Indie RPG Restock & New Games

We have gotten in a huge restock of Indie Press RPGs, about 75 books, including new games like Sig City of Blades, Beta Red A Cyberpunk RPG, Flower Court, Flotsam: Adrift Among the Stars, Slaying Dragons, Dead Halt, FlipTales, Brinkwood Blood of Tyrants, Champions Complete, and more!

Alas Vegas
ALAS VEGAS is a dark journey through a bizarre and terrifying casino city where everything has a cost. Caught in a war between the Rat Packers who run the place, the players must find allies, the truth, and a way to escape. Memories are recovered, secrets are revealed, old debts are settled, and nothing is what it seems. Your character sheet starts as blank as your memories, but your character gains skills by having flashbacks to their previous life, so as the game progesses their backstory does too – and intertwines with other characters’, and with events that happen in the game, creating a complex and twisted story. ‘Alas Vegas’ itself lasts four sessions, structured like a high-budget HBO miniseries, leading to a revelatory final showdown. It’s Franz Kafka’s Fear and Loathing. It’s The Hangover meets The Prisoner. It’s Ocean’s Eleven directed by David Lynch. It’s like nothing you’ve played before.

Designed by game designer legend James Wallis, of Once Upon A Time and Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen (which we also got back in stock)

13th Age
Discover the d20-rolling fantasy roleplaying game from legendary designers Jonathan Tweet and Rob Heinsoo! 13th Age gives you everything you need to play epic adventures in a world where mighty Icons war and scheme in a tense balance of power. Here, a small band of adventurers could be heroes that save the ancient Dragon Empire—or set in motion the catastrophe that ends the Age. Designed for experienced GMs and any type of player, 13th Age offers a fresh take on a familiar tabletop experience. Pelgrane Press gave Rob and Jonathan total freedom to create the game they most wanted to play. They brought the best parts of the great d20-rolling fantasy tradition together with innovative new rules, resulting in a game that EN World readers named “2013’s Most Anticipated RPG”.

Well-supported with sourcebooks, offerings include 13 True Ways, Bestiary, Bestiary 2: Lions, Tigers, & Owlbears, Book of Loot, Loot Harder: Book of Treasures, High Magic & Low Cunning, and the introductory adventure Shadows of Eidolon.

Curse of House of Rockwood
The Curse of the House of Rookwood is a gothic horror tabletop roleplaying game where you create a cursed family with supernatural powers and troubled relationships, and take them on strange adventures in an alternate history haunted by mythical monsters and dark magic. Will you work together to bury your skeletons, or will family drama bring your house to ruin?

Justice Velocity
Inspired by action movies like the Fast & Furious franchise, Rush Hour, or Bad Boys and anime like Initial D– Justice Velocity puts you in the driver’s seat. It’s an exercise in collaborative storytelling that puts the stakes of a race or the fate of deadly computer viruses up to your players’ skills, abilities, and the roll of the dice. It’s a fast-paced 2d6 system that’s light on the rules, and high on octane. With quick and easy character design, Justice Velocity invites tabletop newcomers and veterans alike to leap quickly into the action movie universe. The core book covers Character Creation, Vehicle Rules, Abilities, Items & Equipment, an Adventure Synopsis, and more! Justice Velocity is a game of heists, hijinks, espionage, and fast cars. The game’s mechanics encourage players to push situations into overdrive with High Octane Mode and spend Juice Points on triggering wild abilities.

Forsooth!
Forsooth! is an award-winning Shakespeare RPG that challenges three-to-six players to improvise one of the bard’s greatest lost works. There’s no need for a game master, no need to prepare anything in advance, and the rules take just minutes to learn. If you love theatre, or literature, or being a complete ham for the amusement of your friends, this game is for you. From cast generation to curtain call, a game lasts around two or three hours, and a handy Cliff Notes edition allows for even faster game play — right around 90 comedy-or-drama-packed minutes. Great for a casual night of gaming, or building epic cycles of drama with your role-playing group, Forsooth! is easy to pick up, but loaded with challenges for even the most serious RPG aficionado. Featuring a forward from CNY Shakespeare artistic director Terence LaCasse.

Thursday
Thursday is a tabletop role playing game for 2-4 players of time loops, drama, and learning from your mistakes inspired by Russian Doll. It is a game about finding out what is important in life as you fall off the fire escape for the fifth time. It’s about finally making that deep connection, but knowing it’ll all be lost with the next reset. Discover your character’s hidden backstory and unmet desires, and help them reach the personal epiphany they need to escape the fatal time loop and move on.

Rebel Scum
REBEL SCUM is a cinematic roleplaying game that tries to tackle the problems of today, by pretending to punch Space Nazis right in the face. An explicitly anti-fascist space opera RPG – a war in the stars between the forces of good and evil, a political allegory about right now told in the style of classic action figures. Powered by polymorph, REBEL SCUM is as fast and easy to play as picking up some dudes and smashing them together making pew-pew-pew noises. Except now, you know what the fight is about.

