Lair of the Night Thing at a Glance

The perfect introduction to heart-pounding adventure in the world of Planegea!

36-page softcover, featuring incredible full-color maps.

A 5E adventure for four to six 1st-level characters.

The World of Lair of the Night Thing

It is Autumn. Most of the clans of the Great Valley have departed south with the herd animals they depend on for survival. But one small clan lags behind. For seven nights they have been unable to travel, plagued by a terrible monster known as the the Night Thing, which has killed their people and wounded more.

Your party answers the call of dwarf chieftain Skarna Two-Axe, begging hunters from neighboring clans to pursue and kill the monster that’s been attacking her clan, and that slayed her son. Starting at the chieftain’s clanfire, the characters uncover mysteries about the creature that can only be fully solved by tracking the awful Night Thing to its lair, which is full of frightening apparitions. As the party ventures deeper into the Night Thing's lair, they'll discover an even deeper menace, and a plot to overthrow the chieftain. Only they can save Skarna and her people from the grim machinations of their powerful enemies!

Planegea Standard Edition at a Glance

Slay monstrous creatures, navigate clan intrigues, explore ancient ruins, craft enchanted weapons, infiltrate evil cults, battle, build, cast, carouse... everything you love in 5th Edition in a Stone Age World.

New features for player characters, including new sub-classes, new kinships, new spells, new adventuring gear, and new magic items.

A massive, high-quality, full-color hardcover book with over 350 pages of prehistoric goodness!

The Star-Shaman's Song

I will sing to you of bear gods and lion gods and ape gods, of wandering clans trying to stay ahead of the winter, of the doorways into dreams that offer salvation or despair, depending on the whim of the elves on the other side. I will sing to you of kraken cults, of woolly unicorns, of oozes and constructs, of the King of Death himself, in whose halls I have shined my light — the only glow in that infinite darkness.

If you're ready to listen, I'm ready to sing. Let me gather my drum and my string. Are you ready?

Then hear me, and know that I am the Star-Shaman and my song is the song of the land of Planegea …

The first, and wildest, of all worlds!

Planegea Star Shaman (Skew)

A World of Bone & Fire: Planegea

Planegea is primal fantasy roleplaying. Whatever you want to explore in 5E—slaying monstrous creatures, navigating political intrigue, exploring ancient ruins, crafting enchanted weapons, infiltrating evil cults, battling, building, casting, carousing—it’s all here. Planegea rises out of our earliest ancestral memory, a world we can barely recognize, which holds all the adventure we can imagine. You won’t find limitations on class or kinship here; rather, the world is filled with ideas and inspiration for running a long and glorious game set before written words, hammered ore, and plowed fields.

Drawn from the traditions of sword & sorcery pulp adventures, infused with the blood-pounding thrills of the Fury Road, and caught in the jaws of primordial dreams, Planegea has adventures for everyone who ever felt the cold wind raise a chill of hunt and hope on their raw skin.

Nothing is as you expect in Planegea. Elves are shimmering dream-walkers, dwarves are half stone, humans are beast-tamers, halflings are silent stalkers, gnomes are filthy scavengers, and dragonborn are just a heartbeat away from their draconic ancestors.

There are no great, universal gods—only a patchwork quilt of local deities, often appearing in the shapes you least expect, with powers that are bought with offerings and strange favors.

In Planegea, the planes of existence have not yet separated, and a warrior can travel by foot from the Sea of Stars to the infinite, volcanic peak of Blood Mountain; but along the way, that warrior must battle everything from cold alien intelligences to the genie caravans; from the four empires of the giants to the monsters that hunt the howling peaks and roaring oceans that ring the Great Valley; from the cold, bony fingers of the Nightmare World to the terrifying jaws of the jungle known by as the Venom Abyss. Every step of the journey is plagued with danger and death.

What's in the Book?

FOR PLAYERS:

Clanfire & Wilderness, introducing you to the unexpected truths and exciting realities of life in Planegea.

Kinships, revealing the primordial form of familiar faces like the gnomes and godmarked (tieflings), plus four all-new kinships including starlings and saurians!

