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This pamphlet is a short summary of the leadership lessons from Machiavelli’s The Prince that I wrote as a quick reference for a story. I thought that game masters, authors, strategy gamers and others might find it useful too. There are two sections: the Short Version, which summarizes the book’s lessons by subject, and the Long Version, which provides the lessons by chapter from the original. ... [click here for more] |
Cerberus Games |
$0.99
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When Cthulhu calls . . . W. Paul Ganley answers!
This volume collects a treasure trove of Cthulhu Mythos and dark fantasy stories -- all told, a baker's dozen -- by the World Fantasy Award-winning editor of WEIRDBOOK magazine!
The 13 stories featured are:
ANCIENT EVIL
OTHERS, WHO ARE NOT MEN
ESSENTIAL SALTES
I AM HUMAN
WORMS
FALLOUT
THE VAULT OF KARNUNNA
THE GREAT HERO
IN THE TEMPLE... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
$3.99
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Listed as one of Jessica Lucci's "Top 10 Best of 2019"!
Some dolls just can't be saved.
Two short and twisted tales entwine with a body of dark poetry in the latest book from Ashley Grant.
In "Poor Dolly", a cherished toy watches from the shelf as a looming... [click here for more] |
Dark Gatekeeper Gaming |
$4.99
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Your average book on mythology will tell about, say, Hades, and in the course of it mention that he was a death divinity. If you want to learn about death divinities in general, then you've still got a lot of work ahead of you.
This book approaches things from the opposite direction, which should be useful for worldbuilders. Rather than tell you about individual gods, this book explains... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$4.95
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Welcome to the Rocket Age!
Inside you will find four stories from a Solar System that never was and a 1938 that should have been. Journey to Mars, scour the vastness of space, and face impossible odds battling criminals, rouge princes, and Nazis!
Three Aces for the Dancer by Ed Greenwood
The Ghost Aces, an elite team of operatives, must lose a rocket ship, but not... [click here for more] |
Why Not Games |
$1.99
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Humans Are Weird is chock full ideas for making humans stand out from other beings in your setting, letting you avoid both well-worn tropes like "Humans are average at everything" or "Humans are, um, adaptable, I guess?" and nonsensical traits like "Only humans come from a multi-biome world."
This book contains 21 scenarios, from a galaxy where humans are the only bipeds to a fantasy world... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$2.95
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It's easy to make aliens: take a person or a dog, slap some antennae on 'em, maybe some ooze and some spooky talons, and then put some random letters together in a nigh-unpronounceable combination.
As I said, it's easy to make aliens. What isn't easy is making them well.
Even when you're working hard to be creative, it can sometimes be hard to get out of the rut of familiarity, to go... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$2.95
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The Man from Z.O.M.B.I..E. Series
It is the early 1960s. A secret war is being waged within the Cold War between the agents of Z.O.M.B.I.E. (Zero Organic Members of the Bureau of International Enforcement) and its rival, P.U.R.I.T.A.N. (The Peoples Union for the Reclamation of International Terror, Anarchy and Nihilism). These opposing Deep States contend for global power by any means possible... [click here for more] |
Mutant Brainchild |
$3.99
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Gardner F. Fox (1911-1986) enjoyed a long and successful career writing in many genres. He wrote adventure novels, spy novels, romances, historical novels, fantasy and science fiction, comic books (more than 4,000 of them!) -- everything imaginable, in fact, and with a skill and surety that won him a legion of fans and readers worldwide.
In the 1960s, at the peak of the sword and sorcery craze, when... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
$0.99
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Aliens, Dystopias, & Monster Ecologies is a series of worldbuilding essays on alien psychologies and ethical systems, functional dystopias, recreating vampires and werewolves, original elemental systems, and figuring out just how many human-eating monsters your setting can support.
This content previously appeared on Seventh Sanctum, The Oak Wheel, Sanitarium Magazine,... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$4.95
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Political Fantasies is a series that takes names for governments and plays around with them to see how far they can be pulled. In the tradition of Strange Nations, the results of each exploration can be dropped into your setting with little-to-no adaptation required.
This volume explores thalassocracy, or "rule by the sea." The first section discusses the common traits... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$2.95
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Political Fantasies is a series that takes names for governments and plays around with them to see how far they can be pulled. In the tradition of Strange Nations, the results of each exploration can be dropped into your setting with little-to-no adaptation required.
