"An unholy mixture of helpful guidebook and jabbing provocation, [Things We Think About Games] will earn its right to rattle around your brain. It is essential reading for designer, critic, and straight-up rank 'n' file gamer alike." --Robin D. Laws, creator of HeroQuest and Feng Shui
 Will Hindmarch and Jeff Tidball think a lot about games. At their commentary website, Gameplaywright.net, they think out loud about what it means to play games, make games, sell games, and love games. They are gamers.
 Here, with fellow game designers and notable game players, they think out loud on paper in the first Gameplaywright book. Things We Think About Games collects dozens on dozens of bite-sized thoughts about games. From the absurd to the magnificent, the demonstrable to the dogmatic, this collection spans both the breadth of games--board, card, roleplaying and more--and the depth of gaming, offering insights about collecting, playing, critiquing, designing, and publishing.
 Forward by Robin D. Laws Introduction by Wil Wheaton
 Includes the contributions of John August, Pat Harrigan, Fred Hicks, Kenneth Hite, John Kovalic, Michelle Nephew, Philip Reed, S. John Ross, Mike Selinker, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.

Things We Think About Games

Jeff Tidball

Will Hindmarch

Gameplaywright Press

Pulp Cthulhu is a game of two-fisted adventure, weird science, dark deeds, and brave heroes. With this book, some roleplaying dice, and the Call of Cthulhu Rulebook, you have everything you need to adventure and explore games set in the pulp genre. Tired of your investigators dying in quick succession when jaunting around the world in a desperate bid to save humanity? Wishing that sometimes your investigator could make a stand instead of hiding and waiting for the eldritch horror to pass? Pulp Cthulhu ups the ante and provides you with tougher, more capable heroes ready to take on the villainous machinations of the Cthulhu Mythos!
 Here you will find an adapted character generation system, rules for psychic powers, sanity, augmented skills, and weird science, as well as tips for Keepers on developing and running pulp-style games. Also, you will find information on the Pulps themselves and the 1930s era when America was in the grip of the Great Depression and on the road to World War II. A collection of pulp villains and monsters, and a range of pulp organizations provide the Keeper with a firm basis for running pulp style scenarios and campaigns. Four action-packed scenarios round out the book, getting your Pulp Cthulhu games started with a bang.
 The guidance in this book means that you can apply the Pulp Cthulhu rules to any setting and time period, enabling Keepers to bring the flavor and action of pulp to the classic 1920s or modern-day eras, as well as anywhere else they see fit.
 A Time For Heroes And A Time For Adventure!

Pulp Cthulhu (Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying)

Chaosium Inc

Mike Mason

Paul Fricker

Scott Dorward

James Lowder

Wolfgang Baur

Matt Sanderson

Alan Bligh

Glyn White

Dan Kramer

Humor & Entertainment

Chaosium, Inc.

Pirate Battles on the High Seas! Adventure and glory await you in Pieces of Eight, the rousing combat game of rival buccaneer ships on the high seas. You play the game with a stack of metal pirate coins held in one hand that represents your ship. The coins you choose and the order in which you place them determine your ship's strengths, and you use the special abilities of your coins to destroy your opponent's coins one by one. Your goal is to expose the Captain coin buried deep in the middle of your adversary's ship, then take him out! Dare to enter the age of blood and gold with The Maiden's Vengeance ship set. Each set includes all the coins needed for one player to construct his own ship. Your opponents will each need their own ship set to play, but there's no other limit to the number of players who can join in. The coins in each set are not randomized; you can combine ship sets to gain a wider selection of coins and the advantage over your foes. 2+ players (each with own set) - 10 to 30 minutes - ages 10 and up

Pieces of Eight: The Maiden's Vengeance

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Atlas Games

Pirate Battles on the High Seas! Adventure and glory await you in Pieces of Eight, the rousing combat game of rival buccaneer ships on the high seas. You play the game with a stack of metal pirate coins held in one hand that represents your ship. The coins you choose and the order in which you place them determine your ship's strengths, and you use the special abilities of your coins to destroy your opponent's coins one by one. Your goal is to expose the Captain coin buried deep in the middle of your adversary's ship, then take him out! Dare to enter the age of blood and gold with The Blade ship set. Each set includes all the coins needed for one player to construct his own ship. Your opponents will each need their own ship set to play, but there's no other limit to the number of players who can join in. The coins in each set are not randomized; you can combine ship sets to gain a wider selection of coins and the advantage over your foes. 2+ players (each with own set) - 10 to 30 minutes - ages 10 and up

Pieces of Eight: The Cursed Blade

What is Pulp? Stories of exploration: adventurers penetrating the darkest, unexplored regions of the Earth. Stories of heroism: the bold and brave foiling the nefarious plots of dastardly villains. Stories of mystery: gritty, streetwise gumshoes wearing out their shoe leather in search of clues. Stories of weird menace: unfortunate nephews heir to Secrets Man Was Not Meant To Know. These only scratch the surface of the pulp genre. Now add zombies! Two-fisted high adventure just got down, dirty and disgusting . . . Pulp Zombies is a supplement for the All Flesh Must Be Eaten roleplaying game. In it, you will find: Extensive background on the the "Pulp Era", including new character creation information. New rules for adding gadgets and mentalism powers to your AFMBE campaign. Detailed Deadworlds combining adventure and archeology in the greatest action hero tradition, pitting the characters against a demented, super-powered criminal mastermind, and tossing the Cast into the midst of a Martian invasion intent on capturing . . . well, you can probably guess. A series of shorter pulp zombie settings involving strange orbital objects, tainted rice, a rare artifact and a re-animator. New archetypes galore!

Pulp Zombies *OP

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Eden Studios

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