Roleplaying Games Resources

While there are many roleplaying games out there that would appeal to various people reading these pages, I have used a basic set of guidelines in creating this RPG Resource page. Primarily, I have listed only a few of the various rpg companies out there, more for the sake of not providing a deluge of information on the various rpgs available; that sort of material can be found on myriad pages out on the Web. The secondary basis for this page was that various gamers who come to this page would like to find out more about some of the tools and other roleplaying game utilities that are out there. I have provided a short, sweet list of these, and have no doubt that this page will grow as time goes by.

RPGs That I Run

There are, as noted in other sections of this RPG set of pages, three roleplaying games that I run. Only one of these systems have webpages on this site devoted to them. The three systems I run are the DragonQuest fantasy system, The Edge of Midnight fantasy noir rpg, and Hollow Earth Expedition (HEX) rpg of action and Pulp adventure in the 1930's with an emphasis on the Hollow Earth setting, and at times, Continuum: Roleplaying in the Yet . You can find the listings for the DragonQuest Resources, Edge of Midnight Resources, and Hollow Earth Expedition Resources on their own separate webpages, and links to the other games separately as well.

Game Publishers

Dream Pod 9

The talented folks at DP9 are the makers of Heavy Gear, The Jovian Chronicles, and the fabulous Tribe 8 rpg. Check out the site for neat stuff, and lots of links.

GAMA

This site covers GAMA activities and events, including Origins, the GAMA Trade Show, and the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design (and the Origins Awards). It also holds a detailed FAQ on games, GAMA, and the gaming industry and complete info on reaching GAMA.

Grey Ghost Games

Grey Ghost Games is a division of Grey Ghost Press, Inc., a small publishing company that is dedicated to producing excellent products for gamers. They first published FUDGE (Limited Edition) in 1994, in a previous incarnation of the company known as "Wild Mule Games."

Holistic Designs, Inc.

The publishers of the Fading Suns roleplaying game.

Laughing pan Productions

The folks at Laughing Pan, in conjunction with Phil Brucato, have brought the magnificent Deliria: Faerie Tales for a New Millennium rpg, among others.

MC+ Creations

MC+ Creations offers freelance roleplaying and boardgame design, editing, and consulting services to the gaming industry. Their site supports the design work of MC+ game authors like Guy McLimore and Greg Poehlein (including stuff such as Star Trek: The Role Playing Game.

Plaid Rabbit Productions

The folks who have brought you many, many games, but seem to be sticking right now with their own Plainlabel RPG.

Pulsar Games, Inc.

This is the company that produces the Blood of Heroes RPG, which owes its roots to the old DC Heroes RPG. While there is not much going on at the moment with Pulsar, there are plans for a new edition of the Blood of Heroes game.

General RPG Web Sites

An Intro to RPGs

This is a rather long, fairly useful source of material for explaining to people just what roleplaying is. And what it's not.

The Dangers of RPGs

These are the archives of CAR-PGa.

Arthur Shipkowski's Famous RPG ftp Site List

The name says it all. This listing is about as comprehensive as they come. It is now regularly updated.

Bryant Durrell's Roleplaying page

This just about says it all.

The Cave

The Cave is a rather useful place, where players and GMs will find a collection of links to useful gaming and campaigning tools specific for WWW use.

Darkwater's Dungeon RPG Page

This site has a couple of essays that offer advice, both of which are written quite well.

A Directory of Gamers

After looking around for some time for game directories and the like on the Web, this is the site that I found that makes a lot of sense.

Eric's Free RPG page

This site offers a collection of freeware and shareware roleplaying games from the net. It includes FUDGE, broken into chapters and html formatted, and SORD.

Formerly the RPG Resource Guide

Thomas Petersen has replaced the guide with an in-depth ftp site guide.

Free Fantasy Role Playing System Page

This is a table-top and computer system.

Gamers' Directory

The Gamers' Directory is a way to find other gamers in your area, or with your interests. It currently includes listings for almost 200 people. Joining up is easy - the more people who join the better it will be.

GameWeb - The Web Gaming Resource

This is quite an ambitious site, although it barely touches on RPGs right now.

Gurth's Homepage

This site serves as the distribution site for the Plastic Warriors net.sourcebooks for Shadowrun, and holds the first and only character mortuary!

Legolas RPG Metapage

This contains Legolas's world of Llanowar, and a semi-indexed list of links.

The Oldest RPG Site on the Web

Started when Mosaic was still in Beta, this site contains gaming tools that you can use from your terminal, links to many 'Net gaming resources, and an index of other related sites. It includes an online, searchable version of the Dragon/ Polyhedron QWIC index.

Path Less Taken

This site is dedicated to freeform roleplaying games. It currently consists mostly of links.

Qubrak Shata's AD&D Page

A site with a whole bunch of quick summaries of plot ideas, apparently from his games, that contain minimal references to the TSR gaming system.

Worlds

This is mostly a set of links and pointers. A collection of worlds and settings on the 'Net.

GamesMaster's Web Sites

Game Classifications

This is a system of classification of RPG gamemastering styles. It is pretty much entirely a summation of other people's ideas, drawn from discussions on rec.games.frp.advocacy, hopefully presented in a manner that will clarify, rather than obscure, the issues.

Designing a Magic System

Pretty self-explanatory. Compiled by Juuso Vesanto.

Greg Schmidt's Homepage

This set of pages contains a reasonably long list of miscellaneous stuff, for many game systems. It also features several PD RPGs.

Homepage of the Fractal Worldmap Generator

This site has several interesting other items, including the AD & D Book of Sex, and some character sheets.

Irony Games' Server

This site has five instant mapmakers and a dice server, among other things.

Laws of History

This site has a variety of essays, including the Laws of History, some raw chronometric data, artificial creativity principles, and several other game- and semi-game related tidbits.

World Building

This site has lots of useful info for those of us that build our own worlds.

World Wrights' Web

This site is gone indefinitely. It contains all manner of information about building worlds, from fantasy to SF, for writing and gaming.

World Wrights' Web Mirror

Info of all sorts for building worlds, from fantasy to SF, for writing and gaming.

E-Mail

The Art of Game Mastering

taogm-l@wizards.com. send "subscribe taogm-l <yourname>" in the body to listserv@wizards.com.

Game Masters interest group

gmast-l@utcvm.utc.edu. send "subscribe gmast-l <yourname>" in the body to listserv@utcvm.utc.edu.

world design digest

world-design-digest@hops.wharton.upenn.edu. send "subscribe world-design-digest <youremail>" in the body to majordomo@hops.wharton.upenn.edu.

Tools for RPGs

By its very nature, roleplaying games are a lot of work for the creative person who is running these games. There are quite a few sets of tools out there that many GMs can find for the purpose of simplifying their lives and making the running of various games that much easier. This section covers just a few of the tools that are available to GamesMasters.

One of the nicest sets of utilities that I've discovered out there for roleplaying games is made by Logicrucible, Inc.. While they are constantly developing new products, they have come up with the Astrologicus Galaxy Simulator and the Terralogicus World Simulator. They are currently in the process of designing their City Simulator, and a lot of us out here are looking forward to this one.

In the meantime, if you come across any new links that might be of interest to me, or find any errors or corrections to be made to the links on this page, please send me e-mail.