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Inside this 150-page tome you will learn how to:
Sculpt a continent
Design a nation
Plan a city or village
Create a Pantheon
And build your owm fantasy world!
Over its eighteen chapters, this book walks you through the steps needed to create a fantasy world for your roleplaying game, from the initial brainstorming to the niggling details. Included is advice on geology & climate, culture &... [click here for more] |
5 Minute Workday Publishing |
$4.00
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A collection of tips and tricks - with examples and anecdotes - to enhance your encounters, making them more engrossing, engaging, rewarding, and memorable for the players. (5 pages) ... [click here for more] |
Anachromystic |
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Good vs. evil is cliche, boring, and predictable. It's a simplistic plot device for children's fairy tales, not epic world-building campaigns. You can add considerably more depth to your factions with just a couple simple techniques discussed within. (5 pages) ... [click here for more] |
Anachromystic |
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Want help with worldbuilding, but don't just want to use someone else's creation? Shards is a zine designed for just that.
In issue #1 you can find: Four fragments to drop into your worlds The largest labyrinth in the world
A sci fi bar for a space station
A fey lady with secrets to tell
A god who won’t wait
Advice on building your own worlds
Questions to... [click here for more] |
Artemis Games |
$6.22 $4.97
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Shards Worldbuilding Zine provides inspiration for building your own worlds, along with tips and tricks on how to make it immersive.
In this issue:
Three fragments to drop into your worlds
Hybrid Monsters
The planet of Marrakugh
The Labyrinth of History
Advice on building your own worlds
Worldbuilding with Nursery Rhymes
Captain Magpie steals his birthday feast
And the Letter... [click here for more] |
Artemis Games |
$6.22 $4.97
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Shards Worldbuilding Zine provides inspiration for building your own worlds, along with tips and tricks on how to make it immersive.
In this issue:
Three fragments to drop into your worlds
A group of space-faring mercenaries
Primitive people from an alien world
Two fey princes
Advice on building your own worlds
How centaurs and their ilk go to war
Captain Magpie kidnaps a dragon... [click here for more] |
Artemis Games |
$6.22 $3.73
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Shards - Worldbuilding Zine helps you explore new worlds, with world fragments ready to pop in and advice on how to put together your own unique settings.
In this issue:
Three fragments to drop into your worlds The Lands of Flood and Famine The Karanna Archipelago The Selkie Syndicate
Advice on building your own worlds Travelling Faster Than Light Captain Magpie... [click here for more] |
Artemis Games |
$4.97
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Shards provides advice and content for all sorts of worldbuilders, and for all sorts of worlds. In this issue:
Three fragments to drop into your worlds The Gods of Karenna, a complete pantheon The Golden Feather, a magic shop Paragon Industries, an inter-planetary corporation
Advice on building your own worlds Prejudice, and how to handle it in your world Captain... [click here for more] |
Artemis Games |
$4.97
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Shards Worldbuilding Zine provides inspiration for building your own worlds, along with tips and tricks on how to make it immersive.
In this issue:
Three fragments to drop into your worlds
The settlement of Last Stand
The Lifecycle of the kraken
Doc Carson’s Airship Fair and Circus
Advice on building your own worlds
How to create and use gods
Captain Magpie steals a look... [click here for more] |
Artemis Games |
$4.97
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Shards Worldbuilding Zine provides inspiration for building your own worlds, along with tips and tricks on how to make it immersive.
This is a sampler issue, containing pieces from multiple past issues to give you an idea of what the zine is all about - and perhaps even tempt you to subscribe! ... [click here for more] |
Artemis Games |
FREE
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Whether You Are Celebrating International Talk Like a Pirate Day or Plan to Shuck it All and Go On Account
Let Simple Simon Teach You the Pirate Patois
And You'll be Ready to Rob Galleons in No Time Here's Some of What Ye'll Learn
Pirate Basics
An Advanced Nautical Vocabulary
Lingo From the Gun... [click here for more] |
Black Shark Enterprises |
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Personal growth sounds like a lot of work, but it can be fun with the BOSS mod system. This system fuses Jungian psychology, MBTI, and other personality models with role-playing games. This book is filled with abilities, pre-made characters, quests, and techniques to help you "gear up" with mental fortitude. Dive into a journey of self-discovery, take on your personal dragons head first, and get... [click here for more] |
BOSS mod |
$0.99
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How to best describe Landscapes?
