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This collection of essays serves as the ‘commentary track’ for the smash hit Salt in Wounds Setting and features advice, insight, and a fresh look behind the screen of a professional writer and game designer. Whether you’re a player looking for a new perspective, a GM aiming to build richer worlds, or a hobbyist game designer/writer striving to make the leap towards being a professional:... [click here for more] |
Pangolin Press |
$3.99 $2.99
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PART FOUR OF A FOUR-VOLUME SET!
EVERYTHING YOU’VE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF ROLEPLAYING GAMES...
Designers & Dragons: The ’00s is a comprehensive picture of the new resurgence of the RPG industry. The final and most updated book in a four volume series, we’ve added tens of thousands of new words and insider info to this volume alone. Take an inside look at d20 companies,... [click here for more] |
Evil Hat Productions, LLC |
$10.00
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PART ONE OF A FOUR-VOLUME SET!
EVERYTHING YOU’VE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF ROLEPLAYING GAMES...
Designers & Dragons: The ’70s is a comprehensive picture of the beginnings of the RPG industry. This second edition expands the original single book into a series of four, and we’ve added over 50,000 new words to this volume alone. Learn about the colorful history of TSR and... [click here for more] |
Evil Hat Productions, LLC |
$7.50
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PART TWO OF A FOUR-VOLUME SET!
EVERYTHING YOU’VE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF ROLEPLAYING GAMES...
Designers & Dragons: The ’80s is a comprehensive picture of the growth of the RPG industry. This second edition expands the original single book into a series of four, and we’ve added over 10,000 new words to this volume alone. Take an in-depth look at ’80s style gaming... [click here for more] |
Evil Hat Productions, LLC |
$10.00
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PART THREE OF A FOUR-VOLUME SET!
EVERYTHING YOU’VE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF ROLEPLAYING GAMES...
Designers & Dragons: The ’90s is a comprehensive picture of the heyday of the RPG industry. This second edition expands the original single book into a series of four, and we’ve added over 10,000 new words to this volume alone. In this volume, we profile an RPG titan—Wizards... [click here for more] |
Evil Hat Productions, LLC |
$10.00
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This special bundle product contains the following titles. Designers & Dragons: The 00s Regular price: $10.00 Bundle price: $0.00 Format: Multiple File Formats
PART FOUR OF A FOUR-VOLUME SET!
EVERYTHING YOU’VE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF ROLEPLAYING GAMES...
Designers & Dragons: The ’00s is a comprehensive picture of the new resurgence... [click here for more] |
Evil Hat Productions, LLC |
$180.00 $140.00
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This special bundle product contains the following titles. Designers & Dragons: The 00s Regular price: $10.00 Bundle price: $10.00 Format: Multiple File Formats
PART FOUR OF A FOUR-VOLUME SET!
EVERYTHING YOU’VE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF ROLEPLAYING GAMES...
Designers & Dragons: The ’00s is a comprehensive picture of the new... [click here for more] |
Evil Hat Productions, LLC |
$37.50
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AN APPENDIX FOR THE FOUR-VOLUME SET!
Designers & Dragons: The Platinum Appendix is a collection of additional essays and indices to enhance and expand the material found in the Designers & Dragons series by author-historian Shannon Appelcline.
In this appendix, you’ll find:
Essays on women in the roleplaying industry, the Auriana Gang, the Hero Auxiliary Corps, and the Runequest... [click here for more] |
Evil Hat Productions, LLC |
$5.00
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Some people play roleplaying-games for the challenge; others play them for the story. Award-winning fantasy author and freelance game writer Marie Brennan is unabashedly in the latter camp. In these essays she looks at tabletop and live-action RPGs from a narrative perspective, exploring the ways the framework of a game can generate and support (or undermine) your tale. Whether you are a player or... [click here for more] |
Swan Tower |
$2.99
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In recent years, computer technology has permeated all aspects of life--not just work and education, but also leisure time. Increasingly, digital games are the way we play.
This volume addresses the world of digital games, with special emphasis on the role and input of the gamer. In fifteen essays, the contributors discuss the various ways the game player interacts with the game. The first half of... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$17.99
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Dinner and Dice: a Gaming Cookbook is a collection of recipes and first person game anecdotes from game industry professionals. Originally produced as a stretch goal for the Carolina Game Tables Kickstarter, you will find appetizers, entrees, and desserts from the people who make the games you love!
Each author includes a look at how they think about games and food... [click here for more] |
Beautiful Brains |
$5.99
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The Realm Online needs a hero. He'll have to grow up first.
Billy's a friendless teen and child of divorce, but when he's playing The Realm Online? He's a legend. Not just a legend, but a god amongst men.
