Marsden's RPG links

Welcome to my small collection of useful and entertaining links pertaining to the wonderful world of roleplaying. This page primarily acts as a backup for my favorites menu. As such, the links here will be greatly slanted towards my personal roleplaying preferences. Your mileage may vary.

Many of these sites may not have updated recently - even in years - I find this does not limit the relevance of their content.

Feel free to email me if you know of a site that you feel should be listed here, or if you find a dead link (I visit some of these but rarely), or if you have any other comments to make. Links are loosely organised by type, and then alphabetically. They should all open in new pages. I've recently started making sublists of articles I find regularly useful.

1. Major Resource Sites
• Dragonsfoot - for older D&D material
• EN World - d20 news and reviews.
• Gaming Report
• Pen & Paper
• RPGHost
• RPG.net
  
2. Smaller Resource Sites
• Darkshire.net - Homepage of John H. Kim, accreting material since 1994
• Fantaseum
• Fitz's Roleplaying Stuff
• Freelance Traveller
• Harnworld equipment/Services (and a good reference for any other fantasy game)
• Hidden Way - Concentrated fantasy resources with a touch of science fiction
• Home Page of Alexander Forst-Rakoczy - Old personal page with some useful older stuff
• Hypertext d20 (Fantasy) SRD
• Miniworld (not Minatures, just a few utilities)
• The Blue Room (Homepage of S. John Ross)
  • The Big list of RPG plots
  • Medieval demographics made easy
• The City of Solis (fantasy and Sci-fi)
• Pete's Runequest and Roleplaying!
• Roleplay.org
• Simon Woodside | D&D
• Strolen's Citadel - user submitted fantasy adventure hooks, role playing plots, magic items, misc ideas, and NPCs to be used in any fantasy role playing game.
• Valdier.com (Mutants & Masterminds mostly)
  
  
3. Essay and News Sites
• BlackHat Matt's
• Gamegrene (Game Green? Games Phobia? Gamegrene.com!)
• Kobold Quarterly
• Revenge of a Gamer Chick
• Roleplaying Tips
• Sean Reynolds Homepage (D&D3E)
• Skotos articles Skotos is home to a bunch of those MU** thingies, but many of the articles have more general application.
• The Crank Report
• The Harrow - Dru Pagliassotti's archive from About.com
• The Oracle Defunct site with some useful essays, buried in RPG.net's archives.
• Wikipedia's RPG section
  
  
4. Major Industry Sites
• Eden Studios
• Games Workshop
• Green Ronin Publishing
• HERO Games
• Iron Crown Enterprises
• Mongoose Publishing
• Steve Jackson Games
• White Wolf Online
• Wizards of the Coast
  • The D&D3.5 SRD
    
    
5. Smaller Industry Sites
• "Biff Bam Pow" Free for download Superhero RPG from Entropy Games.
• Canterbury Miniatures (NZ)
• Fiery Dragon Productions
• Microtactix
• Skeleton Key Games Adventure Tiles
  
  
6. Chat and Bulletin Board Sites (many of the sites in other categories also have chat and message boards, some are repeated here.)
• Critical Fumble (ex WebRPG, RPGHost, home of the Gamers:Ethics and Religion forum)
• NZRAG Roleplaying and gaming Webzine
• RPG.net
  
  
7. E-Zines
• Critical Miss: The Magazine for Dysfunctional Roleplayers
• Kobold Quarterly
• Places To Go, People To Be (recommended)
• The RPG Times
  
  
8. New Zealand Sites and Clubs
• A.M.E.R.I.C.A. (Auckland University Roleplaying Society)
• Idiot's homepage for other NZ sites.
• KapCon main site and blog
• NZRAG Roleplaying and gaming forums
• SAGA Incorporated (Christchurch University Roleplaying Society)
• OURS (Otago University Roleplaying Society)
• rpg.net.nz - Linking Roleplayers Around New Zealand



9. Art and other visuals
• Atlas of the Universe
• Elfwood
• Cartographers Guild
• Dunjinni mapping software and community
• Fantasy Mapmaking 101
• fantasygallery.net
• Fiddlers Green - downloadable templates for cardboard models (in colour...)
• Human Descent (CG morphs)
• Profantasy Home of the Campaign Cartographer software.
• RPG MapShare
• Skeleton Key Games Adventure Tiles
• what-a-character.com Portraits of actors from movies and TV. Good source for PC/NPC faces.
• Witt's computer wallpapers
  
  
10. Humour sites & snippets
• Eric & the Gazebo (the official version)
• Evil Overlords
• Roleplaying Laughs
  
  
11. Other Clubs, Organisations and contact points
• Meetup.com: Roleplayers meetup groups
• MENSA RPGSIG (Special Interest Group)
• RPGA Asia-Pacific branch
• RPG registry
  
  
12. Miscellaneous Resources
• A Modern Herbal A Modern Herbal, first published in 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve, contains Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-Lore of Herbs. (searchable database).
• Behind the Name is a website for learning about all aspects of given names. Its scope is broad: all given names from all cultures and periods are eligible to be included in the main name database. Names from mythology and fiction are also eligible. (Includes useful random name generator)
• Derelict London a depiction of an (often un-picturesque) view of everyday life in London.
• Encylopedia Mythica
• Historical Maps Genuine historical maps scanned by the University of Texas
• It's The End of the World as We Know It ...Again - Page of apocalyptic reference.
• Mot's Castle Page - pictures and histories of real castles.
• Octavia.net Some useful historical essays and information.
• Spices Detailed essay on the use and economics of spices in late medieval - early modern Europe
• The Medieval Technology pages - an attempt to provide accurate, referenced information on technological innovation and related subjects in western Europe during the Middle Ages
• The Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency (1868-1975)
• Today's Front Pages: todays's newspaper - 312 front pages from 37 countries
• Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang