Universal Decay Dragonfire

Welcome to the world of DRAGONFIRE, the "Heavy Metal" fantasy expansion for the Universal Decay: Dead Stars Rule Book. A roleplaying sourcebook for hardcore WEIRD characters, usable in anything from typical Tolkien-esque pseudo-Europe games to replicating album covers from your favorite metal bands...no points are awarded for figuring out which way the pre-made campaign setting included in this book went! So make a Gnome with a Spaghetti-Western fetish, a blood-drinking assassin, a Dwarven bardic priest of the Cult of Heavy Metal, or any other bizarre character that you have always wanted to play. That is the "normal" around here!

Dead Stars is a science fiction horror role-playing game powered by the alternate d20 Universal Decay rules system. Pick a race - from the ever-familiar humans to the amorphous gorbrasch or sleazy helizara - strap on some personal armor and pick up a sliver rifle or get a cerebral computer implant and grab your toolkit. Or both. Then get together with your friends to face a universe of dangers, wonders, opportunities, and quite possibly a messy death. This book contains everything you will need to play or run a game in Dead Stars as well as rules for using the Universal Decay system in alternate genres, incorporating everything from swords and sorcery to vehicle energy weapons, personal armor, nanotechnology and starships.

Melinda Cooper was just an ordinary, albeit introverted and bookish, teenage girl before a terrifying encounter in a forest changed her life forever. The Lycanthrope Club: Book I follows Melinda as she copes with her transformation, learning to control her new-found powers and developing a sense of worth while dealing with the myriad anxieties and horrors of teenage life.

Up until a year ago Melinda Cooper was something of an outcast - a skinny, shy, introverted teenage girl with few interests and even fewer friends. Now she's the star player of her school's lacrosse team and counts the most popular girls in school as her allies. What's her secret? She's a werewolf. So are most of her friends. It's a long story. However, balancing a life of pep rallies and practice SATs with secret pack meetings and hunting trips has proven to be anything but easy. Things were complicated enough when she was the only lycanthrope in town. Now Melinda has to worry not only about her own welfare but that of her pack mates, some of whom resent her self-appointed leadership. Add a new romantic interest who has no idea his girlfriend grows fangs every full moon and an unwilling convert to lycanthropy with secrets of her own and you have a recipe for disaster. Adolescence has never been this wild.

The latest deluxe hardcover features work by Bernie Wrightson, Richard Corben, and Paul Neary, lavish covers by Ken Kelly and Sanjulian, and an interplanetary romance by none other than Wally Wood! We’re introduced to the Spook, a voodoo-inspired zombie hero of the antebellum south. We continue the post-apocalyptic adventures of Hunter and follow Dr. Archaeus as he tracks down each of the twelve jurors who sentenced him to death! Collects Eerie magazine #56-#60. * Retailer and Warren contributor Buddy Saunders pens a brand-new introduction!

"GURPS is the most flexible roleplaying system ever created. With just this book, you can adventure in any world you can imagine"--Cover

“Well-written and fascinating . . . this is the kind of book you want everyone to read.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “Curiosity, awareness, attention,” Laurence Gonzales writes. “Those are the tools of our everyday survival. . . . We all must be scientists at heart or be victims of forces that we don’t understand.” In this fascinating account, Gonzales turns his talent for gripping narrative, knowledge of the way our minds and bodies work, and bottomless curiosity about the world to the topic of how we can best use the blessings of evolution to overcome the hazards of everyday life. Everyday Survival will teach you to make the right choices for our complex, dangerous, and quickly changing world—whether you are climbing a mountain or the corporate ladder.