Some say he's a no-skill hack, that he's nothing without the mysterious artifact weapon known across the lands as Banhammer. With a unique fighting style perfected over the course... [click here for more] |
Ethan Freckleton |
FREE
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More Dispatches from the Crowking- In the Depths of the Megadungeon!
"All about them as they lay hung the darkness, hollow and immense, and they were oppressed by the loneliness and vastness of the dolven halls and endlessly branching stairs and passages. The wildest imaginings that dark rumour had ever suggested to the hobbits fell short of the actual dread and wonder of Moria."
... [click here for more] |
Purple Duck Games |
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Level, Erfahrungspunkte, Lebensenergie: Wo kommen diese in fast jedem Computerspiel auftauchenden Konzepte eigentlich her? Die Antwort lautet: Sie stammen aus drei kleinen braunen Büchlein, die 1974 in den USA veröffentlicht wurden. In ihnen befanden sich die Regeln für Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), das erste Fantasy-Rollenspiel. Alles was danach kam, von The Bard's Tale bis World... [click here for more] |
Prinn & Junzt |
$15.94
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The latest catalogue from Draken Games, featuring full details and reviews of all our game products, plus the free, Victorian sci-fi hex-and-counter aerial combat game Incident at Irgo Island ... [click here for more] |
Draken Games |
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This lavishly illustrated guide explores the fantastic dungeons of the fictional D&D world, from the perilous Tomb of Horrors to the Sunless Citadel and the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. Aimed at the novice dungeoneer, this book provides tips and tricks for surviving deadly dungeons of all sorts, enticing would-be dungeon explorers with stories of fabulous treasures guarded by fierce monsters and... [click here for more] |
Wizards of the Coast |
$4.99
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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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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] |
Parts Per Million |
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Easier RPG Publishing 2024
Hints, Tips, and Thoughts on Publishing on DriveThruRPG
This book was born out of the DriveThruRPG.com Pocketquest game jam. That is an annual game jam intended to bring new people into publishing. I found myself sharing many of the lessons that I have learned the hard way to help people get the best start they can in this industry.
Someone made a joke that I should write... [click here for more] |
Parts Per Million |
$7.99
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I was asked to put down my thoughts on running better science fiction games and at first, I wasn't sure what to write, sci-fi is so broad a genre. How do you encompass everything from dystopian cyberpunk to the optimism of Star Trek?
What this book contains is 17 mini-essays. The first half is all about reducing the scope of your games and campaigns. Sci-fi is such a broad genre that the more you... [click here for more] |
Parts Per Million |
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You may be new to solo roleplaying or an old hand; either way, we all run our solo games uniquely. This means that we rarely see how other people are doing it. This book contains tips and advice that I have picked up over the years that I have incorporated into keeping my game notes. I talk about analog, pen and paper methods, online, digital, and mobile tools, and about using audio, video, and VTTs... [click here for more] |
Parts Per Million |
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You may be new to solo roleplaying or an old hand, either way we all run our solo games our own unique ways. This does mean that we rarely get to see how other people are doing it. This books contains tips and advice that I have picked up over the years that I have incorporated into my own play. Some of these may be new to you, some you may accept as obvious truths. Each of these work for me, and... [click here for more] |
Parts Per Million |
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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] |
Parts Per Million |
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Building Story in Tabletop Roleplaying Games
Learn to be a good gamemaster by learning how to be a good writer. Inject great stories into your roleplaying games by taking advantage of decades of fiction writing instruction. See how 22 different writing concepts apply to specific roleplaying games like D&D, Fate Core, Dungeon World, and Hillfolk. ... [click here for more] |
Diceless Hero Games |
$2.99
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The magic of role-playing games lies not only in grand quests and epic battles, but also in the rich tapestry of characters that inhabit your game world. Non-Player Characters (NPCs) are more than just background scenery or quest givers – they breathe life into your story, add layers to your world, and can even provide pivotal moments in your campaign.
In “Epic NPCs: Creating Memorable Characters... [click here for more] |
Rodger Huffman |
$4.99
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While board games can appear almost primitive in the digital age, eurogames--also known as German-style board games--have increased in popularity nearly concurrently with the rise of video games. Eurogames have simple rules and short playing times and emphasize strategy over luck and conflict.
This book examines the form of eurogames, the hobbyist culture that surrounds them, and the way that hobbyists... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99 $9.59
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The revolution in tabletop gaming revealed and reviewed, in this entertaining and informative look at over 40 years of award-winning games.
