Category: Role Playing Games

By Michael J. Tresca

Tracing the evolution of delusion gaming from its origins in tabletop battle and collectible card video games to modern web-based reside motion and large multi-player video games, this e-book examines the archetypes and ideas in the fable gaming style along the jobs and features of the sport avid gamers themselves. different themes comprise: how The Hobbit and The Lord of the jewelry assisted in shaping fable gaming via Tolkien's obsessive consciousness to aspect and digital global development; the community-based fellowship embraced through avid gamers of either play-by-post and power browser-based video games, although those video games are essentially solo studies; the origins of gamebooks and interactive fiction; and the evolution of on-line gaming when it comes to technological services, media richness, narrative constitution, coding authority, and player roles.

By Jason Bulmahn

A brand new Breed of Hero

Adventure like by no means ahead of with the Pathfinder Roleplaying video game complicated classification consultant! discover new heights of heroism with 10 new base periods, each one with 20 degrees of fantastic skills. remarkable powers additionally watch for latest characters, with greater than 100 new archetypes and sophistication strategies. organize characters for his or her so much mythical event ever with colossal decisions of never-before-seen spells, magic goods, and more!

The Pathfinder Roleplaying video game complicated type advisor is a must have better half quantity to the Pathfinder Roleplaying video game center Rulebook. This creative tabletop online game builds upon greater than 15 years of process improvement and an open playtest that includes greater than 50,000 players to create a state of the art RPG event that brings the all time best-selling set of delusion ideas into the recent millennium.

Pathfinder Roleplaying online game complex category consultant includes:

Ten new base classes—the magic-twisting arcanist, the ferocious bloodrager, the crafty investigator, the bold swashbuckler, the ambitious warpriest, and others.
Variant type talents and thematic archetypes for all 29 base periods, reminiscent of the counterfeit mage and the mutagenic mauler.
Nearly 100 new feats for characters of all sessions, together with variety feats, teamwork feats like Coordinated Shot, and more.
Hundreds of recent spells and magic goods, similar to ceremonial dinner on worry and skullcrusher gauntlets.
An complete armory of fantastic gear, from very important new adventuring apparatus to lethal alchemical weapons.
AND a lot, even more!

By Kevin Siembieda, Brandon K. Aten, Taylor White

PAL0869 Rifts international e-book 29 Madhaven position enjoying online game by means of Palladium Books

The ruins of ny, higher often called Madhaven, are a spot of insanity, ghosts and monsters. For a few the ruins supply the promise of historical secrets and techniques, strength or treasure. For the mutants who inhabit the shattered panorama, it truly is really a haven. For the Knights of the White Rose it's a hiding position. for plenty of others, even though, Madhaven is their doom.

- The ruins of long island, its background, its curse and its inhabitants.
- The Mutants of Madhaven; 7 new non-compulsory participant characters or villains.
- The ghosts and monsters of Madhaven and their bizarre powers.
- The Knights of the White Rose, their mystery and their redemption.
- the paranormal White Rose, the best therapeutic strength on Rifts Earth.
- Techno-Wizard guns and units, plus M.D.C. bone weapons.
- event atmosphere, rules and more.
- web page count number 128 pages

Paperback 1995

This package deal information the excessive cross of the Misty Mountains. event into the depths of Goblin-gate, nation of the Great-goblin and the hiding position of Gollum, possessor of the single precise Ring. start with the Great-eagles of Eagle's Eyrie, walk the streets of Maethelburg, marketplace of the higher Anduin, or conflict Giants of the Misty Mountains.

By Christian Gehman

Comprises full-color zone map of NORTHERN GONDOR, full-color cutaway view and ground plan of ORTHANC, 2 whole urban plans, complete description of SARUMAN, herb lists and political intrigue, HELM'S DEEP & a lot more.

The fort of Isengard used to be equipped through the Númenórians in a sheltered valley on the southern limits of the Misty Mountains. Its major goal was once to protect the space of Calenardhon and the Fords of Isen opposed to assaults via Sauron's forces. Self-sufficient and enchanted, it later turned the just about impregnable fort of Saruman the White. No spire in Middle-earth was once more advantageous, keep the darkish Tower of Mordor.

