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The Digital Age has created massive technological and disciplinary shifts in tabletop role-playing, increasing the appreciation of games like Dungeons & Dragons. Millions tune in each week to watch and listen to RPG players on podcasts and streaming platforms, while virtual tabletops connect online players across the world. Such shifts elicit new scholarly perspectives from a variety of disciplines.... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$45.00 $27.99
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Many of today's hottest selling games--both non-electronic and electronic--focus on such elements as shooting up as many bad guys as one can (Duke Nuk'em), beating the toughest level (Mortal Kombat), collecting all the cards (Pokemon), and scoring the most points (Tetris).
Fantasy role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons, Rolemaster, GURPS), while they may involve some of those aforementioned elements,... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$13.99
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What is a fighter? You can answer that question as simply as asking it, but you never really feel satisfied. Fighters are supposed to encompass the way of the warrior, those who live and die by the sword, the monsters who burn villages to the ground and even the humble samurai on bent knee before his charge. So when you ask “what is a fighter?” just understand that the question is... [click here for more] |
Avalon Game Company |
$4.99
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STARRY KNIGHT PRESS 2020 CATALOG
A Full Color Catalog Featuring the Gaming Supplements of Starry Knight Press
Hello and welcome, gamers!
The 2020 Starry Knight Press Catalog features our entire selection of currently available books and supplements, information on upcoming titles, an adventure compatibility chart... [click here for more] |
Starry Knight Press |
$1.00
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In Family Games: The 100 Best, top game designers and publishers write about the most enjoyable, most cleverly designed titles of the last one hundred years. Their essays cover the spectrum from board games to card games, wargames to miniatures games to role-playing games, including old favorites and little known gems. These are the games that the designers themselves play, the ones that have... [click here for more] |
Green Ronin Publishing |
$9.95 $7.46
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New gaming goodness in this issue along with over $5.00 in free games and discounts.
Musing of the Avalon Stogie
Behind the Game
Coral Throne, Chapter XXIV
Heroes Wear Masks
Dicing With Life
Today’s Promise Excerpt
Avalon Pathfinder
Sorceress Issue #6
BedRock Interview
Artist Spotlight.... [click here for more] |
Avalon Game Company |
$0.56
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If you're a GM writing your own adventures, this guide is for you. This is an entirely new method to write and GM adventures. It will help you do two things: Write an amazing adventure reminiscent of a movie or a novel, and relieve you of the usual burdens of GMing, so you can concentrate on what's really important: presenting the adventure to your party.
If you're a beginner GM and maybe you're not... [click here for more] |
algi |
$7.99
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While board games can appear almost primitive in the digital age, eurogames--also known as German-style board games--have increased in popularity nearly concurrently with the rise of video games. Eurogames have simple rules and short playing times and emphasize strategy over luck and conflict.
This book examines the form of eurogames, the hobbyist culture that surrounds them, and the way that hobbyists... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99 $9.59
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The revolution in tabletop gaming revealed and reviewed, in this entertaining and informative look at over 40 years of award-winning games.
The annual Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) Awards are like the Oscars of the tabletop. Acclaimed British author and games expert James Wallis investigates the winners and losers of each year’s contest to track the incredible explosion in... [click here for more] |
Aconyte Books |
$19.95
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Most likely, if you’re reading this, you’re a gamer. And I hope a dictionary of every term in gaming interests, and even helps you. But it isn’t really for you, it’s for your friend. That one who is a little interested in playing, and has tried a few sessions but has never been able to get into it. It’s written for your partner, who you always ask to join you in that next game you’re starting... [click here for more] |
Straight Path Games |
Pay What You Want
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In the second issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:
RPG Crucible: Friendships On The Fly: How to use the "yes, and..." philosophy to build PC backgrounds and relationships during the game.
Be An Interesting Player: Phil Vecchione offers tips to enrich your gaming experience by being more interesting at... [click here for more] |
PT Publishing |
$1.95
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In the third issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:
RPG Crucible: Previous Lives: Another look at character backstory development with people who have lived another life before becoming adventurers.
Five GMing Mistakes: Happy Jacks' Stu Venable discusses a group of common pitfalls that every GM should be aware of.
Tsunami... [click here for more] |
PT Publishing |
$1.95
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This first issue of Avalon Game’s great Sci-Fi e-zine, Infinite Horizons will bring to you all the great Sci-Fi stuff you have been wanting, and more.
Each issue is packed full of great gaming, fiction, comics and review. Did we mention that it’s free!!!
Gaming
Infinite Futures, Heritage
Infinite Futures, New Prestige Classes
Infinite... [click here for more] |
Avalon Game Company |
$1.00
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2023 STARRY KNIGHT PRESS CATALOG
A Full Color Catalog Featuring the Gaming Supplements of Starry Knight Press
Hello and welcome, Game Masters and adventurers!
