This exceptional book will be applauded by writers, students, historians and casual readers alike. From soldiers and statesmen to farmers and firing lines, Everyday Life During the Civil War offers an in-depth exploration of this fascinating era. 
Using dozens of illustrations, timelines and maps, Michael J. Varhola illuminates the details of Northern and Southern economy; town and country living; food and the impact of war on diet; popular entertainment; clothing; military life; tools and weapons; slang and much more. 
Also includes a thorough appendix of resources, featuring books, websites, historic locations and living history organizations.

Everyday Life During the Civil War (WRITER'S GUIDE TO EVERYDAY LIFE SERIES)

Arts & Photography

Varhola, Michael J.

History & Criticism

Writers' Digest Books

Warriors is a comprehensive D20 sourcebook for fantasy role-playing games that expands upon the description of the Warrior class in the 3rd Edition DMG. It is an invaluable resource both for dungeon masters who want to expand the variety and realism of combat encounters and martial non-player characters and for players who want to enhance the military and combat capabilities of their characters. 
Features include: 
• Sixteen military prestige classes, including the Aerial Cavalryman, Charioteer, Combat Engineer, Executioner, Marine, Mechanist Infantry, Mountaineer, and Sheriff. 
• More than 30 military subtypes, including archers, artillerists, cavalrymen, beast handlers, infantrymen, medics, pathfinders, peasant levies, and templars. 
• Nine non-military subtypes, including bandits, barkeeps, thugs, and traders. 
• Two dozen skills, including Craft (Airship-Making), Knowledge (Beast Lore), Operate Device, Profession (Bartender), and Signaling. 
• Nearly a score of feats, including eight devoted to aerial warfare. 
• New weapons, armor, and equipment, including weapon accessories, elephant gear, siege engines, balloons and blimps, and guidelines for incorporating high-technology weapons into a fantasy campaign. 
• Sixteen new spells, including Battle Runes and many specially designed for use by members of the Zealot prestige class. 
• More than 80 new magic items and five new weapon special abilities. 
• Three new combat-oriented monsters. 
• Two dozen detailed, ready-to-use NPCs. 
• Rules for incorporating chariots into combat. 
• Rules for using large beasts like elephants in warfare. 
• Guidelines on historical and non-human heraldry.

Warriors: A Comprehensive D20 Sourcebook for Fantasy Role-Playing Games

Daugherty, Sharon

Luke Gygax

Thomas, David L.

Knorr, Paul O.

Skirmisher Publishing

Tests of Skill is an adventure module and sourcebook designed to entertain and challenge players through scenarios and encounters that can be overcome optimally through role-playing, skill use, and diplomacy. While traditional hack-and-slash techniques can be used to complete portions of the scenarios, most groups will find that tact, thought, and appropriate use of skills, feats, and abilities are generally much more useful and effective. 
Features include: 
• A generic, versatile wild-land setting (the Silurian Heights) that can be used as a campaign setting or easily dropped into almost any existing milieu, including statistics on six different urban areas and local weather. 
• More than two dozen detailed encounters, including three complete mini-dungeons and general and specific encounter tables. 
• Two detailed scenarios and two scenario outlines that explain how to organize the included encounters into effective plot lines. 
• Three maps, including player’s and DM’s wilderness maps and a dungeon map based on Dwarven Forge’s Master Maze sets. 
• Dozens and dozens of fully keyed and described NPCs, including two complete adventuring parties. 
• Three new prestige classes, the Gnoll Crocuta (plus the new Fear spell domain), Humbug, and Mercenary Commander. 
• Sixteen relevant skills and nearly two dozen feats. 
• Two new monsters, the Half Troll and the Dire Hyena. 
• Detailed rules on the creation, usage, and special properties of books, including their effects on XP and skill checks.

