Role-Playing Games Links

Ezines & Archives Campaign Sites World Building Play Aids
Literature and Artwork Open Gaming Resources Miscellaneous Companies

Featured Links

The Call of Computer
Paranoia meets Call of Cthulhu.
Jamis Buck's RPG Generators
Online dungeon generator, treasure generator, NPC generator, town generator, etc. The dungeon generator and the NPC generator in particular are fantastic.

Ezines, Archives and News

RPG Archive
Role playing community site and online adventure database.
AtFantasy
A major collection of aids for a wide variety of campaign worlds.
Role-Play News
A variety of RPG news.
Wounds Unlimited
An active, bimonthly FRPG ezine.
The Guild Companion
A RPG, wargame and card game ezine.
The Apocalyptic Post
An unofficial semi-monthly Gamma World ezine.
Whispers
The company zine for Eden Studios.
RPGevolution
Webzine devoted to D20 licensed games.
Stygian Darkness
Opening the first quarter of 2001, this is an ezine devoted to dark fantasy gaming: Cthulhu, Werewolf, In Nomine, Warhammer Fantasy Role-playing, etc.
The Unofficial Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Edition News
Unofficial news of the current round of proposed changes in the D&D system.
GameCodex
A major resource site for finding games, for getting developer information and for obtaining retailer information.
RPG Information
A RPG info and link site.
GameCodex
A collection of publishers and products.
The Legolas RPG Index
Less selective, but more comprehensive. An estimated 1200+ RPG links. New location with updated pages.
The RPG Top 100
Darkholme Keep's top 100 RPG web sites as selected by online voters.

Play Aids

PedragonWorks
An online listing of spells.
Player's Handbook Errata
The WotC page for error correction for the first printing of the 3rd Edition Player's Handbook.
Historical Floorplan Emporium
A collection of floor plans of historical sites.
Jamis Buck's RPG Generators
Online dungeon generator, treasure generator, NPC generator, town generator, etc. The dungeon generator and the NPC generator in particular are fantastic.
Wizards' Map-a-Week
A map put up each week for DM use by WotC.
Wizards' Random Tavern Generator
An online generator of tavern characteristics, crippled by requiring the use of IE to utilize.
Canonical List of Famous Last Words
A record of characters' last words, like "They are chaotic evil ? That's great, we're chaotic evil, too. So there will be no problem with alignments."
D&D Feat Progression
A list of the prerequisites for the various feats.
D&D Downloads
From the WotC site, a fan depository.
Lord Korath's Keep
A d20 fan site with a breadth of material; world building links are particularly interesting.
Telvin's Archive
Labeled "The Archive of Archives", it is D20 related materials and indices.
Blue Troll's Netbooks
A massive link site for netbooks.
EPOSIC: Fantasy and the Fantastical; Images and Roleplaying
A fan site that includes a DM utility suite.
Great Net.Book Archive
Archive for the Great Net Spellbook, the Great Net Prayerbook, and other utilities.
Demonologist 2nd Ed. Class
A 2nd edition AD&D class for a demonologist. It is saved as a Word document.
Handbooks for Role Playing Games
A wide collection of netbooks, including plots, traps, poisons, herbs, spells and others.
Fabulous Worlds
World design, rpg fiction, and detailed notes on Glorantha.
Antagonizer's Home Page
Fantastic fantasy graphics designate these D&D and Wargame dedicated pages. Antagonizer runs an online D&D session as well.
Portent.net
Download page of the site that bills itself as the ultimate Games Workshop web source. Contains a nice set of fonts towards the bottom of the page.

Campaign Sites

Pantheons of Glorantha
Descriptions of the Gloranthan gods. From the well-developed Glorantha campaign.
Tekumel: The World of the Petal Throne
An online site devoted to the venerable campaign world.
Planewalker
Site devoted to Planescape campaigns.
Defrag's Realms
AD&D Source for Forgotten Realms and RPGs.
Library of Leng
A Harn based RPG resource site with numerous materials and some great graphics.
Lycadican
An open RPG world with generous amounts of material.
OtherWorld Creations
Another promising D20 campaign set featuring the well-reviewed Diomin campaign world.
City of Wyrmport
A limited, but promising D20 site.
Dialog Publishing's Dungeons and Dragons Web Resource
The Greater Earth campaign and the Alamaine campaign. It also has Jorune links.

World Building

From Land to Subsistence
A detailed site on subsistence capacity of RPG scenario land/society combinations. Compiled by Juha Vesanto.
Braudel: The Structures of Everyday Life
David Dunham's praecie on Fernand Braudel's The Structures of Everyday Life, a work on the economics of old economies.
Campaign Economics
Juha Vesanto's site on economics for a RPG campaign.
World Building
Vesanto's world building collection of links and resources.
The Great Hunger of 1044: The Progress of a Medieval Famine
Michael Treitel's history honors thesis, a fascinating look at a famine in medieval times.

