The Manual of Exalted Power: Dragon-Blooded (2nd Edition) by Kraig Blackwelder, Alan Alexander, Peter Schaefer, Scott

By Kraig Blackwelder, Alan Alexander, Peter Schaefer, Scott Taylor

Born in attractiveness
subtle, decadent, merciless and fabulously filthy rich, the Dragon-Blooded are spiritually resembling the basic Dragons themselves and are Exalted above the mass of humanity. via their bloodlines, those queens and princes of production regulate all the global that's worthy possessing. but darkish instances are to hand for the world, and the dominion teeters on the point of civil conflict. Will the golden empire continue to exist its first succession trouble? Born to Rule
the 1st in a chain of hardbacks making the opposite forms of Exalted to be had for play. Exalted: The Dragon-Blooded comprises huge aspect at the international and society of the Terrestrial Exalted, in addition to complete ideas for growing and enjoying Dragon-Blooded characters. inside of is every thing had to painting those warlike aristocrats, from courses to their manners to platforms for the supernatural martial arts practiced via the stainless Order.

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Pathfinder Module: Academy of Secrets (Pathfinder Modules) by Brian Cortijo

By Brian Cortijo

Each year the professors on the Acadamae, Korvosa's prestigious university of arcane artwork, host the Breaching pageant, the place the city's such a lot expert infiltrators are invited to attempt to infiltrate the varsity, trying out their good fortune opposed to the university's scholars, otherworldly guardians, and lethal traps for an opportunity at a fortune in gold and magical treasure. This 12 months, your heroes quantity between these invited to check the defenses of a brand new new release of Acadamae apprentices, yet anything greater than the promise of repute and riches calls out from the university's private sanctum, and this year's competition delivers to be the deadliest trial the college has ever identified! Academy of secrets and techniques is a Pathfinder Roleplaying video game experience for 13th-level characters. It incorporates a enormous magical collage teeming with sorcerous traps, bizarre puzzles, diabolical monsters, and numerous scholars and professors trapped in an internet of arcane deceit. Academy of secrets and techniques additionally incorporates a new monster and info on Korvosa's Academae, Golarion's most famed tuition of magic. like several Pathfinder Modules, Academy of secrets and techniques is a 32-page top of the range, full-color experience that incorporates colour maps and 4 pre-made characters so gamers can bounce correct into the motion.

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Skyward Steel: Naval Campaigns and Characters for Stars by Kevin Crawford

By Kevin Crawford

The captain status at the bridge, wreathed in smoke and the cries of the death. the executive engineer, suffering to strength that final invaluable burst of energy from the fusion plant. The Marine sergeant preserving quick within the hatchway, dying to the alien boarders. The cold-eyed admiral, deciding upon the slain through the flip of a notice and her orders to her bait.

Join the Thousand lighting of the Stellar army during this complement to the loose Stars with out quantity roleplaying video game. tackle the jobs of the lads and ladies of the Fleet, the sky-bourne protectors of the homeworld and its safeguard opposed to the outer evening. even if a grizzled ranking, dauntless officer, or elite Deep Black espionage operative, Skyward metal deals either GMs and avid gamers the instruments to include either the tasks and the poor freedom of those guardians one of the stars.

Skyward metal incorporates a host of priceless instruments and data for either GMs and players:

* The heritage and roles of stellar navies within the Stars with no quantity universe, together with info on planetary invasions and army area stations.

* information at the ranks, pay, and association of stellar navies.

* directions on operating sandbox naval campaigns, and the way to offer the gamers freedom with out compromising the army subject matter of the campaign.

* principles for recreating the climactic naval battles cherished of army sci-fi, with each computer concerned with the determined fight to beat the overpowering foe.

* Sixty experience seeds, for each global tag within the Stars with no quantity middle book.

* info at the workings of the Deep Black interstellar operations groups and their perilous covert ops missions.

* New heritage applications for naval characters, and a range of teaching programs on hand to each class.

* New send hulls, guns, fittings, and private apparatus for naval and covert ops characters.

* information on construction planetary navies for an international and deciding upon naval budgets and operations expenses.

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The Laundry by John Snead, Gareth Hanrahan, Jason Durall

By John Snead, Gareth Hanrahan, Jason Durall

There are issues available in the market, within the more odd reaches of space-time the place truth is an not obligatory additional. terrible issues, frequently with tentacles. Al-Hazred glimpsed them, John Dee summoned them, HP Lovecraft wrote approximately them, and Alan Turing mapped the trails from our universe to theirs. the ideal calculation can name up entities from different, older universes, or invoke their powers. Invisibility? effortless! Animating the lifeless? Trivial! Binding lesser demons for your will? simply doable!

Opening up the way in which for the nice previous Ones to come back via and devour our brains? regrettably, a lot too easy.

