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Adventure Crucible — Building Stronger Scenarios for any RPG

Adventure Crucible — Building Stronger Scenarios for any RPG


Put Your Adventures in the Crucible In his latest contribution to the KRAKEN Chapbook Series, award-winning game designer Robin D. Laws shows the key structures underlying tabletop roleplaying scenarios. Sharpen your adventures in any game by learning the big five adventure types and how they tick. The Dungeon: Whether you use it regularly or remember it from gaming...   [click here for more]
Tentacles Press  $8.00

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The Forge Collection: Encounter Zones

The Forge Collection: Encounter Zones


NEED TO GET YOUR GENESYS GAME IN THE ZONE? Do you struggle tracking movement in the abstract range band rules when playing Genesys? Are you looking for something a touch more concrete? Well now you can, all within the pages of The Forge Collection: Encounter Zones! Encounter Zones are an exciting new rule choice that adds movement rules using an optional hex grid system to...   [click here for more]
EDGE Studio  $5.00

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Be Awesome At Dungeon Design (Augmented Edition)

Be Awesome At Dungeon Design (Augmented Edition)


Any GM can design a basic dungeon. A dedicated GM takes the extra time to craft exciting, logical and challenging dungeons that are so much more than a series of rooms stuffed full of monsters and treasure. Be Awesome At Dungeon Design comprises over 200 pages of dungeon design advice from ENnie Award winning designer Creighton Broadhurst. Handling such subjects as a dungeon’s purpose,...   [click here for more]
Raging Swan Press  $5.95

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Solo Roleplaying - A brief introduction

Solo Roleplaying - A brief introduction


Solo Roleplaying - A brief introduction This is a guide to the barest essentials of solo roleplaying. If you are unfamiliar with how playing RPGs by yourself works at its core, this guide will help you get started. Reasons to play by yourself The most common reason tends to be not being able to find a suitable group to play with. While it’s true there are numerous online platforms...   [click here for more]
Little Dreamer  $2.00 $1.25

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A Paleontologist's Guide to Running Prehistoric Beasties

A Paleontologist's Guide to Running Prehistoric Beasties


A basic GM advice column for running prehistoric animals. One of my three entries to Wayfinder #22. The other two entries will be published in it. ...   [click here for more]
Druid GM Designs  Pay What You Want

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Game Retailer Guide

Game Retailer Guide


Written by a veteran game store owner, the Game Retailer Guide is a how-to industry manual that contains everything you need to know in order to start and run a successful game-selling business. Topics the Game Retailer Guide covers include:  * Administration & Planning * Building and Equipping the Store * Competitive Analysis * Products and Services * Marketing & Advertising...   [click here for more]
Skirmisher Publishing  $9.99

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Easier Encounters

Easier Encounters


Easier Encounters Encounters are fundamental to great game sessions and campaigns. This book contains my ideas on combining player goals, character choices, stakes, and consequences for building encounters that build into adventures and into satisfying campaigns. ...   [click here for more]
Parts Per Million  $7.99 $4.99

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Fate Accelerated/Core Conversion Guide

Fate Accelerated/Core Conversion Guide


Got something that uses the Fate Accelerated defaults for Fate Core, and you wish it used Fate Core's defaults? Or vice-versa? This handy guide from one of the Fate system's originators gives you perspectives and methods to make the conversion process a snap. Inside you'll find: An overview of the differences between the Core and Accelerated defaults for Fate Core. A method for converting skills...   [click here for more]
Evil Hat Productions, LLC  Pay What You Want

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Structured Free Association Story Plot Method

Structured Free Association Story Plot Method


Do you want to write better role playing game story plots? Don't have much time but would like to have engaging storylines for your players to explore? Key highlights: Harness your full personal capability using keyword association Write fast - as quickly as in 10-15 minutes from scratch to gaming table Be more varied than ever - avoid cliched anti-climatic story arcs How to run...   [click here for more]
ThinkDifferent  Pay What You Want

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24XX SRD

24XX SRD


24XX is the free version of the rules used by the 2400 series of RPGs, with advice on how to adapt these files for your own game. The SRD is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Materials include: Plain text system reference document (SRD) PDF versions for layout reference Affinity Publisher version for use as template Vector...   [click here for more]
Pretendo Games  Pay What You Want