This volume explores necrocracy or "rule by the dead," with possibilities like restricting the... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$2.95
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Becoming a Better Writer Through Roleplaying is a series of essays on using RPGs to improve your writing, how and why you should build a fandom, horror and the heroine's journey, writing fight scenes, and point of view (both the fourth person point of view, if such a thing even exists, and the second person point of view).
This content previously appeared on Seventh Sanctum, The... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$2.95
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Generally, designing a culture for a book or a game presents you with a choice: either you base it on real-world cultures and likely end up with something that could be described as "Fantasy Bedouin with some Navajo bits tacked on" or you run hog wild and run the risk of overlooking something that, however innocuous, turns out to be vitally important for that type of culture.
There's another way... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$2.95
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Generally, designing a culture for a book or a game presents you with a choice: either you base it on real-world cultures and likely end up with something that could be described as "Fantasy Bedouin with some Navajo bits tacked on" or you run hog wild and run the risk of overlooking something that, however innocuous, turns out to be vitally important for that type of culture.
There's another way... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$2.95
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Generally, designing a culture for a book or a game presents you with a choice: either you base it on real-world cultures and likely end up with something that could be described as "Fantasy Bedouin with some Navajo bits tacked on" or you run hog wild and run the risk of overlooking something that, however innocuous, turns out to be vitally important for that type of culture.
There's another way... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$2.95
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There are many good resources out there for creating new languages, but they tend to focus more on how words change over time than on the meanings of place-names. This booklet is intended to fill the gap. It not only includes lists of historical place-names but discusses the patterns and logic behind these names.
Don't forget to buy the companion to this booklet, The Meaning of Names: Persons and... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$2.95
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In 1993, David Koresh predicted the end of the world.
What if he was right?
Cyrus doesn't believe in David's predictions, and he's not interested in being part of a cult. But after the sudden death of his brother, his parents split up and his mom drags him to Waco, Texas against his will. At least he's not alone. His friends, Marshal and Rachel, have equally sad stories that end... [click here for more] |
Apex Book Company |
$6.99
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Meet Denderin, an 18 year old, swift learner, who has no idea what he wants to do with his life.
His family wants him to continue the family farm, he went to university instead, barely graduating. He later determined that isn't what he wanted to do with his life either!
In and out of jobs, he lives a life with an unsure future. How can he support himself with no income? How can he live without... [click here for more] |
Dave Gregoire |
Pay What You Want
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Dewey had always lived in the house, and defended it against scores of intruders. Then came a strange woman, and everything changed. ... [click here for more] |
D.A. Graf |
Pay What You Want
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"The Wrong Ship" is a 1,600 word short story about a programmer on the run from the authorities, who winds up stowing away on, you guessed it, the wrong spaceship. It features an artificial intelligence named Charlie, one 1980s film reference, and a stunning lack of helpfulness from the laws of physics.
This story's release was funded on Kickstarter, and it is now available under a Creative... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
Pay What You Want
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A novel of Interstellar Contact, Virtual Worlds, and the Future of Humanity.
Earth is empty of humans. This surprising observation stymies Rome and his shipmates, crew of the starship come to re-establish contact from the colonies. What could have happened in the 500-years of the non-interference treaty to vanish everyone?
Meanwhile, on Earth, Emily is living her computer-simulated life, along... [click here for more] |
Guardbridge Books |
$2.99
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There are many good resources out there for creating new languages, but they tend to focus more on how words change over time than on the meanings of personal or group names.
This booklet is intended to fill the gap. It not only includes lists of historical names (personal, family, and ethnic) but discusses the patterns and logic behind these names.
Don't forget to buy the companion to this booklet,... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$2.95
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This is exactly what it says on the tin: a list of 108 forms of money. If you've ever wanted someone in your setting to use something other than cash or gold coins, then look no further.
This list includes 16 food items, 19 animal products, 8 consumable items, 16 plant products, 27 forms of metal money from balls to nails, and 22 more forms of money that couldn't fit into a neat category like the... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$1.00
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This is exactly what it says on the tin: a list of 108 swords, polearms, and other sharp things from Europe. If you've ever wanted to give a little more detail to your character's sword or give some flavor to the weapons of your NPCs, then look no further.
This list includes 42 swords, 42 polearms & javelins, and 24 other sharp things like bodkin arrows, morning stars, and throwing darts. It... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$1.00
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Are you looking to mine a few ideas for the batfolk in your upcoming adventure, The Diamond Mines of Camazotz? Writing some Planet of the Apes fanfiction and wondering what kind of sports gorillas might play?
