And She Games...: RPG ~ And She Games 2013 Holiday Gift Guide

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay The wind of Ulgu settles like a fog across the land, clouding mens’ thoughts and concealing secrets from their view. The Illusionists of the Grey Order forge phantasms of shadowstuff to deceive their enemies. With their mastery of things seen and unseen, they are the trickiest and most difficult to predict of all the Orders.

Befuddle your foes with Grey Order Magic! Taint the mind of a nearby enemy, blast him with visions of his deepest fears, or simply mount your shadow steed and fly far above the fray. Grey Order Magic...

Buy it: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay retails for around $105.

Marvel Heroic Roleplaying is the fourth role playing game set in the Marvel Universe, published Margaret Weis Productions under license from Marvel Comics.

The basic game was designed to let players assume the roles of superheroes from Marvel Comics, and to tie in with relatively recent events in the Marvel Universe such as Civil War and Annihilation, and a planned Age of Apocalypse setting book, and the core rules can be found in both the basic game and the Premium Event Book versions of the events.

Buy it: Marvel Heroic Roleplaying retails for around $15-$20.

Deadlands Noir is a roleplaying game that takes place in the Deadlands universe of the 1930s. The core book explores the featured campaign setting of New Orleans while the Companion covers Shan Fan, Chicago in the Roaring Twenties, Lost Angels in the glitzy Forties, and the City of Gloom in the Fifties. Deadlands Noir focuses on mystery, investigation, action, and horror in the grim and gritty cities of the 1900s.

Hard times make hard men. And women. And the world of Deadlands in the 1930s is one of the hardest.

Buy it: Deadlands retails for between $4 -$20 for the parts and Pieces.

Agents of Oblivion
Agents of Oblivion is the highly anticipated Savage Worlds setting book we like to call The Perfect Cocktail of Horror and Espionage. Within these pages grace everything you need to play the style of spy game you want to play from "The Company Line" where every nightmare and conspiracy you can imagine is real and you can wield the powers you need to drive back the darkness to "Spy versus Spy" where you can take things on in a gritty brutal fashion.

Agent generation is designed with flexibility in mind and expands the Savage Worlds base rules while remaining true to them. Within are options to even modify your agent's abilities between missions. Add to that resources and you have a setting which truly shines-spytech, special training, SUDs (single use devices), and a multitude of ways to trick out your loadouts and options to grab!

Buy it: Agents of Oblivion retails for around $15.

Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box will help you take your first step into an exciting world of fantasy adventure!

Will you be a courageous fighter who masters weapons and armor to cut a trail of destruction through your enemies? A wise cleric who calls upon the power of the gods to heal your allies and burn enemies with sacred fire? A witty rogue able to disarm traps and strike with deadly accuracy? A brilliant wizard whose magical powers bring foes to their knees? All the details of your character are yours to control. The only limit is your imagination!
The box is packed with everything you need to get started with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, an imaginative tabletop fantasy adventure game for 2–5 players. Scores of monsters, challenges, and advice give gamers the tools to create their own worlds and adventure, providing countless hours of gaming excitement.

Buy it: Pathfinder RPG Beginners Box retails for around $35 .

Numenera
Numenera is a science fantasy roleplaying game set in the far distant future. Humanity lives amid the remnants of eight great civilizations that have risen and fallen on Earth. These are the people of the Ninth World. This new world is filled with remnants of all the former worlds: bits of nanotechnology, the dataweb threaded among still-orbiting satellites, bio-engineered creatures, and myriad strange and wondrous devices. These remnants have become known as the numenera.
Player characters explore this world of mystery and danger to find these leftover artifacts of the past, not to dwell upon the old ways, but to help forge their new destinies, utilizing the so-called “magic” of the past to create a promising future.

Buy it:
Numenera retails for around $25.