Rhapsody of Blood is an alternate setting for Legacy Life Among the Ruins 2nd Edition focusing on heroic action & gothic bloodshed As an evil castle sends its corruption into the world will your bloodline be able to push it back? Every generation the blood moon rises & the castle exalts a villain with its dark gifts They shall command its legions use its powers to twist reality & seek the godlike power of the unholy grail You here to stop them Your bloodlines have fought the castle since its first emergence & that legacy has granted you endless tenacity strange powers or unbreakable faith Together you will root out the wards of the castle where they have infested the mundane world slay the acolytes of the castle regent steal their dark power for your own & banish the regent & the castle with them But the castle is immortal & the blood moon will rise again As generations rise & fall what tales of heroic action & gothic bloodshed will you tell? Rhapsody of Blood is a standalone alternate setting for Legacy Life Among the Ruins written by Jay Iles & illustrated by Adrian Stone that brings tense combat & soul-imperilling adventure to your table ...

Humanity at last stakes a claim among the stars But building a colony on a strange new world is about more than mere survival To thrive you need to balance the demands of competing political factions each vying to leave their mark on humanity new home Worldfall is an alternate setting for Legacy Life Among the Ruins 2nd Edition written by Katherine Cross & illustrated by Claudia Cangini & Tithi Luadthong focusing on the political logistical & environmental challenges of forming a colony on a new world Form strategic alliances that produce wild new ideologies Work towards a constitutional convention that sets a tone for life on the new world Reach for more distant horizons & at last return to the stars ...

Become The Supreme Sorcerer! Explore & conquer an almost limitless number of procedurally generated universes using military & magical power to overcome your foes in this 4x turn-based strategy game Find cities raise armies research & cast spells hire magical heroes & create powerful magical artifacts to help your bid to become the supreme Sorcerer Lord 4x turn-based unique multiverse strategy game with 7 Planes of Existence Select your universe size & customise your planes 40 types of world features filled with guardians & loot With D20 tactical combat system Pick 1 of 8 races to be the first in your empire
- lead your civilisation to victory! Customise your own Sorcerer Lord or choose a pre-generated character Select from 12 spell circles with 400 spells available for your Lord to learn Find cities raise armies research & cast spells hire magical heroes & more 100 unique military units to recruit & magical creatures to summon Play out combat on a tactical battle board or auto-calculate to save time
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Many of today's best (and best-selling) fantasists got their start writing shared world fiction supporting roleplaying games This massive anthology collects more than a dozen thrilling tales from RA Salvatore Michael A Stackpole Monte Cook Ed Greenwood Elaine Cunningham & more to give an exciting overview of the original worlds & characters of authors who achieved their greatest fame writing stories they do not own Edited by James Lowder (The Book of All Flesh Prince of Lies) Worlds of Their Own presents an unprecedented sampler of fantasy & science fiction adventure tales from some of the best-loved & best-known authors in the genre ...

A mammoth volume (over 250000 words) of the many facets of one of science fiction’s most popular talents Here are treecats starships dragons alternate history self-aware Bolo supertanks wizards sailing ships ironclads—and of course Weber’s fantastically popular starship commander Honor Harrington For nearly two decades David Weber has been taking enthralled readers to destinations strange & fantastical from his best-selling Honor Harrington novels & short stories to the heroic fantasy of Bahzell of the Hrandai & the shared universe stories set in worlds of his own creation & those of others such as Eric Flint’s best-selling Ring of Fire series the popular Bolo series of Keith Laumer & more Visit 17th-century Magdeburg for the creation of the United States Navy a hundred & fifty years early & go with John Paul Jones as he wins the Revolutionary War— For George III Fight dragons & demons with US Marines in a most unexpected campaign find out how humans & treecats first met & share Honor Harrington’s very first battle But once you step into the worlds of Weber you may not want to go home again About the Author David Weber is the science fiction phenomenon of the decade His popular Honor Harrington novels are New York Times best sellers & can&t come out fast enough for his devoted readers He has also begun a top-selling epic SF Adventure series in collaboration with John Ringo with four novels so far March Upcountry March to the sea March to the Stars & We Few His Wind Rider&s Oath another New York Times best sellers continues his popular fantasy adventure series ...

