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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Men Who Would Be Kings
Book SynopsisThe Men Who Would Be Kings is a set of rules designed for fighting historical or Hollywood colonial battles in the mid- to late-Nineteenth Century, from the Indian Mutiny to the Boxer Rebellion. Large scale colonial clashes tended to be one-sided affairs, but there are countless reports of brief, frantic skirmishes in every colonial war--where either side could be victorious--and these are the battles that The Men Who Would Be Kings seeks to recreate. Although focusing on the British colonial wars against the Zulus, Maoris, and others, these rules will also permit players to explore the empires of France, Germany, and other nations, as well as allowing for battles between rival native factions. Gameplay is very simple, and is driven by the quality of the officers leading your units, in the true spirit of Victorian derring-do and adventure, where larger than life characters such as the (real) Fred Burnaby and the (fictional) Harry Flashman led their troops to glory and medTable of ContentsOverview/ Understanding the basics/ Playing the game/ Army lists/ Strategies and tactics/ Sample armies/ Scenarios/ Campaigns
£11.69
Pen & Sword Books Ltd OneHour Wargames Practical Tabletop Battles for
Book SynopsisContains 8 (completely new) sets of very simple war-gaming rules covering all periods from Ancient to WWII. The rules only require a small number of figures and a 3' x 3' playing area, ideal for beginners. Includes 30 tactical scenarios that can be used with any period.
£12.99
Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder Player Companion: Familiar Folio
Book SynopsisIt's time to make your familiar more fearsome! Whether you're looking to give your familiar an archetype to make it a brutish battle companion, hoping to gain a familiar option for an unusual class like the paladin or barbarian, or just scouting for an expanded selection of familiars and improved familiars, the Familiar Folio has you covered. Featuring all-new items, spells, archetypes, and — of course — tons of familiars, this Pathfinder Player Companion is the perfect accessory for spellcasters as well as any Pathfinder player who fancies a fantastic, travel-sized friend for their character.
£11.39
Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Adventurer’s Guide
Book SynopsisWise adventurers don’t just march off into the wilderness to search for dragons to slay and wrongs to right, for to adventure without support is to invite disaster. The hardcover Pathfinder RPG Adventurer’s Guide presents information on 18 different organizations in need of brave and able adventurers. Be they forces for good, such as the virtuous Eagle Knights or the freedom fighters of the Bellflower Network, or agencies of sinister mien like the notorious Red Mantis Assassins or the infernally-inspired Hellknights, the one thing these groups all share in common is a need for powerful adventurers to serve as their agents in the world. To the adventurers who ally with them, these groups offer specialized training, powerful magical items, specialized magic, access to unusual gear or mounts, and more! Pathfinder RPG Adventurer’s Guide includes: • Details on the history, goals, and leadership for 18 of Golarion’s most famous (or infamous) organizations, including the Aldori Swordlords, the Aspis Consortium, the Cyphermages, the Gray Maidens, the Hellknights, the Lantern Bearers, the Magaambya, the Mammoth Lords, the Pathfinder Society, and the Red Mantis. • Each organization includes at least one prestige class and at least two archetypes for characters who seek to further specialize in the themes and powers offered by the organization. • Dozens and dozens of new spells, magic items, feats, and other unique character options of diverse nature, all themed to the various organizations presented in this book! • ... and much, much more!
£30.59
Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 2 Pocket
Book SynopsisGo beyond goblins with an army of fantasy's most fearsome foes! Bestiary 2 presents hundreds of different creatures for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Within this collection of creatures you'll find undead dragons and mischievous gremlins, shrieking banshees and unstoppable titans, the infamous jabberwock, and so much more! Yet not all these monsters need to be foes, as new breeds of otherworldly guardians, living shadows, and vampires all might take up adventure's call. In addition, new rules for customizing and advancing monsters and an expanded glossary of creature abilities ensure that you'll be prepared to challenge your heroes wherever adventure takes them! The Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 2 is the second indispensable volume of monsters for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and serves as a companion to the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook and Pathfinder RPG Bestiary. This imaginative tabletop game builds upon more than 10 years of system development and an Open Playtest featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into the new millennium. The 320-page Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 2 includes: • More than 300 different monsters • Creatures both new and familiar, drawing upon the best-known beasts of legend, literature, and Pathfinder RPG adventures • Challenges for any adventure and every level of play • Hosts of new templates and variants, including simple templates for on-the-fly creature customization • Numerous lists of monsters to aid in navigation, including lists by Challenge Rating, monster type, and habitat • New rules for creating and running high-level menaces • Expanded universal monster rules to simplify special attacks, defenses, and qualities • New familiars, animal companions, and other allies • ... and much, much more!
£16.19
Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder Player Companion: Merchant’s Manifest
Book SynopsisSome say that money makes the world go ‘round, and it’s Golarion’s merchants who make this a reality. This player-focused volume examines commerce in the setting through the lens of important trade hubs such as Absalom, Goka, and Katapesh, where smart shoppers can secure myriad fine wares (presented here for players to purchase for their heroes). Want a piece of the profits? You’ll also find information about the most successful trading companies that have developed specialized tools and techniques to make the biggest profits and outwit their competitors. Whether you’re aiming to secure up a rare item, hire on with these organizations, or make your own fortune, Pathfinder Player Companion: Merchant’s Manifest is your key to success.
