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Frank Woods, the galaxy's unluckiest space repo man, has faced his share of challenges, but nothing could prepare him for his latest assignment. His boss at the repo agency hands him a job that sounds straightforward enough: repossess an old, outdated android. However, there's a catch-the android doesn't want to be repo'd and isn't about to go quietly. Frank desperately needs paid, but with each attempt to catch the android, Frank faces deadly traps, high-tech trickery, and a series of bizarre challenges that test his determination. In a battle of wits and wills, Frank may have met his match!

Do you play film noir, pulp, or dieselpunk tabletop RPGs? Cut down game master prep time with random tables. 32 D100 Random Tables plus 10 detailed MacGuffins for Noir campaigns.Grimy streets pave the way into the underbelly of the city. The hearts of the people are as hard as the cobblestones they live and die upon. The men in cheap suits a decade out of fashion loitering out front of the pool hall aren't just loitering. They are waiting. Waiting for their mark. The person with the scoop on the stolen painting their boss wants found.The Book of Random Tables: Noir gives game masters tools to help craft and prepare hard-broiled detective campaigns in the vein of The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, and The Third Man. The tables could also be used in dieselpunk or pulp adventures as well.

When a game warden finds herself face to face with a living, breathing saber-tooth tiger, she must catch the mad man cloning extinct these predators for extreme safari hunts before his creations wreak havoc on our world.

Life as a space repo man isn't as bad as Frank expected: it's worse. Kidnapped by a cantankerous alien boss, Frank Woods's plans to be a truck driver takes a wild turn when he's forced to take over his deadbeat dad's job... or else. With only his father's dilapidated spaceship and a glitchy AI mentor, Frank embarks on a perilous career repossessing everything from illegal tech to stolen aliens. He quickly learns that most aliens aren't very nice and none of them like their things repossessed. Can Frank beat all the odds and survive as a space repo man, or is he going to end up on some alien's dinner plate? Get Secondhand Spaceman now to follow Frank through dangerous repo jobs as he struggles to make a living... and maybe even inadvertently saves (or destroys) the galaxy. If you're a fan of Firefly, Star Wars, or Indiana Jones, you'll love this fast-paced galactic thrill ride!

Do you play a pirate-themed tabletop RPG? Running a pirate D&D campaign? Cut down GM prep with 24 D100 random tables and a pirate hideout generator.Ahoy there, matey! Avast ye and lend an ear!As with the other books in the series, game masters can use these tables in many ways. They can be used in preparation for an RPG session or they can be used during the session at the table. Items can be selected or rolled using percentile dice.The first section is Items & Things. Here are useful tables like Items in a Harbor Master's Office, Items in a Ransacked Vessel, Items in a Ship Captain's Quarters, Items in a Ship's Kitchen, and Items in a Treasure Chest.Next is Cargo. There are two tables here: Bulk Cargo and Other Cargo. The Other Cargo is made up of smaller items that could possibly be found in a vessel's hold.The Encounters section helps spice up visiting islands and sailing the seas with Island Encounters and Items, Things in the Water, and Weather Encounters.Names is a large section that gives game masters the ability to easily add realness to their fictional worlds with fitting names. There are 300 names for pirates and 300 more for pirate ships. The Rumors section is one large table of story hooks and ideas that characters can discover on their travels. The Nautical Terms section can help GMs and players understand archaic words and rarely-used phrases, which their characters would have known.Pirates loved to spend their loot. The Taverns sections provide fascinating places for the characters to hang out and to get into trouble.The NPCs section is simply 100 different names with professions so game masters can always have a non-player character ready.The Pirate Hideout Generator consists of five short random tables. These create the bones of a hideout that the GM can then flesh out and use in their adventures.Treachery, battles, and treasure await you on the seven seas. Cut the mooring lines and set your sails for adventure.

Do you play 1920s and 1930s pulp adventure tabletop RPGs like John Carter of Mars or Pulp Cthulhu? Cut down your game master prep with 28 D100 random tables. This book in the Books of Random Tables series is geared toward fun pulp from the 1920s and 1930s. Random tables help game masters add details and give players interesting play options. The first section is Items & Things. Here are helpful tables for when players wish to search every room or location from top to bottom. Also, some tables include period items as well. These add a touch of realism to the RPG. The next is Trains. Lots of pulp adventures involved trains. These tables offer insight for GMs when crafting a train adventure or rolling one up from scratch with train cars and historic rail lines. The Names section contains a variety of names from the time period as well as names for NPCs. Find tables with common names from the era and fictional big game hunters, mobsters, and more. The Public Domain Super Heroes section is unique. These are the names of comic book heroes from the 1920s and 30s that have lapsed into the public domain. Game masters are free to use these superheroes however they wish without concern about copyright infringement. The last section is Adventures & Encounters. The tables in this section are made up of rumors, story hooks, encounters, and more to help create adventures on the fly or light the fires of creativity. With these random tables, your imagination, and your players, you can take your pulp-style role-playing game campaign to new heights. Enjoy!