ISENGARD and northern Gondor includes:

- eight FULL-COLOR PAGES: a 2-page nearby map, maps of Calmirië (Aldburg) and Dunlostir , plus four pages at the Tower of Orthanc
- significant LAYOUTS: The Underground degrees of Orthanc, The access Passage, and The Hornburg
- THE citadel OF ISENGARD: one of many maximum architectural creations in all of Middle-earth
- different population OF THE sector: The Calenardhrons, The Dunlendings, and the Drúedain

By James L. Sutter

• The hunt for the seven shards of the Shattered superstar keeps, with the heroes following the path around the face of Varisia and into the infamous urban of Strangers — Kaer Maga! There, the heroes come upon unusual enemies and stranger allies as their quest for the traditional Thassilonian artifact embroils them within the politics of Varisia's so much unique urban. What secrets and techniques lie hidden at midnight and lethal geographical regions deep lower than Kaer Maga, the place issues top refrained from from day's mild and sane minds lie in wait? Will the heroes live on their descent lower than, or will the darkish Rider declare their heads for his ever-growing assortment?
• Continuing the Shattered famous person event Path, The Asylum Stone is a Pathfinder Roleplaying online game adventure for 7th-level characters. The Asylum Stone contains a number of brief, bonus, city-based encounters and side-quests and a glance on the unusual factions of Kaer Maga. New monsters fill the Pathfinder Bestiary, whereas invoice Ward (Return of the Sword) maintains a brand new novella within the Pathfinder’s Journal.

By R. Sean Borgstrom

In Nobilis, gamers tackle the jobs of the Sovereign Powers, each one the personification of 1 unmarried element of fact: evening, roads, ecstasy, chains, time, water - regardless of the avid gamers can conceive of. as soon as human, each one personality has been eternally replaced, imbued with amazing strength and poor accountability. Heaven and Hell, angels and devils, the Giants and the outdated Gods - in Nobilis, all are united within the nice conflict opposed to the Excrucians, whose aim is to wreck all construction - yet all are divided via their very own plots and old rivalries, to boot.

By Ruth Sochard

3 low-to-mid point adventures which each and every stand on their lonesome and will be arrange in minutes.

Sixteen retailers have died at the treacherous street among the cities of Cabed Angren and Sarn Erech. Forlong, a prosperous landowner, believes that bandits are in the back of the killings and has provided a wealthy present for his or her extermination. Are you crafty sufficient to resolve the secret surrounding The Lonely Tower?

Setmaenen, an deserted calendar-temple of the traditional Daen Coentis, harbors a king's fortune in jewels and treasures. however the holy position is secure via robust wards and traps, guarded via ghosts, and tainted through a cursed artifact of the darkish Lord. are you able to defeat the supernatural forces that lurk one of the Seven Stones?

Only Tarien, girl of a prosperous Dúnadan kinfolk, escaped along with her baby grandson whilst Dunnish warriors attacked her rural domestic. Her son, Derovin, used to be captured and brought to the haunted butte referred to as Hogo Tarosvan. the girl seeks revenge and the secure go back of her son. have you ever braveness adequate to look past The Phantom Doors?

Peril lurks one of the Dunnish ruins, yet glory and wealth persist with probability in those three interesting adventures!

By Bryan Armor, Ellen Kiley, Christine Gregory, Steve Long, Malcom Sheppard

With phrases of Thunder

Shinto monks. Shaolin priests. Ninja clans. Confucian sages. Hindu fakirs. Asia is a brilliant dragon, drowsing because it awaits the turning of the age. lengthy have the folks of Asia identified magical secrets and techniques. throughout the mists of shrouded legends, they've got witnessed the powers of spirits, dragons, feng shui and chi energy.
We Shake the Pillars of Heaven!

Here Mage avid gamers and Storytellers will locate not just information regarding the historical past of Asiatic mages just like the Akashic Brotherhood and the Wu Lung, yet of alternative hidden teams within the some distance East, in addition to the unique magic of Asia. right here eventually are whole ideas for the original sorcery of Asia, plus its unusual spirits and creatures, magical artifacts and hidden risks.