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Vulgar Display of Magic

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Price
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Horns up for every hesher who ever tossed dice, knocked that punk ass lich-king's head clean off his shoulders and then looted all of his sweet, sweet magic crap - this is the zine for you!

Following up on the success of RPG zines Magic and Shit and The Phylactery series, Planet X Games is stoked to bring you a gnarly new zine dedicated to weird fantasy spells and eldritch wizardry with a heavy metal vibe. 

 

About the book:

 

Vulgar Display of Magic is a high-octane fanzine is stacked with a ton of new plug-n-play content that you can drop directly into your fantasy roleplaying games. No endless rambling charts or useless page-filler to suck up space - just the usual grindhouse-style content infused with some denim and leather love for the 70s-80s metal scene. 

As a direct follow up to the previous metal RPG zine Magic and Shit, the spells and eldritch rituals in this zine have been designed to bring something a little weird and altogether new to your campaign, while still giving a knowing nod to the games of yore that we all love and remember so fondly.

What will your players do when confronted with the Call of the Moldwalker? Dare they cast Dweomerclasm or face the consequences of the Blessing of the Black Brine? What the hell is an Oath of Nooses or a Prismatic Crucible? Dare they summon the dread powers of Virmak's Shroud of Many Eyes or Huculak's Caustic Doom

Vulgar Display of Magic contains a slew of new spells and eldritch rituals that are fully detailed and ready to play at your table. This isn't one of those books where you get a couple of lines about statistics and then we move on - we're giving you full descriptions, a little history and a plug-n-play plot hook for every entry, along with killer art by Magic the Gathering fan favorite artist Phil Stone.

The cliche "don't judge a book by its cover" doesn't apply to Vulgar Display of Magic, because what you see is absolutely what you get! The entire zine has a feel and aesthetic that is directly influenced from our favorite metal albums. We wanted it to have the same feel as popping the shrink on a newly purchased copy of Black Sabbath's Master of Reality or Slayer's Seasons in the Abyss, with no guess as to what might actually be inside aside from pure metal madness. 

Vulgar Display of Magic is a love letter to the heavy metal albums of the 80's and 90s. We're channeling Metallica's Ride the Lightning, Pantera's Cowboys From Hell and Prong's Beg to Differ. We're disciples at the altar of legendary cover artists like Doug Johnson, Derek Riggs, Pushead, Joe Petagno, Vincent Locke and Ed Repka. Eddie, Snaggletooth, Iron Mask and Vic Rattlehead are our co-pilots! 

 

The Team:

 
Written by Levi Combs
Color cover by Ed Bickford
Interior art and contributions by Adrian Landeros, Ala Fedorova, Chris Carman, Edwin Bickford, Dan Smith, Je Shields, Casey Christofferson, and Lawrence Hernandez
Layout and design by Tracey Steele

 

48 pages, saddle-stitched zine, 5.5 x 8.5, color cover, black & white interior. PDF included. 

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The Phylactery #4

Format:Print + PDF
Price
$12.00

The Phylactery is BACK! The creative team at Planet X Games has put together yet another issue and we're bringing the heat with an all new FOURTH installment. Its bigger, badder and louder in every respect, with the same heart and feel of the old school fantasy RPGs we grew up playing back in the day.

Every issue of The Phylactery is PACKED FULL with page after page of fantasy adventure, and The Phylactery 4 is no different! Every issue of The Phylactery is meant to be a quick and easy resource that you can pull ideas and plot hooks from for use directly at your gaming table. There’s no fluff in here and nothing padding out the page count - just pure old school goodness created exclusively for the fantasy gaming community. Like every issue, we have absolutely JAM-PACKED a ton of RPG goodness in here for you.