Heavy Metal Thunder Mouse RPG
Heavy Metal Thunder Mouse is the tabletop roleplaying game of mice and their motorcycle clubs! Your stories are set in Thunder City, USA. For small creatures existing in a place which doesn’t belong to them, these stories will be filled with the drama of their lives, and the trouble, both inside and outside, of a biker gang. Will your gang be Robin Hood-like doers of good, springing cheese from unwatched refrigerators and delivering it to needy widows, or will you be thugs and thieves exploiting the weak? Your mouse, your bike, and your gang all belong to you and the stories you tell at your table. Throw on your cut, have a nibble of cheese, and fire up the engines.

Heart: The City Beneath RPG
An ENnie award winning game from the designers of Spire, Heart: The City Beneath is a complete tabletop roleplaying game about delving into a nightmare undercity that will give you everything you’ve ever dreamed of – or kill you in the process. It is a dungeon-crawling, story-forward tabletop RPG from the designers of Spire that focuses on what characters have to lose in pursuit of their dreams in the chaotic darkness beneath the world.

Well-supported with expansions, including Heart Quickstart, Sanctum (A sourcebook for building a base of operations), Burned and Broken (The Ministry expansion), Doors to Elsewhere (A campaign sourcebook), and Vermissian Black Ops (sourcebook for the Dark Elf Revolutionary Front).

Baby Bestiary Volumes 1-2
In a world of myth and magic, great heroes vanquish terrible monsters and earn a place in legend. But what about the babies left behind? These books are the first exploration of a new kind of adventure, the raising of young monsters to become loyal companions, beloved friends or fearsome guardians. If you are looking for something novel to spice up a fantasy roleplaying campaign, or simply want to see a different side to the creatures of fantasy art, the Baby Bestiarys have all the monstrous cuteness you could want. Add some ‘awww’ to your coffee table ornaments and ‘squee’ to your players’ squelching through dank dungeons.

Volume 1 includes Basilisk, Blink Dog, Bulette, Centaur, Cerberus, Chimera, Cockatrice, Couatl, Dragon, Elementals, Eyelings, Gelatinous Cubelet, Gnolls, Griffins, Hippocampus, Kirin, Kitsune, Kobold, Leviathan, Manticore, Mimic, Minotaur, Nightmare, Owlbear, Phase Kitten, Phoenix, Rakshasa, Rust Monster, Sphinx, Titan, Treant and Wyvern. Volume 2 includes Aboleth, Baku, Beithir, Bugbear, Djinayni, Dragon Turtle, Ember Demon, Godspawn, Enfield, Gargoyle, Harpy, Hippogriff, Hound Archon, Hydra, Kraken, Lighting Lizard, Lizardfolk, Medusa, Myconid, Naga, Ogre Magi, Orc, Otyugh, Pegasus, Peryton, Pseudodragon, Purple Worm, Remorhaz, Satyr, Sealion, Shambling Tuffet, Shrieker, Simurgh, Tarasque (the french one), Tatzelwurm, Troglodyte, Troll, Umbral Erebect, Unicorn, Wolpertinger, Xorn.

Raccoon Sky Pirates RPG
You and your friends play raccoons: chittering, baggy-pants, ring-tailed burglars. One day in the junkyard, after inventing an improbable antigravity device, you hatch a scheme to build a ship out of trash and fly to the suburbs in search of better trash. There, you’ll find a beautiful, free-standing house with a four-car garage and cable internet. While trying not to wake up the residents or the dog, loot the house of all its valuables, like Roombas, PlayStations and other trash. Finally, loaded down, escape back to the junkyard while fending off the Neighborhood Watch. Flying a ship takes coordination and discipline. Unfortunately, you’re a bunch of raccoons.

Parsely RPG
Relive the glory days of floppy disks, dot-matrix printers and 128K RAM with this collection of party games inspired by the text-adventures of the 1980s. As the parser, you’ll take on the role of a computer game with a limited vocabulary. One by one, the players will give you commands like GO NORTH, LIGHT LAMP or GET SWORD, which you’ll follow to the best of your ability. There’s no limit to the number of people that can play and no limit to the fun you’ll have. So what are you waiting for? It’s time to unplug from your computer and plug into Parsely!

Jiangshi Blood in the Banquet Hall RPG
This is a collaborative, storytelling RPG about a Chinese family making their living by running a restaurant in one of America’s Chinatowns, circa 1920. Despite societal backlash and anti-Chinese laws, they have turned a profit and their quality of life has recently improved. Night, however, brings a new terror. Players take on the roles of members of the Chinese family (mostly from Guangdong province), spanning three generations, who face threats of jiangshi (hopping vampires) at night and racism by day. It has players balancing the responsibility of maintaining their family business with protecting themselves and their community from the dreaded Jiangshi.

Babes in the Wood RPG
Inspired by stuff like Over the Garden Wall, Wizard of Oz, Adventure Time, and more kid-friendly media that rings more surreal & eerie when viewed through adult eyes, fill your group with Big Kids, Lil Kids, Critters, Toys, and Woodschildren and be on your way, facing your fears and chasing your dreams through the mysterious Wood.