Fantastic Locations

Author : Gwendolyn F. M. Kestrel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780786939084
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Locations written by Gwendolyn F. M. Kestrel and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring two double-sided poster maps designed for roleplaying and miniatures skirmish play, this stand-alone adventure can be easily inserted in any D&D campaign setting.

Author : Gail Orwig
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476645892
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Serial Sites of California written by Gail Orwig and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, this guide to California filming sites covers five decades of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in chapter plays. Covering more than 60 serials, many familiar locations are documented, including the rugged terrain of Red Rock Canyon, which served as a stand-in for Saturn in Buck Rogers; the Bronson Caves and Griffith Observatory, which appeared in Flash Gordon; and the famous Iverson Ranch, which appeared in Batman, Superman and many other serials. The reader will also find serials starring Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney, Jr. Also covered are the skyscrapers that appeared alongside Captain Marvel in The Adventures of Captain Marvel, the location of the Green Hornet's apartment and filming locations for five silent serials. The in-depth storytelling is enhanced by photos of serial memorabilia, postcards, serial descriptions, accurate instructions to locations, notes and more.

Author : Michael Shea
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781982035709
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sly Flourish's Fantastic Locations written by Michael Shea and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We RPG game masters have a lot of tools to help us run our roleplaying games. Our monster books and bestiaries give us piles of foes to throw at our adventurers. The various guides for game masters often give us non-player characters, treasures, and story-building tips. One of the hardest parts of game mastering, however, is coming up with interesting adventure locations for our characters to explore. These locations need to be fantastic, detailed places that capture the minds of our players every session we run. Good locations are hard to improvise and often hard to strip out of a fully-fleshed-out adventure. Sly Flourish's Fantastic Locations is a book, available in PDF and print-on-demand, that gives you twenty system-agnostic locations to drop into your favorite fantasy roleplaying game. Each location builds on a fantastic theme, such as a mysterious ancient structure under the ice, a cursed castle of a mad king, a fallen celestial fortress, and a dwarven mine that cracked into the tomb of a dead god. Each location includes artwork by Brian Patterson of D20Monkey. Sometimes this artwork takes the form of maps. Sometimes it's an overlook of a specific location. These sites and structures aren't full adventures. Instead, you and your players build your own stories in these fantastic locations, then you populate them with the monsters that fit your story. Thanks to the support of 779 backers on Kickstarter this book was expanded to include a total of twenty locations each with full color artwork. This book is system agnostic. You can use it in just about any fantasy roleplaying game.

Author : John Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411689151
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Films Famous, Fanciful, Frolicsome & Fantastic written by John Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-04-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember "Humpy," the talking camel? You'll find him in this book, along with a host of other legendary characters from Alice in Wonderland through the Mysterious Mr Wong to Wild Bill Hickok. Movie stars featured include Lon Chaney, Kay Francis, Buster Keaton, Greta Garbo, Constance Bennett, Adolphe Menjou and Will Rogers. Directors include John Ford, Cecil B. DeMille, Ernst Lubitsch and Fred Zinnemann. It all adds up to many hours of pleasure for classic movie fans who can thumb through details of award-winning films, popular pictures, and little-known masterpieces that deserve wider recognition. Yes, there are famous "B" movies too, like "Sleepers West" and its re-make, "The Narrow Margin."

Author : Bill Slavicsek
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470050888
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dungeon Master For Dummies written by Bill Slavicsek and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-07-24 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’ve been a Dungeon Master (DM) before and want to fine-tune your skills or want to get ready and take the plunge, this is the book for you. It gives you the basics on running a great game, info for more advanced dungeon mastering, guidelines for creating adventures, and tips for building a campaign. It shows you how to: Handle all the expressions of DMing: moderator, narrator, a cast of thousands (the nonplayer characters or NPCs), player, social director, and creator Use published adventures and existing campaign worlds or create adventures and campaign worlds of your own Conjure up exciting combat encounters Handle the three types of encounters: challenge, roleplaying, and combat Create your own adventure: The Dungeon Adventure, The Wilderness Adventure. The Event-Based adventure (including how to use flowcharts and timelines), The Randomly Generated Adventure, and the High-Level adventure Create memorable master villains, with nine archetypes ranging from agent provocateur to zealot To get you off to a fast start, Dungeon Master For Dummies includes: A sample dungeon for practice Ten ready-to-use encounters and ten challenging traps A list of simple adventure premises Mapping tips, including common scales, symbols, and conventions, complete with tables Authors Bill Slavicsek and Richard Baker wrote the hugely popular Dungeons and Dragons For Dummies. Bill has been a game designer since 1986 and leads the D&D creative team at Wizards of the Coast. Richard is a game developer and the author of the fantasy bestseller Condemnation. They give you the scoop on: Using a DM binder to keep records such as an adventure log, PCs’ character sheets, NPC logs/character sheets, treasure logs, and more Knowing player styles (role players and power games) and common subgroups: hack’n’slasher, wargamer, thinker, impulsive adventurer, explorer, character actor, and watcher Recognizing your style: action movie director, storyteller, worldbuilder, puzzlemaker, or connector Using miniatures, maps, and other game aids Using 21st century technology, such as a Web site or blog, to enhance your game The book includes a sample adventure, The Necromancer’s Apprentice, that’s the perfect way to foray into DMing. It includes everything you need for a great adventure—except your players. What are you waiting for? There are chambers to be explored, dragons to be slain, maidens to be rescued, gangs of gnoll warriors to be annihilated, worgs to be wiped out, treasures to be discovered, worlds to be conquered....