Literature and Artwork

The Lair of the Mythos Haiku
A collection of Cthulhu Mythos haikus.
The H.P. Lovecraft Library
A collection of H.P. Lovecraft's works.
Clark Ashton Smith Cycles
Collected works of Clark Ashton Smith.
The Literary Gothic
A collection of classic gothic literature online, along with numerous resources related to Gothic literature.
Coron's Sources of RPG Stuff
Links to a wide variety of materials including random number generators, character sheets, fonts, pictures, and adventures.
Coron's Sources of Fonts (1)
A GREAT site for fantasy, ancient, symbolic and science fiction fonts; the top-level site has additional links.
Legolas' RPG Fonts
More than 200 fantasy and historical fonts.
Clark's Center of Fantasy Art & More
A rotated site of numerous great images, many from famous SF/F artists.
Fantasy-Related Pictures FTP Site
Collection of various fantasy images.
The Noble Dragons
Graphic depictions of dragons as warriors and fierce beasts (designed in opposition to "Save the Dragons").
Elmore: The Official Web Site
Fantasy and SF artist Larry Elmore's web site.

Open Gaming Resources

Open Gaming Foundation
An experiment to bring open source licensing to RPGs supported by some elements of Wizards of the Coast.
The d20 System
The official site of the d20 system, license and logo.
OGF Party Line FAQ
An unoffical FAQ for the party line OGF community distinguinshed from the FAQ below.
The Unofficial OGF-D20 Listserve FAQ
FAQ for the open gaming foundation D20 license.
Open Gaming Exchange
A site for open gaming materials.
OGL How-To Draft
A draft work of a plain language how-to use the Open Gaming License work.
OpenRPG
An exchange where authors and gamers exchange OGL materials for free.

Companies

Judges Guild
The venerable and honored RPG company returns. Especially great news for those gaming for 20+ years who remember the first outing.
Dungeons & Dragons Home Page
Wizards of the Coast site.
Wizard's Attic
An online game store that carries a lot of the smaller developers' products, and that helps create distribution for small developers.
Odyssey
A D20 OGL campaign put out by Eden Studios.
Atlas Games
Makers of Ars Magica and Feng Shui games as well as the Penumbra D20 campaign.
Fiend Games
A D20 game company that has posted sample feats and monsters from its upcoming War of Thorns.
Troll Lord Games
Another D20 producer.
Dominion Games
Another approach to open source gaming.
Fiery Dragon Productions
A D20 developer with the nice addition of free RPG-related file storage for D&D groups.
Mystical Alchemy Gameworks
Develpoers of the Aldor game world.
Necromancer Games
A new company trying to develop 1st edition style modules for 3rd edition D&D.
Sword & Sorcery Studio
The home for the D20 Scarred Lands campaign.
Vinc Games D20 Directory
A sales source for D20 material.
Dragonscroll
An online RPG store with decent discounts.
Game Publishers Association
The GPA is a professional association of small and alternative press publishers, focusing on adventure hobby games and related products.
Arcane Games
Makers of Tower Siege.
Oden Games
Online game seller with great prices. Free shipping on orders over $50.
White Wolf Online
Site for White Wolf games.
Basement Games
The return of gamer's doing games for fun. Check out Creators of Forge: Out of Chaos.
Chaosium
The wonderful developer of Runequest and of Cthulhu.
Hogshead Publishing
The new publisher for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying and for Nobilis.
TheFuze.com
Site for the Fuzion game system, the first open licensing game system.
Iron Crown Enterprises
The Chartmaster games (Rolemaster, Spacemaster, etc.).
Guild of Blades Home Page
Start-up game company with an outreach to other game players and designers.
Blood Axe Miniatures
This is a miniature manufacturer which for a $200 order will custom make figures. Most of their products are historical, but there are some fantasy figures and the ability to custom order figures makes them special.
Reaper Miniatures
Well orchestrated web site for this new miniature company.
Sparks! Paper Miniatures as a Font!
Miniatures on paper cut-outs that can be accessed as fonts.
FASA
A good round-out company for Traveller related material. It has branched out in recent years. Unfortuneately, it is now in the process of folding.
Hirst Arts Fantasy Architecture
Molds for pouring walls, towers, etc. for miniature play.
ZodyGames
The Fantasy Earth game producer.
Everchanging Book of Names
A shareware program for random name generation with additional modules for extra languages.
Alan's Dungeon Master Tools
A variety of programs and other goodies to help DMs.
Artesan Don Diego
A Spanish retailer of arms and armor.
Swords from Toledo
A Spanish wholesaler of swords and other metalwork.
Atlanta Cutlery
Retailer of swords, armor and related items. Excellent selection.

Miscellaneous

The Call of Computer
Paranoia meets Call of Cthulhu
Game Publishing FAQ
An early start on a FAQ on RPG publishing.
Gamer Demographics And Sales Information
This data is on Gaming Outpost from WotC market research.
Games and Copyright
An attempt to look at copyright and trademark issues in relation to the development of games.
The Pulling Report
Michael A. Stackpole's report on anti-RPG nut Patricia Pulling.
The Creative World of Gary Gygax
Gary Gygax's home page.
Here There Be Dragons
A history of the Dungeons & Dragons game.
Death to the Minotaur
Salon.com's article on the rise and sale of Wizards of the Coast.
Tantus Obscura
An intriguing SF based MUD.
Harshlands MUD Medieval Roleplaying Game Domain
A Harn based, rather extensive Multi-User Dungeon.
PokeTHULHU! Gotta Catch You All!
A cross between Pokemon and Cthulhu.
Indianapolis Gamefest
Indianapolis based gaming convention in late November.
TSR vs. Mayfair Games
A case concerning issues of gaming copyright and trademark.

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