£10.49
Paizo Publishing, LLC Starfinder Roleplaying Game: Alien Archive 2
Book SynopsisBattle or befriend more than 100 weird and alien life forms in this creature collection for the Starfinder Roleplaying Game! Every new world and space station comes with its own dangers, from strange new cultures to extraterrestrial predators to massive spacefaring organisms capable of battling starships. Inside this book, you’ll find rules and ecological information for creatures from across the known worlds, plus exotic alien gear, complete magical polymorphing rules, and more. A robust selection of template grafts gives you the tools you need to populate any planet with environment-appropriate fauna, and racial rules for many of the new species let you be the alien! Want to play an intelligent, multi-legged centipede? An emotionless, mask-wearing mollusk? An uplifted bear? Explore the limits of your galaxy and your game with Starfinder Alien Archive 2!
£30.59
McFarland & Co Inc The Postmodern Joy of RolePlaying Games
Book Synopsis Historian Johan Huizinga once described game playing as the motor of humanity''s cultural development, predating art and literature. Since the late 20th century, Western society has undergone a ludification, as the influence of game-playing has grown ever more prevalent. At the same time, new theories of postmodernism have emphasized the importance of interactive, playful behavior. Core concepts of postmodernism are evident in pen-and-paper role-playing, such as Dungeons and Dragons. Exploring the interrelationships among narrative, gameplay, players and society, the author raises questions regarding authority, agency and responsibility, and discusses the social potential of RPGs in the 21st century.
£20.89
Chaosium Alone Against the Tide: Solitaire Adventure by
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£14.24
Titan Books Ltd World of Warcraft Unshackled An Escape Room Box
Book SynopsisWill you escape the dangers of Azeroth? Will you escape the dangers of Azeroth? You have 60 minutes to break free of the chains that bind and the evils that threaten the World of Warcraft (R)! Play as honorable members of the Horde and the Alliance and overcome obstacles before time runs out! Stop the spread of Professor Putricide's plague of undeath in his bizarre laboratory, dodge devilsaurs in Un'Goro Crater, and restore order to Karazhan before the tower collapses! Featuring three different scenarios with three difficulty levels: easy, medium, and challenging. Will you be unshackled? Or will time seal your fate?
£21.79
Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide Pocket Edition
Book SynopsisReady to go beyond the basics? Expand the limits of what’s possible with the Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide Pocket Edition! This 272-page Pathfinder Second Edition rulebook contains exciting new rules options for player characters, adding even more depth of choice to your Pathfinder game! Inside you will find brand new ancestries, heritages, and four new classes: the shrewd investigator, the mysterious oracle, the daring swashbuckler, and the hex-slinging witch! The must-have Advanced Player’s Guide also includes exciting new options for all your favorite Core Rulebook classes and tons of new backgrounds, general feats, spells, items, and 40 flexible archetypes to customize your play experience even further! The Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide includes: • Four new classes: the investigator, oracle, swashbuckler, and witch! • Five new ancestries and five heritages for any ancestry: celestial aasimars, curious catfolk, hagspawned changelings, vampiric dhampirs, fate-touched duskwalkers, scaled kobolds, fierce orcs, fiendish tieflings, industrious ratfolk, and feathered tengu! • 40 new archetypes including multiclass archetypes for the four new classes, Pathfinder favorites like the cavalier, dragon disciple, shadowdancer, and vigilante, and brand-new archetypes like the familiar master and the shield-bearing iron wall! • New class options for all twelve classes from the Pathfinder Core Rulebook including champions of evil, genie and shadow sorcerers, zen archer monks, rogue masterminds, spellcasting rangers, and more! • Even more exciting new rules, from rare and unique backgrounds to investigative skill feats, from spells and rituals like reincarnate and create demiplane to new items including special wands with unusual effects and exciting potions worthy of a witch’s cauldron.
£19.54
Paizo Publishing, LLC Starfinder RPG: Galaxy Exploration Manual
Book SynopsisThe worlds of infinite space are yours to discover with the Galaxy Exploration Manual! This all-new Starfinder rules expansion hardcover for players and Game Masters focuses on trailblazing, exploration-based play across an expansive variety of unusual planets packed with deadly dangers and thrilling possibilities for adventure! The Galaxy Exploration Manual contains: • New class options for every Starfinder class. • An extensive player character background generator. • New equipment from personal items to grenades, medicinals, and serums. • Rules for creating and exploring sensational science-fantasy worlds ranging from a huge variety of planets to asteroids, satellites, colony ships, and more. • Extensive details on 12 different environmental biomes like airborne, desert, space, subterranean, or urban, with systems for generating its inhabitants, threats, and adventure hooks and tons of unique player character options. • Rules for creating and expanding a world’s culture, from magic to religion to technology. • GM tactics and advice for running exciting open-ended space exploration campaigns.
