Tabletop Adventures at (virtual) Nuke-Con

The minions of Tabletop Adventures are virtually delighted to be taking part in Nuke-Con 2020, on-line. We invite you to stop by our ‘booth’ (that is, our channel on Nuke-Con’s Discord server) to see samples of some of our electronic products and pick up a coupon or two for discounts on purchases of our products at our on-line sales partners. We even have a voice channel and will have staff present from time to time to interact live with con-goers.

If you’re at Nuke-Con this weekend, come on in and say hello!

 

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Humble Fantasy

Tabletop Adventures is pleased to be participating in a Humble Bundle! This is the “Dragons, Dungeons, Maps and More” Bundle organized by Frog God Games. Other participants are Troll Lord Games, Kobold Press, Cartography of Alyssa Faden, Nord Games, Total Party Kill Games, Fat Dragon Games, and Uncle Matt’s RPG Studio.

This is a 5th Edition Fantasy bundle, which means the adventures and stats-related products are geared for 5th Edition – the most recent edition of the popular fantasy RPG that involves, you know, dragons. And dungeons. That fantasy game. However, this bundle also includes more than a dozen products that are entirely system neutral – maps and miniature terrain, for instance, as well as Tabletop Adventures’ own descriptive products.

If you’re not familiar with Humble Bundle, you should know that it’s a site that allows companies to offer bundles of electronic products at stunning discounts. For example, this bundle has nearly $450 worth of electronic products for the stupidly low price of $15. On top of that, there are lower tiers for people who don’t need the full experience; you can get 11 products for a measly $1, and 27 products for just $8. (The total package is 45 products for $15.)

Humble Bundle has another key feature, though: part of every purchase goes to a charity. Frog God Games has designated Hospice of the Northwest as the charity for this particular bundle. Purchasers are allowed (and even encouraged) to pay more than the asking price of the bundle and can designate the extra go to the charity.

This great bundle, at its amazing price, will be available until about noon (Central Time) on January 9, so be sure to check it out soon! You can see all the details on the Humble Bundle website.

 

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Samples Galore!

Everybody likes to try a sample of something before they buy it, whether it’s a bit of cheese or a few pages of a book. Well, do we have some samples for you! Originally prepared for our Anniversary the 13th (in 2017), these samplers each have tastes of 13 different products. They will be available only for a limited time, though, so get your copy soon.

First is the Tabletop Adventures Product Sampler, which covers 13 products from our modern horror, science fiction, and name generator lines. Included are samples of:

  • Against the Darkness, our Vatican horror RPG;
  • Into the Fire, an adventure scenario for Against the Darkness;
  • the Deck o’ Names products–Deck o’ Names 1Anglo-Saxon Places, Modern, and Japanese— each in both card-deck and generator formats;
  • the five sci-fi Destinations products (Spaceport Black Orchard, Cantinas and More, Charon’s Wall, Repair Station 7-Osiris, and Spaceport Trident Vespa);
  • Into the Future: Derelict Starships, which is descriptions of what explorers might find inside such an item; and
  • Halls of Horror, descriptions that might fit any modern-era ‘spooky house.’ 

It is a single PDF, about 14 MB big, and can be downloaded by clicking here: Tabletop Adventures Products Sampler

The other item is our Fantasy Sampler, with pieces from all our terrain description products, as well as magic items and our city description and NPC products. It includes:

  • Bits of Darkness: Caverns, Dungeons, and Dungeons II;
  • Bits of Magicka: Mystic Writings, Pocket Items, and Rings and Jewels;
  • Bits of the Boulevard;
  • Bits of the Wilderness: Into the Mountains, Into the Open, Into the Swamp, and Into the Wildwood;
  • Shards of the City; and
  • Shards of the Heart

It is also a single PDF, of about 18 MB, which can be downloaded by clicking here: Tabletop Adventures Fantasy Sampler

Since these are special anniversary samplers, we’re making them available around the time of our anniversary as a company, in July. Since we got a bit of a late start this year, we expect to keep them available this time until mid-August. Pass the word on if you know someone else who would be interested, and have fun with this little taste of creativity!

