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N.O.W. The Modern Action Roleplaying Game v1.3

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EXPERIENCE ADRENALINE-FUELED ACTION IN THIS VERSATILE TABLETOP GAME OF MODERN ADVENTURE!

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EXPERIENCE ADRENALINE-FUELED ACTION IN THIS VERSATILE TABLETOP GAME OF MODERN ADVENTURE!

  • Elite spies fight ninjas on snow-covered rooftops.
  • Martial-artists perform incredible chi-powered feats.
  • Technology-laden burglars infiltrate wealthy corporations.
  • Mutants with extra-ordinary powers hide themselves from the public.
  • Soldiers of fortune help those who cannot help themselves.
  • Dark vigilantes prowl the night, hunting cowardly criminals.
  • Artificially enhanced operatives work deep behind enemy lines.
  • Rugged explorers uncover ancient ruins and long-lost treasures.
  • Lone crusaders investigate crimes where the authorities cannot.

Play a secret agent, a weary investigator, an elite hacker, or a shadowy ninja. Are you a roving reporter, a kung-fu expert, or a weathered soldier? Dozen of modern careers await you!

This roleplaying game allows you to create and run adventures in any modern setting, from the late 1800s to the 21st century.

  • Four heritages (Human, Mutant, Augmented, and Chosen) and dozens of careers from lawyers to ninjas which allow you to create any modern character with a fun, intuitive life-path system.
  • A wide variety of modern equipment, from the weapons of WW2 to the high-tech gadgets of secret agents. Drive an Aston Martin DB5, brandish a Magnum .45, or use an experimental jetpack. 
  • Full rules for running the game, including fast but tactical combat, environments, and extended martial arts and vehicle rules.
  • Extensive guidelines for building your own contemporary game setting, including rules of creating careers, foes, and more, with discussions concerning genre, themes and technology.

Whether you're an elite team operating undercover, a military unit, a group of vampire hunters, or apocalyptic survivors, N.O.W. has you covered!

This is a What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. core rulebook.



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William D December 15, 2023 11:47 pm UTC
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With N.E.W. and O.L.D. being updated to 1.3 is N.O.W. getting updated too?
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Mark H January 09, 2024 5:05 pm UTC
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Had a link to this update via DriveThruRPG but it doesn't give details of what is updated; what are the changes so I can update my hard-copy version?....any chance of a document listing same to put in my library?
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wade G July 16, 2022 4:42 am UTC
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So...kevlar vest weigh 30pnd?? Where did that come from? This is from pdf. In real-time they weigh about 5pnds. Was it correctly changed in the book? Almost all weights in pdfs are SO off.
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wade G July 16, 2022 5:24 am UTC
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My bad...
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Robert R B April 18, 2020 9:48 am UTC
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I absolutely love the WOIN game system. I am a fan of modern RPGs to lesser degree, but love the sci-fi N.E.W. Regardless it's a brilliant system. similar in many ways to savage worlds, but with a lot of differences too - more in depth character building for sure.

However, if WOIN wants to really take it to the next level they need to get on the fantasy grounds wagon. I know it's technically available but it's so full of problems and bugs, it's not worth it. nowadys there are so many hopping online for a few hours to game vitural-table tops and savage worlds is killing it on there.

My whole gaming group put aside our NEW tabletop games to switch to savage worlds in light of all the shelter-at-home quarrantine protocols. And we've quickly come to enjoy it a lot, and there's a ton of options and material to choose from to be played on Fantasy Grounds. And i can only imagine what this will have done for the expanding of fan-base for fantasy grounds and savage worlds specifically. ...See more
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Russ M April 18, 2020 2:37 pm UTC
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Fantasy Grounds has a license to use WOIN on their platform, and has produced some content, but I’m afraid we at EN Publishing have no direct involvement with that other than licensing it to them. You would need to direct this at Smiteworks (the producer of Fantasy Grounds). :)
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Timothy S January 17, 2020 7:06 am UTC
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I cannot recommend this game/system enough to anybody interested in modern/action-adventure gaming. WOIN worked wonderfully for N.E.W. (the Sci-Fi RPG that uses this same system), and I eagerly awaited N.O.W. It was worth the wait.

