Have you ever watched a movie full of swashbuckling goodness and thought, "This would make a great game?" I know I have, and long before I played RPGs. As a kid, I loved Errol Flynn and Tyrone Powers. Many a Saturday was spent pretending to be Captain Blood, Robin Hood, or Zorro. And let's not forget the Three Musketeers, Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver, and, yes, even Don Quixote.

The roleplaying aspects of the swashbuckler genre work well-enough with any game system. Tongue-in-cheek humor and traded bon mots don't require game mechanics. Swashbuckling combat must be fast-paced, highly mobile, and full of flashy attacks. Unfortunately, the world's most popular roleplaying game's combat system doesn't score high marks in these areas.

Fencing & Firearms (F&F) respects the core mechanics of the game but still addresses widely perceived problems with the combat rules. F&F doesn't change racial traits, class features, or skills. It has as little impact on core rules feats as possible. Our primary goal is that DMs can take this book and drop it into their games with a minimal amount of work. F&F focuses on:

* speeding up play,
* keeping each player involved even when it's not his turn,
* providing all players with more combat options, and
* making combat maneuvers easier to use.

And this is just the first part of F&F. The second part deals with black powder weapons and how to use them with your game.

The year is 1636 and France is a troubled nation.

A great and terrible evil gnaws at its core.

Darkness stalks the land.

All that stands between chaos and order are the King's Musketeers.

Explore a France of swashbuckling action, powerful magic, daring deeds, courtly intrigue, witty repartee, and vile monsters! The characters are France's bravest and proudest defenders, the King's Musketeers. Pitted against them is a plethora of corrupt nobles, black magicians, fell demons, and twisted secret societies.

Set at the height of power of Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIII, All for One: Régime Diabolique mixes the action of literary works such as the Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers with horror and intrigue to create a unique, vibrant setting. The high-action is powered by Ubiquity, an innovative role playing game system that emphasizes storytelling and cinematic action.

Strap on your sword, salute the King, and prepare to fight the creatures of darkness!

All for One: Régime Diabolique is a complete roleplaying game from Triple Ace Games.

Game Line: Ubiquity Rules Set

Category: Setting

Size: 176 pages

Interior Art: B&W

Author: Paul 'Wiggy' Wade-Williams

DETAILED INFORMATION

The year is 1636 and France is sick. Like an ancient elm, its core is being devoured from within. Yet from outside it appears strong and vibrant. Louis XIII sits on the throne, but his rule is that of a puppet monarch. While France rots, Louis spends his time throwing extravagant balls (the cost of which places a heavy tax burden on the peasantry), hunting all manner of beasts (including, some say, Protestants dressed up as animals), sponsoring artists to produce works of art for his private adoration, and ignoring the pleas of the downtrodden citizens who clamor for justice and clemency.

Pulling Louis' strings is Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu, better known simply as Cardinal Richelieu. He serves both as Cardinal of Paris and as Louis' chief adviser, both positions of great power.

Religious persecution is rife, and has been for over a century. France's Catholics have engaged in many cruel massacres of the country's Protestants, including the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572.

Richelieu has entered France, a Catholic country, into the Thirty Years' War (a name it has yet to acquire in the current age) but on the side of the Protestants. Richelieu's aim was to break the power of Spain and the Hapsburg Empire, against whom the Protestants were fighting, but his views were not shared by all. France's nobles and ministers reacted angrily to this act, many seeing it as treachery against the Papacy, but Louis ratified the Cardinal's order, and few dissenters had the stomach to argue with the King.

France's armies have not fared well. After a disastrous campaign beyond their eastern border, France's army is in retreat. Soldiers from Spain and the Holy Roman Empire are marauding throughout the French countryside, making their way toward the gates of Paris.

In order to bolster France's demoralized army, Richelieu has raised taxes and introduced conscription, though it is the poorer members of society who suffer the most from these measures. Famine wracks the land, forcing the already overtaxed peasants into increased hardship. Resentment and anger are bubbling beneath the scum of corruption which floats atop French society, threatening to break the surface and drag the country into civil war.

