GURPS Magical Styles: Dungeon Magic

Stylish Spell-Slingers

Some traditional fantasy wizards learn their art as apprentices to archmages, some attend formal academies, and still others are guided by philosophies rather than teachers. This influences what spells and tricks of the trade the magic-user learns, and what guild, brotherhood, or order he eventually joins. Two equally talented mages might master specialties so different that they have little more in common with each other than with non-wizardly spellcasters such as clerics and shamans.

GURPS Magical Styles: Dungeon Magic aims to bring such depth to GURPS Dungeon Fantasy. It applies the rules and guidelines in GURPS Thaumatology: Magical Styles to cook up seven sorcerous societies that suit any dungeon-delving campaign:

• The Fluidists, easygoing philosophers who seamlessly merge air, water, and movement magic into a unified "flow."
• The Guild of Iron Mages, conservative guildsmen whose magic complements skill at forging and wielding weapons of war.
• The Old School, secretive traditionalists adept at curses, necromancy, and other black magic.
• The Order of the Sun, masters of big-bore magical devastation . . . meaning anything that burns or explodes!
• The Sisters and Brothers of Echoes, peaceful idealists who use magic to promote the arts and brotherhood.
• The Tower of Pentacles, wisdom-seeking thaumatologists with the thankless job of maintaining the magical balance.
• The Wizards of the Mirrored Gaze, enchantresses and illusionists out to bend society to their power-hungry will.

Each group comes with a magical style, unique spells and materials, and design notes explaining everything. But that's not all! You also get a great deal of additional color (views, alliances and rivalries, regalia and armaments, and more) and a character template suitable for use in GURPS Dungeon Fantasy or any high-powered fantasy. Just the thing for gamers who want to avoid "cookie-cutter" wizards, add wizardly politics to their adventures, or run an all-wizards campaign!

44-page PDF. Stock #37-1655, $7.99.

Pyramid #3/64: Pirates and Swashbucklers

All That's Missing Is a Parrot!

Set sail for adventure upon the seven seas . . . or above the spectacular skies, or among sword-and-sorcery associates! This month's Pyramid -- the PDF magazine for roleplayers -- hoists the Jolly Roger and swings from a chandelier to find maritime muses in unlikely ports. This issue's buried treasure includes:

• "Swords Against Evil," Sean Punch's expansion of swashbuckling selections for GURPS Dungeon Fantasy. Get four new template options, over a dozen weapons that'll give them an "edge," and insight into power-up possibilities.
• "Scurvy-Dog Sorcery," a new magical style from Jason "PK" Levine. See how these sea-dogs' spell lists help them find favor among the waves, and unleash three new GURPS secret spells.
• "The Spanish Prisoner," this month's Eidetic Memory offering from David Pulver, the island explorer responsible for GURPS Banestorm: Abydos. Gather a crew and explore the Caribbean in this history-hued adventure (complete with GURPS stats for the folks with whom you'll cross paths -- and swords).
• "The Qanat Pirates of Old Than," an incredible campaign framework from Matt Riggsby (of GURPS Locations: Hellsgate and other exotic ports). Take your seafaring underground in this exciting magical realm . . . and use the included deck plans and map to keep your tales on track!
• "Sailing the Open Skies," an expansion for GURPS Spaceships that shows that, for a good captain, the sky's the limit! Build your air-sailing vessels using the provided options, or take one of the four prebuilt versions to feel the wind in your face faster than ever.

This month's Pyramid also has a Random Thought Table that shows how you can be a likable nefarious pirate, plus larger player-suitable handouts of the airship maps. With this issue, you'll need time at a tavern to figure out how you're going to use all this wondrous booty!

39-page PDF. Stock #37-2664, $7.99.

Munchkin (Reprint)

Go down in the dungeon. Kill everything you meet. Backstab your friends and steal their stuff. Grab the treasure and run.

Admit it. You love it.

Munchkin is the mega-hit card game about dungeon adventure . . . with none of that stupid roleplaying stuff. You and your friends compete to kill monsters and grab magic items. And what magic items! Don the Horny Helmet and the Boots of Butt-Kicking. Wield the Staff of Napalm . . . or maybe the Chainsaw of Bloody Dismemberment. Start by slaughtering the Potted Plant and the Drooling Slime, and work your way up to the Plutonium Dragon . . .

And it's illustrated by John Kovalic!

Fast-playing and silly, Munchkin can reduce any roleplaying group to hysteria. And, while they're laughing, you can steal their stuff.

168 cards, one six-sided die, and a rulesheet. Stock #1408, UPC 837654320310. $24.95.

