Best Selling Books by James Jacobs

The World’s Cities offers instructors and students in higher education an accessible introduction to the three major perspectives influencing city-regions worldwide: City-Regions in a World System; Nested City-Regions; and The City-Region as the Engine of Economic Activity/Growth. The book provides students with helpful essays on each perspective, case studies to illustrate each major viewpoint, and discussion questions following each reading. The World’s Cities concludes with an original essay by the editor that helps students understand how an analysis incorporating a combination of theoretical perspectives and factors can provide a richer appreciation of the world’s city dynamics.

The world we know is but one reality. Countless others exist in the realms beyond. Dimensions carved from dreams. Worlds constructed from pure life energy. First drafts of our consciousness, and shadows of the same. Entire realities populated by angels and demons, ruled by deities and subject to physical laws mortals can barely comprehend. This is the Great Beyond, and within its reaches, the possibilities for grand adventure or devastating defeat are truly endless. This far-reaching hardcover rulebook explores Pathfinder RPG Planar Adventures explores the wondrous and horrifying regions that comprise the other dimensions and planes of reality that feature in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. This imaginative tabletop game builds upon more than 10 years of system development and an open playtest featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into a new era.

Five years after a tragic fire and dark times at Sandpoint, at the height of a ceremony to consecrate a new temple during the Swallowtail Festival, disaster strikes. Sandpoint''s newest heroes, the PC''s, must protect the citizens through rumors of goblin armies, wrathful monsters and the rise of a forgotten empire that may not be as dead as history records.

For more than a hundred years, the demon-infested Worldwound has warred against humanity, its Abyssal armies clashing with crusaders, barbarians, mercenaries, and heroes along the border of lost Sarkoris. But when one of the magical wardstones that helps hedge the demons into their savage realm is sabotaged, the crusader city of Kenabres is attacked and devastated by the demonic hordes. Can a small band of heroes destined for mythic greatness survive long enough to hold back the forces of chaos and evil until help arrives, or will they become the latest in a long line of victims slaughtered by Deskari, the demon lord of the Locust Host? This volume of Pathfinder Adventure Path launches the Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path and includes: -"The Worldwound Incursion, " a Pathfinder RPG adventure for 1st-level characters, by Amber E. Scott. -A gazetteer of the crusader city of Kenabres on the border of the Worldwound, by Amber E. Scott. -The search for an infamous demon hunter in the Pathfinder''s Journal, by Robin D. Laws. -A complete outline of the Wrath of the Righteous campaign. -Four new monsters, by James Jacobs, Jason Nelson, David Schwartz, and Jerome Virnich.

The town of Sandpoint has been through a lot, between goblin raids and dragon attacks and crazed killers stalking the night. In Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Sandpoint, Light of the Lost Coast, the fan-favorite town is presented in great detail, with full stat blocks for the region''s important NPCs, dozens of quests, and expanded information on every major location in the town and the hinterlands beyond, as well as a double-sided pull-out poster map of Sandpoint and the surrounding region, which has featured prominently in Pathfinder Adventure Paths like the Rise of the Runelords and the Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box since the birth of Pathfinder in 2007. This oversized 96-page campaign setting book is a guide to creating your very own campaign in Pathfinder''s most popular town!

A complete guide to playing D&D in the ice and snow. This 4-color supplement begins a new series of releases that focus on how the environment can affect D&D gameplay in every capacity. Frostburn contains rules on how to adapt to hazardous cold-weather conditions, such as navigating terrain with snow and ice and surviving in bitter cold or harsh weather. There are expanded rules for environmental hazards and manipulation of cold weather elements, as well as new spells, feats, magic items, and prestige classes. New monsters associated with icy realms are included, as well as variants on current monsters. There is enough adventure material included for months of gameplay.

For Forgotten Realms fans, this new book features extended descriptions of each of the character races of the Forgotten Realms( campaign setting. Maps.

This book is the story of two educational journeys, covering both the author''s evolution from student radical to community college leader and the evolution of the community college from educational afterthought to an engine of personal and economic development.

The exciting world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game comes alive in this giant 320-page, full-color hardcover campaign setting! Fully revised to match the new Pathfinder RPG rules, this definitive volume contains expanded coverage of the 40+ nations in the world of Golarion''s Inner Sea region, from ruin-strewn Varisia in the north to the sweltering jungles of the Mwangi Expanse in the south to crashed sky cities, savage frontier kingdoms, powerful city-states, and everything in-between. A broad overview of Golarion''s gods and religions, new character abilities, magic items, and monsters flesh out the world for both players and Game Masters. Plus, a beautiful poster map reveals the lands of the Inner Sea in all their treacherous glory.