The nobility of France has grown corrupt, though some would hasten to add they are simply more corrupt than their ancestors. Richelieu's taxation policies are a mere inconvenience to the aristocracy, and while they dine and dance, their peasants starve and succumb to disease. Many speak of deviltry among the nobility, of midnight ceremonies honoring their unholy counterparts in Hell, of young girls taken by force never to be seen again, and of terrible bargains sealed with blood and souls. But such talk is commonplace when times are bad.

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Alien Invaders are a staple of many SciFi settings, from modern day "apocalypse invasion" settings, to far future "enemies from outside the galaxy" type games. This set of Alien Warriors paper miniatures allows you to invade planets, starships, bases and just about any location you could think of. There are 4 different types of aliens here, all armed and ready to attack!

Please visit http://www.arion-games.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=213 for sample images

The full colour miniatures are supplied in two formats and can be assembled as flat, A-frame or triagonal miniatures depending on personal choice. The images are all high-quality computer generated figures and bring an extra level of realism to the gaming table.

This set is also offered as an optional Powerpoint file version, to allow the easy creation of custom sheets.

In this set:
15x Alien Warriors
6 page pdf (5 pages of figures)

HABLAR

CON LOS KAMI

ES TOCAR LOS CIELOS.

Rokugán es una tierra de magia y encantamientos. Los espíritus elementales habitan en todas partes, en todas las cosas, vivas o no. Aquellos que han sido bendecidos con el don de comunicarse con ellos pueden utilizar este poder espiritual para manejar fuerzas que los demás casi no pueden imaginar. Los espíritus se transforman con cada una de sus palabras y órdenes. La historia que vivimos la marcan los ancestros.  

Plegarias y tesoros es una extensa guía de la magia y la religión para la tercera edición del juego de rol de La Leyenda de los Cinco Anillos. No sólo habla de las artes de los shugenjas, sino también de los muchos objetos mágicos que pueden encontrarse en Rokugán.   

En el libro encontrarás:

• Una gran variedad de nemuranai, objetos mágicos, descritos para poder usarlos en el juego de rol. Muchos de estos objetos habían aparecido en el juego de cartas de La Leyenda de los Cinco Anillos, pero nunca en el juego de rol... ¡hasta ahora!

• Más de 150 conjuros nuevos. Muchos de ellos son actualizaciones de las anteriores ediciones, e incluyen magia negra maho, rituales multielementales y hechizos específicos de cada clan.

• Información sobre el papel que juegan los shugenjas en cada una de las facciones principales, así como en los Clanes Menores y los ronin. Plegarias y tesoros incluye también nuevas Sendas para shugenjas.

• Detalladas reglas opcionales para la creación de nemuranai, y una Escuela Avanzada de artesanos.

Plegarias y tesoros es un recurso esencial para los jugadores y los DJs interesados en la magia, los shugenjas y la vida espiritual de Rokugán. Al incluir más de un centenar de conjuros y decenas de objetos encantados y artefactos legendarios, este libro es una lectura básica para los fanáticos de La Leyenda de los Cinco Anillos. Plegarias y tesoros es un suplemento de reglas, y requiere el uso del reglamento básico de La Leyenda de los Cinco Anillos.

Want to run a short adventure? Stuck for ideas? Let 5 Adventures, 25 Rooms break your writer's block.

5 Adventures, 25 Rooms offers five adventure synopses, one new template, and two new monsters. The adventure synopses assume a fantasy setting, but otherwise strive to be more or less system neutral. These synopses are not complete adventures. Instead, each synopsis is more like an adventure seed. You provide the maps and the game mechanics to make that seed grow into a fully realized scenario.

Throughout the PDF, you'll find suggestions for adapting the synopses to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. The template and monsters are fully compatible with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

Adventure synopses include the following:

Guard Duty: The heroes are hired to guard a lady threatened by her fiance's rivals. Can the heroes protect her until her fiance arrives?

Shelter from the Storm: While pursuing a vicious killer, the heroes encounter a strange family in an abandoned windmill.

Bird Flu of the Damned: A strange sickness has struck emu ranch country. Can the heroes help the ranchers?

