Best Selling Books by Steve Kenson

Freedom City''s prestigious Claremont Academy is a training ground for a new generation of super-heroes. Now you have the opportunity to follow along and take part as Claremont''s newest students arrive at its hallowed halls. The Beginner''s Guide walks newcomers to Mutants & Masterminds through all the steps of creating and playing their own super-heroes, from character concepts and super-powers to secret identities and codes of honor. It includes the basic rules so you can get a feel for Mutants & Masterminds, as well as a narrative adventure so you can experience game-play all on your own. Just like graduating from the Claremont Academy, mastering Mutants & Mastermind''s Beginner''s Guide will ensure you''re ready to face off against devious villains and thwart their evil plans.

The Mutants & Masterminds Superhero Roleplaying Game gives you all the tools you need to create the super powers you imagine. Power Profiles gives you those powers ... and more! In this book are more than thirty power types from Air and Armor to Water and Weather, each with some two dozen or more powers described and built in M & M game terms. That''s more than seven hundred different ready-to-use powers, all in one book! Power Profiles includes something for everyone. Think your ideal hero doesn''t have any powers? Think again: Power Profiles includes Luck Powers, Martial Powers, and Talent Powers, special abilities that could all be described as superior training or skill! You can find endless ideas for M & M heroes and villains just by turning the pages of Power Profiles and letting your imagination go, and you can point both new and experienced players to just the right section for the hero they want to play. Power Profiles includes new power options, extras, flaws, and variants to modify the basic power effects from the Hero''s Handbook, so you can create the powers you want. More than just powers, each profile also covers complications associated with those powers, to give your characters added depth and to help you earn hero points in play. Power Profiles refines and greatly expands the power options from Mutants & Masterminds, taking its basic effects and turning them into a wealth of options you can choose from. With this book, there''s no limit to your power!"--Publisher description.

Strange aliens both friendly and fearsome fill this tome of creatures designed for use with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game! From the gravity-manipulating frujais and planet-killing novaspawn to space goblins and security robots, the creatures in this codex will challenge adventurers no matter what strange worlds they''re exploring. What''s more, player rules for a host of creatures let players not just fight aliens, but be them! Inside Starfinder Alien Archive, you''ll find the following: * Over 80 bizarre life-forms both classic and new, from the reptilian ikeshtis and energy-bodied hallajins to robotic anacites and supernatural entities from beyond the realms of mortals. * Over 20 races with full player rules, letting you play everything from a winged dragonkin to a hyperevolved floating brain. * New alien technology to help give your character an edge, including weapons, armor, magic items, and more. * A robust NPC-creation system to let Game Masters build any aliens or creatures they can imagine. * New rules for magical monster summoning, quick templates to modify creatures on the fly, and more! The pocket edition presents the same contents in a smaller sized softcover for a lower price and better portability.

All that is required for evil to flourish is for good folk to do nothing. When society fails--when corruption or hatred or apathy take root--the helpless and the marginalized suffer first. And all too often heroes must rise from the ranks of the dispossessed, not to impose their will on others, but to provide the same safety and justice so many others take for granted. The Vigilante''s Handbook is a sourcebook of street-level action and adventure for your Mutants & Masterminds campaign. This book provides everything you need to stand up and push back against the overwhelming corruption and inequality that threatens so many, often without the deep pockets or impressive powers the four-color heroes rely on. This sourcebook features guidelines for creating street-level vigilantes, from low-powered brawlers to high-powered but maligned heroes who work from the shadows, and optional rules for overwhelming enemies with your menacing presence or fearsome reputation and for gauging and tracking your hero''s reputation. Vigilante''s Handbook also looks at what kinds of predators prowl the urban jungle, from corrupt cops and politicians to criminal masterminds and assassins, and introduces a flexible template system, separating your villains'' role from their powers. The world of Earth-Prime is also expanded with a gazetteer of Ferroburg, a city of corruption and struggle in desperate need of heroes. Welcome to a world where your compassion, your human decency, and your ability to take a punch mean more than your satellite headquarters and fancy costumes. Welcome to the streets.

