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. See splat (“asterisk”), a symbol used as a wildcard in computing.

Noun

splatbook (plural splatbooks)

1. (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^[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”, 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.