£28.79
Simon & Schuster How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero's Guide to
Book SynopsisGrab your magical sword and take the place of your favorite fantasy character with this fun and historically accurate how-to guide to solving epic quests.What should you ask a magic mirror? How do you outwit a genie? Where should you dig for buried treasure? Fantasy media’s favorite clichés get new life from How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero’s Guide to the Real Middle Ages, a historically accurate romp through the medieval world. Each entry presents a trope from video games, books, movies, or TV—such as saving the princess or training a wizard—as a problem for you to solve, as if you were the hero of your own fantasy quest. Through facts sourced from a rich foundation of medieval sources, you will learn how your magical problems were solved by people in the actual Middle Ages. Divided into thematic subsections based on typical stages in a fantastical epic, and inclusive of race, gender, and continent, How to Slay a Dragon is perfect if you’re curious to learn more about the time period that inspired some of your favorite magical worlds or longing to know what it would be like to be the hero of your own mythical adventure.
£14.24
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Dragon Rampant
Book SynopsisWhether you''re a nameless Dark Lord looking to conquer the known world, a Champion of Light holding out against the forces of evil or a Northern barbarian facing claimants to a stolen throne, Dragon Rampant allows you to bring those battles to the tabletop. Developed from the popular Lion Rampant system, Dragon Rampant is a standalone wargame that recreates the great battles of Fantasy fiction. Scenarios, army lists, and full rules for magic and monsters give players the opportunity to command unruly orc warbands, raise armies of the undead, campaign across an antediluvian world as the warchief of a barbarian tribe, or exploit the power of mighty creatures and extraordinary sorcery. An army usually consists of 6-8 units comprised of 6-12 individually based figures. These small units move and fight independently, assuming that they follow your orders rather than just doing their own thing. Command and control is just as important on the battlefield as the power of a troll chieftain or Table of ContentsOverview/ Understanding the basics/ Playing the game/ Army lists/ Strategies and tactics/ Sample armies/ Scenarios/ Campaigns
£12.99
Cornerstone The World of Critical Role: The History Behind
Book SynopsisDive deep into the history of the world's most popular fantasy RPG livestream with the cast of Critical Role in this definitive guide featuring never-before-seen illustrations and photos.From its unassuming beginnings as a casual home game between friends to the role-playing phenomenon it is today, Critical Role has become the stuff of legend. These pages chronicle how a circle of friends who all happen to be talented voice actors built the most-watched tabletop role-playing livestream of all time.Discover dazzling new illustrations and richly written insights into the locations, characters, and adventures featured in the hundreds of episodes across Critical Role's two campaigns, Vox Machina and the Mighty Nein. Go behind the scenes with archival photos and exclusive interviews with Dungeon Master Matt Mercer and the entire Critical Role cast as they explore their characters' most triumphant moments and darkest hours. And celebrate the massive community of Critters who support and expand the show's world through a highlighted tour of the crafts, cosplay, and art they create every day.Featuring a foreword from the cast, lush illustrations, and the inside story you won't find anywhere else, this book is your indispensable guide to Critical Role.The adventure begins!
£22.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Zona Alfa
Book SynopsisExplore, salvage, and survive inside the Exclusion Zone in this near-future Eastern European-themed skirmish wargame.Zona Alfa is a set of simple, fast-play skirmish rules for scavenging, exploring, and surviving in a near-future, post-apocalyptic Eastern European setting. Players take on the role of bandits, mercenaries, and military units fighting over the blasted Exclusion Zone and its abandoned artifacts. Customize your fighters with a variety of weapons and specialisms to create your ideal warband. With extended rules for campaigns, character progression, terrain, and environmental hazards, Zona Alfa contains all the tools required to engaging in blistering firefights within the Exclusion Zone.
£11.69
Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 5
Book SynopsisInside Bestiary 5 lurk hundreds of new monsters ready for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. You’ll find the death-dealing grim reaper, menacing deep ones, and the ground-shaking wood colossus. Alongside such terrors, there are also allies to be found, such as the whimsical leshi, the inscrutable esoteric dragons, and the powerful aerial servant! Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 5 is the fifth indispensable volume of monsters for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and serves as a companion to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook and Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary. This imaginative tabletop game builds upon more than 10 years of system development and an Open Playtest featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into the new millennium. Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary 5 includes: • More than 300 different monsters • Creatures that can warp the minds of their victims, including the caller in darkness, thought eater, and the bizarre brain mole • Two new types of creature from beyond, the mysterious manasaputra and the truly vile sahkil, alongside new types of angels, demodands, and devils • Monsters from the stars and beyond, like the insidious grays, twisted mutants, and advanced robots • New familiars, animal companions, and other allies • New templates to help you get more life out of classic monsters • Appendices to help you find the right monster, including lists by Challenge Rating, monster type, and habitat • Expanded universal monster rules to simplify combat • Challenges for every adventure and every level of play • AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!
