New Releases by Steve Kenson

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!

N.K. Jemisin''s multiple Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth trilogy comes to tabletop RPGs in Fifth Season: Roleplaying in the Stillness! Enter a vast, furious land that is home to thousands of Comms, settlements large and small where people gather for safety in a dangerous and unpredictable world. Each member contributes according to the dictates of their use-caste, and all with one goal: to prepare for the next Fifth Season, those cataclysmic events when Father Earth himself rages against humankind. It is only through the wisdom of the ancient Stone Lore that people stand a chance of survival. The game gives players a chance to portray the folk of the Stillness, working together to deal with the problems that face their Comm to better prepare for the coming of the next Fifth Season. Players build a Comm together, create characters of that Comm, and face the challenges that the Stillness has to offer. Fifth Season is powered by a customized version of Green Ronin''s popular Adventure Game Engine (AGE), the same rules system as The Expanse, Modern AGE, Blue Rose, and Fantasy AGE RPGs. If you''ve played any AGE RPG before, you already know the core of the rules. Can you survive in the Broken Earth? Find out in The Fifth Season: Roleplaying in the Stillness!

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.

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 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.

TheCthulhu Awakens Game Master''s Kitis a collection of resources that helps you smoothly deliver terror and adventure to your players. It provides a sturdy Game Master''s screen that displays stunts and other essential information. Six quick reference cards provide further assistance with commonly used rules, and a dry-erase friendly combat tracker that helps you follow violent moments of triumph, or doom. The secrets of theGame Masters Kitare revealed inUnexpurgated Texts, a booklet detailing a dozen fell grimoires and their modern counterparts, each in an expanded, 2-page format listing the eldritch workings and other strange secrets each of them contains. TheCthulhu Awakens Game Master''s Kitis the perfect complement to the games core rulebook.

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.

Vikings plunder jewelry stores along the waterfront! Killer robots from the future hunt Abraham Lincoln! And the heroes are on trial for crimes they haven''t committed... yet! Time is a toybox for superheroes and villains, filled with colorful characters and convoluted plotlines. Time travel opens up new potential just as much as blasting off into space, with the convenience of all the major players and events already being written for you! With time as a canvas, you can pump up the grim or gonzo in your adventures, or build a whole campaign around protecting not just the world, but everything that has happened or ever will happen! The Time Traveler''s Codex is a supplement for Mutants & Masterminds, Third Edition that launches heroes into the fourth dimension. The Time Traveler''s Codex includes: A brief history of time travel, and an overview on the structure of time and how it functions in the Earth-Prime setting. Tips for deciding how time travel works in your campaign, complete with the consequences and hazards of meddling. Advice on creating your own time-hopping series, including optional rules, suggested power levels, and temporal dangers that lie along the way. Six causality-shaking villain archetypes who can harry heroes across the centuries, like the Immortal Conqueror and the Future Perfectionist, backed up by dozens of minions from across time and beyond! Guidance for players building time traveling heroes, complete with new advantages, powers, and equipment as well as a half-dozen time-sliding hero archetypes, like the Quantum Alien and the Temporal Tourist! Over a dozen different historical eras detailed, with rules guidance and statblocks for each, as well as adventure ideas and guidance for setting individual adventures in that time period, or an entire campaign! Catapult your adventures out of the city streets and into medieval French castles, Aztec battlefronts, and the imperial Ming court with the Time Traveler''s Codex!

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 Superteam Handbook puts the focus on the heroes and their team, with details for players and gamemasters alike to make their team cohesive, dramatic, and fun! Heroes can work closer together than ever before with new, team-focused powers, advantages, and attack options. Eight pre-made hero teams--ranging from PL 5 to PL 12--serve as campaign-kickstarters, with guidelines, resources, and advice for running a variety of heroic campaigns, along with background and statblocks for their members to use as player characters, rivals, or villains. Will you save the planet as part of the globe-hopping UNIQUE, battle to keep the streets safe as one of the street-brawling Ferroburg Four, or take on ancient aliens from the cockpit of your own giant robot as a member of MagnaForce? Whatever you choose, be stronger than the sum of yourparts!

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.

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.

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.

