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DRS is Publishing Demonheart – The First Major Adventure for Daggerheart!

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Demonheart - The Vile Codex for Daggerheart

Dream Realm Storytellers (DRS), known for their immersive 5E worlds (Svilland, Bloodpunk, Corpus Collection, and Silverplate) has announced their newest project, Demonheart – The Vile Codex for Daggerheart. Demonheart is a 3-book codex with over 450 pages, a new class, 7 new domains, 66 new subclasses, a Hellish setting, a full adventure, and more for Daggerheart.

This project marks DRS’ first descent into Daggerheart, a system originally created by Critical Role. It will include the first major adventure ever written for the Daggerheart system, and embraces an edgy, unflinching plunge into a biblical Hell that is very dark and very gory. Players descend into a brutal infernal metropolis of torture, execution gardens, and endless chains, taking on the roles of the damned themselves. With subclasses inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins and a new Sin Domain mechanic, Demonheart challenges players to face demonic legions and terrifying tyrants as they ascend the ladders of damnation.

Demonheart embraces themes of corruption and damnation, pushing players toward uncomfortable, high-stakes choices. It will include unusual mechanics, like instructions for turning player characters into demons, for example. Centered on narrative play, Demonheart’s story evolves through the choices players make. Players actively shape the tone of the game by building Hope or inviting Fear, turning every roll into a meaningful story.

Highlights include:

  • Three books, each 150 pages
  • Demonheart supplement book for new mechanics
  • Demonheart setting book with descriptions of Hell and its inhabitants
  • New Daggerheart content
  • Unusual Mechanics
  • Dark Themes
  • Narrative Depth

Demonheart – The Vile Codex for Daggerheart will be launching on Kickstarter on April 21, 2026, with exclusive early backer rewards and limited-edition goodies that fans won’t want to miss.

Pirate Borg Sets Sail with Down Among the Dead Expansion and Starter Set, Now Available

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Free League Publishing and Limithron have launched the Down Among the Dead expansion for Pirate Borg, alongside the Pirate Borg Starter Set and Gamemaster Screen, bringing new adventures and tools to the scurvy-ridden tabletop RPG. The new range is now available for purchase in the Free League webshop and in hobby stores worldwide. Digital copies are also for sale through DriveThruRPG.

Pirate Borg sends players on a terrible journey across the high seas, as they raid, pillage, and plunder their way toward infamy. The newly released Down Among the Dead expansion presents three full-length adventures across 148 pages, introducing terrifying challenges, new discoveries, and untold booty for daring crews to claim.

For those new to the life of a pirate, the Pirate Borg Starter Set provides an accessible entry point to the rules-light RPG. The set includes a Player’s Guidebook, the deluxe Trapped in the Tropics adventure, and a full collection of accessories designed to get players sailing quickly into the cutthroat world of Pirate Borg.

The tabletop experience can also be enhanced with the official Gamemaster Screen—a five-panel screen that folds down to A5 size, featuring original artwork, glow-in-the-dark elements, and quick reference materials to support play during campaigns.

Designed by Limithron and published under Free League, Pirate Borg is a scurvy-ridden, rules-light, and art-heavy tabletop RPG, inspired by history, fantasy, horror, and rum. 

In true pirate fashion, players take on the role of greedy, filthy scoundrels sailing the high seas in search of treasure. Beginning with humble resources, pirate crews must acquire a ship, recruit companions, and raid ports, forts, and rival vessels to make a name for themselves.

As each campaign unfolds, players can upgrade vessels, uncover hidden treasure, and grow in notoriety—though danger lurks everywhere beneath the waves. With monstrous threats and deadly encounters awaiting at every turn, fallen pirates are encouraged to roll up new characters and chart a fresh course.

Pirate Borg includes a 166-page core book featuring eight character classes, easy-to-learn naval combat rules, stats for 18 vessels, more than 80 NPCs and monsters, 90+ system-agnostic tables, and the sandbox adventure The Curse of Skeleton Point, spanning 11 pirate-themed locations.

Godzilla roars in IDW Games’ Godzilla The Roleplaying Game, crowdfunding now

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After months of development, playtesting, and preparation, IDW Games has launched Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game on Kickstarter!

