The Pinebox Middle School Boxed Set for Savage Worlds is Arriving in Stores

Apr 25, 2024

Pinnacle Entertainment Group is currently releasing the Pinebox Middle School Boxed Set for Savage Worlds into stores. The box is chock full of everything you’ll need to play the scrappy, young adventurers tackling horrifying evil in the Texas university town. The Pinebox Middle School Boxed Set should be arriving in stores this week carrying an MSRP of $124.99. You can score just the hardcover core book (with PDF for an MSRP of $39.99 or snag the PDF alone at DriveThruRPG for $19.99.

About the boxed set:

You’re young and adventurous, and no matter what adults say the monsters are real…

Welcome to Pinebox, Texas. This setting is meant to evoke the frightening adventures of staples like Stranger Things, Goosebumps, The Goonies, and It! Evil is afoot, and it’s up to a group of scrappy young kids to set things right. But this isn’t a nostalgic trip back in time: modern technology and modern problems are in the mix to complicate the balance between family, school, and horror.

The 210-page, hardcover Pinebox Middle School core book offers everything you need to create your own starting 6th grader, complete with new Hindrances, Edges, and even a section for Family Generation so you know who you need to con to get a ride to the site of your next ghost hunt. There are rules getting around Pinebox and surrounding Golan County as a kid with little more than your trusty bike, navigating the strange unreliability of cell phone signals in rural Texas, using “soft weapons” such as water guns and fire-crackers to distract and disrupt your opponents, and even for dabbling in the arcane via dangerous but powerful ritual magic.

There’s an Adventure Generator to help create your own scenarios for the heroes to play through. The Descent into the Inferno Plot Point Campaign takes the kids from 6th grade all the way through 8th in the pursuit of a dangerous mastermind and his strange, undead abominations that threaten to unleash an army of horrors on Earth. Also included is a full curriculum of Savage Tales that can be used as part of your own saga, or in conjunction with the Plot Point Campaign to add more drama to the group’s experience.

Included in the Boxed Set:

Pinebox Middle School core book**
Set of 12 Archetype Cards**
Pinebox Middle School Ally & Adversary Cards**
Pinebox/Golan County Poster Map**
Pawn Set**
GM Screen** & 32-page Adventure**
Set of Seven Dice + Wild Die
Set of 25 Bennies

**PDFs included! Please note, the Figure Flats are the PDF version of the Pawns, and the GM Screen Inserts are the PDF version of the GM Screen.

Pinebox Middle School requires the Savage Worlds Adventure Edition core rules to play.

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