That’s the place the Laundry is available in – it’s a department of the British mystery carrier, tasked to avoid hideous alien gods from wiping out all existence on the earth (and extra quite, the UK). you're employed for the Laundry. The hours are lengthy, the pay is sub-par, the co-workers are… attention-grabbing (in the chinese language curse feel of the word), and the paperwork is stifling – yet you do get to wave basilisk weapons and bullet wards round, and to head on hard and intriguing missions to unique destinations like old fashioned, legend-haunted Wigan, cursed Slough and Wolverhampton the place the partitions are thin.

You will also get to save lots of the world.

Just ensure you get a receipt.

The Laundry records Roleplatying online game is predicated at the best-selling novels via Charles Stross. within the video game, you play officials of the Laundry, that eccentric and underfunded service provider devoted to keeping the uk from unthinkable horrors. The Laundry makes use of the elemental Roleplaying procedure - an identical process that powers the vintage name of Cthulhu roleplaying video game (so you could simply convert adventures from one online game to the other). As Laundry employees, you're informed to accommodate the unusual and ghastly spawn of the Mythos, you're built with the simplest gear your committee-approved undertaking finances can purchase, and you've bought back-up on name from the SAS.

All of that suggests you're simply terrifyingly underprepared, rather than thoroughly screwed, whilst the shoggoth hits the fan.

In this e-book, you’ll find:

  • Computational demonology, summoning extradimensional horrors, and 3 how one can use a shotgun to banish alien monsters.
  • A heritage of the Laundry and the opposite occult intelligence agencies
  • Classified briefings on recognized threats and mammoth horrors
  • Streamlined principles for personality construction, research and combat
  • Three ready-to-play missions
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    Nobilis: The Game of Sovereign Powers by R. Sean Borgstrom

    By R. Sean Borgstrom

    In Nobilis, avid gamers tackle the jobs of the Sovereign Powers, every one the personification of 1 unmarried element of fact: evening, roads, ecstasy, chains, time, water - regardless of the gamers can conceive of. as soon as human, each one personality has been eternally replaced, imbued with impressive strength and negative accountability. Heaven and Hell, angels and devils, the Giants and the outdated Gods - in Nobilis, all are united within the nice conflict opposed to the Excrucians, whose aim is to ruin all construction - yet all are divided by way of their very own plots and historical rivalries, to boot.

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    Don't Lose Your Mind: Making the Most of Madness in the Mad by Benjamin Baugh

    By Benjamin Baugh

    A pair of presidency brokers stalk a runaway woman armed in basic terms with a teddy endure. they're by no means heard from back. A psychopathic hero wields each blade that ever murdered, carving off items of his character with a view to chase away the Nightmares. A temptress lures the harsh and vile to attack her—only to capture them in a jail outfitted from her personal ribcage. Trailing ash and burning footprints with each step, a guy cursed with Orpheus’ reward delves deeper into Hell every day on a quest to discover the final lacking puzzle-piece had to rebuild his overdue female friend from the ruin she has become…

    This is the tale of the conscious. From the depths in their bad and planned insanity, they face Nightmares either unusual and dire, consistently figuring out they're just a couple of moments clear of turning into what they fight.

    From writer Benjamin Baugh (Monsters & different infantile issues) comes Don’t Lose Your brain, a Don’t leisure Your Head complement that explores the darkest depths of insanity to your online game. inside of you’ll locate twenty-six designated insanity abilities that push the limits of mind's eye. every one offers strategy to its personal targeted Nightmare, able to darken each player’s door. And on the wealthy, nougaty heart of this tome you’ll discover a toolbox of latest options and views for supercharging madness at your desk, and profiting from insanity within the Mad City.

    Contains mature subject material. now not instructed for the abnormally sane.

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    Hunting Grounds: The Rockies (Werewolf: the Forsaken) by Chris Campbell, Jonathan McFarland, Rick Jones, Matthew J.

    By Chris Campbell, Jonathan McFarland, Rick Jones, Matthew J. Rourke

    Place of origin of the Wolves

    It's a spot of shelter, a territory the place the Tribes of the Moon carry robust. Wolves run on 4 toes via mountain forests, and on via city landscapes. yet even this position of safe haven has its personal hazards, horrors published in simple terms through the sunshine of the whole moon. Werewolves aren't the main harmful issues that breathe the evening air.

    Mountains via Moonlight

    Hunting flooring: The Rockies info the Colorado Rocky Mountains as a surroundings for Werewolf: The Forsaken™. This ebook comes entire with characters, historical past info and enormous numbers of plot hooks, in addition to an extended examine the spiritscape of the area. Play during the pattern tale supplied, or any of 1000's extra attainable. Make this land your personal.

