Whether you are a new Game Master or experienced storyteller, you can always find new ways to hone your craft. This 256-page Pathfinder Second Edition rulebook contains a wealth of new information, tools, and rules systems to add to your game. Inside you will find handy advice for building your own adventures, designing towns, and creating vibrant characters alongside rules systems for dramatic chases, thrilling tournaments, and deadly duels. This book also includes more 40 pages of sample nonplayer characters, from the simple town guard to the vile cultist, presented to make your job as GM that much easier! The Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide includes: • Rules, advice, and guidelines to build adventures, campaigns, and the denizens and treasures that lurk within, from settlements to nations to infinite planes! • Creative variant rules to customize the rules to make the game your own, including variant bonus, feat, and magic item progressions, characters gaining the power of multiple classes at once, and more! • All sorts of new and variant magic items including intelligent items, cursed items, artifacts, quirks you can add to items, and a brand new type of item called a relic that scales with your character! • A catalog of subsystems to handle unique situations, from thrilling chases to researching mysteries to vehicle combat to elaborate duels to sandbox-style “hexploration” and more! Plus, a universal victory point system to help you design your own subsystems! • More than 60 new NPCs to use in your game, designed for maximum usefulness to all Pathfinder campaigns!

A new graphic novel from the Eisner Award-nominatedcreator of MERMIN that deftly navigates loss, vengeance, andacceptance! Truff is the ghost of a youngboar, fueled by fury towards the hunter who shot her down. She has a lot tolearn about her new afterlife, and thankfully the forest spirits Claude andStanley are there to guide her! However, theysoon find that her parents, along with their fellow animal villagers, have beenkidnapped by the malicious mountain demon Mava! Truff wants to help,but… the hunter is finally within her grasp, and if she letshim go, she may never get her revenge! Isvengeance all that being a ghost is good for? Or is there something strongerkeeping this little pig tethered to the living world?

Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems by everything and everyone around him. But fighting doesn't always yield the best results for a confused and sensitive kid who yearns for a better, more fulfilling life than the one he was born into, as Joel learns in a series of brutal conflicts that eventually lead him to question everything he has learned about what it truly means to fight for one's life. Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods.

“Mooncakes is spellbinding. It had everything I love in a story—magic that felt inventive, characters that became my friends, and a romance that felt truly authentic. It was one of those books that I was sad to see end. Luckily, I can always reread.” —Tillie Walden, creator of Spinning and On a Sunbeam "Mooncakes transported me to a gorgeous magical realm that I never want to leave, and introduced me to lovable characters who stuck with me long after I finished reading. This graphic novel is the joyful fantasy romance we all need right now, and it might just restore your faith in magic." —Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky “Mooncakes is heartwarming, playful and absolutely magical! A story about love and family, with a kind and powerful core that radiates through the vibrant cast of characters.” —Katie O'Neill, author of The Tea Dragon Society and Princess Princess Ever After A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft. Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers’ bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books and investigate any supernatural occurrences in their New England town. One fateful night, she follows reports of a white wolf into the woods, and she comes across the unexpected: her childhood crush, Tam Lang, battling a horse demon in the woods. As a werewolf, Tam has been wandering from place to place for years, unable to call any town home. Pursued by dark forces eager to claim the magic of wolves and out of options, Tam turns to Nova for help. Their latent feelings are rekindled against the backdrop of witchcraft, untested magic, occult rituals, and family ties both new and old in this enchanting tale of self-discovery.

In the middle of a depressing youth in a ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Robert Nesta Marley sees only one way out: music. It is Marley who brings the unmistakable beat of reggae to the entire world. From small stages in Jamaica, his partners of the Wailers accompany him all the way around the world to fame and adulation. Beyond a rocketing musical career, the most famous rasta wants to shake things up and proclaim his humanitarian and egalitarian values. This next volume of the sellout In Comics series tells the story of the man who brought reggae to the world.

This subtle, emotional graphic novel from two award-winning French creators is a new take on the classic American road trip. 'I hate marathons. Hate running. An hour before leaving, I received a text. Instead of 'Good luck,' it was 'We're finished.' So, I went to a bar on 95th next to the subway. Had a few bourbons with some other mope. Then I got on a bike. I took off down the old Highway 750, the Lincoln Highway.' Forget Route 66. This is the original cross-country highway that takes you through REAL America, the first to cross all of the US from the Big Apple to the City on the Bay. This is THE road trip. On a bike.

An intimate view of the life of one of the greatest sculptors through the eyes of three women who knew him. This comics biography of one of the greatest sculptors who ever lived is done with the collaboration of the Rodin Museum and includes a preface by its director. It views his life through the eyes of the three women who shared his life for good or for bad. One was his lifelong on and off companion, the other two his muses, one of which was Camille Claudel, a well-recognised sculptor herself. Rodin's work was revolutionary in conveying exceptional passion, transcending the stone. Here's how that happened.