 

Includes:

  • New Adventure Locations like Hellgrim Hall, The Citadel of the Broken Pact and The Temple of the Eye, illustrated by Alex Damaceno and Dan Smith
  • Forgotten Secrets of the Deepearth - What Lurks Beneath the Sunlit World?
  • Heresies of Pain - Tuon, the God of Torment (Including All-New Spells and Magical Items)
  • Evil Books and Eldritch Tomes
  • Secrets from the Lich's Crypt
  • TWENTY Wildly Strange Rumors Overheard in Raucous Festhalls, Lonesome Taverns and Wayward Inns Across the Land
  • An All-New Selection of Forgotten Gods, Lost Deities and Minor Godlings
  • FOUR All-New, Fully Illustrated Monsters 
  

The Team:

 

Dedicated to Doug Rhea

Written by Levi Combs, John Larson, and Ian McGarty
Color cover by Ed Bickford
Interior art and contributions by Ed Bickford, Cheese Hasselberger, Lawrence Hernandez, Adrian Landeros, Je Shields, Dan Smith, and Eric Smith
Cartography: Alex Damaceno Dan Smith
Layout: Tracey Steele
8GDWS: Casey Christofferson
Bitchin’ Space Camaro: Lawrence Hernandez
Layout and design by Tracey Steele

Publisher: Planet X Games

 

48 pages, saddle-stitched zine, 5.5 x 8.5, color cover, black & white interior. PDF included. 

 

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Epic Levels Armor Classy CDungeon

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Monsters! Mazes! Murder hobos & minotaurs!

The Epic Levels full length Fantasy RPG rap album Armor Classy and Mini Dungeon.

This amazing artifact is both a compact disc of the music, and also a full-color compact dungeon adventure that’s based on the album’s songs and a visit to Wisconsin oddity attraction, The House on the Rock. The included system-agnostic mini-adventure features a 10 room dungeon crawl, and is suitable for characters of any level.


Adventure overview: 


Jordana Lex is throwing one of her famous swingin’, groovy, lounge parties in her space-age bachelor pad mansion. This year’s theme is “armor classy,” where warriors are encouraged to indulge in fun-loving hedonism, modernity, art, music & fashion. Come to mingle, or test your might in her deadly mansion to claim her latest acquisition, the DMG Codex.

Beef up your armor and weapons before you fight your way through diabolical cocktail parties, skeletal mammoths, tengu assassins, a satyr sorcerer, unicorn-headed nymphs, trippin’ liches, a carousel gauntlet, minotaur playboys, a whale vs. kraken fight, and musical puzzles to solve.


Armor Classy the album:


Monsters! Mazes! Murder hobos & minotaurs! Epic Levels’ debut album Armor Classy meets at the inspired intersection of hip hop and Dungeons and Dragons. The lyrics of the two MCs, Dragon Warrior and Tiger Wizard, are punctuated with clever RPG wordplay for those in the know, yet they invite the casual listener to have fun exploring their astonishing sonic universe.

They breathe life into eclectic topics such as stealing the dank stank off of a dapper minotaur and a mad chef’s quest for the perfect leviathan calamari. Members of Epic Levels have shared bills with Washed Out, Arrested Development, Belle and Sebastian, Amanda Palmer, Hospitality, Pile & Single Mothers.

Listen to the album on Shopify!




The Team:


Epic Levels is a multi-hyphenate that started as a comedy fantasy rap outfit that has begun an mini-empire with the Mad Dungeon podcast, game accessories, apparel, and book publishing all under the same banner. Obsessive tabletop gamers, the members of Epic Levels have spent their lives exploring the dark arts of nerdom.

Dragon Warrior (he/him), aka Steve Albertson, is a writer, musician and filmmaker. He’s been fronting bands for decades (SPs, illiterates, SEX BBQ, Dr. Killbot), always bringing his nerd empowerment lyrics front and center. He’s held many titles: a co-creator and writer of the Image Comics mini-series Ghost Spy, host of the podcast Total Movie Recall, has directed/produced shorts films, music videos and documentaries, and is an owner of Baby Robot Media and Baby Robot Records.

