Modiphius Entertainment has signed a publishing deal with Paradox Interactive to manage the tabletop roleplaying brand Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition

“We are thrilled to become the official stewards of this incredible roleplaying game,” said Chris Birch, President and CEO of Modiphius. “And we look forward to developing and publishing the official Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition  (V5) tabletop roleplaying game under license from Paradox. We’re committed to providing fans with a truly exceptional range of new products to help them enjoy this rich, exciting world.”

Modiphius has already earned recognition for its hugely successful pre-order and distribution of Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition following its 2017 distribution deal with White Wolf Entertainment. After discussions with Paradox, Modiphius has agreed to oversee all publishing and licensing for V5 tabletop roleplaying games.

Modiphius will be responsible for guiding the plot development running throughout V5 tabletop roleplaying products and ensuring each product is fully approved by both the White Wolf brand team within Paradox, and also with Modiphius own team of V5 experts.

Modiphius is committed to delivering a truly exceptional range for V5 that maintains the high standard of editing, production, and development seen in their other lines. Working with existing White Wolf partners Onyx Path Publishing, Elderwood Academy, Dogmight Games, Nosolorol, Arkhane Asylum, Need Games, Studio 101, By Night Studios, and many more to be announced soon, the team will continue to expand on the diverse product range as well as available languages. Modiphius will work with all partners to ensure major releases are also available at retail.

The White Wolf brand team have completed re-editing the Anarch and Camarilla supplements to go to production early January, with pre-orders shipping in late January for web orders and early March for retail.

Modiphius plans to produce a host of exciting new releases to expand the range for new and old players alike including:

The Fall of London V5 Chronicle (Summer 2019) – London is burning. As the Second Inquisition put the city's Kindred to the torch, your characters wake from torpor. The sensible thing would be to flee now, but before you can leave the capital, you have one last job to do... This campaign is perfect to bring your Vampire players up to speed on the plot developments in Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition or as as a gateway for new players.

V5 Players Guide  (Summer 2019) – A guide to playing different styles of Vampire: The Masquerade to help you play the way YOU want to play, from gritty street level drama to romantic blood opera, complete with advice, new rules, and guidance on using the 5th Edition system to play previous editions of Vampire..

V5 Starter Set - (Christmas 2019) - An introductory starter set containing rules to play a self-contained campaign, with premade characters, handouts, maps, tokens and dice.

The Second Inquisition (Summer 2020) – Discover the plans, strategies, resources, and technologies of the highly secret organisations charged with investigating and eliminating the vampire threat, including Firstlight and the Society of St. Leopold.. This supplement for V5 will give Storytellers everything they need to know about these feared and fearless organisations to provide all manner of covert opposition for your Chronicle, along with advice for Storytellers who want to run chronicles featuring player characters as a well-equipped covert team of Second Inquisition operatives.

Further releases will be announced as they are agreed.

About Modiphius  Entertainment
A UK- based tabletop games publisher, Modiphius Entertainment launched in 2013 with the World War Two horror themed Achtung! Cthulhu universe and went on to create licensed tabletop roleplaying, miniatures, and boardgames for Mutant Chronicles, Thunderbirds, Conan, John Carter of Mars, Infinity, Star Trek Adventures and Fallout: Wasteland Warfare. For more information please visit www.modiphius.com and the V5 pre-order. 

About Paradox Interactive
The Paradox Interactive group includes publishing and internal development of games and licensing of White Wolf’s brands. The publishing operation publishes both internally developed titles and titles developed by independent studios as well as music and books. The game portfolio includes more than 100 titles and Paradox Interactive owns the most important brands, including Stellaris, Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, Crusader Kings, Cities: Skylines, Magicka and Age of Wonders. From the start over ten years ago, the company has published its games all over the world, initially through physical distribution using partners, but beginning in 2006 has primarily distributed digitally using its own publishing arm. The development platform is primarily PC, but the company has released games on console and mobile platforms as well.

Paradox Interactive AB (publ)’s shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm First North Premier under ticker PDX. FNCA Sweden AB is the company’s Certified Adviser. For more information, please visit www.paradoxinteractive.com.

Tabletop publishers interested in working with the Vampire: The Masquerade brand should contact cam@modiphius.com. Freelance artists and writers should contact v5@modiphius.com

​For all other enquiries please message support@modiphius.com

For enquiries about White Wolf and Paradox Entertainment please contact info@white-wolf.com 

Modiphius is pleased to announce the release of the John Carter of Mars Core Rulebook in PDF, our hugely exciting new 2d20 RPG which transports you to the dying world of Mars, for adventures, heroism and romance on the Red Planet.
 
