splatbook

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noun

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.

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Meanings

nounsplatbook (plural splatbooks)

plural splatbooks

  1. gamesOne 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.

    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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    Speaking of redoing the splatbooks, soes^([sic]) anyone think there's a chance in hell that they're going to redo the werewolf tribebooks?

    1999, Erika CircuitBreaker, “Splatbooks”, in alt.games.whitewolf (Usenet)

    Even GURPS has put out splatbooks.

    2000, Deirdre M. Brooks, “The 'NEW" Star Wars RPG”, in rec.games.frp.misc (Usenet)

Origin

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.

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APA

splatbook. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/splatbook

MLA

“splatbook.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/splatbook. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “splatbook,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/splatbook.

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