splatbook
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See also: splat book
English
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.
Noun
splatbook (plural splatbooks)
- (gaming) 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.
- 1999, Erika CircuitBreaker, “Splatbooks”, in alt.games.whitewolf (Usenet):
- Speaking of redoing the splatbooks, soes anyone think there's a chance in hell that they're going to redo the werewolf tribebooks?
- 2000, Deirdre M. Brooks, “The 'NEW" Star Wars RPG”, in rec.games.frp.misc (Usenet):
- 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.