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Worldcrafting

Worldcrafting


An average gamer is sitting at his desk, scribbling "My setting" on the first page of his notepad. He has prepared in advance: in his mind, he has a plan for the setting, its history, inklings of geography and names. He’s read some guides to creating fantasy worlds as well. He knows a lot of PnP and video game settings, has browsed the websites of complex alternate worlds, and by reading forums...   [click here for more]
GRAmel  $9.99 $2.49

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Thoughts on Forging in the Dark

Thoughts on Forging in the Dark


Thoughts on Forging in the Dark is a guide to making and modifying games using the Forged in the Dark tabletop roleplaying game system. Originally written for Blades in the Dark by John Harper, the Forged in the Dark engine has been adapted for use by  Scum and Villainy, Band of Blades, and many indie games.  This is a guide for anyone...   [click here for more]
Small Cool Games  Pay What You Want

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Adventure Design in Practice

Adventure Design in Practice


Adventure Design in Practice is a structured analysis on my upcoming next adventure that will hit the gaming table with my regular group in three days from the time of writing this. It is my personal preparation work in a documented format with designer notes in a classic game master guide style. I analyze collaborative storytelling and how it can be fused with more linear story design....   [click here for more]
ThinkDifferent  Pay What You Want

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Be Awesome At Village Design

Be Awesome At Village Design


Any GM can design a basic village. A dedicated GM, however, takes the extra time to craft exciting, logical and flavoursome villages that are so much more than a general store, village inn and some dreary peasant huts. Be Awesome at Village Design comprises village design essays by ENnie Award winning designer Creighton Broadhurst and a suite of tables designed to help the busy GM quickly and easily...   [click here for more]
Raging Swan Press  $3.99

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Elegant Encounter Design

Elegant Encounter Design


Encounters are the motor of your storytelling. The way they are structured contributes the most to your table top experience. I've compiled a collection of design principles for encounters using my business consultancy skillset. It's been refeshing to deploy those practices to role playing domain and I feel it has given me a new angle to the subject in general. Key highlights and learning include:...   [click here for more]
ThinkDifferent  Pay What You Want

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Homebrew and Hacking: Crafting Personalised Feats

Homebrew and Hacking: Crafting Personalised Feats


This book is designed to help narrator's, DM's and game designers who are happy with the lore of their games make suitable and fitting feats to fit within their games and be more closely personalised to the characters needs. You can design and make a huge variety of feats using the drag and drop system that will work with advanced 5th edition products as well as basic 5e products. The rules also...   [click here for more]
Homebrew and Hacking  $11.00

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Questions Without Answers

Questions Without Answers


What can change a person's very nature? How can the broken be made whole? What does it mean to be a hero? In a world where most people still dismiss genre fiction as ‘trash’ or ‘pulp,' it should be no surprise that role playing games don’t have a reputation for literary value. And, to be fair, I can understand why: most adventures are just...   [click here for more]
Larcenous Designs, LLC  Pay What You Want

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Beating the Story: How to Map, Understand, and Elevate Any Narrative

Beating the Story: How to Map, Understand, and Elevate Any Narrative


See How Stories Work The most compelling stories move us emotionally. Up and down, between hope and fear, in ways we don’t always expect—but that you can harness as a writer, editor, and critic. This book shows you how to track, map, and understand the rhythm of a story. Whether you’re writing or rewriting, editing a manuscript or dismantling your favorite television episode, Beating...   [click here for more]
Pelgrane Press  $7.95

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Game Design: How to Create Video and Tabletop Games, Start to Finish

Game Design: How to Create Video and Tabletop Games, Start to Finish


Many aspiring game designers have crippling misconceptions about the process involved in creating a game from scratch, believing a "big idea" is all that is needed to get started. But game design requires action as well as thought, and proper training and practice to do so skillfully. In this indispensible guide, a published commercial game designer and longtime teacher offers practical instruction...   [click here for more]
McFarland  $9.99

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Be Awesome At Freelance Game Design

Be Awesome At Freelance Game Design


Want to break into freelance game design, but don’t know where to start? Have you already had a crack at pitching a project and failed? If so, this is the book for you! Inside, Creighton Broadhurst publisher at Raging Swan Press and an ENnie Award winning game designer reveals his hints, tips and strategies for a successful career in freelance game design. This book covers such subjects as: What's...   [click here for more]
Raging Swan Press  $4.99

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Be Awesome At Designing NPCs

Be Awesome At Designing NPCs


Your PCs have final emerged from the dungeon laden with loot prised from the clutches of their slain foes. Heroically returning to civilisation, they find a tavern, divide up their loot and relax. Then they ask “So what are the people like here, anyway?” At this point, the GM likely panics and either replies “nothing special” or improvises a series of similar, one-dimensional (and ultimately...   [click here for more]
Raging Swan Press  $5.99

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Caltrop Solo

Caltrop Solo


Caltrop Solo This document provides a simple set of generic solo tools that can be included in any Caltrop-derived game. These rules use the native Caltrop d4 mechanic for its oracle and for adventure flow control. Generic open-question prompt words are provided, and instructions for how these should be modified as you build your Caltrop game. These solo rules are covered by the same...   [click here for more]
Parts Per Million  $2.00

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Affinity Publisher Basics - User Guide & Template

Affinity Publisher Basics - User Guide & Template


This publisher's resource contains  the Affinity Publisher Basics - A Beginner's Guide to Using Affinity Publisher for SWAG (PDF) and an Affinity Publisher Template (.afpub) to help you make PDFs for Savage Worlds Adventurers Guild. Inside you will find a template with all the paragraph styles, backgrounds, and images needed to create...   [click here for more]
Pinnacle Entertainment  $4.99

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Intellectual Property in RPGs

Intellectual Property in RPGs


This guide covers the very basics of the USA's intellectual property law, as applied to roleplaying games. The guide covers copyrights, trademarks, patents, and how they apply in the RPG world. The guide then goes over a few types of pre-existing material that creators can leverage in their own creations without incurring legal liability, such as stock characters and publicly-licensed content. It's...   [click here for more]
Omnichromatic Pirate Unicorn Games  Pay What You Want

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Friendly Local Game Store: A Five-Year Path to a Middle-Class Income

Friendly Local Game Store: A Five-Year Path to a Middle-Class Income


Build the Store Your Community Deserves. Tabletop gaming is on the rise. If you love games like Catan,, Magic: The Gathering, or Dungeons & Dragons; like the sound of being your own boss; and are willing to dive deep into what it takes to build a successful business, then this is a book for you. In Friendly Local Game Store, you’ll learn what you need to know...   [click here for more]
Pelgrane Press  $9.95

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The RPG Handbook

The RPG Handbook


The RPG Handbook is a system-free guide to playing tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs). The RPG Handbook looks at: Inviting new players to try out tabletop RPGs. Getting kids involved in trying out imaginative games. Emphasizing deeper character development. Making it easy to run and vary solo and team RPG gameplay. Turning players into GMs - and GMs into games designers. Offering GMs the means to rapidly...   [click here for more]
Dragonfly  Pay What You Want

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Master

Master


So you want to make a tabletop roleplaying game? Awesome! You're following in a long tradition of making tabletop roleplaying games. Let me save you most of the time and glitches with Master, the world's first tabletop roleplaying game system creator! Master's two years of development, playtesting, and hassle should leave you with only months, weeks, or even days...   [click here for more]
Noah Kastin  Pay What You Want

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After an apocalypse

After an apocalypse


This module can be used with an TTRPG, but was made for TTRPG "Apocalypse Keys".  This module seamlessly integrates with the renowned TTRPG "Apocalypse Keys", promising an immersive experience in a post-apocalyptic landscape. Whether you're facing the aftermath of a Harbinger or navigating a primitive world, the possibilities are as vast as your imagination. Lucky 7 Enticements: Explore seven captivating...   [click here for more]
DMDU  Pay What You Want

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[BESM 4] The Training Arc Guide

[BESM 4] The Training Arc Guide


The Training Arc Guide for Big Eyes, Small Mouth! Training Arcs are segments of a story that focus on a character's development, forcing them to grow by overcoming a variety of obstacles and challenges. By successfully completing a Training Arc, characters become drastically more powerful than before, finding ancient weapons, unlocking incredible...   [click here for more]
Dyskami Publishing Company  $4.00

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Generic Adventure Magazine #1, May 2018

Generic Adventure Magazine #1, May 2018


GENERIC ADVENTURE MAGAZINE, #1, 2018. In this issue: Speed writing an adventure! In a few steps, I lay out a simple path on how to speed write an adventure to any role playing game. It doesn't matter if what you're going to play is horror, sci-fi, fantasy or anything else - you can use these techniques and ideas to any game and genre. Four simple steps to create...   [click here for more]
PenguinComics  $2.00

