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"What I'm saying is that GMs out here need this book. You may be fine coming up with awesome NPCs on your own and don't think you need something like this, and what I'm telling you is that this book is more than just a thousand characters, it's a million stories." -- Dave Chalker, Critical Hits review
2013 ENnie Award winner for Best Aid/Accessory - 2012... [click here for more] |
Engine Publishing |
$34.95 $16.95
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You love Dungeons and Dragons. As an experienced dungeon master you've run dozens, if not hundreds of games. You put a lot of work into making your games great. What if there's another way to look at how you prepare your game? What if it turned out you could spend less time, less energy, and have a better game as a result?
It's time to unleash the Lazy Dungeon Master.
Written in the style of Sly... [click here for more] |
SlyFlourish |
$5.99
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According to the legend, in 1944 the SS built a mysterious device deep in a Silesian mine shaft. Its bell-like shape gave it the nickname “die Glocke,” or “the Bell,” but the purpose of “Project Lantern-Bearer” remains a mystery to this day. Was it a time machine? A zero-point energy generator? A gateway to another world? Die Glocke cuts through... [click here for more] |
Pelgrane Press |
$2.95
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"Much more than a simple book of plots, Eureka! stands as one of those essential tools that GMs and game designers will find themselves reaching for again and again." -- Game designer Wolfgang Baur, Kobold Quarterly review
2010 Golden Geek Award nominee for Best Supplement
Featuring a foreword by gaming industry legend Monte Cook, Eureka contains 501... [click here for more] |
Engine Publishing |
$34.95 $16.95
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"Gnome Stew has hit another home run for the Game Master. Never Unprepared has earned a permanent place in my GM toolbox, right along side the likes of Robin’s Laws of Good Game Mastering, Hamlet’s Hit Points, Play Dirty, Eureka, and Masks. Highly recommended." -- RoleplayDNA review
2013 Origins Award nominee for Best Game-Related Publication - 2013 ENnie Award... [click here for more] |
Engine Publishing |
$19.95 $9.95
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President Eisenhower established Project Moon Dust in 1953 to locate, contain, and coordinate everything known about the alien presence on Earth. The public-relations and open-source arm of Moon Dust was called Project Blue Book. Blue Book ended its work in 1970. It is 1978. Your work never ends. This GUMSHOE campaign frame, Moon Dust Men, can be a sci-fi, conspiracy, or horror game... [click here for more] |
Pelgrane Press |
$2.95
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![Masks and Eureka: 1,000 NPCs and 501 Plots [BUNDLE]](/images/3323/93320-thumb140.jpg)
This special bundle product contains the following titles.
Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters Regular price: $16.95 Bundle price: $13.48 Format: ZIP File "Much more than a simple book of plots, Eureka! stands as one of those essential tools that GMs and game designers will find themselves reaching for again and again." -- Game... [click here for more] |
Engine Publishing |
$33.90 $26.95
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TWENTY-FOUR ACTION MOVIES EXPLODE
Robin D. Laws, game designer by day, cinema super-enthusiast by night, sets his analytic laser sights on action and thrills in a collection of essays sure to supercharge your tabletop roleplaying experience.
As the countdown ticks and the bullets fly, Robin takes you inside the workings of 24 action movies, from the stone... [click here for more] |
Atlas Games |
$15.00 $7.95
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How can you add more heroic struggle and vicarious thrills to your underdog adventures?
Story Design Volume 9 - In a dark horse story, the protagonist and antagonist are not evenly matched. The odds are stacked heavily in favor of the antagonist. Initially no one takes the protagonist seriously, but over the course of the story they shake off their underdog status to become... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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Ken Writes About Stuff Vol. 1
KWAS Vol. 1 is a collection of 13 supplements written by master Lovecraftian writer and GUMSHOE guru Kenneth Hite. Discover hideous creatures, uncover an occult Nazi bell or join the men in black with this baker’s dozen of fear and fun!
In the ENnie-award winning Ken Writes About Stuff series, Kenneth Hite turns his considerable writing talents and encyclopedic... [click here for more] |
Pelgrane Press |
$24.95
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This look at India’s mightiest metropolis, from its legendary crime syndicates to its glamorous movie colony, of necessity holds plenty of rash generalizations, needed for game play and speed of familiarization. More than many cities, Mumbai relishes its contradictions, its vastly rich and abysmally poor literally living side by side.
As with most Pelgrane publications, this... [click here for more] |
Pelgrane Press |
$2.95
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President Eisenhower established Project Moon Dust in 1953 to locate, contain, and coordinate everything known about the alien presence on Earth.
