jenskot reports on 2009-10-08:
Announcing the Anarchist Gamemaster Cookbook: Recipes for Games That Don't Suck
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 MARCH 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
Check out the first preview, You’ve Got the Fear: http://tinyurl.com/ybuen2v/
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For more, please visit: http://sinisteradventures.com/
Questions? Email: sinister@sinisteradventures.com
Thanks, Nicolas Logue
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