Upwind releases—New from Nocturnal Media!

Order by Date: August 15, 2019
Release Date: September 2019

NCM7410
Upwind RPG Corebook

$34.99 SRP Imagine Bakshi’s classic animated film Wizards has a head-on collision with Disney’s Treasure Planet and the resulting fire is put out with a whole lot of Studio Ghibli’s Castle in the Sky. That, in an unexpected, animated mash-up, is Upwind. Upwind is a narrative style RPG set in a strange alternate world of floating island nations, flying sailing ships, long-lost technology, wild elemental powers, looming war and forgotten legacies. Upwind is powered by the Q system, an original stakes-based, playing card-driven mechanic that gives every encounter consequences with meaningful, narrative-building outcomes. With its unique bidding rules, Upwind plays as fast as you can tell your story. (Any standard poker deck works for play).

NCM7411 Upwind: The Grand Amplifier Campaign

$29.99 SRP The Prophecy of the Grand Amplifier is a setting-spanning, sourcebook and campaign written for the Upwind roleplaying game. The book is packed with new locations, NPCs, Relics, creatures and Master’s caches, and the adventure will draw players deep into the setting. The story takes a band of young Knights from novice recruitment through their Academy training, challenges them with their graduation cruise, leads them on a ranging series of missions across the Realms and then sends them deep into the Dark in pursuit of an ancient legacy. The discoveries they make along the way will upend everything they know about the history of the Children, the Masters of the Wind and the origin of the Kin themselves.

King Arthur Pendragon—New from Nocturnal Media!

Order by Date: February 1, 2019 Release Date: February 2019  NCM2730 King Arthur Pendragon $39.99 SRP Relive the grandeur, romance and adventure of the greatest of all legends — the story of King Arthur with this new edition of the award-winning roleplaying game by Greg Stafford. Assume the role of a knight starting his career in the time of Uther Pendragon, undertaking quests and perilous adventures for your lord, for your lady-love, for the Church, or for your own glory. Win great renown with your laudable deeds and feats of arms, perhaps even winning the right to carve your name into the Round Table itself as the story of Arthur and Camelot unfolds around you.

NCM7412 Storypath and Whimsy Cards $75.94 SRP Storypath Cards are a card accessory to improve roleplaying, no matter which game system is used. The cards provide a unique way to create more dynamic and detailed stories by harnessing players’ imaginations. Cards allow players to break into the action and add a new detail or twist to the story. Usually, this is something which adds to the mood or atmosphere of the story but can also facilitate the player working with the GM to affect the plot. This retail display comes with one each of six different decks each with their own theme. Five Storypath decks include the Path of Adventure, Path of Hope, and Path of Horror, as well as decks for Intrigue and Morality. Each deck is 36 linen-finish, tarot-size cards in its own tuckbox for $11.99. The sixth deck is the original Whimsy card deck of 54 story-crafting cards in a tuckbox for $15.99. Each deck of Storypath Cards contains 36 cards divided into these types: Theme Cards, Tone Cards, and Climax Cards. Each of the cards has a title, a short description to guide their use, an illustration, and a number from one to seven that determines when it can be played.

Prince Valiant—New from Nocturnal Media!

Order by Date: January 1, 2019 Release Date: January 2019  NCM2736 Prince Valiant $29.99 SRP Outstanding for both beginners and experienced players, the Prince Valiant® The Storytelling Game is a roleplaying game set in the Arthurian world of Hal Foster’s masterpiece comic strip. The game is by world-renowned game designer Greg Stafford (Runequest, King Arthur Pendragon). This storytelling game’s deliberately simple mechanics make it accessible to younger players. The ease of play allows players to cooperate and enjoy the social activity of collectively creating a story, a pastime made easier as players take turns as the Storyteller. Prince Valiant and the other characters are brought to life through Hal Foster’s storytelling and stunning artwork.  Full color, hardcover. NCM2737 Prince Valiant: Episode Book $29.99 SRP A collection from 35 authors Related Products: Prince Valiant (NCM2736) A companion book to the Prince Valiant Storytelling Game, this scenario book features a wealth of short scenarios written by top roleplaying game authors. Each scenario can be used by game masters to run an adventure or to inspire new and exciting stories of their own! Some of the thirty-five exceptional authors and scenarios included within this tome are: The Dán of Glenshire by Emily Care Boss Too Many Tentacles by Ed Greenwood The Mare’s Lamp, by Jeff Grubb Fort Seahawk by Robin Laws Nimue’s Song: A Lady’s Adventure by John Wick & many more! Many brave adventures await your knights inside these pages!  Full color, hardcover.

New from Nocturnal Media! Gladiator: Quest for the Rudis!

Coming Soon!

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Gladiator: Quest for the Rudis

$59.99 SRP

Gladiator: Quest for the Rudis is a tactical level combat card game based on the blood sport that reached its peak of popularity between 75 BC and 63 BC. Gladiators were mostly condemned slaves sentenced to train, and eventually die, in the arena for the entertainment of the Romans. However, Roman citizens and even Roman emperors opted to fight as ‘gladiators,’ be it for gold or glory. But it was only those slaves whose fates were to live life as gladiators who quested for the rudis. The rudis was nothing more than a symbolic wooden sword, and yet it represented the ultimate prize to a slave-gladiator; it meant fame and possibly fortune but most of all it meant...freedom.

Gladiator: Quest for the Rudis places you on the sandy floor of the arena, in the role of a slave gladiator with deadly attacks and deft defenses at your disposal. Play as a light gladiator, protected only by cloth padding and a piece of leather, but with maneuverability to strike at an unprotected flank or back; or don the manica, ocrea and helmet of the heavy gladiator, wearing metal armor and carrying a large rectangular shield, a 22-pound scutum, making you a stalking, nearly impregnable, death dealer. Grimace as the curved blade of your opponent’s sica slashes the chest of your mighty murmillo after the defense that you selected fails to avoid the attack selected by your opponent! You choose the attacks, select your defense and counters as you control one of the sixteen individually rated gladiators in the game. Will you claim the rudis and your freedom or be doomed to die before the crowds of Rome?

2-6 players

Ages 12+

Components:

16 Gladiators (4 murmillo, 4 secutor, 4 retiarius, 4 thraex)

130 Unique Attack and Defense cards

100 Arena Action cards

30 Fate cards

10 Summa Rudis (Chief Referee) cards

20” x 20” Arena game board

64 One-Inch high quality counters

32-page Full Color rule book