RPG Books
RPG Books are the foundation of every immersive role-playing game experience. This category features a wide range of publications—from detailed rulebooks and campaign guides to rich lore compendiums—that provide players and game masters with the tools needed to create and navigate epic narratives. Whether you’re crafting an elaborate campaign or seeking inspiration for your next session, these books offer a wealth of information and creative ideas. With insights into character development, world-building, and adventure design, RPG Books are an essential resource for anyone passionate about the art of role-playing.
Pendragon: Gamemaster’s Handbook
£40.80 inc. VATPendragon: The Gamemaster’s Handbook greatly expands the setting of the game. From highlights of important characters and time periods, to courtly intrigue and a myriad of strange and wondrous beasts, spirits, fairies and fiends which lurk in the dark places of Arthur’s Britain. The book also includes in-depth discussions of religion and magic, and how to use them in your game.
Age of Vikings – Core Rulebook Hardcover
£41.80 inc. VATDescription:
Hear the call of glory and honor, journey proud across your land free from the tyranny of kings and queens—enter the Age of Vikings!
In the Age of Vikings roleplaying game, you are transported to medieval Iceland—a vibrant land on the edge of the known world, where Vikings seek honour and fame through adventure.
Age of Vikings is a standalone game built with Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine. This rulebook contains the Hero creation rules, including Passions, family history, and ever-important Icelandic nicknames. The book also has rules for the Basic Roleplaying system as used in Age of Vikings, including skills, conflict resolution, and hero development.
Age of Vikings covers the history of mythic Iceland in minute detail. The book outlines the life of a Viking, laws and government, religion, and the wild and wondrous creatures of legend. Take to the frigid seas with extensive rules for ships and seafaring, including naval combat—No other roleplaying game so effortlessly thrusts you into one of the most fabled cultures and time periods in history!
This meaty tome includes a guide to Icelandic magic: rules for combining different Norse runes to cast powerful spells, and the shamanic practice of seiður. Also within is a full bestiary of enemies both magical and mundane, including an extensive section on the mysterious “Hidden People.”
This complete roleplaying game also includes an introductory adventure designed for first-time players and characters. This adventure—The Alþing—can be used multiple times in a campaign, and comes with a suite of ready-to-play heroes.
Features:
• Hear the call of glory and honor, journey proud across your land free from the tyranny of kings and queens—enter the Age of Vikings!
• This rulebook contains the Hero creation rules, including Passions, family history, and ever-important Icelandic nicknames.
• This complete roleplaying game also includes an introductory adventure designed for first-time players and characters.
Contents:
• 1 x Book
Pendragon – Game Masters Handbook Hardcover
£35.80 inc. VATDescription:
In Pendragon, the Gamemaster is the leader of the game, the source of knowledge, the organizer of society, armies, and the land itself. Without the Gamemaster there would be no game; in roleplaying there is not a more noble act than to take on this great responsibility.
The Pendragon: Gamemaster’s Handbook contains everything required for a fledgling or veteran GM to open the window to the fantastical world of King Arthur!
Pendragon: The Gamemaster’s Handbook greatly expands the setting of the game. From highlights of important characters and time periods, to courtly intrigue and a myriad of strange and wondrous beasts, spirits, fairies and fiends which lurk in the dark places of Arthur’s Britain. The book also includes in-depth discussions of religion and magic, and how to use them in your game.
In addition to guidelines for fine-tuning the game to your preferred style of play, this book contains an entire section dedicated to ‘Arthurian Acts’. These expanded rules cover events such as tournaments, seduction, and an entire system for running Feasts, where gossip, courtesy, and Honor hold sway. Inside, you’ll also find rules for running battles, from the smallest skirmish to the most legendary clash of arms!
This book contains two all-new scenarios for Pendragon, designed as either a starting point for a group of fresh Player-knights, or for use in an ongoing campaign.
Features:
• The Pendragon: Gamemaster’s Handbook contains everything required for a fledgling or veteran GM to open the window to the fantastical world of King Arthur!
• Without the Gamemaster there would be no game; in roleplaying there is not a more noble act than to take on this great responsibility!
• This book contains two all-new scenarios for Pendragon, designed as a starting point for a group of fresh Player-knights.
