Download or read book Strange Things Afoot Role Playing Game written by Al Seeger and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the world of Strange Things Afoot, a world where almost everything on the internet is true! Set in the modern day, Strange Things Afoot draws influence from the world of creepy pasta and urban legends. Players in the campaign take the role of middle to high school age students who must struggle against supernatural beings known as tulpas. These are mysterious creatures that can only manifest in our reality when people believe in them and they use the internet as a way to spread that belief. However, the power of belief can be a double edged sword! Players can turn belief against the tulpas to create weaknesses for their foes and perform rituals to give themselves an edge. Strange Things Afoot includes nine character cliques, guidelines for running a campaign, sample rituals, and tools for creating supernatural creatures.

Download or read book Carnival of Creatures written by Al Seeger and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come one, come all! Behold this collection of some of the craziest, cankerous, and catastrophic creatures you will ever lay your eyes upon! And take a good look while you can, for you never know when seeing one of these beasties will be the last think you will ever see! Carnival of Creatures is a supplement for the Strange Things Afoot role playing game. Inside you will find 52 creatures, four new spells, and several new special abilities to give to the monsters populating your Strange Things Afoot campaign.

Download or read book Vs Stranger Stuff written by Ben Dowell and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What you have here is a complete tabletop roleplaying game experience and a new experiment from Fat Goblin Games. You have a complete game system, with three short adventures, and the tools you'll need to do much more, all in one single book. Send in the Clowns is a complete roleplaying game experience created for the vs. Stranger Stuff RPG!vs. Stranger Stuff is a mini-rpg of 80's inspired adventure/horror/sci-fi, typically involving children and teens. Of course, we were influenced by the recent hit Netflix series Stranger Things, but also those great films that inspired that series. What does this mean? It means that a game off vs. Stranger Stuff will involve you playing an adolescent during the 1980's going against strange and unusual adversaries (often supernatural) with the aid of your loyal group of childhood friends.

Download or read book The Game Is Afoot written by Jeremy Black and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Sherlock Holmes will delight to investigate Victorian England, a world where crimes large and small abound and where dark corners and well-lit drawing rooms alike hide villainy. Through the enduring eye of Sherlock Holmes, noted historian Jeremy Black traces how Holmes and his milieu evolved in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s books and how Holmes continues to resonate today. Black explores the context of Doyle’s ideas and stories and why they struck such a chord with readers in London, and ultimately the world. He portrays a complex man with eclectic interests, from soccer to spiritualism, from cricket to divorce law reform. Standing twice for Parliament, Doyle was a committed meritocrat whose political experiences and values were expressed through his writings. Reading the Holmes stories through the lens of Doyle’s multifaceted career, Black throws fresh light on the values expressed in them and how Holmes would have been perceived at the time. He traces the imperial strand in the Holmes stories and Doyle's treatment of America and Europe. Drawing on a masterful knowledge both of Doyle’s era and his writings, this entertaining and wide-ranging book uses the Holmes stories to bring Victorian England to vibrant life, a world where crimes large and small abound and where dark corners and well-lit drawing rooms alike hide villainy. Holmes was a hero and an inspiration for many a character who redefined the idea of detection and the detective, a private man of great public importance. Here is his story.

Download or read book The game s afoot written by Cynthia Lewis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the age-old feud between the Montagues and Capulets in Romeo and Juliet, the enduring rivalry between the Boston Celtics and the LA Lakers makes for great drama. Macbeth's career began with promise but ended in ruin--not unlike Pete Rose's. Twelfth Night's Viola's disguise as a boy to enter into a man's world is echoed in Babe Didrikson Zaharias' challenge to the pro golf patriarchy when she competed in the Los Angeles Open. Exploring parallels between Shakespeare's plays and famous events in the world of sports, this book introduces seven of the best-known plays to the sports enthusiast and offers a fresh perspective to Shakespeare devotees.

Download or read book Treasure Trove written by Al Seeger and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasure Trove is a collection of magic items for the Strange Things Afoot role playing game. Inside you will find: Guidelines for creating magic items New rituals and skills Over 100 common and rare magic items Information on the 27 Artifacts of Roon

Download or read book Ken Ludwig s The Game s Afoot Or Holmes for the Holidays written by Ken Ludwig and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is December 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow cast-members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous. Then it's up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears. The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering whodunit set during the Christmas holidays. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Play!

Download or read book Kids on Bikes Strange Adventures Volume 1 written by Jonathan Gilmour and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odd events are happening in Small Towns. There are Shadows in Sharon Hollow, Strange Things are afoot at the Circle Q... Not to mention there is some Double Trouble at Skateland! Will a bunch of Boxcar Boys, face a Minor Threat of Ghosts & Steel? Or will there be a Culling in Cheyenne?Only YOU can find out!Strange Adventures #1 is a non-core book of adventure hooks and story guidelines to help you find new adventures in the RPG Kids on Bikes. Featuring 20 unique towns under the writing expertise of both new and seasoned story writers - such as Ross Watson, Scott Woodard, Elisa Teague, Matt Colville, Sen-Foon Lim, and Amanda Harmon Kunz. Find out more, in this edition of STRANGE ADVENTURES!

