There’s No Escape from Your Past… You’ve been dead longer than you were alive. You’ve witnessed the passing of every mortal from your first life — through violence, disease, or the relentless march of time — while you, undying, remain bound to this world. Your nights are haunted by the echoes of history, from the distant whispers of two centuries past to the cataclysmic World Wars and the rise of the modern era. Embrace the mantle of the noveaux elders, the ancillae who have seized power in the absence of the true elders, many of whom have now fallen or been beckoned away. Become a Kindred of 100, 150, or even 200 years. Detail your backstory and relive the formative trials and tribulations that forged you into the monster you are today. Command the night with the power of centuries behind you with In Memoriam for Vampire: The Masquerade. (from the back cover)

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An Adventure Suitable for Characters with 3-5 Current Resources.Welcome to the introductory adventure for Fragged Empire. This free form scenario is just one possible adventure the characters can undertake in the Fragged Empire universe. This mission is designed around some of the core themes of the book: post-post-apocalypse, ancient tech and interspecies communications.   The JobThe crew of “The Ransom” is hired by a Corp contact to salvage the remains of a living Nephilim warship which has recently floated out of the Monopoly Asteroid Belt. The characters are racing against a rival who they’ve tangled with before. The first to get to the ship gets it and the valuable salvage it promises. But ancient warships are not to be trifled with, and this one isn’t dead - merely hibernating. It wants the PCs to become its new crew so it might fulfil its 100 year-old mission to destroy a weapons platform in the Haven system. The only problem is that weapons platform is now a thriving colony, but there’s no reasoning with this alien vessel of war.   The LeviathanNot so much a personality as a creature on the verge of becoming a persona. Leviathan is old, possesses over a century of memories and has been alone for too long. The ship is unstable, unstable as a dog long without its master. The ship is depressed, still grieving and clinging to the single purpose for which it was designed-battle.

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Vampire: The Masquerade is the original and ultimate roleplaying game of personal and political horror. You are a vampire, struggling for survival, supremacy, and your own fading humanity—afraid of what you are capable of, and fearful of the inhuman conspiracies that surround you. As a vampire you suffer the pangs of the Hunger, the relentless and terrible thirst for human blood. If you refuse to deal with it, it will overcome your mind and drive you to terrible acts to slake it. You walk this razor's edge every night. Dark designs, bitter enemies, and strange allies await you in this World of Darkness. The classic that changed roleplaying games forever returns! This fifth edition features a streamlined and modern rules design, beautiful new full-color art, and a rich story experience for players. Powered by the innovative Hunger cycle, the game also includes rules for creating system supported character coteries, Loresheets to directly involve players with their favorite parts of the setting and The Memoriam, a new way to bring the character's detailed backgrounds and expand on them in-session. V5 is a return to Vampire's original vision, moving boldly into the 21st century. While the rules have been redesigned, this new edition honors the deep story of the original, advancing the metaplot from where it left off and detailing exactly what has happened in the world of the Kindred up until tonight. The terror of the Second Inquisition, the conspiracies behind the Gehenna War, and the rekindling of the War of Ages: these are the building blocks of the modern V5 chronicle. -- [from publishers website]

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From publisher blurb:The World Below Beckons!Explore the endless possibilities of the underworld with Underworld Races & Classes. Within, you will unearth the secrets of the drow and their machinations, including their deadly arachnid martial artists. Quasi-undead halflings blend gunslinging and merry tunes, while savage, blood-sucking humanoid bats haunt the dark. A strange crystal is slowly coating the caverns, sending forth its radiant missionaries, while in majestic mushroom jungles the mighty funglets roam. The hammers of the dwarven people resound from the cavern walls, where the volatile Amber Roads remain just one spell away.Underworld Races & Classes is a must-have companion-volume for your Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventures, offering 14 new races and more than 25 diverse classes and class options for these races. Included herein, you can find: New material for fan-favorites like the drow, brought to you by the company that created the critically-acclaimed Rise of the Drow saga Detailed information on wondrous races and their distinct cultures—including the four-armed, insectoid hoyrall and the savage, crocodile-like kraidyl Innovative, optional rules for sonar-based perception, crafted with the help of a blind gamer Razor wire fighting, explosive mushrooms, soul candles, symbiotes, spores, and web-slinging Scaling advice to customize all races to your game New archetypes, classes, favored class options, feats, items, monsters, and spells And so much more!Saddle up your trusty riding slug or dire badger and explore a world below this world, more wondrous than you ever dared to dream!

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From publisher blurb:The Underworld Awaits! Underworld Races & Classes is the essential underworld reference book for advanced players and GMs of the 5th edition of the world's most popular roleplaying game. It contains new races and subraces, expands upon the lore of fan-favorites like the drow, and brings back a sense of excitement and exploration to subterranean realms.Use this book to play new underworld races like blood-sucking humanoid bats, bizarre deep-sea creatures that see the world through sonar, and savage, bestial crocodile-men. Marvel at exotic vistas: landscapes of living crystal, lush mushroom jungles, and vast underground oceans unimaginable in size. Play races and classes that represent an underworld more wondrous and weirder than you ever dared to dream.Underworld Races & Classes offers 14 new races and subraces, plus a wealth of new alternate classes, class options, feats and much more.Within this book you'll find: New options for fan-favorites like the drow and the dour grey dwarves Detailed information on the weird, never-before-seen races and their distinct cultures — including the four-armed, insectoid hoyrall and the quasi-undead, cheerful dødelig-halflings Innovative, optional rules for sonar, crafted with the help of a blind gamer Razor wires, explosive mushrooms, magical sappers, and web-slinging Optional, highly customizable firearm rules New feats, items, spells, and monsters ... and much, much more!Don't be content with just encountering the wonders below—be one of them!

