<p>Featuring a foreword by gaming industry legend Monte Cook, Eureka contains 501 complete adventure plots usable with almost any roleplaying game, plus GMing advice and tools for making the most of every plot. If you game once a week, that's nearly 10 years of adventures, all right here in the largest collection of its kind ever published. Written by nine veteran game masters - the authors of the most widely read game mastering blog on the planet, Gnome Stew - Eureka is more than just adventure seeds. Each plot includes a hook to draw your players in, an outline detailing enough material for a complete adventure, generally in the form of 3-5 meaty encounters, and any game mastering notes, plot twists, and advice you might need to turn that plot into a fun night of gaming. Adventure hooks alone don't give you much to work with, but fully developed adventures can be hard to personalize and fit into an ongoing game. Eureka is the perfect middle ground: We provide the main ingredients, and you decide how to prepare them. Packed with ideas and inspiration, this massive collection is designed to be the ultimate adventure toolkit: * Fantasy, science fiction, and horror plots: 167 of each, all easily adaptable to multiple genres * Clear, concise game mastering advice: We show you how to adapt plots to other genres (effectively giving you 464 fantasy, 420 sci-fi, and 338 horror plots) and how to turn Eureka plots into full-blown adventures * The tools you need: Plots are grouped by theme, from "Revolt" to "Mistaken Jealousy," and categorized by tags like intrigue, exploration, and combat-heavy * Four indexes: Quickly find a plot for any situation by genre, tag, title, or author * No game mechanics and no proper names: These system-neutral plots are simple to use and easy to personalize to your game</p>

Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, EGP42001

Scott, Martin

Walt Ciechanowski

TROY TAYLOR

Phil Vecchione

Martin Ralya

Engine Publishing

John Arcadian

Patrick Benson

Matthew Neagley

Kurt Schneider

<p>Whether you re new to game mastering or have been running the same campaign since 1974, Never Unprepared: The Complete Game Master s Guide to Session Prep will help you prepare for games faster, avoid common pitfalls, and have more fun in the process. To our knowledge, this is the first book entirely devoted to the process of prepping for tabletop RPGs. Never Unprepared breaks game prep down into its component phases Brainstorming, Selection, Conceptualization, Documentation, and Review and provides the tools you need to make the most of each phase. If you hate prep, you ll find ways to make it more enjoyable. If you already have a great system for doing your prep, you ll learn how to make it even better. Ten years in the making, Never Unprepared is award-winning author Phil Vecchione s epic rock ballad to game prep. A project manager and veteran game master, he draws on extensive experience to present flexible systems for developing or optimizing your own unique approach to game prep. Phil s work has previously appeared on GnomeStew.com (silver ENnie Award winner for Best Blog, 2010 and 2011) and in Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters and Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game. Within Never Unprepared you ll find prep techniques, utilities, and tips that are applicable to any RPG: An in-depth look at each phase of session prep, from brainstorming to review Templates for sessions, scenes, NPCs, and combats that you can modify to fit your gaming style Practical advice on selecting prep tools, putting them to good use, and scheduling enough time to prepare for every session How to identify your strengths and weaknesses, as well as tips for preparing when you re short on time and what to do if everything goes horribly wrong A comprehensive index to make it easy to find what you need</p>

Never Unprepared: The Complete Game Master's Guide to Session Prep (EGP42003)

Whether you're an old hand or are new to game mastering, you'll find a wealth of tips and techniques you can put to immediate use in Odyssey: The Complete Game Master's Guide to Campaign Management. Odyssey is jam-packed with in-depth advice on starting, managing, and ending campaigns, including tips on structuring stories and making your campaign thrive, examples of good and bad campaign management, and advice on actively managing every element of your campaign. Odyssey's award-winning authors bring unique perspectives to the topic of campaign management. Phil is a project manager and wrote Never Unprepared: The Complete Game Master's Guide to Session Prep. Walt is an improvisational game master with years of experience in the tabletop RPG industry. Both write for the award-winning game mastering blog Gnome Stew. To our knowledge, Odyssey is the first system-neutral book solely dedicated to the art of managing campaigns.

Odyssey: The Complete Game Master's Guide to Campaign Management (EGP42004)

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