The APOCalypse 2500(TM) GM's Campaign Guide & Bestiary Ex contains essential tools for the game master, from reference tables to monsters. The game master's tools provide game mechanics quick reference, optional applications, and random generation of game elements such as weather, moon phase, and storm severity for adventures on paper or on the fly. NPC's, locations, and monsters are fully specced out in easy to read table format for instant game use. Inside GM's Campaign Guide & Bestiary Ex -Easier To Read Table Format -Expanded GM's Tools & Tables -Rules Clarification, Augmentation, & Techniques for Application -Miniatures Rules For tabletop battle action -Updated MSF With tables for faster character creation -Expanded & Revised NPC's, locations, vehicles, & monsters -Vocations have updated stats for use as player characters

This GM's Campaign Guide & Bestiary contains essential tools for the game master, from reference tables to monsters. The game master's tools provide game mechanics quick reference, optional rules applications, and random generation of game elements such as weather, moon phase, and storm affects for adventures on paper or on the fly. The various NPC's, locations, and monsters are fully specked out in easy to read table format for instant game use. Many new possibilities for player characters, both species and vocation, are added and fully annotated in the bestiary section for easy use in character creation.

Creating your own adventure scenario? Or maybe you just need a side quest or an additional roadside hazard to challenge your players. The GM’s Campaign Guide is an essential tool and reference book for the world of APOCalypse 2500. Within its pages is contained all the necessary materials game masters will need to run a successful adventure. You can use the ready-made towns and cities or you can mix and match the different buildings and locations to create your own cities. You can choose from lists of NPC's and monsters or all new vehicles and weapons to add to your adventure. Whether you need a whole town or just a single structure you will find what you need for game play. From maps to labyrinths to a complete bestiary you will find it in this volume. This is the first and primary resource for generating encounters, creating locations, and understanding the beasts that inhabit the chaotic and fascinating world of APOCalypse 2500.

From the creator of the popular blog The Monsters Know What They’re Doing comes a compilation of villainous battle plans for Dungeon Masters. In the course of a Dungeons & Dragons game, a Dungeon Master has to make one decision after another in response to player behavior—and the better the players, the more unpredictable their behavior! It’s easy for even an experienced DM to get bogged down in on-the-spot decision-making or to let combat devolve into a boring slugfest, with enemies running directly at the player characters and biting, bashing, and slashing away. In The Monsters Know What They’re Doing, Keith Ammann lightens the DM’s burden by helping you understand your monsters’ abilities and develop battle plans before your fifth edition D&D game session begins. Just as soldiers don’t whip out their field manuals for the first time when they’re already under fire, a DM shouldn’t wait until the PCs have just encountered a dozen bullywugs to figure out how they advance, fight, and retreat. Easy to read and apply, The Monsters Know What They're Doing is essential reading for every DM.

288 page hardcover by Bruce R. Cordell

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.

Quag Keep was the first novel based on the world of Dungeons & Dragons by the legendary grand mistress of SF/Fantasy, Andre Norton. Once, they were role-playing gamers in our world. They came from different places and different backgrounds. Now they're summoned together by some magical force...to a land that mirrors the games they used to play. Quag Keep Can they band together to unlock the secret of their summoning--and rescue from the legendary Quag Keep the person who may be able to return them home? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.