Contents:
• 1 x Book
One-Page RPGs – Grant Howitts One Pagers Volume 2
£22.80 inc. VATDescription:
In 2016, Grant Howitt decided – flippantly – to write a one-page roleplaying game every month and release it for free online. Little did he know that the barely-intelligible pen-and-ink scratches he turned out would go on to define his career, and the shape of roleplaying games, for years to come.
Played by thousands of people all over the world, Grant’s one-page games run the gamut from strange to silly, daft to deadly serious, and powerfully original to potentially copyright-infringing.
Volume 2 (2017-2018):
• Last Christmas
• Giant Goddamn Robots
• No More Room in Hell
• Streets of Karazun
• Jason Statham’s Big Vacation
• The Beast
• Unfinished Business
• Crash Pandas
• Pride and Extreme Prejudice
• The Five
• Adventure Skeletons
• Retrograde
• Tramforce
Features:
• Each volume contains (at least!) 13 games in their original single-page format, complete with SECRET BACK PAGE material for every game that’s never been released online..
• Each game has been written, illustrated (sorry) and laid out entirely by Grant, unless someone else helped him, in which case it says so..
• Perfect for one-shots and gaps in longer campaigns.
Contents:
• 1 x Book
One-Page RPGs – Grant Howitts One Pagers Volume 3
£22.80 inc. VATDescription:
In 2016, Grant Howitt decided – flippantly – to write a one-page roleplaying game every month and release it for free online. Little did he know that the barely-intelligible pen-and-ink scratches he turned out would go on to define his career, and the shape of roleplaying games, for years to come.
Played by thousands of people all over the world, Grant’s one-page games run the gamut from strange to silly, daft to deadly serious, and powerfully original to potentially copyright-infringing.
Volume 3 (2019-2020):
• Goat Crashers
• Wake
• Kobold Endeavour
• Beautiful Space Pirates in: THE GALAXY’S MOST DANGEROUS FUNERAL
• This Is Not A Place Of Honour
• Dungeonscrawl: The Palace of the Briar
• Prince
• Sexy Battle Wizards
• The Witch House
• Reverse Beastmaster
• Be Prepared
• Sad Vampire Boyfriend
• Seans Bean in: A VERY NORTHERN CHRISTMAS
• What I Did On My Summer Holidays
Features:
• Each volume contains (at least!) 13 games in their original single-page format, complete with SECRET BACK PAGE material for every game that’s never been released online..
• Each game has been written, illustrated (sorry) and laid out entirely by Grant, unless someone else helped him, in which case it says so..
• Perfect for one-shots and gaps in longer campaigns.
Contents:
• 1 x Book
One-Page RPGs – Grant Howitts One Pagers Volume 4
£24.80 inc. VATDescription:
In 2016, Grant Howitt decided – flippantly – to write a one-page roleplaying game every month and release it for free online. Little did he know that the barely-intelligible pen-and-ink scratches he turned out would go on to define his career, and the shape of roleplaying games, for years to come.
Played by thousands of people all over the world, Grant’s one-page games run the gamut from strange to silly, daft to deadly serious, and powerfully original to potentially copyright-infringing.
Volume 4 (2020-2021):
• System Shutdown
• Night Hag
• Sepulchre
• Nice Marines
• Orcball
• Goblin Punks
• Briarwood
• Kaiju Girls
• I’m A Lover, Not A Fighter
• Stone the Crows
• Adventure Calendar (28 page booklet)
• Once Upon A Crime
• Predestined
• Administrative Carnage
• Fetch
Features:
• Each volume contains (at least!) 13 games in their original single-page format, complete with SECRET BACK PAGE material for every game that’s never been released online..
• Each game has been written, illustrated (sorry) and laid out entirely by Grant, unless someone else helped him, in which case it says so..
• Perfect for one-shots and gaps in longer campaigns.
Contents:
• 1 x Book
One-Page RPGs – Grant Howitts One Pagers Volume 5
£27.80 inc. VATDescription:
In 2016, Grant Howitt decided – flippantly – to write a one-page roleplaying game every month and release it for free online. Little did he know that the barely-intelligible pen-and-ink scratches he turned out would go on to define his career, and the shape of roleplaying games, for years to come.
Played by thousands of people all over the world, Grant’s one-page games run the gamut from strange to silly, daft to deadly serious, and powerfully original to potentially copyright-infringing.