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La Bible du Meneur de Jeu

La Bible du Meneur de Jeu


Tous les conseils pour améliorer vos parties de jeu de rôle ! La Bible du Meneur de Jeu est un guide complet de 200 pages illustrées en couleurs qui rassemble en un seul ouvrage tous les conseils pour des parties plus intenses et plus fun.  Vous y trouverez notamment des conseils pour : -       gagner du temps lors de la préparation et l’écriture de vos scénarios...   [click here for more]
Footbridge  $37.34 $12.99

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Write Better Factions

Write Better Factions


Good vs. evil is cliche, boring, and predictable. It's a simplistic plot device for children's fairy tales, not epic world-building campaigns. You can add considerably more depth to your factions with just a couple simple techniques discussed within. (5 pages) ...   [click here for more]
Anachromystic  Pay What You Want

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Alien Body Plans #1: Hexapods and Other Ecdysozoa

Alien Body Plans #1: Hexapods and Other Ecdysozoa


It's easy to make aliens: take a person or a dog, slap some antennae on 'em, maybe some ooze and some spooky talons, and then put some random letters together in a nigh-unpronounceable combination.  As I said, it's easy to make aliens. What isn't easy is making them well.  Even when you're working hard to be creative, it can sometimes be hard to get out of the rut of familiarity, to go...   [click here for more]
WMB Saltworks  $2.95

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Pesto's Guide to Testing

Pesto's Guide to Testing


Let's Make Testing Easy! Testing turns good products into great ones. Every product benefits from it, from the biggest system books to the smallest gazetteers, but too often, products go without testing because their creators feel that they don’t have the time or know-how to run tests. It doesn't have to be that way! Pesto's Guide to Testing is a comprehensive guide to TTRPG testing aimed...   [click here for more]
Spencer Hibnick  Pay What You Want

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Medieval Civilization Generator

Medieval Civilization Generator


Tired of samey and tropey medieval civilizations and societies in your realistic or fantasy RPGs? With this generator, based on actual theories of political development, you can generate entirely unique, detailed societal structures, governments, and conflicts which are entirely realistic, but may have never occurred in the real world. You may create civilizations appropriate to your world’s equivalent...   [click here for more]
Currentpattern  Pay What You Want

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Generic Adventure Magazine #2, February 2019

Generic Adventure Magazine #2, February 2019


GENERIC ADVENTURE MAGAZINE, #2, 2019. In this issue: Backwards gaming! Remember Memento? Ever seen Irréversible? Both are amazing movies. And both are made using the same story telling technique: telling the story “backwards”. In this magazine, I will explain how to use this technique in a role playing adventure! Backwards game play isn't easy – but it can be pretty rewarding. Included...   [click here for more]
PenguinComics  $2.00

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A Little Guide on Town Creation

A Little Guide on Town Creation


Have you ever got stuck without ideas when creating towns, cities, etc.  for your RPG adventures? Are you tired of creating dull one-dimensional towns? Do you want to add a little extra depth to the towns where your adventures are taking place? Then this little guide is for you! A town is not just a place where a bunch NPCs live and wait for the...   [click here for more]
Mist Bard Press  $2.49

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You Don't Meet In A Tavern

You Don't Meet In A Tavern


This document collects several tools and tips that I have used as a Game Master in my TTRPGs for over thirty years. Each of the ideas works either by itself or in conjunction with any or all of the other ideas. Pick and choose what works for you! Enjoy! ...   [click here for more]
JacobtheGM  Pay What You Want

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Write Better Encounters

Write Better Encounters


A collection of tips and tricks - with examples and anecdotes - to enhance your encounters, making them more engrossing, engaging, rewarding, and memorable for the players. (5 pages) ...   [click here for more]
Anachromystic  Pay What You Want

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CaltropEX Solo

CaltropEX Solo


CaltropEX Solo This booklet gives a solo play SRD for the Caltrop Classic Core EX. The intention is that these solo rules can be built into any game derived from Caltrop EX. All the most common solo tools for oracle-driven play are here, along with advice on integrating solo play into your Caltrop-based game/rules. ...   [click here for more]
Parts Per Million  $2.00

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Introduction to InDesign

Introduction to InDesign


Written by the Usherwood Adventures publisher/designer/author James D. Kramer with the complete InDesign novice in mind, this book is intended to help you get started creating professional documents in InDesign; focusing the skills you need to get up and running quickly, without getting bogged down in a lengthy explanations that makes your eyes glaze over. The package you will download contains a...   [click here for more]
Usherwood Publishing  $1.00

