Download or read book HERO System Basic Rulebook written by Steven S Long and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Basic Rulebook contains all of the core HERO System 6th Edition rules, including character creation, combat and adventuring, and equipment - but without all of the options and details found in the standard rulebook. The Basic Rulebook boils the HERO System down to its essential elements so you can easily teach yourself the game, bring new players into your campaign quickly, or refresh your memory on a crucial rule. And when you're ready to move up to the complete HERO System, learning it will be a snap because the Basic Rulebook's already taught you the basics!
Download or read book Champions Complete written by Derek Hiemforth and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate super roleplaying game returns to reclaim its crown in Champions Complete! All the legendary flexibility and power of the renowned HERO System 6th Edition rules engine, plus all the superhero goodness Champions has been famous for over 30 years, now in one pulse-pounding, senses -shattering, heroic handbook of superpowered action! At 240 pages, Champions Complete includes everything superhero gamers need, and nothing they don't. New players will love the unmatched freedom of Champions that allows them to create and play exactly the hero they imagine. Longtime fans will appreciate the tight, concise new approach, presenting the full game system in a fraction of its former length. CREATE and play the hero that you want. AN excellent purchase for first time players and handy companion for long time players. THE Hero System you know and love, in a condensed and easy to use format. INCLUDES everything a gamemaster needs to create anything from a single session to an extended campaign. Note: This product (Champions Complete/HERO2000) is a stand-alone, moderately priced book for playing Champions: arguably the most popular and longest-running superhero game in roleplaying history. It contains all of the rules necessary to play Champions: The Super Roleplaying Game, with no other book required.
Download or read book Pathfinder Advanced Player s Guide Special Edition written by Paizo Staff and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready to go beyond the basics? Expand the limits of what's possible with the Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide! This 272-page Pathfinder Second Edition rulebook contains exciting new rules options for player characters, adding even more depth of choice to your Pathfinder game! Inside you will find brand new ancestries, heritages, and four new classes: the shrewd investigator, the mysterious oracle, the daring swashbuckler, and the hex-slinging witch! The must-have Advanced Player's Guide also includes exciting new options for all your favorite Core Rulebook classes and tons of new backgrounds, general feats, spells, items, and 40 flexible archetypes to customize your play experience even further! This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark. The perfect way to commemorate Pathfinder's new edition! (Cover color and design subject to change.) The Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide includes: * Four new classes: the investigator, oracle, swashbuckler, and witch! * Five new ancestries and five heritages for any ancestry: celestial aasimars, curious catfolk, hagspawned changelings, vampiric dhampirs, fate-touched duskwalkers, scaled kobolds, fierce orcs, fiendish tieflings, industrious ratfolk, and feathered tengu! * 40 new archetypes including multiclass archetypes for the four new classes, Pathfinder favorites like the cavalier, dragon disciple, shadowdancer, and vigilante, and brand-new archetypes like the familiar master and the shield-bearing iron wall! * New class options for all twelve classes from the Pathfinder Core Rulebook including champions of evil, genie and shadow sorcerers, zen archer monks, rogue masterminds, spellcasting rangers, and more! * Even more exciting new rules, from rare and unique backgrounds to investigative skill feats, from spells and rituals like reincarnate and create demiplane to new items including special wands with unusual effects and exciting potions worthy of a witch's cauldron.
Download or read book HERO System 6th Edition written by Steven S. Long and published by Hero Games. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best has just gotten even better! The HERO System 6th Edition brings new levels of flexibility and creativity to the acclaimed HERO System, allowing players to create any sort of character, power, gadget, spell, vehicle, monster, or weapon they can think of.
Download or read book Pathfinder Advanced Player s Guide written by Paizo Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Expand the limits of what's possible with this collection of exciting new options for your Pathfinder character. Choose from 10 brand-new ancestries and four new classes: the shrewd investigator, the mysterious oracle, the daring swashbuckler, and the hex-slinging witch! Plus, over 40 new archetypes, more options for every ancestry and class in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, and new backgrounds, feats, spells, and items provide more opportunities for customization than ever before."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Advanced Player s Guide written by Jason Bulmahn and published by Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on the original roleplaying game rules designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson"--Title page verso.
Download or read book Hero System Martial Arts written by Steven S Long and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can your kung fu beat your enemy's kung fu? It can if you've got HERO System Martial Arts! A comprehensive guide to martial arts in the HERO System, HSMA is filled with information and rules about every aspect of the martial arts. It's got everything you need to create and play a martial artist character in any campaign, genre, time period, or setting.
Download or read book Fantasy Hero 6th Edition written by Steven S Long and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daring swordsmen, wise wizards, noble knights, deadly dragons, and mythic kingdoms -- all these, and more, are part of the wondrous worlds of Fantasy. Fantasy Hero discusses and describes the Fantasy genre for gaming, and shows how to create characters, campaigns, spells and magic systems, worlds, and other elements of Fantasy with the HERO System rules.
Download or read book Mutants Masterminds Hero s Handbook written by Stephen Kenson and published by Green Ronin Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2002, Mutants & Masterminds has earned its title as the World's Greatest Superhero RPG, inspiring countless game sessions and winning many awards for excellence. The Mutants & Masterminds Hero's Handbook is the core rulebook of the game's third edition, giving you everything you need to have your own superheroic adventures. The detailed character creation system lets you create the hero you want to play, choosing from a wide range of skills, advantages, and power effects. Customize your hero's powers with modifiers to create an almost endless range of superhuman abilities. Choose the complications your hero must overcome, earning you the hero points to achieve victory. You can also choose from one of more than a dozen heroic archetypes, customize as you like, and be ready to play in just minutes! The streamlined system of game play requires only a single die roll and features easy-to-use rules. Play out an entire heroic adventure in a few short hours without long, drawn-out encounters. Plus, the hero point system allows players to influence the flow of the story and pull off superheroic stunts in the best comic book tradition! Become a hero of legend with the Mutants & Masterminds Hero's Handbook!
Download or read book Bloodring written by Faith Hunter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a near future world marked by apocalyptic religious strife, Thorn St. Croix, a powerful neomage living secretly among humankind, channels her gift of stone-magery into jewelry making, until a handsome police officer, Thaddeus Bartholomew, comes into her life, changing everything. Reprint.
Download or read book The New Player s Handbook written by Zeb Cook and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 1995 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines how to determine a character's abilities, rules for character improvement, and mapping and combat procedures
Download or read book Pathfinder Lost Omens Character Guide P2 written by John Compton and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook dives into the myriad cultures and organizations readers can encounter or join in their journey, breathing life into both their character and the many allies and enemies they're bound to meet along the way.
Download or read book Forgotten Realms Player s Guide written by Rob Heinsoo and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete guide for building Forgotten Realms characters. This guide presents this changed world from the point of view of the adventurers exploring it. This product includes everything a player needs to create his character for a D&D campaign in the Forgotten Realms setting.
Download or read book Pathfinder Roleplaying Game written by Benjamin Bruck and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wise adventurers don't just march off into the wilderness to search for dragons to slay and wrongs to right, for to adventure without support is to invite disaster. The hardcover Pathfinder RPG Adventurer's Guide presents information on 18 different organizations in need of brave and able adventurers. Be they forces for good, such as the virtuous Eagle Knights or the freedom fighters of the Bellflower Network, or agencies of sinister mien like the notorious Red Mantis Assassins or the infernally-inspired Hellknights, the one thing these groups all share in common is a need for powerful adventurers to serve as their agents in the world. To the adventurers who ally with them, these groups offer specialized training, powerful magical items, specialized magic, access to unusual gear or mounts, and more! Pathfinder RPG Adventurer's Guide includes: -Details on the history, goals, and leadership for 18 of Golarion's most famous (or infamous) organizations, including the Aldori Swordlords, the Aspis Consortium, the Cyphermages, the Gray Maidens, the Hellknights, the Lantern Bearers, the Magaambya, the Mammoth Lords, the Pathfinder Society, and the Red Mantis. -Each organization includes at least one prestige class and at least two archetypes for characters who seek to further specialize in the themes and powers offered by the organization. -Dozens and dozens of new spells, magic items, feats, and other unique character options of diverse nature, all themed to the various organizations presented in this book! -... and much, much more!
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Role Playing Game Studies written by José P. Zagal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the latest research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in one single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by more than 40 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live-action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and massively multiplayer online RPG franchises, like Baldur’s Gate, Genshin Impact, and World of Warcraft. Individual chapters survey the perspectives, concepts, and findings on RPGs from key disciplines, like performance studies, sociology, psychology, education, economics, game design, literary studies, and more. Other chapters integrate insights from RPG studies around broadly significant topics, like worldbuilding, immersion, and player-character relations, as well as explore actual play and streaming, diversity, equity, inclusion, jubensha, therapeutic uses of RPGs, and storygames, journaling games, and other forms of text-based RPGs. Each chapter includes definitions of key terms and recommended readings to help students and scholars new to RPG studies find their way into this interdisciplinary field. A comprehensive reference volume ideal for students and scholars of game studies and immersive experiences and those looking to learn more about the ever-growing, interdisciplinary field of RPG studies.
Download or read book Role Playing Game Studies written by Sebastian Deterding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook collects, for the first time, the state of research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in a single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by more than 50 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and massively multiplayer online RPG franchises, like Fallout and World of Warcraft. Individual chapters survey the perspectives, concepts, and findings on RPGs from key disciplines, like performance studies, sociology, psychology, education, economics, game design, literary studies, and more. Other chapters integrate insights from RPG studies around broadly significant topics, like transmedia worldbuilding, immersion, transgressive play, or player–character relations. Each chapter includes definitions of key terms and recommended readings to help fans, students, and scholars new to RPG studies find their way into this new interdisciplinary field.
Download or read book Stat Shot A Fan s Guide to Hockey Analytics written by Rob Vollman and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With every passing season, statistical analysis is playing an ever-increasing role in how hockey is played and covered. Knowledge of the underlying numbers can help fans stretch their enjoyment of the game. Acting as an invaluable supplement to traditional analysis, Stat Shot: A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics can be used to test the validity of conventional wisdom and to gain insight into what teams are doing behind the scenes — or maybe what they should be doing! Inspired by Bill James’s Baseball Abstract, Rob Vollman has written a timeless reference of the mainstream applications and limitations of hockey analytics. With over 300 pages of fresh analysis, it includes a guide to the basics, how to place stats into context, how to translate data from one league to another, the most comprehensive glossary of hockey statistics, and more. Whether A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics is used as a primer for today’s new statistics, as a reference for leading edge research and hard-to-find statistical data, or read for its passionate and engaging storytelling, it belongs on every serious fan’s bookshelf. A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics makes advanced stats simple, practical, and fun.
