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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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How can you adapt a classic Sherlock Holmes mystery into your own adventure?
The Red-Headed League (A Study in Storytelling #2) helps you to deconstruct the original story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. You can then reimagine, remix, and recycle the story elements into any genre or setting. Designed for writers and roleplayers, use it to create original fiction or tabletop adventures!... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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Decades of GMing Experience at Your Fingertips!
“Kobold Press builds on its excellent track record with another great release—new and provocative.” —Mike Mearls
Whether it’s advice from grognards who were running games at the dawn of RPGs, or suggestions from the new generation of game designers, these 21 essays by experts are here to help you improve your... [click here for more] |
Kobold Press |
$19.99 $9.99
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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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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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Add more terror and suspense to your horror adventures!
Horror Stories (Genre Structure Vol. 1) helps you to develop and tell frightful tales of dread and darkness. It is an essential sourcebook for creating fiction and tabletop adventures. Written for writers and roleplayers, with clear step-by-step instructions, you can:
Determine which horror genre elements you wish... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$7.00 $4.99
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How can you add more excitement and bold vision to your science fiction adventures?
Science Fiction (Genre Structure Vol. 2) helps you to develop and tell tales of discovery and possibility. It is an essential sourcebook for creating fiction and tabletop adventures. Written for writers and roleplayers, with clear step-by-step instructions, you can:
Determine which science... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$7.00 $4.99
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How can you adapt a classic Sherlock Holmes mystery into your own adventure?
A Case of Identity (A Study in Storytelling #3) helps you to deconstruct the original story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. You can then reimagine, remix, and recycle the story elements into any genre or setting. Designed for writers and roleplayers, use it to create original fiction or tabletop adventures!... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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When East and West survived on a knife-edge between peace and war, both sides were busy preparing themselves for military action. But what exactly would NATO's troops have faced if the Cold War had suddenly turned hot?
Tanks and Combat Vehicles of the Warsaw Pact is a fascinating reference book looking at the wide variety of combat vehicles which were poised and ready for action throughout the long... [click here for more] |
Shilka Publishing |
$11.99 $4.99
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In Hobby Games: The 100 Best, the top designers, authors, and publishers in the hobby games field write about the most enjoyable and cleverly designed games of the last fifty years. Their essays cover the gamut of the hobby market, from roleplaying games to collectible card games, and miniatures games to wargames to board games, with titles both familiar and esoteric. These are the games that... [click here for more] |
Green Ronin |
$9.99
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In Family Games: The 100 Best, top game designers and publishers write about the most enjoyable, most cleverly designed titles of the last one hundred years. Their essays cover the spectrum from board games to card games, wargames to miniatures games to role-playing games, including old favorites and little known gems. These are the games that the designers themselves play, the ones that have... [click here for more] |
Green Ronin |
$9.95
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How can you adapt a classic Sherlock Holmes mystery into your own adventure?
A Scandal in Bohemia (A Study in Storytelling #1) helps you to deconstruct the original story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. You can then reimagine, remix, and recycle the story elements into any genre or setting. Designed for writers and roleplayers, use it to create original fiction or tabletop adventures!... [click here for more] |
Dancing Lights Press |
$2.00
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A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association
The masters of horror have united to teach you the secrets of success in the scariest genre of all!
In On Writing Horror, Second Edition, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, David Morrell, Jack Ketchum, and many others tell you everything you need to know to successfully write and publish horror novels and short stories.... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$16.99 $10.99
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In this booklet we’ll be approaching role-playing games like an exercise in collaborative storytelling. The GM and players are authors in more-or-less equal measure, though the GM bears perhaps a little more responsibility than the others in terms of keeping everything organized. These tips are based on the author’s career experience as a screenwriter and author of genre fiction. ... [click here for more] |
Taoscordian Games |
$4.99
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If you want to spark new ideas for worlds, plots or characters, you want Ideas and Inspiration for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers. Medicinal corpses, the jargons of thieves and carnies, Nazi UFOs, the colonization of space and green children from nowhere are only a few of the topics covered. This sourcebook is for all writers of fantasy or science fiction--whether novels, short stories,... [click here for more] |
Good Looking Corpse |
$0.99
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Aradia is a prominent figure for many Wiccan traditions, as well as other neo-pagan belief systems. Some have revered her as a Moon Goddess, while to others she is the Queen of Witches.
First published in 1899 by Charles Leland, and believed to be a collection of religious rites utilized by a coven of pagan witches in Tuscany, The Gospel of Witches holds spells to invoke and conjure Diana,... [click here for more] |
5Realms Publishing |
Pay What You Want
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If you're nearly finished with your novel, you may be staring down one of the writer's toughest foes: doubt. In "Battling Doubt," John Vorhaus shares his candid advice on assessing whether your book is ready for submission and publication. This exclusive e-book offers practical advice on smoothing out those last few wrinkles, conquering your fears, and celebrating your completed novel. John... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$2.99
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Ever wonder why you could quickly identify a character’s role in a story? How is it you can understand a character’s motivations from a few scant details? Can you leverage this same ability in your own stories?
