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In a game packed with infinite possibilities, what are GMs to do when their players choose what they have not prepared?As every GM knows, no matter how many story hooks, maps or NPCs you painstakingly create during session prep, your best-laid plans are often foiled by your players' whims, extreme skill check successes (or critical fails) or their playful refusal to stay on task. The Game Master's Book of Random Encounters provides an unbeatable solution. This massive tome is divided into location categories, each of which can stand alone as a small stop as part of a larger campaign. "Taverns, Inns, Shops & Guild Halls" section includes maps for 19 unique spaces, as well as multiple encounter tables designed to help GMs fill in the sights, sounds, smells and proprietors of a given location, allowing for each location in the book to be augmented and populated on the fly while still ensuring memorable moments for all players. Each map is presented at scale on grid, enabling GMs to determine exactly where all of the characters are in relation to one another and anyone (or anything) else in the space, critical information should any combat or other movement-based action occur.Perhaps more useful than its nearly 100 maps, the book's one-shot generator features all the story hooks necessary for GMs to use these maps as part of an interconnected and contained adventure. Featuring eight unique campaign drivers that lead players through several of the book's provided maps, the random tables associated with each stage in the adventure allow for nearly three million different outcomes.The book also includes a Random NPC Generator to help you create intriguing characters your players will love (or love to hate), as well as a Party Makeup Maker for establishing connections among your PCs so you can weave together a disparate group of adventurers with just a few dice rolls.Locations include taverns, temples, inns, animal/creature lairs, gatehouses, courts, ships, laboratories and more, with adventure hooks that run the gamut from frantic rooftop chases to deep cellar dungeon-crawls, with a total of 97 maps, more than 150 tables and millions of possible adventures. No matter where your players end up, they'll have someone or something to persuade or deceive, impress or destroy.

All scales, fins and feathers considered, thereΓÇÖs so much to explore when it comes to the endlessly exciting and dramatically diverse inhabitants of the wizarding world!From Acromantulas to Thestrals, this beautiful book details every monster, beast or creature that has ever appeared in any official Harry Potter book, film, or theatrical production. The Unofficial Harry Potter Bestiary includes more than 200 fascinating, magical creatures in all, with each entry providing a number of important classifications, including first appearance in Harry Potter lore, location, disposition, physical appearance, attack abilities, defenses and intriguing story facts. We''ve also included rich descriptions for each entry, detailing each creature''s history (or biography, in the case of specific creature characters), habitat and impact on the various stories from throughout the Wizarding World.So feed your inner magizoologistΓÇÖs hunger for knowledge, learn more about these incredible creatures (including stories about them passed down through generations by historians and mythologists) and discover how to spot them in the wildΓÇöor even your own backyard.

More than 300 random tables designed to help you build a new world from scratch or take your existing RPG campaign to new levels of creativity and excitement, plus 3 exciting one-shot adventures!While The Game Master's Book of Astonishing Random Tables is not a wondrous item, you'd be forgiven for assuming it has magical properties. That's because within these pages are countless adventure hooks - side quests and travel complications and chase sequences and skill challenges and other encounters suitable for any environment. And that's just one section. These table results aren't just short line listings of random answers either. Inside, you'll find rich, fully examined results and supplemental pieces of text that provide you with all the information you need to use them effectively. With this book by your side, you can develop an entire campaign setting, its pantheon, its various continental forms and proclivities of its population. From the big questions ("Where does magic come from?," "Who's in charge?," "Why are we at war with our neighbors?") down to the most minute detail ("Can my party avoid paying property taxes on their new keep if it's actually an instant fortress?"), this book has you covered. Develop a rich tapestry of trade and commerce by randomizing your realms economy or find out who's really pulling the strings by rolling on the Puppet Government table. Want more ideas? How about a table or curses or dreams or wild magic results or spell scroll side effects or a random potions generator or a list of things your party shouldn't tough (but probably will)? All those and much, much more are waiting within.So relax, unwind and unleash the unknown. By letting this book spark your creativity and set the stage for each session, you can focus on the important things like how to properly destroy that instant fortress).

Make your PCs sweat with villains and minions designed to challenge them as never before!- New deluxe edition of Masters, Minions and Tactics from the award-winning fantasy art studio Jetpack7- Includes more than two dozen deadly BBEGs, including 5 new villains exclusive to this edition- Villains for low level and high level parties, plus tactics for more than 75 different minions and Big Bads- Completely reedited and redesigned, with exclusive guidelines for creating your own original villains and minions, as well as three exciting one-shots adventures!A game master's biggest challenge can be prep time. With busy lives in mind, this book provides new and exciting content to help GMs save hours of time preparing for a game. Inside, readers will find twenty-five "Big Bosses," along with insights into how they use their minions strategically in order to decimate any heroic threat that might cross their paths. The Game Master's Book of Villains, Minions and Their Tactics provides tips and strategies that readers can use to "drag and drop" a BBEG into a new or existing game, with full color illustrations, lore, stats, combat tactics, and special abilities for each exciting entry. You'll also find detailed tactics and combat strategies for more than 75 minions and bosses found throughout the 5E game. In addition to providing three exciting one-shot adventures, the book also shows you how to create your own original villains, minions and monsters - the best of the worst your game has to offer.

This comprehensive tome examines every aspect of the Hogwarts curriculum, from class descriptions and exam questions to potion ingredients and the magical world's perspective on Muggle history. Certain to make reading (or re-reading) the Harry Potter series that much more intriguing, this book explores the full breadth of instruction at Hogwarts, as well as the fine details of each class, from each class syllabus to final exams. Inside, readers will find insights into:- Classes by year- Textbooks and where to buy them- Exams and school work- Professors and students of note- History of studies- Classroom layouts - Potion ingredients- Plant field guide- History of Magic- Legilimency- Defense against the dark arts- And much, much more!

