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Inside you'll find all projects included in the zinequest event on Kickstarter.
Even better, all projects are categorised and sorted to group similar things together and help you to get a clearer overview.
Each listing includes all the main project details, the smaller images are in high resolution so you can zoom in for a better look.
If you see something you like, just click the project image to... [click here for more] |
Modelling Miniatures |
$3.12
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Inside you'll find all projects included in the zinequest event on Kickstarter.
Even better, all projects are categorised and sorted to group similar things together and help you to get a clearer overview.
Each listing includes all the main project details, the smaller images are in high resolution so you can zoom in for a better look.
If you see something you like, just click the project image to... [click here for more] |
Modelling Miniatures |
$3.12
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A Brief History of Gnolls: Anthropophagy and Emeralds from Wales to Wisconsin and Beyond traces the history of the title fantasy creatures in literature and gaming, from when they were first introduced more than a century ago up through the present. Features of this unique and intriguing volume include two entertaining quasi-academic essays by writer Paul Haynie that examine the literary history... [click here for more] |
Skirmisher Publishing |
$2.99
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Have you played a tabletop rolelaying game or an MMORPG?
The odds are that if you’re on this web store, browsing the titles, then you probably have.
Have you heard of the strange world of Live Action Role Playing?
If you’ve been around tabletop games for a while, or been to a convention, then the odds are that you’ve heard of this style of gaming, perhaps even seen it... [click here for more] |
Vulpinoid Studios |
$3.00
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This is a 24 page zine (including covers) of eight (8) templates alongside a small amount of description plus an example or two to help you create and manage role-playing adventures.
Includes-es
One (1) template is a minor variation on the excellent hex flower engine (created by Goblin's Henchman whose hex flowers also appear in the Planar Compass #2 zine).
The other seven (7) are a means of... [click here for more] |
Aether Corp Games |
$3.00
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This volume presents posts and essays on running ttrpgs from the ENnie Award-winning Age of Ravens. It includes game mechanic talk, ideas for handling campaign types, concrete advice for game facilitation and more. Age of Ravens: Volume I: Running moves from close up analysis to board view thinking and brings together material from fourteen years of online writing.
Look for Volume... [click here for more] |
Age of Ravens Games |
$12.00
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This volume presents posts and pieces providing a variety of different ttrpg tools from the ENnie Award-winning Age of Ravens. It includes lists for inspiration, world-building minigames, new system options, and examinations of different games systems. Age of Ravens: Volume II: Tools has variety of approaches and brings together material from fourteen years of online writing.
Look... [click here for more] |
Age of Ravens Games |
$12.00
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A short (24-page) zine about the history of Palladium Books!
Founded in 1981, Palladium Books is one of the weirdest tabletop RPG publishers, which is really saying something.
Coverage of 15 different Palladium RPGs and the entire Palladium Books Megaverse!
5 humorous lists of amusing elements of Palladium’s games.
A detailed explanation of the Megaversal RPG system and its general strangeness.
A... [click here for more] |
Yaruki Zero Games |
$2.50
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Having returned from their time with the Army, Daniel and Asin must now complete the Dungeon in Karlak. To do so though, they will need to get better gear,more Skills and higher Levels. Taking a quest, the pair must leave Karlak to travel across the Kingdom of Brad and learn a few life-lessons along the way. The Adventures of Brad series is a traditional fantasy story with LitRPG elements. ... [click here for more] |
Tao Wong |
$3.99
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In 1990, Palladium Books launched Rifts, a post-apocalyptic-science-fantasy-horror-mecha-role-playing game using a game system from 1981.
In 2021, two guys who played it a bunch revisited the game and, armed with hindsight, set about mocking, parodying, and critiquing the game. It turned into this embarrassingly long book.