If so, then look no further! Whether you're working on uplifted animals, animal folk, or just plain talking animals, this book can be used for it all.
Primates and... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$2.95
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A mysterious stranger happens upon the town of Burlton, Arkansas and is greeted with hostility by local law enforcement, because the community has shut its borders to outsiders, for public safety.
The man is apprehended and embodies some strange contradictions. He dresses as a British aristocrat, talks with a southern accent, exhibits keen gun skills, and outsmarts the local powers-that-be at every... [click here for more] |
All Day Breakfast Productions |
$24.99 $4.99
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One of the quickest ways to start building cultures for your setting is to take inspiration from actually-existing cultures. What do you do when you don't want to crib off the same culture cultures that everyone else has used a hundred times before?
Essential Ethnographies offers the convenience of building from preexisting cultures and the flexibility and novelty of working with cultures... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
$2.95
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A dead chemist and the sabotage of a steel mill's products come up against the determination of Ray Locke to clear himself, after a year in prison, of a framed charge.
Who is the man who wrecked a train with a faulty axel?
Successive "accidents" require the assistance of General Ulysses Grant Flint for their solution...and Ray keeps coming back to the steel mill, which seems to hold... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
$0.99
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Argus has been at peace for five years. Perseus has defeated the gorgon Medusa and slain the Kraken, assuming the throne. His people celebrate as he and his wife, Queen Andromeda expect their first born. But not everyone rejoices for the royal couple.
The evil Calibus, once thought dead, has been released by Hades from the underworld. The Pretender has taken his bride, his position, and his favor... [click here for more] |
TidalWave Productions |
$3.99
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This selection of horror stories has been published for Halloween 2014. It includes the very first publication of "Night Should Be Black," by classic WEIRD TALES author Everil Worrell -- an unpublished story found among her papers after her death. Good stuff!
Included are:
"The Eyes," by Edith Wharton
"Mysterious Maisie," by Wirt Gerrare
"The Open Door,"... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
$0.99
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After seven wretched years of marriage, it almost took Darius everything he had, financially and psychologically, to finally be able to cut off Allison - his sociopath wife - from his life. Now, three years later, things couldn't be going any better for Darius. An accomplished author with multiple Hollywood adaptations of his books, his life is nothing like the drama it used to be before his divorce.... [click here for more] |
All Day Breakfast Productions |
$14.99 $2.99
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Dante Benevetti is the darling of the music world…and why not? He’s handsome, talented—and arrogant as only a man convinced of his own brilliance can be. As far as he’s concerned, the rest of the world exists for his benefit.
So, when he hears Dante is dead, a victim of murder, Elliott isn’t really surprised. Nor is he surprised when Dante comes for a post-mortem visit,... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
$4.99
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It is the height of the Cold War and the two power-blocs stand on the brink of war. On a routine patrol, US bombers receive a coded message. Doomsday has arrived; the fight for democracy, freedom and bodily fluids has just gone nuclear…
The official novelisation of the classic film, Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a hilarious and provocative... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
$6.99
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There’s something very wrong with this world. There is a war going on in the Middle East and, somehow, we are all involved without really wanting to be. The reality is that the common and the average North American doesn’t hate the people of the Middle East. This belief has been constructed by the untruthful media because the corrupted politicians of both parties need us to hate and fear... [click here for more] |
All Day Breakfast Productions |
FREE
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GOOD LUCK CAN BE DANGEROUS
With a new building to restore and his relationship with Steve growing more serious, the last thing Elliott wants are someone else’s problems. Still, when lottery millionaire Bruno Caesar moves into his building, Elliott can’t just ignore the man’s need for help.