Join G-Force to fight the greatest kaiju of all time with the first-ever Godzilla Tabletop Roleplaying Game!

With expected fulfillment by Fall 2026, Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game reunites three Warhammer gaming legends – Jervis Johnson, Mark A. Latham, and Gav Thorpe for their first co-created tabletop game! Godzilla puts a team of players in the midst of kaiju attacks, using character sheets, collaboration, and playing cards to defend humanity. This unique new game system uses standard 52-card decks, rather than dice.

The crowdfunding campaign features multiple options for support, including a digital only tier, one that features the starter set, and another that features the rulebook featuring cover art by Jonboy Meyers, as well as a retailer tier and more.

Magnetic Press and Oni Press Reveal an Array of Upcoming Graphic Novels

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Oni Press and Magnetic Press have unveiled Magnetic Press’s Fall 2026 lineup of fantastic new releases. Featuring a role-playing game, a graphic adaptation of a beloved sixteenth-century Chinese novel, sci-fi epics, and a stunning piece of historical fiction, Oni and Magnetic’s Fall releases have something for every reader.

PLANET OF THE APES SOLO RULES

WRITTEN BY ANDREW E.C. GASKA, E.L. THOMAS, JOHN WICK
ART BY CHRIS SCALF, CHANDRA FREE, RUNA I. ROSENBERGER

The Solo Play Rulebook includes everything needed to create single-player RPG adventures on the Planet of the Apes! The book features design tools and guides to empower both new and experienced gamers to modify existing multicharacter scenarios for individual play and craft all-new solo epics utilizing an ingenious mix of oracles, emulator tables, and quick-reference charts. These resources can also be used by Lawgivers to quickly forge plots and conflicts for their player groups, ideal for when they don’t have a lot of preparation time to stage a game. Each of the three complete adventures included in the book embodies a different play style, from murder mystery narratives with set paths to randomized, improv-powered stories created on the fly with dice and encounter tables. This book requires the Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes Core Rulebook for play.

$34.99 | 112 PGS. | HC
On Sale: 9/1/2026

PLANET OF THE APES SOLO RULES

PEACEFUL REMISSION HC

WRITTEN BY JONATHAN DJOB NKONDO
ART BY JONATHAN DJOB NKONDO

Set in a sleek satellite home orbiting Earth, Peaceful Remission follows elderly couple Marlène and Jerry Nomo, whose quiet life is disrupted by a mysterious nighttime rumble. But the real tension lies not in the noise but in Marlène’s simmering frustration with Jerry’s passivity. The incident becomes a catalyst for emotional confrontation, revealing the cracks in their long-standing relationship. When Jerry’s obsession with a recent discovery leaves Marlene responsible for his health and well-being, their seemingly ordinary tasks—shopping, driving, caregiving—are refracted through a surreal, futuristic lens, emphasizing the emotional weight of routine and the quiet heroism of unspoken love.

Encapsulating themes of conjugal fatigue, silent devotion, and the illusion of tranquility, this surreal, contemplative work is told through clean, futuristic interiors contrasted with intimate character framing. In this fragmented yet lyrical tale that alternates between dialogue and silent observation, Jonathan Nkondo uses the sterile calm of space as a metaphor for emotional distance, crafting a story that feels both timeless and eerily current.

$29.99 | 260 PGS. | HC
On Sale: 9/16/2026

PEACEFUL REMISSION HC

SILENT JENNY HC

WRITTEN BY MATHIEU BABLET
ART BY MATHIEU BABLET

In a not-too-distant future, climate change continues to ravage the planet, and the disappearance of insects has led to the end of pollination, rendering vast areas of land infertile. A survival dynamic has emerged—mobile islands called “monads” have formed, and people strive to help each other; each group with its own customs, traditions, and ways of life.

Jenny is a rather solitary researcher trying to restore the world as it once was. She seeks to recover bee DNA to clone and re-create pollinating insects. However, she will come to realize that this is impossible—the old world no longer exists, and a new one must be built. She will understand that instead of looking to the past, she must work collectively with other monad tribes, prioritizing mutual aid and collaboration.