The new 2023 Starry Knight Press Catalog showcases our entire selection of currently available books and supplements, with information on upcoming titles and brief... [click here for more] |
Starry Knight Press |
$1.99
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The ultimate guide to tabletop gaming
Board gaming has become one of the world's hottest hobbies, with millions of players discovering the fun, challenge and excitement of releases like Ticket to Ride, Catan and Pandemic. This book by some of the world's leading board game journalists is your guide to this fascinating pastime, featuring insightful, fiercely... [click here for more] |
Clyde & Cart Press |
$17.68
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A collection of thoughts and advice on playing role-playing games, all of which can be divided into into four general categories: making characters/background, playing characters or their background, out-of-character issues, and the players' role in interacting with or creating settings. ... [click here for more] |
Chromatic Chameleon |
$1.00
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STARRY KNIGHT PRESS 2021 CATALOG
A Full Color Catalog Featuring the Gaming Supplements of Starry Knight Press
Hello and welcome, Game Masters and adventurers!
The Starry Knight Press 2021 Catalog showcases our entire selection of currently available books and supplements, information on upcoming titles, an adventure... [click here for more] |
Starry Knight Press |
$1.00
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Science Fiction Hobby Games serves as a history and guide to tabletop gaming franchises set in original science-fictional milieux. Its subject is the pen and paper role playing games and model and counter based wargames that preceded modern videogames and still evolve alongside them, as well as the gamebooks, board games, card games and postal games that are their less famous cousins. Included... [click here for more] |
Pseudonymz |
$24.99 $9.99
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In the fourth issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:
RPG Crucible: Devils in the Details: Tips for adding roleplaying flavor by fashioning behavioral routines unique to your PC.
Creating the Mood: JiB from Happy Jacks suggests ways to enhance your horror gaming experience by engaging the senses of your players.
Tsunami... [click here for more] |
PT Publishing |
$1.95
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Inside you'll find all projects included in the zinequest event on Kickstarter.
Even better, all projects are categorised and sorted to group similar things together and help you to get a clearer overview.
Each listing includes all the main project details, the smaller images are in high resolution so you can zoom in for a better look.
If you see something you like, just click the project image to... [click here for more] |
Modelling Miniatures |
$3.16
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How to Run a Game
In this little book I present a way to develop the skills to run a game. Or ones I think are useful to running a game. I don't find much of this in most GMing books. Most of it is on preparing, and that is essential. You can't cook if you don't have a recipe, ingredients, pots, pans and a stove. But cooking is another skill alltogether.
No this isn't a cook book. I was hungry when... [click here for more] |
DM Studios |
$0.50
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In this in-depth critical and theoretical analysis of the horror genre in video games, 14 essays explore the cultural underpinnings of horror's allure for gamers and the evolution of "survival" themes.
The techniques and story effects of specific games such as Resident Evil, Call of Cthulhu, and Silent Hill are examined individually. ... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$12.99
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In the first issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:
RPG Crucible: Told by the Victor: Advice on building backstory that leaves room for suprises!
Are Gamemasters Playing Too?: A philosophical look at the GM's role in the game.
Tsunami City Project: Fourteen fantastic city locations discussed on Metagamers... [click here for more] |
PT Publishing |
FREE
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40 Years of Gen Con at a Glance
A detailed history of a premier gaming con…and the hobby game industry that spawned it.
Written by award-winning game designer Robin D. Laws, an industry pioneer and insider.
Features in-depth interviews with gaming greats, secrets, and little-known facts.
More about 40 Years of Gen Con
Each year, thousands of gamers converge for an epic convention... [click here for more] |
Atlas Games |
$14.95
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In the fifrth issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:
RPG Crucible: Eye on the Prize: Tips for adding roleplaying flavor by exploring your character's personal ambitions, no matter how unrealistic.
Freshening Up Your Game: George from RPG Circus suggests six ways to freshen up a stale gaming experience.
Tsunami... [click here for more] |
PT Publishing |
$1.95
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Occult detective Ross Fulton and his assistant Ted have come to Indianapolis for MarmiCon, the largest gaming convention in the Midwest. Ross and Ted have to track down the elusive Franklin Fletcher, a game designer, con man, and Enochian mage, but they soon learn they’re not the only ones on his trail. Now Ross and Ted must outwit their rival, find Fletcher, and figure out why portals to other worlds... [click here for more] |
Hex Games |
$2.99
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Level, Erfahrungspunkte, Lebensenergie: Wo kommen diese in fast jedem Computerspiel auftauchenden Konzepte eigentlich her? Die Antwort lautet: Sie stammen aus drei kleinen braunen Büchlein, die 1974 in den USA veröffentlicht wurden. In ihnen befanden sich die Regeln für Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), das erste Fantasy-Rollenspiel. Alles was danach kam, von The Bard's Tale bis World... [click here for more] |
Prinn & Junzt |
$16.22
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The third issue of Avalon Game's great Sci-Fi e-zine, Infinite Horizons will bring to you all the great Sci-Fi stuff you have been wanting, and more.
