Download or read book Runecairn Wardensaga written by Colin Le Sueur and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Star Crossed written by Alex Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2018-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Game Wizards written by Jon Peterson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal battle waged by its cocreators. When Dungeons & Dragons was first released to a small hobby community, it hardly seemed destined for mainstream success--and yet this arcane tabletop role-playing game became an unlikely pop culture phenomenon. In Game Wizards, Jon Peterson chronicles the rise of Dungeons & Dragons from hobbyist pastime to mass market sensation, from the initial collaboration to the later feud of its creators, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. As the game's fiftieth anniversary approaches, Peterson--a noted authority on role-playing games--explains how D&D and its creators navigated their successes, setbacks, and controversies. Peterson describes Gygax and Arneson's first meeting and their work toward the 1974 release of the game; the founding of TSR and its growth as a company; and Arneson's acrimonious departure and subsequent challenges to TSR. He recounts the "Satanic Panic" accusations that D&D was sacrilegious and dangerous, and how they made the game famous. And he chronicles TSR's reckless expansion and near-fatal corporate infighting, which culminated with the company in debt and overextended and the end of Gygax's losing battle to retain control over TSR and D&D. With Game Wizards, Peterson restores historical particulars long obscured by competing narratives spun by the one-time partners. That record amply demonstrates how the turbulent experience of creating something as momentous as Dungeons & Dragons can make people remember things a bit differently from the way they actually happened.
Download or read book Starfinder RPG Tech Revolution written by Paizo Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Command the galaxy's cutting-edge technologies so sophisticated that they rival magic itself! Outfit yourself with the latest and greatest new weapons, armor, and other gear, from high-power explosives to alien relics that surpass conventional science. Or incorporate technologies directly into yourself, whether you're installing advanced cybernetic augmentations or playing Starfinder's newest class: the nanocyte, whose body hosts an army of robotic nanites that obey her commands! Outrace the speediest threats by customizing your own space-age vehicles, and overcome even the toughest foes by piloting powerful battle robots using the all-new mech combat system! Seize the future with additional options for every class and articles exploring every aspect of science-fantasy tech from advertising and music to virtual intelligences and security systems. Join in the Starfinder Tech Revolution!
Download or read book Xas Irkalla hardcover written by James Vail and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rolled Told Vol 1 written by E.L. Thomas and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rolled & Told is an all-inclusive collection of ready-made one-shot adventures for new Dungeon/Game Masters! This collected edition of Rolled & Told contains all the adventures, mini-adventures, comics, and articles from issues zero to six along with extra content you couldn't get in the single issues! It provides hours of pick-up-and-play campaigns designed both for players new to tabletop role-playing and for those who have played for years. Every page is filled with beautiful illustrations, comics coinciding with adventures, and splash art from your favorite comic artists to inspire your players! Survive the dangers of "The Thunderlock Barcrawl", save goblins in "Hoist The Jolly Gobbler", and play the adventures "Mage School Beyond The Mirror", "The Case of the Brutal Brunch" and many more! Each adventure is 5E compatible and ready-to-play. 7 full adventures (5-6 hours on average) 6 mini-adventures (2-3 hours on average) 4 pre-made and ready to use character sheets based on our iconic characters in each of your favorite classes. Over 18 articles full of helpful tips and insight on how to enhance the game that’s perfect for game masters, aspiring and experienced alike.
Download or read book Opus written by Barry Windsor-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and art of the creator of Marvel Comics Conan the Barbarian.
Download or read book Wanderhome written by Jay Dragon and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wanderhome is a pastoral fantasy role-playing game about traveling animal-folk, the world they inhabit, and the way the seasons change. It is a game filled with grassy fields, mossy shrines, herds of chubby bumblebees, opossums in sundresses, salamanders with suspenders, starry night skies, and the most beautiful sunsets you can imagine.
Download or read book Referee s Screen written by Mongoose Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With stunning artwork of a Type-S Scout's cockpit facing the players, and every vital table for the Referee, the Traveller Referee's Screen is the perfect complement to a well run Traveller campaign. With all the important tables and charts, the new Traveller Referee's Screen is constructed from quality heavy-weight cardstock that will stand the ravages of many years' gaming
Download or read book The Tyranny of Sand and Other Tiny Stories written by Jesse Stanchak and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man rides the horse across the high desert. The horse thinks of water, and hay, and apples. The man thinks of whiskey, and the letter in his pouch, and the tyranny of sand. The desert thinks only of conquest, already spreading a little faster than the horse can run each day. Stolen time machines, vampire missionaries, a world-eating desert, dozens of afterlives, and a cat that outlives the universe - each story in this collection delivers an entire world in just 280 characters. Take a journey through a wild array of genres, tones, and subjects, where each tale offers you something unexpected, and every page leaves you wanting more. @Microflashfic is one of Twitter's most popular and prolific fiction accounts, publishing a new self-contained story three-times a day for the past four years. The collection brings together 280 of author Jesse Stanchak's best loved viral stories for the first time. Some of the stories in this book are funny, some are shocking, and some are filled with quiet wonder. But all of them are sure to inspire your imagination, creating a world that lives on in your head long after you've turned the page.