Do you play Cyberpunk RED, Shadowrun, or another tabletop RPG? Cut down your gamemaster prep time with 32 1D100 random tables.Just like the first book, this book helps the gamemasters of cyberpunk tabletop role-playing games cut down their prep time. These random tables add details to campaigns and sessions with a roll of the dice.Find useful tables like Items in a Corporation Locker Room, Items in a Gang Hideout, Items in a Pawn Shop, Items in a Slurp, Shop's Kitchen, Office Building Encounters, City Locations and Shops, Names, Brand Names, and more.

In this enigmatic debut novel, a middle-aged man named Bridger returns from an anonymous city to his hometown of Missoula to drive a sewage truck and contemplate the distant and fractured relationships in his life.

With devastating stoicism and surprising tenderness, Haven's portraits of twenty-first-century Americana revisit the rituals and archetypes of a vividly familiar world-and the strange, surreal magic that inhabits its everyday rhythms.

With its intricate insight into the everyday rhythms of life in Brezhnev's Soviet Union, Forget Russia is a disquieting multi-generational epic about coming of age, forgotten history, and the loss of innocence in all of its forms.

Against the vibrant and liberated backdrop of 1970's San Francisco, a husband and wife-both Jewish immigrants indelibly traumatized by their childhoods in Nazi Germany-face the turbulence of an increasingly sterile marriage.

Meet Chad, a full-fledged Boston meathead-and gym-buff social misfit-whose shaky grasp of reality is anchored mainly by his unswerving loyalty to the New England Patriots. In Chad's world, routine encounters with the fixtures of Beantown life-from the Boston Symphony and the Bunker Hill Monument to the local North End wine store-are filled with wonder and chaos. With twenty darkly hilarious chapters that follow Chad and his head-scratching brand of masculinity as he navigates through a perplexing post-#MeToo landscape of exasperated therapists, confused ex-girlfriends, and sexually transgressive ducks, Colin Fleming has created a devastating and uproarious meditation on the human need-and eternal hope-to be understood.

Bradford Philen's newest collection of stories gleefully dives into the problematic archetypes that loom largest in the American psyche-Beijing expat party girls, black single mothers in LA's West Side, registered sex offenders-and dares to probe their inner lives with Chekhovian grace and understanding.

Do you play Shadowrun or another tabletop RPG? Cut down your gamemaster prep time with 32 1D100 random tables.This book helps the gamemasters of cyberpunk tabletop role-playing games cut down their prep time. These random tables add details to campaigns and sessions with a roll of the dice.Find useful tables like Items in a Corporate Fat Cat Office, Items in a Desk, Items in a Hacker's Apartment, Items in a Nightclub Owner's Office, Items in a Street Doc's Office, Nightclub Encounters, Rumors and Odd Jobs, and tons of names for non-player characters.

Do you play science fiction tabletop role-playing games? Like Star Wars, Star Trek, Stars Without Number, Traveller or Starfinder?These 25 random tables help you cut down GM prep time. Don't waste time creating things your players never see. Fill in the details at the table or create the entire adventure by rolling dice.Focus on storytelling and have more fun while running your RPG campaigns. Never get caught without a name or a cargo item. Spice up your sessions with random encounters and side quests.The tables include: Adventure IdeasAlien NamesAsteroid Belt EncountersCargoCorporation NamesFictional MedicationsFictional Trade GoodsLab ExperimentsPlanet NamesReasons a PC is AbsentShip NamesSpace HazardsTechnobabbleAnd 12 More!www.dicegeeks.com

Do you play the Call of Cthulhu RPG or another tabletop RPG set in the 1920s or 1930s?If so, here are 31 random tables to help you cut down gamemaster prep and keep your players engaged. Find helpful tables like Items in a Warehouse, Items in a Desk, Items in a Mobster Hideout, Fictional Ancient Texts, Names for NPCs, Famous Athletes, Best Selling Books from the time period, and more. Plus more than 400 slang terms for the 20s and 30s are included.

Do you play superhero or other modern-setting tabletop RPGs? Cut down your gamemaster prep with 48 1D100 random tables.Speed up play at the gaming table with random tables like Mission Hooks, Random Encounters, Items in a Ship Cargo Hold, Items in a Car, Books, Items in a Warehouse, Names, and much more all geared for tabletop RPGs with modern settings.

Two-minute journeys into the heart of Jesus. My parents were not religious, but they gave me a name befitting my spiritual journey. "Johnnita" is a diminutive for John, the disciple who longed to connect with the heart of the Savior. For me, searching for God was a necessity, because life was a struggle. I needed Him to sustain me. Like an inquiring little one, I burrowed deep until I found His heart. There I discovered a marvelous, reciprocal, loving desire for me and for my children. I have been exploring that love ever since. At Christmas, when we dig into God's heart, we find that He is constantly revealing Himself in the world around us. In this little book, both mothers and children can anchor their hearts to the Savior, through the symbols of Christmas. The coloring sheets reinforce the lessons in children's hearts. Besides, having fun is part of the joy of Christmas! Blessings to you and your children as you connect with God and with each other!