Volume 5 (2021-2022):
• Uncanny Rally – with Chris McDowall (Electric Bastionland, Into the Odd)
• Big Bang Superstars – with Nathan Blades (Shadow Operations, Arcana Corps)
• Cluedon’t – with Chloe Mashiter (Alongame, Time Heist)
• Himbo Treasure Hunt – with Sasha Sienna (Odd Jobs)
• Arlecchino’s Eleven – with Daniel Lavery (The Toast, The Chatner, Texts from Jane Eyre)
• Heartswood – with Sarah Gordon (Vicious Creatures)
• Lexinomicon – with Becky Annison (Bite Marks, Lovecraftesque)
• Wreck The Halls – with Thryn Henderson (Ryne, Small Town Skeletons, Jolene)
• The Rules of the Deep – with Jay Dragon (Wanderhome, Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast)
• Captain Swanhands – with Jeeyon Shim (The Longest Rest, The Snow Queen)
• Bird Crimes – with Xalavier Nelson (Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, Hypnospace Outlaw, An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs)
• Death Was The Only Road Out Of Town – with Alex Roberts (For the Queen, Star Crossed)
Features:
• Each volume contains (at least!) 13 games in their original single-page format, complete with SECRET BACK PAGE material for every game that’s never been released online..
• Each game has been written, illustrated (sorry) and laid out entirely by Grant, unless someone else helped him, in which case it says so..
• Perfect for one-shots and gaps in longer campaigns.
Contents:
• 1 x Book
One-Page RPGs – Grant Howitts One Pagers Volume 6
£22.80 inc. VATDescription:
In 2016, Grant Howitt decided – flippantly – to write a one-page roleplaying game every month and release it for free online. Little did he know that the barely-intelligible pen-and-ink scratches he turned out would go on to define his career, and the shape of roleplaying games, for years to come.
Played by thousands of people all over the world, Grant’s one-page games run the gamut from strange to silly, daft to deadly serious, and powerfully original to potentially copyright-infringing.
Volume 6 (2022-2023):
• Board To Death
• Knock Off Mascots
• Fucked Up Little Man
• Malign Inspiration
• Super Cool Monster Hunting Club
• This One Time At Bard Camp
• The Dungeon of Numbered Days
• Stag Party
• Everyone Is Seagulls
• Irrefutable Proof
• The (Orc) Pope Is Dead
• Plastic Bastards
Features:
• Each volume contains (at least!) 13 games in their original single-page format, complete with SECRET BACK PAGE material for every game that’s never been released online..
• Each game has been written, illustrated (sorry) and laid out entirely by Grant, unless someone else helped him, in which case it says so..
• Perfect for one-shots and gaps in longer campaigns.
Contents:
• 1 x Book
Ork! The Roleplaying Game
£24.80 inc. VATShut up! You am Ork! Earn your name with acts of spectacular violence and bring terror to Squishy Man villages in the name of Almighty Krom in this streamlined RPG of monstrous, hilarious adventure.
Mutants and Masterminds: Deluxe Gamemaster’s Guide
£33.80 inc. VATThe Deluxe Gamemaster’s Guide is an expanded resource creating exciting campaigns and worlds for the Mutants & Masterminds Superhero Roleplaying Game. In this book you’ll find a collection of useful tools and references for the M&M Gamemaster, including:
Modern Age: Threefold
£33.80 inc. VATBeyond the modern world, with its magical and technological secrets, other planes of existence beckon. Gates connect alternate Earths to mystic Otherworlds and demon-ruled Netherworlds. Threefold is a new original setting for the Modern AGE roleplaying game.
Blue Rose
£40.80 inc. VATDiscover the world of Blue Rose, where brave arcane-powered heroes live and work side-by-side with intelligent animal companions! Take on the roles of the main characters in this fantastic world and create your own stories of the heroes of Aldis’s triumphs and tragedies.
The Dragon’s Hoard #20 (5E)
£12.80 inc. VATThe Dragon’s Hoard is a monthly anthology of magic items, spells, monsters, and more for your 5th Edition campaign! Each issue of The Dragon’s Hoard takes every new magic item, spell, monster, or other new rules content from our ongoing Legendary Loot Patreon and presents it for you, with dozens of new elements beautifully illustrated and ready to unleash on your players!
