The Role of Character Part 1

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Dec 112014

The Role of Character

What does it mean to have character? If you are like most players you will start defining your path by picking your race and rolling some stats. Then you pick a class and maybe an alignment, and then you gear up for adventure. For many that’s all there is to creating a character, but for what I believe to be a much more exciting experience, personality needs to be bred into the character. I don’t mean a superficial background that is created by a few random rolls; I mean one that gives a certain amount of depth to one’s personality thus influencing thought patterns. Creating a character like that is a challenge that introduces ethical challenges that go beyond an alignment or dispositions established by a particular game system.

Savage Worlds: The Widening Gyre

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Oct 302014

Savage Worlds: The Widening Gyre

$24.95

Welcome to The 19th Century That Never Was!

It is a world of wonder, of horror, of adventure, of magic, of strange technology and unprecedented cultural revolution. This is the age that nearly was, filled with radium-powered flying machines, clockwork automata, and steam-driven computers. It is an age of dark magic, sinister secrets, and unholy cults. It is a time in which the world teeters on the edge of disaster, where the enlightened scientific mind battled against ancient superstition and ignorance, in which the souls of all mankind hung in the balance.

The Widening Gyre presents an original steampunk campaign setting designed for use with the Savage Worlds rules.

206 pages

The Whole Hole Vol. 1 (Savage Worlds)

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Mar 132014

The Whole Hole Vol. 1 (Savage Worlds)

$29.95 SRP

The Whole Hole – A Gadabout’s Guide to Mutha Oith, Volume 1: Keister Island is the first in a series of guidebooks designed to immerse the reader within and among the places, peeps, beasts, and happenings of the various realms of Mutha Oith.

Join intrepid gadabout Toucanacondor Flaminguez as he tours Keister Island. You’ll explore dozens of locales, meet hundreds of peeps, examine new religions, gawp in awe at wondrous magics, and run in terror from a bunsload of horrifying monstrosities. Here you’ll investigate the Fundamental nature of all things, dabble in smellcasting at the Garden of Smellemental Glee, chug suds with Floom’s elite, and marvel at the bottomless Keister of Gawd. There’s new Holy Crap, new Edges and Hindrances, New PC species, new setting rules, and twenty pages of new monsters. Seriously, stop reading the description and just buy the goosin’ thing already.

The Savage Worlds rules system is required to play the game, but not necessarily to enjoy the book.

224 pages, Full Color

NEW PATHFINDER COMBAT PAD NOW AVAILABLE

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Jul 132013

New and Improved, This Game Accessory is the Ultimate Tool for Managing Combat in the World’s Best-Selling Fantasy Roleplaying Game

REDMOND, WA (July 12, 2013): Paizo Publishing, LLC, leading publisher of fantasy roleplaying games, accessories, board games, and novels, announces today the release of the new and improved Pathfinder Combat Pad for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

The Pathfinder Combat Pad includes everything players need to put combat management at their fingertips for their tabletop roleplaying game. A wet- and dry-erasable surface allows players to customize the Pathfinder Combat Pad with specific player and party information; turn markers and guides for the ready and delay actions; and a magnetized board to easily track initiative. It includes:

1 magnetic wet- and dry-erase board

2 combat round indicators

8 player character magnets

4 non-player character magnets

8 enemy magnets

2 next round indicators

2 active turn indicators

The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game builds on more than 10 years of system development and the largest open playtest in the history of tabletop gaming to create an unparalleled fantasy roleplaying experience. Players need only the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook to play, but Paizo Publishing produces a wide range of books and accessories to enhance your Pathfinder experience, from hardcover rules compendiums to complete campaigns to packets of beautiful, full-color maps. For more information, please visit paizo.com.

About Paizo Publishing

Paizo Publishing®, LLC is a leading publisher of fantasy roleplaying games, accessories, board games, and novels. Paizo’s Pathfinder® Roleplaying Game, the result of the largest open playtest in the history of tabletop gaming, is currently the best-selling tabletop roleplaying game in hobby stores. Pathfinder Adventure Path is the most popular and best-selling monthly product in the tabletop RPG industry. Paizo.com is the leading online hobby retail store, offering tens of thousands of products from a variety of publishers to customers all over the world. In the ten years since its founding, Paizo Publishing has received more than 50 major awards and has grown to become one of the most influential companies in the hobby games industry.