£33.99
Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder Absalom, City of Lost Omens (P2)
Book SynopsisFor nearly 5000 years, the great city of Absalom has stood at the center of the Inner Sea’s culture, commerce, and prophecy. Now, with the death of the city’s founder-god Aroden, the disappearance of the city’s lord mayor, and newly launched attacks from some of its greatest foes, Absalom stands at the gateway to a new and uncertain destiny! This lore-packed 296-page hardcover guide to the locations, denizens, and adventures of Pathfinder’s most famous city is the largest Pathfinder city sourcebook to date, presenting a fascinating locale suitable for years of adventure! A huge 8-panel poster map of the city sets the scene in unprecedented detail, allowing your heroes to walk upon streets paved with centuries of history, following the steps of generations of questing heroes to chart a new path for the City at the Center of the World!
£42.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Frostgrave Forgotten Pacts
Book SynopsisIn this supplement for Frostgrave, players lead their warbands into the northern reaches of the city, exploring the ruined temples of the Frozen City to search for the lost secrets of evocation--the art of summoning demons. While the lure of such knowledge is great, few wizards have ventured into this region as it is overrun by barbaric northern tribesmen, who have descended from the hills in their own search for treasure. Marking themselves with demonic sigils, many of these barbarians have aligned with ancient powers discovered among the temples. Along with a host of new scenarios focusing on the exploration of the temples, the book also contains new treasures, spells, soldiers, and creatures that can be found in and around the ruins.Table of ContentsIntroduction/ The Campaign/ Scenarios/ New Warband Options/ New Treasure/ Expanded Bestiary
£11.69
Square Enix Final Fantasy Vii Remake: World Preview
Book SynopsisA full-colour introduction to he highly anticipated FF VII remake.
£20.39
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Billion Suns
Book SynopsisA tabletop miniatures game of intense starship combat between fleets of powerful cruisers, sleek destroyers, and agile fighters.A Billion Suns is a wargame of interstellar combat that puts you in command of fleets of powerful starships, from squadrons of agile, but fragile, fighters, to hulking and powerful capital ships. Choose your vessels from pre-existing classes then customize them to create your own sub-classes, each with their own strengths, weaknesses, and armament, from accurate torpedoes to devastating macro-cannon. Using simple dice pool mechanics, you must carefully manage your resources and seize the opportunities that come your way in order to lead your fleet to victory and assert your dominance over the stars.
£11.69
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Doomed
Book SynopsisA quick-playing, rules-light skirmish wargame of Horror hunting set in a bleak sci-fi world on the brink of impending doom.Hunger, Hatred, Domination, Oblivion, and Ruin. The world is dying, poised on the brink of falling to one of these great dooms. Factions pursue their own interests, as likely to be the heralds of the world's destruction as they are its saviours. Horrors monstrous abominations that defy logic, science, and nature roam the land. Bands of hunters follow bold leaders, seeking out and destroying Horrors, gaining fame as word of their deeds spreads amongst the desperate survivors. Rival bands compete for prestige, clash over ideology, and pose as much of a threat to each other as the Horrors they hunt.The Doomed is a quick-playing, rules-light skirmish wargame in which small warbands of hunters compete to hunt unique Horrors in a bleak sci-fi world. Scenarios are defined by the Horror being hunted and by the Conflict in which the hunt tTrade ReviewLightweight rules and heavy metal everything else. -- Timothy Linward * Wargamer *A tight design philosophy to a new area of the gaming world. -- Christopher Eggett * Tabletop Gaming Magazine *My new favourite game in my collection. -- Dave O'Gara * Miniature Mash-Up *
£21.25
HarperCollins Publishers Dungeons Dragons Dungeon Club Roll Call The
Book SynopsisFrom New York Times bestselling author Molly Knox Ostertag and critically acclaimed illustrator Xanthe Bouma comes an all-new Dungeons & Dragons graphic novel series!Middle school is a dungeon At least, that's how Jess sees it.Luckily, she and her best friend Olivia know how to escape into the sprawling worlds of their own imaginations. The two friends have always loved making up stories, first with little kid games of make-believe, and more recently with the fantasy roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. When they play, Olivia runs the game as Dungeon Master and Jess is the solo party member, playing a take-no-prisoners, lone-wolf fighter of her own design named Sir Corius.But when Olivia wants to add new players to their group, Jess finds herself struggling to share their game and her best friend. Will their epic campaign withstand all this change, or has their adventure and their friendship finally come to an end?Trade ReviewAn absolutely wonderful story that exemplifies the joys, challenges, and lifelong memories forged between friends in the creative furnace of roleplaying games. The vibrant, energetic art further elevates the beautiful dichotomy between epic, fantasy adventures and finding one's place in those awkward teenage years. I couldn't help but see much of myself and my own youth in parts of each character as they find their companions in real life through their imaginary adventures, and the sense of unparalleled bonding one finds within a good game group resonates deeply throughout this story. I absolutely loved it. — Matthew Mercer, creator of Critical Role The power D&D has to help you explore and express yourself is on full display in this lovely story of friendship and growing up. — Kat Leyh, author of Snapdragon Perfectly captures the magic when the world you create with your friends becomes as real as the world around you. — Tim Probert, author of the Lightfall series A thrilling and gorgeous adventure that goes straight for your heart. — ND Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Nimona What Molly Ostertag and Xanthe Bouma pull off in Dungeon Club is nothing short of astounding. Contained within these magical pages are not one but two amazing stories: fantasy and reality woven masterfully together by Ostertag's spellbinding storytelling. An adventure filled with fun, magic and deep insight into the trials and tribulations of High School, Dungeon Club is what we in the D&D world would call a "Critical Hit"! To everyone who knows that there's always adventure and a little bit of magic just around the corner, this book will be a treasured artifact for years and years to come! — Brennan Lee Mulligan, creator of Dimension 20
