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Join the crew and sharpen your role-play skills with this all-new card game of open-ended questions to create an unforgettable story in just thirty minutes from popular podcaster and Ultimate RPG series author James D’Amato.Oh Captain, My Captain! is a short form worldbuilding role-playing game (RPG) that explores heroism and the complicated relationships we have with people we admire. It’s approachable for players who have never tried an RPG before and satisfying for players who have been gaming for years. It’s also compact enough to tell unforgettable stories in just thirty minutes. The game revolves around players drawing from a deck of cards with open-ended questions. Each question players answer helps them learn about their character, their world, their captain, and the complicated relationship they have with a living legend. Players use these answers to make connections between their stories leading up one of three final questions

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Enjoy these 40 expertly crafted micro-RPGs that are fast, fun, easy to learn, and come in a variety of genres—from space exploration to jungle dungeon crawlers—everything you need to pick up and play today. Get gaming fast with The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book including brand-new micro-RPGs created by experts across the gaming world. From space exploration to jungle dungeon crawlers this book has everything you need to pick up and play today. With these quick-start games, you can create your own adventures, alone or with friends, without any prep, and with minimal set up and pieces. Whether you’re new to RPGs or working towards your level 20 mage, this collection is a great way to try out different games and systems, and test your roleplay skills on different character types and situations.

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Level up your campaign with these interactive activities and instructions for maximizing your storytelling skills so you can enjoy the ultimate RPG experience.Get your next campaign rolling right with The Ultimate RPG Guide Boxed Set. This collection has advice and activities for every step of your adventure so you can make the most of your gaming sessions. This collection includes: The Ultimate Character Backstory Guide: This collection of interactive entries guides you through creating a backstory for your characters, whether you’re building out the story for a character you’re currently playing, creating a new character, or dreaming up someone new for a future campaign. You will find activities to discover exactly how good, neutral, or evil your character is, how they got their mysterious scars, and what other secrets they’re hiding. The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide: This guide is a must-have for any beginner player or group, or anyone looking to take their gameplay to the next level! With story-focused advice for pacing, setting, themes, and mood, and tips like how to hold a Session Zero to plan your adventure, how to use improv skills during gameplay, and how to set the scene with music and lighting for interactive gameplay, this book is jam-packed with helpful content to make your game a hit! The Ultimate RPG Game Master’s Worldbuilding Guide: This collection of interactive prompts and activities is perfect for any game master—or aspiring game master—to help build and round out game worlds for your next RPG adventure. With activities to help create worlds for games in the fantasy, horror, and x-punk genres, and a robust intro section with advice, tips, and tricks from expert game master James D’Amato, this book will help you create the best game ever.

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Take your skyship pirate, haunted waif, or alien scientist to the next level with this fun, interactive book of exercises to help you build your RPG character’s backstory—made specifically for the genres you love to play. You can now explore new RPG character ideas with this character backstory guide to the most popular RPG genres beyond fantasy, from sci-fi to horror and superhero to western-themed games. This latest guide from One Shot creator and RPG expert James D’Amato helps you build out an existing character or create a new one, with these activities that provide plenty of RPG fun before you even hit the gaming table. With activities to help you flesh out characters for fantasy, sci-fi, horror, x-punk, superhero and western campaigns (with an extra chapter of neutral exercises you can use whenever you like), this book has everything you need, whether you’re looking to start a new character, build out an existing character you’re currently playing, or explore new character ideas and genres.

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Take your tabletop roleplay to the next level with this first-of-its-kind card deck filled with questions to help you get to know your character and your party! Your adventuring party does a lot together, fighting side by side, and saving the world (or destroying it, depending your alignment): but at the end of the day, how well do you know them? This deck gives you the opportunity to share your character’s backstory, and even create new details, through question-based roleplay. Created by the RPG expert, author, and podcaster James D’Amato, this deck has fifty unique and interesting question cards to spark discussion, inspiration, and collaboration.

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Ramp up your role-playing game (RPG) and make your character your own with this fun, interactive workbook—an essential addition to any player’s gaming kit.You’ve chosen your class, bought your weapons, and rolled for your stats, and you’re now the proud owner of your own RPG (role-playing game) avatar. But before you begin your adventure, there’s so much more you can do with your character to make him or her your own! Just how evil is she? What does his dating profile look like? Where did she get that scar? What does he want for his birthday? With fill-in-the blank narratives, prompts, and fun activities to help you customize your character at the start of the game, or build out your backstory as you play, The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Book will help you fully imagine your character and bring them to life for the ultimate gaming experience!

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Level up your Game Master skills with these fun, interactive prompts and activities to help your worldbuilding from RPG expert James D’Amato.Make your next campaign truly unique with the help of this interactive guide to world building! From RPG expert James D’Amato comes a fun new guide that teaches beginner and experienced gamers alike how to build and create their own game elements for customizing existing adventures or creating new stories from scratch. The Ultimate RPG Game Master’s Worldbuilding Guide includes dozens of activities for a wide range of genres from fantasy and sci-fi to horror and x-punk. This lively and interactive book helps Game Masters create dynamic destinations, powerful items, shadowy organizations, compelling villains, and more. Make the most of your gaming experience with these unique and personalized ideas for your gaming group’s next adventures!

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