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The Best Role in Roleplaying! Whether you're a new game master or a seasoned vet looking for a new angle to shake up your game, these 19 essays by expert game masters help construct your campaign from the ground up - and keep your players engaged until the dramatic conclusion. Complete with discussions on plotting, tone, branching storytelling, pacing, and crafting action scenes, you'll find all the tips and advice you need to take on the best role in role-playing - and become an expert game master, too!

Taviano is nearly 200 years old and never wakes in the same place twice. Weary and jaded, the vampire still indulges in memories of childhood Christmases in Naples. When Taviano spots a handsome young man in Boston loaded down with presents and about to be mugged, he can’t help but intervene. Soon, he’s talking to joyous, strong-willed, and funny Paul, a short-order cook who raised funds to buy Christmas presents for LGBTQ children. Before he knows what’s happened, Taviano is wrapped up in Paul’s arms and his schemes to get the presents delivered by Christmas morning.

Tales of Hayven Celestia tells 13 stories of ordinary people put in extraordinary circumstances. Stuck in situations far beyond their control, they have to make the hardest choices of their lives. The stakes have never been higher, and one wrong move will lead to catastrophe.

JAK UPÓR I TROCHĘ SZCZĘŚCIA ZMIENIŁY ŚWIAT Czy wiesz, że: miniaturowy odłamek plastiku w oku pilota RAF-u sprawił, że dziś używamy tego materiału do produkcji sztucznych soczewek; tytanowa komora, która za nic nie dawała usunąć się z kości królika, doprowadziła do powstania implantów dentystycznych; viagrę zawdzięczamy grupie chemików pracujących nad nowym lekiem mającym przynieść ulgę cierpiącym z powodu dusznicy bolesnej; pięć wyjątkowo ciepłych tygodni 1928 roku pomogło Alexandrowi Flemingowi w odkryciu penicyliny.

David James is smart, successful, handsome...and alone. After the death of his lover, Kyle, from cancer, he buried himself in his law practice and the gym. At 48, he is haunted by his memories and walled off from the world. When David injures himself working out, he’s assigned to Brandon Smith for physical therapy. The vibrant young therapist is attracted to David and realizes he needs a hand to get back into dating. What begins as a practice coffee date escalates to friendship, passion, and maybe something more.

On the Subject of Leadership is a long-form conversation on what really makes organisations work—and why so much leadership advice doesn’t. Each episode features a business leader or practitioner with lessons earned the hard way. We go beyond anecdotes and into analysis: incentives, power, trust, culture, and the limits of authority. Ideas are challenged, not affirmed. This is not motivational theatre. It’s a search for what holds up under pressure—when decisions have consequences and trade-offs are real. If you lead people, this is for you.

Original insights into contemporary life from a "boots on the ground" perspective (not the media mountaintop). Often seasoned with a sprinkling of humor.