Is your roleplaying in a rut? Flip the table and try something new! Proactive roleplaying will re-energize your players – and your game.

Most adventures in traditional TTRPGs start out the same way: Something bad happens and your players have to muster their courage to stand against it. Whether it’s rescuing the little dog that was kidnapped by the local troll, stopping an assassination attempt at the archduke’s wedding or recruiting an army to disrupt the construction of a world-ending ritual site, the party will always find a way to save the day. After all, what kind of heroes would they be if they let the dog, duke or entire population die? Saving the day is fun, but it starts to get repetitive after a while. If you’re using a “bad guys try to do stuff, good guys try to stop them” engine to drive all your sessions, you’re taking all the agency out of your players’ hands. Bad stuff happens, good people have to try to stop it, roll, rinse, repeat.

There’s a better way to play (and prep) your sessions. The Game Master’s Handbook of Proactive Roleplaying shows you how to convert your TTRPG gameplay from predictable action/reaction cliches to player-driven narratives that put all the choices (and most of the prep work) in the hands of your players. The goals are theirs. The decisions are theirs. Everything that happens in the world you’re building together occurs not because you planned it, but because the PCs are following their own paths, rather than Game Master breadcrumbs, to the scene of the next adventure.

The proactive approach ensures every battle has tension, every faction has a function and every session is high-stakes (and an absolute blast), putting the players and their characters in the driver’s seat so you can sit back and simply put giant goal- (and soul-) crushing roadblocks in their way.

You’ll also find:

• Foreword by Ginny Di with an afterword by Jeff Ashworth
• Writer’s block-breaking charts
• Case studies from decades of sessions
• Templates for goal-driven NPCs and factions
• A modular adventure setting and much more!

The Game Master's Handbook of Proactive Roleplaying is compatible with your favorite 5th edition Fantasy Tabletop RPGs!

Feed the fire inside with Fierce: a book of colouring affirmations to strengthen and embolden

Show boredom the red card with the Football Fantastic Activity Book, a fun-packed, interactive dive into all things football! Play your way through over 30 activities designed to delight any football-mad 7+ year-old. Find out unbelievable facts about your favourite players, teams and stadiums while tackling fun challenges and tasks, including: Assembling your own football dream team, complete with badge, kit and your fantasy super-squad. Designing your own super-stylish - or silly - hairdo. Matching players to their signature celebrations. True-or-false quizzes to test your footie knowledge. Much, much more! Just like the Beautiful Game, the Football Fantastic Activity Book has something for everyone, whether you like art, puzzles, words, or are simply sports-crazy! So what are you waiting for? Kick off your summer holidays with the Football Fantastic Activity Book! Have you read The Big Book of Football by MUNDIAL? This go-to guide is a must-have for any footie fan, filled with everything you could ever want to know about the world's favourite sport and the people who make it great.

The most highly-illustrated joke book available, this bumper treat is packed with over 500 side-splitting jokes for kids.

Why did the music teacher carry a ladder around with him?
To reach the high notes.

Why did the cookie cry?
Because his father was a wafer so long.

I'm giving away a parachute.
. No strings attached.

My dad got me a dictionary for my birthday.
. I still couldn't find the words to thank him.

Packed with gigglesome gags, witty one-liners and classic knock knocks to use on friends and family, this book is guaranteed to have readers and listeners in fits of laughter. Each joke is accompanied by a lively and humorous illustration, taking entertainment to the next level. Easy to read and full of endless fun, this is the perfect companion for young jokers.

'A super book for children to enjoy as they puzzle their way through the challenges, which get harder as they progress through the book' - Parents in Touch ___________________ Brain Games for Clever Kids (R) is a fantastic bestselling puzzle book, brimming with memory, word and number workouts for the cleverest of kids! Including battleships and mind-bending spot the differences to Japanese puzzles including hanjie, kakuro, futoshiki, sudoku and lots more. Let the brain games begin! Clever Kids is a trade mark of Michael O'Mara Books Limited.

This brand-new title in the hugely successful Clever Kids (R) series contains over 70 memory puzzles to exercise young minds. From matching pairs and spot the difference games to number codes and picture puzzles, this book is filled with memory-themed challenges to keep kids' brains busy. Created by bestselling puzzle book author Gareth Moore, author of the chart-topping Brain Games for Clever Kids.