Superheroes are always in the spotlight, courted by the media and worshipped by the ignorant masses. Now at last bad guys get their due with the Supervillians''s Handbook. This devious sourcebook is a complete guide to creating and running supervillians and their sinister schemes in M&M, from detailed pre-generated villian archetypes, to different plot archetypes. secret lairs. and Gamemaster advice and guidance. They all said you were crazy in school but after reading the Supervillian''s Handbook you''ll make them rue the day !!

As a narrator you have your hands full when running the game, but that just got easier with the Narrator''s Kit for A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying. This handy accessory features a 3-panel hardback screen with useful tables and charts on one side and a beautiful illustration of the Wall on the other, as well as a full color poster map of Westeros and a 16-page introductory adventure by Steve Kenson. It also includes 4 quick reference cards that put key rules at your fingertips, and a combat tracker that you can write on with wet or dry erase markers. Kickstart your chronicle with the Song of Ice and Fire Narrator''s Kit! "Price Includes VAT"

The witch is a naturalist spellcaster who casts arcane spells using time-honored hearth wisdom rather than the arcane formulae and elaborate theories of wizardry. The Witch''s Handbook, like other books in the Master Class series, presents a brand-new core class and an array of associated prestige class. In addition to the new feats, spells, and magic items that you''d expect, The Witch''s Handbook explores the deeper secrets of the The Craft. Learn of covens and their ritual magic, charms and their making, and herbs and their magical applications. Whether you''re a player looking for a different kind of magic user or a GM looking to add something new to your campaign, The Witch''s Handbook has everything you need to bring The Craft to your d20 game.

As the pressure rises and the exodus through the ring gates continues, opportunities abound for shrewd crews willing to take risks on Earth, Mars, and in The Belt. The changes brought about by the discovery of the protomolecule continue to disrupt the status quo, and tensions between the factions are white hot. Sol System provides information on the governments, corporations, and factions that vie for power and influence, along with expanded rules for trade and running corporations and other organizations. For players, there is new equipment and technology, including cyber and bioaugmentation, and expanded rules for Belter, Earther, and Martian characters. This beautifully illustrated sourcebook opens new ways to play and build characters, and exciting new details on humanity''s homes. Sol System also offers a plethora of new adventure opportunities--political intrigue, spies, strange cults!--and sets the stage for the forthcoming Free Navy Conflict.

-- Over 300 Songs to increase the power of angelic or infernal characters. -- New rules to let players research and create new Songs.

The Verbena witches are heir to the secrets of the druids, the power of nature, and the wisdom of the Great Goddess and the Horned God. Theirs is the rage of the storm, the resilience of the oak and the cunning of the fox. But charmed they''re not. Amoral as nature itself, Verbena covens gather in moonlit groves, working magic to hasten the return of the old ways. With a wealth of new magic for those playing a witch, Tradition Book: Verbena clarifies the history of this magical tradition and brings it up to date with the latest events of the World of Darkness. Specifically for Mage: The Ascension, many of the insights contained herein will be valuable to players of Dark Ages: Mage as well. Continues the revolution storyline in the wake of the Ascension War.

The Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder''s Guide is an indispensable resource for aspiring and experienced Game Masters alike. It provides advice and examples on such topics as designing entertaining and effective encounters, crafting interesting locations, customizing adversaries, and much more. It also includes tables to help generate campaign elements when a bit of spontaneity and randomness is desired. Each chapter in the Campaign Builder''s Guide is devoted to a different topic, each approached with a mix of advice, mechanical assistance, and ultimately ready-to-use examples. Whether you''re designing your own pantheon of fantasy deities for a campaign or seeking to alter settings, characters, and rules to emulate a particular sub-genre of fantasy, the Campaign Builder''s Guide has the advice and tools you need.

