Anything you can imagine, you can play... HeroQuest is the innovative, dynamic, and flexible rules engine by Robin Laws, suitable for play in any genre or setting. It presents a simple and flexible system that allows Game Masters to make decisions the way authors and screenwriters do when creating novels, TV episodes and movies. HeroQuest encourages creative input from your players, resulting in an exciting, unpredictable narrative created through group collaboration. Its resolution methods and scalable character levels make it equally suited for any genre, from epic fantasy to satirical soap opera. Whether your next game idea draws on horror, war, westerns, martial arts, pulps, cyberpunk, cliff-hangers, giant robots, super-powered heroes, space opera, cop action, corporate intrigue, furry animals, swashbuckling adventure, Greek tragedy or even drawing room comedy, HeroQuest can handle it! You can even use HeroQuest to emulate a musical - although it won't do the singing or dancing for you. Completely rewritten by the original designer, this new edition opens and details running the core system for any genre. What's in this book? This book contains everything needed for play: Character Creation - describe your character and get playing in minutes. Overcoming Obstacles - handling conflict, be it with swords, words, gangs, or armies. Playing Stories - how to vividly run your adventures in engaging and creative ways. Narrating - the secrets for balancing the give and take between narrators and players. Followers and Support - how your sidekick, followers, horde, army or community help. Creating Genres - details for creating and detailing your own game world. Gaming in Glorantha - a separate section on applying HeroQuest to Glorantha. Quick Reference - so you don't have to hunt for the information you really need.

HeroQuest: Core Rules

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Robin D. Laws

Gaming

Moon Design Publications

Enter a world where the sun is in its dotage, where a flashing sword is less important than nimble wits, persuasive words, and a fine sense of fashion.Choose from three levels of play, a lowly rogue such as Cugel the Clever, surviving by wits and cunning, an ambitious and deadly mage searching for lost lore, like Turjan of Miir or finally a supreme magician to rank with Rhialto the Marvellous, commanding the omnipotent but quarrelsome Sandestins. Based on master fantasist Jack Vance's seminal work, The Dying Earth features easy, fast-playing rules that encourage creativity and interaction.

The Dying Earth RPG

Comics & Graphic Novels

John Snead

Peter Freeman

Graphic Novels

Pelgrane Press

Explore the most decadent city in a world of decadence. PCs are assumed to be knowledgeable veterans of the White-Walled City, not ignorant mooncalves. Players are encouraged to choose from hundreds of plot hooks and contacts to create sublime gaming sessions. From the self-indulgent aristocrats of Odkin Prospect to Prince Khandive's pleasure barge, the whole city is mapped out using fine words, pictures and maps.

The Kaiin Players Guide

A double issue of the XPS, cunningly disguised as an adventure supplement,this fine collection of adventure material includes the long-awaited speculative map of the Dying Earth. With contributors such as Robin D Laws, Ed Greenwood and Jeanry Chandler, and articles on vat creatures, mermelants and religion, it is the best XPS yet.

Ascolais and the Land of the Falling Wall: Excellent Prismatic Spray 4/5 double issue

Ed Greenwood

Jim Webster

Seek out the last hundred spells, explore aeons-old ruins and clash blades with demons. The first volume of Jack Vance's Dying Earth has a very different tone to the later books. It has elements of horror, powerful sorcery, and even genuine heroics. This supplements lets you roleplay these puissant magicians, questers and driven heroes.

Turjans Tome

IAN THOMSON

You are elite investigators combating the plots of the Esoterrorists, a loose affiliation of occult terrorists intent on tearing the fabric of the world. Created by Robin D Laws, The Esoterrorists introduces the GUMSHOE rules system, which revolutionizes investigative scenarios by ensuring that players are never deprived of the crucial clues they need to move the story forward.

The Esoterrorists

A complete new roleplaying game based on the innovative GUMSHOE system, Fear Itself plunges ordinary people into a disturbing contemporary world of madness and violence. Whether its slasher flicks or literary horror, Fear Itself gives you the tools you need to create memorable gaming sessions.

Fear Itself

Birds Robin D Laws

See Your Stories Like Never Before
 Hamlet's Hit Points presents a toolkit that helps make storytelling in any RPG easier and more fun by classifying story beats and letting you track their ups and downs from hope to fear and back.
 Armed with these tools, you'll be equipped to lay compelling track for an emotional roller-coaster that will keep everyone at your game table involved, excited, riveted.
 In these pages, you'll find definitions of nine critical story beats. You'll read about the relationships between those beats. You'll also find complete analyses of three stories you know already--Hamlet, Casablanca, and Dr. No--to show you how the system works.
 Written with roleplayers in mind, Hamlet's Hit Points is an indispensable tool for understanding stories, in games and everywhere else.

Hamlet's Hit Points

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Gameplaywright Press

See How Stories Work The most compelling stories move us emotionally. Up and down, between hope and fear, in ways we don t always expect but that you can harness as a writer, editor, and critic. This book shows you how to track, map, and understand the rhythm of a story. Whether you re writing or rewriting, editing a manuscript or dismantling your favorite television episode, Beating the Story helps you understand how stories get hammered into shape. 
Beating the Story combines Laws insightful and articulate analysis of story beats with all-new transition beats and icons to do for fiction and screenplays what his Hamlet s Hit Points did for narrative games. Read it and see how to map, understand, and elevate any narrative. 
Foreword by John Rogers.

Beating the Story: How to Map, Understand, and Elevate Any Narrative

Gameplaywright

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