This is what Dragon Age RPG fans have been waiting for! Set 3 completes the core rules of the game, providing everything players need to take their characters from level 11 to 20, including new specializations like the chevalier, force mage, and shadow, plus new spells, talents, and backgrounds. Game Masters get a host of fearsome monsters to deploy, including stats for high dragons and the dreaded Archdemon itself. Set 3 also introduces rune magic for weapons and armor, and narrative rules for mass battles. And, of course, it wouldn''t be Dragon Age without lore, and Set 3 delivers on that score as well, with new info on Orlais, the Tevinter Imperium, and more. A full-length adventure and handy accessories complete the package, making Set 3 a must for any Dragon Age fan!

Based on George R.R. Martin''s fantasy epic, A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying gives you everything you need to play and run games in the Seven Kingdoms using an easy-to-learn system specifically designed to evoke the atmosphere of the bestselling novels and hit TV show! The A Game of Thrones Edition includes the entire contents of the original core rulebook, revised and updated, plus the full-length adventure Peril at King''s Landing and a gorgeous new cover by fan-favorite artist Michael Komarck. You and your fellow players take on the roles of key members of a noble house navigating the perilous waters of Westerosi politics and intrigue!

The DC Universe features a dazzling array of characters who have thrilled readers for generations. Now they come to life for tabletop gaming in DC Adventures Heroes & Villains! Volume 1 covers characters A-K, from Abra Kadabra and Adam Strange through Kid Flash and Kobra. Each entry comes complete with DC Adventures game information, character details, and a full-color illustration from one of DC Comics'' best artists. Heroes & Villains also includes entries on various teams, from the Justice League and Justice Society to the Injustice Gang and the Fearsome Five. With Heroes & Villains in-hand, you have a tremendous wealth of material for your DC Adventures games, all usable with the award-winning Mutants & Masterminds game system.

Return to Ferelden and face the Blight in Dragon Age Set 2! Set 1 put adventurers on their path and covered characters of level 1 to 5. Now Set 2 brings them to the next stage of their journey, providing everything needed to play characters of level 6 to 10. Its many highlights include rules for playing the legendary Grey Wardens, the introduction of roleplaying and exploration stunts, nearly 40 new spells, expanded world info and character backgrounds, and the addition of specializations like arcane warrior, berserker, and assassin.

"Mutants & Masterminds, or M & M for short, is an adventure roleplaying game in which you, the players, take on the roles of fictional superheroes having thrilling adventures in an imaginary world. One player, the Gamemaster, takes on the job of creating that world and the stories for the other players to take part in. Together, you create your own tales of heroic action and adventure, like your favorite superhero comic books, television shows, or movies. You don''t need any expensive computers or video game systems to take part though. You just need a book, some friends, and plenty of imagination"--Mutants & Masterminds website. In this title meet the characters that people this game, get hints on how to create you own M & M characters based on those depicted in this book -- and much more!

Aces and Jokers Wild! In 1945, an alien virus released over Manhattan changed the world forever. Ninety percent of the people exposed to the Wild Card virus died, and some say they were the lucky ones. Of the survivors, ninety percent were mutated into the hideous freaks known as Jokers. Only a rare one percent became Aces, people gifted with superhuman powers. In 1985 George R.R. Martin and a stellar group of authors introduced readers to the world of Wild Cards, and now the series spans more than a dozen anthologies and novels. In the summer of 2008 players of Mutants & Masterminds can make this world their own for the first time with the Wild Cards campagin setting, written by series author John Jos. Miller. Inside this beautifully illustrated book you will find a full history the setting, profiles and game stats for dozens of major characters, background information and rules on the Wild Card virus, an introductory adventure, and advice on running your own WildCards campaign.

''Instant Superheroes'' provides a selection of super-hero archetypes for ''Mutants & Masterminds'', each with detailed information on how to modify, customise and play these new heroes in the game.

Psychic powers may seem like magic, but there''s no reason to treat them as such in your d20 game. The Psychic''s Handbook provides a completely independent system for adding psychic abilities to your campaign, abilities which are at once more subtle and wider-reaching than magic, powers with their own applications and limitations that separate them from the spells of clerics and wizards, and even the powers of psions. The core of the system is the psychic, a new class whose mental powers are based on skills and feats. The Psychic''s Handbook, by award-winning game designer Steve Kenson, provides you with everything you need to integrate the class into your game, including prestige classes, new equipment, campaign advice, and conversion notes for Modern games. Discover the true powers of the mind.