The Moon Dust Men are the tip of the spear. MAJESTIC-12 aims it. Manage the global war against the aliens with this new GUMSHOE subsystem. Do you build retro-engineered Aurora craft, or bioroids to fight on the Moon? Do you launch satellite... [click here for more] |
Pelgrane Press |
$2.95
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How can you design dynamic settings that supports telling great stories?
Buy this title as part of the For Writers and Roleplayers Bundle and Save 50%!
Setting Design helps you to assembling the critical details that you will need in order to tell a story. More than mere worldbuilding, this book shows you how to save prep time by focusing on just the elements you'll... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$10.00
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John Wick's monthly game master advice column in Pyramid was the most controversial in the magazine's history.
It was seen by some as revolutionary and dismissed by others as outright dangerous. Collected here for the first time are all eleven episodes including "Hit 'em Where it Hurts," a new introduction and closing statements by the author.
Learn the worst, most despicable,... [click here for more] |
John Wick Presents |
$19.99 $9.99
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15 years ago, John Wick's book of GM advice, Play Dirty, took the gaming industry by storm. Some called it monstrous. Others refused to read it all together. Some retailers even refused to carry the book.
Now, John Wick is back with a whole new tome of dastardly tricks to keep your players guessing and your table humming: Play Dirty 2: Even Dirtier.
Take a tour through twelve new chapters, each... [click here for more] |
John Wick Presents |
$19.99 $9.99
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How can you make alignment more useful and meaningful in your roleplaying games?
Roleplaying Alignment presents a system for using the traditional nine-point alignment system to enrich your game. It presents alignment as a means for customizing your character's personality, goals, and beliefs. Simple mechanics reward characters who embody the tenets of their alignment, and... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$5.00 $4.00
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How can you add more conflict and suspense to your competitive adventures?
Story Design Volume 8 - In a duel story, the protagonist and antagonist are competing against one another. They may be fighting to obtain the same objective, or simply trying to insure that the other doesn’t get what they’re after. The rivalry might be a sports competition, a race to make... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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Add a sense of alienation to your metamorphosis stories and adventures.
Story Design Volume 11 - In a curse story the antagonist feels that the protagonist has done something wrong. Maybe they have, and the antagonist’s actions are justified; maybe they haven’t, and the antagonist’s wrath is misplaced or unfair. As a result of the antagonist’s need... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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How can you add more inner conflict, fear or change, and wonder of discovery to your transformation adventures?
Story Design Volume 12 - In a change story something upsets the protagonist’s life in a significant way. The character then has to adapt and come to terms with that change. It can be something normal yet tragic, like the death of a loved one or being diagnosed... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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How can you add more intrigue and danger to your forbidden love story?
Story Design Volume 15 - In a taboo plot, the protagonist becomes involved in a forbidden romance. From the start everyone knows that the affair will fail because social forces don’t approve of the pairing; what makes the relationship unacceptable will vary with the genre, place, and time of the... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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How can you add more drama and pathos to your story of selfless heroism?
Story Design Volume 16 - A sacrifice story finds the protagonist pursuing some noble cause or higher purpose. In order to accomplish their objective, they will need to give up something of great personal value. This might be other goals, a close relationship, or even their own life. They may survive,... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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How can you add more action and conflict to your story of discovery?
Story Design Volume 17 - In a revelation plot something is discovered that has serious implications for the protagonist. It may mean also have a serious impact on a supporting character, or the world. The actual discover could be something good or something bad, but it is startling and disruptive to the... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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How can you add more hope and excitement to your story of dreams and aspirations?
Story Design Volume 19 - In a rags-to-riches story the protagonist starts out poor, unknown, and without any power or authority. This could be literal or metaphorical; they may be intellectually or spiritually poor, rather than without material wealth. Over the course of the story they rise... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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How can you add more empathy and suspense to your story of tragic descent?
Story Design Volume 20 - In a decline-and-fall story, the protagonist starts out in a high position, possessed of fortune and glory, having everything they could ever desire. This could be literal or metaphorical; they might have moral or ethical riches rather than money and possessions. The protagonist... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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Author: Quentin Hudspeth Page Count: 15 Use: Randomize equipment costs and availability POD?: Available for print on demand
Looking to add a little randomness to the prices in your source book’s shopping list? Want to tie the costs into the availability of the item? Trying to work with both fantasy and science fiction settings?