Classes, including all-new sub-classes.

Backgrounds, twenty primeval 5E backgrounds for customizing your Planegea characters.

Equipment & Trade, including a comprehensive guide for how to adapt any treasure to the Stone Age.

Spells, with dozens of new options for spellcasters!

AND GAME MASTERS:

Planegea Adventures, including wilderness tools, clan tools, and adventure environments for your Stone Age campaigns.

The Primal World, a comprehensive gazetteer detailing everything from Blood Mountain to the World-Fangs; from the Great Valley to the Giant Kingdoms; from Nod to the Kingdom of the Dead.

Factions & Threats, with dozens of enemies and allies for the PCs to encounter in their journeys.

Treasures, including amazing new magic items like the enigmatic basin of dreaming and terrifying apparatus of the mammoth.

Gods & Monsters, including dozens of new monsters and rules for creating your own primal gods!

STOP making SENSE

LET IT GO MAKE IT STOP sixteen free-falling red-headed stepchildren gyrating through the stages of grief. If this makes any sense to you, you'll never know the secret of magick. Magick is what happens when reality refuses to follow your commands until you beat the righteous crap out of it with the force of your unknowable, unstoppable will. Stuff Schroedinger's cat in a burlap bag and throw it off the bridge screaming, already, we've got higher orders of uncertainty to deal with.

This book may contain one or more of the following things:
* recipes for soup
* new schools of magick
* the love letter you should have mailed
* new underground cabals
* how to make semtex
* new artifacts, unnatural creatures, GMCs
* all the ways in which you hate yourself
* the secret history of magick
* the secret history of your mother
* and more, including a secret toy surprise with an occurrance margin of error of +/- 1.

Get your sister's teddy bear and your grandfather's aftershave, because your lesson begins in FIVE FOUR THREE TWO ONE GO

Format: 192 pages, 8.5" x 11", perfect bound
Editor: John Tynes | Cover Artist: Richard Pace

An Ars Magica Sourcebook
Of the four realms of power in Mythic Europe, Magic is at once the most familiar and the most alien. It's the source of power wielded by Hermetic magi, but it cares nothing for human concerns. Elementals are the essence of the elements given form; what are emotions to them? Dragons are ancient beyond belief; why should they concern themselves with the affairs of men? Spirits are bound to the phenomena of the natural world, not to the creations of humanity. And even those humans transformed by Magic have their own strange ambitions, divorced from the petty desires of mortals.

But despite this indifference, creatures and places of Magic are inexorably drawn into the lives of magi, as the members of the Order of Hermes hunt for vis, familiars, covenant sites, and the mysteries of the Magic Realm.

This book shows how to create creatures of Magic of all kinds, as player characters or antagonists. Extensive examples are included, from the Beasts of Virtue that exemplify animals to the spirits of emotions, from great fire-breathing dragons to tiny fire-breathing mice, and from elementals born of matter untouched by human hands to the walking corpses of the unquiet dead. Delve into these pages to uncover the secrets of vis, magic auras, and even the Realm of Magic itself!

Authors: Erik Dahl, Timothy Ferguson, Andrew Gronosky, Richard Love, John Post, Mark Shirley, Andrew Smith, Sheila Thomas
Cover Artist: Grey Thornberry
Format: 144 pages, softcover

A Player's Sourcebook for Ars Magica 5th Edition
God is the patron of the Jewish people, his chosen people, guiding them through history and ultimately back to the Promised Land.

God is three and one, incarnate in Christ His Son, and offers salvation to all equally.

God is pure unity, with no parents or children, saving all who submit to His Will.

God is beyond human understanding, and all the above statements are true.

But the Divine Realm is not completely beyond human comprehension, and this book explains the power of God in Mythic Europe. From descriptions of each of the three great Divine religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, to rules for Divinely-empowered wonder workers and angels, this book contains everything needed to include the Divine in your Ars Magica saga.