 

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Christmas AND Our Birthday!

This month Tabletop Adventures is celebrating our 14th anniversary. However, two of our sales sites are having “Christmas in July” sales, so we’re going with the flow! All our electronic products are 25% in July at the Open Gaming Store, RPGNow, and DriveThru RPG

You could choose fantasy terrain description products from our line of Help for the Harried Gamemaster, or you might get one of our fun random name generators. Maybe take a look at Against the Darkness, our modern-day Vatican horror roleplaying game, or pick up some system-free spaceports. Whatever you want to celebrate, you should pick up a present for yourself right now!

Tabletop Adventures – Whatever you play, we’ve got your back.

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Minty Fresh!

In general, we think secret pages on our website are cool. They are not so cool, though, when they have been added by some random Japanese hacker who is using the site to boost the signal for… Japanese mini-blinds??

But, we know a guy, and he took care of removing… well, not ALL the weirdness from the website, but any weirdness we didn’t put here ourselves, and we got a nice, fresh start. (It was so fresh that it might not include everything we intended; if you notice anything that’s not working right, please contact the webminion.) We missed being able to announce a couple of things in the meantime, but now we’re ready to carry on!

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Terrain Sale for Earth Day

Earth Day Bundle coverTabletop Adventures celebrates Earth Day with a sale on our descriptions of five types of natural terrain features – forest, swamp, plains, mountains, and caverns. These five products will be 20% off until the end of April. (Of course, some features may be “natural” only in a fantasy setting!)

Specifically, from April 22nd through April 30th, all the Bits of the Wilderness products (Into the Wildwood, Into the Swamp, Into the Open, and Into the Mountains) and Bits of Darkness: Caverns will be on sale at 20% off their regular prices at RPGNow and DriveThruRPG.

A special Earth Day Bundle is also available through the end of April, which puts together all five products for only $30, a discount of over 25%. In addition, this bundle includes at no charge the mini-product Uncharted Isles, which provides descriptions of tropical islands. (That mini-product is available free to Honorary Minions at any time, not just with special offers. Click the tab in the top bar for more information.)

This sale and special bundle are available only at RPGNow and DriveThruRPG. (You can also check out our entire catalog there.)

Take this opportunity to add richness and detail to your fantasy RPG world! Augment your imagination with terrain descriptions from Tabletop Adventures.

 

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Legendary Sales

Our GM’s Day sale is still in full swing! Of course, we are not the only company with special offers this week. Our friends at Legendary Games have a sale going on of all their adventures, specially priced at 30% off through March 7th. Just go to their website and use the coupon code 2018GMSALE when you purchase adventures. They have material for both the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and 5th Edition. The sale also includes their Legendary Planet line of swashbuckling interplanetary adventures! Hurry in to get some of these great adventures now.

As a reminder, our own sale is going on at five electronic RPG stores: the Open Gaming Store, Paizo store, RPGNow, DriveThruRPG, and Steve Jackson Games’ Warehouse 23.

 

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Happy GM’s Day!

GM’s Day is here, and Tabletop Adventures salutes all the people who run the games we all love to play. In fact, our company started because a couple of GMs said, “We have all this material we’ve developed for games over the years; we ought to be able to publish some of this and make some money.” (We’re slightly amused now by our former naiveté; of the many thousands of words we have published, only a few hundred of them were among those written before we started the company.)

We found ourselves making products we wished we had to use in our own games. Bits of the Boulevard was the solution to players who couldn’t just say, “We go to the blacksmith,” and carry on with the game. Instead, their characters wanted to know, “What do we see as we walk down the street?” Now, between Bits of the Boulevard and Shards of the City, we provide something like 275 interesting things to see or encounter in a fantasy city.

