Dragons in the Stacks

Dragons in the Stacks
Author: Steven A. Torres-Roman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2014-10-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

A one-stop, complete guide to tabletop role-playing games for novice librarians as well as seasoned players. Tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) are a perfect fit for library teen services. They not only hold great appeal for teen patrons, but also help build important skills ranging from math and literacy to leadership and dramatics. Role-playing games are cost-effective too. Dragons in the Stacks explains why RPGs are so effective at holding teenagers' attention, identifies their specific benefits, outlines how to select and maintain a RPG collection, and demonstrates how they can enhance teen services and be used in teen programs. Detailed reviews of role-playing games are included as well, with pointers on their strengths, weaknesses, and library applications. Coauthored by an experienced young adult librarian and an adult services librarian, this is the definitive guide to RPGs in the library, and the only one currently available.

The GenreDiversion Manual

The GenreDiversion Manual
Author: Brett M. Bernstein
Publisher: Precis Intermedia / Politically Incorrect Games
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2009-01
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9780977067350

Go beyond just a diversion with this revised and expanded, universal tabletop roleplaying rules manual that is more versatile, more dynamic, more heroic, and more exciting. This book provides a game system that is not only easy to learn and quick-playing, but also extremely customizable and flexible. The rules are simple, allowing you to get down to business -- playing the game -- quickly. Optional rules can either be ignored or easily implemented -- and provide a framework for building your own game elements. Consistent mechanics for characters, vehicles, and creatures avoid confusion. Built-in rules for magic, and guides for directing the game and adapting older titles expand horizons even further. If you've been looking for a tabletop roleplaying game system that you can sink your teeth into quickly and has the versatility needed for just about any setting, look no further.

Ghostories

Ghostories
Author: Brett M. Bernstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2010-10
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9780977067381

The paranormal is real, or is it? You decide in this roleplaying game of supernatural mystery. Investigate cases involving ghostly encounters, possessed victims, or freakish constructs -- or mortal threats, like rogue sorcerers and diabolists. Portray characters who follow special pursuits in life, such as science, magic, or the occult. Those tainted by the supernatural gain secret knowledges based on their chosen pursuits. From the Second Sight and Divine Arts to Sorcery and the Unholy Arts, use these powers to solve mysteries or defend humanity against the horrors.

The Magicians Tabletop Roleplaying Game System

The Magicians Tabletop Roleplaying Game System
Author: Catherine Gilbert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2021-01-08
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781716249082

The Fillorian System is based on The Magicians by Lev Grossman and SYFY Tv Show. Fan-created, it leads you into a dnd-like system of its own as well as give you the base lore of the world created within this fantasy story.

Lords of Olympus

Lords of Olympus
Author: The Rpgpundit
Publisher:
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9781938270079

Color version. Portray gods and demigods -- children of Olympian Gods, Titans, or Primordials in this diceless roleplaying game of multi-dimensional mythology Fantasy. Explore new realms or the classic worlds of Earth and Mythological Greece. Visit Zeus' Olympus, Poseidon's Seas, or Hades' Underworld. Mix politics with intrigue, alliances with wars as power-struggles and vengeance drive stories. Or, go the route of lesser power with mortals and heroes.

The Broken Covenant of Calebais

The Broken Covenant of Calebais
Author: Mark Rein-Hagen
Publisher: Atlas Games
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2004-11
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781589780712

Fifty years ago, the covenant of Calebais was destroyed. No one knows how or why such a powerful and well-defended group of wizards could possibly fall. Now the truth behind the tragedy comes to light as you and your friends uncover this mystery. From faerie-inhabited forests to the long-abandoned ruins of a wizardly palace to the inner chambers of a secretive convent, The Broken Covenant of Calebais goes to the roots of roleplaying -- to the early days of fantasy stories -- when realism, romance, mystery, and magic were foremost in mind. This revised edition of The Broken Covenant of Calebais is the third version of the adventure to be published for Ars Magica. Calebais was the first adventure published for the First Edition of the game, and was reworked for Second Edition. Now, to coincide with the release of the game's Fifth Edition, this classic has been revised and expanded once more. Although the plot, setting, and atmosphere remain the same, the text has been almost completely rewritten to integrate this classic adventure into the newest and best version of Ars Magica.

Stormrift

Stormrift
Author: Peter C. Spahn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2011-01
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9780983256014

The alien Korr have come, crippling the once-mighty global superpowers and leaving the Earth defenseless. Tanks have stopped moving and planes stay grounded. Now, a horde of bioengineered, alien war-machines sweeps across the countryside, killing everything. But there is still hope. pockets of resistance have begun to gather and fight the invaders. Outnumbered and outgunned, they need your help. Do you have what it takes to close the stormrifts and halt the invasion of Earth? This stand-alone game is powered by Precis Intermedia's critically-acclaimed genreDiversion third edition rules, requiring only two 6-sided dice and can be played with or without miniatures.

Hell's Feast

Hell's Feast
Author: Greg Farshtey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2011-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780983256069

Jack Deacon was just another average gumshoe on another average case. Until his client flashed a set of fangs, the sentinels came calling, and an out-of-town caster tossed a spell with his name on it. Now he has to track down a bizarre killer or take the ultimate fall.

Leaving

Leaving
Author: Vaclav Havel
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0571301398

Chancellor Rieger is leaving office. But does leaving office necessarily mean that he, his mistress and his extended family have to leave the state villa, which has been their home for years? While his former secretary, and the former secretary to his former secretary, grapple with the mechanics of change and his family prepare to vace an uncertain future, the chancellor himself considers his legacy amid visits from journalists, an infatuated student and his arch-rival and possible successor, Patrick Klein. With echoes of both King Lear and The Cherry Orchard, Vaclav Havel's Leaving addresses the themes of change, dispossession and the transfer of power from one generation to the next. The play received its English-language world premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in September 2008. Leaving is Vaclav Havel's first play since he was propelled to political office in 1989.

Dark Albion

Dark Albion
Author: RPGPundit
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2016-05-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781533506429

Dark Albion: Cults of Chaos is a gaming supplement for Dark Albion (also available on Createspace / Amazon), as well as most OSR fantasy-horror role-playing games. It will help you generate various Chaos Cults in detail (many tables are provided). It then describes the most common Chaos cults found in Albion (those worshiping demons, and others), gives advice on how running Chaos cults adventures (several tables are provided), and proposes three ready-to-use dungeons (i.e.: maps plus descriptions of contents for three dungeons that would be perfect for cultists lairs). This supplement is usable with any RPG of the OSR movement, such as Fantastic Heroes & Witchery (also available on Createspace / Amazon), Osric, Labyrinth Lord, etc.