The John Carter of Mars Core Rulebook is available in PDF on Modiphius.net and DriveThruRPG.com. Here's the exciting details!
"My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. As I gazed upon it I felt a spell of overpowering fascination—it was Mars, the god of war, and for me, the fighting man, it had always held the power of irresistible enchantment. As I gazed at it on that far-gone night it seemed to call across the unthinkable void, to lure me to it…" 
Edgar Rice Burrough’s John Carter of Mars: Adventures on the Dying World of Barsoom transports you to the Red Planet of Barsoom, an arid, dying land of ancient civilizations and fearsome creatures. Begin your adventures of romance and heroism using a pulp-action inspired variant of the 2d20 System. Take on the role of heroes as you travel, battle, and romance your way across the wondrous and dangerous world of Barsoom. Play as John Carter, Princess Dejah Thoris, the fearsome Thark warrior Tars Tarkas – or create your own heroes from an exciting variety of options. 

• An overview of Barsoom and its peoples, perfect to introduce new players to the wondrous world of John Carter of Mars. 
• Detailed chapters on Barsoomian technology, creatures and cultures. 
• A new talent focused, narrative variation of the 2d20 System including a step-by-step character generation system designed to create heroes from a variety of backgrounds and concepts. 
• Create a wide variety of characters such as a Dashing Red Martian Duelist, a Brilliant First Born Scientist, a Savage Beastmaster, a Courageous Airship Officer, even Earthborn characters, so players can follow in the bounding footsteps of John Carter himself! 
• A detailed narrator's section filled with information on how to run genre-and-setting appropriate campaigns, including information about the great and terrible secrets of Barsoom. 
• Three eras of play based on the adventures of John Carter himself. Adventure during the Dotar Sojat era, or adventure during the time where Carter became a Prince of Helium and in the years after when he was believed dead, or fight alongside Carter and his allies during the later Jeddak of Jeddaks era. 
• An introductory adventure, the Mind Merchants of Mars, to get players and narrators started on their adventures and immersed in the world of Barsoom

We hope you'll take this chance to explore this fantastic new RPG setting, and if you want to know more be sure to check out the John Carter of Mars Collection, where there's a free Quickstart to sample the game, free character sheets and a host of late KickStarter pledges if you'd like to explore the full print range and accessories.

Modiphius is pleased to announce the release of Conan: Horrors of the Hyborian Age, the latest sourcebook in its epic Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed of RPG which provides in-depth storylines and statistics for the fearsome gods and monsters which inhabit Conan's world.
 
Conan: Horrors of the Hyborian Age is available in PDF from Modiphius.net as part of our Conan Collection and also on DriveThruRPG.com. Here's the exciting details!
 
THOSE EYES GREW AND BECAME GIGANTIC, AND IN THEM THE CIMMERIAN GLIMPSED THE REALITY OF ALL THE ABYSMAL AND BLASPHEMOUS HORRORS THAT LURK IN THE OUTER DARKNESS OF FORMLESS VOIDS AND NIGHTED GULFS.
 
Horrors of the Hyborian Age is the definitive guide to the monstrous creatures inhabiting the dark tombs, ruined cities, forgotten grottos, dense jungles, and sinister forests of Conan’s world. This collection of beasts, monsters, undead, weird races, and mutants are ready to pit their savagery against the swords and bravery of the heroes of the Hyborian Age.
 
Drawn from the pages of Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories, this roster also includes creatures and alien horrors from H.P. Lovecraft ’s Cthulhu Mythos, to which Howard inextricably bound his Hyborian Age. Other entries are original, chosen carefully to refl ect the tone and dangers of Conan’s world.
 
A variety of natural creatures, such as wild animals, dinosaurs, and living plant horrors.
 
Elementals, golems, sapient magic circles, and other beings created with deep sorcery.
 
Classic monsters presented with a Howardian flair, such as the siren, vampire, lamia, and mummy.
 
Lovecraftian menaces such as Old Ones, colors from the Outer Dark, dimensional shamblers, shoggoths, and the abominable Tcho-Tcho.
 
The monstrous off spring of the serpent god Set: giant serpents, the children of Yig, and the serpent-folk.
 
New creature qualities and abilities, rules for creating mutations and chimerical horrors, and guidance for handling monsters and creatures in your Conan games.
 
