Mythweaver The Splintered Realm 2nd Edition

Mythweaver is a complete fantasy role-playing game that includes:- Six character classes, each customizable to develop exactly the character you want to play.- Ten diverse character races, ranging from mischievous brownies to scheming narglyn.- A detailed, thorough combat system gives a wide variety of options while keeping the basic system simple to play and quick to use.- An intuitive and flexible magic system, including both baseline spells usable at will and the ability to spontaneously create effects on the fly with nearly 250 unique spell effects.- An elegant skill system that gives each character unique non-combat abilities.- A complete guide for running games and awarding treasure.- A thorough bestiary with over 120 beasts.- A detailed campaign guide.- Two introductory adventures.

Saga of the Splintered Realm is more than just a retro-clone of the world's greatest RPG. It is a modernization and re-mix of B/X rules with helpings of modern sensibilities throughout. This simple, fast, clean and intuitive rule set keeps the best of all editions, evoking the flavor of 1981. This core rule book includes everything needed for ongoing play: character creation and advancement rules; dozens of spells; over 100 monsters; rules for treasure and magic items; an introductory adventure; expanded rules for characters and a simple mass combat system.

This companion to Saga of the Splintered Realm is a complete guidebook to running adventures, including the mega-dungeon complex of the Vault of the Goblin. This is a complete OSR companion with hundreds of encounter options, several short adventures, a complete campaign setting, and everything you need to play for an extended saga - or several.You also need Book 1: Core Rules to play.

A high-powered, dangerous campaign aboard a dimension-traveling ship of unknown origin. Rogue Mistress features eight chapters of comprehensive listings of new weapons, additional races, illustrations, plans, and diagrams.

By combining the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of one of our most fearless and original poets, If Not, Winter provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia. Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electric—or, to use Sappho’s words, as “thin fire . . . racing under skin.” "Sappho's verse has been elevated to new heights in [this] gorgeous translation." --The New York Times "Carson is in many ways [Sappho's] ideal translator....Her command of language is hones to a perfect edge and her approach to the text, respectful yet imaginative, results in verse that lets Sappho shine forth." --Los Angeles Times

The ideal guide to choosing the right word. Entries go beyond the word lists of a thesaurus, explaining important differences between synonyms. Provides over 17,000 usage examples. Lists antonyms and related words.

Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red ("A spellbinding achievement" --Susan Sontag), a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's signature mixture of opposites--the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse. In Men in the Off Hours, Carson reinvents figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon. She views the writings of Sappho, St. Augustine, and Catullus through a modern lens. She sets up startling juxtapositions (Lazarus among video paraphernalia; Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war). And in a final prose poem, she meditates on the recent death of her mother. With its quiet, acute spirituality, its fearless wit and sensuality, and its joyful understanding that "the fact of the matter for humans is imperfection," Men in the Off Hours shows us "the most exciting poet writing in English today" (Michael Ondaatje) at her best.

Fans of Jane Austen's work will love this gripping novel from Eliza Fenwick, an early feminist thinker who was friends with Mary Shelley and several other important writers of the era. Secresy follows the unusual friendship between Caroline Ashburn and Sibella Valmont, both of whom have been negatively impacted by the constraints society places on women.