"An unholy mixture of helpful guidebook and jabbing provocation, [Things We Think About Games] will earn its right to rattle around your brain. It is essential reading for designer, critic, and straight-up rank 'n' file gamer alike." --Robin D. Laws, creator of HeroQuest and Feng Shui
 Will Hindmarch and Jeff Tidball think a lot about games. At their commentary website, Gameplaywright.net, they think out loud about what it means to play games, make games, sell games, and love games. They are gamers.
 Here, with fellow game designers and notable game players, they think out loud on paper in the first Gameplaywright book. Things We Think About Games collects dozens on dozens of bite-sized thoughts about games. From the absurd to the magnificent, the demonstrable to the dogmatic, this collection spans both the breadth of games--board, card, roleplaying and more--and the depth of gaming, offering insights about collecting, playing, critiquing, designing, and publishing.
 Forward by Robin D. Laws Introduction by Wil Wheaton
 Includes the contributions of John August, Pat Harrigan, Fred Hicks, Kenneth Hite, John Kovalic, Michelle Nephew, Philip Reed, S. John Ross, Mike Selinker, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.

Things We Think About Games

Jeff Tidball

Will Hindmarch

Gameplaywright Press

The playset is the still-beating-but-stolen-by-organleggers heart of Fiasco, and inside this first Anthology volume you'll find thirteen sterling examples of the form-twelve that held a place of honor as a Playset of the Month in 2010, and an extra one written by Fiasco designer Jason Morningstar specifically to accompany them here.Like the other digital editions in the Anthology, this volume is a full-color, 144 page book, in both PDF and epub formats. The book includes a foreword by noted comic author Kelly Sue DeConnick, new illustrations by Jason Morningstar, and a beautiful cover design by John Harper, designed to complement the original Fiasco books.Playsets included in this volume: Touring Rock Band, Gangster London, Last Frontier, Lucky Strike, Flyover, Reconstruction, The Manna Hotel, 1913 New York, Transatlantic, Dallas 1963, London 1593, Dragon Slayers.Bonus Playset: Nut People

Fiasco '10 Playset Anthology Volume 1

Kenneth Hite

Logan Bonner

Jason Morningstar

Chris Bennett

Graham Walmsley

Tom Gurganus

E. Tage Larsen

Dan Puckett

Autumn Winters

Bully Pulpit Games

Victorian Age: Vampire is an historical setting sourcebook for Vampire: The Masquerade. A tradition of Gothic literature . . . a world lit only by gaslight . . . an epoch of literature that \"exposed\" vampires to the world . . . an era of wealth, imperialism, industry, and change. For the Kindred, these are the halcyon nights: the last Romantic period of their prominence before the encroaching cynicism of the modern nights pushed them forever from the eyes of suspicious mortals. It is a glorious fin de siecle, a brief period when the Damned truly thrilled to be undead. Victorian Age: Vampire includes: A whole new setting for Vampire characters and chronicles. A host of antagonists, both mortal and supernatural, as well as a plethora of secret societies. Information on the historical era as it applies to Kindred, as well as a broad geographical survey of vampire interests.

Victorian Age: Vampire

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Brian Campbell

ARI MARMELL

Justin Achilli

Kraig Blackwelder

Gaming

White Wolf Publishing

Book by Justin Achilli, Voronica Whitney-Robinson, Will Hindmarch, Jason Feldstein, Joddie Gray, James Lowder

Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom (Vampire: the Masquerade)

James Lowder

Voronica Whitney-Robinson

Jason Feldstein

Joddie Gray

An Invincible Legacy Patterning itself after the glory of Rome's Kindred society and the ages of kings that followed, the Invictus stands as a model covenant, one immune to the passage of time. But how well do ancient ways mesh with the Damned of the modern world? On whose backs is the Ivory Tower's foundation built? A Covenant Guide for Vampire: The Requiem * Details the history, hierarchy, and goals of the Invictus (one of Vampire's core factions), and serves as an invaluable guide to the world of the Kindred from the covenant's unique viewpoint. * Features new bloodlines and powers unique to the Invictus, making the book a sure draw to the players. * Provides settings, antagonists, and story seeds for Storytellers. * Invaluable for running political and intrigue chronicles, as the Invictus is the covenant of Princes and power-schemers.

Invictus

David Chart

Dean Shomshak

Ray Fawkes

The Prince is the master of the city, but he has named you lord of your territory. It's up to you and your cohorts to maintain the Masquerade, influence mortal lives and pass judgment on the Kindred who dwell in your shadow. Are you a tyrant or a saint? Will you pull the Prince's strings or become the Prince yourself? A Player's Guide for Vampire: The Requiem™ • The definitive handbook for Vampire players, containing unique new insights into the Requiem. Read what it feels like to use a vampire's supernatural powers and learn how the Kindred think the Blood works. • A whole-new look at all the core mechanisms of the game, from Predator's Taint to the Embrace. Discover updated rulings on how these powers work and how to put them to work in your own chronicles. It's like a core content update to the Vampire operating system. • New essays and examinations on how to create characters for Vampire: The Requiem ― and how to use dramatic storytelling techniques to bring them to life at the game table.

The Blood (Vampire)

Chuck Wendig

Christopher Kobar

The first of the 5 clan books for requiem

Ventrue: Lords Over the Damned (Vampire the Requiem)

Humor & Entertainment

Russell Bailey

Puzzles & Games

One Of The Series Of 5 Books What Will Elaborate On The Different Prominent Factions In Mage

Mage The Free Council*OP (Mage: the Awakening)

Steve Kenson

Jess Hartley

Take Your Adventure to the Stars. At the edge of civilized space or in the shadow of the Dragon Empire itself, the citizens of the galaxy need foodstuffs, technology, clothing, and contraband. This is the role of the intergalactic free trader, delivering important, secret, or illegal cargo to the richest spires of the Empire and the deepest pits of the Outlands. It's a career full of tough choices, bad breaks, and risk, but it's yours. Smuggler's Run has everything you need to a play smuggler or free trader player character in the Dragonstar campaign setting, plus the tools players and DMs both need to make a privateer's campaign fun and easy. New prestige classes, new feats, new spells, and new starships expand and define the markets of the Dragon Empire. Simple new rules for commerce, supply, and demand focus the smuggler's business on its exciting choices and adventure possibilities. To demonstrate it all, this book describes a new, remote corner of the Dragonstar universe that's easy to place into any campaign: the Smuggler's Run.

Dragonstar: Smuggler's Run [d20 system]

Comics & Graphic Novels

Greg Benage

Alexander Flagg

Graphic Novels

Fantasy Flight Games

The world is yours to save or lose.A decade ago, a band of occult investigators battled against the summoning of an ancient and monstrous evil.They failed.Now, you must piece together what went wrong. The campaign begins wherever the PCs hail from, and then quickly moves on to an asylum and an overgrown plantation estate in Savannah, Georgia. Their investigation then takes them to the sordid streets of Los Angeles, and from there to Bangkok, Malta, Mexico City, the Yucatn jungle, and Ethiopia, which the PCs may visit in any order, as they hunt down clues and try to destroy the avatars of a terrible god-thing.Investigate ancient crypts, abandoned estates, and festering slums. Explore choked jungles and the crushed psyches of your predecessors. Follow in their footprints, and make new ones of your own. This time, there wont be another chance.Eternal Lies is a massive new campaign for Trail of Cthulhu by Will Hindmarch and Jeff Tidball with Jeremy Keller. It is now available as a hardback book or PDF, or you can get a reduced-price digital bundle from the store with the soundtrack album.

Eternal Lies

Pelgrane Press

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