splatbook

noun

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.

  1. inherited from *bōks
  2. inherited from *bōk
  3. inherited from bōc
  4. inherited from bok
  5. compounded as splatbook — “splat + book

Definitions

  1. One of a series of books for a roleplaying game, oriented towards players, each of which…

    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?
    • Even GURPS has put out splatbooks.
    • 2003, Stephenls, Devil-Tigers: Any Good??, alt.games.whitewolf I own all the Vampire revised splatbooks and all the Mage Revised splatbooks that have been published.

The neighborhood

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