Download or read book The GenreDiversion Manual written by Brett M. Bernstein and published by Precis Intermedia / Politically Incorrect Games. This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go beyond just a diversion with this revised and expanded, universal tabletop roleplaying rules manual that is more versatile, more dynamic, more heroic, and more exciting. This book provides a game system that is not only easy to learn and quick-playing, but also extremely customizable and flexible. The rules are simple, allowing you to get down to business -- playing the game -- quickly. Optional rules can either be ignored or easily implemented -- and provide a framework for building your own game elements. Consistent mechanics for characters, vehicles, and creatures avoid confusion. Built-in rules for magic, and guides for directing the game and adapting older titles expand horizons even further. If you've been looking for a tabletop roleplaying game system that you can sink your teeth into quickly and has the versatility needed for just about any setting, look no further.
Download or read book Dragons in the Stacks written by Steven A. Torres-Roman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-stop, complete guide to tabletop role-playing games for novice librarians as well as seasoned players. Tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) are a perfect fit for library teen services. They not only hold great appeal for teen patrons, but also help build important skills ranging from math and literacy to leadership and dramatics. Role-playing games are cost-effective too. Dragons in the Stacks explains why RPGs are so effective at holding teenagers' attention, identifies their specific benefits, outlines how to select and maintain a RPG collection, and demonstrates how they can enhance teen services and be used in teen programs. Detailed reviews of role-playing games are included as well, with pointers on their strengths, weaknesses, and library applications. Coauthored by an experienced young adult librarian and an adult services librarian, this is the definitive guide to RPGs in the library, and the only one currently available.
Download or read book Ancient Odysseys Treasure Awaits Pocket Edition written by Brett M. Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to Unleash your Imagination with Ancient Odysseys: Treasure Awaits , an introductory fantasy roleplaying game. Assume the role of a mighty warrior, powerful wizard, or crafty rogue and explore the ancient dungeons, catacombs, and ruins in the Known World. Start playing in less than 10 minutes. Two or more friends can join your adventures-or grab all the glory for yourself. Choose which areas to explore, choose which monsters to attack, and choose how to dole out the treasure. Then proceed with your own adventures into the dark and dangerous depths, exploring either random catacombs or those you design yourself. Written for beginners, yet perfect for veteran roleplayers in search of a fast-playing and flexible experience. Requires one or two dice. Downloadable sheets for characters and monsters are available at the Precis Intermedia website (www.precisintermedia.com).
Download or read book The Magicians Tabletop Roleplaying Game System written by Catherine Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fillorian System is based on The Magicians by Lev Grossman and SYFY Tv Show. Fan-created, it leads you into a dnd-like system of its own as well as give you the base lore of the world created within this fantasy story.
Download or read book Lords of Olympus written by The Rpgpundit and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color version. Portray gods and demigods -- children of Olympian Gods, Titans, or Primordials in this diceless roleplaying game of multi-dimensional mythology Fantasy. Explore new realms or the classic worlds of Earth and Mythological Greece. Visit Zeus' Olympus, Poseidon's Seas, or Hades' Underworld. Mix politics with intrigue, alliances with wars as power-struggles and vengeance drive stories. Or, go the route of lesser power with mortals and heroes.
Download or read book The Broken Covenant of Calebais written by Mark Rein-Hagen and published by Atlas Games. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago, the covenant of Calebais was destroyed. No one knows how or why such a powerful and well-defended group of wizards could possibly fall. Now the truth behind the tragedy comes to light as you and your friends uncover this mystery. From faerie-inhabited forests to the long-abandoned ruins of a wizardly palace to the inner chambers of a secretive convent, The Broken Covenant of Calebais goes to the roots of roleplaying -- to the early days of fantasy stories -- when realism, romance, mystery, and magic were foremost in mind. This revised edition of The Broken Covenant of Calebais is the third version of the adventure to be published for Ars Magica. Calebais was the first adventure published for the First Edition of the game, and was reworked for Second Edition. Now, to coincide with the release of the game's Fifth Edition, this classic has been revised and expanded once more. Although the plot, setting, and atmosphere remain the same, the text has been almost completely rewritten to integrate this classic adventure into the newest and best version of Ars Magica.
Download or read book Hell s Feast written by Greg Farshtey and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Deacon was just another average gumshoe on another average case. Until his client flashed a set of fangs, the sentinels came calling, and an out-of-town caster tossed a spell with his name on it. Now he has to track down a bizarre killer or take the ultimate fall.
Download or read book Stormrift written by Peter C. Spahn and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alien Korr have come, crippling the once-mighty global superpowers and leaving the Earth defenseless. Tanks have stopped moving and planes stay grounded. Now, a horde of bioengineered, alien war-machines sweeps across the countryside, killing everything. But there is still hope. pockets of resistance have begun to gather and fight the invaders. Outnumbered and outgunned, they need your help. Do you have what it takes to close the stormrifts and halt the invasion of Earth? This stand-alone game is powered by Precis Intermedia's critically-acclaimed genreDiversion third edition rules, requiring only two 6-sided dice and can be played with or without miniatures.