Playing the Market may be just... [click here for more] |
Hudspeth Games |
$2.00
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Do you love those old print RPG magazines? The Call to Assembly is a bi-monthly print magazine that covers a wide variety of tabletop role-playing topics.
This is the electronic version of issue 1, which includes a system-neutral post-apocalyptic setting called 3 Generations After The End, a roundup of early gaming experiences, advice on loot, a Doctor Who Weeping Angels... [click here for more] |
Gamer Assembly |
FREE
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How can you adapt a classic Sherlock Holmes mystery into your own adventure?
The Red-Headed League (A Study in Storytelling #2) helps you to deconstruct the original story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. You can then reimagine, remix, and recycle the story elements into any genre or setting. Designed for writers and roleplayers, use it to create original fiction or tabletop adventures!... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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A book for gamers interested in interesing and bziarre words by Creighton Broadhurst
Looking for an odd or bizarre word? Want to recapture the spirit of old-school games? Then look no further—from abnormous to zounds—we’ve got you covered!
Cool Words for Gamers is a compilation of all the cool, slightly bizarre words Creighton has posted to his blog over the years.... [click here for more] |
Raging Swan Press |
$3.45
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![Ultimate GMing Toolkit: Improv, Campaigns, Prep, Tools [BUNDLE]](/images/3323/103655-thumb140.jpg)
This special bundle product contains the following titles.
Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters Regular price: $16.95 Bundle price: $13.08 Format: ZIP File "Much more than a simple book of plots, Eureka! stands as one of those essential tools that GMs and game designers will find themselves reaching for again and again." -- Game... [click here for more] |
Engine Publishing |
$77.70 $59.95
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HIDEOUS CREATURES: DEEP ONES dives deep into the myth of the batrachian denizens of Innsmouth. Are they human hybrids, or alien implants? Telepaths or psychopaths? Mermaids or monstrosities? From the legends of the Japanese kappa to the “kulullu” carved on the walls of Babylon, the spoor of the Deep Ones lingers everywhere.
Hideous Creatures:... [click here for more] |
Pelgrane Press |
$2.95
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![The Complete Trilogy: Prep, Campaigns, and Sessions [BUNDLE]](/images/3323/116552-thumb140.jpg)
This special bundle product contains the following titles.
Focal Point: The Complete Game Master's Guide to Running Extraordinary Sessions Regular price: $11.95 Bundle price: $9.52 Format: ZIP File The heart of roleplaying is the gaming session, that point when everyone is gathered around the gaming table — and exactly when so many of your game mastering... [click here for more] |
Engine Publishing |
$33.85 $26.95
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The first of a new series of GUMSHOE Zooms looking at historical magic traditions — and giving you the tools and rules to evoke these puissant powers in your own game! This first issue in a two-issue series examines sympathetic magic and zombies, and Zooms in on the Afro-Caribbean magical-religious complex encompassing Vodoun, Candomble, Santeria, Obeah, and Palo Mayombe. The loa ride in May!... [click here for more] |
Pelgrane Press |
$4.45
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GUMSHOE Zoom: Voodoo 2: The Invisibles
The Invisibles, more than spirits and a little less than gods, can fit inside stones, trees, and their servitors’ heads — but not into just one issue of KWAS! Whether you call them Loa or Orisha, these mighty beings demand your attention and your sacrifice, but give you hidden knowledge and awaken your interior fires. This second... [click here for more] |
Pelgrane Press |
$4.45
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How can you put more action and excitement in your traveling adventure stories?
Story Design Volume 1 - In the journey plot, the protagonist travels and has an adventure. It’s a simple as that. There’s no deeper meaning or existential crisis underlying the trip. There’s hidden message, or a need for the character to experience personal growth. It’s... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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Add more thrills and dramatic tension to your mystery adventures!
Story Design Volume 7 - The word mystery carries a lot of cultural baggage. From a genre point of view, it’s typically associated with murder. The story goal is to discover who did it, although more modern variations focus on figuring out how it was done, in order to prove who did it. A mystery doesn’t... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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Add more terror and suspense to your horror adventures!
Horror Stories (Genre Structure Vol. 1) helps you to develop and tell frightful tales of dread and darkness. It is an essential sourcebook for creating fiction and tabletop adventures. Written for writers and roleplayers, with clear step-by-step instructions, you can:
Determine which horror genre elements you wish... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$5.00
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How can you add more excitement and bold vision to your science fiction adventures?