Archetypal Roles shows you this and more by hitting all the high and low points in character traits to create the seeds of more than a million types of characters... [click here for more] |
Richard T. Balsley |
$5.99
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Readers will learn how to create dialogue that sizzles, with tips on creating dialogue for specific genres; bringing characters to life with revealing dialogue; identifying and fixing common dialogue problems; and more.
Includes examples of successful dialogue drawn from bestselling novels, and chapter-ending exercises. ... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$16.99 $9.99
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Fiction writers can now learn to craft an engaging plot with this new book from the best-selling author and columnist.James Scott Bell offers clear, concise information that will help you create a believable and memorable plot including techniques for crafting strong beginnings, middles and endings, with easy to understand plotting diagrams and charts.
Bell also provides brainstorming techniques... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$16.99 $9.99
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Hamilton's newest and edgiest new comedy and comic book themed zine! Awesome humor, funny articles, comic strips and more! Enjoy the laughs! ... [click here for more] |
My Illuminati Media |
Pay What You Want
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Hamilton's newest and edgiest new comedy and comic book themed zine! Awesome humor, funny articles, comic strips and more! Enjoy the laughs!
PLUS! An EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with NORMAN REEDUS, star of THE WALKING DEAD!
Norman talks about Boondock Saints, The Walking Dead, kids, and the comics and video games based on both franchises!
Plus comic strips and interviews with today's most exciting up-and-coming... [click here for more] |
My Illuminati Media |
Pay What You Want
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Writers Blocks is a fast paced, domino based role-playing game where every player takes turns as either the person telling the story or being the focus character of a scene. With this book and a set of Double Twelve dominoes any small group of friends can have a limitless number of one shot role-playing games without being bogged down in hours of character creation, the effort of organizing a pre-designed... [click here for more] |
Eschaton Media |
$7.99
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Prolific, popular and critically acclaimed, Michael Moorcock is the most important British fantasy author of his generation. His Elric of Melnibone is an iconic figure for millions of fans but Moorcock has also been a pioneer in science fiction and historical fiction. He was hailed as the central figure of the "New Wave" in science fiction, and has won numerous awards for his fantasy and... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$29.95 $15.99
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Created around the world and available only on the web, Internet "television" series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through crowd-funding, they are filmed with borrowed equipment and volunteer casts and crews, and viewers find them through word of mouth or by chance.
The fourth in a series covering... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$45.00 $24.99
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Inklings is a collection of 58 pages of artist Stephanie Law's ink drawings from 2010 to 2011. This little gem is filled with whimsical illustrations of fairytales, mythical creatures like dragons, phoenixes, kitsunes, clockwork birds, and other fantastical subjects. ... [click here for more] |
Shadowscapes Press |
$5.50
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Inklings is a collection of 50 pages of artist Stephanie Law's ink drawings from 2000 to 2008. Hardcopy of this book has been out of print for many years, so this is a unique and hard to find volume of whimsical artwork. Fairy woods are populated by eldritch creatures, dryads, satyrs. Powerful goddeses swirl across the page alongside delicate fairies. Get a glimpse into the artist's mind in the commentary... [click here for more] |
Shadowscapes Press |
$5.50
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The Shadowscapes Tarot, by Stephanie Law, has been a best-selling tarot deck since 2009.
The Art of Shadowscapes Tarot Minor Arcana displays all the artwork from the Minor Arcana in beautiful high resolution. All the details that you're craving to see close up when holding a deck-sized version in your hand are beautifully presented in this book, along with detailed musings... [click here for more] |
Shadowscapes Press |
$15.00
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Cooking techniques are included in the recipes that will further enhance the flavor of the foods to bring you a more enjoyable dining experience. If the food is not at its best during preparation, the result will suffer.
The difference between a chef and a cook is in the scientific method of preparation. These “tricks of the trade” are revealed here in many of the recipes, such as how... [click here for more] |
RobStetson.com |
FREE
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A Critical Study of the Black and White Publications of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
This is a critical overview of monster magazines from the 1950s through the 1970s. "Monster magazine" is a blanket term to describe both magazines that focus primarily on popular horror movies and magazines that contain stories featuring monsters, both of which are illustrated in comic book... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$35.00 $19.99
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Marvel Studios’ approach to its Cinematic Universe—beginning with the release of Iron Man (2008)—has become the template for successful management of blockbuster film properties. Yet films featuring Marvel characters can be traced back to the 1940s, when the Captain America serial first appeared on the screen.
This collection of new essays is the first to explore the historical,... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$35.00 $18.99
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Superheroes have been an integral part of popular society for decades and have given rise to a collective mythology familiar in popular culture worldwide.