Car Wars Expansion Set 10 - Deluxe Wheelie

Get Behind the Wheel!

This set contains the Car Wars Deluxe Wheelie, plus all the counters from Dueltrack and from Car Wars Expansion Sets 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 -- over 170 counters!

This handy device keeps track of your speed and Handling Class -- and it has a complete Control Table as well. No more little markers to lose or get blown around by random sneezes!

This downloadable edition of the Deluxe Wheelie includes two versions: the original 1986 release, and an updated model that includes revisions from Car Wars Classic and the Second Edition of Car Wars Compendium.

13-page PDF. Stock #30-7125, $3.99.

GURPS Social Engineering: Pulling Rank

Show Them Who's Boss

While the Rank advantage looks wonderful on paper, it doesn't do much as written. To make an organization work for you, you need to buy it as a Patron. Even then, the benefits of a Patron are only slightly better defined than those of Rank – and unlike Rank, Patrons come in just four levels (6 or less through 15 or less), making it hard to represent fine-grained hierarchies where seniority brings "pull." Wouldn't it be nice to get the best of all worlds . . . not to mention more detail?

Such is the mission of GURPS Social Engineering: Pulling Rank. It expands on the Pulling Rank rules first seen in GURPS Action 1: Heroes, adds the more nuanced reading of Rank found in GURPS Social Engineering, and delivers a system that lets you know the odds of using your Rank to summon a specific kind of assistance. Highlights include:

• Instructions for replacing organizational Patrons with Rank and associated advantages and Duties.
• Rules for using Rank to make things happen, taking into account story, situation, and personal abilities.
• Examples of specific aid – from invitations to the ball, through being sprung from prison, to fire support.
• Thoughts on Rank in the campaign: what kinds exist, how many levels PCs can buy, what it means for NPCs, supernatural varieties, and more.

If you've always craved a campaign where the heroes work within the system, seeking believable social position rather than bigger and badder combat abilities, then GURPS Social Engineering: Pulling Rank is for you. Nothing makes promotion quite as attractive as knowing that it brings real power!

21-page PDF. Stock #37-1667, $5.99.

Munchkin Icon Patch

It's a Munchkin patch for the minimalist crowd!

Official Rules

1. The Munchkin Patch must be sewn to a visible article of clothing you are wearing. Just having the patch confers no bonus!

2. Once per game, when another player uses a Curse, Trap, or Disaster on you, you may reflect it back at him by saying "No, don't throw me into that ol' Munchkin Patch!" You must brandish your Munchkin Patch at him as you say this.

3. If you have different styles of Munchkin Patch, you can use each patch once. Multiple copies of the same patch do not give you extra uses!

One embroidered patch. Stock #9315, $5.00.

Munchkin Zombies 4 – Spare Parts

Once More Unto The Brain, Dear Friends

The undead munchkins return once more in this 56-card expansion for Munchkin Zombies, with a bunch of new ways to get those pesky survivors and eat their braaaaaaaiiiins! Take on a new Power, Solo, and show the other zombies on the block who's boss. Pick up the Spare Parts and Bowling Gloves and take on Your Ex-Roommate! Get Your Second Wind so you can defeat the formidable Surgeon General, but make sure you don't get hit with Curse: Dead Heat!

This is an expansion for Munchkin Zombies. It is not a stand-alone game.

56 cards in a tuckbox. Stock #1493, UPC 837654321966. $10.95.

+6 Bag o' Munchkin Zombies

Show off your brain-eating munchkinosity in style! Use these six Munchkin zombie pawns in your Munchkin games . . . or in any game! Use them to mark your place, and get some special munchkiny benefits while you're at it. Based on the Munchkin Zombies illustrations by John Kovalic.

Six plastic Munchkin Zombies pawns in six different colors and two cards, polybagged with a punched header card. Stock #5568, UPC 837654321980. $6.95.

GURPS Magical Styles: Dungeon Magic

Stylish Spell-Slingers

Some traditional fantasy wizards learn their art as apprentices to archmages, some attend formal academies, and still others are guided by philosophies rather than teachers. This influences what spells and tricks of the trade the magic-user learns, and what guild, brotherhood, or order he eventually joins. Two equally talented mages might master specialties so different that they have little more in common with each other than with non-wizardly spellcasters such as clerics and shamans.