We say we provide “Help for the Harried Gamemaster,” because we know what it’s like to try to run a game (or two) and prepare in between work responsibilities, childcare, dealing with family issues, meal preparation, paying bills, running around town trying to take care of all the little things that take so much time, and so much more. (“Frankly, I’m swamped!”) We noticed, in our own games, that evocative description was one of the first things to go when time got tight and attention was pulled in too many directions. 

That’s why we’re pleased to provide so many different types of descriptions, to make life easier for other harried gamemasters. Thank you, GMs, for all you give to make our collective recreation a reality. We’re privileged to publish material that we hope fires your imagination and makes your games better. Happy GM’s Day!

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GM’s Day is Coming!

GM’s Day is March 4th, but Tabletop Adventures is beginning our celebration now! For the next week, our entire line of electronic products will be on sale at 30% off the usual prices. You can get this special discount now at Steve Jackson Games’ Warehouse 23, RPGNow, and DriveThruRPG, and we hope to add additional sales sites to the sale as the week goes on. (Edit: In fact, the sale is also available at the Open Gaming Store and at the Paizo Store.) Take advantage of this discount to treat yourself, or pick up some help for the Harried Game Master in your life.

Augment your imagination, with products from Tabletop Adventures!

 

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One More Night of RPG Romance!

There are only a few hours left in our Valentine sale, which features all our NPC products at 20% off their usual prices. Of course, Shards of the Heart features more than 20 NPCs that were written with romance in mind. However, the characters in Shards of the City can be useful for that purpose as well! (See below.) On top of that, three of the Deck O’ Names name generators are included in the sale. You can get this discount at the Open Gaming Store, RPGNow, and DriveThruRPG.

One character from Shards of the City who could be a romantic interest for a player character is Terrance Olmerson. Although a notorious bandit by reputation, he is not necessarily recognizable to the average person. This allows him to occasionally go to a tavern in town incognito (or actually in disguise), gathering information or just getting out for a drink. Under those circumstances, someone could catch his eye (or vice versa) and a relationship begin to develop. No doubt he would have an excuse for seldom being in town: being a traveling messenger or a buyer for a distant merchant, for example.

Terrance Olmerson                           CR 10

Human Rogue 11
N Medium Humanoid (Human)
Init +6; Senses Perception +16

DEFENSE

AC 19, Touch 14, Flat-Footed 15 (+5 Armor, +4 Dex)
hp 39
Fort +4, Ref +11, Will +5
Defensive Abilities Evasion, Uncanny Dodge, Trap Sense +3, Improved Uncanny Dodge

OFFENSE

Speed 30 ft.
Melee +1 Short Sword +13/+8 (1d6+1/17-20)
Ranged Masterwork Composite Shortbow +12 (1d6/x3)
Special Attacks Sneak attack +6d6

STATISTICS

Str 10, Dex 19 (+4), Con 12 (+1), Int 12 (+1), Wis 14 (+2), Cha 14 (+2)
Base Atk +8; CMB +8; CMD 22
Feats Weapon Finesse, Improved Initiative, Deft Hands, Deceitful, Stealthy, Combat Reflexes, Improved Critical (Short Sword)
Skills Bluff +18, Climb +14, Disable Device +20, Disguise +18, Escape Artist +20, Knowledge: Local +10, Perception +16, Sense Motive +11, Stealth +20, Use Magic Device +15
Languages Common, Orc
Special Qualities Trapfinding +5, Rogue Talents (Fast Stealth, Finesse Rogue, Trap Spotter, Resiliency), Advanced Talents (Opportunist)
Combat Gear Potion of Cure Serious Wounds (2), Potion of Invisibility, Antitoxin (2)
Other Gear +2 Short Sword, Masterwork Composite Shortbow, 30 Arrows, +2 Studded Leather, Noble’s Outfit, Disguise Kit, Belt of Incredible Dexterity +2, Cloak of Resistance +1, Masterwork Thieves Tools, 300 gp

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