Role Playing category: 1077 books

Exposing a subculture only beginning to enter the imagination of mainstream America, this is the story of live action role-playing (LARP) games. A hybrid of games—such as Dungeons & Dragons, historical reenactment, fandom, and good old-fashioned pretend—LARP games are thriving and this book...

Welcome to the D2v3 Gaming System Version 3, a tabletop gaming system designed for quick role playing games when you don’t have the time (or the will) for more complicated RPG systems, but you still want to do a little role playing. The focus behind the simple mechanics of the D2v3 system...

An illustrated guide to the history and evolution of the beloved role-playing game told through the paintings, sketches, illustrations, and visual ephemera behind its creation, growth, and continued popularity. FINALIST FOR THE HUGO AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD • NOMINATED FOR THE...

With videogames now one of the world’s most popular diversions, the virtual world has increasing psychological influence on real-world players. This book examines the relationships between virtual and non-virtual identity in visual role-playing games. Utilizing James Gee’s theoretical constructs...

‘Adventures in the Terran Star Empire’ is the second in a series of ‘Pocket Sized Adventures’, a set of quick to learn and easy to play role-playing games. They are designed to be picked up and played with minimal preparation, effort or fuss. The Terran Star Empire is a vast and decaying interstellar...

Revenge of the Killer Bs is a collection of reusable Warp adventures designed to be picked up and played with minimal preparation, effort or fuss. It uses the ‘Wanton’ Role-Playing (WaRP) system from Atlas Games under their ‘Open Game License’. A basic version of this rules system can be found...

For those who are fans of first-person shooting games, you definitely have to try the latest installment of the game Halo. Although the game is named Halo 4, it is the first installment of the Reclaimed Trilogy as Halo 3 was the final installment of the original trilogy. Announced last June 6, 2011. In...

Would you love to have more fun with friends and family? Whether you want to (1) know some of the best games of all time, (2) entertain yourself and others with inexpensive and exciting games or (3) find healthy and fun ways of playing with your friends and family, this book will teach you...

The year is 2185. The human race has gone to the stars, and found that they're not alone. Local space is teeming with civilizations, some hostile, some friendly, and some indifferent. This is the universe of Ephemeris. Ephemeris is a game of galactic trade and galactic conquest; of inter-species...

The Ephemeris Encyclopedia Galactica: Colonized Space is a combination of the first six volumes of the Ephemeris Encyclopedia Galactica. It looks at each sector of space that is controlled by one of the six species. An invaluable supplement for anyone playing the Ephemeris Science Fiction Role Playing...

DRAGONS RPG (Diceless, Rule-sparse, All-Genre, Open, Nonrestrictive System for RPGs) is a flexible roleplaying system that combines the best parts of classical pen and paper games like interesting adventures, rich characters and a unique battle system, with elements of a trading card game. The cards...

ABSTRACT: Authorship has undergone drastic revision in the twentieth century. A fundamental transformation in literature, wherein the author has become a multiplicity of voices, is evinced by the development of roleplaying games as both literary and cultural texts. The literary roots of roleplaying...

Improve your RPG campaign with this comprehensive and interactive guide to making the most out of your gaming experience. Whatever RPG game you play, from D&D to Call of Cthulu to licensed games like Star Wars, every detail is important. From setting the scene to choosing the right music or...

Steampunk Commander is a set of rules for tabletop gaming using any sort of miniature figurines or models. All that is required to recreate fantastic battles set in a hypothetical Victorian Age are a large table or other playing area, a deck of regular playing cards, an assortment of model figurines,...