Become the best DM for under $20 with this ultimate RPG book bundle
For Humble Bundles Very modest holidayAdams Media has a flash bundle sale that will give you all the skills and knowledge you need to become a great dungeon master. To raise money for Worldreader, the bundle includes 22 books collected from the Ultimate RPG series, Teri Litorco’s Civilized guide to tabletop gamingthe Düngeonmeister recipe books for food and drink, and a collection of mythology books to inspire your world-building.
Simon & Schuster imprint Adams Media, one of the few major publishers to venture into tabletop role-playing games, began publishing books on tabletop games in 2016, with Litorco’s guide to 100 gaming etiquette rules that every gamer should adhere to. In 2018 it published the Ultimate guide to RPG character backstory by James D’Amato, Polygon employee and founder of the One shot actual gaming network. The book provides prompts and exercises to flesh out the backstories of player characters, creating a more fully fleshed-out personality that players can embody once they sit down at the table.
The success of D’Amato’s guide launched the series of guides in this volume. D’Amato’s other books in this series include the Ultimate RPG Game Masters Worldbuilding Guide, the Ultimate RPG Gameplay GuideAnd The Ultimate micro-RPG bookincluding 40 ‘rules-lite’ table games.
Other books in the series include the Ultimate Random Encounters Book by Travis Wheeler (which offers hundreds of encounters that you can include in any fantasy game of your choice) and The Everything Tabletop Games book by Bebo. The latter promises to introduce the uninitiated to the world of tabletop, explaining different game genres and teaching strategies to win them. Also included in the bundle are three books by Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor: the A dragon walks into a bar joke book, the Düngeonmeister Drinkmaster Guide cocktail recipe book, and the Dungeonmeister cookbookwith 75 RPG-inspired recipes aimed at game night snacks.
The final genre of books in this collection is less specific to tabletop gaming, but is intended to provide dungeon masters with a wealth of inspiration to draw from. This includes mythological anthologies about specific creatures such as mermaids, fairies, unicorns, dragons, vampires and wizards, as well as culture-specific knowledge from Viking, Celtic and Greek mythology. One book, by Jenny Williamson and Genn McMenemy, focuses specifically on the role of women in mythology around the world. To top it all off, this is the last book in this collection A dictionary of invented languages by Stephen D. Rogers – which is exactly what it says on the tin, and includes Klingon, Elvish and others conlangen.
Until December 19th all of that is available for less than $20. A portion of the proceeds from this bundle will go to Worldreader, a global nonprofit organization that has donated millions of digital books to children in more than 100 countries.