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    In a Wicked Age by D. Vincent Baker

    By D. Vincent Baker

    During this depraved age...

    ...Gods, demons and mortals cope with each other for power...

    ...Law and civilization are new, and nobody is their master...

    ...A basic midwife can set in movement the downfall of tyrants and nice empires...

    ...Your delivery isn't yours to decide on, yet your destiny is what you're making it.

    In a depraved Age
    sword & sorcery roleplaying

    Awards

    Indie RPG - 2008 - Runner Up in so much leading edge Game
    Combines the hoariest of old-school traditions -- the random come across -- with the last word in story-building.

    Indie RPG - 2008 - Runner Up in video game of the Year
    Influential, intuitive and evocative, In a depraved Age... places the existence again into delusion function play. Eschewing heavy atmosphere for punchy events iteration, the sport additionally re-defines the relationships among the characters and the gamers. Over shadowed via the catchiness of the Oracles, prolonged play of the sport has the capability to create tale with the complexity of novelistic or epic structure.

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    Hands of the Healer (MERP ICE #2026) by Mark R. Feil

    By Mark R. Feil

    "Once extra Aragorn bruised leaves of athelas and solid them into the steaming water; and he laved her forehead with it, and her correct arm mendacity chilly and nerveless at the coverlet. Then, even if Aragorn had certainly a few forgotten strength of Westernesse, or even if it was once yet his phrases of the girl Éowyn that wrought them, because the candy effect of the herb stole in regards to the chamber it looked as if it would those that stood by way of willing wind blew in the course of the window, and it bore no odor, yet was once an air absolutely clean and fresh and younger, as though it had no longer been breathed by way of any dwelling factor and got here new-made from snowy mountains excessive underneath a dome of stars, or from seashores of silver far-off washed via seas of froth. 'Awake, Éowyn, girl of Rohan!' acknowledged Aragorn back, and he took her correct hand in his and felt it hot with existence returning." - The go back of the King

    The therapeutic course is likely one of the so much respected callings individual could aspire to in Middle-earth; it's also essentially the most valued professions between adventurers - women and men who face possibility and the chance of harm each day in their lives.

    Hands of the Healer fleshes out a kind of professions in most cases selected through myth avid gamers, no matter if as characters to be performed or NPCs to be hunted for their essential providers. both valuable to either gamers and gamemasters, this tome presents almost every little thing possible almost certainly need to know approximately Middle-earth's healers and their craft.

    Hand of the Healer features:

    - fifty six personality improvement programs - directions for growing MERP healers (including conversions for the Rolemaster normal procedure) from over forty certain cultures. you can now tackle the position of a Northman shaman, a Black Númenórean necromantic priest, an Easterling Night-warder, or a Southron courtroom health care provider - every one with specific talents and therapeutic magic!
    - NEW scientific talents - With the four new MERP/RMSS abilities of Physic, surgical procedure, Apothecary and Midwifery, you'll be capable to confront any type of harm or disease on your event campaign.
    - STATIC MANEUVER desk - a number of of the hot talents and therapeutic powers defined during this booklet are followed via tables for MERP and RMSS, so you might immediately confirm maneuver effects despite which online game approach you're using.
    - 296 HERBS, CURATIVES AND POISONS - the most important compendium of medicinals and poisons ever assembled for a delusion function taking part in online game, this exhaustive encyclopedia is the final word reference device for herbs and different healing elements, resembling athelas, miruvor or lembas. The compendium references each therapeutic herb or poison that has ever seemed within the Middle-earth sequence thus far, together with sixty seven solely new entries. All are listed in line with atmosphere (mountains, forests, deserts, etc.), therapeutic class (life renovation, actual enhancement, floor fix, etc.) and exchange names (Westron, Elvish, etc.).
    - MECCG eventualities - try out your therapeutic hand with "The homes of Healing" and "Ioreth's Escort," new eventualities to be used with ICE's Middle-earth Collectible Card online game. incorporates a dozen new MECCG websites for informal play.

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    Sorcery and Steam (Legends & Lairs, d20 System) by Various, Fantasy Flight Games

    By Various, Fantasy Flight Games

    The definitive d20 approach source for steampunk delusion settings and adventures.

    • A complete dialogue of what steampunk is, what it seems and appears like, and the way to introduce it into your myth online game.
    • designated instructions on incorporating the present corre periods right into a steampunk online game, in addition to 3 new sessions and greater than a dozen status periods.
    • A handful of latest talents, together with force, Munitions, and Use Steamcraft gadget, in addition to new makes use of for latest talents.
    • precise details on new euipment and know-how, from steamcraft units to black powder guns.
    • finished motor vehicle principles and outlines of numerous universal steamcraft cars, together with locomotives, ironclads, and zeppelins.

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