Tag: Tabletop

September 29, 2024

Strictly Fantasy The Cultural Roots of Tabletop Role-Playing Games

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Free Download Gerald Nachtwey, "Strictly Fantasy: The Cultural Roots of Tabletop Role-Playing Games "
English | ISBN: 1476675716 | 2021 | 199 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 11 MB
Role-playing games seemed to appear of nowhere in the early 1970s and have been a quiet but steady presence in American culture ever since. This new look at the hobby searches for the historical origins of role-playing games deep in the imaginative worlds of Western culture. It looks at the earliest fantasy stories from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, at the fans-both readers and writers-who wanted to bring them to life, at the Midwestern landscape and the middle-class households that were the hobby’s birthplace, and at the struggle to find meaning and identity amidst cultural conflicts that drove many people into these communities of play. This book also addresses race, religion, gender, fandom, and the place these games have within American capitalism. All the paths of this journey are connected by the very quality that has made fantasy role-playing so powerful: it binds the limitless imagination into a "strict" framework of rules. Far from being an accidental offshoot of marginalized fan communities, role-playing games’ ability to hold contradictions in dynamic, creative tension made them a necessary and central product of the twentieth century.

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September 24, 2024

Tabletop Gaming Manual A guide to the diverse world of modern tabletop games

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Free Download Matt Thrower, "Tabletop Gaming Manual: A guide to the diverse world of modern tabletop games "
English | ISBN: 1785211498 | 2018 | 192 pages | PDF | 32 MB
Tabletop gaming is enjoying a huge renaissance. Sales of hobby board games have risen in double digits yearly for the past decade, with more people enjoying the physical, non-digital aspects of playing, along with the social interaction. It’s one of the biggest sectors in crowd-funding platform Kickstarter.

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September 17, 2024

Model Trains Creating Tabletop Railroads

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Free Download David Jefferis, "Model Trains: Creating Tabletop Railroads"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0778750213, 0778750175 | EPUB | pages: 32 | 3.1 mb
Model trains are about more than building each car. It is also about building realistic surroundings for the train to travel through. This compelling introduction to model making explains the mathematics of scale, how clockwork, electric, and steam trains work, and the difference between building from a kit and building from scratch. Tips on painting, cutting and filing, cementing, and basic electronics help build fine-motor skills. Young readers are encouraged to build patience, concentration, perseverance, and problem-solving.

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September 10, 2024

Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises From Planning to Execution

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Free Download Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises: From Planning to Execution
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1718503822 | 181 Pages | EPUB | 4.4 MB
Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises, written by veteran security consultants Robert Lelewski and John Hollenberger, is an essential resource for cybersecurity professionals and anyone tasked with enhancing their organization’s incident response capabilities. This comprehensive guide to tabletop exercise planning and delivery offers practical insights, step-by-step instructions, and real-world examples to improve your team’s ability to prevent and respond to cyberattacks.

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August 8, 2024

Designing Effective Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises

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Free Download Designing Effective Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises
Released 7/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 30m | Size: 51 MB
Learning how to build tabletop exercises will help you to understand the gaps within your organization’s processes, technology, and people in responding to a cyber attack. With the advent of new cyber regulations and AI-based attacks, it has become more crucial than ever for security teams to evaluate their current preparedness. Instructor Mani Keerthi Nagothu starts off with a look at the basics of tabletop exercises, then shows you how to plan and develop your exercise. Next, Mani explains the steps to execute and then evaluate your tabletop exercise, before showing you how improvement and corrective actions you can take to maximize the benefits of your tabletop exercises.

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