Bards and Sages RPG Resource Newest Items http://bardsandsages.rpgnow.com/index.php?src=rss Dedicated to the art of Role Playing and the craft of creative writing. en-us <![CDATA[Elder Evils]]> Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Elder Evils provides DMs with truly wicked threats to challenge high-level heroes. Each "elder evil" described in this nightmarish tome comes with a detailed description, stat blocks for the elder evil and its minions, tips for how to incorporate the elder evil into any D&D campaign, adventure seeds, and maps of the elder evil's lair (complete with encounters and room descriptions). The book also provides guidelines to help DMs create their own unique elder evils as worthy campaign villains and endgame encounters.]]> 29.9500 <![CDATA[City of Stormreach]]> Publisher: Wizards of the Coast

City of Stormreach explores the most important frontier city of Xen’drik, where opportunity and peril walk hand-in-hand. The book builds on the plots and characters featured in Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, the exciting MMORPG produced by Atari and Turbine, and introduces new adversaries and new locations to explore.

This book describes the shadowy ruins, sinister organizations, and treasure-laden dungeons that make Stormreach such an appealing destination for player characters. In addition to providing Dungeon Masters with a richly detailed city for their Xen’drik based campaigns, this supplement presents information on the movers and shakers of Stormreach, ready-to-use adversaries, adventure hooks, and location maps.

]]> 29.9500 <![CDATA[Libram Mythos: Wizard Powers (Preview)]]> Publisher: Dungeon Dwellers' Guild Games

The Libram Mythos series from Dungeon Dwellers’ Guild Games is designed exclusively for compatibility with DUNGEONS & DRAGONS 4th Edition rules in accordance with the Game System License agreement.

This product is released prior to October 1st, 2008, under the provision for marketing / promotional and noncommercial (free) products as found in Section 5.4 of the Game System License. The product you are viewing is a pre-release, preview version of a full commercial product scheduled for release at midnight on October 1st, 2008. The full commercial product will feature 50 new arcane powers and two new full-build templates for the wizard class, taking the character from 1st to 30th level.This and other products from Dungeon Dwellers’ Guild Games will be available exclusively through the RPGNow and DriveThruRPG websites.

The preview contains 6 new arcane powers for the wizard class, providing much needed flexibility and versatility as you build your characters for the new edition.

]]> 0.0000 <![CDATA[The Worst of British]]> Publisher: Simon Burley Productions

Help for the struggling Squadron UK Referee.

10 fully detailed new villains from the game's creator. Especially created to challenge, threaten and flummox their players - ranging from streets level to nearly unbeatable.

 And by FULLY DETAILED we're talking about:

  • fully rationalised abilities and powers
  • detailed backgrounds
  • tactics
  • team-tactics
  • refinements and developments 
  • cronies and followers
  • personality, quotes and quips

Throw in a campaign outline which utilises all the characters, a sheet of figures for the characters, printer friendly and screen friendly versions and you've got an unbeatable package.

These guys truly are the Worst of British!

]]> 4.9900 <![CDATA[Points of Light]]> Publisher: Goodman Games

Four Realms, Four Evils.

War horns wail and perilous realms cry out for heroes! Four settings, each detailed and mapped, ideal for novices launching their first campaign, or veteran GMs looking to challenge their players with terrible foes and foreign lands...

  • Wildland:The fall of the Bright Empire left warring factions in its wake. As savage barbarians and wicked humanoids roam the land, the last bastions of civilization cower behind their crumbling city walls. A dark age has come, and none may live to tell the tale.
  • Southland: On the frontiers of the Great Kingdom, the nations of men, elves and dwarves join together against the wicked elves of Nighportal Keep and the Orcs of the Bloody Fist. A realm is yours for the taking, if you can carve it from the wilderness.
  • Borderland: Two factions clash over war-torn fields, battling for dominance in a civil war that that has torn a once-mighty empire in two. When brother strives against brother, and blood runs in the streets, who will emerge to unify the broken land—and at what cost, peace?
  • The Swamps of Acheron: In the Outer Planes, amid fetid swamplands and ice-choked mountains, the fell god Sarrath holds court. In a realm where gods stalk the earth, will you dare to take a stand, or will you succumb to evil's siren song and take up the Serpent Banner?

The tide of evil must be turned back, and heroes are few. Do your characters have the courage to rise against the coming darkness?

Rules System: Systems-neutral
48 pages

]]> 7.9900 <![CDATA[Cordon]]> Publisher: Finger and Toe Models
Slagtown: Cordon is Finger and Toes’ 28mm version of the Omni-Planets Industries’ electronic active security boundary system, “The fence that bites back.” Cordon can secure your civilian or military high value targets. Cordon’s basic module is an electronic field projected between two uprights. The field induces extreme pain at a range of six meters out from its face, while having no effect to the rear. The uprights provide additional protection in the form of thirty-six projectile launchers generally armed with fragmentation warheads, although most local planetary government specifically prohibit such armament in civil areas.

