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Book SynopsisJournal 29: Interactive Book GameJournal 29 is a unique book game where you can solve riddles and puzzles and submit your answers online to get the keys and move forward.To solve the riddles, you need to think out of the box.You can write, draw, search, fold pages, combine different methods and try to get those riddles right.Journal 29 is a 148 pages book providing over 63 riddles you can solve.The Story:A top secret excavation did not bring any result for 28 weeks.It was on the 29th week that something unexpected happened.The team disappeared and the only thing that was left behind was their Journal.You must solve the riddles in order to solve the mystery.How to Play:Journal 29 is a book game of riddles and puzzles.To play, you will need:A copy of Journal 29A pencilAn internet connected device ( preferably a smartphone)Every two pages of Journal 29 have two elements:The riddle page and the key page.Step1:You solve the riddle on the riddle page.Step2:Visit the URL from the key page(you can type the URL on your browseror scan the unique QR code available on the page).Step3:Submit the answer of the riddle.Answer correctly, and get a key that is usually a word or a number.Step4:Write down the key.These keys are needed for solving the next riddles.To solve the riddles you will need to think out of the box.Write, draw, search, tear paper, fold pages, combine and more.You don’t need any special app to play the game.Just a browser will do(preferably on your smartphone). 

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Book SynopsisWhen the mysterious Gauntlight, an eerie landlocked lighthouse, glows with baleful light, the people of Otari know something terrible is beginning. The town's newest heroes must venture into the ruins around the lighthouse and delve the dungeon levels far beneath it to discover the evil the Gauntlight heralds. Hideous monsters, deadly traps, and mysterious ghosts all await the heroes who dare to enter the sprawling megadungeon called the Abomination Vaults! Pathfinder Second Edition’s most popular campaign yet bursts from the pages of this massive hardcover compilation, containing all three adventures in the fan-favorite Abomination Vaults Adventure Path, a dungeon-delving campaign like no other, along with support articles, rules, monsters, and more! This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

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Book SynopsisThe Starfinder Player Core is the definitive entry point for Starfinder Second Edition, with everything a player needs to learn how to play the game! Choose from 10 ancestries, six character classes, and hundreds of feats and spells to create unique characters ready to take on a ruthless galaxy awash with magic and opportunity. Starfinder Player Core brings the Starfinder RPG into its new edition and is now 100% compatible with the acclaimed Second Edition of the hit Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Along with GM Core and Alien Core, these books provide a new foundation for the future of tabletop gaming! Starfinder Player Core includes: Complete character creation rules, walking you through building a character by selecting your Ancestry, Background, and Class, with a focus on the envoy, mystic, operative, solarian, soldier, and witchwarper classes! Core ancestry options include android, barathu, human, kasatha, lashunta, pahtra, shirren, skittermander, vesk, and ysoki! A vast catalogue of options allowing you to customize your character including versatile heritages, like the undead borai and Drift-touched prismeni, skills and feats, and hundreds of spells, ensuring that the character you build represents your hero not just in story, but in rules as well! A primer on the Pact Worlds and wider galaxy, so your character can be a part of an exciting and diverse setting! Rules and tools to advance your character through play, taking them from a fresh-faced adventurer ready to take on the world to a veteran hero, wielding powerful magic that can reshape reality.

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Book SynopsisA strange message beckons six strangers to Striving, an expansive megaplex city on Aballon, the planet of Machines. There, they gather in a neon-lit cafe, surrounded by androids and robots, to meet an old friend. The bartender brings them refreshmentsand a holographic recording from their mutual acquaintance. Greetings, friends! If you're watching this, it's because I've experienced an unexpected shutdownin organic terms, I'm dead.The discovery of their friend's unexpected murder turns these strangers into a crew of unlikely investigators. To find the killer, they'll need to outrun murderous robots, outwit clever foes, and analyze perplexing cluesall while wondering if they're hunting the murderer, or if the murderer is hunting them! The streets of Striving can be an unforgiving place, and the investigators will need all their skills, resourcesand no small amount of luckto come out ahead, solve the murder, find the killer's hideout, and bring them to justice! Murder in Metal City is a deluxe introductory boxed set adventure for four 1st-level Starfinder Second Edition characters containing numerous tools to assist GMs, including player and creature tokens, an immersive poster-sized double-sided battle map, investigation handouts, item cards, NPC cards, and a GM reference sheet and investigation trackereverything required for a premium adventure experience!Murder in Metal City features: Six new pregenerated characters with player handouts, one for each class from the Starfinder Player Core. A double-sided tactical Starfinder Flip-Mat featuring key locations from the adventure. Articles about the machine planet Aballon and the megaplex city of Striving. One new playable alien ancestry: khizars, the plant-like protectors of Aballon's jungle-filled Ice Wells. An article detailing the tech faiths of the Starfinder universe, from deities like Triune and Lambatuin to the unique philosophies of the robotic anacites. Multiple pages of creature stat blocks and NPC descriptions for the combat and roleplaying encounters in the adventure.