Tests of Skill: A d20 Adventure and Sourcebook for Fantasy Role-Playing Games

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Group, Skirmisher Game Development

Gaming

NUISANCES HAS MORE and is unlike any other fantasy RPG sourcebook!   It is a tribute to the early years of fantasy roleplaying games, a parody of the current state of the genre, a manual for keeping cocky and annoying players off balance, and a poignant philosophical expression of the post-modern, 21st century worldview.   Highlights of this wonderful book include:     * Hundreds and hundreds of aggravating and awful and things that can happen to players!     * Original art by about a half dozen fantasy artists!     * Introduction of the Defect character attribute—and fewer than 100 Defects!     * Bunches of unsavory Feats!     * Several Archtypical Nuisance Characters, including Krust, Joebob, and Amber!     * Cursed and off-color magic items!     * Scores of defective items!     * Many, many random d100, d12, and other Random Tables!     * Rules that address the special role of female characters in the game in a sensitive and realistic way—including Feats like Nice Body and Defects like Bitch, Hot Flashes, and Throws Like a Girl!     * Some of the most annoying monsters ever spawned, including the Decapussywhipper, the Dire Dwarf, and the world-famous Jester Dragon!     * Unfortunate NPC personality traits!     * An open game license!     * More exclamation points than any other similar product!

Nuisances: A Comprehensive OGL (d20 System) Sourcebook for Fantasy Role-Playing Games

Group, The Skirmisher Game Development

Skirmisher Publishing LLC

Little Wars

Originally written in 1913 by one of the fathers of modern science fiction, this is a reprint of one of H.G. Wells' lesser-known works. Little Wars will appeal to science fiction fans, history buffs, students of politics and international affairs, wargamers and RPGers, and anyone interested in the other works of this great author. 
Features of this edition include: 
• Clear, authoritative, and entertaining text that reveals both the great mind and the sense of humor possessed by one of the world’s greatest science fiction authors. • A complete miniatures wargame system that can be played as-is or used as the basis for other miniatures rules. • An appendix on Kriegspiel that expands upon Little Wars and shows how it can be adapted into a military training tool. • Foreword by Gary Gygax, whose development of Chainmail and Dungeons &amp; Dragons were influenced by H.G. Wells in General and by Little Wars in particular. • Introduction by editor Michael J. Varhola, author of several history books, gaming sourcebooks, and the Skirmisher miniatures rules. • 19 original black-and-white photographs from the 1913 edition of Little Wars. • More than 75 black-and-white line drawings from the 1913 edition of the book.

Literature & Fiction

Gygax, Gary

Wells., H.G

Varhola, Diane K.

Classics

Maryland, with its role in the War of 1812 and the Civil War, is a ghost-hunter's dream. This handy guide divides the state into six regions, and profiles the best destinations in each. The USF Constellation boasts three ghosts, including a sailor executed for dereliction of duty; the Gridiron Club is haunted by an old woman kidnapped and murdered by her slaves; Ellicott City is considered the most haunted town in America, with an embarrassment of spooks to choose from. These are just a few of the exciting places profiled in this unusual guidebook.

Ghosthunting Maryland (America's Haunted Road Trip)

History

Varhola, Michael H.

Americas

Clerisy Press

Ghosthunting Virginia (America's Haunted Road Trip)

Virginia and the District of Columbia are fertile ground for serious and casual ghosthunters alike and have no shortage of venues for paranormal investigation -- if visitors know where to look. Author Michael J. Varhola has spared no efforts to make Ghosthunting Virginia as useful a resource as possible for those interested in visiting haunted sites as he leads readers on a guided tour of the most haunted sites in the Old Dominion and the nation's capital. A great many of these sites have some connection to the Colonial era or to the Civil War, two defining elements in the history of the region. Battlefields, cemeteries, tunnels, caves, bridges, haunted highways, inns and taverns, lighthouses, theatres, haunted cities like historic Winchester, Colonial Williamsburg, and Washington, D.C., and all manner of other eerie locales can be found in this novel and informative travel guide! It's also perfect late-night reading for anyone who loves a good ghost story.

This exceptional book will be applauded by writers, students, historians and casual readers alike. From soldiers and statesmen to farmers and firing lines, Everyday Life During the Civil War offers an in-depth exploration of this fascinating era. Using dozens of illustrations, timelines and maps, Michael J. Varhola illuminates the details of Northern and Southern economy; town and country living; food and the impact of the war on diet; popular entertainment; clothing; military life; tools and weapons; slang and much more!

Everyday Life During The Civil War

F & W Pubns Inc

This "History at a Glance" volume presents a huge amount of information in a small space, including many facts and figures that will be new even to dedicated readers.

D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944

Varhola, Michael

Holderfield, Randy

Military

Da Capo Press

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