In One's Blood (PFRPG)

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5 Adventures, 25 Rooms (PFRPG) PDF

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A to Z: A Collection of Blogposts (PFRPG) PDF

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A to Z is a collection of Spes Magna Games blogposts written during the April 2012 A to Z blogging challenge. All 26 blogposts have been subjected to revisions, edits, and other improvements. The end result is a 40-plus-page, printer-friendly PDF featuring fluff and crunch such as:

• Alternate rules for channeling energy, energy drain, exploding dice, jumping, monks, outsiders, and x-ray vision
• Bromantic poetry
• GM advice about how to motivate your players to be more invested in your game
• Luck, a new ability score
• New archetypes, one each for the magus and the rogue
• NPC villains such as an awakened psionic gorilla

All of this and more can be yours for less than a cup of gourmet coffee!

Ars Metamagica (PFRPG) PDF

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Underwhelmed by metamagic feats? Wish your casters had more flexibility when modifying their spells? Then get Ars Metamagica today.

This 13-page, printer-friendly PDF describes an alternate metamagic system that replaces metamagic feats with a metamagic check mechanic. Spellcasters daily select a palette of metamagic arts with which to modify their spells. Whether a prepared caster or a spontaneous caster, the spell-slinger makes a metamagic check at casting time to successfully reshape the magical energies. Success means greater customization of spells, but failure risks magical feedback. Also included are these:

• Specific recommendations about modifying class features, spells, and other rules impacted by Ars Metamagica.
• Five new feats that let casters dig deeper into the metamagic arts.
• Two new traits for casters with an affinity for the metamagic arts.
• A new type of metamagic rod that works with rather than replaces the metamagic system.

Astounding Archetypes: Bloodhand Gang (PFRPG) PDF

Spes Magna Games Astounding Archetypes: Bloodhand Gang presents five new archetypes for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Players may adventure as a dragon warrior (fighter archetype), jotunkin (barbarian archetype), telekinetic monk (monk archetype), warp thief (rogue archetype), and yo-yo magus (magus archetype).

If you're a GM, unleash the Bloodhand Gang on your players' characters. Each villainous member of the mercenary Bloodhand Gang is a fully detailed NPC. The Gang utilizes all five new archetypes. Bloodhand Gang members run from CR 7 to CR 10 and equal an EL 14 challenge.

Barbaric Traits (PFRPG) PDF

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Barbaric Traits presents 36 new character traits, and they're not just for barbarians. Indeed, these traits can help flesh out any character that hails from some savage frontier where honor and sharp steel matter more than manners and shiny coins.

Inspired by the works of Robert E. Howard and a certain cartoon barbarian with a sun sword, these 36 traits are divided evenly between Combat, Faith, Magic, and Social categories. Now your savage hero can become Blood-Mad, utter a Motivational Expletive, practice Poisonous Sorcery, or benefit from knowledge gained as a Barbaric Ambassador (to mention just one-ninth of the traits packed into this PDF).

Barbaric Traits is 11 pages of black-and-white, printer-friendly crunch.

Dodeca Decor (PFRPG) PDF

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What will your players do when they see claw marks on the ceiling? Find a dead three-headed snake? Detect a thick, reptilian odor?

These are just three of more than 144 details that Dodeca Decor randomly adds to your game, all contained in 13 printer-friendly PDF pages.

Dodeca Decor offers more than a dozen tables built for the mighty d12 to add descriptive elements, interesting features, and level-appropriate challenges to complement all that hard work you do creating memorable dungeon crawls.

Dodeca Encounters (PFRPG) PDF

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Dodeca Encounters includes two blank tables on a page on which GMs can create their own customized random encounter tables. Each table uses 1d12 plus 1d8 to generate a number between 2 and 20 with most of the numbers falling into Average Party level +0 or -1 range, but also allowing for encounters up to Average Party Level +3.

Best of all, this and future Dodeca products help the neglected d12 become important to gaming once again. Take that, ubiquitous d20!

Dodeca Weather (PFRPG) PDF

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Dodeca Weather helps restore the noble d12 to a position of respectability and importance by making it the randomizer that determines your campaign's weather from day to day.

This printer-friendly, 20-page PDF presents a plethora of tables that help GMs determine daily weather by taking into account season, climate, altitude, and terrain. Dodeca Weather consolidates and expands weather rules in one location. It also includes a reproducible weather worksheet to help organize weather in weekly blocks.