Description: 144 pages, softcover
Authors: Adam Bank, Niall Christie, Erik Dahl, Matt Ryan, and Alex White

A Player's Sourcebook for Ars Magica 5th Edition
by Erik Dahl, Timothy Ferguson, Matt Ryan and Mark Shirley

Demons work to corrupt all the people of Mythic Europe. They take on attractive forms, but ultimately they seek to drag all of humanity down into damnation with them. No matter the nation, the creed, or the race, they are the true enemy.

The thirteen chapters of this book cover all of the manifestations of the forces of the Evil One. The purest appearances are the infernal auras, regiones, and vis, all of which taint those who merely come into contact with them.

Almost as pure are the demons of hell. The central section discusses the nine Orders of demons, providing rules for creating your own demons, as well as examples of demons from every Order and with different motivations. Some demons seek to corrupt, others to deceive, and still others simply to destroy.

Finally, there are rules for human characters caught up in Hell's plots. Whether demons have shaped their lives since before birth, or they have foolishly bargained for infernal powers, these chapters show how to use them as foes in your saga.

Be ready to fight, with sword, spell, and faith.

Description: 144 pages, hardcover

The Order of Hermes is supreme, unchallenged in its mastery of magic. All other magicians are hedge wizards ... maybe interesting to researchers, but certainly no threat. Or so magi of the Order tell each other. And most of them actually believe it.

The four traditions in this book prove the folly of that complacency:
* The Amazons, female warrior wizards beyond the borders of Europe, harbor a deep hatred of the Order for reasons that no magus could ever guess.
* The Augustan Brotherhood serves as court wizards, supporting its political ends with mundane force as much as with magic discovered in the tomb of Virgil.
* In the icy north, the Muspelli plot to release their jotun masters and destroy the world in frost and fire.
* And in the the distant east, the powerful Soqotran sorcerers dwell quietly on their island, staying out of politics and looking nervously at the expansionist Order.

How long can the Order of Hermes maintain its pleasant illusion of superiority?

Format: 144 pages, hardcover
Authors: Timothy Ferguson (Soqotrans), Chris Jensen Romer (Augustan Brotherhood), Matt Ryan (Amazons), Mark Shirley (Muspelli)
Cover Artist: Grey Thornberry

The Ascended Sourcebook
They control the world -- in our time, at least.

Seal of the Wheel describes the Ascended, the conspiracy of transformed animals who control the destiny of the modern era. It provides the skinny on their structure and activities, as well as the operations of their mundane lackies, the Pledged, and their puppet organizations, the Order of the Wheel and the Jade Wheel Society.

Within Seal of the Wheel, you will also find:
* New charater types like the Smuggler, Bounty Hunter, and Bodyguard
* The "true" history of the Lodge
* Statistics for Ascended power players like Mr. X, the Unspoken Name, and Reverend Red Glare
* New transformed animal packages
* Feng shui sites controlled by the Ascended
* Funky tech and gadgets
* Brains in jars and an enormous fortress carved from a living iceberg

Editors: Greg Stolze, Jeff Tidball | Cover Artist: Tony Moesley

Format: 128 pages, 8.5" x 11", perfect bound

Once-proud Constantinople has been ravaged by bloodthirsty Crusaders, and has sunken into depravity and ruin. With the fall of the blessed city, ancient magical bindings maintained by Roman relics of the defeated Empire are now shattered and broken, releasing beasts and demons to roam the land. Tales of unseasonal happenings draw eager hunters and curious Seekers alike. Meanwhile, the magi of the Theban Tribunal and their supernatural patrons devote their efforts to maintaining the peace. They struggle against divisions that mirror the age-old battles of the Titans and Olympian gods, who even now stir among their ancient temples and sanctuaries.

The Sundered Eagle contains full details of the Tribunal of Thebes. The lands of ancient Greece and Asia Minor are the home of epic legends and mighty gods of both Faerie and Magic, while the Byzantine Empire has its own myths. The Theban Tribunal's magi and covenants, who govern themselves according to the democratic institutions of ancient Athens, live among plentiful sites of power. Both mundane and supernatural struggles for supremacy over these lands challenge characters to negotiate a maze of Byzantine schemes. Each faction will have the chance to restore peace and unity to the eastern Empire, under its own banner!