New Beast and Beast Master archetypes and backgrounds, and expanded rules for the Animal Handling skill.
 
Stunning art produced by new and renowned Conan artists.
 
Developed with leading Conan scholars, the creatures here haunt the recesses of the Hyborian world, a menace to the weak as well as the powerful.
 
This book requires the Robert E. Howard’s Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of corebook to use.

Modiphius is pleased to announce the release of a brand new source book for Free League's acclaimed dark fantasy RPG Symbaroum, with the release Yndaros: The Darkest Star.
 
Yndaros: The Darkest Star is available in both print and PDF on Modiphius.net as part of our Symbaroum Collection, and here's the details on this intriguing new source book in which Episode Three of the Chronicle of the Throne of Thorns is set.
  
The shimmering virgin white snow that had fallen during the night lay like a covering blanket over Yndaros’ filth, but guardsman Elgalo knew what hid underneath. Neither the snow nor all who toiled at scrubbing and decorating the streets in honor of the Duchess’ wedding could erase the true rot, no more than they could wash away the shadows.
“My shilling is on the barbarians,” his newly recruited colleague Arala muttered.
Elgalo nodded agreement without really agreeing at all. That someone would try to transform the upcoming celebrations into a bloodbath was inevitable, but the candidates were so many he had a hard time picking a favorite – the elves, the refugees and the fallen templars were all equally close to hand.
It felt as if the kingdom held its breath, as if all Ambrians believed that the alliance with the High Chieftain would smother the many fires that flared hotter and hotter among them. He was of a different opinion…
“Or the Dark Lords,” Arala continued, “if the rumors are true.”
Elgalo made an effort to snort at the idiocy; what came out sounded more like a painful groan. He looked up at the Queen’s palace, cleared his throat and forced a scornful smile.
But the good guardsman did not get to express his contempt; he had not even the time to utter a
single word, before his world ruptured and all was fire.
 

A warm welcome to Yndaros – the aching heart of the Ambrian realm, and the stage where episode three in the Chronicle of the Throne of Thrones plays out. This book features resources for both players and Game Masters, describing a new setting, introducing new rules and presenting an epic adventure where the players’ wits, as well as the characters’ abilities, will be pitted against truly daunting challenges.
 
Featured content:

• The adventure The Darkest Star, taking place during a fateful period in the history of the realm.
• An extended account of Yndaros’ history, activities, factions and conflicts, meant to be read by both players and Game Masters.
• Twenty-five unique establishments where player characters may rest, eat, drink, gather information or seek an audience with local dignitaries.
• A comprehensive chapter for the Game Master, describing what lurks beneath the city’s surface, with plenty of plot hooks to develop into adventures or entire campaigns.
• An introduction to the noble houses of Ambria, an in-depth description of Ceremonial Magic plus plenty of additional rules including new abilities, traits, artifacts, monsters and adversaries.

 

Modiphius is pleased to announce the release of a brand new RPG, Forbidden Lands from the creators of the award-winning RPGs Tales from the Loop, Coriolis - The Third Horizon and Mutant: Year Zero.
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The new Forbidden Lands RPG went down a storm at last weekend's Dragonmeet and this brand new releases comprises a Forbidden Lands core boxed set, Raven's Purge adventure, a GM Screen, a Dice Set and Card Deck, and all are available on Modiphius.net as part of our Forbidden Lands collection.
 
Forbidden Lands Boxed Set
Forbidden Lands is a new take on classic fantasy roleplaying. In this open-world survival roleplaying game, you’re not heroes sent on missions dictated by others - instead, you are raiders and rogues bent on making your own mark on a cursed world. You will discover lost tombs, fight terrible monsters, wander the wild lands and, if you live long enough, build your own stronghold to defend. Contents of the boxed set:
Hardcover Player’s Manual with faux leather covers, including rules for fast character generation, visceral combat, lethal magic, dangerous journeys and for building your own stronghold - easily be ported to your own favorite game world.
Hardcover Gamemaster’s Guide with faux leather covers, including a rich and detailed description of the Forbidden Lands setting, a large illustrated Bestiary, extensive random encounters, and three complete adventure sites.

• The Legends & Adventurers booklet, letting you flesh out your characters and give them unique backgrounds.
• A huge full-color map, giving you the freedom to explore the Forbidden Lands any way you want, hex by hex.
• A sheet with sticker for adventure sites and gravestones, transforming the game map to a living, permanent record of your adventures.