Author : Brooke Shaden
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1134615442
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inspiration in Photography written by Brooke Shaden and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a photographer it’s possible to train your mind to see inspiration in any situation, and this book will show you how. By introducing you into her creative process, Brooke Shaden—one of the most recognized names in modern art photography—reveals techniques and exercises that you can undertake in order to be inspired by your environment, everyday, everywhere. In addition to the exercises, you’ll learn how to compose, plan and shoot colorful, atmospheric, fairy-tale artistic photography, so you can adapt Shaden’s techniques and apply them to your own photographic style. Indeed, all artistic photographers seek to achieve their own style, but it’s not always easy to see how to get there. This book provides the perfect balance of insight and instruction to help you find inspiration whenever you need it, and capitalize on it every time.

Author : Allen Stroud
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538166070
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature written by Allen Stroud and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy is a genre in motion, gradually expanding its reach and historical sources to embrace a global identity Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature, Second Edition is a snapshot of the genre in this moment, identifying new themes and sources that are emerging to inspire, enhance and invigorate the published works of fantasy writers.

Author : Derek Littlewood
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042000322
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impossibility Fiction written by Derek Littlewood and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impossibility fiction is an 'intergenre' that has recently been the resort of many writers searching for new ways of understanding and expressing the real world of the imagination, making use of fantasy, alternative history and science fiction. Coping with ideas that are both impossible and realistically constructed is the ultimate contemporary challenge of our technology. The chapters of this book move towards establishing appropriate readings that allow contemporary readers to negotiate unreality, a skill that the end of the millennium is making inevitably necessary. Such strategies have long been the preserve of literary and cultural study, and here a number of well-regarded scholars and some new to the field make their contribution to an area that has become increasingly important in recent years. From Mary Shelley to Philip K. Dick, Iain M. Banks to J.G. Ballard, taking in African-American science fiction, Jurassic Park, and Kurt Vonnegut, and exploring issues of alternative history and ideology, feminism, the holocaust, characterisation, and impossible geography, this collection is an important source-book for all those interested in the literature, culture and philosophy of realistic impossible worlds.

Author : Gwendolyn F. M. Kestrel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780786938476
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Locations written by Gwendolyn F. M. Kestrel and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of an exciting new line of D&D poster map products! "Fantastic Locations: Fane of the Drow" features two double-sided poster maps designed for roleplaying and miniatures skirmish play. An accompanying 16-page adventure can be dropped into any campaign. Enemies consist of creatures from various D&D miniatures. Miniatures skirmish scenarios are included for additional play options, written to allow Dungeon Masters to seamlessly integrate D&D Miniatures into the adventure. The two poster maps, which are scaled for tabletop play, can be put together to form the temple of the drow, while the reverse sides feature other fantastic dungeon locations players can explore.

Author : Sarah Street
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1911239597
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colour Films in Britain written by Sarah Street and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Eastmancolor's arrival on the British filmmaking scene is one of intermittent trial and error, intense debate and speculation before gradual acceptance. This book traces the journey of its adoption in British Film and considers its lasting significance as one of the most important technical innovations in film history. Through original archival research and interviews with key figures within the industry, the authors examine the role of Eastmancolor in relation to key areas of British cinema since the 1950s; including its economic and structural histories, different studio and industrial strategies, and the wider aesthetic changes that took place with the mass adoption of colour. Their analysis of British cinema through the lens of colour produces new interpretations of key British film genres including social realism, historical and costume drama, science fiction, horror, crime, documentary and even sex films. They explore how colour communicated meaning in films ranging from the Carry On series to Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), from Lawrence of Arabia (1962) to A Passage to India (1984), and from Goldfinger (1964) to 1984 (1984), and in the work of key directors and cinematographers of both popular and art cinema including Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Ridley Scott, Peter Greenaway and Chris Menges.