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The year is 12,090 A.D., and what little is left of humanity has finally crawled out from the ashes of war and destruction. From the darkness of fallout, mutants and a race of vampires known as the Nobility have spawned. They rule the weak with no remorse. Once bitten by a Nobility, one is cursed…
To get the full experience of A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying, you must play a chronicle and engage in the Game of Thrones. With a setting as rich as Westeros though, where do you begin? The answer is the Chronicle Starter. This useful sourcebook details six sample houses, any of which can be…
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Vampire: the Masquerade, FlamesRising.com is hosting an open call for new essays detailing memories and experiences of the property first published by White Wolf in 1991. The title of this series is the Vampire: the Masquerade Retrospective. For more details on where to submit and what Flames Rising…
Did you miss any (or, dare we say, all) of the first five issues of Hero Happy Hour? Well, unlike missing out at “last call,” you’ve got the chance to partake in all five of the original rounds with the super hero gang from the Hideout Bar & Grill. This special digest-sized collection contains the…
Pull up a chair and see how the world’s top game designers roll.You want your games to be many things: Creative. Innovative. Playable. Fun. If you’re a designer, add “published” to that list. The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design gives you an insider’s view on how to make a game that people will want…
Inside the June Alley Inn, located in the western mouse city of Barkstone, mice gather to tell tales, each trying to outdo the other. A competition, of sorts, begins. The rules: Every story must contain one truth, one lie, and have never been told in that tavern before. Legends of the Guard is a new…
“Born of the U.S. government’s 1928 raid on the degenerate coastal town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, the covert agency known as Delta Green spent four decades opposing the forces of darkness with honor, but without glory. Stripped of sanction after a disastrous 1969 operation in Cambodia, Delta Green’s leaders made a secret pact: to continue their…
Did the noble order of the Knights Templar guard a secret about Jesus’ birth? Was the moon landing faked in a Hollywood movie studio? Is the government keeping the remains of an alien spacecraft in the top-secret Area 51? Monte Cook takes a look at conspiracy theories — ranging from the historically complex to the…
Enemy Gods: Mythic Edition is an updated and streamlined version of John’s classic game of Gods and Heroes. In Enemy Gods, you take the role of both a mythic Hero and a powerful God. Your God guides your Hero and his compatriots through epic adventures in dangerous lands, winning the favor of mortals who beg…
Investigating corruption within the Ecclesiarchy itself is as delicate as it is dangerous, but when an influential leader is suspected of heresy, you and your fellow Acolytes will uncover an ever-deepening conspiracy that could spell the end of the entire Calixis Sector… The Church of the Damned is the second adventure in The Apostasy Gambit,…
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