£14.99
Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder RPG: Pathfinder GM Core (P2)
Book SynopsisUnleash your imagination, creating worlds and stories beyond measure with the new Pathfinder GM Core for Pathfinder Second Edition! This comprehensive 336-page hardcover rulebook gives Game Masters everything they need to craft thrilling tales of adventure, from a single-night’s dungeon delve to complex epics spanning years. Within these pages you’ll find clear guidelines for creating new hazards and monsters, tools to design challenging, balanced encounters, and rules for rewarding characters for the dastardly challenges you array before them! Pathfinder GM Core also contains a dragon’s hoard of magic items and treasure to entice and reward your players, from simple healing potions to magic weapons and armor and legendary artifacts, including dozens of brand-new items! Pathfinder GM Core is the second core rulebook for the fully remastered Pathfinder Second Edition RPG! These rules are compatible with previous Pathfinder Second Edition rulebooks, incorporating comprehensive errata and rules updates and some of the best additions from later books into new, easier-to-access volumes with new presentations inspired by years of player feedback. Along with the Player Core, Monster Core, and Player Core 2, these books provide a new foundation for the future of tabletop gaming! Pathfinder GM Core includes: • The rules needed to run a game of Pathfinder, including guidelines for creating challenging encounters, determining success, and giving out rewards. • Advice aimed at making you an incredible Game Master, along with tools to ensure you and everyone else at your table has a safe and enjoyable experience. • Guidelines to help you create your own content, from campaigns and adventures to hazards and monsters. • Rules subsystems to help you handle a wide array of game situations, including rules for chases, duels, research, infiltration, and more! • A guide to the world of Lost Omens, with a look at several important regions, an examination of the peoples and cultures of the world, and a glimpse into what lies beyond the veil of the universe! • Fully integrated errata from the first 4 years of Pathfinder Second Edition, including improvements to staves and talismans and all-new apex magic items! • Published under the new Open RPG Creative (ORC) license, giving players and Game Masters even more freedom for making their own creations based on Pathfinder Second Edition.
£43.19
404 Ink They Came to Slay: The Queer Culture of D&D
Book SynopsisSince its inception decades ago, the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons has offered an escape from the real world, the chance to enter distant realms, walk in new shoes, and be part of immersive, imaginative tales as they unfold. More so, in Thom James Carter's opinion, it's a perfect vessel for queer exploration and joy. Journey on, adventurer, as Dungeon Master Thom invites readers into the game's exciting queer, utopian possibilities, traversing its history and contemporary evolution, the queer potential resting within gameplay, the homebrewers making it their own, stories from fellow players, and the power to explore and examine identity and how people want to lead their lives in real and imagined worlds alike. Grab a sword and get your dice at the ready, this queer adventure is about to begin. (This book is unofficial and unaffiliated with properties Wizards of the Coast and Dungeons & Dragons.)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Session 0 Part One: Here be dragons - and queers Chapter 1: A potted history of Dungeons & Dragons Chapter 2: The contemporary realms of D&D Chapter 3: Queerness at the source Part Two: Queer play, exploration, joy and creativity Chapter 4: The character sheet is more than a character sheet Chapter 5: The magical effects of roleplay Chapter 6: The Dungeon Master's world Chapter 7: Raise a tankard to the homebrewers, creators, and community Part Three: Queer D&D's past, present, and future Chapter 8: Problems & Hope Conclusion: As one journey ends, another begins References Acknowledgements About the Author
£7.12
Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path (P2)
Book SynopsisPathfinder’s most-popular campaign ever returns in this massive new hardcover compilation updated to the latest Pathfinder rules! In this new, revised version of the classic Kingmaker Adventure Path campaign, the Stolen Lands have long been the domain of bandits and monsters, but no longer! Your party has been granted a charter to explore these wilds, defeat its dangers, and build a brand new nation. Yet not everyone will welcome you as new neighbors, and powerful supernatural forces have their own plans for the region. Can you defeat your kingdom’s enemies and become leaders of one of the greatest new nations in the world? This hardcover edition of the Kingmaker Adventure Path contains: • All six chapters of the original Kingmaker Adventure Path, expanded and updated for use with Pathfinder Second Edition. • Hundreds of pages of new content that expands the campaign to cover the full range of levels from 1 to 20. • Works with tie-in Bestiaries (sold separately) to allow easy conversion to Pathfinder First Edition or the Fifth Edition rules of the world’s oldest roleplaying game! • Extensive rules for building and running kingdoms, settlements, and armies, along with narrative-based rules for resolving mass combat encounters. • Eleven new alchemical items and spells to discover. • Sixteen new monsters, ranging from mundane but dangerous wild animals to potent supernatural threats that will challenge even the most powerful of heroes.
