Pen & Paper
- News and reviews for current and upcoming roleplaying games. Also features a RPG Database, release dates, message board, fonts, and gaming databases for Dungeons and Dragons, Star Wars d20, Exalted, and World of Darkness.
RPG.net
- Popular roleplaying game industry focused independent site, includes directory, regular columns, news, interviews, reviews, links, and large archives of gaming reference, art, and humor material.
Alan De Smet - Role-Playing Games - A selection of practical tips for game masters and players of any system, information about some Gaming Conventions, and resources for Amber, Dungeons and Dragons, and Shadowrun.
The Complete List of RPG Plots - Every RPG plot ever in the history of the whole world (or at least 34 of them): an arbitrary exercise (and GM's aid) by S. John Ross.
Errant Dreams - Features articles, essays, reviews, and email newsletters.
GameWyrd - News and reviews with forums and chatrooms.
Gaming Outpost - Daily gaming news, reviews and articles. Hobby gaming search engine and online forums. Special promotions and contests.
GreeneThorne's Realm - Detailing the various RPGs that the author plays. Also contains custom gaming software for download.
The RPG Consortium - RPG online community with discussion forums for different games and gaming styles. Includes archives of publications and reference materials.
RPG Host - Resource site featuring news, adventures, character sheets, rules, and links for various systems.
RPG Resource - Dedicated to supporting roleplaying campaigns by providing company and product lists with reviews, links, and general resources.
The Adventurer's Diary - A shareware Windows database application for keeping track of events and persons the player meets.
AnderWare Development - Features MasterPlan, a freeware scenario-planning utility for Windows.
Battlegrounds Games - A virtual tabletop software that allows to play any RPG online or offline. It is cross-platform, and includes features like Fog of War.
Codex of Universes - Online editing of worlds and campaign settings. Users can create new universes to catalog and showcase their particular setting.
Dices - Open source online role playing software offering game profiles management for several games, die launch module, a map editor with support for placing players and NPCs on a map, automated recording of logs and notes management.
Dire Press RPG Tools - Random generators for use with d20 fantasy and other role-playing game systems.
Dungeon Helper - Mapping and dice software to make it easier to play Pen and Paper over the Internet. [Windows]
Eposic - Free online JavaScript and Java online roleplaying tools including animated Tunnels and Trolls dice roller, random event, weather, GM decision, NPC rune generators, private dice rooms for online RPGs, gallery of downloadable images.
Fantasy Grounds - An application acting as a virtual online gaming table primarily intended for pen and paper style narrative role playing games. [Windows XP/2000]
Garthac Games - Creates products that support and enhance role playing games. MageHand is a tool for creating, modifying, organizing, sharing and printing campaign information.
Hamete Virtual Dice Server - Generates dice rolls for a range of different dice, with optional modifications.
Marnok's Adventure Generator - Generates random adventure ideas. Each includes an overall theme, adventure hooks, goals, major and minor villains, and optional twists.
Obsidian Portal - Online campaign hosting and collaborative content database. Users can host a campaign weblog that ties in with tools for tracking NPCs, items, and other game content.
Role Playing DB. - A commercial roleplaying database manager for Linux and Windows.
The Roleplaying Assistant - Freeware tool featuring character generator (for Dungeons and Dragons, Alternity, Star Wars, in Nomine Satanis), fractal world generator, dungeon mapper and spell management.
The RPG-SoundMixer - A commercial program (Demo available) for Windows specifically designed for creating musical and acoustic backgrounds for roleplaying sessions. [English/German]
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