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Book SynopsisReport for Duty! When diplomacy between nations fails and neither side backs down, war is the inevitable result. From border skirmishes to large-scale invasions, conflict comes in many formsthe perfect chance for heroes to win glory! And war has come to the world Golarion, embroiling the nations of the Inner Sea in a conflict that will forever change the Pathfinder setting!This new rulebook for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game covers all aspects of war, including two bold new character classes! Help steer the flow of battle as a cunning commander, or protect your allies from harm as an indomitable guardian. You''ll also find archetypes that allow you to raise a small battalion of undead soldiers or wield a personal siege weapon, the new larger-than-life jotunborn ancestry, an armory of magic weapons, and rules for running combat alongside troops that you command to fill out your army''s ranks. Golarion's generals need you, so heed the Battlecry!

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Book SynopsisDiscover the war-ravaged lands of Dormus, the exciting world setting for the international bestselling gamebook series, DestinyQuest. Dormus is a world riven with strife and conflict, it’s very fabric of reality under threat from otherworldly forces and cataclysmic events. These are dark and perilous days, where fractious tensions threaten to bring down kingdoms and empires, and demonic invaders sow seeds of chaos to hasten the fall of humanity. This is a time when great heroes will rise – legendary men and women of fame, who will spin the web of destiny anew, changing lives and history, influencing kings and nations, and becoming beacons of hope amidst a desperate world teetering on the brink of ruin. Inside this beautifully illustrated hardback volume you will find: • A detailed history of the world, from its creation by the celestial Fates, to the current End Days of crumbling empires and war-weary kingdoms. • A comprehensive timeline that charts the key events that have shaped the world of Dormus, right up to the present – interlinking with the narratives of the gamebook series. • An overview of the magic system, detailing the chaotic forces of the Shroud and the effects of its demonic taint, as well as the runic magic of the dwarves and the dangerous arts of channelling elemental forces. • Exciting character stories and biographies, exploring some of the key heroes (and villains) who have influenced the DestinyQuest world, including the legendary witchfinder, Eldias Falks, and the enigmatic archmage, Avian Dale. • Detailed summaries of the main factions that vie for power and influence within the kingdom of Valeron, from the secretive enclaves of the Arcane Hand to the scheming masters of shadow, the Nevarin. Whether you are a fan of the DestinyQuest series or a gamemaster looking for a new and immersive setting for your homebrew roleplaying campaigns, the World Companion delivers a wealth of exciting secrets and discoveries – everything you need to arm yourselves for epic adventures ahead. So, are you ready to embrace your destiny?

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Book SynopsisSet out on a journey of fabulous adventure in lands beyond the limit of your imagination. Choose for yourself what role to play, where to venture, and what rewards to seek.In THE WAR-TORN KINGDOM, revolution rages in Sokara. You can join forces with the king to restore his throne - or look for profit in the pay of the dictator, Grieve Marlock. Use fighting skills or sorcery, bribery or skulduggery to survive the assassins in the city backstreets. Descend to the sewers of Yellowport to defeat the vile rat-king, Skabb. Retrieve the golden net of the gods from the Repulsive Ones deep beneath the sea - and use the rewards of your victories to travel beyond the boundaries of the known world in the world's first open world gamebook saga.Your journeys will bring you foes and friends, danger and triumph, fortune and fame - and more adventures than you ever dreamed of.Role-playing as you've never known it before - in the amazing world of the FABLED LANDS.

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