Character Generation is fluid, and you can design/play exactly the kind of character you want, without restrictive classes.
Gameplay is quick, easy to understand and use, and comprehensive... it works for little things like skill checks as well as it works for the Big stuff like helicopter battles downtown.
The fact that N.O.W., N.E.W., and O.L.D. (the Fantasy version) are all completely cross compatible with each other helps if you need to throw in any curve balls to your players.

The ONLY thing I don't like about the W.O.I.N. system is the restriction on number of dice available based on your character's experience. It's easy to throw that rule out, if you'd like (that's what I do), so that's not a huge problem.

Overall, for my...See more
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KENNETH T May 28, 2019 11:17 pm UTC
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Hi there, interested in N.O.W. wondering if there’s a possibility of Premium HB? Not sure of quality of the Standard editions...thanks
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neil S March 31, 2019 3:15 am UTC
What sort of foes are there for in instance does it go into organised crime groups
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Robert S October 03, 2018 12:51 am UTC
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I've already purchased the PDF. I want to get the hardcover. Is there anyway I can get the PDF price that I pad previously applied to the hardcover price?
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Stacie W August 12, 2018 9:00 pm UTC
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I'm just wondering why so much of this book is black and white when the previous two iterations (NEW and OLD) were full color throughout. Kind of disappointing.
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Russ M October 14, 2018 11:10 am UTC
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The book is full colour throughout.
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Michael M June 19, 2018 7:17 pm UTC
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Unable to order PDF. Keeps putting hardback in cart.
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Russ M June 19, 2018 8:47 pm UTC
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How odd. It works for me. Are you sure you're selecting the correct option?
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Theodore G June 01, 2018 3:08 am UTC
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Is this just Modern Core, Modern Equipment and Action Careers put together as one book? Is there anything extra like how NEW and OLD have supplements included? Also, are the individual books updated to 1.2 already? They all seem to be last updated in 2017.
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Russ M June 01, 2018 8:14 am UTC
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And Modern Worlds. The other books were 1.2 already, except Action Careers which predates 1.2. It is 1.2 in this book, however.
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Theodore G June 02, 2018 9:52 pm UTC
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Will Action Careers eventually get updated?
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Stephen G May 29, 2018 10:38 pm UTC
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So this is updating daily now?
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Andrew C May 28, 2018 4:46 am UTC
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What page is the character sheet on in this book? I'm reading it on a mobile.
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Russ M May 28, 2018 1:32 pm UTC
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Redownload the file - it was updated this morning, as the character sheet had not been added. It's right at the end.
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Andrew C May 28, 2018 5:41 pm UTC
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Thank you for the update
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Lee S May 26, 2018 5:43 am UTC
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What the hell. I clicked on the link in my Yahoo email account from EN Publishing... "The third complete game in the What's OLD is NEW trilogy is finally here! And for a short time, you can grab the PDF for just $10!" but when the link came up the price was $12.97.
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Russ M May 26, 2018 8:03 am UTC
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I’m not sure what could have happened there Lee, but the PDF is definitely on sale at $10 right now. Maybe you had something else in your shopping cart?
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Lee S May 27, 2018 1:32 am UTC
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I don't know either. But it shows up on the sales page is what it shows up as for the price:

N.O.W. The Modern Action Roleplaying Game v1.2
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Watermarked PDF $12.97CAD
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Stephen S May 27, 2018 3:06 pm UTC
@Lee_S, that's in CAD funds. So the price is $10 USD.
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michael B May 25, 2018 11:21 pm UTC
Will there be a physical book available as well? I have physical copies of all the other WOIN products as well as pdfs.
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Dan H May 26, 2018 12:26 am UTC
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A voucher for it was an option in the kickstarter, so I would think it will be available eventually.
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Benjamen B May 26, 2018 5:13 am UTC
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It will come :)
From what I've read on the WOIN Facebook groups, the PDF versions tend to be processed faster than the print versions.
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Russ M May 26, 2018 8:04 am UTC
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Yep, the hardcover is coming soon.
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240
ISBN
978-1-912007-71-4
Publisher Stock #
ENP0301
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