Raven's Purge
It is said that the first six elves of the Forbidden Lands – the ones who planted the trees, drew the furrows of the rivers and gave the animals their home – after completing their mission, had their rubies gathered in the royal crown, Stanengist, the name of which means “The Hanging Stones.” In the crown they rested deservedly, but at the same time, kept watch over their creation and gave advice to their descendants.
Raven’s Purge is an epic campaign module for the Forbidden Lands RPG, written by acclaimed fantasy author Erik Granström. Raven’s Purge is not a linear story and it has no set goal that the adventurers are expected to follow. Instead, it is a rich tapestry of legends, locations, characters and events that the players can interact with in a multitude of ways. Contents of the 224-page hardcover book:
A detailed history and description of the Stanengist elven crown and its elven rubies.
A description of the nine key players of the campaign, who all seek Stanengist.
Eight complete, illustrated adventure sites, playable in any order you want.
An epic campaign finale, giving the adventurers the chance to decide the future of the Forbidden Lands.
GM Screen
This deluxe Gamemaster Screen for the Forbidden Lands roleplaying game is made out of four sections of 3 mm thick hardback, measuring a mighty 688 x 240 mm when unfolded. The outside features beautiful full-color artwork by Alvaro Tapia, and the inside contains charts and tables for easy reference during play.
 
Dice Set
A set of 12 engraved custom dice, designed specifically for the Forbidden Lands roleplaying game. The set includes:

• Four D6 Base Dice
• Three D6 Skill Dice
• Two D6 Gear Dice
• One D8 Artifact Die
• One D10 Artifact Die
• One D12 Artifact Die

These dice support the game mechanics of Forbidden Lands and include the custom symbols used in the game. The dice can also be used as normal dice for any game.
 
Card Deck
This box contains 55 high quality custom cards designed for the Forbidden Lands roleplaying game. The beautifully illustrated cards describe magical artifacts, mounts, and manoeuvers in combat. The cards supplement play and enhance your experience. The deck contains:

• 22 Artifact Cards
• 8 Mount Cards
• 14 Combat Cards
• 10 Initiative Cards
• 1 Reference Card

Modiphius is pleased to announce the release of Conan: The Monolith Sourcebook in PDF, a brand new extension which works with both the award-winning Conan RPG and the hit Conan boardgame from Monolith.
 
Get the most out of Monolith’s Conan boardgame with this essential sourcebook, which is now available on Modiphius.net and DriveThruRPG.com!
 
"CONSIDER WHAT I HAVE TOLD YOU, BARBARIAN,” SAID XALTOTUN. “YOU WILL HAVE PLENTY OF LEISURE. I HAVE NOT YET DECIDED WHAT I SHALL DO WITH YOU. IT DEPENDS ON CIRCUMSTANCES YET UNBORN. BUT LET THIS BE IMPRESSED UPON YOU: THAT IF I DECIDE TO USE YOU IN MY GAME, IT WILL BE BETTER TO SUBMIT WITHOUT RESISTANCE THAN TO SUFFER MY WRATH.” 
 
Since the introduction of fantasy into wargaming, Robert E. Howard’s Conan has loomed large across popular culture, recently inspiring the award-winning Robert E. Howard’s Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of roleplaying game and Monolith’s hit Conan boardgame. Here, for the first time ever, is the crossover between these two games: miniatures and roleplaying adventure meet in the Hyborian Age!          
 
Developed closely with Monolith Entertainment, The Monolith Sourcebook provides players and gamemasters with a host of exciting material: new campaigns for both games, standalone adventures, and advice for creating original boardgame adventures using the roleplaying resources. 
 
A Red Tide to Kush, a complete boardgame campaign with ten new scenarios. 
A solo/cooperative campaign made up of nine new scenarios for the boardgame. 
Shadows from Gulsaggah, a complete roleplaying adventure campaign set in the legendary Black Coast. 
Rules for solo and cooperative play for the boardgame. 
Guidelines for using Conan tiles and roleplaying resources to create new scenarios for the boardgame.
Characters, monsters, equipment, and artifacts, from Amboola the Spearman to Xuthal’s Crown
 
 
Requires two Conan tile sets — Perilous Ruins & Forgotten Cities and Forbidden Places & Pits of Horror — to play; the Conan boardgame King’s Pledge for tabletop action; and the Robert E. Howard’s Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of core rulebook for roleplaying game excitement.
 
We hope you enjoy this latest Conan release and look out for more new Conan PDFs including Conan the Brigand, coming soon!