splatbook

Etymology
From, from the tendency for all the books in the series to be named uniformly, with only the name of the group varying. See, a symbol used as a wildcard in computing.

Noun

 * 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.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.