Create soldiers, bounty hunters, engineers, doctors, traders, and starship captains in this sourcebook for the What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. roleplaying game system. With over 60 careers, 7 species, and a wide selection of skills, traits, and exploits, this book walks you through the character creation process. Select your character's early careers using the life-path system to create erudite Android medics, reckless Human smugglers, mighty Ogron marines, young Venetian star knights, or ambidextrous Felan burglars. Will your character be a scientific genius, an expert with the laser sword, or a daredevil pilot? A notorious assassin, a wily con artist, or a detective in the far future? Only you can decide! Requires the use of a What's OLD is NEW core rulebook.

GEAR UP FOR ACTION! This manual includes a wide variety of weapons, armor, equipment, drugs, cybernetics, vehicles, and more for characters in the What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. roleplaying game system along with rules for upgrading and customizing gear. From subspace beacons, to gravbelts, to handlheld scanners; from sonic pistols to laser swords; from kevlar vests to powered armor; the equipment you choose us an important decision. And with more exotic weaponry, such as the Galactic Yards PBW28 Electro Halberd or the MicroCo JO40 Stingfury Tachyon Autopistol, you'll be sure to find something to suit your character's style. Additional requisitions and organizations rules allow you to equip your characters from your naval ship's armoury or your secret spy quartermaster. This book requires the use of a What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. core rulebook.

RUN A SCI-FI EPIC! This manual contains the core rules of the What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. roleplaying game system, designed for a futuristic campaign. While other books tell you how to create a character or build a universe, this book tells you how to play the game. With rules for attribute checks, countdowns, luck, combat, injury & death, objects, and the environment, inside you'll find all the rules you need to adjudicate any task your characters might attempt. This book is fully compatible with all W.O.I.N. supplements, and is a What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. core rulebook. This is a WOIN Core Rulebook. It does not include character creation or equipment, which are found in other WOIN books.

BUILD A SCIENCE-FICTION SETTING! This manual for the What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. roleplaying game system guides you though the process of designing a far-future game setting. With detailed rules for the creation of star systems, planets, civilizations, races, careers, monsters, and more, along with discussion on genre, theme, and technology, any GM should be able to create their own universe! Also included are guidelines on running a sci-fi roleplaying game, creating campaigns and adventures, and ideas for exciting premises, exotic locations, and interesting events! Finally, you'll also find an example description of the Sol solar system some 200 years into the future, a small selection of aliens and foes, and an introductory encounter to help your PCs get their first starship. This book requires the use of a What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. core rulebook.

This essential manual for sci-fi themed What's OLD is NEW games introduces a range of new alien races, universal exploits, and advanced rules for your WOIN game. 11 new races, nearly 30 new universal exploits, and expanded rules for aging, making the most of your REPUTATION score, and more, make this an essential handbook. Requires the use of a What's OLD is NEW core rulebook.

Savings and insurance associations are widespread not only in Ethiopia but also in its diaspora, even in countries with diversified and comprehensive formal financial institutions. The contributors to this volume give an extensive overview of these associations in Ethiopia and its diaspora and, at the same time, ask what the activities within these associations tell us about their members' future aspirations and ideas of a »good life«.

This is the full-colour softcover edition of this book. Stoic rangers track their prey across the unkempt wilderness. Shining knights with sword and lance charge heroically at their foes. Weathered watchmen investigate a murder in a scummy tavern. Masters of the dark arts bring the dead back to life. Ernest clerics turn back vampires in deep, unholy crypts. Mighty warriors battle ice dragons in the arctic wastes. Pale alchemists mix complex ingredients for their latest concoctions. Play a brave knight, a cunning burglar, a serene warrior-monk, or a brilliant firemage. Are you a wild berserker, a deadly assassin, or a swashbuckling musketeer? Dozens of fantasy careers await you! Features the innovative freeform magic system based on Elements of Magic - weave new and unique spells on the go by combining magical skills and secrets! This roleplaying game allows you to create and run adventures in a fantasy setting of your own creation! *A selection of fantasy races, and over 40 careers which allow you to create any fantasy character with a fun intuitive life-path system. *A wide array of medieval and fantasy equipment, including weapons, armor, herbs, mounts, magical items, tools, and more. Wield anything from a zweih�nder to a musket; wear ringmail or Eastern lamellar armor; don a great helm or a pair of spiked gauntlets. *Full rules for running the game, including fast but tactical combat, environments, and extended alchemical and herbalism tasks. *A flexible magic system which allows you to devise spells on the go, using a freeform verb-noun system able to accommodate any magical effect by spending Magic Points. *Rules for wilderness travel, stronghold building, and warfare. *Extensive guidelines for building a fantasy game setting, with detailed rules for creating races, careers, monsters, and more, along with discussion on genre, theme, and technology. Whether you're a fellowship sneaking into enemy terrain, watchmen protecting a rain-sodden town, hunting a mighty fire dragon, or exploring the dark depths of places best left alone, O.L.D. has you covered!

Dare to enter a gritty setting of sci-fi survival horror! In these pages you will find a survival horror setting for your science-fiction WOIN games detailing known space, careers, equipment, monsters, and more; plus a detailed terraforming colony on a small, weatherbeaten moon some 40 light years from earth, and a terrifying adventure which charts the events just prior to the colony's loss of contact with the Chen Zua Corporation, the company behind the terraforming technology that oversees the United Planets Terraforming Contracts. Terror and monsters await in the depth of space! So welcome to Somerset Landing and hold on tight... as all hell is about to break loose! Requires the use of a What's OLD is NEW core rulebook.

This sourcebook for the What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. roleplaying game system contains information on space and starship operations. Astronomical information - scale, stars, spectral classifications, unusual stars, black holes, rogue planets, nebulae, anomalies, astroengineering. Random space phenomena - from funnel clouds to quantum singularities; magnetars to wormholes. Space travel - distance & time, setting assumptions, inner system travel, time dilation, types of FTL travel. Starship combat - tactical (hex-based) and theatreof- the-mind space combat, Newtonian movement, two sample ships (the Murphy, and a Spartan Talon Class VI Scout). Starship operations - ship classes and types, roles aboard a starship, using sensors, sickbays, tractor beams, transporters, and recreational facilities. This book requires the use of a What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. core rulebook.

Presents case studies resulting from participation in the World Bank by developing countries such as Chad, Brazil, and Nigeria