New Games for December 15 – December 25, 2011

BOARD & CARD GAMES

COC MOM Forbidden Alchemy Exp
Inside abandoned hospitals, secret laboratories, and forgotten cellars, scientists are conducting depraved experiments that will drag humanity to the brink of the abyss. Only a small group of investigators can discover the truth and put an end to these mad plots before itÕs too late! The first boxed expansion for Mansions of Madness, Forbidden Alchemy adds even more mystery and horror with three brand-new tales of scientific horrors. Enhance your game with new investigators, new Trauma, Mythos, and Combat cards, additional double-sided room tiles, new monsters with matching plastic figures, items, clues, locks, and obstacles.

Evo
The island of Krah is home to nomadic tribes and strange creatures long extinct elsewhere in the world. With a wildly unstable climate, the tribes survive as best they can by setting up camps in more or less hospitable areas. Thankfully, scientists were working around the clock to save the flocks of creatures. The inhabitants of Krah knew that the genetically modified creatures would survive. But for how long? Created by Philippe Keyaerts (Small World), Evo is a game of conquest in a hostile environment. To win, you will have to acquire genes that allow your dinosaurs to evolve (survive enemy attacks, face various climates or even lay more eggs). But, be careful! Don’t spend too many mutation points in the auctions, because the winner of the game will be the player with the most of them at the end!

Eaten by Zombies
Eaten By Zombies! takes you into a dark world of eventual death. Every turn you must strive to survive, venturing out from your safehouse to scavenge for Swag. But not so fast, the undead have other plans for your brains! Work cooperatively, or against the other survivors to be the last one standing… just don’t get eaten by zombies!

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

SW Totems of the Dead Player’s Guide
Explore the cliff-side ruins of the ancient Stone Shapers and seek treasures in the abandoned monuments of the Mound Raisers. Face-off against vile sorcerers, simian sasquatch, the impervious Uktena serpent, and ravenous wendigo or beat back elder horrors reawakened from ages long past. Explore the striking, original world of Totems of the Dead with this Player’s Guide packed with new cultures, weapons and equipment, edges, arcane backgrounds, and a new magic system.

SW Totems of the Dead GM’s Guide
Hail, wise one! Are you ready to master a vibrant new world of swords and sorcery drawn from a tapestry of ancient legend and feverish nightmare? Totems of the Dead is an innovative sword & sorcery setting inspired by Native American stories and mythologies combined with the Norse Vinland Saga. The Untamed Lands are your canvas for painting unlimited tales of high adventure, glory, and woe. With this tome you will discover what epic tales you may temper in the fires of imagination!

VR Invite Only
Why should it be any different when many vampires get together? It isn’t. In fact, it’s exponentially worse. This chronicle book for Vampire: The Requiem includes a handful of fully fleshed social hotspots you can plug into or adapt your chronicle, plus new Merits, Devotions, and other character items built around Kindred social gatherings.

Rogue Trader Hostile Acquisitions HC
Rogue Traders are accustomed to earning their livings in the grey areas of the law, but a few brave (or foolhardy) captains take it a step further! Within this detailed resource exploring the world of crime in Rogue Trader, players and GMs will find all they need to run a campaign on the far side of Imperial Law, including a guide to crime for Explorers with a flexible sense of morality and a catalog of valuable treasures across the Koronus Expanse waiting to be liberated. From new characters and equipment to creating nemeses and running games based on criminal enterprise, Hostile Acquisitions is an invaluable resource for those Rogue Traders who are more rogue than trader.

Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 3 HC
Unleash a world of monsters! From grave knights and savage cyclopes, kappa, and colossal kaiju, to clockwork killers, mysterious sphinxes, and imperial dragons, Bestiary 3 presents over 300 new creatures for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. In addition, new rules for customizing and advancing monsters and an expanded glossary of creature abilities ensure that you’ll be prepared to challenge your players wherever adventure takes them.

GM Face Cards Jade Regent
On the other side of the world, in the courts of the Jade Regent, the right equipment can mean the difference between life and death, honor and shame. From ninja weapons like shuriken and kusarigama to eastern armors, scrolls, and more, this 54-card deck includes full-color illustrations you can use to give life and visual flair to the items and treasure of the eastern-themed Jade Regent Adventure Path.

GM Map Pack Palace
GameMastery Map Pack: Palace contains 18 full-color, 5 x 8-inch map tiles, stunningly crafted by cartographer Jason Engle, that combine to form a variety of palatial locales fit for both princes and profligates! Locations include: a Throne Room, a Reception Chamber, a Treasury, and Customizable Halls.

PF Camp Set Dragon Empires Gazetteer
The mysteries and wonders of the Dragon Empires are finally revealed! The continent of Tian Xia stretches from the polar ice in the north to well south of the equator – a realm where honorable samurai, devious ninja, martial artistry, strange spirits, and imperial dragons rule. This broad overview of Tian Xia presents details on more than two dozen regions inspired by the mythology of Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, and other Asian touchstones, as well as brand-new realms like the hobgoblin nation of Kaoling, the tengu homeland of Kwanlai, the monster-infested Valashmai Jungle, and the underwater locathah enclave of Xidao. The Dragon Empires Gazetteer also presents five new player character races – the birdlike tengus, reptilian nagaji, shapechanging foxlike kitsune, the reincarnated spiritualists known as samsarans, and the shadowy masters of trickery called the wayang.

PF Camp Set Myth Monsters Revisited
This Pathfinder sourcebook takes a detailed look at ten of the most well-known and well-feared monsters from mythology. Within these pages you’ll find entries on creatures from the old world to the new, including the chimera, couatl, griffon, harpy, hydra, kraken, medusa, phoenix, sphinx, and wendigo, complete with details about their history, ecology, lairs, variants, and realworld roots.