Love Lost: Aengus has lost the love of his life and is hunted by killers, and he turns to the heroes for help entering the fey realm to win her hand.

"I'm So Cold": Someone-or something-is killing people in a rundown section of town. Can the heroes root out the killer and put an end to the terror?

Are you a DM who wants a little more oomph from your players? Do they need some incentive to play their roles with more feeling? Even if your players are bona fide thespians, there's likely still room for improvement. But how?

With Rewarding Roleplaying!

Rewarding Roleplaying uses three criteria to encourage and reward better roleplaying. Best of all, the responsibility for establishing these criteria belongs to the players. They set their own roleplaying goals. When they meet their goals, you the DM hand out the reward in the form of an Action Point, which is then used by the player to achieve greater levels of success in the game.

This is an 11-page, black-and-white PDF.

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Stock illustrations for your personal or professional projects.

Hand made authentic and fantasy sword pictures.

This pack contains 16 high resolution (around 1,5-2 megapixels and 300 dpi) grayscale TIF images.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes straight to the bone...

Mr. Hideous is the ugliest man in the world. He has come to the city to make everyone as ugly as he is. Getting beat with that Ugly Stick is gonna hurt. Only your heroes stand in his way.

Pretty Hate Machines is an adventure for four to six experienced HERO System characters of 450 - 550 points. It requires the HERO System 6th Edition rulebook to play.

Inside are detailed write-ups:

• a supervillain and his gang
• attack and getaway vehicles
• dangerous battlefields
• poisons, toxins, and dangerous chemicals
• fires, explosions, and mayhem
• an extensive list of breakable objects

 Inside are useful maps:

• a convention center
• a warehouse
• a condominium
• a refinery
• a hangar
• a street section

 Things are about to get ugly!

The Wargames series reimagines the Iron Age of comic books as a time when the super-soldiers of the NATO Alliance faced down meta-human Soviet operatives across the Berlin Wall..

Wargames 3: Sentinels of Berlin, as with the rest of the Wargames series, is a love letter to 1980s pop culture - from movies to comics to TV shows. You'll find many a loving homage and tip of the hat to well known characters from those days.

This pdf focuses on the divided city of Cold War Berlin and the super-soldiers from both sides of the Iron Curtain who are deployed there. Like Metropolis in DC Comics or New York City in Marvel Comics, Berlin is the dramatic center of the Wargames world.

This 90 page pdf features a history and guide to Berlin in the Cold War Wargames universe, over two dozen fully statted MM2E characters ready for use in your M&M      Superlink campaign as well as amazing art from Jon Gibbons, Darren Calvert, Dan Houser, Steff Worthington, Scott Harshbarger and Jacob Blackmon

Pits of Paneris is the first of our Three-Dollar Theater products, containing:

• The short story, "All Your Friends Are Monsters" illustrated by Simon Tranter
• Open-ended guidelines for introducing your True20 players to this scenario
• True20 stats for Paneris and the creatures that dwell below his arena
• Maps of the dungeon and the tavern above
• Descriptions of the paths not taken by the fictional protagonists in addition to the locations they've explored
• New monsters
• A new and disturbing magical item

This adventure for third level characters features a fiendishly perverse entertainer and the dungeons below his slave pens.

For other True20 goodness, check out Qalidar and our True20 Damage Cards.

Including over 60 creatures for your Resolute games, the Book of Beasts I gives you a wide range of foes, including such classic beasts as werewolves, vampires, dragons and giants, while also describing a variety of unique creatures to the lands of Arvandoria, each with notes about its role in the realm.

Organized by creature type and level, this handy guide will prove indispensable for referees. Each section also includes setting-specific beast backgrounds: want to know about the rulers of the Unseelie Court? Curious about why dragons hoard treasure? Ever wonder about the best use for gorgon's eyes? The monster sidebars will tell you.

Also included is a brief guide to improvising monsters, allowing referees to quickly generate new foes on the fly.

As with all Resolute resources, this book is only $1, but is jam-packed with goodness to keep your Resolute game going strong! Your purchase includes not only the fully-illustrated landscape version for your laptop, but also includes a printer-friendly portrait edition.