GURPS Magical Styles: Dungeon Magic aims to bring such depth to GURPS Dungeon Fantasy. It applies the rules and guidelines in GURPS Thaumatology: Magical Styles to cook up seven sorcerous societies that suit any dungeon-delving campaign:

• The Fluidists, easygoing philosophers who seamlessly merge air, water, and movement magic into a unified "flow."
• The Guild of Iron Mages, conservative guildsmen whose magic complements skill at forging and wielding weapons of war.
• The Old School, secretive traditionalists adept at curses, necromancy, and other black magic.
• The Order of the Sun, masters of big-bore magical devastation . . . meaning anything that burns or explodes!
• The Sisters and Brothers of Echoes, peaceful idealists who use magic to promote the arts and brotherhood.
• The Tower of Pentacles, wisdom-seeking thaumatologists with the thankless job of maintaining the magical balance.
• The Wizards of the Mirrored Gaze, enchantresses and illusionists out to bend society to their power-hungry will.

Each group comes with a magical style, unique spells and materials, and design notes explaining everything. But that's not all! You also get a great deal of additional color (views, alliances and rivalries, regalia and armaments, and more) and a character template suitable for use in GURPS Dungeon Fantasy or any high-powered fantasy. Just the thing for gamers who want to avoid "cookie-cutter" wizards, add wizardly politics to their adventures, or run an all-wizards campaign!

44-page PDF. Stock #37-1655, $7.99.

Munchkin Triple Play Set 1

Three mini-expansions to spice up your Munchkin sets!

• Naughty & Nice: Add some holiday spirit to your Munchkin game!
• Skullkickers: The hit Image comic comes to Munchkin!
• Fish & Ships: More Ships and more Sharks for Munchkin Booty!

These are expansions for Munchkin. They are not stand-alone games. The packs inside are neither collectible nor randomized.

45 cards, rulesheet. Stock #4241, UPC 837654322086. $15.95.

Munchkin Journal Pack 1

Chronicle all your adventures, secret plots, and laundry lists in the Munchkin Journals! Three pocket journals, one each with covers from Munchkin, Star Munchkin, and Munchkin Cthulhu. Plus a new Munchkin card!

Three 48-page pocket journals, one new Munchkin card. Stock #5573, UPC 837654322062. $9.95.

Munchkin Triple Play Set 2

Three mini-expansions to spice up your Munchkin sets!

• Easter Eggs: Bunnies and chocolate and monsters and treasure!
• Penny Arcade: The hit webcomic comes to Munchkin!
• Space Ships: Just what every Star Munchkin needs: Ships!

These are expansions for Munchkin. They are not stand-alone games. The packs inside are neither collectible nor randomized.

45 cards and rulesheet. Stock #4242, UPC 837654322093. $15.95.

Zombie Dice 3 – School Bus

The living call it the School Bus. The zombies call it a lunch wagon.

Add the School Bus die to your Zombie Dice game for all sorts of craziness! The School Bus is full of tasty brains, but those kids are packing shotguns, too. You might find yourself chowing down on a brain buffet, chasing runners off the bus, getting run over, or getting double-shotgunned!

This is an expansion for Zombie Dice. It is not a stand-alone game.

A 12-sided school bus die, 14 brain and shotgun counters, rulesheet. Stock #131334, UPC 837654322017. $8.95.

Munchkin Apocalypse 2 – Sheep Impact

It's The End Of The World . . . Again

Have even more fun bringing about the End Times with 106 new cards for Munchkin Apocalypse! Arm your hardened survivor with the Patriot Axe and Ketchup Gas to take on the The Thawed Reich! Protect yourself with the Bomb Suit and Survival Manual, or the Antisocial Media will end you prematurely! Watch out for Disaster! Velocirapture! and terrifying new Seals like The Singularity! Play a new Class, the Daredevil, and thumb your nose at apocalyptic peril!

Sheep Impact is an expansion set; you will need Munchkin Apocalypse to play.

106 new cards for Munchkin Apocalypse. Stock #1504, UPC 837654322024. $19.95.

Munchkin Apocalypse Kill-O-Meter

The best Munchkin fights are the ones where everyone plays cards to keep the levels bouncing up and down! But it can be hard to keep track. Now you'll never have to stop and recount again!

With the Munchkin Apocalypse Kill-O-Meter, whenever a card hits the table, you turn the dials to keep track of your new total. You don't have time to stop and count when the world is coming to an end . . .

The Munchkin Apocalypse Kill-O-Meter comes with two special Munchkin Apocalypse bonus cards -- and since the dials can be read from either side, we put the munchkin survivors on one side and their foes on the other.

One two-sided combat counter and two Munchkin Apocalypse cards. Stock #5572, UPC 837654322048. $6.95.