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Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It
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3.72 avg rating — 5,091 ratings
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Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People, and Fantastic Adventure from Chess to Role-Playing Games
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4.11 avg rating — 580 ratings
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Educational Game Design Fundamentals: A Journey to Creating Intrinsically Motivating Learning Experiences
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4.31 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Designers & Dragons: The '70s (Designers & Dragons, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 432 ratings
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Designers & Dragons: The '80s (Designers & Dragons, #2)
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4.20 avg rating — 274 ratings
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Designers & Dragons: The '90s (Designers & Dragons, #3)
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4.21 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Designers & Dragons: The '00s (Designers & Dragons, #4)
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4.14 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Heroic Worlds
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3.95 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Dungeons & Dreamers: A Story of how Computer Games Created a Global Community
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3.62 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Complete Kobold Guide to Game Design
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3.92 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons
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3.73 avg rating — 1,802 ratings
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Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons
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3.98 avg rating — 2,379 ratings
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Hamlet's Hit Points
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3.78 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Designers & Dragons
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Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D
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3.58 avg rating — 1,470 ratings
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Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
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4.42 avg rating — 1,837 ratings
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Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms
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3.32 avg rating — 784 ratings
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Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games
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3.66 avg rating — 249 ratings
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The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Prompts and Activities to Create the Most Interesting Story for Your Character (Ultimate Role Playing Game Series)
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3.87 avg rating — 446 ratings
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Never Unprepared: The Complete Game Master's Guide to Session Prep
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3.77 avg rating — 185 ratings
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The Lazy Dungeon Master
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4.02 avg rating — 1,137 ratings
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Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games
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3.96 avg rating — 195 ratings
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The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters
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4.42 avg rating — 1,288 ratings
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Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History
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4.59 avg rating — 2,137 ratings
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Kobold Guide to Game Design
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3.63 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Functions of Role-Playing Games: How Participants Create Community, Solve Problems and Explore Identity
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3.77 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Swords & Circuitry: A Designer's Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games
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3.67 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Heroes of Urowen: Gamebook
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4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Chalice of Jupiter (Crimson Quest Book 1)
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4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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My Storytelling Guide Companion
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3.94 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The CRPG Book Project
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4.45 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress: A Girl's Guide to the D&D Game
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3.43 avg rating — 723 ratings
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Arbiter of Worlds: A Primer for Gamemasters
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4.08 avg rating — 227 ratings
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The genreDiversion Manual: The easy to learn universal tabletop roleplaying game. (genreDiversion 3E Games)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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My Guide to RPG Storytelling (My Storytelling Guides Book 1)
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3.83 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide: Role-Play the Best Campaign Ever―No Matter the Game! (Ultimate Role Playing Game Series)
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4.04 avg rating — 407 ratings
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Tabletop Gaming Manual: A guide to the diverse world of modern tabletop games
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3.78 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Ultimate RPG Game Master's Worldbuilding Guide: Prompts and Activities to Create and Customize Your Own Game World (Ultimate Role Playing Game Series)
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4.17 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games
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3.69 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Gamemastering Secrets
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3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Fantasy Roleplaying Gamer's Bible
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3.42 avg rating — 26 ratings
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How to Play Dungeons & Dragons: Your Step By Step Guide To Playing Dungeons & Dragons For Beginners
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3.31 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book: 40 Fast, Easy, and Fun Tabletop Games (Ultimate Role Playing Game Series)
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3.85 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The Creation of Narrative in Tabletop Role-Playing Games
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3.51 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Play Dirty
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3.82 avg rating — 223 ratings
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The Evolution of Fantasy Role-playing Games
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2.93 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Play Dirty 2: Even Dirtier
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3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Robin's Laws of Good Game Mastering
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4.15 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds
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3.85 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Live to Tell the Tale: Combat Tactics for Player Characters
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4.16 avg rating — 579 ratings
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Dungeon Hacks: How NetHack, Angband, and Other Roguelikes Changed the Course of Video Games
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3.80 avg rating — 357 ratings
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The Game Master's Book of Random Encounters: 500+ customizable maps, tables and story hooks to create 5th edition adventures on demand (The Game Master Series)
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4.40 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
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4.20 avg rating — 24,343 ratings
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Kobold Guide to Game Design: Adventures
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4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Game Master's Book of Non-Player Characters: 500+ unique bartenders, brawlers, mages, merchants, royals, rogues, sages, sailors, warriors, weirdos ... RPG adventures (The Game Master Series)
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4.43 avg rating — 166 ratings
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The Game Master's Book of Traps, Puzzles and Dungeons: A punishing collection of bone-crunching contraptions, brain-teasing riddles and ... RPG adventures (The Game Master Series)
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4.39 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Kobold Guide to Game Design: How to Playtest and Publish
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3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Game Master's Book of Instant Towns and Cities: 160+ unique villages, towns, settlements and cities, ready-on-demand, plus random generators for ... RPG adventures (The Game Master Series)
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4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Kobold Guide to Magic
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4.06 avg rating — 68 ratings
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So You Want To Be A Game Master: Everything You Need to Start Your Tabletop Adventure for Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, and Other
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4.38 avg rating — 625 ratings
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MOAR! Monsters Know What They're Doing
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4.41 avg rating — 182 ratings
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How to Defend Your Lair (The Monsters Know What They’re Doing)
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4.04 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2
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3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Game Master’s Handbook of Proactive Roleplaying: Guidelines and Strategies for Running PC-Driven Narratives in 5E Adventures
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4.26 avg rating — 386 ratings
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The Game Master's Book of Legendary Dragons: Epic new dragons, dragon-kin and monsters, plus dragon cults, classes, combat and magic for 5th Edition RPG adventures (The Game Master Series)
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4.47 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Game Master's Book of Astonishing Random Tables: 300+ Unique Roll Tables to Enhance Your Worldbuilding, Storytelling, Locations, Magic and More ... RPG Adventures (The Game Master Series)
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4.49 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Game Master’s Book of Villains, Minions and Their Tactics: Epic new antagonists for your PCs, plus new minions, fighting tactics, and guidelines ... RPG adventures (The Game Master Series)
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4.38 avg rating — 55 ratings
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How to Host a Game Night: What to Serve, Who to Invite, How to Play―Strategies for the Perfect Game Night
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3.82 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Live to Tell the Tale: Combat Tactics for Player Characters (The Monsters Know What They’re Doing Book 2)
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4.16 avg rating — 579 ratings
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Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games (The Monsters Know What They’re Doing)
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Dungeons & Dragons - One Woman's Quest to Trade Self-Help for Elf-Help
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3.33 avg rating — 323 ratings
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Remarkable Inns & Their Drinks: The Ultimate Guide to Roleplaying Fantasy Taverns
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition (Ultimate Role Playing Game Series)
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4.23 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Kobold Guide to Dungeons
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3.42 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Kobold Guide to Monsters
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3.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Kobold Guide to Roleplaying
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3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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