A Better Game With Dice and Chips 2010

Since the beginning of such additions to the DriveThruRPG/RPGNow Weekly Newsletter as A Better Game and the comic strip Bring Dice and Chips, we've received hundreds of requests for an archive or to make "back issues" available. While that's still in the works, what we've decided to do here is col...   [click here for more]

Adventure Composition Tutorial (ACT)

So, you would like to try your hand at writing an adventure. Easy right? Well, yes... er... kind of. To really make an adventure successful you need more than just a great idea and a bunch of cool monsters, although that’s an excellent start! You need proper spelling, grammar, and formatting. You need a solid layout with jaw-dropping artwork and top-notch cartography. You a...   [click here for more]

Azieran: Against the Drimlith

Sir Vaiden Erro is a knight of the Malkan Order, sorcerers sworn to uphold the ever-expanding mandates of the Calantian bureaucracy.

Originally assigned to guard an ambassador in a foreign land, it is through a twist of fate that Vaiden finds himself charged to help a colleague, Alix, track down and destroy the headquarters of the Drimlith Cabal-those responsible for the recent assassin...   [click here for more]

Bloodsucker: The Play

A special edition of the Theatrical Adaptation of the Spoof Horror RPG orginally published by Postmortem Studios.

Coming soon to an Amdram Group near you...

A play mocking flowery goth pretention like no other!

Bloodsucker: The Play takes you into a world where odd little subcultures really do have satanic powers.

The problem is that most ...   [click here for more]

Classic Home Video Games, 1985–1988: A Complete Reference Guide

A follow up to 2007's Classic Home Video Games, 1972-1984, this reference work provides detailed descriptions and reviews of every U.S.-released game for the Nintendo NES, the Atari 7800, and the Sega Master System, all of which are considered among the most popular video game systems ever produced.

Organized alphabetically by console brand, each chapter includes a description of the ga...   [click here for more]

Deadlands Dime Novel 01: Perdition's Daughter

Something happened in the darkness of Gettysburg--something that scarred Ronan Lynch for life. Now, years later, he wanders the West finding trouble and generally shooting it for a price.

But things are about to get strange in the snowy Rockies. There he meets new allies and a deadly threat that's been around for a long, long time. This chance encounter will change him-and what's left o...   [click here for more]

Deadlands Dime Novel 03: Night Train

Ronan's adventures find him in the town of Varney Flats just as the ominous Night Train rolls in. What is its secret? What's in the mysterious larder?

Find out as death rides the rails in one of the meanest, nastiest tales ever written for Deadlands!

This is the third Dime Novel in the legendary Deadlands series, following the adventures of Ronan Lynch, Bad Luck Betty, and Velve...   [click here for more]

Do You Dare To Dream?

Thistle Games' RPG Handbook ~ Getting Started and RPG Handbook have a lot of detailed information for young adults, parents, GMs and those who want to organise groups. However, for a 13 year-old jumping straight into the main features of building RPG gameplay is always going to be more appealing.The introduction to Do You Dare To Dream? largely repeats the beginning of the Getting Sta...   [click here for more]

Dungeon Map Greeting Cards - Xmas Season

Looking for just the right card for the gamer on your list. Dungeon Map Greeting Cards are just what you need. Three holiday greetings, four unique maps let's you assemble the perfect card for you and your gaming group. So send all of the gamers on your list on a special holiday adventure this season with Dungeon Map Greeting Cards.

Eighth Day Genesis: A Worldbuilding Codex

2013 Origins Award Nominee

You want to build a world.  Twenty authors want to help.

It begins when you have that moment when you can close your eyes and see a world no-one has seen before. It might start from a grain of sand, the way light filters through the trees, the feel of satin robes, the smell of cooking soup, or simply a wish for somewhere, some...   [click here for more]

Fantasy Maker Handbook

Welcome to the Fantasy Maker Handbook. This book will guide you along the way to writing down all of the elements you’re going to need to consider to write a fantasy role playing game setting from top to bottom. Of course not every possible element you can imagine for a game is covered in this book, that would be impossible; but it is a comprehensive guide that ...   [click here for more]

Game Design: How to Create Video and Tabletop Games, Start to Finish

Many aspiring game designers have crippling misconceptions about the process involved in creating a game from scratch, believing a "big idea" is all that is needed to get started. But game design requires action as well as thought, and proper training and practice to do so skillfully.

In this indispensible guide, a published commercial game designer and longtime teacher offers...   [click here for more]

Game Geek Issue #1

The premier issue of Game Geek, inside you will find all sorts of fun stuff, including… 

* Behind the Game, Micro Games and my own Mini-Games

Game Geek Issue #2

The second issue of Game Geek, inside you will find all sorts of fun stuff, including…

Behind the Game, Ameritrash and Eurogames

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Game Geek Issue #4

The fourth issue of Game Geek, inside you will find all sorts of fun stuff, including…

Musing of the Avalon Stogie

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Game Geek Issue #6

The sixth issue of Game Geek, inside you will find all sorts of fun stuff, including…

Musing of the Avalon Stogie

Game Geek Issue #8

This month in Game Geek we have…

Musing of the Avalon Stogie

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Game Geek Issues #15

THis issue is free, so get a copy right away.

Musing of the Avalon Stogie . <o:p></o:p>

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Game Geek Issues #17

Another great issue, filled with all sorts of gaming goodness...

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Game Geek Issues #19

Another great issues, packed full of gaming goodness.

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Musing of the Avalon Stogie

Behind the Game, Nova Blast Preview

Coral Throne, Chapter XII

Raging Swan Gaming  

Dept 13 Comic, Issue #4  

Junkyard Wars, Strip #19

Avalon Pathfinder

Multi-Verse

Geek...   [click here for more]

Gaming as Culture: Essays on Reality, Identity and Experience in Fantasy Games

Since tabletop fantasy role-playing games emerged in the 1970s, fantasy gaming has made a unique contribution to popular culture and perceptions of social realities in America and around the world. This contribution is increasingly apparent as the gaming industry has diversified with the addition of collectible strategy games and other innovative products, as well as the recent advancements in ...   [click here for more]

Grumlahk's Troll Tales

Grumlahk's Troll Tales, the collected comics as they first appeared in the Tunnels & Trolls gaming magazine "The Hobbit Hole". There's a wacky bunch of characters here including hungry ogres, rogue elves (including a blind elf assassin!), terrible monsters, and more!

Horror Video Games: Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play

In this in-depth critical and theoretical analysis of the horror genre in video games, 14 essays explore the cultural underpinnings of horror's allure for gamers and the evolution of "survival" themes.

The techniques and story effects of specific games such as Resident Evil, Call of Cthulhu, and Silent Hill are examined individually.

How to be a Great GM with Your Kids

If your group has kids and you play Role-Playing Games, then eventually, at some point, your kids are going to ask if they can play Role-Playing Games with you. And so, you wind up asking yourself the inevitable question: How to I get them involved?

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How to be a Master GM

Mastery

Many Gamemasters never go beyond Expert. They feel no need. They already know how to make a Role-Playing Game fun and exciting, and they see...   [click here for more]