role playing

Text and illustrations presents a handbook for the role play game "Magic: the Gathering World of Theros" for use in Dungeons & Dragons.

When seventeen-year-old Cass lands the girlfriend of her dreams, she struggles to hide her secret online life where she role-plays fanfiction scenes with a group of internet strangers, and things get even more complicated when she winds up falling for her scene partner, Rowan.

From taking her to school to making her food to doing her laundry, Riley Henderson's brother Devin has always been there for her, but now he's in California attending a prestigious college gaming program, and Riley is stuck alone in Florida with her single mom. Fortunately, things start to look up when she befriends her new neighbor Lucy, and the girls learn they both love Dungeons & Dragons. When Lucy asks her to run a campaign, Riley isn't sure since her brother had always been the Dungeon Master, but she decides to give it a shot. The girls invite their neighbors, Hannah and Jen, to join them, and Riley starts to get the hang of things from being Dungeon Master to making her own snacks and dinner. But when Devin runs into trouble with his program and returns home, Riley realizes that she has flourished without her brother and that they both need to be more independent.

"A . . . guide to the wizards, sorcerers, and other magic-makers from the . . . role-playing game--Dungeons & Dragons?. Featuring . . . illustrations and . . . insights, [this book] shines its torchlight on the mystical side of D&D, with descriptions of the game's essential magical characters and explanations of how spells are created and used. If you're eager to create your own D&D adventures, this guidebook provides . . . [a] starting point to worlds of fantasy and an epic tale all your own"--Back cover.

When Lucas Silver, who is trying to run away, and his friend Miles and two girls they know, Jasmine and Vanessa, step out of Hob and Bogie's Olde Curiosity Shoppe, they discover that they have agreed to play a match of Champion's Quest, a role-playing game--played from inside the game with goblins, trolls, witches, and a three-headed monster.

"The Teen Titans have a regular game of Basements and Basilisks, but when the Basement Boss (Robin, of course) tries to make the game super fun by making it super impossible to win, the team rebels. Their new BB is much more enjoyable--and she actually lets them complete their quests, which is excellent motivation to keep playing. But the Boy Wonder begins to worry the Titans will be trapped in their imaginations forever, going on endless, breezy-easy quests, neglecting their duties in Jump City. There might also be problems with the campaign's most important relic, the 'Anklet of Extreme Crushing (and Chafing)' that Robin has tightly clasped to his leg"--Provided by publisher.

Amanda, a teenage girl must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world.

Lucas, small and unathletic, is obsessed with being powerful Trunkzilla in an online game, but after becoming a volunteer Senior Sitter and saving Isaac in real life, everything changes.

One of the only African-American students at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old honors student Keira enjoys playing "Slay," a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture that she secretly developed. When a Kansas City teen is murdered over a dispute in the game, Keira's previously safe space is now labeled racist, exclusionist, and violent. Now she tries to defend her game while keeping her identity hidden.

When Rev Fletcher and Emma Blue meet, they both long to share secrets, his of being abused by his birth father, hers of her parents' failing marriage and an online troll who truly frightens her.