Games Creatures Play

Author : Charlaine Harris
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101638877
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Games Creatures Play written by Charlaine Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the wide world of paranormal pastimes, where striking out might strike you dead. Editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner are your announcers for this collection of the most peculiar plays ever made—including a story featuring Sookie Stackhouse and Manfred Bernardo… Sports fans live and die by their teams’ successes and failures—though not literally. But these fifteen authors have written spirited—in more ways than one—tales of killer competitions that would make even the most die-hard players ask to be benched. This anthology includes tales of unusual athletics by: JAN BURKE • DANA CAMERON • ADAM-TROY CASTRO • BRENDAN DuBOIS • CHARLAINE HARRIS • TONI L. P. KELNER • CAITLIN KITTREDGE • WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER • ELLEN KUSHNER • MERCEDES LACKEY • JOE R. LANSDALE • LAURA LIPPMAN • SEANAN McGUIRE • BRANDON SANDERSON • SCOTT SIGLER

Author : Tim Ahrens
Publisher : Creative 2 a T, Incorporated DBA Lucid Style Author S
ISBN 13 : 9780996015516
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Creatures written by Tim Ahrens and published by Creative 2 a T, Incorporated DBA Lucid Style Author S. This book was released on 2019-12-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gods chose two unsuspecting players as their pawns in what was supposed to be a simple game of Dark Creatures, a game replete with dark things from a world gone mad and forgotten gods that play with life and death for their own amusement. When the rules for winning are ambiguous, the human beings are suddenly caught up in a contest of good versus evil and their game begins to spiral out of control. Now the cost of losing could mean the end of humanity and the very world itself.

Author : Charlaine Harris
Publisher : Jo Fletcher Books
ISBN 13 : 9781780872636
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Games Creatures Play written by Charlaine Harris and published by Jo Fletcher Books. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone plays something - whether it's solitaire or squash or stockcar racing, World of Warcraft or World Wrestling Entertainment tournaments, darts or dodgeball. Games bring out the best in us, the worst in us, the thing-we-never-expected in us. Human beings just naturally like to test their limits, both mental and physical - and why should the supernaturals be any different? In their latest anthology international superstar Charlaine Harris and award-winning mystery writer Toni Kelner have collected stories that feature ghostly players, bloodthirsty interruptions, and competitions with deadly outcomes, from some of the top writers in the fantasy, horror, crime and mystery genres. Game on!

Author : Alenda Y. Chang
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145296226X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing Nature written by Alenda Y. Chang and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games Video games may be fun and immersive diversions from daily life, but can they go beyond the realm of entertainment to do something serious—like help us save the planet? As one of the signature issues of the twenty-first century, ecological deterioration is seemingly everywhere, but it is rarely considered via the realm of interactive digital play. In Playing Nature, Alenda Y. Chang offers groundbreaking methods for exploring this vital overlap. Arguing that games need to be understood as part of a cultural response to the growing ecological crisis, Playing Nature seeds conversations around key environmental science concepts and terms. Chang suggests several ways to rethink existing game taxonomies and theories of agency while revealing surprising fundamental similarities between game play and scientific work. Gracefully reconciling new media theory with environmental criticism, Playing Nature examines an exciting range of games and related art forms, including historical and contemporary analog and digital games, alternate- and augmented-reality games, museum exhibitions, film, and science fiction. Chang puts her surprising ideas into conversation with leading media studies and environmental humanities scholars like Alexander Galloway, Donna Haraway, and Ursula Heise, ultimately exploring manifold ecological futures—not all of them dystopian.

Author : Patrick Bishop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781800589919
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spin and Play Magical Creatures written by Patrick Bishop and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative games book allows you to share and play magical games wherever you go!Simply lay the book flat and choose a game. Then take counters from the front pocket and spin the dice to play. Featuring amazing and magical characters such as unicorns, dragons, mermaids, and more!

Author : Keith Ammann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982122684
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monsters Know What They're Doing written by Keith Ammann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781613170922
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monster of the Week written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people don't believe in monsters, but you know the truth. They're real, and it's your task to bring them down. This revised edition of Monster of the Week brings that adventure to life.Monster of the Week is a standalone action-horror RPG for 3-5 people. Hunt high school beasties a la Buffy the Vampire Slayer, travel the country to bring down unnatural creatures like the Winchester brothers of Supernatural, or head up the government investigation like Mulder and Scully.This book contains everything you need to tackle Bigfoot, collar a chupacabra, and drive away demons. In this revised edition, you'll find:

Author : Jeff Ashworth
Publisher : Media Lab Books
ISBN 13 : 9781948174800
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Game Master's Book of Non-Player Characters written by Jeff Ashworth and published by Media Lab Books. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 Best-Selling author, Jeff Ashworth, comes the latest addition to The Game Master series, with more than 500 NPCs ready to populate your campaign whenever you need them! As is often the case in tabletop roleplaying games, players often venture into locales or look for answers in places and among people busy Game Masters simply didn’t anticipate. Or, just as often, an adventure won't have fully fleshed out characters in place for the locations and encounters outlined for gameplay. The Game Master's Book of Non-Player Characters solves these issues and more by providing Game Masters with the information they need to “fill in the holes” in their campaign play. It will enable GMs to instantly add depth, color, motivation and unique physical characteristics at a moment's notice to unexpected or underwritten characters as they pop up during gameplay, ensuring every session is a memorable one for players and GMs alike. This edition also includes more than 50 hand-drawn illustrations of select NPCs detailed in the book, 3 bonus one-shot adventures, and a foreword by online influencer Jasmine Bhullar.

Author : Katie Salen Tekinbas
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262240451
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rules of Play written by Katie Salen Tekinbas and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-09-25 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date. As pop culture, games are as important as film or television—but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field. They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds of games, from board games and sports to computer and video games. As active participants in game culture, the authors have written Rules of Play as a catalyst for innovation, filled with new concepts, strategies, and methodologies for creating and understanding games. Building an aesthetics of interactive systems, Salen and Zimmerman define core concepts like "play," "design," and "interactivity." They look at games through a series of eighteen "game design schemas," or conceptual frameworks, including games as systems of emergence and information, as contexts for social play, as a storytelling medium, and as sites of cultural resistance. Written for game scholars, game developers, and interactive designers, Rules of Play is a textbook, reference book, and theoretical guide. It is the first comprehensive attempt to establish a solid theoretical framework for the emerging discipline of game design.

Author : Jackie Strachan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782403531
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Games to Play with Your Cat written by Jackie Strachan and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenge your cat! Amaze your friends and family. Cats may spend up to two-thirds of their life asleep but when theyre awake, they enjoy wall-to-wall entertainment: something to stalk, to chase, to explore or to eat. Whether your cat favours energetic pouncing, sedate strolls around the garden, or a gym-style workout indoors, youll find that your input will be much appreciated. Here are some great ideas for engaging your pet in healthy play, including make-your-own-props and accessories as well as creative ways to use manufactured toys that will give your cat all the exercise they need. Expert tips explain your cats behaviour, show you how to coax a cautious cat into play without coercion, and reveal how to gently wind down an over-excited cat. Read, learn and indulge your cat with a daily play session that youll both love.