And you get it all for less than $1.00.

Fencing & Firearms (PFRPG) PDF

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Have you ever watched a movie full of swashbuckling goodness and thought, “This would make a great game?” I know I have, and long before I played RPGs. As a kid, I loved Errol Flynn and Tyrone Powers. Many a Saturday was spent pretending to be Captain Blood, Robin Hood, or Zorro. And let’s not forget the Three Musketeers, Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver, and, yes, even Don Quixote.

The roleplaying aspects of the swashbuckler genre work well-enough with any game system. Tongue-in-cheek humor and traded bon mots don’t require game mechanics. Swashbuckling combat must be fast-paced, highly mobile, and full of flashy attacks. Unfortunately, the world’s most popular roleplaying game’s combat system doesn’t score high marks in these areas.

Fencing & Firearms (F&F) respects the core mechanics of the game but still addresses widely perceived problems with the combat rules. F&F doesn’t change racial traits, class features, or skills. It has as little impact on core rules feats as possible. Our primary goal is that DMs can take this book and drop it into their games with a minimal amount of work. F&F focuses on:

• speeding up play,
• keeping each player involved even when it’s not his turn,
• providing all players with more combat options, and
• making combat maneuvers easier to use.

And this is just the first part of F&F. The second part deals with black powder weapons and how to use them with your game.

Gazae et Monstri: Treasures & Monsters from Greek & Roman Myth (PFRPG) PDF

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This 14-page PDF includes 6 magic items and 5 monsters drawn from Greek and Roman myth. Arm your fighter with the cesti of Eryx. Quest for Pandora’s box. Trade blows with the mighty Antaeus, or match wits with the terrifying Python.

Gruß vom Krampus! (Dungeon World / Fate / PFRPG / Swords & Wizardry) PDF

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Dear GM:
Are you tired of naughty adventurers? If so, unleash Krampus on them. After those awful murderhobos have been stuffed in Krampus's wicker basket and baked into sinfully tasty meat pies, your campaign world will be a happier place.

Gruß vom Krampus! includes four short PDFs, each one providing game statistics for Krampus for four different game systems: Dungeon World, Fate Accelerated Edition, the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, and Swords & Wizardry.

Ho, ho, ho-zzah!

Latina Facta & Versatile Performance Redux (PFRPG) PDF

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This 14-page, printer-friendly PDF includes 15 new feats based on Latin sayings. It introduces an alternate Versatile Performance class feature for bards that uses terminology related to acting, music, and dance to represent bardic arts. The revised PDF presents four new bardic arts, for a grand total of 18 arts. What's more, there are seven new bard spells within these virtual pages!

Making Craft Work (PFRPG) PDF

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Do you wish the rules for the Craft skill made sense? Do you wish it were possible to craft equipment and still have time to adventure? Well, your wishes are our commands!

Making Craft Work presents a new system for the Craft skill that uses complexity rather than price to determine how long it takes to finish an item. This is an 8-page, black-and-white PDF.

A Medieval Holiday (PFRPG) PDF

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Have you ever wanted to host an authentic medieval banquet? Have you ever wanted to qualify for a prestige class whose class features include Gourmand and Chug! Chug!? Well, then, A Medieval Holiday is the PDF for you.

In this PDF's 17 printer-friendly pages, you'll find useful, amusing content, such as:
• The real, true history of the first Thanksgiving celebrated by King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
• Advice, tips, and suggestions (yes, all three!) about how to transform your modern abode into a medieval feasting hall
• Instructions about proper medieval feasting hall etiquette
• Funny and informative footnotes
• Gourmastic menu suggestions, including recipes of historic tastiness
• A new prestige class, the trencherman

Masters of Disguise (PFRPG) PDF

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He can appear as anyone. He can vanish into a crowd, changing his face in the process. He uses his skills to gather information, sow rumors, and bluff his way into off-limits areas. He is the masque, the master of disguise.