Created by multiple-award-winning comics wunderkind Mathieu Bablet, SILENT JENNY is, at its heart, a “world-building book”— inventing vehicles, character factions, landscapes, and crafting this universe down to the smallest detail to make it as tangible as possible. An optimistic story that presents solutions to climate change—no eco-anxiety, just hope and innovation.

$34.99 | 312 PGS. | HC
On Sale: 10/13/2026

SILENT JENNY HC

WANDERING HC

WRITTEN BY JONATHAN DJOB NKONDO
ART BY JONATHAN DJOB NKONDO

Set in a world where the surface has become a vast, arid desert dotted with strange geometric creatures and billabongs, Wandering imagines a society that has retreated underground. Beneath the scorched crust, life continues in sprawling subterranean complexes—theaters, malls, food courts, and highway interchanges—forming a claustrophobic echo of the world above.

Graphic novelist Jonathan Nkondo weaves a visionary story following the wandering paths of two men, each shaped by their respective environments—one in the arid wastelands above, and one in the urban sprawl below the surface. Though they never meet, their lives mirror and resonate with each other, creating a haunting sense of synchronicity and missed connection.

Themes of alienation, routine, freedom, and the trappings of modern life turn this textless, nonlinear, and atmospheric graphic novel into an unsettling contemplation of the trappings we chose to surround ourselves with.

$29.99 | 200 PGS |HC
On Sale: 10/20/2026

WANDERING HC

ON MARS SC

WRITTEN BY SYLVAIN RUNBERG
ART BY GRUN

In 2132, Life on Earth has reached the limits of sustainability. Colonizing Mars has become our only option, and the construction of such a significant enterprise has required massive resources and manpower. The most cost-efficient solution to this requirement is conscripted labor provided by convicted felons – early access to humanity’s future homeworld, but in exchange for the back-breaking and perilous work of constructing the damn thing.

Officer Jasmine Stenford is sent to Mars and sentenced to conscripted labor for a wrongful death committed on her watch. With little defense against the corruption on Earth, she has no idea what sort of nightmare awaits her on the red planet… Brilliantly visualized by artist Grun, this explosive sci-fi prison drama by writer Sylvain Runberg introduces Jasmine to a broad spectrum of characters, factions, and political players who all have different ideas for this New World that is being built. Who is really in control? And can anyone truly claim a planet on the verge of forced evolution? ON MARS imagines a future where the true natures of mankind prove to be inescapable, no matter how far you travel.

$29.99 | 244 PGS. | SC
On Sale: 11/4/2026

ON MARS SC

MONKEY KING OMNIBUS

WRITTEN BY CHAIKO
ART BY CHAIKO

The exciting retelling of the legendary Monkey King fable of ancient Chinese lore, as adapted from Wu Cheng’en’s sixteenth-century novel by fan-favorite, Eisner-nominated artist Chaiko! Also nominated for an Eisner for Best Adaptation from Another Medium, Chaiko brings his unique visual style and humor to this fantasy adventure about a monkey who acquires supernatural abilities and intelligence and chooses to use them for mischief and glory before finding himself at the ire of the Heavens. Imprisoned by the Buddha himself, the rapscallion vows to prove his worth by escaping and retrieving the sacred sutras in this marvelously and entertainingly illustrated adaptation of this classic quest.

$39.99 | 320 PGS. | HC
On Sale: 11/10/2026

MONKEY KING OMNIBUS

URBANCE

WRITTEN BY JOEL DOS REIS VIEGAS
ART BY JOEL DOS REIS VIEGAS

In far-future Neopolis, a virus has affected the entire population from birth. All sexual relations between genders are strictly forbidden, as they are absolutely fatal. Raised to hate the opposite sex, boys and girls live in a city separated by a wall. But the appearance of N-Dorphin, a revolutionary drug, disrupts the status quo. Kenzell and Lesya, two dissidents of opposite sexes, find themselves embroiled in a merciless clan war and will have to face a reality beyond their control . . .