A graphic novel that chronicles the realities of those kidnapped and forced to fight as soldiers. 'My name is Tamba Cisso. When I was eight years old, I lived in the village with my father, my mother and my sister. I went to school and had learned to read. I knew there was war in my country, but I didn't know that children could wage it.' Providing a testimonial to one of the most heart-wrenching and chilling developments in modern warfare, this graphic novel chronicles the realities of hundreds of thousands across the world, kidnapped and forced to commit atrocities.

These hilarious puzzles from the Italian viral Instagram sensation invite the reader to solve the mystery of Kenny's death. You too can be a detective! Solve these morbidly funny puzzles where on one page you are presented the crime scene where poor Kenny is assassinated, the next page gives you the answer! How much of an ace are you? How are your observational skills? A cross between South Park humour and Where's Wally (for adults). Collected from the Instagram sensation with hundreds of thousands of followers worldwide. 45 cases to solve! Proven totally irresistible!

A Star Wars saga decades in the making! Meet the droid-hating Valance the Hunter - who's hot on the trail of Luke Skywalker! Will his destiny end by fi nding the rebel hero - or in a deadly confrontation with Darth Vader? Then, on a routine X-wing patrol, Luke and his squadron fi nd a derelict Imperial Star Destroyer, with everyone on board dead - and their skin turned crimson! When the virus responsible leaves Luke in a coma, Han Solo and his allies face a race against time to cure the mysterious malady! Then, in celebration of Marvel's 80th anniversary, the landmark Star Wars #108 returns to the Legends era of a long time ago for one issue only - continuing the stories of Valance and the Crimson Forever! And you won't believe which classic characters return! COLLECTING: STAR WARS (1977) 16, 27, 29, 50; STAR WARS (2019) 108

An alliance of evil threatens the Avengers! Doctor Doom, the Red Skull, Kingpin, Magneto and more have banded together to pit Earth's Mightiest Heroes against totally unfamiliar foes! The Avengers take on Freedom Force, the Mole Man, the Wrecker, the Juggernaut, Controller, Absorbing Man and more -and suffer a devastating loss! Plus: Cloak and Dagger lend a hand, the New Warriors make their debut -and Magneto pursues a secret agenda all his own! But who is secretly pulling the vengeful cabal's strings? Can the Avengers take down the true mastermind before his hidden scheme succeeds? COLLECTING: AVENGERS SPOTLIGHT (1989) 26-28, AVENGERS (1963) 311-313, QUASAR (1989) 5-7, IRON MAN (1968) 251-252, AVENGERS WEST COAST (1989) 53-55, MUTANT MISADVENTURES OF CLOAK AND DAGGER (1988) 9, MATERIAL FROM CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) 365-367, THOR (1966) 411-413, AVENGERS ANNUAL (1967) 19, AVENGERS SPOTLIGHT (1989) 29

Legendary storytellers come together to tell new tales featuring classic Marvel heroes from the world of the X-Men! He goes by many names - Logan, Weapon X, Patch - but most just call him the Wolverine! Three savage sagas show exactly why Wolverine is the world's most dangerous mutant -and the best there is! Brace yourself for blood, blades and brutality...you asked for it, bub! Then, the greatest creators the Great White North has to offer unearth the secret history of Alpha Flight, with tales spotlighting the Canadian team's most iconic lineup! Finally, Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz reunite with the New Mutants for an untold tale from the past! Can the teen team cope with a haywire Warlock -and the growing threat of Magik's inner demon? COLLECTING: WOLVERINE: EXIT WOUNDS (2019) 1, ALPHA FLIGHT: TRUE NORTH (2019) 1, NEW MUTANTS: WAR CHILDREN (2019)

Jane Foster is back! For years, you knew her as Dr. Jane Foster, one of Thor Odinson's most steadfast companions. Then you knew her as Thor, Goddess of Thunder, who took up the mantle when no other hero was worthy. Now Jane takes on a new role as Valkyrie, guide and ferrywoman to the dead! But her days of battle are far from over - especially when the Marvel Universe's deadliest shot gets his hands on the sword of a god! With the Asgardian weapon Dragonfang, Bullseye has the power to kill a deity in a single stroke - and he's about to prove it. Jane must learn a hard lesson: Not every death can be prevented. But who's next on Bullseye's list - and what is the assassin really after? COLLECTING: VALKYRIE: JANE FOSTER (2019) 1-5, MATERIAL FROM WAR OF THE REALMS: OMEGA (2019) 1