Roleplaying game set in a strange undercity that warps to match your heart's desire.

13th Age is the highly-anticipated new rules-light fantasy RPG from two legendary game designers - Jonathan Tweet and Rob Heinso of Dungeons & Dragons fame, combining an old-school approach with indie story game design. Players take the roles of fortune-seeking adventurers in a world where powerful individuals called Icons pursue goals that may preserve an ancient empire, or destroy it.. By defining each characters relationship to the Icons, along with a rich background and a trait that makes him or her unique in the world, 13th Age lays the groundwork for epic stories that emerge through play.

If you’re among the Python developers put off by asyncio’s complexity, it’s time to take another look. Asyncio is complicated because it aims to solve problems in concurrent network programming for both framework and end-user developers. The features you need to consider are a small subset of the whole asyncio API, but picking out the right features is the tricky part. That’s where this practical book comes in. Veteran Python developer Caleb Hattingh helps you gain a basic understanding of asyncio’s building blocks—enough to get started writing simple event-based programs. You’ll learn why asyncio offers a safer alternative to preemptive multitasking (threading) and how this API provides a simpleway to support thousands of simultaneous socket connections. Get a critical comparison of asyncio and threading for concurrent network programming Take an asyncio walk-through, including a quickstart guidefor hitting the ground looping with event-based programming Learn the difference between asyncio features for end-user developers and those for framework developers Understand asyncio’s new async/await language syntax, including coroutines and task and future APIs Get detailed case studies (with code) of some popular asyncio-compatible third-party libraries

Leverage the lethal combination of Docker and Kubernetes to automate deployment and management of Java applications About This Book Master using Docker and Kubernetes to build, deploy and manage Java applications in a jiff Learn how to create your own Docker image and customize your own cluster using Kubernetes Empower the journey from development to production using this practical guide. Who This Book Is For The book is aimed at Java developers who are eager to build, deploy, and manage applications very quickly using container technology. They need have no knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes. What You Will Learn Package Java applications into Docker images Understand the running of containers locally Explore development and deployment options with Docker Integrate Docker into Maven builds Manage and monitor Java applications running on Kubernetes clusters Create Continuous Delivery pipelines for Java applications deployed to Kubernetes In Detail Imagine creating and testing Java EE applications on Apache Tomcat Server or Wildfly Application server in minutes along with deploying and managing Java applications swiftly. Sounds too good to be true? But you have a reason to cheer as such scenarios are only possible by leveraging Docker and Kubernetes. This book will start by introducing Docker and delve deep into its networking and persistent storage concepts. You will then proceed to learn how to refactor monolith application into separate services by building an application and then packaging it into Docker containers. Next, you will create an image containing Java Enterprise Application and later run it using Docker. Moving on, the book will focus on Kubernetes and its features and you will learn to deploy a Java application to Kubernetes using Maven and monitor a Java application in production. By the end of the book, you will get hands-on with some more advanced topics to further extend your knowledge about Docker and Kubernetes. Style and approach An easy-to-follow, practical guide that will help Java developers develop, deploy, and manage Java applications efficiently.