At the crossroads of genres, blending numerous graphic and scriptwriting influences, this sci-fi adventure by animation director Joël Dos Reis Viegas paints a picture of a society on the verge of implosion, haunted by death, structured by fear, indoctrination, and the deprivation of the most fundamental freedom: the freedom to love who you choose. The full story that originated as a (successfully Kickstarted) animation pilot designed and directed by the author. This four-volume series completes the narrative arc of the originally proposed animated series.

$19.99 | 192 PGS. | HC
On Sale: 11/10/26

URBANCE

LIBERTY HC

WRITTEN BY JORDAN MECHNER
ART BY ETIENNE LE ROUX and LOÏC CHEVALLIER

Liberty is a sweeping historical graphic novel by Jordan Mechner that dramatizes the true story of the covert French operation to aid the American Revolution, blending espionage, diplomacy, and revolutionary fervor.

Set in 1776, Liberty follows the daring exploits of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, a flamboyant French playwright turned secret agent. While an outnumbered American rebel army struggles to defend New York against British forces, Beaumarchais orchestrates a clandestine mission from Europe to funnel weapons and support to the colonists. His efforts—fraught with political intrigue, betrayal, and high-stakes diplomacy—reveal a hidden chapter of history where art, ambition, and revolution collide.This story is especially poignant and relevant as America celebrates its 250th year of independence, due in no small part to the events depicted in this book.

$29.99 | 214 PGS. | HC
On Sale: 12/08/2026

LIBERTY HC

Traveller, the Most Influential Science Fiction RPG of All Time, Is Coming to 5E

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Traveller 5E

Traveller, the most influential science fiction RPG of all time, is coming to 5E. A landmark conversion brings nearly five decades of iconic science-fiction roleplaying to the world’s most popular tabletop system.

Traveller, first published in 1977, is officially being adapted in a new project led by veteran game designer Timothy Brown, in full coordination with Mongoose Publishing. The project aims to bring the depth, scope, and creative freedom of classic Traveller to a new generation of players.

Designed for groups interested in science-fiction storytelling using familiar tabletop mechanics, Traveller 5E preserves what made the original game legendary while making it accessible to a wider audience. The result is a complete science fiction roleplaying experience centered on interstellar travel, trade, jump space starships, and sector-level worldbuilding, allowing groups to create entire universes on their own.

Traveller 5E supports a wide range of play styles and science-fiction themes, offering tools for:

  • Iconic character creation
  • Designing original worlds, sectors, and interstellar settings
  • Building starships, vehicles, and alien creatures
  • Campaign play focused on exploration, commerce, and discovery

The crowdfunding campaign for Traveller 5E will launch on March 31.

IDW Games launches the Kickstarter for Godzilla The Roleplaying Game on March 3

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March 3 is fast approaching for IDW Games‘ Kickstarter launch of Godzilla The Roleplaying Game!

IDW Games has revealed the Kickstarter exclusive cover! Illustrated by the Legendary Jonboy Meyers — this cover captures the power and ferocity of the King of the Monsters and the danger it presents to game night!

Godzilla The Roleplaying Game Kickstarter Exclusive Cover

Below is a peek at the packaging of the official Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game Starter Set!

This Starter Set allows players to jump into the action with six pre-made characters, 2 decks of themed playing cards, a starter set adventure, and so much more!

Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game Starter Set

Next reveal, the Kickstarter Tiers…

The titans are rising, and it’s time to choose how to join the fight. From digital bundles to the ultimate collector’s cache, we have a tier for every level of operative.

Tier 1: G-Force Recruit – $20

Everything needed to play in a portable format. Includes the Digital Core Rulebook, a digital copy of volume 1 of the Godzilla – Kai-Sei comic series – End of the Reign, and a digital wallpaper pack.

Tier 2: G-Force Vanguard – $40

Take the first steps into the world of Godzilla. Includes the Tech Specialist plus the physical Starter Set.

Tier 3: G-Force Commander – $60
The definitive volume. Features the Tech Specialist and the premium Hardcover Core Rulebook.

Tier 4: Kaiju Fanatic – $80

Double your firepower. This tier includes the Digital Core Book, the Starter Set, and the Hardcover Core Rulebook.

