splatbook
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.
Noun
splatbook (plural splatbooks)
- (gaming) One of a series of books for a roleplaying game, orientated towards players, each of which covers a specific group with further options for player characters in that group.
- 1999, Erika CircuitBreaker, Splatbooks, alt.games.whitewolf
- Speaking of redoing the splatbooks, soes[sic] 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, rec.games.frp.misc
- 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.
- 1999, Erika CircuitBreaker, Splatbooks, alt.games.whitewolf