In 1967, one woman inexplicably gains inconceivable power. Trying to use that power for the good of her country, she unwittingly passes it on to a handful of people. They pass it along to others in turn. Soon thousands of men and women around the world have amazing powers. Some of them use their powers for their own personal gain or gratification. Others try to help those around them. Some change the very course of world events. Progenitor is a Wild Talents roleplaying game setting that explores the shape of the world as we knew it in the last part of the 20th century-and the changes that are wrought by metahumans year by year. It tracks the alternate history of the world in rich detail from the moment the Progenitor, Amanda Sykes, gains her incredible powers, to the year when a single low-powered metahuman nearly destroys the Earth, to Amanda Sykes' strange departure from the global scene. The world is yours to build and explore using the rules in this book. Progenitor includes: Dozens of fascinating characters described in depth, plus the world-spanning movements and new nations that they establish. Social Metrics: rules and guidelines for shaping the course of history as you play and exploring how the world reacts to the players' actions. A "one roll" chart generates major developments year by year that can be built into new scenarios and entire campaigns. Guidelines for gadgeteers' effects on society. Rules for "syntergenics," memes crafted by activists with superhuman intelligence to affect human behavior with an image and to change the world with an idea. There is endless room for player characters to shape history for good or for ill-or to simply try to protect the things that matter to them most as the pressures around them build and build. . . .

Wild Talents Progenitor*OP

Science Fiction & Fantasy

ARC Dream Publishing

Gaming

Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd.

Monsters are real.You know because you have one. He's more fun and way tougher than all the other kids' monsters. Try not to let him eat your friends. "Monsters and Other Childish Things" is a distressingly fun and funny roleplaying game about kids and the relationship-devouring horrors from beyond time and space who love them. Players take the roles of kids and the vicious monsters who are their best friends in all the world -- and the source of all kinds of otherworldly trouble. "Monsters and Other Childish Things" is perfect for new gamers young and old, and for all gamers who like a little humor with their horror and a few scares with their laughs. Players take the roles of ordinary kids whose best friends are slavering monstrosities from beyond time and space -- and that's already enough to get them in all kinds of trouble with parents, school principals, friends, the Monster Investigation Bureau, mad science teachers, wannabe wizards, you name it. Can you make it through a school day without having to explain why your monster ate the substitute teacher? We'll soon find out.

Monsters and Other Childish Things: The Completely Monstrous Edition(ARC3000)

Arc Dream Publishing

Welcome to Spring Crescent Middle School. It s an overachieving, high-scoring institution, and all the grownups say you re lucky to be there. Sure you are. You re the new kid. With a troublesome monster for a best friend. And some of those teachers sure have been giving you funny looks. Don t you feel lucky? Curriculum of Conspiracy is a complete game setting and adventure for the roleplaying game Monsters and Other Childish Things. Curriculum of Conspiracy features dozens of enemies and potential allies, all of them alternately entertaining and creepy, and plenty of opportunities for monstrous action and suspense. There s the bell -- time for home room. Have a nice first day at school.

Monsters Curriculum of Conspiracy*OP

A demon gave you superpowers and it demands EEEEVIL! In Better Angels, you play a supervillain trying to control the demon that gives you amazing powers and you play the demon for the player next to you, pushing that player s supervillain to greater and greater acts of supervillainy. Do too much evil and the demon might take control. Too little, and well, it s a demon. It will find ways to punish you. Better Angels focuses directly on characters moral stances. Is your villain Insightful or Devious? Cunning or Patient? Is your Courage as great as your Cruelty? Those characteristics drive your superpowers. They shape your relationship with your demon. And they are shaped by it in every scene. Prepare yourself. There are diabolical inventions to create. Enemies and rivals to thwart. AN ENTIRE WORLD TO CONQUER! All it will cost is your soul.

