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FROM MACMILLAN & PAGE STREET PUBLISHING

COMING TO A BOOKSTORE NEAR YOU
OCTOBER 31st, 2023!

Long-time fans of the Alexandrian who have been asking to have the site’s incredible trove of GMing lore collected into a book: This is what you’ve been waiting for. It’s your complete guide to:

• Dungeons
• Megadungeons
• Mysteries
• Node-based adventures
• Raids
• Heists
• Factions
• Urbancrawls
• Social events
• Routes
• Hexcrawls
• Pointcrawls

Plus a huge selection of extra credit, including:

• Creating Your Campaign
• Campaign Status Documents
• Learning a New RPG
• The Open Table
• Quick-and-Dirty Worldbuilding
• Rumor Tables
• Running Combat
• Scenario Hooks
• Supporting Cast
• Splitting the Party

But these aren’t just your familiar favorites. The book is chock full of brand new material, too! And everything has been freshly updated into a comprehensive and cohesive volume — the most authoritative book ever written about being a Game Master.

FROM THE BACK COVER

Have you ever wanted to step into your favorite movie or book or television series? Do you want to take your friends on impossible adventures? Do you want to play a cunning elf, a daring spy, a brilliant detective, or a dastardly villain? Do you want to create new worlds?

Do you want to be a Game Master?

Millions of people have discovered the amazing opportunities for creativity, problem-solving, and — most importantly! — fun offered by tabletop roleplaying games. Do you have what it takes to join them? Whether you’re thinking about playing Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Vampire: The Masquerade, Cyberpunk RED, Star Wars, The Witcher, or any one of the countless other roleplaying games that let you go on adventures with your friends while playing characters of your own creation, this book is the key to unlocking the limitless vistas of your imagination.

ENnie Award-winning game designer Justin Alexander offers you the only true step-by-step guide to becoming a Game Master. In less than an hour, you’ll have all the tools you need to run your first adventure (including the adventure itself!). From there, Alexander guides you one step at a time, showing you how to create your own adventures along with the practical, actionable tips and tricks you’ll need to share them with confidence. With your friends you’ll explore dungeons, solve mysteries, steal priceless artifacts, unravel strange conspiracies, and venture forth on epic journeys!

And even if you’ve been playing for decades, So You Want to Be a Game Master? will level your game up with never-before-revealed secret techniques and a huge selection of extra credit lessons that will blow your players away.

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