In Big Ideas, Little Pictures, Jono Hey explains complex concepts through a combination of simple sketches and straightforward, easy-to-understand text. It's a fun, engaging approach to grasping challenging information, that's perhaps most clearly stated by one of his readers:"I love seeing difficult concepts displayed in an understandable way. Democratizing knowledge. There are a lot of podcasts that I listen to: Stuff You Should Know or TED Talks but they each take up 30 minutes. With Sketchplanations - BOOM - in one picture I can get the gist of an idea and then your supporting text clarifies it even further." In addition to making readers smarter and better informed in less time, Big Ideas, Little Pictures is also a light-hearted, witty gift - the perfect display piece for readers who want a something that can be picked up and flipped through at any point, with the assurance that the reader is going to come across something of interest, with topics ranging from the difference between an Americano and a Long Black coffee to Survivorship Bias, the Abilene Paradox and so much more. Perfect for children as well as adults, Big Ideas, Little Pictures opens up a world of fascinating facts at a glance.

As most TTRPG fans know, one of the most exciting elements of any roleplaying game is that the story can go anywhere at any time. Unfortunately, Game Masters can't possibly prepare for every unpredictable request, unfortunate die roll or unbelievably bad player decision that might unfold at their table. That's where this book comes in: Featuring more than 500 more maps, roll tables and story hooks, The Game Master's Book of More Random Encounters will save readers hours of planning by providing all new enchanting adventure maps, perilous plot twists and unexpected NPCs that they've come to expect from the Game Master series in an easy-to-follow format that's compatible with all their 5e adventures.Featuring plenty of practical places like taverns, inns and alchemist's labs as well as unexpected locations in far-off realms, farther-off planes and even the farthest reaches of the galaxy, The Game Master's Book of More Random Encounters is everything readers loved about the first book in the series-but EVEN MORE. Whether they're assigning a destination following a teleportation mishap, wondering what it would be like to dine at chain restaurant in the Abyss or looking for a simple spot for their players to kick their feet up for a few hours (careful, that coffee table is a realm unto itself), this action-packed tome is the remedy for maladies Game Masters didn't even know they had.Includes:· Dozens of plug-and-play encounter locations suitable for most fantasy settings· Variant roll tables to mix up the action for every map· Three one-shot adventures to flow into your own campaigns· and more!

Self-Love Rainbow Workbook is a colorful collection of gentle instruction and enlivening exercises, activities and affirmations, all designed to help readers learn to love themselves, their bodies and their lives, and then support that love with the self-care necessary to sustain it. Inside they'll find an insightful discussion about what self-love is and how self-care is a reflection of self-love. They'll also discover dozens of exercises and interactive pages that teach them how to assess their own beliefs about self-love and self-care and how to put the theories of self-care into a regular practice that will sustain them even when times are tough. There are prompts and worksheets devoted to exploring physical, emotional, personal, social, spiritual and practical aspects of self-care. Readers will learn how to set goals, nourish themselves and live a consistently healthy life.Written and illustrated by Dominee Calderon, creator of the Self-Love Rainbow website (selfloverainbow.com), with hundreds of thousands of fans, this book will inspire readers to stop making self-care a luxury they'll never get to and turn it into a much welcomed, daily practice.

Packed with mouthwatering recipes and extraordinary photography, The Unofficial Yellowstone Cookbook is a one-of-a-kind celebration of America's favorite TV show!Now an AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 39 AWARD WINNER and a 2023 LONDON PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD WINNERSince it premiered in June 2018, Yellowstone has grown to become one of the most popular series on TV, with more than 7.5M viewers per episode. In The Unofficial Yellowstone Cookbook all of the fire, flavor and spirit of the series are captured in more than 85 mouthwatering recipes inspired by the people and places in the show; from the Dutton family home and the bunkhouse, to the rivers and great open range of Montana, to the Texas ranch lands. Recreate recipes for favorite dishes from the hit series and both prequels; 1883 and 1923 (the latter premiering in December 2022 and starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren).Covering a range of meals, from hearty breakfasts to fire-grilled dinners and everything in between, this book is sure to be a fan of every red-blooded aspiring cowboy and cowgirl. Inside readers will find Rip's Barbecue Short Ribs, Beth's Breakfast Smoothie, John's Favorite Mac 'N Cheese, Meaner Than Evil Hot Wings, Cake with Steak, and much, much more.Each recipe is accompanied by award winning, full-color photography from Jackie Alpers's western ranch kitchen, with fun, fan-tastic trivia notes laden throughout.

This fun, fascinating book examines the basics of real-life spycraft, written by a former SAS and MI6 operative.

This practical guide gives readers the tools they need to reevaluate their personal relationship with technology and change their digital habits for the better.

This book provides GMs with hundreds of detailed random encounters for 10 environmental zones covering every major wilderness area, from tundra to deserts and everywhere in between.

This expanded, illustrated edition of The Unofficial Harry Potter Bestiary includes an all-new design, plus gorgeous illustrations by renowned fantasy artist John Stanko.

This interactive, guided journal provides readers with a simple, effective tool for grounding themselves each morning, acknowledging the good things in their lives (even in the darkest of times), and finding new ways to feel gratitude, love and peace.

This beautifully illustrated card deck provides Game Master's with dozens of fun rewards and curses that can be imposed on their players with a single draw from the deck.

This collection of beautiful artwork by Karen Hallion and essays by a who's who of contributing authors stands as a celebration of women and their impact on our world.

This collection of mouth-watering recipes captures the fun, humor and holiday spirit of the modern holiday classic Elf, with 70 recipes inspired by the characters, scenes and settings of the film.