Download or read book Dawning Horror written by Marco Arnaudo and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dawning Horror is a set of 5 programmed adventures for Four against the Great Old Ones. In each adventure, you will control an Investigator and three Helpers who are facing supernatural horrors for the first time. Be it in a limestone mine in Indiana, in the cryptic gorges of Kentucky, in a Chicago museum, during an expedition to Antarctica, or in an isolated community on the Ramapo Mountains, your Investigator will find plenty of reasons to doubt their sanity and fear for their life! This expansion includes two new playable Investigators: the Archaeologist and the Redeemed Cultist. Dawning Horror also functions as a prequel to Four against the Great Old Ones, since some advantages you may gain can be transported to Four against the Great Old Ones in the form of Upgraded Investigators.
Download or read book Drawings written by Dorian Vallejo and published by . This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Dorian Vallejo, drawing is an integral part of the creative process. The drawings selected for this volume represent some of the work he does from life. They offer a glimpse of his art done solely for the pleasure of creative research and the visual expression of ideas.In part, they owe their roots to the centuries old tradition of academic figure drawing. However, they are not a strict adherent of any school in particular. Instead, that tradition is used as a point of departure.Here we view drawings that seek to capture visually, a distinct feeling, tone or mood. In some cases the figure is used in a symbolic manner, hinting at phases or streams of conscious awareness that are present as we trail off into sleep. In other cases the symbolism is a visual interpretation of the dual nature of our existence. Still, other drawings are experiments in movement and over lapping forms. Also represented, are several gestures that display the characteristic beauty inherent in the tangible expressions of rapid creation.In this collection of drawings are many avenues of thought allowing for a view into the birth of ideas that may later become paintings. One consistently present element is Vallejo?s appreciation for the beauty of life and the feminine in particular. With rare exception his subjects in this volume are all women represented in the bloom of youth. There is a feeling that these beautiful young women who paused for a brief moment to be immortalized, in spite of the ever changing flux of life, will grace us with the memory of their essence, like the flowers of spring.In every one of these drawings is clearly a mind wholly, completely and faithfully committed to the pursuit of excellence. This book, the first devoted to the artwork of Dorian Vallejo will be a treasured prize in the libraries of all who love art.
Download or read book In Search of Adventure written by Harley Stroh and published by Goodman Games. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shooting Iron written by Agatha Norvelle and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shooting Iron is an exciting wild west role-playing game for two or more people ages 10 years and up. Easy to learn and easy to play all you need are a set of polyhedral dice and this rulebook to play. Players take on the roles of various inhabitants of the Wild West. Characters travel through the magnificent vistas of the West experiencing adventure, danger, and excitement. Gunfights, wagon trains, cattle drives, and more await you inside these pages.
Download or read book Basic Fantasy Role playing Game written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a new game, with rules-light mechanics designed for the kind of gameplay popular in the early days of role-playing games. The look and feel is classic, from the races, classes, spells, monsters, and magic items included down to the very typeface and layout chosen. This is Old School. Modern game systems are heavy, both in terms of the sheer weight of the books as well as the amount of players and Game Master must learn to play them. Here, in this one volume, are all the rules needed to create and run adventures the old fashioned way. An experienced player can create and equip a character in under ten minutes, and even a novice can be ready to play in under half an hour. Game Masters will find that the brief and simple rules for monsters and magic make the job of adventure creation just as easy. Combat can be completed by moderately experienced players with little or no need to stop and look up rules ..."--Back cover
Download or read book Into the Odd written by Chris McDowall and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Odd contains everything you need to create a character and explore an industrial world of cosmic meddlers and horrific hazards. This is a fast, simple game, to challenge your wits rather than your understanding of complex rules.You seek Arcana, strange devices hosting unnatural powers beyond technology. They range from the smallest ring to vast machines, with powers from petty to godlike. Beside these unnatural items that they may acquire, your characters remain grounded as mortals in constant danger.The game is 48 pages, containing:Original artwork from Jeremy Duncan, Levi Kornelsen, and others.The fastest character creation out there, getting you playing as soon as possible.Player rules that fit on a single page, keeping a focus on exploration, problem solving, and fast, deadly combat.The complete guide to running the game as Referee. From making the most of the rules to creating your own monsters and Arcana. Sample monsters, arcanum, traps, and hazards.Character advancement from Novice to Master Rules for running your own Company, and taking it to war with an original mass combat system.Complete guide to the Odd World, from the cosmopolitan city of Bastion and its hidden Underground, through to backwards Deep Country, the unexplored Golden Lands.The Iron Coral, sample expedition site to test the players' survival skills.The Fallen Marsh, a deadly wilderness to explore.Hopesend Port, a settlement to regroup and sail on to further adventure.Thirteen bonus pages of tools and random tables from the Oddpendium.
Download or read book Shadowrun Chrome Flesh Limited Edition written by Catalyst Game Labs and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadowrunners cannot be limited by what their bodies canor cannotdo. They have to do more, stretch farther, surpass any limits, and accomplish the impossible. Some runners can rely on magic; for everyone else, there are augmentations. From shiny chrome that makes your body into a humanoid semitruck to genetech that alters you at the most fundamental level to drugs and chemicals that give you a quick and dirty boost, Chrome Flesh provides dozens of new ways to alter Shadowrun characters and make them better, stronger, faster, and altogether readier to kick ass and take names on the streets. Along with the gear and a compiled table of all cyberware, bioware, genetech, and nanotech currently available in Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, Chrome Flesh covers how runners break down and what resources can help fix them up, and where augmentation tech might go in the future. It's paydata every shadowrunner needs if they want to overcome everything the Sixth World is going to throw at them.
