The ideas and tips in this book are about making it easier to facilitate great shared stories, not through even more GM prep, but improv techniques, applying story crafting ideas from film, TV, and books to roleplaying games.
The typical GM has enough to do bringing the setting to life, playing everyone and thing the characters meet, and being the arbiter of the rules. You do not need even more prep... [click here for more]
Every game is a mystery or contains mystery elements. Whether you are investigating an eldritch horror or trying to find a secret door.
As a GM, it can be very frustrating when your players fail to grasp your obvious trail of clues or cannot roll a successful searching skill test to save their own lives.
This book hopes to guide you through running more successful mystery adventures and doing so... [click here for more]
Many Cthulhu games feel the same. You shoot cultists. You do rituals. You unearth a buried god that's like every other god you've dug up. This book shows you how to make your games new and horrifying: by stealing from H. P. Lovecraft.
Stealing Cthulhu is my guide to Lovecraftian storytelling for roleplaying games. Its central idea is: by stealing, adapting and combining Lovecraft’s ideas,... [click here for more]
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]
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
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The immensely popular Grand Theft Auto game series has inspired a range of reactions among players and commentators, and a hot debate in the popular media. These essays from diverse theoretical perspectives expand the discussion by focusing scholarly analysis on the games, particularly Grand Theft Auto III (GTA3), Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (GTA:VC), and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA:SA).
Part... [click here for more]