£71.99
Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder Adventure Path: The Summer that Never
Book SynopsisThe Season of Ghosts Adventure Path begins! A terrible curse descends upon the town of Willowshore! Located in haunted Shenmen in the heart of the sprawling continent of Tian Xia, this horror-themed campaign pits the heroes against supernatural threats and the harsh realities of facing an upcoming winter when all contact with the outside world has been cut off by a mysterious wall of fog. What fiendish menace might be behind the Willowshore Curse, and can it be stopped before everyone in town is lost? The Season of Ghosts Adventure Path is a four-part series of connected adventures that form a complete Pathfinder campaign for characters of 1st to 12th level. In the campaign’s opening adventure, the heroes awaken disoriented and alone in a forest clearing after taking part in a traditional festival on the last day of Spring. They soon discover their hometown of Willowshore has been invaded by monsters and has fallen under a sinister spell. Yet defeating the monsters is only the first step in discovering the frightening nature of a supernatural curse that has gripped the land, and as the days of a summer plagued with rain trudge on, the grim reality facing the people of Willowshore will need true heroes to confront! “The Summer that Never Was” is a horror-themed Pathfinder adventure for four 1st-level characters. This adventure begins the Season of Ghosts Adventure Path, a four-part monthly campaign in which a group of adventurers fight to protect their home town from monsters and mysterious events that have isolated them from the rest of the world. This adventure also includes a detailed look at the small town of Willowshore, a selection of new magical items to discover, and several new monsters ready to bring a dose of fear to your table! Each monthly full-color softcover Pathfinder Adventure Path volume contains an in-depth adventure scenario, stats for several new monsters, and support articles meant to give Game Masters additional material to expand their campaign.
£19.99
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Places & Portals (Dungeons & Dragons): A Young
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£10.79
Goodman Games Dungeon Crawl Classics 104 Return to the Starless
Book SynopsisGoodman Games proudly announces DCC #104 Return to the Starless Sea. It's a race back in time to stop the Chaos Lords' nefarious plots that threaten the present. Despite the best efforts of some lucky gongfarmers, Chaos hasn't been defeated. To do so, the heroes must match wits and brawn with leviathans, dragons, and the melt-men! Return to the Starless Sea is a giant all-new module consisting of both a zero-level funnel and a 1st level adventure. Run originally as the 2022 Gen Con DCC Tournament, the adventure can be played as an at-home tournament, but also serves as a sequel to DCC #67 Sailors on the Starless Sea or to launch a brand new DCC RPG campaign.
£15.19
Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder RPG Pathfinder Core GM Screen P2
Book SynopsisA good Game Master keeps many secrets, only to reveal them to the players when the time is right. Keep your secrets safe behind the Pathfinder Core GM Screen. This sturdy four-panel horizontal screen features a stunning battle scene on one side and handy charts and game tables on the other side to give a busy GM everything they need to run Pathfinder. This screen has been updated with rules from the Pathfinder Remaster and includes a useful chart of new terms, making it simple to run any adventure from Pathfinder Second Edition! The Pathfinder Core GM Screen measures 44 by 8.5, giving you plenty of space to hide your notes, dice rolls, and secret plans.
£20.99
Pen & Sword Books Solo Wargaming
Book SynopsisThis practitioner's guide to solo wargaming offers comprehensive coverage of the subject, showing how it can be a fascinating complement to social gaming or an entire hobby in its own right. This book integrates ideas from across the hobby to discuss various aspects of gaming alone across all manner of conflicts, whether land, sea or air and in any historical period or imagined setting. Starting with the fundamental question of why people play solo wargames, David Heading lays out the various advantages and disadvantages. He also considers such questions as whether to play both sides' or to command one army against an automatic' opponent, giving various ideas on how to control or programme the responses of the opposing force with dice, cards or by other means. There is advice on how to construct challenging and interesting scenarios for one-off engagements, whether these are skirmishes or major battles, historical events or more generic ones, and how to combine these tactical actions
£23.39
Wizards of the Coast Bigby Presents Glory of Giants Dungeons Dragons
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£50.99
Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Underground City Multi-Pack
Book SynopsisBe they complex fortified settlements built ages ago by long-gone ancients or more recent creations still populated by a vibrant society, underground cities present an unusual and complex adventuring environment. This four-sided Flip-Mat collection provides four huge panels of underground city environments and providing a diverse set of subterranean urban battlefields suitable for any fantasy RPG campaign. This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use and captivatingly detailed fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. The next time your players delve into the deepest chambers carved within the planet's crust, these maps have you covered. With Pathifnder Flip-Mat: Darklands Dangers Multi-Pack, you'll be ready the next time your players delve into the depths of the world! This set includes two flip mats, each measuring 24" x 30" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded. A Flip-Mat's coated surface can handle any dry erase, wet erase, or even permanent marker. Usable by experienced GMs and novices alike, Pathfinder Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master's arsenal!