Science Fiction (Genre Structure Vol. 2) helps you to develop and tell tales of discovery and possibility. It is an essential sourcebook for creating fiction and tabletop adventures. Written for writers and roleplayers, with clear step-by-step instructions, you can:
Determine which science... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$5.00
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How can you adapt a classic Sherlock Holmes mystery into your own adventure?
A Case of Identity (A Study in Storytelling #3) helps you to deconstruct the original story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. You can then reimagine, remix, and recycle the story elements into any genre or setting. Designed for writers and roleplayers, use it to create original fiction or tabletop adventures!... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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How can you add more character focus and a slice of life to your adventures?
Story Design Volume 13 - In a coming of age plot, the protagonist gains maturity. This is often literal as the character moves from one stage of their life to another, like from childhood to adolescence, or young adulthood to middle age. It can be metaphorical as they embark on a new career, learn... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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How can you add more conflict and characterization to your love story?
Story Design Volume 14 - A romance plot features the protagonist falling in love with a supporting character or even a co-protagonist. The antagonist doesn’t want this to happen, and conspires to keep the lover apart. There is often some misunderstanding or miscommunication that creates a rift in... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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How can you add more danger and tragedy to your story of wretched excess?
Story Design Volume 18 - In an obsession story the protagonist goes too far with something, and bad things happen as a result. The object of their excess can be an actual physical or psychological problem like alcoholism or drug addiction; it could also be an unhealthy fascination with a goal, a person,... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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How can you use the literary concept of theme in a roleplaying game adventure?
Yes, roleplaying games are different in structure than other forms of fiction, and the needs of the story, the people telling the story, and the audience are all unique. They’re still stories, and embracing theme is a relatively easy way to make those stories better. It’s infinitely more interesting... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$10.00 $8.00
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More than simple plot hooks or adventure seeds!
Click on Full Size Preview for a sample!
A premise is the heart of a story summed up in a single sentence. It should provide a general overview of what happens, without spoiling anything. A good premise contains, explicitly or by implication, four key elements of the story: who the protagonists are, what the goal of the story... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$5.00 $4.00
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2013 Origins Award Nominee
You want to build a world. Twenty authors want to help.
It begins when you have that moment when you can close your eyes and see a world no-one has seen before. It might start from a grain of sand, the way light filters through the trees, the feel of satin robes, the smell of cooking soup, or simply a wish for somewhere, somewhen else. It happens... [click here for more] |
Alliteration Ink |
$14.99 $4.95
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Truth may be stranger than fiction but reality makes the best fantasy.
A system-neutral guide to inspire GMs and players alike.
Ever sit down to brainstorm for your next campaign and come up blank? Find yourself wondering, "what WOULD my character do in this situation?"
Get your creative wheels turning with Reality Makes the Best Fantasy,... [click here for more] |
Back That Elf Up |
$4.99 $2.99
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During the eight year run of Living Greyhawk, the world’s largest role-playing campaign, the Bandit Kingdoms region produced over 130 unique adventures. For the first time ever, these narrative threads are woven into one cohesive tapestry. For those who helped shape these events, this comprehensive resource memorializes their struggles against Iuz’s oppressive rule. For others, this compilation... [click here for more] |
Casey Brown |
$5.95 $4.76
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“If you’re planning on running a campaign, you’ll want this book.” — Critical Hits review
2014 ENnie Award nominee for Best Aid/Accessory - 2013 Golden Geek Award nominee for Best Supplement
Do you ever wish you had a guide to help make running ongoing campaigns easier and more fun? Then you need Odyssey: The Complete Game Master's Guide... [click here for more] |
Engine Publishing |
$24.95 $11.95
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How can you create memorable characters with great story potential?
Buy this title as part of the For Writers and Roleplayers Bundle and Save 50%!
At the heart of all great stories are strong characters. It doesn’t matter whether you’re reading a short story, writing a novel, or watching a play. The characters found in TV series, comic books, and games are more alike... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$10.00
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Author: Quentin Hudspeth Page Count: 5 Use: generic fantasy RPG supplement Oh, the lowly d4! Second in derision only to the d12 (and those imaginary dice the d3 and d5. Pfah!). Now these oft maligned dice, known to many as caltrops, have two games designed just for them. Caltrops is a small supplement featuring two dice games as played... [click here for more] |
Hudspeth Games |
$2.00
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You can save 30% by purchasing this title as part of the Class Theory Bundle!
Additional previews can be found in the free Previews product!
Using Fighters in Worldbuilding and Adventure Design
Any System! Any Setting! The appeal of the fighter is that it’s the most generic of character classes. It plays to the most basic rules, regardless... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$7.00 $5.60
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