This sourcebook is designed for use with Resolute: Towers of Arvandoria, but is also fully-compatible with Resolute: The Superhero RPG 2E, allowing you to challenge your superheroes with mythological monsters with no modifications needed.

Expansion for the Ground set #7

This set include 37 terrain tiles.

You can piece any map together quickly.
Each tile is 6" x 6",
Image format: US Letter, 200 dpi, pdf

Print as many ground tiles as you need.

Have fun!

The second Demon Pack holds another bunch of new races for use in any API game. Contains the following:

- Dunbar (Beings of stone with a viscious appetite)

- Grandels (Aquatic race similar to an anglerfish)

- Olivers (Born thieves with blue, sharp skin)

HIGHLANDER GAMBIT (ebook)

Death Commando Loren Jaffray is dispatched to the planet Northwind to destroy the elite Northwind Highlanders by winning their trust and starting a war from within--but Loren is waging his own personal battle between honor and duty.

(This ZIP file contains two digital files: an AZW file for use with the Amazon Kindle and an EPUB file for use with many other ebook readers)

NOTE: This is a PDF of the print Record Sheet book. All the record sheets in this PDF (except p. 103) are included in the Record Sheets: 3060 Unabridged PDF.

Record Sheets: 3060 contains 55 pre-printed 'Mech record sheets that will have players firing at each other in no time. More than forty vehicle and ProtoMech sheets bring the excitement of combined-arms game play to any table top. Two ready-to-play scenarios focus on the highlights of this volume, while an extensive Rules Addendum section provides a sneak peek of all the advanced rules option provided in Tactical Operations. Additionally, a third scenario and rules provide players with a more in-depth game play experience based off of the free BattleForce Quick-Start Rules PDF available at www.battletech.com.

NOTE: This is a PDF of the print Record Sheet book. All the BattleMech and Combat Vehicle record sheets in this PDF (except p. 103) are included in the Record Sheets: 3075 Unabridged PDF.

Record Sheets: 3075 contains forty pre-printed 'Mech record sheets that will have players firing autocannons, missiles and PPCs at each other in no time. More than forty battle armor, vehicle and aerospace fighter sheets bring the excitement of combined-arms game play to any table top. Two ready-to-play scenarios focus on the highlights of this volume, while an extensive Rules Addendum section provides a sneak peek of all the advanced rules options provided in Tactical Operations and Strategic Operations. Finally, the Quick-Start Manei Domini rules introduce the Word of Blake super soldiers of the current Inner Sphere-shaking Jihad storyline for easy use on your gaming table.

[NOTE: This is a PDF of the print Record Sheet book. All the record sheets in this PDF (except p. 111) will be included in Record Sheets: 3085 Unabridged PDF when it is released.]

BattleTech Technical Readout: 3085 gives a detailed look at the machines introduced during the waning days of the Jihad and into the founding days of Devlin Stone's Republic of the Sphere. This book includes the latest 'Mechs, battle armor, aerospace and vehicles as well as new late-Jihad support vehicles. In addition, this sourcebook heralds the long-awaited update of Technical Readout: Project Phoenix, featuring brand-new art and additional variants. Conventional infantry make their Technical Readout debut with fifty-six individual infantry formations from classic foot infantry to xeno-planetary soldiers. And finally, after more than twenty years of silence, Land-Air BattleMechs explode back into a Technical Readout with a look at the original four LAMs and their Star League history.

The first collection of Do-Gooders & Daredevils releases, this book gathers over 30 heroes and a variety of (mostly) benevolent organizations to interact with the player characters, or for players to take on as their own, along with some new rules to toy with.

All content from the first four Do-Gooders & Daredevils releases are collected within (Mixed Heroes, Oddities, Good I$ Capitali$m and Champions.)

Within, you’ll not only find the mercenaries, fallen heroes, lost souls seeking redemption, and true and blue do-gooders you’d expect, but also legendary figures returned from the dead, former assassins, and organizations that straddle the fence between the moral and self-serving.

