Splatbook

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One of a series of books for a roleplaying game, oriented towards players, each of which covers a specific group with further options for player characters in that group.

    "Speaking of redoing the splatbooks, soes^([sic]) anyone think there's a chance in hell that they're going to redo the werewolf tribebooks?"

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"Speaking of redoing the splatbooks, soes^([sic]) anyone think there's a chance in hell that they're going to redo the werewolf tribebooks?"

Etymology

From splat + book, from the tendency for all the books in the series to be named uniformly, with only the name of the group varying. See splat (“asterisk”), a symbol used as a wildcard in computing.

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