Savage Worlds: Deadlands: Ghost Towns May 20th

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May 162013

Savage Worlds: Deadlands: Ghost Towns

$19.99 SRP

Visit the strangest locales in the West, and find a new place to hang your hat! In the Weird West, every town stands at risk of destruction by natural disaster, man’s folly, or the dangers lurking in the dark. At every turn, a settler’s path is menaced by threats mundane, terrifying, and just plain odd.

Ghost Towns gives you the lowdown on seven new burgs, plucked from every corner of the West, for use in your Deadlands Reloaded campaign. All the major players, points of interest, and mysterious plots are detailed, with Savage Tales ready to roll.

If seven ain’t enough for you, amigo, you’re in luck, you can have as many as you want! Ghost Towns includes a random generator to make creating your own strange locales a snap. A quick shuffle and a little thought and you can call a whole town into being in an instant, be the envy of Hucksters and developers everywhere!

After all, everyone needs a place to call home, no matter what’s whispering from the shadowed corners or hiding inside the local shop.

Savage Worlds Hell on Earth minis Releasing Soon

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Apr 222013

The end isn’t nigh—it’s past! Welcome to Hell on Earth Reloaded, the dark future of the strange past of Deadlands.

The year is 2097, but the future is not our own. The long Cold War between the United and Confederate States of America finally came to an end—in world-wide hellfire. The rain of ghost rock atomic bombs shattered most anything man could call civilization, cracked the space between this world and the next wide open, and birthed a true Hell on Earth. But that was 16 years ago, and we’ve done the one thing we’re pretty good at—survive in spiteof ourselves. Sure, some folks have some extra limbs, you’re likely to get killed for the scraps in your pocket, and everything east of the Mississippi is overrun with a crazed army of undead,but what other option do you have?

Join us in this dark future, where what remains cries out for new heroes while hiding from old—even ancient—villains. Has your body been wracked by the constant radiation exposure, or have you learned to channel the lingering power of the atom to your will? Remake the world as you wish. Hell, you can’t make it any worse…

These mini’s look awesome and you will only get once chance to nab them if you missed the kickstarter.

Savage Worlds Deluxe: Explorers Edition

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Aug 112012

Savage Worlds Deluxe: Explorers Edition

$ 9.99

Savage Worlds is a Fast! Furious! and Fun! rules system for any genre of roleplaying game. Create your own setting, convert an existing one, or pick up one of our amazing worlds like Deadlands, Slipstream, or Weird War II.The rules give players plenty of depth to create their characters and keep bookkeeping to a minimum for the game master. If you’re looking for a game that’s fast and easy to set up, run, and play, Savage Worlds is for you! The Explorer’s Edition provides everything you need in a handy, smaller (6.5 x 9) size for greater portability.

Releasing soon fro Savage Worlds Hellfrost Rassilon Expansion 2

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Apr 112012

SW: Hellfrost: Rassilon Expansion 2

$ 24.99 SRP

In the frozen lands of the northern continent powerful boasts boast of future deeds; clerics scan the natural world for signs from their gods; family and friends, tied by oaths of allegiance, rally together to combat deadly threats; wise sages and scholars plunder the few remaining libraries; and those who fall are buried with valuable grave goods. And now your heroes can join them! The Rassilon Expansion builds on the Hellfrost setting, bringing new life and new depth to the inhabitants of the northern continent.

Within these pages you will find: • New options for player characters. • Setting rules for boasting, burials, dedication to the gods, divination, favors, justice, kinship, and libraries. • An expanded bestiary containing dozens of new monsters. • Detailed rules for running a resource. With these rules heroes can take direct responsibility for governing land, temples, or mercenary companies, allowing them to make decisions that will lead to prosperity or ruin. This book is designed for use in conjunction with the Hellfrost Player’s Guide and Hellfrost Bestiary. The Rassilon Expansion is a core book in the epic Hellfrost setting for the award-winning Savage Worlds RPG.

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