"Where do you get all those wonderful toys? Right here! Gadget Guides is a collection of diverse devices for the Mutants & Masterminds Superhero Role playing Game, from armor and weapons to psychic crystals and steamtech. In this book are twenty-two individual guides, each looking at a particular type of gadget, putting together the effects and modifiers from the Hero''s Handbook to create a catalog of dozens of ready-to-use items. It includes: Weapons from guns and blasters to archaic and martial arts weapons, even weapons of mass destruction!; Constructs like artificial intelligences, robots, piloted mecha, and a wide variety of vehicles; Enhancements from biotech, cybertech, and nanotech to power devices, psychic gadgets, and magical items; Information compiled and stored in computers and the sensor and spy-tech to protect and get at it; Installations from hidden lairs to orbiting satellites, along with security systems and deathtraps to challenge your heroes! What Power Profiles did for super-powers, Gadget Guides does for gear, making it a great character creation and in-play resource for both players and gamemasters."--Publisher description.

Ultimate Power, the complete Mutants & Masterminds guide to super-powers, won 5 ENnie Awards in 2007 and sold out its print run shortly thereafter. Now Ultimate Power is back in a handy pocket edition. Its pages are packed with detailed power descriptions, expanding the material from the M&M rulebook alongside new powers, power modifiers, power feats, and applications. Pocket Ultimate Power makes creating any sort of super-powered hero or villain a breeze: all the work is done for you! Just choose the powers you want your character to have; no assembly required. Pocket Ultimate Power includes the entire contents of the original book and has been updated to include all known errata. Don''t miss out on the ultimate sourcebook for Mutants & Masterminds and your chance at... Ultimate Power!

-- Original cover by top fantasy artist Rowena! -- The top-selling supplement to In Nomine. -- Includes a quick guide to the creation of angelic characters.

Green Ronin brings N.K. Jemisin''s Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth trilogy to tabletop roleplaying. N.K. Jemisin''s multiple Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth trilogy comes to tabletop RPGs in The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game! Enter the Stillness, a vast, furious land that is home to thousands of Comms, settlements large and small where people gather for safety in a dangerous and unpredictable world. Each member contributes according to the dictates of their use-caste, and all with one goal: to prepare for the next Fifth Season, those cataclysmic events when Father Earth himself rages against humankind. It is only through the wisdom of the ancient Stone Lore that the people of the Stillness stand a chance of survival. The game gives players a chance to portray the folk of the Stillness, working together to deal with the problems that face their Comm to better prepare for the coming of the next Fifth Season. Players build a Comm together, create characters of that Comm, and face the challenges that the Stillness has to offer. The Fifth Season RPG is powered by a customized version of Green Ronin''s popular Adventure Game Engine (AGE), the same rules system as The Expanse, Modern AGE, Blue Rose, and Fantasy AGE RPGs. If you''ve played any AGE RPG before, you already know the core of the rules. Can you survive in the Broken Earth? Find out in The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game!

Includes information on character design, magic, equipment, villains, monsters, and more. This title offers a Mutants & Masterminds rules companion to Green Ronin''s popular Pirates Guide to Freeport, along with an introduction and overview of Freeport as a setting for fantasy adventures.

Freedom City gives you the world''s most renowned city of heroes to rescue from the forces of evil! Called "the greatest superhero setting ever," the award-winning Freedom City is a fully realized and detailed metropolis that can serve as a home base for your heroes or just one of the many places they visit while saving the world of Earth-Prime from disaster. Your heroes can fight the forces of SHADOW, puzzle out the schemes of the Labyrinth, and defeat the alien invaders Syzygy and the Meta-Grue. With dozens of foes and hundreds of locations, Freedom City gives you everything you need to run an exciting Mutants & Masterminds campaign.