Better Angels*OP

WELCOME TO THE APOCALYPSE. Born of the U.S. government s 1928 raid on the degenerate coastal town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, the covert agency known as Delta Green spent four decades opposing the forces of darkness with honor, but without glory. Stripped of sanction after a disastrous 1969 operation in Cambodia, Delta Green s leaders made a secret pact: to continue their work without authority, without support, and without fear. Delta Green agents slip through the system, manipulating the federal bureaucracy while pushing the darkness back for another day but often at a shattering personal cost. In Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game, you are one of those agent! The AGENT'S HANDBOOK is a players-only core rulebook of DELTA GREEN: THE ROLE-PLAYING GAME. This new incarnation of the award-winning DELTA GREEN game line includes: Rules for creating agents, with dozens of professions from throughout the U.S. government and the civilian world. Rules for tense, fluid investigations. Players who use their agents' skills in clever ways have the best chance to succeed and survive. Nerve-wracking rules for combat, where random disasters can undo the most careful planning and the human psyche is as vulnerable as the body. Mind-melting Sanity rules, which see agents gradually and inevitably deteriorate from too much exposure to trauma and sometimes snap in an instant from overwhelming terror. Rules for "home" scenes where players can see what their agents are fighting for Intuitive rules for equipment and assets, which let you determine on the fly whether something is available without having to plan it out ahead of time. Dossiers of the federal agencies most likely to be featured in Delta Green games, focusing on the details players want to know when they play their agents. Terrifying full-color illustrations by co-author Dennis Detwiller. Further terrors can be found in Delta Green: Need to Know, a quick-start version of the rules which includes a scenario and a sturdy and useful Handler's (game moderator's) screen; and in the core rulebook of Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game, which includes everything from the Agent's Handbook and massive resources just for the Handler.

Delta Green: Agent's Handbook (APU8107)

The skies are dark always since the Maker died. Perpetual winter. Perpetual night. We curse the name of Punch the Maker-Killer -- but only when no one can hear. One-hour games have never been filled with more humor and horror, courage and cowardice, childlike wonder and childlike terror than the experimental role-playing game Puppetland. Players say only what their puppets say; the game moderator narrates the unfolding events, speaking in the past tense like the voice of a storybook. This deluxe edition of Puppetland is lavishly illustrated by Samuel Araya, Heather Hudson, Hollie Mengert, and Raven Mimura, with a stunning cover painting by Alejandro Teran. It includes a new short story about the fall of the Maker; author John Scott Tynes' afterword about history of Puppetland and the surprising turns it took since it first appeared in 1995; and 17 tales ready to be played, written by Tynes and contributors Arnold Cassel, Arinn Dembo, Matt Forbeck, Fred Hicks, Kenneth Hite, Jason Morningstar, Ross Payton, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, and James Wallis. Your puppets are ready to take the stage. But speak softly, lest the Nutcrackers come to call with a sharp rap-rap-rapping at the door. Arc Dream Publishing supports Puppetland with volunteer Puppetmasters, ready to run demo games, and with the Bits &amp; Mortar program, which allows stores provide the PDF to their customers at no cost.

Puppetland (APU9000)

Fear is a fractal. Your world is a lie. A horror freed from an antique book reverberates through reality, shaking things, reordering them and making them run like wax. Doors open to endless Victorian hallways where threats stalk the shadows on clockwork limbs, cold metal seeking the warmth of blood and bone. Madness pursues at every turn, baring its teeth to speak your name, and you can’t escape because it’s inside you. But don’t despair. There is hope. A King waits for us. Beyond the tumbledown façade of the world, through the twists and tunnels of the human imagination, past the edge of everything sane, the King waits in the country of Carcosa. The place all madmen go. There, and only there, is the answer to everything. The last answer. Impossible Landscapes is the first full-length campaign for Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game. Four operations sprawl across decades and the immeasurable stretches of nightmare. Harrowing investigations and the bitterest truths test the mettle of the most accomplished Agents. PLUS: New entities. New artifacts. New tomes. Dozens of new NPCs. Rules for running surreal horror. And more. Impossible Landscapes is a 368-page, full-color, hardback campaign book for Delta Green, the role-playing game of Lovecraftian horror and conspiracy.

Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes (APU8145)

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