Download or read book STRANGE STRANGE THINGS 550 Supernatural Mysteries Macabre Horror Classics written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 15100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest collection of supernatural, macabre, eerie, and gothic tales is here! Grab your copy and get ready for the chills down your spine: Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Black Cat… Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental… H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House… Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal The Evil Eye… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars The Lair of the White Worm… Algernon Blackwood: The Willows A Haunted Island A Case of Eavesdropping Ancient Sorceries… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet… Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas… M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White The Haunted Hotel The Devil's Spectacles E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Terror by Night… Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birth Mark The House of the Seven Gables… Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Terror… William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire Ralph Adams Cram: Black Spirits and White Grant Allen: The Reverend John Creedy Dr. Greatrex's Engagement… Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Thomas Beckford: Vathek Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw Guy de Maupassant: The Horla Jerome K. Jerome: Told After Supper…

Download or read book This Gaming Life written by Jim Rossignol and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In May 2000 I was fired from my job as a reporter on a finance newsletter because of an obsession with a video game. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.” So begins this story of personal redemption through the unlikely medium of electronic games. Quake, World of Warcraft, Eve Online, and other online games not only offered author Jim Rossignol an excellent escape from the tedium of office life. They also provided him with a diverse global community and a job—as a games journalist. Part personal history, part travel narrative, part philosophical reflection on the meaning of play, This Gaming Life describes Rossignol’s encounters in three cities: London, Seoul, and Reykjavik. From his days as a Quake genius in London’s increasingly corporate gaming culture; to Korea, where gaming is a high-stakes televised national sport; to Iceland, the home of his ultimate obsession, the idiosyncratic and beguiling Eve Online, Rossignol introduces us to a vivid and largely undocumented world of gaming lives. Torn between unabashed optimism about the future of games and lingering doubts about whether they are just a waste of time, This Gaming Life also raises important questions about this new and vital cultural form. Should we celebrate the “serious” educational, social, and cultural value of games, as academics and journalists are beginning to do? Or do these high-minded justifications simply perpetuate the stereotype of games as a lesser form of fun? In this beautifully written, richly detailed, and inspiring book, Rossignol brings these abstract questions to life, immersing us in a vibrant landscape of gaming experiences. “We need more writers like Jim Rossignol, writers who are intimately familiar with gaming, conversant in the latest research surrounding games, and able to write cogently and interestingly about the experience of playing as well as the deeper significance of games.” —Chris Baker, Wired “This Gaming Life is a fascinating and eye-opening look into the real human impact of gaming culture. Traveling the globe and drawing anecdotes from many walks of life, Rossignol takes us beyond the media hype and into the lives of real people whose lives have been changed by gaming. The results may surprise you.” —Raph Koster, game designer and author of A Theory of Fun for Game Design “Is obsessive video gaming a character flaw? In This Gaming Life, Jim Rossignol answers with an emphatic ‘no,’ and offers a passionate and engaging defense of what is too often considered a ‘bad habit’ or ‘guilty pleasure.’” —Joshua Davis, author of The Underdog “This is a wonderfully literate look at gaming cultures, which you don't have to be a gamer to enjoy. The Korea section blew my mind.” —John Seabrook, New Yorker staff writer and author of Flash of Genius and Other True Stories of Invention digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.

Download or read book Night Below written by Carl Sargent and published by . This book was released on 1995-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate dungeon adventure is back in print again because the fans demanded it! Set in the Underdark and designed to be used in any AD&D"RM" campaign, Night Below presents an epic adventure that takes player characters from 1st level to loth level and beyond. Available again for a limited time, this huge adventure is packed with plots, subplots, sinister conspiracies, and action on a grand scale.

Download or read book BLUEHOLME Prentice Rules written by Michael Thomas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-12-07 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect bound edition. BLUEHOLME(TM) Prentice Rules is a table top fantasy roleplaying game that emulates the game play of the original basic rule book, popularly known as the Holmes Edition or simply the Blue Book. The rules in this book allow for characters of 1st to 3rd levels, and include everything the referee could possibly need to create and run a campaign in the Underworld: monsters, magic, treasure, and ... well, what more do you need?

Download or read book The Game Is Afoot written by Marvin Kaye and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-02-15 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of parodies on the subject of Sherlock Holmes by a variety of writers: Holmes fighting the Nazis, solving the mystery of Little Red Riding Hood, Holmes in Tibet, in Oz, one story even discusses his parentage.

Download or read book Kids on Bikes written by Jonathan Gilmour and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The door to the old house creaks open, the rust on the hinges groaning as you see the dust floating like spores in the air inside. By the faint light of your cheap flashlights, you see the stairs to the upper floor, its railings gnarled and broken like crooked teeth. Their curve makes the stairs seem almost like a hungry grin, and you wonder if their age will support your weight. Still, you must go in. The only question is who will go first? In Kids on Bikes, you'll take on the roles of everyday people grappling with strange, terrifying, and very, very powerful forces that they cannot defeat, control, or even fully understand. The only way to face them is to work together, use your strengths, and knmow when you just have to run as fast as you can. --

Download or read book The Wine of Dreams written by Brian Craig and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Shadows written by Mike Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lore Legends written by Michael Witwer and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide to Dungeons & Dragons’ beloved fifth edition told through interviews, artwork, and visual ephemera from the designers, storytellers, and artists who bring it to life. When the reimagined fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons debuted in the summer of 2014, the game was on the brink of obsolescence. But within a few short years, D&D found greater success than it had ever enjoyed before, even surpassing its 1980s golden age. How did an analog game nearly a half century old become a star in a digital world? For the first time, Lore & Legends reveals the incredible ongoing story of Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition from the perspective of the designers, artists, and players who bring it to life. This comprehensive visual guide illuminates contemporary D&D—its development, evolution, cultural relevance, and popularity—through exclusive interviews and more than 900 pieces of artwork, photography, and advertising curated and analyzed by the authors of the bestselling and Hugo Award–nominated Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana.