Publisher's blurb: Your Best Game Ever is not your typical RPG sourcebook. It’s not a book with adventures, spells, creatures, or magic items. It’s not a book for characters at all, but a book for players! If you play or run roleplaying games, this book is for you. Inside this gorgeous hardcover book, suitable for your coffee table or your gaming table, you will find advice and suggestions for enhancing your RPG experience at the table and away from it. This is an insider’s look at everything that goes into the hobby—finding a group, making a character, running a game, creating adventures, finding all the right ideas, hosting a game... and that’s just for starters. [Hardcover: rear blurb] A tool book, not a rulebook - for everyone who plays or runs tabletop roleplaying games You’ve got the rules down pat. Your setting is awesome. Your adventure is all ready to go. But how do you turn all of that into a fantastic game session your group will remember and talk about for years to come? How do you build a group that really clicks, create beloved and memorable characters, and craft stories that become the stuff of legend? Your Best Game Ever, by acclaimed roleplaying game designer Monte Cook and more than a dozen seasoned contributors, gives you an insider’s look at everything that isn’t part of the game rules: building chemistry in your gaming group, making a character you will love and remember forever, running engaging and exciting games yourplayers will always look forward to, creating thrilling adventures, finding the right ideas, hosting memorable game nights… and that’s just for starters. Whether you’re new to RPGs or a veteran gamer, whether you’re a game master or a player, whatever your game system of choice, you can make every game Your Best Game Ever!