Role Play Books & Starters

Starfinder 2E: GM Core

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Unleash your imagination, creating new galaxies and tales with the Starfinder GM Core for Starfinder Second Edition! This comprehensive 264-page rulebook gives Game Masters everything they need to craft thrilling tales of adventure, from a single-night’s scenario on the mean streets to complex epics spanning years. Within these pages you’ll find clear guidelines for creating new hazards and alien creatures, tools to design challenging, balanced encounters, and rules for rewarding characters for the dastardly challenges you array before them! Starfinder GM Core also contains rules for quick-to-run cinematic starship combat and dynamic hacking rules! Starfinder GM Core is the second core rulebook for the Starfinder Second Edition RPG! Along with the Player Core and Alien Core, these books provide a new foundation for the future of tabletop gaming! Starfinder GM Core includes: • The rules needed to run a game of Starfinder, including guidelines for creating challenging encounters, determining success, and giving out rewards.• Advice aimed at making you an incredible Game Master, along with tools to ensure you and everyone else at your table has a safe and enjoyable experience.• Guidelines to help you create your own content, from campaigns and adventures to hazards and monsters.• Rules subsystems to help you handle a wide array of game situations, including rules for chases, cinematic starship combat, research, hacking infiltration, and more!• A guide to the Pact Worlds and wider galaxy, with a look at several important regions, and an exploration of the wider cosmos!

Pendragon: Core Rulebook

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What Kind of Knight Will You Become? ;Will you fight to rid the world of injustice, or use clout and power to take advantage of those beneath you?Pendragon is set amidst the glory and grandeur of King Arthur’s Britain. Its innovative mechanics drive the emotional impact of play as your characters pursue Glory, overcome life-and-death struggles, cross blades with ruthless enemies, and fight for love and justice in a world of brutal medieval realism.Features:A detailed look at the world of King Arthur and the role of knights and nobility.Full character creation rules.6 pre-generated character templates for optional, faster character creation.The complete core rules of the Pendragon game system, including Traits and Passions, Skills, combat, injury and recovery, Glory, Favors, Honor and Glory.Additional rules for Afflictions, Obsessions, Directed Traits, Ideals, ransoms and equipment lists.Rules for The Winter Phase—the downtime period of the game for characters to train, age, and even go on side quests.A Coat of Arms generator to make wholly unique heraldry for your Player-knight.The Pendragon: Player’s Handbook is your guide to Pendragon, containing all the rules you need to play. It is a standalone product which can be combined with other books in the line to enhance your Pendragon experience.

Dungeons & Dragons: 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide Book

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Create thrilling adventures with this revised and expanded Dungeon Master's Guide for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons®. Inside this essential guide is everything new and experienced Dungeon Masters need to weave epic tales, build fantastical worlds, and inspire memorable moments for your party. Intended for Dungeon Masters of all experience levels, this essential resource provides incredibly useful tools and advice for running your D&D game. Includes real-world examples of common pitfalls for Dungeon Masters, along with suggestions for how to handle them. 15 new, ready-to-use, reusable maps for homebrew adventures. Multiple handouts and resources for keeping track of campaigns. Presents Greyhawk as a customizable, ready-to-use campaign setting for Dungeon Masters. Set your adventures within Greyhawk or use it as a foundation for worlds you create. More than 300 new and improved treasures and magical items, including 18 brand new magical items. Contains rules for bastions, strongholds built and controlled by players. With crafting, base-building, and resource gathering, bastions are a fun between-session option for players. Easily find information on key D&D characters and locations with the Lore Glossary. Includes a double-sided poster map depicting Eastern Oerik from the Greyhawk setting and the city of Greyhawk.