Tier 5: Kaiju Master – $125

The total tactical package. This tier is loaded with the Digital Core Book, Starter Set, Hardcover Core Rulebook, Playmat, Godzilla Miniature, and the Deluxe Card Set.

***Information on our retailer tier will be made available soon!

Backers can customize their pledge with these individual tactical Add-ons.

  • KS Exclusive Book – $60 – The limited-edition hardcover.
  • Playmat – $25 – A high-quality, playmat great for any gaming experience.
  • Deluxe Card Set – $15 – Premium game cards for an epic feel
  • Godzilla Miniature – $50 – An epic addition to any Godzilla fans tabletop or collection.

Lynnvander Studios announces Imaria: Beyond the Veil

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Imaria: Beyond the Veil

The acclaimed dark fantasy 5E setting Imaria from Lynnvander Studios returns to crowdfunding with new additions ahead of final production.

Spanning more than 600 pages total, Imaria is a dark fantasy campaign setting and adventure series for 5E, shaped by four Pillars of Power – mana, anti-magic, psionics, and ethereal chronomancy – and bound together by The Veil, a temporal force that isolates the world from extraplanar influence. The setting explores civilizations shaped by the presence, absence, and cost of power – blending fantasy with unsettling elements and long-form play.

Imaria: Beyond the Veil offers a final opportunity for players to access the world of Imaria before the project moves into fulfillment. Following the original Imaria crowdfunding campaign, this upcoming effort will make the full setting available again, along with new additions.

The project features contributions from a wide roster of celebrated creators, including Ed Greenwood, Elisa Teague, and Keith Baker, among others. These collaborators provided additional content and creative perspectives within the existing world of Imaria. Updates to the project also include alignment with the 2024 rules.

Imaria: Beyond the Veil introduces several new additions including:

  • The Tavern of Timeless Tales, a new companion book
  • Eight new dice sets, inspired by the Imarian Elder Dragons
  • New digital adventures, expanding the playable content

Find Your Destiny with The Planet of the Apes Role-Playing Game! Out now!

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YOU MANIACS! YOU MADE IT A GAME! Pierre Boulle’s 1963 novel Planet of the Apes and Franklin J. Schaffner’s 1968 film adaptation introduced the world to an epic sci-fi universe populated by super-intelligent apes and surly astronauts – launching a decades-long franchise featuring films, novels, comics, and more. Fans have observed the futuristic planet for long enough! Now it is time for them to jump in and experience the world first-hand! Following the smash-hit Kickstarter campaign, Magnetic Press invites fans to explore the Planet of the Apes with The Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes. Featuring a breathtaking cover by legendary artist Bill Sienkiewicz and a wide variety of inspiring illustrations throughout, the official Planet of the Apes RPG will challenge players’ preconceptions of the classic franchise and role-playing games. This beautifully illustrated rulebook will thrust fans onto a planet where humans are the lowest order of living things — and the superior beings are apes. 

Built on the official Magnetic Variant (D6MV) of the classic D6 System role-playing game rules created by West End Games, Planet of the Apes is easy to learn yet full of challenges to master. With settings and lore written by a team of celebrated writers and designers under the lead of science fiction novelist Andrew E.C. Gaska and E.L. Thomas, this core rulebook contains all you need to roleplay in this upside-down world where apes evolved from humans.

Gaska and Thomas are joined by writers Rich Handley, Dayton Ward, Dave Semark, Greg Cox, David Avallone, Jim Beard, David F. Walker, Kim Perrone, and Vidar Edland as well as artists Runa I. Rosenberger, Chris Scalf, Shane Molina, Chandra Free, Andrew Probert, Chris Moeller, Barron Storey, Erik Gist, Dan Dussault, and Colo. 