Format: 144 pages, hardcover
Authors: Chris Jensen-Romer, Matt Ryan, Mark Shirley, Andrew Smith
Cover Artist: Grey Thornberry

An Ars Magica Adventure Collection
Mythic Europe is a place of heroism and cowardice, honor and betrayal, wonder and horror. Introduce this full range of possibility into your saga's stories with Tales of Mythic Europe, a collection of short adventures for Ars Magica Fifth Edition.

From a ship plagued by a faerie, to a noblewoman plagued by her neighbors. From a village facing a feud, to a town facing unnatural murders. From the godly machinations of churchmen, to the diabolic machinations of demons. Combat, politics, magic, and mystery fill the stories in Tales of Mythic Europe, to help you reach the furthest limits of Mythic Europe in your own game.

Authors: Timothy Ferguson, Mark Lawford, Phil Masters, Matt Ryan, Alexander White
Cover Artist: Grey Thornberry

Format: 168 pages, softcover

An Ars Magica Story Collection

Hermetic magi grow powerful in their age. They can defeat mundane armies single-handed, challenge spirits of fire in their lair, and drive the servants of Hell from their strongholds. No place in Mythic Europe is too distant, and no barrier can keep them out. From the popes and kings who rule to the peasants who till the soil, none may deny a magus for long. Why, then, would magi stay closeted in their laboratories?

With great power comes great stories.
This book contains five stories aimed at powerful magi, covering themes from political intrigue to a war with an Infernalist and his undead minions. When your magi need something more than another vis hunt to motivate them, Tales of Power has the answer.

Format: 144 pages, softcover

Authors: Christian Rosenkjaer Andersen, Mark Faulkner, Timothy Ferguson, Lachie Hayes, Mark Lawford, Matt Ryan

Cover Artist: Christian St. Pierre

An Ars Magica 5th Edition Sourcebook

The magi of Hibernia respect the land and its supernatural inhabitants, granting much of the Tribunal's area to hedge traditions and allowing supernatural creatures a vote at Tribunal. Now, magi from elsewhere in the Order have come to "reform" the Peripheral Code, laying siege to and taking one of the Irish covenants.

If the native magi could stop fighting each other, they would resist.

As English lords push further into the island, and the Church struggles with attempts to make it fit continental ideals, the Order of Hermes faces its own conflict. The traces of past conflicts are everywhere: the faerie Tuatha De Danaan, the magic Fir Bolg and Formorach, and saints as prone to curse as bless. Demons, however, are nowhere to be seen, as constant fighting convulses the Emerald Isle. It is, as ever in Ireland, a time for heroes.

Format: 144 pages, hardcover
Authors: Mark Lawford, Christian Jensen Romer, Matt Ryan, Mark Shirley
Cover Artist: Christian St. Pierre

The Eaters of the Lotus Sourcebook
Lust For Nothing But Power.
The Eaters of the Lotus are back, and these screechy-voiced eunuch sorcerers are looking for trouble! Now encased in a durable hardcover binding, what they've got left to protect -- their secrets -- is better protected than ever.

Atlas Games is pleased to announce the return to print of the rarest and most sought-after Feng Shui sourcebook from the Daedalus era: Thorns of the Lotus! In the year 69 A.D., a conspiracy of eunuch sorcerers manipulate the emperor like puppeteers, and plot to dominate the world -- not only in their own time, but in the centuries to come, now that they've discovered the Netherworld and its paths to the future.

This book describes Gao Zhang, mastermind of the Lotus, and his emasculated co-conspirators, their organization, minions, plans and operations in other junctures, and their own documents and teachings ... as well as featuring running commentary from outside observers. Not a eunuch? Don't worry; you don't have to pay the price of Lotus admission to use this book's creature powers, sorcery schticks, character types, and a ready-to-play adventure!

