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What makes a fantasy fantastic? Magic, of course! Whether it’s unearthly beasts, scheming sorcerers, legendary swords, or locales that defy logic and physics, a compelling fantasy story needs magical elements. The tricky part is that in order for the story to work, you have to get your reader or player to believe the unbelievable. The Kobold Guide to Magic takes you behind the scenes to learn the secrets of designing and writing about magic from 20 top fantasy authors and game designers.

There are many paths to lose your way. And only one way to find it. So said Jesus of Nazareth, the most compelling and controversial teacher of all time. This book aims to make sense of his counterintuitive claim: Unless we lose our lives for his sake, we will never discover our true selves. Writers from around the world tell their stories of healing and hope amid many hardships. Joni Eareckson Tada, Sam Allberry, Christopher Yuan, Aixa de Lopez, and many other contributors share how God found them amid many dangers, toils, and snares.

The Best Role in Roleplaying! Whether you're a new game master or a seasoned vet looking for a new angle to shake up your game, these 19 essays by expert game masters help construct your campaign from the ground up - and keep your players engaged until the dramatic conclusion. Complete with discussions on plotting, tone, branching storytelling, pacing, and crafting action scenes, you'll find all the tips and advice you need to take on the best role in role-playing - and become an expert game master, too!

Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's worldview, and transformed American politics and culture. But that epic story has never been told with this kind of breadth, insight, and style.

By maintaining a plant-based diet, you have the power to transform your life - no ifs about it. While many omnivores feel a meal without meat just doesn't feel like a meal, the lifestyle based on vegan and vegetarian plants is just as popular - and with good reason. A plant-based diet moves away from foods such as meat, eggs, and milk based on animals and incorporates more fruits, vegetables, legumes, and grains. The less you eat meat and milk, the less fat you eat. This goes a long way in maintaining healthy cholesterol and weight levels.

The latest amazing medical discovery is inflammation. Inflammation control will help you live longer. Inflammation control will help you avoid heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, including cancer. Inflammation control helps with arthritis, macular degeneration, stroke, lung disease, irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, hot flashes, and even weight loss.

The Enneagram is a map of the human personality. It’s a tool for navigating relationships. It creates language for what motivates us and helps us look at the way we look at everything else. Most importantly the enneagram is a mirror; because sometimes you need help seeing yourself. This is Jeff Cook and T.J. Wilson going around the circle to discuss various topics and how they affect each type.

There are over 150 hours of Star Wars on Film. This is the Star Binge where we select, order and elevate the top 40 hours of the Star Wars Canon.

There are many guidelines for the alkaline diet. The basic idea is that, for the body, certain substances are worse than others. One of the guidelines for the alkaline diet is that you should try eating 75-80 percent alkaline. In other words, 75-80 percent of your diet comes from the alkaline food chart. In addition, controlling inflammation it is a hot topic today to control inflammation.

Alkaline diet is based on the theory that anything you eat can either result in your body building up acid or becoming more alkaline. For a healthy body, the alkaline and acid ratio must be balanced, measured by the level of pH in the body. The pH ranges between zero and 14. A pH level of seven is considered to be neutral. The higher the quantity of alkaline foods we put into our system, the greater the body's acidic condition neutralization.

Do you love sweets? Do you know that you can eat lots of sweets and lose weight? Yes, with a healthy ketogenic diet, you can have your cake and eat it too. In Keto Dessert, Jeff Cook shows you how to enjoy the sweet side of keto with a variety of delicious dessert recipes. He brings his remarkable experience in low carbohydrate cooking.

Losing weight, getting healthier, and being happier have never been easier!

The science behind keto - the targeted and cyclical ketogenic diet. Keto meal prep: easy - funny and simply.

Our world is charged with both the grandeur of God and the void of his absence. The seven deadly sins are the force causing that hole. They are at work in each of us. They decimate our relationships, our souls, and our world. These deadly sins often seem pleasing and good for gaining what we desire, but they are thoroughly poisonous. Conversely, the Beatitudes are Jesus' pictures of a restored creation.

This is a book about God. Not just any God, but a God worth believing in. It's a book about wrestling with death and fear and doubt--and hoping to find something bigger. It's a book about heaven. Often when we think of heaven, what comes to mind is escape. According to Medieval art and modern cartoons, "heaven" is about leaving this world. Heaven is about getting as far away from what we and others have broken as possible. But this is a move of despair, and despair isn't healthy. This is a book about hell. Sometimes we believe ridiculous ideas so long they no longer seem ridiculous. But we need to reimagine hell. The real God would not choose a world that could contain an everlasting torture chamber. Most of all this is a book about Jesus. Not the Jesus we see in bad Christian art, but the Jesus who emerges from a dark corner of history and can't help illuminating everything he touches. In this Jesus, we see a new kind of God. In this Jesus, we see a new future.

An Around the Circle Podcast for those who want to jump into the Enneagram.