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splatbook

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: games, gaming

Examples

  • 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.

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History

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.