Traveling Encounters Volume 1

Traveling Encounters Volume 1
Author: Jerry Joe Seltzer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2020-01-10
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781733083096

Fill your world with wondrous encounters that utilize every aspect of the game. This collection includes 47 encounters to keep everyone entertained and engaged as they journey through your campaign world.

The Ultimate Random Encounters Book

The Ultimate Random Encounters Book
Author: Travis "Wheels" Wheeler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1507216378

"Playing a role-playing game is a delicate dance. If everything runs smoothly, it feels like you and your friends are able to maneuver effortlessly through dramatic, epic, and uproariously silly scenes where everyone gets a chance to shine. And yet, other times it just doesn't come together. Combat slows to a repetitive grind, the Game Master runs out of good Non-Player Character (NPC) ideas, or after twenty-six rounds maybe even the most beautifully designed encounter just gets a bit stale. Sure, you could prep an absolute powerhouse of an all-killer-no filler role-playing session. Spend time getting fun character voices ready for every NPC. But that sounds like way too much work. This is the book you turn to for help. It's a big book of ideas designed to slot right into your existing campaign, organized into neat little tables. If you salivate at chaos magic effect tables and daydream about wild, unexpected die results, you already know it can also be fun to throw caution to the wind and let randomness determine as much as possible. Even the most organized GMs and the tightest adventure modules benefit from a little spice!"--

Brief Encounters

Brief Encounters
Author: Michelle De Kretser
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Love affairs on the road, passionate holiday flings, disastrous pick ups, erotic encounters... In this seductive collection of stories, 22 authors from around the world write about travel romances. Combining fiction and reportage, this is must-have reading - for everyone who has dreamt of escape with that perfect stranger.

Encounters

Encounters
Author: Eurydice Georganteli
Publisher: Giles
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2006
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Focuses on over 50 coins to explore the Byzantine empire's political and socio-economic development and cultural relations with its neighbours.

Places of Encounter, Volume 1

Places of Encounter, Volume 1
Author: Aran MacKinnon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2018-04-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429972954

Places of Encounter provides a place-based approach to world history, focusing on specific locations at critical moments when human history was transformed as a result of encounters-physical, political, cultural, intellectual, and religious. Original, contributed essays by leading academics in the field explore places from Hadar to Xi'an, Salvador to New York, and numerous other locations that have produced historical shockwaves and significant global impact throughout history. With a chronologically organized table of contents, each chapter dissects a particular moment in history, with personal commentary from each contributor, a narrative of the location's historical significance at the time, and a section on significant global connections. Primary sources and discussion questions at the end of each chapter allow students a view into the lives of individuals of the time. Students will experience the narrative of historic individuals as well as modern scholars looking back over documentation to offer their own views of the past, providing students with the perfect opportunity to see how scholars form their own views about history.

Modern Chinese Cultural Encounters

Modern Chinese Cultural Encounters
Author: Judy Zhu
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1440133239

As a Chinese language professor at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLI), Judy Zhu believes that raising cultural awareness is a necessity and should be an ongoing effort regardless of how much one already knows about a foreign language. Modern Chinese Cultural Encounters aims to provide Westerners, especially Americans studying or traveling in China, with a unique Chinese perspective and reference.

Traveling between Worlds

Traveling between Worlds
Author: Thomas Adam
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2006-05-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781585444786

In Traveling between Worlds, six authors explore the connectedness between Germans and Americans in the nineteenth century and their mutual impact on transatlantic history. Despite the ocean between them, these two groups of people were linked not only by the emigration from one to the other but also by ongoing interactions, especially among their intellectuals. Christof Mauch’s introduction examines the history of the German-American exchange and of cultural exchanges in general. Focusing on various aspects of the German-American relationship, Eberhard Bruning, John T. Walker, Thomas Adam, Gabriele Lingelbach, Andrew P. Yox, and Christiane Harzig examine the cultural and communicative exchanges that occurred both between the two countries and within them. Topics such as travel, cultural interpretation, ideological and intellectual transfer, the immigrant experience, and German-American poetry are all considered. Traveling between Worlds demonstrates that exchange was facilitated and maintained by ordinary individuals such as teachers and scholars, immigrants and natives, and held implications that last to this day.

Chance Encounters

Chance Encounters
Author: Janna Graber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2014-11-15
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780990878605

Travel never goes quite like we expect. Planes are late, maps are misread and unexpected detours are made. When this happens, the twisting roads of travel can lead to adventures we never imagined - and lessons we never expected to learn. Sometimes, if we're lucky, we cross paths with people who show us life from a different angle or provide kindness when it's needed most. Those we meet while traveling can change our journey, our experiences or even our lives. Come along with some of the world's top travel writers as they share their stories from around the globe. Meet three Americans who help a Belgian woman find her voice Bust a move with harmonica-playing pygmies in Uganda See how a former enemy can become your friend Watch a Kenyan girl face a heartbreaking custom with bravery Learn from a wise young monk as he hikes in Bhutan Marvel at the kindness of strangers on a pilgrimage in Japan Take an unforgettable elevator ride with a courageous woman in Paris. Gain new understanding during an unspoken conversation in Cambodia Experience Nepal through the eyes of a child Take a wild ride in Turkey depending only on the kindness of strangers And many more... Chance Encounters: Travel Tales from Around the World includes works from the following contributors: Rick Neal Kimberley Lovato Michele Peterson Janna Graber Rob Woodburn Cece Romanyshyn Margie Goldsmith Annia Lekka Christina Hamlett Gabriella Brand Rick Zullo Peter Mandel C. Lill Ahrens Nithin Coca Shilpa Gupta Bill Wasserzieher Sofie Couwenbergh James Michael Dorsey Rebeca Dunn-Krahn John A. Kumiski For more information on each contributor, see http: //tinyurl.com/k4q8xsx

The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011

The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011
Author: Lavinia Spalding
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2011-03-13
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1609520130

Since publishing A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the seventh in an annual series—The Best Women’s Travel Writing—that presents inspiring and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. The common threads are a woman’s perspective and compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn’t. In The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011, readers Have lunch with a mobster in Japan and drinks with an IRA member in Ireland Learn the secrets of flamenco in Spain and the magic of samba in Brazil Deliver a trophy for best testicles in a small town in rural Serbia Fall in love while riding a camel through the Syrian Desert Ski a first descent of over 5,000 feet in Northern India Discover the joy of getting naked in South Korea Leave it all behind to slop pigs on a farm in Ecuador...and much more.

Writing the Dark Side of Travel

Writing the Dark Side of Travel
Author: Jonathan Skinner
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0857458760

The travel experience filled with personal trauma; the pilgrimage through a war-torn place; the journey with those suffering: these represent the darker sides of travel. What is their allure and how are they represented? This volume takes an ethnographic and interdisciplinary approach to explore the writings and texts of dark journeys and travels. In traveling over the dead, amongst the dying, and alongside the suffering, the authors give us a tour of humanity’s violence and misery. And yet, from this dark side, there comes great beauty and poignancy in the characterization of plight; creativity in the comic, graphic, and graffiti sketches and comments on life; and the sense of profound and spiritual journeys being undertaken, recorded, and memorialized.