Gary Gygax's Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds Volume 3

Gary Gygax's Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds Volume 3
Author: Gary Gygax
Publisher: Troll Lord Games
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781931275224

For the vigilant writer, driven publisher or game designer, Volume 3 of the Gygaxian Fantasy World series drives forward the gathering host of information brought to you by the Gygaxian Fantasy World series. From the encampments of common folk and wanderers to the teeming streets of walled towns, this work brings the fantastic world of magic to life. Game designers captain their own creations when they master knowledge of the high and low, the hamlets and towns, cities and castles and all that accompanies life in a world of our own imagining. More than that, Everyday Life breathes strength into the arms of your imaginings with pirates and palace life, eating and entertainment, villains and vagabonds, communications and commerce. Whatever is found in the daily life of a typical fantasy world is covered herein. Sound the note of world creation with Gary Gygax's Everyday Life.

Living Fantasy

Living Fantasy
Author: Gary Gygax
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-10
Genre: Fantasy games
ISBN: 9781931275347

This second volume in the Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds series marshals a veritable host of information for the game designer. Unburdened with flavor text this tome is a collection of militantly organized definitions, lists, tables and charts with an army of information from the mundane to the extraordinary. The World Builder covers outdoor settings, indoor living settings, merchandise with a completely illustrated armor and weapons section and everyday facts from the government structure to the tensile strength of rope.

Gary Gygax's Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds Volume 1

Gary Gygax's Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds Volume 1
Author: Gary Gygax
Publisher: Troll Lord Games
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781931275088

In The Canting Crew, volume I of the Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds, Gygax explores the underworld of city life. Theives, their guilds, organization, a complete dictionary of the language they speak, the signs they use, everything a player or DM may want or need to know about the underclasses, new weapons and more this book is a must have.

The Atlas of Medieval Man

The Atlas of Medieval Man
Author: Colin Platt
Publisher: Saint Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1979
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780312115494

Covering the years between AD 1,000 to 1,500, an illustrated volume includes information on the Norman Conquest, the Crusades, the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, and the spread of Islam. By the author of Medieval England. Reprint.

The Mother Tongue

The Mother Tongue
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2015-06-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0062417444

“Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles Times With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can’t), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world’s largest growth industries.

Native Tongues

Native Tongues
Author: Charles Berlitz
Publisher: Castle Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-01-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780785818274

This book is a unique storehouse of surprising, thought provoking, fascinating and useful facts about human speech and the written word.