Each issue is packed full of great gaming, fiction, comics and review. Did we mention that it's free!!!
Gaming
Infinite Futures, Heritage New Adaptoid
Infinite Futures, New Prestige Classes
Infinite Futures, New Feats
Infinite... [click here for more] |
Avalon Game Company |
$0.75
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¿Cansado de tener que memorizar páginas y páginas de información tediosa solo para dirigir una pequeña mazmorra? ¿O tal vez estás cansado de escribir nombres para un trillón de NPC solo para que tus jugadores pasen por un área de mercado? Sí, yo también.
Odio memorizar cosas, y odio el trabajo de preparación que se torna demasiado largo, así que en el transcurso de 25 años, he aprendido... [click here for more] |
Steampop Games |
Pay What You Want
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In the sixth issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:
RPG Crucible: Be Ashamed of Yourself: Tips for adding roleplaying flavor by exploring potentially comlpex regrets that can inform character development.
Exploring Character - A Qualified Rant: George from RPG Circus discusses the fundamental difference between... [click here for more] |
PT Publishing |
$1.95
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Science Fiction Hobby Games serves as a history and guide to tabletop gaming franchises set in original science-fictional milieux. Its subject is the pen and paper role playing games and model and counter based wargames that preceded modern videogames and still evolve alongside them, as well as the gamebooks, board games, card games and postal games that are their less famous cousins. Included... [click here for more] |
Pseudonymz |
$24.99 $9.99
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Tiger of Cilengkrang is a beatifully drawn comic series drawn by Alex Irzaqi, inspired by the tabletop Roleplaying game: Musha Shugyo RPG! This is the first issue, available in PDF and print on demand format. The entire serie will count 4 episodes.
This issue includes playable characters for Musha Shugyo RPG! Playable RPG contents will be available in each episode.
Synopsis
A... [click here for more] |
Acchiappasogni |
$2.50
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In dieser Anthologie finden Sie drei Abenteuer, die allesamt durch ihren Schauplatz miteinander vereint sind: Die Stadt Daranel am Meer der Schwimmenden Inseln. Hier, wo die imperiale Kontrolle schwach ist, ringen verschiedene Fraktionen um die Macht - und wählen dabei als ihr Mittel der Wahl oft Intrigen und Ränke. Wird es den Abenteurern gelingen, sich in diesem Netz zu bewegen und sich... [click here for more] |
Ulisses Spiele |
$16.22
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Digital role-playing games such as Rift, Diablo III, and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning help players develop skills in critical thinking, problem solving, digital literacy, and lifelong learning.
The author examines both the benefits and the drawbacks of role-playing games and their application to real-world teaching techniques. Readers will learn how to incorporate games-based instruction... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$9.99
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In the seventh issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:
RPG Crucible: Be Part of That World: Tips for adding roleplaying depth by engaging details of your character's setting while designing a backstory.
Tools, Companions, and Gods - Using Computers in your SciFi Game: Writer/designer Phil Vecchione explores the use... [click here for more] |
PT Publishing |
$1.95
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Gute Ideen gibt es überall. In Filmen, Serien, Büchern, Videospielen - kein anderes Medium lässt sich nicht doch irgendwie für die heimische Runde ausschlachten. Aber in dieser Vielfalt steckt schon die erste Hürde: Wo setzt man überhaupt an?
Was gilt es zu beachten, wenn man Videospiele für die eigene Runde adaptiert? Was können wir von Hollywood oder von unserer liebsten TV-Serie für die... [click here for more] |
Ulisses Spiele |
$5.40
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A must-have for the children of all us fantasy gamers. With these 29 pages of full color illustrations you can entertain and educate your baby on the monstrous dangers inherent in the worlds we adventure in. This is a must have for educating your child early about fantasy creatures while also providing a platform to begin teaching the essential ABCs.
This alphabet book will walk your child from... [click here for more] |
J. J. Sloane |
$1.99
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The Tabletop Games Kickstarter Report compiles all projects which were successfully funded during Spring 2020 in the Tabletop Games category on Kickstarter.
Better yet, everything is sorted into categories to make it easier for you to browse and find the stuff that interests you.
Listings include all the main details of the... [click here for more] |
Modelling Miniatures |
$6.32
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This month we are giving away a free copy of our great little gaming e-zine.
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This issue has all sorts of goodies in it.