Though scholars and fans have recognized and commented on this mythology, its structure has gone largely unexplored. This book provides a model and lexicon for identifying the superhero mythos.
The author examines the myth in several narratives--including... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$35.00 $18.99
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Begin transmission . . . Running weekly from May 2015 to April 2016, The Canister X Transmission was sent via email to readers worldwide. Every week, readers received updates from the desk of A.P. Fuchs that served as a behind-the-scenes gateway into his views on the publishing industry and past work. The newsletter covered four main topics: Writing/Creating/Publishing, in which... [click here for more] |
Coscom Entertainment |
$12.99 $2.99
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This is the inspiring true story of what happens when ordinary people unite to make a stand against evil.
Lidice was a peaceful and vibrant community in Czechoslovakia with a rich mining heritage. But an act of Nazi revenge saw this village wiped from existence in a horrifying chapter of European history.
Disaster struck for Lidice in 1942 when the prominent Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich was... [click here for more] |
Shilka Publishing |
$2.99
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There are three problems with supermarket sausages, hot dogs and jerky.
1, They contain preservatives and carcinogens.
2. They are way too expensive.
3. They are not spiced exactly the way you would most enjoy them.
Stop paying high prices for the supermarket brand jerky, hot dogs and sausages. It is easier than you think to turn out a far superior product in bulk, for far less money.... [click here for more] |
RobStetson.com |
$3.99
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An easier way to change your diet by dividing your day into quadrants. Never get hungry before it’s meal time again.
This is a lifestyle change, not just a weight loss diet, but you can lose weight far more easily using this method and ease into painless weight management mode when your target weight is achieved.
Allows you to have four good meals a day and distribute the calories, carbs,... [click here for more] |
RobStetson.com |
$3.99
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Before Wells wrote Little Wars, he created what some would consider to be a sort of companion book to it. Published in 1912, Floor Games instructs creative children of all ages on some very imaginative activities for rainy days... or even sunny ones.
This edition includes the photos from the original publication and faithfully retains the integrity of the antique font. ... [click here for more] |
5Realms Publishing |
Pay What You Want
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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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The Politics, Literary Influences and Cultural History of Kenneth Johnson's V
When Kenneth Johnson's science fiction miniseries V premiered in 1983, it netted more than 40 percent of the television viewing audience and went on to spawn a sequel, a weekly series, novelizations, comic books and a remake. Yet the 2009 V reboot was cancelled in its second season, despite a robust premiere.... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$19.99 $9.99
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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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All Aboard! Hop on to travel the world with this colorful collection of beautifully illustrated picture puzzles.
Take a riverboat safari in Africa, kayak in the Arctic, and go walkabout in the Australian Outback. Then go Scottish country dancing, wear a fahionable Ghanaian Kanga Cloth, and do the Tango with an Argentine Alligator. Don’t forget to visit the Carnival in Rio, a Parisian... [click here for more] |
Planet Urf Entertainment |
$9.99 $4.99
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Toys--those celebrated childhood cohorts and lead actors in children's imaginative play--have a fantastic history of heroism in fiction. From teddy bears that guard sleeping babies to plastic soldiers and cowboys who lay siege to wooden block castles, toys are often the heroes of the stories children inspire authors to tell.
In this collection of new essays, scholars from a range of disciplines... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$29.95 $15.99
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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 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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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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During my third year of medical school I stumbled upon an online article about calorie restriction with optimal nutrition. I read about an apparently simple diet intervention that prolonged the average and maximum lifespan of laboratory animals such as yeast, fruit flies, worms and mice. At that time, I wasn’t aware that such experiments were already done on non-human primates too. Honestly,... [click here for more] |
Anca Ioviţă |
$6.99
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Aging is a puzzle to solve. This process is traditionally studied in a couple of biological models like fruit flies, worms and mice. What all these species have in common is their fast aging. This is excellent for lab budgets. It is a great short-term strategy. Who has time to study species that live for decades? But lifespan differences among species are magnitudes of order larger than any lifespan... [click here for more] |
Anca Ioviţă |
$9.99
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Are you at a crossroads? Do you wonder what should you do with your life? Would life be easier if you could only get some direction? Even if people don't chit-chat about legacies, these are questions arising during silent nights in the mind of almost everyone. Especially in those of us reaching certain life miles like adulthood, middle life and retirement. Have you ever noticed the process of metamorphosis... [click here for more] |
Anca Ioviţă |
$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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From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Joss Whedon's work presents various representations of home spaces that give depth to his stories and storytelling. Through the spaceship in Firefly, a farmhouse in Avengers: Age of Ultron or Whedon's own house in Much Ado About Nothing, his work collectively offers audiences the opportunity to question the ways we relate to and inhabit... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$35.00 $18.99
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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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