Leap into sword and sorcery RPG adventures with the Fantasy AGE Core Rulebook! Powered by the popular Adventure Game Engine (also used in The Expanse, Modern AGE, and Blue Rose RPGs), Fantasy AGE is easy to learn and a fun to play. Character creation is simple: pick an ancestry, pick a class (mage, rogue, warrior, or envoy), pick a specialization (duelist, diplomat, pirate, sword mage, and more), and jump into the action. The heart of the game is the stunt system, which brings dynamism and drama to the table. Roll doubles on 3d6 to pull off heroic maneuvers in combat, cast mightier spells, perform amazing feats of physical and mental prowess, or even cut a rival down to size with a few clever words. The Fantasy AGE Core Rulebook gives you everything you need to play, from special talents and arcane magic to practical Game Master advice and challenging monsters. Start your adventures in Breakwater Bay and experience the Stranger Shores campaign setting. Set sail for the legendary city of Freeport or tempt fate by going deeper into the mist-shrouded seas. The Fantasy AGE Core Rulebook is fully compatible with all previous Fantasy AGE releases, but new players can start right here. Explore the Stranger Shores, use another fantasy setting of your choice, or create your own--Fantasy AGE is your portal to a new age of adventure!

Rogues Gallery collects super-villains from Green Ronin''s popular online series, with the addition of new material and never-before-seen characters. It has dozens of fearsome foes for your Mutants & Masterminds series, enough to keep your heroes busy stopping schemes and saving the world for quite some time! In its pages you will find solo and loner villains, teams and alliances, organizations and outliers, and bad guys of many different power levels, backgrounds, and styles, suited for different M&M series, all with complete game information. Plus each villain comes with ready-made adventure hooks, making the book a collection of more than a hundred possible adventures as well!

Martial arts duels. Superpowers. Gadgets. Conspiracies. The Modern AGE Companion adds new rules for these elements and more, giving you the tools to customize the Modern AGE Roleplaying Game to fit countless campaigns. Explore new backgrounds, professions, talents and other options to customize character creation for your campaign. Build your own stunts to suit different genres and environments. Master systems for everything from fighting styles to horror. New rules for extraordinary powers, technologies, and organizations, genre inspirations and campaign design tailor the game for players and Game Masters. Make Modern AGE your own

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The gates to Arcadia, the original paradise, are closed. Only the world of humanity remains. Without any awareness of our true nature, humankind crushes us beneath its banal heel. Joy and laughter are gone; only the Dreaming remains. We are changelings, the forgotten ones, neither fully fae nor wholly mortal. The last of our kind on Earth, we have built ourselves an invisible kingdom. We are everywhere, yet you have never seen us. We hide, not behind some fragile Masquerade, but in plain sight with the power of our Glamour. We exist within a real world of make-believe where "imaginary" things can kill and" "pretend" monsters are real. The Changeling Storytellers Guide picks up where the Changeling rulebook leaves off and offers a plethora of new information, from rules clarifications to new and advanced systems for handling fae magic -- and puts it all in the Storyteller''s hands. Included are new settings and new rules for expanding the boundaries of your Changeling chronicle.

Readers of The Expanse novels have thrilled to the adventures of the crew of the Rocinante. Now it''s your turn to make your mark! Abzu''s Bounty presents a series of six full-length scenarios designed for a new crew of characters in The Expanse Roleplaying Game. They embark on a series of adventures, from a fateful discovery in the rings of Saturn to acquiring their own ship to a deadly confrontation that could change the course of history for the entire solar system. Abzu''s Bounty is the perfect way to kick off a new campaign. Get ready for launch!

The essential tabletop accessory for the Valiant Adventures Gamemaster. The Gamemaster''s Kit is a key accessory for your Valiant Adventures RPG campaign. It features a sturdy and practical 3-panel hardback screen with all the reference material you need to run the game. The kit also includes 4 quick reference cards and a combat tracker that you can write on with wet or dry erase markers. The Valiant Adventures Gamemaster''s Kit is the perfect complement to the Hero''s Handbook and Worlds of Valiant.

Gods once wielded this kind of power. Now it''s ours. The forces of the universe respond to our will and we shape a world in our image. We are the celebrities, the heroes, the villains, the legends, the shining icons of our times. We are novas, and we will bring about a new golden Age... and you will like it. All the information you need to incorporate organized crime into your game.