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Announcing the Anarchist Gamemaster Cookbook: Recipes for Games That Don't Suck |
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Written by Dajobas
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Thursday, 01 October 2009 00:48 |
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Peer into Nicolas Logue’s demented mind and taste his darkest sanity-shattering gamemaster tricks from a decade teaching theater in NYC, China and London. These forbidden fruits come screaming through the interwebs straight to your home gaming table. For use with any game or system.
Anarchist Gamemaster’s Cookbook is packed full of terrifying advice on gamemastery that Nicolas Logue has never dared share before with man or beast. Secrets that will transform novice gamemasters into towering Gods of Gaming and supply even the most grizzled veteran storytellers with new tricks to slip up their sleeve before the next time the dice hit the table.
What do your favorite movies, books and TV shows have in common? Story, Drama and Action! Don’t let the rules rule you. If story matters then the Anarchist Gamemaster’s Cookbook matters to your game.
Put your humanity at risk with lessons including Improv by the Skin of Your Teeth, Murder Death Kill, Ultimate Climaxes (you know what I mean), Fates Worse Than Death, Soundtracks, Romance, Redemption, God Like Powered Player Characters, Why Dragons Should Always Win and more collected here in one master tome.
New Twists and Sage Advice on…
Plot
Setting
NPCs
Villains
Adventure Design
Pacing
Cut Scenes and Fade Outs
Gripping Backstories
Hooking the Players
Spotlighting the PCs
Improv by the Skin of Your Teeth
Cinematic Action
The Art of the One Shot
Epic Length Campaigns
Ultimate Climaxes (you know what I mean)
Motivating Your Players…and Their Characters Too
Suspense
Soundtracks for Your Game
Amnesia
Nightmares
Drug Addiction
Flashbacks
Fear
Mind Control
Romance
Redemption
Twists and Turns
Mysteries
Noir
Traps
Wizard’s Duels Done Right
God Like Powered Player Characters
Murder Death Kill!...or…Bringing Combat to Life
Why Dragons Should Always Win and other Fine Truisms of Good Gamemastery
Besides being a veteran game designer and adventure writer for DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS (3&4), DUNGEON magazine, and PATHFINDER, Nicolas Logue is a Professor of World Theater in London, a full instructor with Dueling Arts International, a produced playwright, award winning stage director, and has taught improvisation and acting all over the world. Anarchist Gamemaster’s Cookbook combines Nicolas Logue’s most potent techniques from over a decade in theatre and his demented weekend RPG ramblings into one very extreme tour de force of gamemastery. A must have for any gamemaster of any system, novice or veteran.
ANARCHIST GAMEMASTER COOKBOOK SHIPS IN APRIL 2010. PURCHASE A PRINT COPY AND GET A PDF FREE. PRINT COPIES ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR A SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PRICE. ORDER NOW FOR ONLY $16.99
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Last Updated on Sunday, 01 November 2009 22:38 |
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Written by Dajobas
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Thursday, 10 September 2009 15:40 |
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Just a quick announcement:
From here on out, all of Sinister's Dark Vistas and Dark Horizons will be offered not only in OGL 3.5 and Pathfinder compatible, but also in Savage Worlds adaptations as well. If you unfamiliar with this break-through and wildly interesting game system do check them out here: http://www.peginc.com/games.html
Let the savagery begin! |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 10 September 2009 15:47 |
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Written by Dajobas
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 07:57 |
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 The Razor Coast
by Nicolas Logue
A sea of blood caresses the savage shore of the Razor. Port Shaw is beset by land and sea. Rising from the abyssal depths, Harthagoa, the bastard spawn of kraken and demon drags whole fleets beneath the waves. In the fetid Blacksink Marsh, where unspeakable horrors are sunk beneath the bog water, accursed cannibals pay gory obeisance to an ancient shark god of slaughter.
A ghostly armada, murderous pirates, and bale-sharks prowl the seas. Meanwhile foreign invaders in search of baleen, ambergris, and gold menace the native Tulita tribes, driving them from their ancestral home with smoke-belching cannonade.
Pele, The Goddess of Fire and Wrack, watches all from her smoldering throne on Dreadsmoke mountain. She stands ever ready to purge the people of Port Shaw from her domain in a torrent of ash and molten lava. You decide the fate of the Razor Coast - A Dark Vista in dire need of heroes.
Razor Coast is a 130+ mega-adventure by Nicolas Logue for 4th to 12th level characters. Using an exciting and entirely non-linear plot web format Razor Coast allows you and your players to brave wild adventures in any way you see fit. Set sail for peril. There will be blood by the bucket-full boyos.
Purchase a print edition of this Dark Vista and get PDFs configured for multiple game systems for free. Purchase a PDF and get addtional PDFs compatible with other game systems for free as well.
Preorder your copy of Razor Coast today! You choose between OGL 3.5, Pathfinder Compatible, or Savage Worlds compatible print versions when we ship - you get PDFs of all of them for free!
Razor Coast coming soon!
SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PRICE ONLY: $29.99 USD
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 December 2009 20:33 |
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Welcome to Sinister Adventures |
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Here we are in the dark again. Draw that steel, friend. I hope you’ve kept it sharp. Pray to whatever god you bow to…Something Sinister This Way Comes. Sinister Adventures LLC is the personal game design studio of Nicolas Logue devoted to bringing the grittiest, most hard hitting, and wildly cutting edge adventures to the gaming public. Sinister launches its first products, Indulgence PDFs, available for download right now. |
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Indulgences, Wave Two (click a page to enlarge) |
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Written by Dajobas
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Thursday, 20 March 2008 21:11 |
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Get all four of this month’s Indulgences in one bargain bundle. Everything you need to kick off your Dark Vistas #1: Razor Coast campaign, or add bloody brine, the war arts of the Tulita, swampventure, and ghostly terror to any high seas campaign. $8.00 USD
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Last Updated on Friday, 23 May 2008 05:26 |
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Written by Dajobas
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 08:00 |
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 Cold Black
A 60+ page mega-adventure by Louis Agresta & Nicolas Logue
It gets quiet out there in the black of space. When you're on prisoner transport duty aboard the Gloomdrake, carting the galaxy's most vile mass-murderers and rapists to the frozen penal world of Avalon, you've got nothing to do but listen to the void.
The universe has a way of throwing nasty surprises at those foolish enough to brave her unfathomable darkness. When a gravity well knocks the Gloomdrake out of hyperspace near a long lost derelict hulk it seems like a great payday. Salvage of a pre-war vessel, like the Seraphim can make a man rich beyond his wildest dreams, but where has this titanic ship been for the last few hundred years? Why has it turned up near Avalon? What horrors await inside, and are the PCs really the first to discover the abandoned science vessel, or has something else already made its home there?
To make matters worse, all contact with Avalon has been cut off. It could be just a communications error, or maybe the Seraphim's new denizens found their way down to the prison world already? When alien horrors mingle with the galaxy's most depraved psychopaths every spacer's nightmare comes true. Welcome to Cold Black, and a thousand fates worse than death.
Purchase a print edition of this Dark Horizon and get PDFs configured for multiple game systems for free. Purchase a PDF and get addtional PDFs compatible with other game systems for free as well.
Preorder your copy today for our special low pre-order price, and choose between the OGL Future compatible or Savage Worlds compatible print edition of Cold Black - you get PDFs of both for free!
Cold Black Coming Soon!
SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PRICE: $17.99
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 December 2009 20:34 |
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Announcing Dark Vistas and Dark Horizons
Sinister is proud to introduce its two flagship lines: DARK VISTAS and DARK HORIZONS. Learn more...
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