It’s important to give your audience (readers or fellow gamers) a sense of place. That is, a landscape they can identify with and/or visualize.The difficulty here is placing a feature, a moment or a mark on the landscape that's memorable and (more importantly) indigenous to the landscape. This is exactly what these cards... [click here for more] |
Conflict Games, LLC |
$0.99
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Tired of samey and tropey medieval civilizations and societies in your realistic or fantasy RPGs? With this generator, based on actual theories of political development, you can generate entirely unique, detailed societal structures, governments, and conflicts which are entirely realistic, but may have never occurred in the real world.
You may create civilizations appropriate to your world’s equivalent... [click here for more] |
Currentpattern |
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The RPG Handbook is a system-free guide to playing tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs). The RPG Handbook looks at:
Inviting new players to try out tabletop RPGs.
Getting kids involved in trying out imaginative games.
Emphasizing deeper character development.
Making it easy to run and vary solo and team RPG gameplay.
Turning players into GMs - and GMs into games designers.
Offering GMs the means to rapidly... [click here for more] |
Dragonfly |
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Don't you wish you could draw those really cool fantasy-style maps to use in your game? Well, you can! This step-by-step guide shows you how to use the most basic of equipment to create brilliant fantasy maps even if (like the author) you have no artistic talents at all.
Your scenarios and game resources will never look the same again! ... [click here for more] |
Draken Games |
$1.50
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A basic GM advice column for running prehistoric animals. One of my three entries to Wayfinder #22. The other two entries will be published in it. ... [click here for more] |
Druid GM Designs |
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The Practical Guide to becoming a Great GM is the book that brings all the areas you need to know as a Game Master into a single space and shows you how to do all of it better, faster, clearer, and with confidence to know your game will be awesome.
Inside you'll find practical, applicable knowledge to improve your game, training modules to entrench the learning, plus a step by step guide for you to... [click here for more] |
Geekstable |
$24.99
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![Bundle of Worlds [BUNDLE]](https://d1vzi28wh99zvq.cloudfront.net/images/16957/325468-thumb140.png)
This special bundle product contains the following titles. The Rough Part of Town Mini Adventure Pack Regular price: $2.79 Bundle price: $3.39 Format: Watermarked PDF Speed up your game prep with the Rough Part of Town!
Ignored by most, this neighborhood’s crumbling cobblestones form jagged paths, trash fills its alleyways, and sad people leer from its broken... [click here for more] |
Heartwizard Games |
$21.95 $18.65
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What is This?
This guide was a tool I created as a visual reference while I mapped out the Realm of Aquilae.
While the software tool I am using to produce this massively-ambitious project is enormously useful, I find that sometimes, there are so many options, that I need some way of making sense and keeping track of it all, and more to the point, of how I make use of the tool.
Thus,... [click here for more] |
Infinium Game Studios |
Pay What You Want
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This eBook will help guide you on the different topics to improve your hobby skills from building miniatures, painting them to a level you are happy, and how to showcase them online. While I focus on gothic sci-fi miniatures, you can use the tips in this book for figures for wargaming, tabletop games, RPG, scale models, or really any other plastic miniature.
This is the first book in the Beginner... [click here for more] |
Joe Baird |
Pay What You Want
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Ever wondered what it takes to make it as a freelancer?
Want to improve your homebrew adventures? The KOBOLD Guide to Game Design distills years of professional experience into a collection of design wisdom that can improve your game and vastly increase your odds of selling a magazine article, adventure, or complete game design.
Includes tips from Keith Baker, Wolfgang Baur, Ed Greenwood,... [click here for more] |
Kobold Press |
$14.95
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Have you ever got stuck without ideas when creating towns, cities, etc. for your RPG adventures?
Are you tired of creating dull one-dimensional towns? Do you want to add a little extra depth to the towns where your adventures are taking place?
Then this little guide is for you!
A town is not just a place where a bunch NPCs live and wait for the... [click here for more] |
Mist Bard Press |
$2.49
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This concise first volume of Worldbuilding For Writers, Gamers and Other Creators provides straightforward guidance on how to model the astronomical elements of an Earth-like planet for your storyworld setting. Author and storyworld creator Matthew Wayne Selznick ("Brave Men Run -- A Novel of the Sovereign Era") explains the science and helps you through the (basic) math required to:
Select... [click here for more] |
MWS Media |
$2.99
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Much digital ink (and blood) has been spilt taking about diversity representation in tabletop gaming and in every other field of geek and nerd endeavour. Usually these conversations are extremely combative and they tend to end poorly for everyone involved. I've been involved in these debates and discussions myself, to my detriment. The position I hold being that free expression and the vision of the... [click here for more] |
Postmortem Studios |
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Your PCs have final emerged from the dungeon laden with loot prised from the clutches of their slain foes. Heroically returning to civilisation, they find a tavern, divide up their loot and relax. Then they ask “So what are the people like here, anyway?” At this point, the GM likely panics and either replies “nothing special” or improvises a series of similar, one-dimensional (and ultimately... [click here for more] |
Raging Swan Press |
$5.99
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Any GM can design a basic dungeon. A dedicated GM takes the extra time to craft exciting, logical and challenging dungeons that are so much more than a series of rooms stuffed full of monsters and treasure. Be Awesome At Dungeon Design comprises eight dungeon design essays by ENnie Award winning designer Creighton Broadhurst. Handling such subjects as a dungeon’s purpose, design, ecology, dressing... [click here for more] |
Raging Swan Press |
FREE
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Any GM can design a basic dungeon. A dedicated GM takes the extra time to craft exciting, logical and challenging dungeons that are so much more than a series of rooms stuffed full of monsters and treasure.