From New York Times best-selling author & creator of the popular Ring of Fire series Eric Flint A new collection of short stories by a master of sciecne fiction fantasy & alternate history WELCOME TO THE MANY WORLDS OF BEST-SELLING AUTHOR ERIC FLINTKnown for his New York Times best-selling alternate history novels Flint is equally a master of shorter forms & this second large volume gathers more of Flint’s shorter works Including several stories & a short novel set in Flint’s celebrated Ring of Fire alternate history series A commemorative novelette set in Poul Anderson’s Operation Chaos universe A story with Dave Freer set in his & Flint’s popular Rats Bats & Vats series Several humorous short stories addressing Biblical literalism A long novella in a Martian steampunk setting & another long novella set in David Weber’s best-selling Honor Harrington universe In addition to the fiction Eric Flint has written an overall introduction plus an introduction for each story telling how it came to be written making this an irresistible book for the many thousands of Eric Flint fans About the Author Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction with three million books in print He’s the authorcreator of the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series starting with first novel 1632 With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the “ Belisarius” alternate Roman history series & with David Weber collaborated on 1633 & 1634 The Baltic War & latest Honorverse series entry Cauldron of Ghosts Flint&s latest Ring of Fire novel is 1636 The Ottoman Onslaught Flint was for many years a labor union activist He lives near Chicago Illinois ...

Multiverse cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others While this idea has captivated philosophy religion & literature for millennia it is now being considered as a scientific hypothesis-with different models emerging from cosmology quantum mechanics & string theory Beginning with ancient Atomist & Stoic philosophies Mary-Jane Rubenstein links contemporary models of the multiverse to their forerunners & explores the reasons for their recent appearance One concerns the so-called fine-tuning of the universe nature's constants are so delicately calibrated that it seems they have been set just right to allow life to emerge For some thinkers these "fine-tunings" are evidence of the existence of God; for others however & for most physicists " God" is an insufficient scientific explanation Hence the allure of the multiverse if all possible worlds exist somewhere then like monkeys hammering out Shakespeare one universe is bound to be suitable for life Of course this hypothesis replaces God with an equally baffling article of faith the existence of universes beyond before or after our own eternally generated yet forever inaccessible to observation or experiment In their very efforts to sidestep metaphysics theoretical physicists propose multiverse scenarios that collide with it & even produce counter-theological narratives Far from invalidating multiverse hypotheses Rubenstein argues this interdisciplinary collision actually secures their scientific viability We may therefore be witnessing a radical reconfiguration of physics philosophy & religion in the modern turn to the multiverse ...

Tracklist Deeper Pomped-Up Freddy Where Am Isex Lies Lies & Lies The Kipper & The Pork Pie The Higgly Giggly Wiggly Woo Vendetta Europhiles Onward ...

Tracklist Plagued With Righteousness Daj Jo Bo The Tale Of Mr Giggles Ease Runner Now This Means War To Lose The Loved False Prophets ...

What if being a librarian was the most dangerous job in the world? Worldsoul a great city that forms a nexus point between Earth & the many

Dimensions known as the Liminality is a place where old stories gather where forgotten legends come to fade & die
- or to flourish & rise again Until recently Worldsoul has been governed by the Skein but they have gone missing & no one knows why The city is also being attacked with lethal flower-bombs from an unknown enemy Mercy Fane & her fellow Librarians are doing their best to maintain the Library butthingskeep breaking out of ancient texts & legends are escaping into the city Mercy must pursue one such dangerous creature She turns to Shadow an alchemist for aid but Shadow
- inadvertently possessed by an ifrit
- has a perilous quest of her own to undertake




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