Madness Reigns!A Classic Freeport Adventure for Shadow of the Demon Lord!The Freeport Trilogy concludes with this thrilling adventure set in the grand City of Adventure. The unveiling of Milton’s Folly draws near, and the player characters must uncover its sinister secrets before time runs out. This time they face more than back alley toughs and mindless undead, though. Sea Lord Drac has his eyes on the PCs and they may not survive his malefic attentions. Although this adventure completes the story that began in Death in Freeport, you can run this adventure as a standalone scenario, using it to introduce Freeport to master characters.

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Forbidden Rules provides a comprehensive set of variant and optional rules for use with Shadow of the Demon Lord, letting you reshape the game in a variety of different ways. Whether you’re looking for a points-based casting system or basic rules to kick off games beyond level 10, this supplement has it. Inside this book, you’ll find: Dice rules that range from cooperative tasks to consistent damage, bell curve rolls, and variants in which players make all the rolls. More marks of darkness and rules for using fortune points. Damage reducing armor rules Wounds to replace damage Modified dying and death rules Variant healing methods Social combat rules Variant combat options, such as initiative or guidelines for running abstract combats New ways to use actions in combat plus details on how to handle chases Optional rules for customizing ancestries A skill variant to replace professions A new adept novice path A system of power points to replace castings! Plus much, much more!Using the options in this book helps you tailor your Shadow of the Demon Lord game experience in a variety of new and interesting ways, but even if you don’t alter the underlying system, certain options are perfect expansions for the main game. Do you have the courage to read these Forbidden Pages?

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A Classic Freeport Adventure for Shadow of the Demon Lord!In the beginning, there was Death in Freeport, the award-winning adventure that revealed the City of Adventure to thousands of tabletop gamers. Originally designed for Dungeons & Dragons, this adventure has been updated and adapted for use with the Shadow of the Demon Lord tabletop roleplaying game. This adaptation brings Freeport to the world of Urth and shows you how the exciting tales and thrilling adventures set in this evocative city began. Designed for novice characters, the characters find themselves stranded in Freeport, the great trading city on the Pirate Isles, and recruited to perform a simple job for a decent reward. However, the deeper they dig into the mystery, the stranger the tale becomes until uncover a terrible conspiracy and secrets worth dying for.Death in Freeport is the first part of the epic Freeport Trilogy. To use this adventure, you need a copy of Shadow of the Demon Lord. While not expressly necessary, having the Shadow of the Demon Lord Freeport Companion, the Demon Lord’s Companion, and The Pirate’s Guide to Freeport from Green Ronin Publishing will certainly enhance your experience.

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Explore the world of Rifts® using the Savage Worlds system! Garnet Town Gambit Adventure A small town is caught in the middle between different groups wanting to exploit the region. Heroes of the Tomorrow Legion arrive just in time to make a difference in this settlement’s future. But first, the Legionnaires have to deal with various threats that could wipe this town off the map! GM Screen The hardcover landscape GM Screen brings all the tables and charts for easy reference, including Combat Options, Reaction Table, and Ley Line Characteristics! These two items are sold together and require the Savage Worlds core rules, Rifts®: The Tomorrow Legion Player’s Guide, and Rifts®: Game Master’s Handbook to play.

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From publisher blurb:“You want to go where?!”Players are an unpredictable lot. You spend hours planning the perfect adventures, then they ignore your carefully staged clues to head off in a direction you had not prepared. Savage Lairs is here to help.This book presents a range of sixty encounters all tailored to fit within a typical fantasy forest. Each page presents a new scene that offers a way to occupy the players while you try to figure out how to adapt your masterwork to their unexpected actions. Some could lead to a side quest or an unrelated adventure, but this is not necessary. These encounters help you to occupy the heroes for a bit, while you hurriedly readjust your main focus.Savage Lairs Fantasy Forests is for use with any fantasy setting.

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From publisher blurb:IN A WORLD FULL OF MONSTERS AND MADNESS, IT'S GOOD TO KNOW WHAT'S COMING.One day, your heroes may face a heavily mechanized patrol of Coalition Soldiers. The next, they're trading lasers and mystic bolts with a horde of cybernetic-loving demons called Brodkil. Next week, a gargantuan tentacled horror from a Rift threatens every living thing in the region, and it's up to the Tomorrow Legion to stop it...somehow.Rifts®: Savage Foes of North America contains stats and descriptions for all of the major monsters and enemies a group of heroes might face as they serve in the Tomorrow Legion: the Coalition States, the Federation of Magic, the Black Market, the 1st Apocalyptic Cavalry, the bandits of the Pecos Empire, and much, much more. Important key figures, such as Emperor Prosek, Lord Alistair Dunscon, and Sabre Lasar are included. For those times when a Rift opens and you want randomly figure out what comes out of it, there's an extensive Creatures from the Rifts Generator to help you.

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From publisher blurb:WELL, THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!Running Savage Rifts® is unlike any game you've ever run before: everything is bigger, faster, and over-the-top, with more adventure and threats thanks to the gaping holes in space-time that define the setting. The heroes of the setting are powered up and equipped with the kind of gear you need to fight inter-dimensional wars.WE'VE GOT YOUR BACKThe Rifts® Game Master's Handbook is packed cover-to-cover with everything you need to master a setting with decades of history and a Megaverse® of possibilities. A thorough yet concise overview of the world, with a focus on the North American continent where the Tomorrow Legion is based, adds to information about all the factions and other major known threats the heroes are likely to encounter. All you need to know about the ley lines, the Rifts®, how they work, and how to on-the-fly generate them at need is included. You also get a powerful Adventure Generator tailored to the unique qualities of Rifts® North America and the foes that plague the Tomorrow Legion, powerful and useful advice on running a Savage Rifts® campaign; and much, much more!