Ranging from the Once and Future King of the Britons, King Arthur Pendragon, to Heaven’s bounty hunter, Purgatory, to the mutated astronaut-come-monster, Starbound, this heroic collection offers a bit of just about every sort of good guy a Gamemaster could hope for.

Along with the game statistics one would expect, the characters and organization are accompanied by a number of adventure ideas to get them up and running in your game as quickly as possible. Each is also assigned a rating based on the included Metahuman Threat Scale, allowing Gamemasters to quickly browse the book for heroes who offer a comparable level of interaction without overshadowing the player characters.

With the Do-Gooders & Daredevils Collection your game’s potential for creative heroics will know no bounds!

New feats for characters focused on divine powers and spells should mean more than new metamagic feats, extra uses of abilities each day, and taking Weapon Focus with a deity's favored weapon. Just as monks, fighters and rogues can use feats to adjust and modify their fighting styles, clerics, druids, rangers and paladins should have a range of options that let them adapt their divinely-granted abilities.

Spellcasters may wish to focus on learning new ways to use their divine spells (such as with Healing Benevolence), increase just one aspect of their spellcasting power (perhaps with Domain Focus), or master a priesthood that grants spells only after the caster's blood has been spilled (with Blood Priest). There are also numerous feats nonspellcaster characters that are devout followers of a god can qualify for and find useful (such as Domain Acolyte and Miracle Worker).

With these feats a campaign can include priests who are not clerics, allowing gods of battle to be served by fighters with some access to the War domain and gods of magic and healing to have temples filled with celestial sorcerers able to cast cure light wounds.

The festival came to town.

In previous years it was a joyful and cheery event. These attractions, however, are outmoded and the infrastructure is old and neglected. A foul smell hangs in the air. The show consists of malformed people who disgust and frighten. Little joy is offered by the twisted clowns, and the barker's outdated speaking-style and French-tinged accent strengthens a feeling of unease.

It is a dreadful show.

Just in time for your traditional Halloween Call of Cthulhu or Basic Roleplaying game, here are six Halloween-themed adventures — winners and honorable mentions of the 2009 Chaosium.com Halloween Adventure Contest.

FLESH FESTIVAL

Adventure by Victor M. Aguirre. Flesh Festival is an adventure for CoC which takes place during the Roaring Twenties, in some place of New England. The Gamemaster may have to adjust the scenario to the requirements of his campaign; any town of Massachusetts should fit perfectly. The date of the adventure coincides with the arrival of Samhain, although the exact year is left to the Gamemaster design. We recommend the investigators to have some experience, although it is not essential for the adventure to be played.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT

Written by Jason Lindsey. This story is for a group of investigators who have just finished with an adventure or a major campaign. Rusty's diner is off the beaten path and lets them get a chance to clean up and recover for a bit before they depart for their next adventure.

This is where the fun begins.

THE FACULTY PARTY

Written by Jon Hook. The Miskatonic University English Department is holding their annual Halloween party, and you have been cordially invited. The English Dept. party is unlike the kind of party found at the local speak-easy; their party is a series of dramatic readings covering some of the greatest authors of horror fiction. The party-goers meet in a smoke-filled room and debate the authors over snacks, coffee, English and Indian tea.

Conversations and smoke float through the air as the faculty and guests are having a good time, everyone except Prof. Janice Moor. Prof. Moor teaches French Romantic Lit and has been in a blue mood for several weeks now. Her friends and co-workers had hoped that the party would help cheer her up, but no amount of joy has succeeded in lifting her out of her dark depression. Everyone secretly wonders what is bothering her.

HALLOWEEN NUIT

Adventure by Oscar Rios. It's a special time for Miskatonic University, as well all of Arkham. A collection of artifacts has just arrived from The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo. The collection is on a North American tour, and is scheduled to remain in Arkham until January before moving on to the Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago. Until then local students, academics, and visitors will have the opportunity see first-hand some of the wonders of ancient Egypt.

MUST THE SHOW GO ON?

