Welcome to Black Guard Press. We're a small game company specializing in high quality, hand-crafted products. We're just starting out so take a look around and
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Island of Lost Forevers
A new novel by Megan Cutler and James Abendroth
When a mysterious island appears off the coast of San Francisco, two intrepid academics risk everything to discover its secrets. Literature professor Catilen Taylor has struggled all her life with the ability to sense others’ emotions. The only person comfortable with her eccentricities is Damian Cooke. Not just a professor of philosophy, Damian studies an ancient art he calls “magic.”
Beyond the military barricade they discover paradise unspoiled by modern advances. A sanctuary the travelers believe uninhabited, until they meet the island’s enigmatic ruler, who invites them to share the wonders of his bathhouse. Just as Catilen believes she’s put her difficulties behind her, trouble stirs on the island forcing her to reveal and test her empathic abilities.
Is the island the paradise it promises? Or does a nightmare lurk beneath the surface?
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Henchin' Ain't Easy!
Especially when the boss wants this space grease trap cleaned out by the end of your space shift.
You always thought that space would be the final frontier of excitement and adventure. You thought you were going to explore new and exciting worlds and meet strange and interesting members of strange and interesting species.
You were wrong.
At the Restaurant at the Other End of the Univerese, space smells an awful lot like over used grease, stale hamburger buns and B grade meat. The aliens are strange enough but the only really interesting thing about them is how they all seem to have a different reason and way to stiff you on the tip. And the excitement comes with a side of unnecessary mortal danger.
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Henchin' Ain't Easy!
Especially when the boss wants this dungeon cleared by the end of the working day.
Adventuring! Company is looking for motivated adventuring experts. Are you interested in an exciting career in dungeon delving? Do you have what it takes to look danger right in the eye while working with other skilled individuals to overcome it? Do you have what it takes to be an Adventuring! Company Associate? Apply within to find out!
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Henchin' Ain't Easy!
But it's not very fun, either. And the pay is horrible, too. Still, someone's got to clean the carbon deposits from the planet-destroying laser. Those pit traps aren't going to dig themselves. When the super hero or super spy shows up, someone has to buy the evil mastermind enough time to arm the self-destruct device. And how is the captain going to know how deadly that alien creature is if there isn't someone there to be brutally slain by it first?
So, if you're tired of being the protagonist, or even the antagonist of your story, this is the book for you. Inside you'll find all the rules you'll need to play the fodder, minions, thugs, lackeys, henchmen and assorted other kinds of non-essential personnel.
NEP (Non-Essential Personnel) is available now from DriveThruRPG.
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Henchin' Ain't Easy!
But at least with this bundle, it's easy to start. Get the original Non-Essential Personnel rule book and the first adventure - Adventuring! Company, all in one pack for one low price.
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Lost Temple of the Soulless World
A new novel by James Abendroth
An ancient cataclysm on Kreel's world caused the vast majority of the population to become Soulless - undead creatures, some mindless, some fiendishly cunning and powerful. The few survivors managed to hide and live but never thrive. Now, generations later, the glories of that ancient civilization are little more than legends and myths and Kreel's people have learned to survive in the shadows of the Soulless.
But Kreel and his people will have to decide if thair way of life is enough when he discovers an ancient holy place that holds the key to their ancient culture and knowledge. And to complicate matters even more, at almost the same time Kreel discovers the Temple, strangers claming to be from another world arrive with their own goals and agenda.
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The Becoming
A novel by James Abendroth
A seizure brings Jackson Wells into the hospital and to the attention of the brilliant if a bit amoral Dr. Reeves. He also meets the beautiful and exotic nurse Andie Cooper.
Jackson is the perfect candidate to test Reeves' new cure and eager to get back to his life, Wells gladly agrees to serve as the doctor's test patient.
Jackson and Andie discover a growing love that is challenged and strengthened as unexpected complications of the procedure sends Jackson along a path that makes him question who is truly in control of his mind.
As the danger increases, the couple must struggle to survive.