In addition to The Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes: Core Rulebook, Magnetic Press is releasing Planet of the Apes RPG: The ANSA Files Sourcebook and Planet of the Apes RPG: Into the Forbidden Zone – Campaign Boxed Set. The ANSA Files will allow fans to interact with the apes and humans that have come directly from the silver screen—Caesar, Taylor, Zira, Hasslein, and, of course, Dr. Zaius—every iconic character is gamified for campaign use with biographies and statistics. This sourcebook showcases a detailed chronology of the distinctly different timeline that arose out of choices made by both human and ape alike. And the Into the Forbidden Zone gives players a chance to put both the Rulebook and Sourcebook to good use in a complete guided campaign featuring two 24×36 map posters, 64 reference cards, seven preprinted character sheets, a Game Master screen, punch-out map markers and tokens, twelve custom dice, and a 96-page campaign adventure module. 

Solo Fallout RPG: Wasteland Wanderer is Now Available for Pre-order

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Fallout The Roleplaying Game: Wasteland Wanderer

Modiphius Entertainment has launched the pre-order for the anticipated solo edition of Fallout The Roleplaying Game: Wasteland Wanderer.

Based on Bethesda’s hugely successful Fallout series, Wasteland Wanderer allows players to record their adventures and play an RPG in the wasteland without the need for a group or gamemaster.

Wasteland Wanderer is based on Modiphius’ 2d20 system and procedurally generates the story for players. It allows them to explore the wasteland as their character emerges from a Vault-Tec vault, immersing them in the post-atomic United States.

To play Wasteland Wanderer, players go through rounds involving four stages: Travel, Encounter, Action, and Journaling, where they roll d20s to generate where they go, what happens there, decide what they do, all using tables to procedurally generate the story as they go.

Available for £40 / $55 / €45, Fallout The Roleplaying Game: Wasteland Wanderer is expected to ship in April 2026.

With this 256-page, full-color, royal-sized hardcover guide players can:

  • Create an original vault dweller to roleplay, as well as their original vault.
  • Explore a randomly-generated wasteland and record your story as you travel the surface.
  • Learn about the Fallout setting and its factions from coast to coast.
  • Generate quests, scenarios, opponents, and obstacles from a huge variety of random oracle tables.

Fallout The Roleplaying Game: Wasteland Wanderer is compatible with Fallout: The Roleplaying Game.

Battleworld arrives in the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game with the Secret Wars Expansion

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Marvel’s Multiverse comes crashing down on tabletops everywhere this summer! Heroes and villains from across Marvel’s pantheon will fight for the fate of reality itself in the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game: Secret Wars Expansion, Marvel’s next major tabletop expansion for the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game, featuring all-new character sheets, playable Battleworld locations, and other Marvel cosmic forces and artifacts to create an unforgettable adventure. Secret Wars Expansion will be written by award-winning author Matt Forbeck, alongside writers Alex Irvine and Marty Forbeck, with new maps from cartographer Brian Patterson.

In Secret Wars Expansion, the Multiverse has been destroyed, and God Emperor Doom rules over its shattered pieces in a single patchwork planet: Battleworld. Players will be able to take a deep dive into the event that changed Marvel forever through an adventuring framework to fight their way through Battleworld and its many lands, including the neon-drenched streets of 2099, zombie-infested Deadlands, a Gamma-irradiated expanse of Greenland, and more! It also includes an exploration of the Fantastic Four, the Negative Zone, the Guardians of the Galaxy and the vast Marvel cosmos and its cosmic forces, as well as new rules for how to handle Rank X characters of unbelievable might.

The 256-page Secret Wars Expansion will feature a new cover by artists Sean Izaakse and Erick Arciniega and a special collectible convention-exclusive variant cover by Francesco Manna and Jesus Aburtov, available at Gen Con later this summer. Paired with the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game: Core Rulebook, any player can jump headfirst into the Marvel Universe!

The Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game is a tabletop RPG that brings the magic of Marvel to your game night. Take on the roles of Marvel’s most famous Super Heroes—or create your own—to fight some of the most dangerous Super Villains in the Marvel Universe. Along with the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game: Core Rulebook, players can dive into every corner of the Marvel Universe, including The Cataclysm of Kang, the X-Men Expansion, the Spider-Verse Expansion, and the Avengers Expansion, all on sale now.

Save the entire Marvel Multiverse with your friends by your side with the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game: Secret Wars Expansion! On sale August 18.

Purchase: Amazon

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