£22.49
Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Haunted Dungeon
Book SynopsisThe reputed horrors of ancient dungeons—and the treasures within—are enough to attract any group of adventurers. But regardless of a group's foolhardy urge to explore places they should maybe leave alone, no Game Master wants to spend time drawing every creepy crypt or sinister hallway. This line of gaming maps provides ready-to-use fantasy set pieces for the busy Game Master. Full of beautiful details, depicting the two different spooky underground locations, this double-sided map makes the perfect place to seek truths and treasures best left forgotten! The most-popular Pathfinder Flip-Mats in history return! These fan-favorite maps feature versatile adventure settings—city streets, forests, ships, taverns, and more—and now they're back for a repeat performance. Durable and lavishly detailed, these essential adventure set pieces are sure to bring excitement to your game table for years to come! A special coating on each Flip-Mat allows you to use wet erase, dry erase, AND permanent markers with ease! Removing permanent ink is easy—simply trace over any permanent mark with a dry erase marker, wait 10 seconds, then wipe off both marks with a dry cloth or paper towel. Each Flip-Mat measures 24" x 30" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded.
£16.66
Andrews McMeel Publishing Fever Knights Role-Playing Game: Powered by
Book SynopsisGo on an adventure in a 90s retro world that never was.You were once a normal, everyday teenager on the verge of adulthood. But after a mystical experience, you developed unusual powers and became something far greater—a protector of humanity and guardian against evil—a Fever Knight!Fever Knights Role-Playing Game transports you into a retro world that never was. This is a place where the 90's vibes are still alive: from latchkey kids to Super Nintendo gaming, to cassette players and Saturday morning cartoons, and from urban legends to adventures in the woods. Designed for first-time and veteran gamers, this book contains a lightweight ruleset Powered by ZWEIHÄNDER and an adventure that will take you across the island home of the Fever Knights.
£33.14
Paizo Publishing, LLC Starfinder RPG: Starfinder Enhanced
Book SynopsisEnhance your Starfinder experience with this invaluable game resource covering all aspects of the Starfinder rules! From totally revised fundamentals like core classes and starship combat to brand-new systems for expanding the way you play, this 192-page hardcover rules resource offers fresh ideas while still blending with the existing system. With Starfinder Enhanced at hand, you’ll be ready for the countless challenges of infinite space! Starfinder Enhanced includes: • New versions of the envoy, solarian, technomancer, and witchwarper classes, all revised to make them more balanced and easier to play. • New class features and character options for every Starfinder class published to date! • New archetypes, spells, equipment, and over 90 new feats. Truly build the character you want! • Rules for scalable equipment, so you never have to trade-in your trusty sidearm ever again. • New subsystems for narrative starship combat, expanded creature companions, and new chances to spend Resolve Points for every character! • 12 playable species including fan favorites and entirely new options, from the shapeshifting kitsune to the tiny novians born from dying suns!
£31.99
Goodman Games DCC RPG Reference Booklet
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£8.54
Paizo Inc. Pathfinder RPG Pathfinder Monster Core Special
Book SynopsisFight for Glory! Inside the 376-page Pathfinder Monster Core, you'll find over 400 creatures, including fantasy classics like elves, ogres, and all-new dragons; wild animals from giant ants to ferocious wolves; and the unique monsters that threaten the world of Pathfinder, like sinspawn and noxious needlers. These creatures cover all levels of play, from the slow and mindless zombie shambler to the ultra-powerful demonic Treerazer! The ideal resource for Game Masters planning their next battles and player characters looking for monstrous allies to summon! Pathfinder Monster Core is the definitive monster rulebook for the fully remastered Pathfinder Second Edition RPG! These rules are compatible with previous Pathfinder Second Edition rulebooks, incorporating comprehensive errata and rules updates and some of the best additions from later books into new, easier-to-access volumes with new presentations inspired by years of player feedback. Along with the Player Core, GM Core, and
£57.59
Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Adventure
Book SynopsisPrepare for the fight of your life! The Ruby Phoenix Tournament gathers the most talented martial artists, mages, and misfits from around the world to compete on a world stage. The grand prize? Winner's choice of a priceless treasure from the vault of Hao Jin, the Ruby Phoenix, herself! This hardcover compilation includes all three adventures of the popular Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Adventure Path in one epic book. Explore a complete adventure for 11th- to 20th-level characters, plus fantastic gazetteers, inspiring character options, dozens of creatures, and more! Pathfinder Second Edition’s most ambitious campaign yet bursts from the pages of this massive hardcover compilation, containing all three adventures in the fan-favorite Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Adventure Path, a fist-smashing tournament campaign like no other, along with support articles, rules, monsters, and more!
£42.49
Paizo Publishing, LLC Pathfinder Dark Archive Pocket Edition (P2)
Book SynopsisFrom the fringes, the unknown beckons. Pathfinder Dark Archive contains secrets that any player or GM can use to reveal the paranormal lurking in their Pathfinder games! This spine-tinglingly secretive 224-page softcover rulebook presents two new character classes perfect for delving into the unexplained: Unleash the untold power of your mind as the psychic or leverage supernatural secrets and mystic implements as the thaumaturge! Beyond these new classes, eight secret case files each provide player options, GM tools, and lore into a different paranormal topic, including: • Strange cryptids glimpsed in the night, gear to track them, and the powers you might gain by surviving an encounter with one • Cults and esoteric belief, with apocryphal divine magic and the secret of becoming a living vessel for an eldritch being • Temporal anomalies, with archetypes that skim along the surface of time and a new mystery for oracles unbound from causality Each file concludes with a short adventure to immerse players in the paranormal, spanning across Golarion—play all eight to uncover the inexplicable phenomena of the Age of Lost Omens! The pocket edition presents the same contents as the standard edition in a smaller sized softcover for a lower price and better portability.
