from biotech, cybertech, and nanotech to power devices, psychic gadgets, and magical items; Information compiled and stored in computers and the sensor and spy-tech to protect and get at it; Installations from hidden lairs to orbiting satellites, along with security systems and deathtraps to challenge your heroes! What Power Profiles did for super-powers, Gadget Guides does for gear, making it a great character creation and in-play resource for both players and gamemasters."--Publisher description.

Aldis, the Kingdom of the Blue Rose, shines as a new light following the dark age of the Sorcerer Kings. Now, envoys of the Soverign''s Finest strive to protect Aldis. Aided by the rhydan - their psychic animal allies - the champions of the Blue Rose guard the Light against the power of the Shadow. This book gives your everything you need to play.

Emerald City is a brand new setting for your Mutants & Masterminds Third Edition campaign. Set in the same universe as the award-winning Freedom City, Emerald City provides a home base for your heroes and a place they can shine. This rich and detailed sourcebook describes a fully realized city that until recently was downright normal. It didn''''t have alien armadas filling the sky, or mad gods trying to turn it into a Hell on Earth. Things were stable... until the Silver Storm tore through the city and unleashed a flood of dangerous super-villains and monsters Now criminal masterminds have cast aside years of fragile peace, ready to go to war to settle old scores and claim the throne of the city''''s underworld. Emerald City has no established teams to call on in this crisis. It is a city that needs heroes. Will you answer the call?

The Silver Storm has turned Emerald City from a quiet Pacific Northwest metropolis to a hub of super-criminal activity, and AEGISthe American Elite Government Intervention Serviceis on the job. Threat Report presents profiles on dozens of the new supervillains endangering Emerald City and the world. From "stormers" newly granted their powers to ancient and eldritch evils, from beneath Emerald City''s streets to other dimensions and times, Threat Reportgives you a plethora of villains to challenge your players. This book compiles most of Green Ronin''sThreat Reportseries of electronic villain profiles, along with new content created just for this collection. You''ll find a variety of villains ready-made for yourMutants & Mastermindsgame, from low-level mercenaries for hire to super-powered thugs and cosmic world-beaters, even gods pulling the strings from behind the scenes. Heroes get ready because the villains of Emerald City are on the loose!

Dragons invade the world of the Pathfinder RPG in Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Dragons Unleashed! This collection of deadly foes and potent allies reveals 15 of Golarion''s most powerful and influential dragons, from cunning draconic manipulators to great wyrms capable of testing even the most experienced adventurers. Dragons of every chromatic and metallic breed fill this collection, along with mysterious primal dragons and regal imperial dragons. Each entry includes full statistics for running the dragon, details on its history and ambitions, ways to use the dragon in an ongoing campaign, descriptions and maps of the dragon''s lair, the contents of its vast hoard, and more. Unleash Golarion''s ultimate monsters on your game with Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Dragons Unleashed!

Answer the call to arms with the Pathfinder Player Companion: Knights of the Inner Sea! Join the fray as a noble Knight of Ozem, crush the servants of anarchy as a merciless Hellknight, slay the demons of the Worldwound as a veteran Mendevian Crusader, or take up the banner of any of Golarion''s most esteemed knighthoods. Knights of the Inner Sea reveals the most stalwart martial orders of the Pathfinder Campaign Setting, with details supporting crusaders of any class and new options for all manner of knights -- be their armor shining or jet black. Recruit a squire customized to your individual quest, make your steed more than just a horse with new mounts and equine breeds, adopt a knightly code of conduct to give your quest a cause, or take up a diverse array of spells and magic items designed empower knights -- or destroy them! Whether you''re an armored champion, a militant magic-user, or a slayer from the shadows, launch your character''s crusade with the Pathfinder Player Companion: Knights of the Inner Sea!

The DC Universe features a dazzling array of characters who have thrilled readers for generations. The two-volume Heroes & Villains set details more than 500 of those characters for use in your DC Adventures games, all featuring character stats fully compatible with the award-winning Mutants & Masterminds RPG. With Heroes & Villains in-hand, you will never lack for characters to use in your game, from heroic guest-stars and villainous foes to heroes suitable as ready-to-play characters. You''ll also have a comprehensive guide for modeling your own DC characters based on existing examples along with a collection of animals and monsters useful for mimics and shapechangers. It''s the comprehensive guide to the heroes and villains of the DC Universe no fan should be without! Volume 2 covers characters from the League of Assassins and Legion of Super-Heroes to Zatanna and Zauriel.