Splatbook

A Splatbook is a non-core sourcebook for an RPG that provides additional rules and material that can be used with the main system. An example of a well-known splatbook is the Book of Weeaboo Fightan Magic.

The term comes from White Wolf games. Practically all of their Storytelling System games have a variety of character types, with a variety of names for these character types, and lots and lots of books about these character types, "tribebooks," "clanbooks," and so on. These came to be known as "*books", or "splatbooks". Asterisks are often used in computing as wildcards, to represent "everything" or "anything else". Don't asterisks look like little splats? (Thank you, TV Tropes.)

Splatbooks tend to be known for their containing significantly more powerful classes, feats, etc. than the core books for the respective system.

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