Author: Rich Warren | Editor: John Nephew Cover Artist: Kagan McLeod
Format: 128 pages, 8.5" x 11", case bound

An Ars Magica Story Supplement

Drop a stone into a pool and watch the ripples spread out.

The prince saves the princess and they marry. But then they have a daughter, and perhaps the faeries are still interested. A saint raises the dead and stops a war, and years later the wealth of the pilgrimage site nurtures a hive of diabolists. A maga recovers a mighty enchantment, and her apprentice accidentally opens a gate to a regio.

Actions have Consequences.

This Ars Magica book contains five sequences of three stories each: issues and situations that cannot be fully resolved in a single story, but which return to draw the characters back in years later. Divine, Infernal, Faerie, and Magic: thematic threads for the tapestry of your saga.

Format: 144 pages, softcover

Authors: Christian Roesenkjaer Andersen, David MacGregor, Christian Jensen Romer, Matt Ryan, Mark Shirley

Cover Artist: Christian St. Pierre

Developed covenenats
The covenant is the heart of an Ars Magica saga. It hides secrets within its Aegis, secrets that may, across the ages, become hidden even from its own members. From the poverty and enthusiasm of Spring, through the glory of Summer, to the stability and power of Autumn, and thence to the decline of Winter, which may turn again to the flowering of Spring.

There's no place like home.
Building a covenant from scratch can be a lot of work for players, as well as magi, so this book provides five fully detailed covenants, one for each season from Spring to Second Spring, each set in a different Tribunal. Whether you use the covenants as a base for your characters, as rivals, or just plunder the library to stock your own, this book is full of material ready for use in your saga.

Format: 160 pages, hardcover

Authors: Christian Rosenkjaer Andersen, Mark Lawford, Richard Love, Christian Jensen Romer
Cover Artist: Christian St. Pierre

An Ars Magica 5th Edition Sourcebook

Hermetic magic has the power to change the world. A magus fresh from apprenticeship can create a land to rule where there was nothing but ocean. Magic can replace much of the back-breaking labor typical of the medieval world. Even without changing their use of magic, magi could upend the structure of society by involving themselves in its problems and politics. But magi avoid such activities. They know the risks involved, and do nothing that might upset the status quo of Mythic Europe.

Except when they do.

This book describes the magic and activities necessary to transform Mythic Europe, whether by creating an island for magi to rule, integrating the Order of Hermes into wider society, or starting a technological revolution. None of the magic is particularly hard, nor does it rely on hidden secrets. Magi have not changed Europe because they have not yet chosen to... Your magi may choose differently.

Format: 144 pages, hardcover
Authors: Timothy Ferguson, Mark Lawford, and Mark Shirley
Cover Artist: Christian St. Pierre

Of this covenant I can tell you this: That it is located within the lands of the Holy Roman Empire, on the skirts of that temporal power, and that it enjoys some standing with Frederick II. That it makes its home in a great castle, and holds a manor of land as might a temporal lord or abbot, with a village of peasants under its hand.
— Goliard of Tremere

Triamore is an Ars Magica Fourth Edition sourcebook covering this unique covenant, its manorial holdings, and the surrounding region. It's more than a narrow treatment of these topics, though — it's a treatise on the society, politics, and manorial life that surround every covenant, explaining how Triamore, Bois de Haillot, and Brabant are similar to — or differ from — every covenant, village, county, or duchy across Mythic Europe. More than that, Triamore presents a complete overview of a living, thriving covenant, ready for occupation as-is by a group of player characters, for use as a detailed NPC covenant, or merely as an example of what a well-developed covenant can be in an Ars Magica campaign, filled with ideas that may be scavenged for your own saga. For any storyguide or player seeking a focused look at day-to-day life in a covenant and in rural medieval society, Triamore is a complete and detailed study.