£21.24
Paizo Publishing, LLC Starfinder RPG: Galactic Magic
Book SynopsisUnravel the eldritch mysteries of the galaxy! The new Galactic Magic hardcover rulebook for the Starfinder Roleplaying Game adds magical flair to any hero with a wealth of fantastical magic-infused character options for starfarers of any class! More than 100 spells, a host of powerful rituals, and an array of magic gear, hybrid items, and artifacts give you the edge to survive in a weird universe with lurking dangers at the end of every jump. The brand-new precog class allows you to see and change the future, relying on predictive prerolls to navigate clutch situations and quick reflexes to manipulate combat. Study arcana among the stars with a host of new magical organizations and spellcasting schools or petition higher powers using new faith-based options tied to the galaxy’s gods and philosophies. Whatever your path to magical might, Galactic Magic is your guide!
£43.87
Chaosium Terror Australis: Call of Cthulhu in the Land
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£40.79
Chaosium Inc Alone Against the Frost: Solitaire Adventure in
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£17.99
Pitch Publishing Ltd The Unknown Champion: From Fantasy Football to
Book SynopsisThe inspirational story of respected football talent scout, Rui Marques. Instead of continuing on the rather dull career path of an economist, Rui transformed his destiny by winning major Fantasy Football competitions in two different countries, and carving his own unique path into the real world of football. From early childhood Rui developed a great passion for football, yet only years later came to recognise his gift of being able to spot raw sporting talent. After completing an economics degree, Rui entered a Daily Mirror Fantasy Football competition - and won the first prize of GBP75,000. This was followed with another Fantasy first place in Germany, scooping Bild's EURO100,000 prize. As a result he earned his first scouting job at a Portuguese club, but after only two seasons became European scout at Sporting Kansas City, helping his team to win trophies before taking on a challenging new role as European scout with Polish champions Legia Warsaw. The Unknown Champion is the ultimate proof that if we follow our dreams, they can come true.
£11.69
Pen & Sword Books Ltd One-hour Skirmish Wargames: Fast-play Dice-less
Book SynopsisMany wargamers enjoy the challenge of skirmish games where, instead of the strategy of vast armies portrayed by traditional wargames, the focus is on the tactics of a small unit. However, skirmish rules are often so complex that it can take hours of rolling dice, consulting tables and recording data to recreate what would in reality be a fast and furious firefight lasting just minutes. Now these new rules make it possible to recapture the speed and intensity of these actions where every man, and every second, counts. The basic rules are supported by sections which give special rules and scenarios to capture the flavour of a range of different periods, from Napoleonic to Modern Warfare and beyond with Sci-Fi. From the 95th Rifles scouting for Wellington, Western gunfights and WWI trench raids, through WW2 parachute assaults or Special Forces strikes in Afghanistan, or even Space Marines storming a space station, Squad Firefights elegantly simple system allows you to focus on proper tactical decisions rather than rolling buckets of dice or calculating masses of modifiers.
£11.69
Snowbooks Ltd Neverland: Here Be Monsters!
Book SynopsisOn the 15th April, 1912, during her maiden voyage, the RMS Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg. 1,503 people died, including passengers and crew. But 706 people survived, among them Wendy Darling and her dog Nana...Separated from the rest of her family, Wendy''s lifeboat is washed up on the shore of a mysterious island a place lost in time home to creatures long thought extinct, a forgotten tribe, and a boy who can never grow up.But the notorious pirate Captain James Hook and his crew have also found their way to Neverland, and the island is angry...In NEVERLAND Here Be Monsters! YOU decide which route to take, which perils to risk, and which of the island's strange, prehistoric denizens to fight. Play as shipwreck survivor Wendy Darling, automaton avenger Peter Pan, heroic hunter Tiger Lily, or plundering pirate Captain James Hook. But be warned whether you succeed in your quest or meet a dire end will be down to the choices YOU make. Will you manage to escape from Neverland?
£9.49
Chaosium Alone Against the Dark: A Solo Play Call of
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£14.20
Paizo Publishing, LLC Starfinder RPG: Tech Revolution
Book SynopsisCommand the galaxy's cutting-edge technologies so sophisticated that they rival magic itself! Outfit yourself with the latest and greatest new weapons, armor, and other gear, from high-power explosives to alien relics that surpass conventional science. Or incorporate technologies directly into yourself, whether you're installing advanced cybernetic augmentations or playing Starfinder's newest class: the nanocyte, whose body hosts an army of robotic nanites that obey her commands!Outrace the speediest threats by customizing your own space-age vehicles, and overcome even the toughest foes by piloting powerful battle robots using the all-new mech combat system! Seize the future with additional options for every class and articles exploring every aspect of science-fantasy tech from advertising and music to virtual intelligences and security systems. Join in the Starfinder Tech Revolution!
£30.59
