When I get games or game books together; either via a con, or an auction, 2nd hand sale, or whatever I tend to think of them as "linked" products whether they are or not. This is doubly true when I get a bunch books at the same time in the mail. Like I did over the last couple of days.
Here is what the UPS man left on my door in three different boxes.
That is
+Mark Taormino's latest Maximum Mayhem Dungeon #4 Vault of the Dwarven King, fresh from the Kickstarter. The print proof of my own
The Green Witch, which you can now buy in print AND while it is on sale at RPGNow's Christmas in July. With
+Gavin Norman's print copy of
Theorems & Thaumaturgy Revised Edition. His PDF is also on sale.
Let's jump in!
First up is the fourth installment of Mark Taormino's Maximum Mayhem Dungeon series. This time for characters level 4 to 7 it involves investigating a Dwarven mine. But you know that is not all.
The mine cars and tracks look more like roller coasters and there are monsters breeding down in the mines. I would say they are unimaginable, but in truth, they are EXACTLY the sort thing we probably imagined at age 13-14 when making our own dungeons. Mark just has better production values. Like the others in this series, this is pure nostalgia fueled gonzo fun. Crazy mines, insane monsters, goblins with chain saws. Yup. This module has it all, and what it doesn't one of the others in the series does.
OR order them this way to have The Maximum Mayhem Campaign
TM for levels 1 to 14!
Makes me want to pull out my Basic and Expert books and do that!
If so then you can bet that I will be including one of Gavin Norman's Vivimancers in the mix.
Theorems & Thaumaturgy Revised Edition has been out for about 7 months and it looks like it is doing well. That's great because this is completely kick ass little book.
Inside we have three new classes, The Elementalist (specialist in the volatile energies of nature), The Necromancer (master of death and restless spirits), and The Vivimancer (expert of cloning, vat-growth, and bio-sorcery). All for you Labyrinth Lord or Basic-era game.
If you have the older T&T then Gavin has put up
a blog post to explain the differences.
And of course, I will have to include a Witch in the mix.
The Green Witch for Swords & Wizardry follows up my Warlock class. These are witches that protect the wood. Are they protecting it from humankind, or are they protecting humankind from it? Maybe both.
Like my other witch books, this presents a new witch Tradition which includes new Occult Powers and Spells. It also has some new associated classes, the Green Knight (a paladin for witches) and the Huntsman (a pagan-inspired Ranger).
All my recent witch books are for Swords & Wizardry and written not only to be compatible, but also to have very little in the way of overlap. Obviously, the Experience tables are the same (they are all witches) and some spells are shared by all witches (
Bestow Curse is a good example). I try to make each one worth your while and moeny to buy.
And right now it is on sale. In fact nearly everything for the witch is on sale now.
