To kick off the year, we wanted to share with you all a first look at two hot new roleplaying games we have coming in the second half of 2024...

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The cover for Through The Hedgerow: A Roleplaying Game of Rustic Fantasy, with art depicting a glowing doorway naturally formed out of the roots and branches of trees and four highlighted scenes surrounding it: WW2 planes flying over a golden cornfield, a viking longship sailing past a burning village, an English Civil War witchfinder riding past a hangman's noose in the dead of winter, and a steam train rolling past a field full of flowers

THROUGH THE HEDGEROW:
A ROLEPLAYING GAME OF RUSTIC FANTASY
Written by Jonathan Rowe & illustrated by Peter Johnston

A fantasy roleplaying game of hope and heroism in which gifted mortals and Fay creatures fight across time in an eternal battle for the soul of the countryside.

Through the Hedgerow is a fantasy roleplaying game of time travel and supernatural adventure set in the hidden world of the countryside. As Knights of the Briar Company, you are Champions of the Light, charged with protecting the soul and magic of the land against the agents of the Dark, who seek only destruction and chaos. This eternal battle is fought throughout history, from the war-torn Dark Ages and 17th Century to the upheaval of the Industrial Revolution and World War Two.
As one of the Fay – sorcerous birds, animated scarecrows, intelligent spiders, and other beings –
you may be sworn to defend humanity. Or, as a mortal marked by destiny and plucked from your own time, you might be caught up in this struggle. One way or another,
you must step through the hedgerow to face the Darkness…

 An illustration of a WW2 officer with a strangely wolfish grin striding through a forest, holding a whistle and a whip, leading a hunting party of unsettling humanoid and oversized animals

Through the Hedgerow uses an innovative Checks & Challenges system that encourages players
to contribute to the unfolding narrative, and which makes wits, imagination, charm, and mysticism
as important to overcoming problems as combat. Seek out powerful magical treasures,
safeguard legendary locations, and outwit and outfight the servants of the Dark – wicked Fay lords,
fanatical witch hunters, scheming hags, and the brooding Raven Margrave
whose undead hordes bring death to the land…

SEPTEMBER 2024.

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An illustration depicting a figure in a trench coat and hat walking down a street with old-fashioned lampposts, all bathed in blue tones, while at the end of the street in the distance a black, leafless and twisted tree is surrounded by red and towers over everything else

THE TERROR BENEATH:
AN INVESTIGATIVE ROLEPLAYING GAME OF WEIRD FOLK HORROR
Written by Scott Malthouse & illustrated by Brainbug Design

An investigative roleplaying game of horrors both ancient and modern, inspired by the works of Arthur Machen and powered by the GUMSHOE system.

Britain at the dawn of the 20th century. In the depths of the countryside, cults celebrate ancient rites in hidden clearings and caverns, beasts of legend emerge from their lairs to prey upon the unwary, and powerful beings of folklore and myth stir once more. In the urban sprawl of London and other cities, secret societies struggle for power and dominance, rogue alchemists pursue occult ambitions, and scientists fuse modern technology with ancient mysticism to create new horrors.

 An illustration of two investigators cornered in an alley by assailants with occult symbols painted on their backs An illustration of a deserted countryside church with a crow perched on a tombstone

This is the world of The Terror Beneath, an investigative roleplaying game inspired by the works
of the master of horror, Arthur Machen. It is into this world that players will step as unwitting investigators, plucked from amongst an oblivious populace by fate, malice, or blind fortune
and set against the machinations of hidden cults, the creations of mad scientists,
or the unknowable motives of ancient terrors.

The Terror Beneath is powered by the GUMSHOE roleplaying system, designed specifically
to tell stories of mystery and investigation. With less emphasis on finding clues and more
on interpreting them correctly, an investigation never stalls due to a critical clue being missed,
but gives the heroes all the information they need to keep moving inexorably towards
the horrors at the heart of the plot...

OCTOBER 2024.

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