Coverage of the basic rules, the nearly 30 (i.e. 27) classes, psionics,... [click here for more] |
Yaruki Zero Games |
$8.00
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During the eight year run of Living Greyhawk, the world’s largest role-playing campaign, the Bandit Kingdoms region produced over 130 unique adventures. For the first time ever, these narrative threads are woven into one cohesive tapestry. For those who helped shape these events, this comprehensive resource memorializes their struggles against Iuz’s oppressive rule. For others, this compilation... [click here for more] |
Casey Brown |
$5.95
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Best of Fenix includes some of the best gaming material from the Swedish gaming magazine Fenix – translated to English. In Best of Fenix you will find inspiring material written directly for Fenix’ readers by renown international game designers such as Kenneth Hite and Pete Nash, but also some of the best from the Swedish arena. To top it off, we got our own comic strip Bernard the Barbarian, created... [click here for more] |
Askfageln |
$14.95
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Best of Fenix includes some of the best gaming material from the Swedish gaming magazine Fenix – translated to English. In Best of Fenix you will find inspiring material written directly for Fenix’ readers by renown international game designers such as Kenneth Hite and Pete Nash, but also some of the best from the Swedish arena. To top it off, we got our own comic strip Bernard the Barbarian, created... [click here for more] |
Askfageln |
$14.95
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Best of Fenix includes some of the best gaming material from the Swedish gaming magazine Fenix – translated to English. In Best of Fenix you will find inspiring material written directly for Fenix’ readers by renown international game designers such as Kenneth Hite and Pete Nash, but also some of the best from the Swedish arena. To top it off, we got our own comic strip Bernard the Barbarian, created... [click here for more] |
Askfageln |
$14.95
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When designing a fantasy setting, the biology of our home world can provide a wonderfully rich resource for generating a new world and the creatures inhabiting it. But a world creator should not forget the fantasy aspect, or feel restricted to using Earth’s biosphere as an unyielding template, and otherwise excellent resources often suffer from just this flaw and apply real-world ecology to fantasy... [click here for more] |
Skirmisher Publishing |
$2.99
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Available in Paperback, EPUB, and PDF (30 reading pages)
Warning: Reading this book will make you want to play D&D!
“Stephen’s delightful memoir makes you want to travel upstream to your own formative D&D headwaters, dig out your old graph-paper maps and worn dice, and rediscover the gateway to what the author calls ‘the fantastic path.’” —Ethan Gilsdorf,... [click here for more] |
DONJON LANDS |
$2.99
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As role-playing games are becoming an increasingly popular pastime and hobby for many in our current culture for quite a while, a tradition of gaming food and drinks should evolve accordingly. Cocktail parties or sport events, for instance, have evolve their own food traditions. There is no reason role-playing games shouldn't either.
Cauldrons & Casseroles presents 82 recipes... [click here for more] |
Stellagama Publishing |
$4.99
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From the dawn of feature films, fans—be they artists, gamers, visionaries, writers, or dreamers—have drawn inspiration from the big screen. Now, between the covers of Cinema & Sorcery, embark on a decades-long journey through time from the earliest days of sword and sorcery films up to the present day.
Learn the who, the what, the where, and the how of your favorite fantasy movies... [click here for more] |
Green Ronin Publishing |
$12.95
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City Builder: A Guide to Designing Communities is a resource specifically designed to help storytellers create exciting and compelling urban areas and other sorts of communities and places within them. It is a universal sourcebook that can support the needs of any ancient, Dark Ages, Middle Ages, Renaissance, or fantasy fiction or role-playing game setting.
This comprehensive, fully-illustrated... [click here for more] |
Skirmisher Publishing |
$24.99 $24.95
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A follow up to 2007's Classic Home Video Games, 1972-1984, this reference work provides detailed descriptions and reviews of every U.S.-released game for the Nintendo NES, the Atari 7800, and the Sega Master System, all of which are considered among the most popular video game systems ever produced.