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User summary:A four-panel laminated game master screen for Trudvang Chronicles. It was a stretch goal for the initial Trudvang Chronicles Kickstarter. While initially advertised as 4-color, it is actually full-color.Two "pages" feature artwork of a dragon and some humanoids. The other six feature various tables and a small map of Trudvang.The version sold after the Kickstarter comes with a separate map of Trudvang and 5x3 GM sheets (notes on beasts and villains; notes on PCs; session notes).

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This deluxe Gamemaster Screen for the Things from the Flood roleplaying game is made out of three sections of 3 mm thick hardback, measuring a mighty 855 × 216 mm when unfolded. the outside features beautiful full-color artwork by Simon Stålenhag, and the inside contains charts and tables for easy reference during play.

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“Eons ago, the Old World faded. Some tell of a sea of fire. Some of air that spoiled and made throats raw. Some of a sickness that ravaged the land. But all refer to it as the Calamity. Those that were left retreated to our Havens, huge silos, deep underground. Hundreds were built, across the more habitable areas of the Old World. Some connected to form Mega-Havens, but some were simply left, alone, forgotten, waiting for the moment to return to Surface. Each of these Havens developed independently, to form communities, ecosystems, and they changed. Homo-sapiens was no more.”

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From the back cover:A Megaverse Gone Mad!Prepare yourself for a railgun-shredding, mega-powered magic flinging journey into a post-post-apocalyptic world where supernatural horrors vie with technological empires for master of the world.This is the world of RIFTS.Unpredictable holes in the very fabric of space and time open the way to countless creatures, beings, and dangers. Whatever you imagine - whatever you fera - it's somewhere in this war-and-chaos ravaged world.The Tomorrow Legion is Ready.In the battle for survival, the Tomorrow Legion brings together the greatest, the bravest, and the craziest to stand against an infinity of threats. They stand for a better future than the past they've known.

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From the back cover:Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,One for the Dark Lord on his dark throneIn the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them,In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lieEnter the world of Middle-earth with The One Ring™, the official tabletop roleplaying game based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Designed specifically to evoke the atmosphere of The Hobbit™ and The Lord of the Rings™, the game contains rules for creating heroes and sending them off on adventures in a land threatened by the growing Shadow.This beautifully illustrated, full-colour hardcover manual presents Middle-earth as it was twenty years after Bilbo Baggins’ remarkable disappearance and unexpected return. The great events narrated in The Lord of the Rings™ are still fifty years away, leaving plenty of room to narrate stories worthy of an epic.Now in its second edition, The One Ring™ comes with updated and revised rules, a new visual style, and a focus on the land of Eriador — the Lone-lands west of the Misty Mountains. Among its key features are: Rules for travelling across the land (Journey), facing frightening foes (Combat), and meeting the personalities of Middle-earth (Council). Thorough advice for the Loremaster on how to bring Middle-earth to life, including rules for magical treasure, the Shadow, and the Eye of Mordor. In-depth information on six Patrons — individuals sponsoring the adventures of the Player-heroes — including Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey. A bestiary containing a spread of adversaries, from lowly Orc Soldiers and Highway Robbers, to monstrous Cave-trolls and Barrow-wights. Rules to create your very own Nameless Things — unknowable beings from the dark corners of the world. A complete Landmark adventure, The Star of the Mist, with extra support for new Loremasters, in the form of tutorial advice throughout.

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From Wyrd Miniatures, set in the Malifaux Universe comes a new style of game play with "Through The Breach". A Malifaux role playing game where one player takes on the role of the Fatemaster, their duty is to craft the legends of the other players, narrate the story of Malifaux in his own vision, and to move each Fated along towards the moment when they must choose between their fortune and their soul. Other players will take the roles of pit master or one of his crew, explore this weird and wonderful place, mine for soul stone, compete against other gangs and try to survive against all the terrifying inhabitants that roam this strange world. This core rulebook for the Through the Breach role playing game contains all the rules for character creation, combat, magic, and anything else the Fated player character's might need on their adventures in the world of Malifaux and is the essential start for anyone who wishes to discover more about the city of Malifaux.

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From the publisher's website:Let us have a moment of silence for the defeated monsters. Now, let us take their stuff. What’s In This Book:Loot!That’s both an answer and an exhortation. Yes, 13th Age is all about the story and the awesome action, but we’ve all got a treasure-hungry munchkin inside of us, and it’s time to let that grubby-fingered kid out to play.The Book of Loot is full of more magic items to be found, stolen, given as rewards or otherwise looted by the player characters. We’ve also thrown in a short chapter on ways to make mundane treasure more interesting, and a selection of new one-use magic items.

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