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Conventions for the Aspiring Game Professional

Conventions for the Aspiring Game Professional


Want to write for games? Think your art is ready for professional publication? Not sure how to get your foot in the door? Freelance writer/editor/game creator Jess Hartley shares her secrets for using conventions as an entry into the game industry. This was originally a series of articles presented on Jess' website to offer her experiences and advice to potential freelancers looking to make the...   [click here for more]
FR Press  $0.99

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Meeples Together: How and Why Cooperative Board Games Work

Meeples Together: How and Why Cooperative Board Games Work


"This is the single most valuable resource to date for the design of cooperative games." — Raph Koster, author of A Theory of Fun "Meeples Together is a must read for any emerging game designer, and an interesting read for all hobby gamers." — Richard Launius, designer of Arkham Horror “Required reading for game designers of any kind, bursting at...   [click here for more]
Pelgrane Press  $9.95

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Once Upon a Time Writer's Handbook [digital]

Once Upon a Time Writer's Handbook [digital]


Writer's Handbook at a Glance Use the tools provided by the Once Upon a Time game to fuel your own fiction writing. Requires a copy of Once Upon a Time to use. Spin a Yarn: More about the Writer's Handbook In Once Upon a Time, players work together to tell a tale based on the information on the cards in their hand. Use this game to jumpstart your...   [click here for more]
Atlas Games  $2.95

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Description Cards - Storytellers Deck - ENVIRONMENTS CARDS excerpt - (Creative Inspiration for Writers, Storytellers and GMs).: Contains 12 Cards from the "Description Cards - Storytellers Deck"

Description Cards - Storytellers Deck - ENVIRONMENTS CARDS excerpt - (Creative Inspiration for Writers, Storytellers and GMs).: Contains 12 Cards from the "Description Cards - Storytellers Deck"


How to best describe Landscapes? It’s important to give your audience (readers or fellow gamers) a sense of place. That is, a landscape they can identify with and/or visualize.The difficulty here is placing a feature, a moment or a mark on the landscape that's memorable and (more importantly) indigenous to the landscape. This is exactly what these cards...   [click here for more]
Conflict Games, LLC  $0.99

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Literary RPG Structure

Literary RPG Structure


In this booklet we’ll be approaching role-playing games like an exercise in collaborative storytelling. The GM and players are authors in more-or-less equal measure, though the GM bears perhaps a little more responsibility than the others in terms of keeping everything organized. These tips are based on the author’s career experience as a screenwriter and author of genre fiction. ...   [click here for more]
Taoscordian Games  $4.99

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How to Spice Up Your Game

How to Spice Up Your Game


When you play games often, and especially when you play many different games, at some point you might notice that the playing routine starts to get really similar and linear each time you play. Player behavior as well as your own behavior as a game master can easily become all too uniform if you do not vary the game experience enough. This book covers suggestions for many different techniques that,...   [click here for more]
Avalon Game Company  $5.99

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Zine Making 101

Zine Making 101


Zine Making, a wikibook on how to make your zines, by contributes Mcld and Thenub314, is licensed under the Creative Commons-Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 imported license, and here is the URL Address: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ You wanna make a zine? Now's your chance to make your very own zine! This very Wiki Book will guide you in the process of making the zine you have always...   [click here for more]
RLS777  $2.00 $1.00

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IT'S A LIVING: Surviving as a Freelancer in the 21st Century, The Ultimate Guide to Success for Artists and Creative Professionals

IT'S A LIVING: Surviving as a Freelancer in the 21st Century, The Ultimate Guide to Success for Artists and Creative Professionals


FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS AND WORK FOR YOURSELF ★★★★★ "The Artist's Way for the 21st century!" Whether you want to quit your 9-5 job to be self-employed or you want to streamline your career to be more efficient, IT'S A LIVING is for you! According to this year's most comprehensive study, there are over 57 million freelancers in the U.S. alone and growing. The...   [click here for more]
Cristian S. Aluas  $4.99

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Abracadabra: A Guide to being a Magical GM

Abracadabra: A Guide to being a Magical GM


Awarded a Judges Spotlight ENnie in 2021 This is filled with great fantasy art which is used to showcase and highlight the quick to read, bite-sized prompts that are presented. The pictures are also used as creative prompts with thought-provoking questions referencing the illustrations. This is an art book that educates. Something to flick through for inspiration,...   [click here for more]
The Grinning Frog  $44.21 $40.42

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