Download or read book Dark Albion written by RPGPundit and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-28 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Albion: Cults of Chaos is a gaming supplement for Dark Albion (also available on Createspace / Amazon), as well as most OSR fantasy-horror role-playing games. It will help you generate various Chaos Cults in detail (many tables are provided). It then describes the most common Chaos cults found in Albion (those worshiping demons, and others), gives advice on how running Chaos cults adventures (several tables are provided), and proposes three ready-to-use dungeons (i.e.: maps plus descriptions of contents for three dungeons that would be perfect for cultists lairs). This supplement is usable with any RPG of the OSR movement, such as Fantastic Heroes & Witchery (also available on Createspace / Amazon), Osric, Labyrinth Lord, etc.
Download or read book Leaving written by Vaclav Havel and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chancellor Rieger is leaving office. But does leaving office necessarily mean that he, his mistress and his extended family have to leave the state villa, which has been their home for years? While his former secretary, and the former secretary to his former secretary, grapple with the mechanics of change and his family prepare to vace an uncertain future, the chancellor himself considers his legacy amid visits from journalists, an infatuated student and his arch-rival and possible successor, Patrick Klein. With echoes of both King Lear and The Cherry Orchard, Vaclav Havel's Leaving addresses the themes of change, dispossession and the transfer of power from one generation to the next. The play received its English-language world premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in September 2008. Leaving is Vaclav Havel's first play since he was propelled to political office in 1989.
Download or read book Dicepunk written by End Transmission Games LLC and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dicepunk System is a fast, easy, "rules-medium" tabletop roleplaying game that lets you emulate cinematic action.
Download or read book Story Engine Plus Edition written by Christian Aldridge and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling is one of the oldest living traditions, continuing today as theatre, literature, television and film. Roleplaying games evolved their own version of storytelling by piecing together a tale based on the outcome of dice rolls and player choices. Story Engine breathes new life into this multi-authored game format, infusing it with the fluidity of oral tradition while liberating it from the confines of turn-based mechanics. Create characters using adjectives and phrases. Like novels, the different elements of a character all contribute to the story -- even flaws and foibles. Collaborate to tell a story of the characters. Pool resources to work as a group to solve conflicts. Narrate the outcome of scenes based on success. This updated 2011 edition of the original ground-breaking Story Engine roleplaying game features: Complete rules, plus introductory Story Bones(TM) rules Optional rules for customizing the system Extensive advice on running games Three plug-ins for running different genres: Six Guns & Whiskey(TM) (Wild West), In the 'Zone(TM) (Sci-Fi), and Of Legend(TM) (Fantasy) Plug-in for use with the Maelstrom Storytelling(TM) world Two adventures
Download or read book Monster Manual Special Edition written by Skip Williams and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deluxe leatherbound edition of one of the three D&D core rulebooks. This new, beautifully bound version of the "Monster Manual" joins the special editions of the "Player's Handbook" and the "Dungeon Master's Guide" to complete the premiere set of Dungeons & Dragons core rulebooks. Like the others, the title gets premium treatment in the form of a leather binding, emboss and foil treatment, gilt-edged paper, and an attached ribbon bookmark.
Download or read book Frostburn written by Wolfgang Baur and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to playing D&D in the ice and snow. This 4-color supplement begins a new series of releases that focus on how the environment can affect D&D gameplay in every capacity. Frostburn contains rules on how to adapt to hazardous cold-weather conditions, such as navigating terrain with snow and ice and surviving in bitter cold or harsh weather. There are expanded rules for environmental hazards and manipulation of cold weather elements, as well as new spells, feats, magic items, and prestige classes. New monsters associated with icy realms are included, as well as variants on current monsters. There is enough adventure material included for months of gameplay.
Download or read book Darksword Adventures written by Margaret Weis and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1988 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: /Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman An absolutely essential book for all role-players. Very appealing to the hundreds of thousands of kids who have read the novels and want to create gaming scenarios of their own. In addition to its value as a gaming tool, Darksword Adventures will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about the world of the Darksw
Download or read book Adventures in Oz written by F. Douglas Wall and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adventure Begins With You! For over 100 years, Dorothy's adventures in the Land of Oz have fired the imaginations of millions. Now it's time to create your own Adventures in Oz! * Easily create your own unique Oz character, or recreate your favorite Oz hero! * Simple rules and a bloodless combat system make it a great game for Oz fans of all ages! * Over 30 locations from L. Frank Baum's Oz stories as well as advice for creating your own Ozzy locales! * "The Jaded City of Oz" a fun new Oz adventure!
Download or read book Scenic Dunnsmouth written by Lamentations of the Flame Princess and published by Lamentations of the Flame Princess. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dunnsmouth is diseased and rotten to the core. Beset by malefactors supernatural and mundane, Dunnsmouth slowly dies in the swamp. But within the rot are mysteries to be solved, evil to be fought, and the Weird to be encountered.Scenic Dunnsmouth features an innovative village generation system using dice and playing cards to ensure that every expedition to Dunnsmouth is unique; the adventure never plays the same way twice. The threats, their intensity, which villagers are present, which alliances they hold, and even the village map, are all randomly determined before play. Scenic Dunnsmouth is an adventure for characters of levels 2-5 for use with Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy Role-Playing and other traditional role-playing games.
