Whisper & Venom Compendium Deluxe Hardcover Whisper & Venom is a complete adventure for fantasy RPG's. Intriguing design and immersive gameplay are showcased in elegant writing. It is suitable for any classic fantasy role-playing game system.

These intricate illustrations of birds and butterflies are just waiting for you to bring them to life

Science Fiction Hobby Games serves as a history and guide to tabletop gaming franchises set in original science-fictional milieux. Its subject is the pen and paper role playing games and model and counter based wargames that preceded modern videogames and still evolve alongside them, as well as the gamebooks, board games, card games and postal games that are their less famous cousins. Included are detailed critical overviews of more than a hundred fantastical universes published between 1969 and 2013, along with essays on popular types of tabletop game and the natures of their settings and stories. Throughout, sf games are treated as an integral part of the long history of science fiction, and as a new way of enabling its explorations of the future and other worlds. Based on the author's contributions to the Hugo Award winning third edition of the Clute and Nicholls Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, this book contains an extra 20,000 words on additional games and other topics, specially written for this new version of the text.

This unique backgammon set features Gray's iconic aerial photography of sunbathers and colorful beach umbrellas and includes 30 game pieces, 4 dice, and 1 doubling cube. The Gray Malin Beach Backgammon Set is the perfect gift for backgammon and fine art photography enthusiasts alike. Box dimensions: 12" x 8.75" x 1.75"

Let's Play SHESS is written to inspire and shake up women of all ages and backgrounds to take a chance, learn something new and believe in their abilities. This book provides a fresh entertaining approach to exploring every woman's inquisitive mind and entrepreneurial passion by playing chess. The fascinating and realistic correlation between transferring the chess-playing skills into your real life is revealed, as well as the invaluable rewards and benefits you gain as a result. SHESS is an all-encompassing term which represents "your game of life." All of the circumstances which exist in your life, including challenges relevant to business development represent your individual "battlefield." Whether on a personal or professional level, SHESS relates how you think, react, analyze and solve problems, and make decisions. While this book is dedicated to women, everyone is certainly welcome to explore this wisdom.

Originally published in 1935, this is a detailed manual of Bridge technique, 'As Used by the Leading Contract Bridge Tournament Players, with Examples of Expert Bidding and Expert Play'. Contents Include: Part 1 - Expert Bidding - What Every Expert Knows - Valuing the Hand - The Opening Bid of One - Responses to Opening Bids of One - Rebidding - Specialized Opening Bids and Responses - Defensive Bidding - Penalty Doubles and Sacrifice Bids - Slam Bidding - Psychic Bidding - Examples and Drills - Part Two - General Principles - Declarer's Play - Defensive Play - Advanced Play - A Series of Fine Hands

A new edition of Reiner Knizia's classic auction game, where players must out-bid each other to gain their rightful place within high society. It's the turn of the century, and it's time to live large. As the quintessential bon vivant you must spare no expense following the latest trend and surrounding yourself with the fineries of life that you justly deserve. Assert your status, impress your peers, and avoid scandal at every turn. In Reiner Knizia's classic auction game, players must bid against each other for life's luxuries, while avoiding going bankrupt in the process. High Society features 16 stunning Art Nouveau-inspired illustrations by Medusa Dollmaker. Players: 3-5 Playing Time: 20 minutes Ages: 10+ Contents: 55 Money cards, 16 Oversized Status cards

With complex stories and stunning visuals eliciting intense emotional responses, coupled with opportunities for self-expression and problem solving, video games are a powerful medium to foster empathy, critical thinking, and creativity in players. As these games grow in popularity, ambition, and technological prowess, they become a legitimate art form, shedding old attitudes and misconceptions along the way. Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives asks whether videogames have the power to transform a player and his or her beliefs from a sociopolitical perspective. Unlike traditional forms of storytelling, videogames allow users to immerse themselves in new worlds, situations, and politics. This publication surveys the landscape of videogames and analyzes the emergent gaming that shifts the definition and cultural effects of videogames. This book is a valuable resource to game designers and developers, sociologists, students of gaming, and researchers in relevant fields.