Cordon comes with four basic fence module textures, an operating gate, barricades and dragon’s teeth to add depth to your defense. Further security is provided by swarming patrolbots, a gun tower, and observation tower. The fence modules, including the gate, are designed around a four inch-long, three inch-high profile.

Finger and Toe’s motto, “Because they don’t cost you an arm and a leg,” explains the company’s philosophy: affordable scenery and model sets for wargamers. Visit the website [www.fingerandtoe.com ], look around, join the forum, have fun. If you like what you see, try our other products at RPGNOW.]]> 5.0000 <![CDATA[Daring Tales of Adventure #04 - The Talons of Lo-Peng]]> Publisher: Triple Ace Games

In 1935 the heroes uncovered part of an ancient Chinese artefact in the mountains of Tibet, an artefact sought by a Chinese mystic by the name of Lo-Peng.

A year later in someone has stolen the relic from Boston Museum. A strange Chinese pictogram left at the crime scene leads the adventurers on rollercoaster ride from Boston to Afghanistan, onto Venice, and finally to China and the tomb of the first Emperor.

Martial artists, ancient Chinese warriors with supernatural powers, deadly traps, and fierce Afghan tribesmen stand between the heroes and victory. Can the heroes escape the Talons of Lo-Peng?

Please note that some of the features of this ebook require Adobe javascript.

]]> 6.9900 <![CDATA[d20 Advanced Adventure Roleplaying Game]]> Publisher: Jackelope Crossing Games
Ever wanted to be the hero?

In books, movies, television, video games, and just about every form of storytelling today, heroes and villains clash. Some fight with guns, others with martial arts, and still others swith swords. They might wield fantastic powers or magic or just good old-fashioned smarts, battling on ships in deep space, or in the dungeons beneath an ancient castle, or even on the mean streets of a gritty urban jungle. Whatever the genre of the adventure you want, the d20 Advanced Adventure Roleplaying Game can help you create it.

Within this book is a toolbox to design just about any character (hero or villain) you can imagine, and any world you desire. Buy exactly the abilities that your character should have with an incredibly flexible system for character creation, and then keep the action coming with a robust and fast system for both combat and non-combat challenges. Create the characters, design the world they inhabit, live their adventures, and tell their stories.

Are you ready to take the next step in adventure roleplaying?]]> 5.9500 <![CDATA[Ken Hite's Tarot of Cthulhu: Major Arcana]]> Publisher: Atomic Overmind Press
Published by Ronin Arts, sold under permission by Atomic Overmind Press

"They had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought Their images with Them."
-- H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

Twenty-two of Their images, to be precise. For the first time ever in Full Edwardian Colour, the Major Arcana of the Cthulhu Mythos unfold beneath your avid gaze. This is the Tarot of Cthulhu: Major Arcana!
  • DISCOVER the symbolism cunningly hidden in the bizarre drawings!
  • REVEAL the Awesome Lies behind this deck's creation!
  • SHUDDER at the cosmic hints within the Minor Arcana, described here for the first time!
  • BLAST your players' Sanity to shreds!
  • FORETELL THE FUTURE of your own horror games!
Kenneth Hite, having broadcast the Suppressed Transmissions, dreamed the Nightmares of Mine, and pieced together the Dubious Shards of the Cthulhu Mythos, now lays bare the secrets of the timeless Tarot of Cthulhu! With fully licensed rules for Call of Cthulhu, and with story-building methods and mechanics suitable for any game of Cthulhoid horror, great and terrifying gaming is only as far away as the turn of a card.]]> 9.9500 <![CDATA[Broadsword Adventures: Savage Tales of Fantasy]]> Publisher: Rattrap Productions LLC
Imagine yourself as a mighty-thewed barbarian, raised in the hill country of Njorden or a loyal Captain of the Lion Guard of Ibyssia, or even a powerful sorcerer in the service of Mök. Broadsword Adventures transports you to the land of Tauren where ancient secrets lie buried in lost cities, powerful necromancers seek to enslave the kingdoms of men, and around every turn there is a chance become a hero of legend or suffer ignoble defeat.

Broadsword Adventures contains all the rules necessary to play the game as well as more than two dozen archetypes to build characters, a section on designing your own scenarios, a campaign system so your characters can advance as they adventure, and five complete scenarios so that you can start playing right away.

The archetypes presented are detailed enough to make them different from one another, but generic enough that you can use these rules to fit any world you want to game in; from your own custom-designed lands to an already established setting.

Whether you want to play this as a miniatures game, a board game, or a light roleplaying game, the mechanics are easy enough and flexible enough to suit your needs.

So sharpen your blade and don your armor as you prepare for Broadsword Adventures!

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