Bruno’s life comes to an abrupt end when he falls from his balcony. It might be nothing... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
$4.99
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Aaron Stiles is dead. He’s been dead for four years but doesn’t seem to know it. He’s waiting for his partner Bill to come home, and until that happens, he’s not going anywhere. The trouble is, Bill Somers won’t be coming home—ever—because he’s dead, too. The official verdict was suicide, but…
The last thing Elliott Smith needs in his latest... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
$4.99
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Elliott Smith wakes up in the hospital with a head injury...and an invisible companion. At first, he's convinced "John" is just a figment of a damaged brain, but when Elliott is fully recovered John is still around—and desperate to find out who he is. Reluctantly, Elliott agrees to help, and discovers Chicago PD has a John Doe on their hands with six bullets in him—who died in... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
$4.99
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Kenneth Grahame was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908, included), one of the classics of children’s literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon (included here as part of Dream Days); both books were later adapted into Disney films. Contents:
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
THE GOLDEN AGE
DREAM DAYS
PAGAN PAPERS
THE HEADSWOMAN
If you enjoy this ebook, don't... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
$0.99
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At the gala opening of a new library filled with homosexual writings collected by the late Charles Burrows, known for both his taste in writing, as well as his eccentricity, Dick Hardesty and his partner Jonathan are enjoying a rare night out since four-year-old Joshua joined their household. The evening takes an abrupt turn when cataloger Taylor Cates is found dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
$4.99
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As America's economic and cultural influence grew in the 20th Century, the history of the literary arts in Europe cast a long shadow onto this burgeoning nation. And thus, the myth of the Great American Novel was born of a loaded question—would the United States ever produce a work to rival the accepted great works of Western Culture? Many tried. And, in the trying, many looked to model themselves... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
$0.99
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What is One-Pager?
A new one page story every week.
One-Pager is the direct result of a challenge I made to myself in 2011, a challenge to tell a new story every week with a different cast, and to tell that complete story in only one page. An exercise in brevity of writing, condensing stories if you will.
Each week myself and a team of amazing professional comic creators bring you a... [click here for more] |
All Day Breakfast Productions |
FREE
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Just in time for the Avengers movie!
What if the greatest heroes on Earth were teamed up to take on the world’s biggest threats?
Or at least whoever was available was thrown together to deal with some shizzle?
In their Avengers-parodying debut, the mysterious WHITE OUT has brought together a dysfunctional bunch of heroes - MAXI-TRON, MS. F, MASON, NITE FANG and...STEFANOS - to take down... [click here for more] |
All Day Breakfast Productions |
$4.99 $2.49
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portfolio sample of inks recently done by professional comic creator Mike Gagnon. Includes comparisons to original art. Includes Classics Illustrated work by Lou Cameron and Joe Orlando. ... [click here for more] |
All Day Breakfast Productions |
FREE
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Collects Monkeys and Midgets issues 1-4!
The inept owners of the Empire Wrestling Legue are aout to drive the organization into the ground. Again!. They decide to use a simian mascot to generatre new interest, but when the ape breaks free and pummels one of their athletes they decide that makingntheir diminutive athletes battle apes in the ring is a much better way to cash in! All ages fun... [click here for more] |
All Day Breakfast Productions |
$11.99 $4.99
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5 Doors is a collection of 5 Short Stories: Light, Home Office, Moonlighting, Hats and Keys and Revolution. Open the door to a new world of mystery, magic, and humor with your key to the 5 Doors. You may discover a dream you have forgotten along the way... ... [click here for more] |
Grey Wolf Writes |
Pay What You Want
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Sammy Itzkowitz was born on Christmas in a hole in the ground, under the home of a brave Polish family who hid his Jewish family from the Nazis. After coming to Brooklyn at war's end, Sammy awaits with eager anticipation the arrival of the holidays: his birthday, Hanukkah and Christmas. He is dismayed to discover what he sees as indifference to the true meaning of Christmas, and ignorance of Hanukkah... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
$2.99
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The first in a fantasy series of dark fairytale stories, The Winter King. Stories in this series can be read as stand-alone pieces, but also weave together to form a broad plot arc. ... [click here for more] |
Hob Goodfellowe |
FREE
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Tales of guardian spirits and divine powers, demonic powers and ghosts encompass this anthology of all new fantasy and science fiction stories. Drawing on the rich tradition of place-as-person, the concept of 'genius loci' is indeed an ancient one and found in nearly every human mythology. Within its pages, the authors present stories of sentient deserts, beneficent forests, lonely shrubs, and protective... [click here for more] |
Outland Entertainment |
$7.99
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It seemed like a simple job—guide Josh and Sarah to Bow Ridge to live with their aunt until they reached their 18th birthday. It was what their aunt Rebecca wanted, and the best choice Calico Ramsey thought he could make.
But someone wants them dead, which makes no sense to Calico. Neither do the feelings aroused by the nearness of the handsome young man from Chicago—feelings that seem... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
$4.99
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