The Game Master Series – serie

The Game Master's Book of Traps, Puzzles and Dungeons provides GMs with endless options for populating their adventures with challenging riddles, puzzles, spiked pits, Rube Goldberg-style deathtraps and much more - everything they need to push player character to their limit and bring new levels of excitement (and anxiety) to their game play.Whether part of a pre-planned adventure or a random encounter, these brain teasers, puzzles and traps will make every dungeon crawl, fortress break-in, or temple sacking that much more fun. GMs will find more than 60 challenging puzzles, 60 unique traps and 50 modular dungeon chambers, each with its own set of possible encoounters, meaning GMs can generate a fully-functional (or completely dilapidated) dungeon in a few rolls of a dice. With intricate technical illustrations, beautifully rendered top-down location maps and three one-shot adventures, written by RPG inflencers including Jasmine Bhullar and the creators of the Three Black Halflings podcast, The Game Master’s Book of Traps, Puzzles and Dungeons is the ideal tool for any GM hoping to put the fun back in fun-geon*.*not a word.

The Game Master’s Book of Wilderness Encounters examines the subject of random encounters and gives GMs a more thorough idea of what might happen when a party bumps into something—or someone—unexpected.Inside, readers will find 10 core sections, each devoted to a different type of wilderness terrain, from mountains and deserts to grasslands, tundra and everything in between. After a brief discussion of the terrain type, each chapter launches into a series of tables and sub-tables outlining possible encounters. They cover most of the creatures included in core rulebooks, from familiar wild animals and exotic monsters to a variety of humanoids, both friend and foe, plus challenging natural hazards. In turn, each entry discusses how the encountered creatures react, how many are present (including scaling guidelines for different party levels) and what treasure might be gained from the experience.In addition to the more than 600 random table entries, readers will find 10 all-new monsters—one for each environmental zone—plus three one-shot adventures that put the tables into play. The Game Master’s Book of Wilderness Encounters offers GMs a deep dive into an under-explored aspect of RPGs. Even experienced GMs will find food for thought and fresh ideas about how to make a party's journey from A to B far more exciting and fun.