Written by Jason Williams. Arkham is in for a very special treat this Halloween when a magician from Boston, who bills himself as Garlock the Great, plans to give the performance of his life at the Manley Theatre located at 670 Gedney Street. Rumors and newspaper stories precede his arrival with tales about his years spent learning secrets at the feet of the guru's of Nepal. Excitement has built and the one night only show has sold out.

THE DEAD SCHOOL

Written by Paul Hebron. October brings nothing but gloom and rain to the Temple Hill Private School, situated out in the Massachusetts woods. It is an exclusive home to the sons of the state's wealthiest families, and its teachers provide a quality education-especially since George Edgerton came to be principal of the prestigious prep school. Edgerton has allowed, for the first time in the school's history, a Halloween party to be held for all the staff and students to enjoy-except for the investigators whom have found themselves in detention. Day-dreaming of the fun they might have had, while waiting for the party to end, the investigators are suddenly brought back to earth by the sound of screams; and then they all black out. When they wake, they find a strange new land of death and voodoo!

MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION monographs are longer works by one or more authors on a subject of import to Call of Cthulhu roleplayers. On these products the author has also fulfilled the functions of editor and layout artist; we at Chaosium have done little in the way of editorial. We found these works compelling and thought that you would enjoy them. Through the publication of monographs we can offer our most loyal fans more information more easily, and evaluate the potential of these works for eventual release to the wholesale market.

A Steampunk Call of Cthulhu Campaign

Welcome to Queensguard! Queensguard is a short campaign for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. It is set in an alternate version of America in which steam technology and magic are woven into the fabric of society.

Queensguard is divided into two acts, each of which should consume approximately two four-hour game sessions. The campaign strives to be consistently fast-paced and exciting, and it takes advantage of the unusual setting. Investigation, clever planning, and physical combat are all important. For a plotted scenario, Queensguard grants players a large degree of freedom. Key tasks within each act may be completed in any order, frequent "Contingency" sections help the keeper adapt the plot to varied player choices, and players may succeed or fail in Act 1 without foreclosing opportunities in Act 2.

The four-session campaign detailed in this book need not be the end of your adventures in the Kingdom of America. A substantial amount of information about the politics, history, technology, and magic of the setting is provided in the next chapter, "A Tour of the World of Queensguard." The two campaign chapters contain many additional ideas and characters. Using this information and a little creativity, Queensguard can be a steampunk setting for Call of Cthulhu adventures of your own devising.

MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION monographs are longer works by one or more authors on a subject of import to Call of Cthulhu roleplayers. On these products the author has also fulfilled the functions of editor and layout artist; we at Chaosium have done little in the way of editorial. We found these works compelling and thought that you would enjoy them. Through the publication of monographs we can offer our most loyal fans more information more easily, and evaluate the potential of these works for eventual release to the wholesale market.

Here are the winning entries from the 2009 Chaosium BRP Adventure Contest. Explore mythic Australia, battle for lost New Caledonia, assist Boston police in a kidnapping, and make a strategic strike against the Nazi Occult Bureau in the 1930s! These and other adventures take place in different times and places, for Basic Roleplaying and the Basic Roleplaying Quickstart rules.

THE ADVENTURES INCLUDE:

* The Battle for New Caledonia, by Oscar Rios
* The River Terror, by William Noble
* Save Me an Angel, by R.J. Christensen
* OPERATION: Mind Storm, by Jon Hook
* The King, The Maiden, and the Mad Man of Las Islas de los Muertos, by Kenneth Spencer
* The Guns of Nero's Rome, by Michael Silverling
* The Soul of Ra Mihn Nudal, by Kevin Scrivner
* The Twin Circle Defenders, by Bruce Thompson
* The Burmese Extravaganza, by Patrice Crespy
* Fools Rush In, by Tom Lynch
* Incident at Vasir Station, by Greg White

BASIC ROLEPLAYING MONOGRAPHS are longer works by one or more authors on a subject of import to Basic Roleplaying players. On these products the author has also fulfilled the functions of editor and layout artist; we at Chaosium have done little in the way of editorial. We found these works compelling and thought that you would enjoy them. Through the publication of monographs we can offer our most loyal fans more information more easily, and evaluate the potential of these works for eventual release to the wholesale market.