Author: Charles Ryan | Editors: Damelon Kimbrough and Jeff Tidball
Format: 144 pages, 8.5" x 11", perfect bound

Spontaneous Psychic Manifestations
Robin D. Laws, a major contributor to the Over the Edge game, unleashes another dose of his special brand of madness on the gaming world. Two bitter Polish expatriates settle a wager over human nature in a shocking way: by distributing to unwitting persons a drug that broadcasts their innermost thoughts to all around. Chaos ensues, and fate drops the player characters into the eye of the storm, when the drug lands in their hands. The course of play and the result of it all -- whether the PCs strike a deal with one of the many interested powers that be, parlay a new position of power for themselves, or wind up dead over the Brink -- is entirely up to the players' tastes and talent.

Author: Robin D. Laws
Format: 16 pages, 8.5" x 11", saddle stitched

• A modern horror game in three volumes that presents a magical world built out of crime fiction and secret histories, shaped by those with the will to change it.
• A reborn and revised cult favorite, now slicker, sharper, and more surreal than ever.
• Book One: Play is for everyone, Book Two: Run is for gamemasters, and Book Three: Reveal is a compendium of the disturbing and weird in the Unknown Armies world.
• Created by award-winning designers Greg Stolze (Godlike, Better Angels) and John Tynes (Delta Green, Puppetland).

What It’s About
On the surface, the world of Unknown Armies looks like our own, but at every turn the player cabal faces hidden cults, crazed revolutionaries, the remnants of discarded beliefs, and the dark promise of a new age. Armed with post-modern magic that relies on strict taboos and dangerous rituals, the PCs must strive to create the world they want, rather than the one they inherited.

The cabal’s struggles are deeply personal but potentially monumental. They might range from advancing fringe interests in local politics to claiming the power of ley lines to triggering global financial crisis. They could seize powerful artifacts, reshape their environment, or walk the sacred path of a cosmic archetype to attain mystic enlightenment.

Gameplay Basics
• Players collaborate with the gamemaster and each other to create interconnected characters in a setting of places and people that are dramatically and thematically compelling.
• Every character is built around five shock meters, game tracks that reflect their psychological stresses. Abilities and skills are directly based on both the characters’ hardening against trauma and the identities they create for themselves.
• Extensive gamemaster guidance includes explicit rules for creating relentless opposition to the PCs’ aims.

Vital Stats
Available two ways: As three individual books, or as a thee-volume deluxe set whose magnetic slipcase unfolds into a GM screen. All books are 8.376” x 11.875” full-color casebound hardbacks. GM screen is 38” x 8.625”.

192 pages

• A modern horror game in three volumes that presents a magical world built out of crime fiction and secret histories, shaped by those with the will to change it.
• A reborn and revised cult favorite, now slicker, sharper, and more surreal than ever.
• Book One: Play is for everyone, Book Two: Run is for gamemasters, and Book Three: Reveal is a compendium of the disturbing and weird in the Unknown Armies world.
• Created by award-winning designers Greg Stolze (Godlike, Better Angels) and John Tynes (Delta Green, Puppetland).

What It’s About
On the surface, the world of Unknown Armies looks like our own, but at every turn the player cabal faces hidden cults, crazed revolutionaries, the remnants of discarded beliefs, and the dark promise of a new age. Armed with post-modern magic that relies on strict taboos and dangerous rituals, the PCs must strive to create the world they want, rather than the one they inherited.

The cabal’s struggles are deeply personal but potentially monumental. They might range from advancing fringe interests in local politics to claiming the power of ley lines to triggering global financial crisis. They could seize powerful artifacts, reshape their environment, or walk the sacred path of a cosmic archetype to attain mystic enlightenment.

Gameplay Basics
• Players collaborate with the gamemaster and each other to create interconnected characters in a setting of places and people that are dramatically and thematically compelling.
• Every character is built around five shock meters, game tracks that reflect their psychological stresses. Abilities and skills are directly based on both the characters’ hardening against trauma and the identities they create for themselves.
• Extensive gamemaster guidance includes explicit rules for creating relentless opposition to the PCs’ aims.

Vital Stats
Available two ways: As three individual books, or as a thee-volume deluxe set whose magnetic slipcase unfolds into a GM screen. All books are 8.376” x 11.875” full-color casebound hardbacks. GM screen is 38” x 8.625”.

136 pages