Tiger Wizard (he/him), aka Andrew Bellury, is an artist, graphic designer and printing professional.  He’s one of the founders of the Atlanta art gallery MINT, and a published hand lettering artist and calligrapher. Andrew loves drawing monsters. His design and print work for film and TV can be seen in Game Night, Baby Driver, Stranger Things, Loki, Watchmen, the Gifted and many more. He owns and operates Fallen Arrows, a T-Shirt printing company that caters to the TTRPG community. He’s the founder of the ATL Sorcery & Wizarding League, the creator of Wizard Cat Hats, Esoteric Tiger Retro Occult Clothing line, and Dragon Spittle: homestyle spicy tequila. Andrew is also a pretty nice guy that loves IPA’s, Heavy Metal magazines from the 90’s, his cat Yara, and his wonderful wife Becky.

Warlock Roc (they/them), aka DJ Robbie Darko, aka Rob Bellury (Lille, Little Horn, SEX BBQ) is Tiger Wizard’s sibling and Epic Levels’ engineer/producer and co-host of the Mad Dungeon podcast. As a bass player, they’re no stranger to being the backbone and guide to musical projects. After honing their skills with the mouse and keyboard by devastating competitive games like Counterstrike, World of Warcraft and League of Legends, they’ve translated that talent into creating beats and producing dope tracks.


Credits:

Armor Classy CDungeon adventure:


Art & layout: Tiger Wizard
Written by: Steve Albertson
Album Cover Artwork by: Ambrose H. Hoilman & Tiger Wizard
Additional artwork by: Ambrose H. Hoilman, Michael Mauldin & Tiger Wizard



Armor Classy album:


Written and performed by: Dragon Warrior (Steve Albertson) & Tiger Wizard (Andrew Bellury)
Engineer, producer, backup vocals: Warlock Roc (Rob Bellury)
Additional vocals: Grace Bellury, DJ Black Sunshine & Teresa Lamaire
Mixed by: Cody Sciara (Wale, Curren$y, August Alsina)
Mastered by: Rob Kleiner (Cee Lo, Sia, Flo Rida, Deadpool OST)
Beats were crafted by: DJ Robby Darko, Adam Sprague and Inner Resting, aka Mason Grant.
Album Cover Artwork by: Ambrose H. Hoilman & Tiger Wizard
Recorded in Atlanta, GA



Accolades:


"They do so many excellent creative things. You make very distinct maps. They're all different, which I love. They are Epic. Enjoy their cool art."
- Dragon Talk podcast #390 (official D&D podcast of WoTC)


"A banger that recalls Deltron 3030, Open Mike Eagle, MegaRan with hints of Fresh Prince, and shouts out to Castle Ravenloft, The Rolling Stones has a lyrical nod to Eazy-E, etc. This one will have you rollin’ those D20s."
- Ghettoblaster Magazine


Purchase includes album consisting of one compact disc and one 14 page, full color adventure insert. PDFs not included. 

9 Lives to Valhalla + PDF

Price
$15.00

Nine lives to stalk the earth!

Nine times to die with sword in paw!

Nine Lives to Valhalla!

 

You are a death metal viking cat, earning your place in the drinking halls of Valhalla by casting a wake of blood and carnage upon the blighted earth in each of your 9 lives. Guided personally by DEATH, your merry band will leave a wake of ruin ending only at the hands of a truly worthy foe. Find treasures, trade with merchants, mercenaries, or ghosts, and follow DEATH to seek worthy foes, fiendish traps, and ensure your place among the greatest warriors of catkind!

 

About the game:


Designed for fast-paced, high energy play, 9 Lives to Valhalla is a standalone, rules-light tabletop rpg for 2-6 players in the classic tradition of animal adventurers in a surprisingly dark fantasy world. It’s perfect for over-the-top livestreams, single-session games at your kitchen table, and joining your friends on a journey of brutal ferocity as you rampage through a cursed landscape against anyone who would resurrect ancient tyrannies.


