Robin D. Laws

See Your Stories Like Never BeforeHamlet's Hit Points presents a toolkit that helps make storytelling in any RPG easier and more fun by classifying story beats and letting you track their ups and downs from hope to fear and back.Armed with these tools, you'll be equipped to lay compelling track for an emotional roller-coaster that will keep everyone at your game table involved, excited, riveted.In these pages, you'll find definitions of nine critical story beats. You'll read about the relationships between those beats. You'll also find complete analyses of three stories you know alreadyHamlet, Casablanca, and Dr. Noto show you how the system works.Written with roleplayers in mind, Hamlet's Hit Points is an indispensable tool for understanding stories, in games and everywhere else.

Hamlet's Hit Points

David Noonan

James Jacobs

Chris Thomasson

Jesse Decker

A follow-up to the Dungeon Master's Guide, designed to aid Dungeon Masters and reduce game preparation time. TheDungeon Master's Guide IIbuilds upon existing materials in the Dungeon Master's Guide. It is specifically designed to facilitate play, especially when the Dungeon Master has a limited amount of preparation time. Chapters include discussion on running a game, designing adventures, building and using prestige classes, and creating campaign settings. Ready-made game elements include instant traps, pre-generated locations, treasures, and a fully realized and rendered town. JESSE DECKER is the development manager for Wizards of the Coast, Inc. whose recent roleplaying game design credits includeComplete Adventurer, Races of Stone, andUnearthed Arcana. DAVID NOONAN is an RPG designer/developer at Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Recent credits include authoringComplete Divine and co-authoring Races of StoneandUnearthed Arcana. CHRIS THOMASSON previously served as Editor-in-Chief ofDungeon Magazine. His design credits includeFiend Folio andMonster Manual III, as well asBow and Bladefor Green Ronin Publishing. JAMES JACOBS is the associate editor ofDungeon Magazine and has published numerous articles inDragon Magazine. His most recent credits with Wizards of the Coast, Inc. include co-authoringThe Book of Aberrations,Races of Faerun, andFrostburn. ROBIN D. LAWS, game designer and novelist, is best known for the roleplaying gamesFeng Shui,Heroquest, andDying Earth, along with,Robin's Laws of Good Gamemastering.

Dungeon Master's Guide II

Robin's Laws of Good Game Mastering

Tim Lebbon

Jeffrey Ford

Brian Evenson

Letters to Lovecraft: Eighteen Whispers to the Darkness

Beating the Story

Pantheon and Other Rpgs

James Wyatt

Bill Slavicsek

Offers tips, advice, and strategies for creating worlds and adventures that players can enjoy while participating in the roleplaying game.

Dungeon Master's Guide 2

Every generation fits the time-honoured constants of the hero tale to its own needs. Today's serial adventurers, whether they burst from re-envisioned histories or ply the humming foredecks of an imagined future, ride a cresting cultural wave. Through 13 thrilling stories of threatened identity and vanquished disorder, The New Hero 2's diverse cast of top writers slices, dices and recombines the limits of the form. Grab a camera, medkit or mystic tome and rush to a rendezvous with the heroes of tomorrow.

New Heroes for a New Age

Stories of heroes from post-apocalyptic seer to post-traumatic arm-twister, from outcast vampire to steam-age avenger, from two-fisted aviator to rabbi pirate.

Every Age Needs Its Heroes

The New Hero

Heroquest Core Rules

FASA Corporation Staff

The Forgotten City/Book, 18 Treasure and Creature Cards and Fold-Out Map of Forgotten City/Boxed

Parlainth

Pelgrane Press

Now a Silver ENnie award winner and Golden Geek award nominee.