Rag-tag armies of mercenaries from the northern nation of Brevoy have turned their attention south to the region of the River Kingdoms called the "Stolen Land," and hope to reclaim control of these lands to expand their power. Yet the dangerous denizens of the Stolen Land will not give up their lairs quietly. The heroes are one of four groups sent south to explore these wilderness realms and establish colonies, yet the dense woodlands and rugged hills of this region are far from safe. Will the heroes be able to wrest control of the realm from the monstrous bandit known only as the Stag Lord? A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 1st-level characters, this volume of Pathfinder kicks off the highly anticipated Kingmaker Adventure Path.

This super-adventure supplement, designed for characters of level 8-13, revisits Castle Greyhawk and the classic dungeon beneath. It is usable as a mini-campaign on its own, a story arc in a Dungeon Masters regular campaign, or as a series of small side adventures with a big payoff.

Grab your katana, ready your best kung fu, and prepare to discover a whole new world of exciting adventure The mysteries and wonders of the Dragon Empires are finally revealed The continent of Tian Xia stretches from the polar ice in the north to well south of the equator -- a realm where honorable samurai, devious ninja, martial artistry, strange spirits, and imperial dragons rule. The Dragon Empires Gazetteer also presents five new player character races -- the birdlike tengus, reptilian nagaji, shapechanging foxlike kitsune, reincarnted spiritualists known as samsarans, and the shadowy masters of trickery called the wayang. An overview of life in the Dragon Empires offers a look at a new core pantheon (including more than a dozen brand-new deities), several new factions, and the challenges faced by a land recovering from the recent fall of a continental empire.

This art-filled sourcebook about aberrations in the D&D world takes a comprehensive look at bizarre monsters and the heroes who fight them. Illustrations.

Along with expansive details on Golarion''s most prominent races you''ll find whole chapters of exciting new character options, allowing you to make your favorite hero''s culture more vital and valuable than ever before! Dozens of racial details and heritages also make choosing the perfect race easier than ever, whether you want to be a Varisian human or an archon-blooded aasimar. Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Races reveals new details on Golarion''s most important races, including multiple human ethnicities.

Pathfinder’s beloved iconic heroes make their fiction debut in Godsrain, set to release in November 2024. But the characters have existed since 2007 and have many existing adventures documented in flash fiction on the Paizo Blog and other promotional locations. Now, for the first time, readers can find these stories collected into a single volume, a perfect primer before diving into Godsrain or to further explore their history after meeting them for the first time. Inside, you’ll find the origins and selected past adventures of all six iconic heroes who appear in Godsrain: Kyra, the cleric, whose devotion to Sarenrae, goddess of the sun, healing, and redemption, is challenged only by her devotion to her wife… Merisiel, the elf rogue, whose life among the short-lived peoples of the world have made her Forlorn, a condition only exacerbated by her love for Kyra. Ezren, the wizard, who abandoned a posh life as a merchant’s son after discovering his father’s criminal past and devoted his life not to clearing his soiled name but to the study of the arcane. Amiri, the barbarian, whose exile from her tribe of nomadic hunters has left her with only her rage and her companions to provide solace in a dangerous world. Nahoa, the exemplar, who gained a spark of divinity while battling a mighty demon in the sky above his island home, and now travels the world to fulfill his Calling. Samo, the animist, who accompanies Nahoa and uses her connections to the spirits of the world to aid him and anyone in need. Before the Godsrain features over 30 works of flash and short fiction, including the origins of all six iconic heroes, updated and expanded for this publication; more than 20 entries from the popular Iconic Encounters series including Kyra and Merisiel’s wedding and the four-part “Returning Home” short story following Amiri’s return to her homeland after years of exile; and a bonus entry from the “Windsong Testaments” recounting the mythological battle between the gods at the dawn of time which plays a central role in the Godsrain novel. This collection also features 5 exclusive stories written by Godsrain author Liane Merciel and tabletop RPG luminary Owen K.C. Stephens, not available anywhere else. Whether you''re exploring the world of Pathfinder and the lives of the iconic heroes before or after reading Godsrain, there''s no better time than now to dive into what happened Before the Godsrain.

The British Armys considerable contribution to The Korean War 1950 1953 was largely composed of conscripts or national servicemen. Plucked from civilian life on a lottery basis and given a short basic training, some like Jim Jacobs volunteered for overseas duty and suddenly found themselves in the thick of a war as intensive and dangerous as anything the Second World War had had to offer.As a member of 170 Independent Mortar Battery RA from March 1951 to June 1952 Jim was in the frontline at the famous Battle of the Imjin River. By great luck, he evaded capture and death unlike so many. He returned to the UK only to volunteer again for a second tour with 120 Light Battery from March 1953 to March 1954. During this period, he was in the thick of the action at the Third Battle of the Hook during May 1953.In this gripping memoir, Jim calmly and geographically recounts his experiences and emotions from joining the Army through training, the journeys by troopship and, most importantly, on active service in the atrocious and terrifying war fighting that went on in a very foreign place.