The annual Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) Awards are like the Oscars of the tabletop. Acclaimed British author and games expert James Wallis investigates the winners and losers of each year’s contest to track the incredible explosion in... [click here for more] |
Aconyte Books |
$19.95
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In Family Games: The 100 Best, top game designers and publishers write about the most enjoyable, most cleverly designed titles of the last one hundred years. Their essays cover the spectrum from board games to card games, wargames to miniatures games to role-playing games, including old favorites and little known gems. These are the games that the designers themselves play, the ones that have... [click here for more] |
Green Ronin Publishing |
$9.95 $7.46
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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 covers all of the important factors.... [click here for more] |
Avalon Classic |
$4.95 $1.00
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Narrative tools and game prep for an improv GM.
Do you struggle to improvise at the table?
Are you tired of working through a punishing prep routine for every session?
Do you simply need faster game prep?
Would you like to adopt a lighter GM schedule which still gave you a fun story?
I have the answer for you: Fast... [click here for more] |
Phil Nicholls |
$4.99
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This very special 75% off bundle contains two gaming classics by H.G. Wells, his Little Wars (with a foreword by Gary Gygax) and Floor Games (with a foreword by James F. Dunnigan), along with a set of miniatures inspired by his Time Machine; Stevenson at Play, a look at wargaming by the author of Treasure Island and Strange Case... [click here for more] |
Skirmisher Publishing |
$23.89 $5.99
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This 2022 extensive 102 page checklist and price guide provides the reader with valuable information regarding all known Fighting Fantasy books, collectables and related merchandise. Now includes foreign books and lots of other new bonus material. Red text denotes additions and amendments.
Although the odd gem can still be found, it covers everything from 1982 through to 2022 for the 40th Anniversary.... [click here for more] |
Fighting Fantasy Collector |
Pay What You Want
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This 2023/24 extensive 106 page checklist and price guide provides the reader with valuable information regarding all known Fighting Fantasy books, collectables and related merchandise. Includes foreign books and lots of other new bonus material. Red text denotes additions and amendments.
Although the odd gem can still be found, it covers everything from 1982 through to 2023. It reflects 20+ years... [click here for more] |
Fighting Fantasy Collector |
$4.92
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In the past three decades Finland's video game industry has become the backbone of Finnish cultural export. Angry Birds and Clash of Clans are dominating sales around the world and the small Nordic nation has become a gaming superpower.
Drawing on more than 60 interviews, this book covers the Finnish video game phenomenon as told by the people behind its success. The history of the... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$19.99
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FORMAÇÃO DE RPGISTAS Este projeto surgiu em um conjunto entre Sesc, Lampião Game Studio e RPGWord com o objetivo de apresentar para as pessoas o RPG, a partir das explicações do que é jogo até as formas de criar e publicar seus próprios jogos. As dez oficinas de formação de jogadores, mestres e criadores de RPG foram ministradas através de aulas estruturadas, jogos de RPG e criação guiada... [click here for more] |
RPGWorld |
Pay What You Want
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Forschungsdrang und Rollenspiel Motivgeschichtliche Betrachtungen zum Fantasy-Rollenspiel Das Schwarze Auge Folgt das aventurische Rittertum authentisch dem realhistorischen Vorbild? Wie weit gehen die Parallelen zwischen dem Bosparanischen Imperium und seinem irdischen Pendant, dem antiken Rom, tatsächlich? Welche Folgen hat der Pakt mit einem Erzdämonen für die menschliche Seele?... [click here for more] |
Ulisses Spiele |
$21.26
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(This title belongs to the WONDERLAND IMPRINTS MASTER EDITION series. Master Editions are deluxe illustrated works created by esteemed designer Kent David Kelly, released in beautiful unique manifestations which celebrate the finest and most compelling works of classic fiction.)
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Step into the captivating world of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ where the enduring... [click here for more] |
Kent David Kelly |
$3.99
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Double Trouble!
Peter Bo Johnson wasn't always two people. Before he was recruited for a secret government project, he was the happiest trucker in the Galaxy. But there was an accident. Now there are two Peter Bos. They can't tell their wife. And she's pregnant. There are some problems a trucker can't drive his way out of. Galaxy Trucker: Double Trouble is set in a universe... [click here for more] |
Jason A. Holt |
$5.99
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Build a ship out of sewer pipes! Fly across the Galaxy!
Fran thought that galaxy trucking would be her dream job. No one told her about the meteors on Route 135. Her trucks keep getting smashed to bits and now she’s deep in debt. Does she need a new route or a new career?
Maybe she just needs a friend.