Fantasy AGE Core Rulebook (2E)
£42.80 inc. VATPowered by the popular Adventure Game Engine, Fantasy AGE 2nd Edition is easy to learn, fun to play, and welcoming to new roleplayers. Swords, sorcery, stunts, and Stranger Shores—the Fantasy AGE Core Rulebook is your portal to exciting new RPG adventures!
7th Sea: Land of 1000 Nations
£29.80 inc. VAT7th Sea: Land of 1,000 Nations covers The Woven Land—the distant continent, and its many peoples, beliefs, magics, cultures, and nations.
Rivers Of London The Roleplaying Game
£49.80 inc. VATIn Rivers of London: the Roleplaying Game, players take on the roles of newly recruited members of the London Metropolitan Police Service’s special magic branch, aka “the Folly.” You will solve mysteries, catch criminals, and come to grips with the “demi-monde”—those who have been irreversibly changed by magic. The Rivers of London: the Roleplaying Game core book contains everything you need to start exploring Ben Aaronovitch’s magical version of London.
Call of Cthulhu: Arkham
£47.80 inc. VATOn the streets of Arkham, the threat of the Cthulhu Mythos is ever-present. A quiet town in New England—home to the prestigious Miskatonic University—Arkham’s underbelly hides criminals, speakeasies, and a witch-cursed history. With 290 locations detailed across 9 neighborhoods, Call of Cthulhu: Arkham is the perfect supplement for a sandbox-style campaign. The book also contains Gossip & Rumors to use as scenario seeds, and over 80 fully-detailed NPCs with their own secrets to discover—investigators will never be without a lead to follow up on!
Blade Runner RPG
£40.80 inc. VATThis is the Blade Runner Roleplaying Game. A neon noir wonderland that will take your breath away, one way or another. An evocative world of conflicts and contrasts that dares to ask the hard questions and investigate the powers of empathy, the poisons of fear, and the burdens of being human during inhuman times. An iconic and unforgiving playground of endless possibilities that picks you up, slaps you in the face, and tells you to wake up. Time to live. Or time to die.
Kids on Bikes: Second Edition
£33.80 inc. VATKids on Bikes is a Collaborative Storytelling RPG set in small towns with big adventure! In Kids on Bikes, you take on the roles of everyday people grappling with strange, terrifying, and very, very powerful forces that they cannot defeat, control, or even fully understand. Kids on Bikes even allows you to create a communally controlled Powered Character to add another dimension of gameplay to your games! Jump right into the action quickly and create your own band of rag-tag mystery solvers today!
Battletech: Total Warfare
£33.80 inc. VATThe most detailed and comprehensive rules set published for BattleTech – the perfect companion for standard tournament play.
Ultraviolet Grasslands: Map Pack
£10.80 inc. VATSpanning a colossal six feet (or twelve hands) in length, this monument to fantasy road trips is the longest map of its kind, printed on uncoated stock inviting your personal touch. Chart your course, celebrate your victories, and sketch stories only you can weave. Seamlessly expanded from the original, UVG: Grand Map 2 now ventures into the polychrome expanses of the Circle Sea and the radiant Sunrise Lands – harbingers of Our Golden Age, perhaps?
One More Quest – SDM Screen
£12.80 inc. VATThis Supreme Dungeon Mastermind Screen for the One More Quest™ dexterity roleplaying game is designed to function as an aid when exploring the comedic world of Middlewhere. Inside, the Supreme Dungeon Mastermind will find a summary of all Characteristics and Basic Skills, the associated Throw Restrictions, the Skill Test Resolution rules, along with a table of all Conditions.The perfect aid for the most demanding (or forgetful) Supreme Dungeon Mastermind.All the most frequently used rules always at hand!
Doctor Who: The RPG Starter Set (Second Edition)
£24.80 inc. VATDoctor Who: The Roleplaying Game Starter Set contains everything you need to start your adventures across all of space and time. Whether you’re a complete beginner at roleplaying games or looking for an epic new campaign, this boxed set is the perfect starting point for anyone wanting to experience the vast universe of Doctor Who.
Battletech Universe
£40.80 inc. VATThe rich story of the BattleTech setting has played out across more than a thousand years of future history, encompassing the full sweep of human experience. Here, for the first time, that story is presented in one comprehensive volume!Dive deep into BattleTech lore with this look at the factions of the Inner Sphere, Clans, and Periphery, and learn about key events, personalities, and conflicts for each. Whether you enjoy titanic battlefield clashes, high-stakes covert ops missions, cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, or any other kind of story, you’ll find it in the BattleTech setting.