Masters of Disguise is a printer-friendly PDF featuring the masque, a new 20-level base class whose talents with disguise cross over into the supernatural. This PDF also includes these crunchy items:

• Favored class options for the masque
• The Disguise subdomain
• New rogue talents
• Expanded uses for Diplomacy, Disguise, Linguistics, and Use Magic Device
• Four new combat feats, including Snap the Cloak
• Rules for customizing equipment
• 12 new spells and 13 new magic items

Quid Novi? Perilous Penguin Edition (PFRPG) PDF

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Have you ever wondering what is Quid Novi? Well, wonder no more. Quid Novi? is Spes Magna's free e-letter that crunches its way into in-boxes twice a month. The Perilous Penguin Edition PDF features a complete Quid Novi? for your enjoyment. Augment your campaign with rules for these new additions: a disease, a magic item, a haunt, two creatures, a trap, and a spell.

Rewarding Roleplaying (PFRPG) PDF

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Are you a GM who wants a little more oomph from your players? Do they need some incentive to play their roles with more feeling? Even if your players are bona fide thespians, there's likely still room for improvement. But how?

With Rewarding Roleplaying, a toolkit with alternative rules that help give players more input into the narrative flow of the game. Here's a partial list of the tools found in Rewarding Roleplaying:

• An Action Point system that uses three criteria to encourage and rewards better roleplaying. Best of all, the responsibility for establishing these criteria belongs to the players. They set their own roleplaying goals. When they meet their goals, you the DM hand out the reward in the form of an Action Point, which is then used by the player to achieve greater levels of success in the game.
• The Do Something! Chip system that lets players take an active hand in making a game session more exciting.
• Plus other tools, such as an Exploding Dice system that makes PCs more heroic while reducing their reliance on magic items; advice for implementing player-driven flashbacks suitable for almost any RPG; and the Statement system, which lets players define their PCs via short descriptive statements that provide in-game bonuses.

The Baykok (PFRPG) PDF

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Baykoks stalk forests. Since they favor humanoid prey, they tend to stay close to communities, especially frontier settlements. A baykok, however, seldom ventures within the confines of a community. Instead, it prefer to haunt the outskirts and near wilderness, hunting people who venture into the woods.

With this free, two-page PDF, you too can recruit the baykok to hunt your gameworld.

The Quid Novi? Collection (PFRPG) PDF

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When I started Spes Magna Games back in 2009, I also started Quid Novi?, a twice-monthly e-mail newsletter of gaming goodness that eventually became a monthly PDF of gaming goodness which has now fallen by the wayside. The Quid Novi? Collection includes the 10 individual PDFs as originally published.

About 80% of the content in The Quid Novi? Collection is for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. You get two short adventures, and curses, diseases, magic items, haunts, monsters, giant lilypads, spells, and a Psionics domain for clerics. The other 20% of the collection was written for Old School gaming, and includes two short adventures as well as curses, magic items, prismatic mists, monsters, deadly mushrooms, and spells.

Caveat emptor: If you were a Quid Novi? subscriber, you've got no reason to buy this collection. You already received all of these PDFs for free. The zipped file for sale includes 10 separate, bookmarked PDFs.

The Swamp Isle of the Croaking Priestess (PFRPG) PDF

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The Croaking Priestess and her boggard followers run a brisk business trading magical potions for sacrificial victims. Local marshfolk have suffered the predations of wicked swamp denizens long enough. They need adventurers to head into the muck, assault the Swamp Isle, and finally put an end to the Croaking Priestess's evil.

"The Swamp Isle of the Croaking Priestess" is a short adventure suitable for clever and tough 4th-level characters.

Trekking to the Side (PFRPG) PDF

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"The Ruined Fort": Years ago, after the margrave refused to offer homage to the Old Man of the Rocks, Fort Caergwyn and its defenders were destroyed in a night of lightning and violence. The margrave now wants to reclaim Fort Caergwyn, and he needs brave adventurers to make the trek to the ruins and put to the sword any monsters that might be calling the place home.

"The Coming Storm": Eadwig's Tarn, a peaceful mountain village, has again been targeted by lurkers in light. These evil fey have abducted several locals for sacrifice in horrid rituals. The village councillors need brave adventurers to make the trek to an ancient dwarven scriptorium to defeat the lurkers and free their captives.

Trekking to the Side features two short adventures originally published for Quid Novi? subscribers in June and July 2012. "The Ruined Fort" is suitable for 5th-7th level PCs. "The Coming Storm" is suitable for 9th-11th level PCs. In addition to the short adventures, this printer-friendly PDF includes a new monster, new haunts, new afflictions, and more.