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Adventure is the Third Pillar of Fantasy Storytelling
Any System! Any Setting! This book is about story. I named it Adventure Theory because it’s a more compelling title for tabletop roleplaying gamers, but it’s... [click here for more] |
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Characters, Worldbuilding, and Adventures
Arcane magic is a foundational element of tabletop fantasy. Whether you’re drawing upon the concepts of Vancian magic as interpreted by Gygax and Arneson, or embracing pseudo-historical tradition of Hermeticism, the ability to manipulate supernatural energy and cast spells is an important part of the genre. With no arcane magic we’d have no wizards,... [click here for more] |
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Characters are the First Pillar of Fantasy Adventure!
Any System! Any Setting! You’ve created fantasy roleplaying characters before. Odds are that the focus of the system you used was on the crunchy bits. The process... [click here for more] |
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Using Clerics in Worldbuilding and Adventure Design
Any System! Any Setting! Clerics bring a sense of mythology to a fantasy world. They validate the existence of deities. Their beliefs reflect... [click here for more] |
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Characters, Worldbuilding, and Adventures
In the context of a fantasy world, culture can mean a lot of things. Often people reduce it to what tabletop games traditionally call race. Elves are magical, learned, and like nature. Dwarves are sassy, temperamental, and like to party. It’s not so much a collection of cultural markers, or even ethnic markers, as it is a set of stereotypes. Even fantasy... [click here for more] |
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Characters, Worldbuilding, and Adventures with Divine Magic
Divine magic is an element of tabletop fantasy with that’s seen a lot of changes. Originally intended to help emulate vampire hunters in Hammer Horror films (seriously) by allowing characters to turn and disrupt the undead, it’s grown to encompass a whole spectrum of real-world religious influences, mythology, and game design... [click here for more] |
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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] |
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Teams of Characters in Fantasy Adventure
Any System! Any Setting! In the past four decades there have been millions of words written about character creation. There are scores of books on worldbuilding, and notable volumes... [click here for more] |
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A Game of Magick & Resistance
Members of the Cold Iron Resistance fight against the Cult of Moloch’s magick to retake control of objective reality.
In this game, players take the role of members of Cold Iron, a resistance movement fighting the machinations of an occult fascist oligarchy that is taking over the world. Named for the metal believed to be able to repel, contain,... [click here for more] |
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Using Rogues in Worldbuilding and Adventure Design
Any System! Any Setting! The appeal of the rogue is their reputation as the non-conformists of character classes. Even if they’re not outright thieves,... [click here for more] |
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Using Wizards in Worldbuilding and Adventure Design
Any System! Any Setting! The appeal of the wizard is that in many way it’s the most iconic of character classes. Nothing screams fantasy like... [click here for more] |
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Worldbuilding is the Second Pillar of Fantasy Storytelling
Any System! Any Setting! Worldbuilding is essential to a good fantasy adventure. It creates the context for the characters and the stories that they’re... [click here for more] |
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This special bundle product contains the following titles. Fantasy Stories (Genre Structure Vol. 3) Regular price: $5.00 Bundle price: $0.00 Format: PDF How can you add more wonder and enchantment to your fantasy adventures?
Fantasy Stories (Genre Structure Vol. 3) helps you to develop and tell spellbinding tales of magic and imagination. It is an essential sourcebook... [click here for more] |
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This special bundle product contains the following titles. Premise: Fantasy - 100 Plot Ideas Regular price: $5.00 Bundle price: $0.00 Format: PDF More than simple plot hooks or adventure seeds!
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How can you add more wonder and enchantment to your fantasy adventures?
Fantasy Stories (Genre Structure Vol. 3) helps you to develop and tell spellbinding tales of magic and imagination. 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 fantasy... [click here for more] |
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Turn Any d20-Based System Into a Story Game
The Celestial Mechanics system is simple. It doesn’t change anything about your system of choice. It adds one quick step to non-combat actions, the bid die. It requires one small bit of bookeeping that parallels tracking hit points, the complications. What it offers in return is greater narrative control for the players and a little... [click here for more] |
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Using Clerics in Worldbuilding and Adventure Design
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This special bundle product contains the following titles. Adventure Theory Regular price: $7.00 Bundle price: $3.49 Format: Watermarked PDF Save 30% when you purchase this title as part of the Foragers Guild Guides Bundle!
Any System! Any Setting!
Adventure is the Third Pillar of Fantasy Storytelling
This book is about story. I named it Adventure Theory... [click here for more] |
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More than simple plot hooks or adventure seeds!
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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] |
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Universal Story Ideas for any setting, any system, any genre!
This booklet contains five fables, along with notes on how you can use them as plot hooks and adventure seeds for your own roleplaying game adventures or works of original fiction. Remix, recycle, and re-imagine them with careful consideration or reckless abandon.
The fables in this volume are:
The Wolf and The Lamb
The... [click here for more] |
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Universal Story Ideas for any setting, any system, any genre!
This booklet contains five fables, along with notes on how you can use them as plot hooks and adventure seeds for your own roleplaying game adventures or works of original fiction. Remix, recycle, and re-imagine them with careful consideration or reckless abandon.
The fables in this volume are:
The Father and His Sons
The... [click here for more] |
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Stories at the intersection of fantasy, science fiction, and horror!
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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] |
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How can you express your character’s feelings without embarrassing yourself?
Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a tabletop roleplaying game is engage with the roleplaying part. It's not that we have a shortage of ideas on how our characters would behave. Their abilities aren't a mystery to us, and we know how to use them to our tactical advantage. Things break down when we have to... [click here for more] |
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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] |
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