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Musing of the Avalon Stogie
Behind the Game, Talisman
Coral Thrown, Chapter VIII
Junkyard Wars
Raging Swan Gaming
Multi-Verse, New Zero-G Weapons
Geek Profile
Avalon Pathfinder, Trem & Joloch
Mark’s Musings ... [click here for more] |
Avalon Classic |
$1.00
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Another great issues, packed full of gaming goodness.
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Musing of the Avalon Stogie
Behind the Game, SFCF
Coral Thrown, Chapter X I
Raging Swan Gaming
Dept 13 Comic, Issue #3
Free Paper Model..
Junkyard Wars, Strip #18
Avalon Pathfinder, Unseelie Rings
Multi-Verse,
Cancrian Mercenariy...
Geek Profile
Battle Axe, More Figures
Reviews... [click here for more] |
Avalon Classic |
$1.00
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Since the release of Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, role-playing games (RPGs) have spawned a vibrant industry and subculture whose characteristics and player experiences have been well explored. Yet little attention has been devoted to the ways RPGs have shaped society at large over the last four decades.
Role-playing games influenced video game design, have been widely represented in film, television... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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Another great issue, filled with all sorts of gaming goodness...
Musing of the Avalon Stogie..... <o:p></o:p>
Behind the Game,Heroes for Hire <o:p></o:p>
Junkyard Wars, Strip #17 <o:p></o:p>
Coral Thrown, Chapter X <o:p></o:p>
Dept 13 Comic, Issue #2 <o:p></o:p>
Mark’s Musings <o:p></o:p>
Artist... [click here for more] |
Avalon Classic |
$1.99 $1.00
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This collection of all-new essays approaches the topic of immersion as a product of social and media relations. Examining the premises and aesthetics of live-action and tabletop role-playing games, reality television, social media apps and first-person shooters, the essays take both game rules and the media discourse that games produce as serious objects of study.
Scholars of social psychology, sociology,... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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Forschungsdrang und Rollenspiel Motivgeschichtliche Betrachtungen zum Fantasy-Rollenspiel Das Schwarze Auge Folgt das aventurische Rittertum authentisch dem realhistorischen Vorbild? Wie weit gehen die Parallelen zwischen dem Bosparanischen Imperium und seinem irdischen Pendant, dem antiken Rom, tatsächlich? Welche Folgen hat der Pakt mit einem Erzdämonen für die menschliche Seele?... [click here for more] |
Ulisses Spiele |
$21.64
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Karadra's Shipwreck (Pirate Fantasy)
A Pirate Fantasy Epic that cannot be missed!
Yearning to escape the horrors that lurk beneath the ocean and the dark world of those that sail it, Arsik, a seasoned sailor of the Trident Empire, seeks refuge on the serene island of Sarathorn. But while he runs from a life of danger, his own anger threatens to consume his soul. Desperate to maintain his fragile... [click here for more] |
Spiral Lane Productions |
$0.79
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On my upcoming series I will do some theory of designing game books.
This includes:
- writing clues
- mapping it out
- game rules
- riddle design
- creative dice alternatives
- sorting/shuffling the sections
- using counter
- timing and timer
- …
This is my first pdf upload due to testing things out. The book is only an example.
... [click here for more] |
Blue Awesome Strawberry Publishing |
Pay What You Want
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In our beautifully reformatted and reimagined ninth issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:
RPG Crucible: Outside the Box: Explore a creative approach to matching disparate backgrounds with your new character's current career path.
Coloring Between the Lines: The Radiating Gnome extracts the most graceful elements... [click here for more] |
PT Publishing |
$2.49
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This biographical dictionary is the first of its kind to document artists' contributions to one of the most popular and far-reaching of contemporary teenage social pastimes of the last quarter of the 20th century; that of role-playing games and collectible card games.
The book presents full information on 150 artists, both painters and cartographers, whose influence and illustrative contributions... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$49.99
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In May 2003, Jonny Nexus embarked on a journey that would take him from the ruins of post-WWIII Poland to the shores of long-gone realms, and from the faded grandeur of 1920s Venice to the twice-sunned deserts of alien worlds. During this journey he would view fabulous sights, witness epoch-shattering events, and meet beings of both might and majesty - many of whom he then proceeded to kill. He engaged... [click here for more] |
Mongoose |
$11.99
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Another great issues, packed full of gaming goodness.
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Musing of the Avalon Stogie
Behind the Game, Nova Blast Preview
Coral Throne, Chapter XII
Raging Swan Gaming
Dept 13 Comic, Issue #4
Junkyard Wars, Strip #19
Avalon Pathfinder
Multi-Verse
Geek Profile
Battle Axe
Reviews
Arcana
Cool Stuff
What's New
Free Stuff
... [click here for more] |
Avalon Classic |
$2.95 $1.00
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