Be Awesome At Dungeon Design comprises over 200 pages of dungeon design advice from ENnie Award winning designer Creighton Broadhurst. Handling such subjects as a dungeon’s purpose,... [click here for more] |
Raging Swan Press |
$5.95
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Any GM can design a basic village. A dedicated GM, however, takes the extra time to craft exciting, logical and flavoursome villages that are so much more than a general store, village inn and some dreary peasant huts. Be Awesome at Village Design comprises village design essays by ENnie Award winning designer Creighton Broadhurst and a suite of tables designed to help the busy GM quickly and easily... [click here for more] |
Raging Swan Press |
$3.99
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Some people play roleplaying-games for the challenge; others play them for the story. Award-winning fantasy author and freelance game writer Marie Brennan is unabashedly in the latter camp. In these essays she looks at tabletop and live-action RPGs from a narrative perspective, exploring the ways the framework of a game can generate and support (or undermine) your tale. Whether you are a player or... [click here for more] |
Swan Tower |
$2.99
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Here, I paint a Catapult from WizKids with mostly regular craft paint. This mini took about 20 minutes to paint (give or take for dry times). I haven’t painted any minis in quite a long time, so I did this one as I work my way back into it. Hope you enjoy! ... [click here for more] |
Swords & Sandals |
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Put Your Adventures in the Crucible
In his latest contribution to the KRAKEN Chapbook Series, award-winning game designer Robin D. Laws shows the key structures underlying tabletop roleplaying scenarios. Sharpen your adventures in any game by learning the big five adventure types and how they tick.
The Dungeon: Whether you use it regularly or remember it from gaming... [click here for more] |
Tentacles Press |
$8.00
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Quest for Story! Quest for Adventure!
Learn to build sharper, more rewarding Gloranthan scenarios.
Robin D. Laws returns from the other side with tips, tricks and structures to make your adventures as open and wild as the world of Glorantha itself.
Master the power of the Core Activity, the underlying action that propels your heroes into mystery and danger.
Heighten the excitement with... [click here for more] |
Tentacles Press |
$8.00
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Awarded a Judges Spotlight ENnie in 2021
This is filled with great fantasy art which is used to showcase and highlight the quick to read, bite-sized prompts that are presented. The pictures are also used as creative prompts with thought-provoking questions referencing the illustrations.
This is an art book that educates. Something to flick through for inspiration,... [click here for more] |
The Grinning Frog |
$43.51 $39.78
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Start your journey into the realms of tabletop gaming with Chatbots for RPGs by Jacob DC Ross. This guide unveils the secrets of crafting AI chatbots as your game master, enhancing the tabletop RPG experience without replacing the human touch. It also includes guidelines and tips for publishers, including indie operations, to use chatbots in conjunction with their published books and PDFs. The book... [click here for more] |
Thunderegg Productions |
$19.99
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It's easy to make aliens: take a person or a dog, slap some antennae on 'em, maybe some ooze and some spooky talons, and then put some random letters together in a nigh-unpronounceable combination.
As I said, it's easy to make aliens. What isn't easy is making them well.
Even when you're working hard to be creative, it can sometimes be hard to get out of the rut of familiarity, to go... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$2.95
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It can be all too easy to create a history for your world which feels lifeless and static, and carrying out the research necessary to address that can be a daunting task that seems increasingly impossible the longer you try to work at it.
Luckily, worldbuilding doesn't need to be real, it just needs to feel real, and that's where this book comes in. Charting History covers the... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$2.95
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This special bundle product contains the following titles. How-To: Far North Peoples Regular price: $2.95 Bundle price: $2.36 Format: Watermarked PDF Generally, designing a culture for a book or a game presents you with a choice: either you base it on real-world cultures and likely end up with something that could be described as "Fantasy Bedouin with some Navajo... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$11.80 $7.08
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