Learn that even animals have best friends in this follow-up to The Not Bad Animals. Someone that's always there for them through thick and thin, to help them out with all of the usual things that friends do. You know, like picking ticks off your back, letting you know when a lion is about to make you its dinner and helping you hunt down some tasty prey. The animal kingdom is full of odd couples that prove that sometimes it's better to be together! Like the rhino and the African Oxpecker, the coyote and the badger, and the crocodile and the plover bird. This funny and informative book is a great way to teach your kids about some of the more interesting partnerships in the natural world, with pop out fact boxes and hilarious illustrations. Uncover some unlikely friendships from the world of animals and discover how creatures get through every day with a little help from their friends. This book is full of funny facts about animals and symbiotic relationships for children to explore.

A fantastic follow-up to Brain Games for Clever Kids and new to our Clever Kids puzzle book series, this book is brimming with activities designed to help kids practise their times tables by solving super-fun multiplication-themed puzzles and games.

Kids can only work out the answer if they know their times tables! From dot-to-dot times tables and colour-by-multiplication activities to code puzzles, Calcudoku conundrums and number pyramids, there's plenty of content to bamboozle the brain and test those times tables.

From best-selling puzzle book author Gareth Moore, creator of the chart-topping success Brain Games for Clever Kids that has sold over 70,000 copies in the UK.

Go on a magical adventure through the world's greatest adventure park in this fantastic sticker and activity book

100+ Taylor Swift puzzles, codes and brainteasers Are you looking for the perfect antidote to a Cruel Summer?

Enchanted by all things Taylor Swift?

So deep in the Folklore you could fill in every Blank Space, answer any Question …?

Then Swiftle, the ultimate unofficial Taylor Swift puzzle book, is The 1 for you.

Packed with more than 100 facts to find, codes to crack and puzzles to solve, it will take all your Tay-Tay trivia and countless Midnights to unravel them all. So, if you think you know Taylor All Too Well, then put your knowledge to the test and prove yourself a true Mastermind of the Eras.

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A brilliant new activity book containing over 100 stickers! Based on Judith Kerr's beloved story, The Tiger Who Came To Tea Based on Judith Kerr's best-loved story, The Tiger Who Came To Tea, this brilliant and fun-filled activity book is packed with games, puzzles, colouring in, and so much more! Featuring artwork from the original story, celebrate the magic of teatime anew with this exciting activity book, full of things to do yourself or with an adult. Let's count tea-time treats, create tiger-paw snacks, join the dots, spot the difference and stick, stick, stick with over 100 stickers! Bound to keep even the tiniest tigers busy, join Sophie, her mummy and the tiger and experience teatime as never before!

This book 'A Masque Of Days, From The Last Essays Of Elia' was originally published in 1901. The masque was a courtly feast involving dance, theatre, music and song popular in sixteenth century Europe and this work is a charming allegorical tale in which the guests at such a masque are The Days of the year, whose invitations are brought to them by twelve foot-pages called The Hours. Guests include Pay Day, who arrives late, Rainy Day dressed in wet stockings, and Wedding Day, who wears his marriage finery. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children. About the Illustrator: Walter Crane (1845-1915) was one of the earliest contributors to children's literature and one of the most influential illustrators in the development of children's colour picture books. Crane began working for Edmund Evans in 1864 producing bright, colourful books which revolutionised the type of children's books available. His Arts and Crafts illustrations came to typify children's books for decades to come.

Ho-ho-ho! Celebrate the festive season with this awesome LEGO (R) gift set. Inside you'll find a fun interactive activity book, a puzzle pad and over 60 LEGO bricks. You can build the characters from the stories, play along and create fun adventures of your own. The only limit is your own imagination! LEGO, the LEGO logo and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group. (c)2021 The LEGO Group. Manufactured by AMEET Sp. z o.o. under license from the LEGO Group.

Build 11 awesome LEGO (R) machines! With 58 LEGO (R) elements. This activity kit will have you building 11 machines that whirl, flip, punch and cruise! Including: a gravity-powered car, a boxing robot, a claw, a catapult, a spin-o-vision, a ghost mobile car, a rollin' T-Rex, a whirling fan, a mixing machine, a micro movie maker and a gravity-drop coaster. Make, experiment and play with KLUTZ . What is Klutz? Klutz is a premium brand of book-based activity kits, designed to inspire creativity in every child. Our unique combination of crystal-clear instructions, custom tools and materials, and hearty helpings of humor is 100% guaranteed to kick-start creativity. Super-clear instructions Open-ended Creativity Rewarding Reading Skills to Build On Everything You Need

Join Owen Grady on a tour of the LEGO® Jurassic World™ park in this action-packed colouring book. Bring your own choice of colours to the dinosaurs of the park, including Raptors, Pteranodons, Stegosaurs and of course the mighty T. rex.

Also included amongst the colouring pages are fun puzzles where you can follow the line to the dinosaur egg, complete the Triceratops picture and escape from the Allosaurus maze. Each activity will help young readers to develop logic and puzzle-solving skills.