Adventure Composition Tutorial (ACT)

So, you would like to try your hand at writing an adventure. Easy right? Well, yes... er... kind of. To really make an adventure successful you need more than just a great idea and a bunch of cool monsters, although that’s an excellent start! You need proper spelling, grammar, and formatting. You need a solid layout with jaw-dropping artwork and top-notch cartography. You a...   [click here for more]

Azieran: Against the Drimlith

Sir Vaiden Erro is a knight of the Malkan Order, sorcerers sworn to uphold the ever-expanding mandates of the Calantian bureaucracy.

Originally assigned to guard an ambassador in a foreign land, it is through a twist of fate that Vaiden finds himself charged to help a colleague, Alix, track down and destroy the headquarters of the Drimlith Cabal-those responsible for the recent assassin...   [click here for more]

Complete KOBOLD Guide to Game Design

Got Questions About RPG Design? Wolfgang Baur, Monte Cook, Ed Greenwood, Michael Stackpole, and other industry veterans have the answers you asked for...and the advice you need!

Get ready to create great new adventures, monsters and magic for your RPG campaign! The Complete Kobold Guide to Game Design offers 240 pages of in-depth essays on what makes RP...   [click here for more]

Fantasy Maker Handbook

Welcome to the Fantasy Maker Handbook. This book will guide you along the way to writing down all of the elements you’re going to need to consider to write a fantasy role playing game setting from top to bottom. Of course not every possible element you can imagine for a game is covered in this book, that would be impossible; but it is a comprehensive guide that ...   [click here for more]

Game Geek 2010 [BUNDLE]

The third issue of Game Geek, inside you will find all sorts of fun stuff, including…

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Game Geek Issue #11

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Game Geek Issue #3

The third issue of Game Geek, inside you will find all sorts of fun stuff, including…

Behind the Game, Titan

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Game Geek Issue #5

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Game Geek Issue #7

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Game Geek Issues #14

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Musing of the Avalon Stogie

Behind the Game, Talisman

Coral Thrown, Chapter VIII

Junkyard Wars

Raging Swan Gaming 

Multi-Verse, New...   [click here for more]

Game Geek Issues #16

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Game Geek Issues #18

Another great issues, packed full of gaming goodness.

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Musing of the Avalon Stogie

Behind the Game, SFCF  

 Coral Thrown, Chapter X I

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Dept 13 Comic, Issue #3    

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Gaming as Culture: Essays on Reality, Identity and Experience in Fantasy Games

Since tabletop fantasy role-playing games emerged in the 1970s, fantasy gaming has made a unique contribution to popular culture and perceptions of social realities in America and around the world. This contribution is increasingly apparent as the gaming industry has diversified with the addition of collectible strategy games and other innovative products, as well as the recent advancements in ...   [click here for more]

Grumlahk's Troll Tales

Grumlahk's Troll Tales, the collected comics as they first appeared in the Tunnels & Trolls gaming magazine "The Hobbit Hole". There's a wacky bunch of characters here including hungry ogres, rogue elves (including a blind elf assassin!), terrible monsters, and more!

How to be a Great Player

What does it mean to play games, to be a player? You’ll never get the same answer twice and most of them are right in one respect or another. Playing games is fun, its fancy free a...   [click here for more]

How To Bundle #1 [BUNDLE]

So you want to learn how to make a great role playing character? This takes a lot more than a few pages of reading, actually it takes more th...   [click here for more]

How to Create a Great Dungeon

In many people's minds, dungeons are synonymous with roleplaying. The most successful game of all time includes the word in its title. But what is it about dungeons that really make them...   [click here for more]

How to Make a Great Character

So you want to learn how to make a great role playing character? This takes a lot more than a few pages of reading, actually it takes more than most people are willing to devote to the institution, but most importantly you need time and practice. This guide can teach you the basics, just follow the ten basic steps and you will generate wonderful characters to play, ea...   [click here for more]

How to Play a Great Cleric

A cleric is someone in service of a higher power, a god, a force of nature, an ideal. What vision do we summon when clergy becomes the topic? Is it an old man in brown robes with a ring of hair around a bald patch atop his head that spends his life in cloistered prayer? What about the merry Friar Tuck from Robin’s band of thieves that never met a bottle he didn’t warm up to...   [click here for more]

How to Play a Great Rogue

Rogues come in all shapes and sizes, this is perhaps why they’re called something as generic as “rogue”. Literally, any kind of underhanded person is a rogue, anyone who by definition will not or prefers not to live to the dictations of society. No, a non-conformist who paints their face with bad clown makeup and listens to droned out suicidal music ...   [click here for more]

How to Spice Up Combat

Combat is an integral part of most role-playing games, and in many of them the most IMPORTANT part.  Lots of RPGs have game systems almost entirely devoted to rules used for adjudicating fights; whether between individuals, vehicles, or massed armies.  Many of these conflict resolution mechanics are complicate...   [click here for more]

How to Use Comedy In Your Game

To many people the prospect of playing in a comedy-driven game can be intimidating.  It's one of the few styles of gaming that people will refuse to play not because they don't think they'll enjoy it, but because they don't think they're capable enough or “funny enough”.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  You no more need to be a comedian to play in a comedy g...   [click here for more]

How to Use Romance in Your Game

Love. It happens. We’re flesh and blood with one simple program...to seek a mate. The emotion is straightforward but courtship is a human institution full of opinions and restrictions. For most of history, one couldn't fall in love without society's approval. If you fall in love with an unacceptable somebody, you can be locked away, banished, or even killed. In ...   [click here for more]

KOBOLD Guide to Worldbuilding

Roleplaying games and fantasy fiction are filled with rich and fascinating worlds: the Forgotten Realms, Glorantha, Narnia, R'lyeh, Middle-Earth, Barsoom, and so many more. It took startling leaps of imagination as well as careful thought and planning to create places like these: places that readers and players want to come back to again and again....   [click here for more]

My Avatar, My Self: Identity in Video Role-Playing Games

With videogames now one of the world's most popular diversions, the virtual world has increasing psychological influence on real-world players. This book examines the relationships between virtual and non-virtual identity in visual role-playing games.

Utilizing James Gee's theoretical constructs of real-world identity, virtual-world identity, and projective identity, this research shows...   [click here for more]