Galaxy Trucker: Rocky Road is the sort of science fiction novel where... [click here for more] |
Jason A. Holt |
$5.99
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An eleven-year-old boy strangled an elderly woman for the equivalent of five dollars in 2007, then buried her body under a thin layer of sand. He told the police that he needed the money to play online videogames. Just a month later, an eight-year-old Norwegian boy saved his younger sister's life by threatening an attacking moose and then feigning death when the moose attacked him--skills he said he... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$12.99
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On my upcoming series I will do some theory of designing game books.
This includes:
- writing clues
- mapping it out
- game rules
- riddle design
- creative dice alternatives
- sorting/shuffling the sections
- using counter
- timing and timer
- …
This is my first pdf upload due to testing things out. The book is only an example.
... [click here for more] |
Blue Awesome Strawberry Publishing |
Pay What You Want
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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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New gaming goodness in this issue along with over $5.00 in free games and discounts.
Musing of the Avalon Stogie
Behind the Game
Coral Throne, Chapter XXIV
Heroes Wear Masks
Dicing With Life
Today’s Promise Excerpt
Avalon Pathfinder
Sorceress Issue #6
BedRock Interview
Artist Spotlight.... [click here for more] |
Avalon Game Company |
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The premier issue of Game Geek, inside you will find all sorts of fun stuff, including…
* Behind the Game, Micro Games and my own Mini-Games
* Map of the Month
* Junkyard Wars, Strip #1
* Coral Thrown, Prolog
* Multi-Verse, S&G Game Report
* Battle Axe, Goblin Fetish Maker
* Arcana, Cave of Screams
* Review of Malifaux by Wyrd Miniatures
* Cool Stuff, Decoder Ring Theater... [click here for more] |
Avalon Classic |
$1.00
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Musing of the Avalon Stogie
Behind the Game, Dark Dungeon
Map of the Month
Coral Thrown, Interlude IV
Maps by Claudio
Junkyard Wars, Strip #11
Geek Profile
Multi-Verse, Net Warriors Scenario
Avalon Pathfinder, New Spells
Battle Axe, Grog One eye
Raging Swan Gaming
Arcana, Clans of Black Mountain
Cool Stuff
Reviews
What’s New
Avalon Promotions
Free... [click here for more] |
Avalon Classic |
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The second issue of Game Geek, inside you will find all sorts of fun stuff, including…
Behind the Game, Ameritrash and Eurogames
Map of the Month
Junkyard Wars
Avalon Pathfinder, Fire Mage
Coral Thrown, Chapter 1
Geek Profile
Multi-Verse S&G Scenario – Dept. 13, Monster Hunters
Shuffler Map and Tiles by Claudio
Battle Axe, Elven Wood Elf Ranger Lord
Arcana, Giant... [click here for more] |
Avalon Classic |
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The third issue of Game Geek, inside you will find all sorts of fun stuff, including…
Behind the Game, Titan
Map of the Month
Junkyard Wars, Strip #3
Coral Thrown, Chapter 2
Geek Profile
Avalon Pathfinder Wind Sister
Multi-Verse, Rubber Band Man, Heroes Inc. Solo Character
More Shuffler Maps and Tiles by Claudio
Battle Axe, Mines of Mordith-Mor, Scenario and Battle Tiles... [click here for more] |
Avalon Classic |
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The fourth issue of Game Geek, inside you will find all sorts of fun stuff, including…
Musing of the Avalon Stogie
Behind the Game, Warhammer
Map of the Month
Junkyard Wars
An Open Letter in Defense of Gamers by WJ MacGuffin
Coral Thrown, Chapter 3
Geek Profile
Multi-Verse, New Battle Tiles
Origins of Twilight by Sean Wilt
Shuffler Map and Tiles by Claudio
Mark’s... [click here for more] |
Avalon Classic |
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The fifth issue of Game Geek, inside you will find all sorts of fun stuff, including…
Musing of the Avalon Stogie
Behind the Game, Web of Tears
Map of the Month
Junkyard Wars
Building a Balanced Character by Ramsey “Tome Wyrm” Lundock
Geek Profile
Coral Thrown, Interlude I
Artist Spotlight, Bradley K. McDevitt
Mark’s Musings by Mark L. Chance
Multi-Verse, Mina Dark Elf
Avalon... [click here for more] |
Avalon Classic |
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The sixth issue of Game Geek, inside you will find all sorts of fun stuff, including…
Musing of the Avalon Stogie
Behind the Game, Graveyard Dash, New Map Board and Rules
Junkyard Wars,
Geek Profile
Map of the Month
Coral Thrown
Avalon Pathfinder, Life Beyond 1st Level, Part 1
Favors as Treasure by Sean Wilt
Multi-Verse, Zombie Mash
Sonja Saga
Shuffler Map and Tiles... [click here for more] |
Avalon Classic |
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