James D’Amato helms the weekly RPG podcast One Shot, which gets into making RPGs more accessible and inclusive. There are books too! There’s the Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide and the Ultimate RPG Game Master’s Worldbuilding Guide. I’ve checked on Amazon, and these books have thousands of reviews and greater than 4/5 star average reviews.
If you’re in the USA, there’s a chance to get James’ latest The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition for free.
How? Log in to the widget below and complete the missions to earn points; each point is a chance to win. The winner will be randomly picked using a rand() generator seeded by cosmic noise.
a Rafflecopter giveaway(Ends: 1st August 2022)
(T&Cs apply | USA only)
Adams Media publishes the book, and here’s how Simon & Schuster begins to describe it;
Take your skyship pirate, haunted waif, or alien scientist to the next level with this fun, interactive book of exercises to help you build your RPG character’s backstory—made specifically for the genres you love to play.
You can now explore new RPG character ideas with this character backstory guide to the most popular RPG genres beyond fantasy, from sci-fi to horror and superhero to western-themed games.
Speaking of Simon & Schuster, if you don’t win the competition, you can find the helpful book from there and at sites like IndieBound or BookShop.org.
The 336-page book is 5.47 X 8.34 X 0.81 inches. We’ve got a sneak peek at the inside.
Excerpted from THE ULTIMATE RPG CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: EXPANDED GENRES EDITION by JAMES D’AMATO. Copyright © 2022 by James D’Amato. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.
You can find other titles by James on his Amazon page.
Thank you to Simon and Schuster for making this competition possible.
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Thank you for creating this series! I’m converting my Prometheus-Award nominated Sci-Fi Western Series, WATCHER of the DAMNED, into a TTRPG, and am writing the monster manuals and character books now. James D’Amato’s RPG series immediately caught my eye as a valuable resource. As a long time casual TTRGPer, I’ve love to play, plus write modules and maps, but lean heavily on my DMs to work out the technical aspects and more math-y parts – like all those little roll to save +1 etc etc moments. Now, thanks to you, I have a comprehensive series for creating this new game!… Read more »
Thanks for the comment R.H. I’ll pass it on to the organisers when the competition closes but should make sure, just for clarity, you know Geek Native isn’t representing the author or publisher in any way. We’re just fortunate enough to have a copy of the book to give away as a prize!