Armitage Files

Sean K. Reynolds

Amanda Hamon

Jim Groves

The heroes have reclaimed the city of Drezen and the lost sacred banner known as the Sword of Valor, and in doing so have established a significant foothold behind enemy lines. With the demon armies still concentrating their attacks to the south, the heroes must now set off into the heart of the Worldwound to seek out powerful new allies and strike a mortal blow against the Templars of the Ivory Labyrinth! Demon's Heresy is a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 9th-level characters who have gained three mythic tiers. The adventure utilizes rules from Mythic Adventures to portray a campaign of truly epic potential. An exploration of the eerie powers of the beings known as the worms that walk and an examination of the druidic beliefs of the Green Faith round out this volume. A bestiary of several monsters (including the third of six demon lords that will be presented during the campaign!) and part three of Robin D. Laws's new Pathfinder Journal also await discovery in this new installment of Pathfinder Adventure Path.

Demon's Heresy

Wrath of the Righteous

In 40 Years of Gen Con, gaming guru Robin D. Laws chronicles the story of every gamer's lifetime. It's a history that reaches out to four decades of gamers to form a vast collage of the Gen Con experience from every point of view - from the gamers playing in the halls, to the staffers behind the scenes, to the exhibitors on the sales floor. 40 Years of Gen Con is a treasure trove of personal interviews with game industry insiders and luminaries like Dave Arneson, E. Gary Gygax, Ed Greenwood, R. A. Salvatore, and many many others. This epic collection of oral histories, photographs, reminiscences, and more tells the complete story of the best four decades in gaming!

40 Years of Gen Con

Robert J. Schwalb

This supplement for the D&D game presents the definitive treatise on devils and their malefic home. Along with information about the physiology, psychology, society, and schemes of devils themselves, you'll find feats, spells, items and tactics commonly employed by these infernal creatures and those who oppose them.

Tyrants of the Nine Hells

Fiendish Codex II

During the great apocalypse, humanity fled to the depths of the underground enclaves. In genetic laboratories, researchers tried to breed a new being, splicing human and animal DNA, creating a beast intelligent yet strong enough to survive in the devastated world. The enclaves have fallen - but the animals fight for freedom has only just begun.

A Game of Iron Age Drama Using the DramaSystem Engine

Hillfolk

Dark Ages: Vampire takes you to the nights before the Camarilla, when kine truly had reason to be afraid of the dark. The vampires of this bygone age ride the dark as lords, play their games with the crowned heads of Europe, and travel to the mysterious lands of the East as they wage their ages-old war. The diablerie of saulot, the waking of Mithras, the destruction of Michael the patriarch, the return of the Dracon -- it all means the time of reflection is over. The Inquisition stirs and the time to act is now. Across Europe, monarchs of the night set princes and barons at each other's undying throats. Young vampires take to the field ready to claim their domain and become powerful lords in their own right. Blood calls to blood. Secrets and conspiracies in the haven of Clan Tremere.

House of Tremere

Before the long night of the Scourge, the island of Thera was a stronghold of learning and magic, the shining heart of the mighty Theran Empire. Then the Horrors came to ravage the world, and Thera retreated into the sorcerous protection of its island citadel. Since the end of the Scourge, Thera has slowly but surely reclaimed many of the far-flung lands it once ruled and remains the greatest power in the world of Earthdawn. The Theran Empire Sourcebook lets players roam throughout Earthdawn's mightiest realm. It describes the island city of Thera from which the Empire sprang, as well as five Imperial provinces with an assortment of unusual cultures, new types of magic, and new creatures and races.

The Theran Empire

Matthew Sprange

Covering the Second Age of Glorantha, this full colour sourcebook is the essential guide to the classic RuneQuest setting. This book will place Games Masters and players alike straight into this world, allowing them to visualise the places they visit as no world book has yet done. No settlement will feel like 'just another town' in Glorantha, as players travel across the wilderness in the search for Runes, glory and ultimate power.

The Second Age

Glorantha

A wave of terror has swept through the Empire and Chaos is on the move. Mutations are increasing and strange creatures roam the streets at night. Against this backdrop of terror, battlefield looter Angelika Fleischer meets up with a group of Pilgrims heading for a remote monastery in the dangerous Blackfire Pass. Original.

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