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From publisher blurb:WELL, THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!Running Savage Rifts® is unlike any game you've ever run before: everything is bigger, faster, and over-the-top, with more adventure and threats thanks to the gaping holes in space-time that define the setting. The heroes of the setting are powered up and equipped with the kind of gear you need to fight inter-dimensional wars.WE'VE GOT YOUR BACKThe Rifts® Game Master's Handbook is packed cover-to-cover with everything you need to master a setting with decades of history and a Megaverse® of possibilities. A thorough yet concise overview of the world, with a focus on the North American continent where the Tomorrow Legion is based, adds to information about all the factions and other major known threats the heroes are likely to encounter. All you need to know about the ley lines, the Rifts®, how they work, and how to on-the-fly generate them at need is included. You also get a powerful Adventure Generator tailored to the unique qualities of Rifts® North America and the foes that plague the Tomorrow Legion, powerful and useful advice on running a Savage Rifts® campaign; and much, much more!

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From the back of the book:With the advent of the plastic hull, people of all species took to the Acid Sea to explore, seeking new shores and facing dangers unknown. Life on the sea is different than life in the relative safety of the kingdoms and monarchies. Sailors must face the dangers of hunger, starvation, or becoming hopelessly lost and adrift while the plastic hulls of their boats slowly melt into uselessness. Large portions of the sea remain unexplored and uncharted, denying pirates the assurance of a safe journey home. If treasure is found, there’s always a hostile crew or two out there on the waves, lying in wait to raid returning ships. And twisted corpses of dead sea life animated by Unseen forces haunt the waves. It takes an extra level of grit to brave the Acid Sea. Do you have what it takes?Pirates of Pugmire is a chronicle sourcebook for both Pugmire and Monarchies of Mau. It’s usable with either game, or as part of a joint experience.

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From publisher blurb:Welcome to Alpha Complex! Welcome to the ranks of the Troubleshooters! Welcome to Paranoia!As a Troubleshooter, you are a member of Alpha Complex’s most expendable elite force. Tasked with finding trouble and shooting it, you will be hunting mutants, terrorists, traitors, [CLASSIFIED], secret societies, renegade bots, and DAIVs, which are [REDACTED]. You’ll save Alpha Complex from its greatest threat, unless you accidentally become Alpha Complex’s greatest threat.Completely rebuilt from the ground up, Paranoia is the classic RPG of a darkly humorous future, rebooted for a humorously dark present. All-new mechanics include a simple yet brilliant character-generation system, a bluffing-based card-driven combat system that encourages creativity, clever moves and lying, a special Computer Dice which means even the simplest interaction can become hilariously fatal, in-game XP point rewards, and more advice to GMs than you can shake a stick at. Three single-session adventures introduce you painlessly to the new mechanics and background, and are designed to be played straight out of the box.Everything is the same but everything is different.You look worried, citizen. Relax! It’s still Paranoia. The year is still 214. You still have six clones and a laser pistol. The Computer is still your friend.Contains:The Player's HandbookThe Gamesmaster's HandbookThe Missions Book110 Playing CardsCharacter Cards

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Publisher blurbSTRONG, FIERCE GLAIVES. REALITY-BENDING NANOS. JACKS OF ALL TRADES.The characters of the Numenera™ RPG are varied and intriguing — and there are so many options! Even after you choose to be a glaive, will you be a Charming glaive who Leads, a Learned glaive who Wields Two Weapons at Once, or a Graceful glaive who Rides the Lightning?Create characters, explore the setting, and learn the basic rules in this inexpensive player’s alternative to the Numenera corebook. It’s perfect for getting a taste of the game, having an extra rules and setting reference on hand at the gaming table, or for game masters to hand to new players. The Player’s Guide is a fantastic, ready resource for anyone playing Numenera, and a wonderful introduction and teaching tool for the game.The Numenera Player’s Guide packs a lot into a 64-page package: An overview of the exciting Ninth World setting The basic rules to play Numenera Everything needed to create characters in a step-by-step process A variety of options that allow players to create the characters they desireFrom the introductionThe Player’s Guide offers a brief overview of the setting and the rules of the game, and it provides all the information you need to create a character so you can play Numenera, explore the Ninth World, and discover its wonders and dangers for yourself.

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From publisher blurb:The villainous resistance of New York City was one of the last to hold out against the alien invasion. The evil v’sori responded by placing the island of Manhattan beneath an unbreakable energy field.Trapped within, the city’s toughest and most cunning super villains must battle it out for food, weapons, resource, and dominance.But they are not alone. A strange creature swarms in the sewers and subways. Powerful gangs rise and raid their rivals. The Black Hand controls a vast black market of scavenged goods. And rumors of a way out are–so far–nothing more than street gossip.Only the strong will survive, and only the most calculating will eventually……BREAK OUT!Necessary Evil: Breakout is a prequel to Pinnacle’s smash hit Necessary Evil setting. It features Street Level super villains trapped within the alien cordon of Manhattan attempting to form gangs, dominate their rivals, and eventually break out of the v’sori prison. Break Out details the New York City Prison setting, its villains and heroes, and features a full-length Plot Point Campaign for the most nefarious of souls.

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