Key Features:

 
  • An original rule set designed for high speed carnage across a post-human landscape, playing as a member of a cat warband or DEATH itself, where every roll of the dice is a life on the line - sometimes even the GM’s!
  • All new original art depicting the inhabitants of the Age of Beasts including cat vikings, mouse knights, and leash-worshipping dog sorcerers!
  • A full spate of blessings from the Panthera Pantheon for your Cat to earn through glorious death, including Witches Sight, Rustum’s Darting Flame, and Eyes that Burn as Stars!
  • Everything you need to make magickal, armored, giant, and tricky foes on the fly, from hummingbird assassins to skeletal dragons.
  • Guidance on how to discuss tone, establish boundaries, and adjust situations on the fly to help all players enjoy an evening of outrageous ultra-violence.
  • A printable character sheet with combat reference to track your warrior cat's blessings, deaths, and hated nemesis.
  • A full pantheon of great cats, a world of strangers and traders, and plenty of treasure to drive your game!"
 

The Team:

 

Written by Kali Lawrie and Dan Phipps.

 

 32 pages, A5 saddle stitched zine, color throughout. Includes PDF.

 

Also check out the adventure for 9 Lives to Valhalla, The Wreck of the Murderous! 

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Die Hard meets Alien in this thrilling escape from a hijacked station, made for the Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG.

In Dying Hard on Hardlight Station, your team of grizzled PCs will be torn between saving friends locked in the Healthtek facility or crawling to freedom in the vents of the corporate-controlled Hardlight Station, all while avoiding capture by the brutal Blackshield Mercenary Company. However, unbeknownst to all, Blackshield’s invasion has caused the containment protocols at the Healthtek facility to malfunction. Now, in the bowels of the station, something horrible has awoken, and, after a long, torturous sleep, hungers to feed.

Dying Hard on Hardlight Station is a 28-page, full-colour adventure zine designed to work as a one-shot, mini-series, or as a part of your ongoing Mothership (or any other Sci-Fi RPG) campaign. Its control panel layout is table-ready and packed with efficient, evocative details big on imagination and light on overlong prose; each page is stuffed with unique locations, scheming NPCs, and terrifying horrors on the hunt. A night on Hardlight Station is one you won’t soon forget.

Sci-fi mayhem and a horde of haunting horrors await in the pages of Dying Hard on Hardlight Station, including:

  • Four Station Locations - Mapped out and loaded with loot tables, adventure hooks, custom encounters, and interesting NPCs. 
  • Three Original Factions - The Blackshield Mercenary Company, Station Administration Nakatomi Solutions Inc, and Healthtek AG with their ravening Alien Hybrids. Each vying to come out on top in the battle for the station.
  •  The Hardlight Station Gazetteer - a guidebook filled with shops, entertainments, NPCs and jobs for your crew... should anyone survive the initial adventure. 
  • Custom Art and Professional Design - bringing the whole adventure alive in glorious red, black, and white.
  • Hardlight Radio - Three emergency broadcasts, two sci-fi Christmas carols, and three ambient remixes totalling 8 original audio tracks to enhance your games. 
  • GM Screen and Printable Maps - A digital GM reference for key factions and NPCs along with printable maps for your home or virtual tabletop.
  • Adventure The Horror on Tau Sigma 7 - included in the Limited Edition print run only of Dying Hard on the Hardlight Station

 

Credits:

Writing: DG Chapman (The Haunting on Ypsilon 14, Hideo’s World, Journeylands) 
Layout: Eric K. Hill  (Dying Hard on Hardlight Station, Picket Line Tango,  The Third Sector) 
Art: Vil  (Dissident Whispers, Dying Hard on Hardlight Station, A Fistful of Creeps) 
Editing: D. Kenny (Dying Hard on Hardlight Station and Nirvana on Fire) 

 

Choose from 2 options:

Dying Hard on Hardlight Station - Standard 1E Edition Zine +PDF

28 pages, A5 zine, stable bound, full color. PDF included. 

 

Dying Hard on Hardlight Station Bundle - Standard 1E Edition Zine + decrypted/the.nakatomi.papers Zine + PDF

  • Dying Hard on Hardlight Station 1E Standard Edition:

28 pages, A5 zine, stable bound, full color. PDFs included. 

  • decrypted/the.nakatomi.papers Zine - An in-world bonus zine packed with even more original art, compelling story hooks, new monsters, lore, and NPCs for your games. 

32 pages, A5 zine, stable bound, full color. PDF included.

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