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Sea of Claws
£28.80 inc. VATTo the north lies the bitterly cold and tempestuous Sea of Claws. The sea separates the Empire from the lands of Norsca, where Marauder tribes beseech the forces of Chaos for glory and power and vast monsters make their lairs in the fjords. The coastal provinces of the Empire, desperate to escape the stranglehold of Marienburg, scramble to construct mighty navies and sea defences. Sailors, explorers, pirates, and wreckers all rub their hands in thought of the wealth to be won — but whilst a life on the ocean waves can reap great rewards, the risks are greater still. Sea of Claws is a guide to adventuring on the seas of the Old World.
Kids on Brooms
£21.80 inc. VATA collaborative roleplaying game about taking on the life of a witch or wizard at a magical school that you all attend – a place full of mystery, danger, and thrilling adventure. From dealing with strict professors to facing down mythical beasts, players will get the opportunity to ride brooms, brew potions, and cast powerful magic as they uncover the incredible secrets their school and its inhabitants hold. Built using the ENnie Award-winning Kids on Bikes framework, it is a rules-light, narrative-first storytelling game perfect for new players and gaming veterans alike!
Warhammer 40,000 Wrath & Glory: Vow of Absolution
£30.80 inc. VATVow of Absolution introduces new Tier 5 Astartes Archetypes, exciting previously unexplored locations and dives into the mysteries at the centre of the ancient secrets of the Chapter. Advice on running and scaling in military action based campaigns is offered alongside a unique adventure designed specifically to introduce the new and exciting content into your campaigns.
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound – Ruins of the Past
£28.80 inc. VATWarhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Ruins of the Past features a host of adventurous detours and destinations, perfect locales for parties seeking a one-shot divergence between adventures or the crucial final stop of a grand campaign. A collection designed for true antiquarians of the Mortal Realms, these sites are home to malefic villains and exciting mysteries: arcane mechanisms, cracked Stormvaults and fiercely opposed active Realmgates.
Modern AGE: Enemies and Allies
£27.80 inc. VATThis sourcebook is the Game Master’s one-stop shop for NPCs and creatures, covering a huge variety of genres. It includes rules to help you develop your own from scratch and modify those from other Modern AGE resources, plus new game systems for Heat (how much unwanted attention characters are attracting), geomantic places of power and more.
Aldis: City of the Blue Rose
£33.80 inc. VATCall for the gates to be opened and discover a bustling metropolis filled with opportunity, excitement, romance, and rivalries. Home to a dizzying array of people and places, the flourishing capital city of Aldis promises boundless adventure, intrigue, and danger to those bold enough to seek it. Within the pages of this lavishly detailed sourcebook for the Blue Rose RPG, you’ll discover everything needed by players and Narrators alike to tell stories focused in and around this magnificent city.
Modern AGE: Mastery Guide
£28.80 inc. VATA core resource for taking your Modern AGE game to the next level, as a Game Master or player. The Modern AGE Mastery Guide requires the Modern AGE Basic Rulebook. Together, they represent the next development for Modern AGE’s core rules.
Swords of the Serpentine
£47.80 inc. VATA sword & sorcery game of daring heroism, sly politics, and bloody savagery, set in a fantasy city rife with skullduggery and death. The rules adapt the GUMSHOE investigative roleplaying system to create a fantasy RPG with a focus on high-action roleplaying and investigation inspired by the stories of Fritz Leiber, Terry Pratchett, Robert E. Howard, and others.
Song of Carcosa: An Arkham Horror Novel
£10.80 inc. VATAn occult thief takes on a sinister society threatening to tear the fabric of this world apart, in this daring noir-thriller from the bestselling world of Arkham Horror.
The Market of 100 Fortunes: A Legend of the Five Rings Novel
£9.80 inc. VATEnthralling fantasy mystery from the world of Legend of the Five Rings as two samurai risk everything to rescue an old friend from the clutches of a shadowy trickster.
The Soul of Iuchiban
£9.80 inc. VATHeroic samurai must defeat an ancient evil unleashed upon the world, before its malign power destroys the realm of Rokugan in this epic Legend of the Five Rings fantasy adventure.