ffutures | Another RPG Bundle - Lightspress Toolkits (Reply)

This is a bundle of "how to run RPGs" books for gamesmaters. They're designed to be usable with any system, and concentrate on organizational tools and other aids to make running a game easier.

https://bundleofholding.com/quick/Lightspress

This Lightspress Toolkits Quick Deal offer presents system-neutral RPG treatises and gamemastering advice from Berin Kinsman at Lightspress Media. In each of these eight slim "lo-fi" .PDF ebooks, Berin offers the wisdom of his long experience running many kinds of games. Take inspiration from these short guides to better imagine, develop, and run your own game sessions.

In the introduction to How to Gamemaster, Berin Kinsman recalls his origin: "The year was 1979, and my friends and I had pooled our money to buy the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set. None of us had ever played before. There was no one else to run for us or teach us how things were supposed to work. I read the rules and made up some characters, but I had no idea what I was supposed to do. Now I've been running campaigns for decades using several systems, in a range of styles, approaches, and game design philosophies. I wrote this system-neutral How to Gamemaster to create the how-to manual I wish I'd had more than 40 years ago. No matter what system, setting, or genre you run, this information helps with the fundamentals of running a game."

Lightspress Media is the latest entry on Berin's lengthy publishing resume. Under his first imprint, Asparagus Jumpsuit, he produced Fate Core adventures like Starship Tyche, Kaiju Patrol, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, and many small Pathfinder play aids. Through a companion imprint, Dancing Lights Press, he presented DoubleZero: Action Thriller Roleplaying (a retroclone of James Bond 007), multi-volume historical treatises like The Medieval Mind and A Pirates' Who's Who, and early versions of his gamemastering treatises. (The Bundle of Holding offered a few of those, such as Setting Design, Story Structure, and Group Dynamics, in the December 2016 Worldbuilder's Toolkit 4.)

Bringing DoubleZero and his fantasy line, Hippogryph, to his current imprint, Berin has taken a "lo-fi approach. Utility of content takes precedence over ostentatious production value. Graphic elements should enhance the message and not act as page filler and eye candy. Physical books need to be compact, portable, and sturdy. This minimalist aesthetic results in powerful toolkits that are both useful and affordable. After all, tabletop roleplaying isn't the book. It's the creativity and collaboration that takes place around the tabletop. Our mission is to give you as much as you need, then get out of your way."

We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices.

Bullet Journaling for Gamemasters The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$57.50. Customers who pay just US$12.95 get all eight complete treatises in our Lightspress Collection (retail value $57.50) as DRM-free ebooks, including How to Gamemaster (retail price $7.50), Bullet Journaling for Gamemasters (retail $5), Building Worlds 1 and Building Worlds 2 (retail $7.50 each), Building Theme (retail $7.50), Building Characters (retail price $7.50), Building Monsters (retail $7.50), and Building Adventures (retail $7.50).

I might as well be honest - I don't have any use for this bundle, I've been running RPGs for more than 40 years and I'm pretty much set in my ways. I might have found them more useful at the outset, these days I think I more or less know what I'm doing. But for someone just getting into the hobby they may be worth a look. Even then, it's possible that you might get more out of buying a single book than trying to take all of this on board simultaneously.