Organized alphabetically by console brand, each chapter includes a description of the game system... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$29.99
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A Complete Guide to Sega Genesis, Neo Geo and TurboGrafx-16 Games
The third in a series about home video games, this detailed reference work features descriptions and reviews of every official U.S.-released game for the Neo Geo, Sega Genesis and TurboGrafx-16, which, in 1989, ushered in the 16-bit era of gaming.
Organized alphabetically by console brand, each chapter includes... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$19.99
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" The word ""control"" has many implications for video games. On a basic level, without player control, there is no experience. Much of the video game industry focuses on questions of control and ways to improve play to make the gamer feel more connected to the virtual world.
The sixteen essays in this collection offer critical examinations of the issue of control in video... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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Ob Ratschläge von alten Haudegen, die schon während der Entstehung der Rollenspiele geleitet haben, oder Vorschläge der neuen Generation von Spielentwicklern – diese 21 Essays von Experten helfen dir dabei, deine Fähigkeiten als Spielleiter zu verbessern und unterhaltsame, erstaunliche und einprägsame Kampagnen zu erstellen, über die man noch in Jahren reden wird. In diesem Buch geben dir meisterhafte... [click here for more] |
Ulisses Spiele |
$8.53
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Egal, ob du ein neuer Spielleiter bist oder ein erfahrener Veteran, der nach einem neuen Ansatz sucht, um sich zu verbessern, diese 19 Essays von 13 erfahrenen Spielleitern zeigen dir, wie du deine Kampagne von Grund auf aufbauen und deine Spieler bis zum dramatischen Abschluss begeistern kannst.
In diesem Band zeigen dir die Meister dieser Kunst, wie du eine neue Kampagne beginnen, veröffentlichte... [click here for more] |
Ulisses Spiele |
$8.53
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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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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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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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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 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 |
$7.99 $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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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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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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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 |
$21.35
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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 $2.00
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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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What does love have to do with gaming?
As games have grown in complexity, they have increasingly included narratives that seek to engage players with love in a variety of ways. While media attention often focuses on violent emotions and behavior in gaming, love has always been central to the experience. We love to play games, we have titles that we love, and sometimes we love too much or love terrible... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$18.99
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The 14 essays in Game on, Hollywood! take on several points of game and film intersection.
They look at storylines, aesthetics, mechanics, and production. The book is about adaptation (video game to film, film to video game), but it is even more about narrative. The essays draw attention to the ways and possibilities of telling a story. They consider differences and similarities... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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In demand like never before, a good gamemaster is a valuable asset. As more and more people try running their own games, many are discovering that it’s not as easy as it looks.
Increasingly, roleplaying games are moving from the mechanical battle simulators of old and becoming more like shared, social stories. Tabletop gaming today (whether online or in-person) involves much more than stat-blocks... [click here for more] |
Parallel Publishing |
$12.53 $10.00
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Gamemastering. No other task is as unpopular in a roleplaying group. Very often, it is the gamemaster who ends up doing all the work so everyone can enjoy the game. But the job of gamemaster is at least as exciting and unpredictable as taking on the role of a player character.
When comparing gamemasters, it becomes obvious that some are better at their task than others--which is why rumors that one... [click here for more] |
Vagrant Workshop |
$19.95 $14.95
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Librarians are beginning to see the importance of game based learning and incorporating games into library services to increase patron engagement and interaction. This book is written for librarians interested in using games to improve patron or student knowledge of library services and decrease patron anxiety of the library. This book provides practical suggestions and methods of incorporating games... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$26.99
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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 videogame... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$17.99
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The incredible true story behind the global gaming phenomenon.
Generation Decks tells the story of the mould-breaking fantasy card game, Magic: The Gathering. The brainchild of misfit maths genius Richard Garfield, Magic combines complex gameplay with collectability. When it came out in 1993 it transformed the lives of quiet braniacs who had longed for a way to connect and compete. It made millionaires... [click here for more] |
Rebellion |
$6.99
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