"splatbook" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "splat",
        "3": "book"
      },
      "expansion": "splat + book",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "splatbooks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "splatbook (plural splatbooks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Gaming",
          "orig": "en:Gaming",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              24,
              34
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1999, Erika CircuitBreaker, “Splatbooks”, in alt.games.whitewolf (Usenet):",
          "text": "Speaking of redoing the splatbooks, soes^([sic]) anyone think there's a chance in hell that they're going to redo the werewolf tribebooks?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              23,
              33
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2000, Deirdre M. Brooks, “The 'NEW\" Star Wars RPG”, in rec.games.frp.misc (Usenet):",
          "text": "Even GURPS has put out splatbooks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2003, Stephenls, Devil-Tigers: Any Good??, alt.games.whitewolf\nI own all the Vampire revised splatbooks and all the Mage Revised splatbooks that have been published."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "id": "en-splatbook-en-noun-U3h61T-J",
      "links": [
        [
          "gaming",
          "gaming#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "roleplaying game",
          "roleplaying game"
        ],
        [
          "oriented",
          "oriented"
        ],
        [
          "player",
          "player"
        ],
        [
          "player characters",
          "player characters"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "games",
        "gaming"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "splatbook"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "splat",
        "3": "book"
      },
      "expansion": "splat + book",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "splatbooks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "splatbook (plural splatbooks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Gaming"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              24,
              34
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1999, Erika CircuitBreaker, “Splatbooks”, in alt.games.whitewolf (Usenet):",
          "text": "Speaking of redoing the splatbooks, soes^([sic]) anyone think there's a chance in hell that they're going to redo the werewolf tribebooks?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              23,
              33
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2000, Deirdre M. Brooks, “The 'NEW\" Star Wars RPG”, in rec.games.frp.misc (Usenet):",
          "text": "Even GURPS has put out splatbooks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2003, Stephenls, Devil-Tigers: Any Good??, alt.games.whitewolf\nI own all the Vampire revised splatbooks and all the Mage Revised splatbooks that have been published."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gaming",
          "gaming#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "roleplaying game",
          "roleplaying game"
        ],
        [
          "oriented",
          "oriented"
        ],
        [
          "player",
          "player"
        ],
        [
          "player characters",
          "player characters"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "games",
        "gaming"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "splatbook"
}