This page contains links to useful RPG resources.
Character Sheets
Character sheets for various RPGs.
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- D&D 5E Character sheet/creator
- Fate Accelerated – form fillable sheet.
- Fate Core
D&D 5E Links
Some links I’ve found useful whilst running D&D 5E:
- 5 Minute Workday – some great additional backgrounds, etc.
- Character sheet/creator
- Donjon – great page containing numerous random generators.
Dice Rollers
For those situations where you’re either playing online or just don’t want to carry a massive bag of dice with you to the game.
- Dicestream – A good general all round dice roller with imagery designed by Alex Guillotte.
- Fate roller – G Hangout dice roller for Fate.
- Fate Dice Roller by Altegore – A nifty java-based dice rolling program.
Fate Hacks
Various hacks and files written for the Fate RPG system.
(Please note: I do not know who the authors are for some of these files, this is not intended to be a challenge to their creative contributions).
- Avatar inspired extras for Fate
- Fate magic ideas based on D&D 4E
- Fate of Sigmar – Warhammer Fantasy Hack (written by Sune Nødskou)
- Jade-xalted – Converting Jadepunk to run the Exalted setting (written by Red Dice Diaries)
- Rogue Trader Fate Hack (written by Red Dice Diaries)
- Spirits of Steam & Sorcery – Castle Falkenstein conversion
- Star Trek Fate (written by Aaron M. Sturgill)
- Star Wars Fate Edition (written by Ryan M. Danks)
- Fate Accelerated Star Wars (written by Red Dice Diaries)
- Fate Core Star Wars (written by Red Dice Diaries)
Free Games
RPGs that are available freely (and legally) online:
- AJ Pickett’s D4 System – A simple, free minimalistic system (written by AJ Pickett).
- DBJ’s Rules-lite System – A great simple system melding ideas from Numenera and Aspect only Fate.
- Delving Deeper – A great, simple retro-clone modelling the original D&D.
- Zweihander – A grim and dark fantasy RPG.
Image Editing
Tools useful for manipulating graphics.
- Free Online Image Editor – an excellent free program that has a lot of useful tools including the ability to create animated GIFs and save pictures as PNGs with transparencies.
- Token Stamp 2 – A great online utility for making tokens to use with VTTs.
Inspiration
Pages that can provide inspiration for players and GMs.
- British Pathé – this youtube channel compiles archive footage from the days when news reels were broadcast at the cinema, some very interesting stuff.
- Gypsy magic, old names for herbs – an A-Z list containing additional names for herbs.
- Yokai.com – a bestiary of Japanese monsters and spirits.
Map Making and World Building
- 200 Map Photoshop Brushes Free Download – some excellent Photoshop brushes for maps and terrain.
- Fantastic Maps – a great site with lots of useful tutorials and advice for map-making.
Random Generators
Pages containing random generators for the time-pushed GM.
- Donjon – great page containing numerous random generators.
Star Wars Links
Links for use with Star Wars RPGs (mostly the FFG version).
- StarWordz.com Intro crawl creator – A website for making star wars intro crawls.
- Bruno Orlandi’s Intro crawl creator – Another very good website for making intro crawls.
- StarWars.com Intro crawl creator – A very easy to use crawl creator.
- EoE dice roller – G Hangout dice roller/toolset for FFG Edge of Empire (and other StarWars) games.
- CJ Hookers QA Dice roller – excellent hangout dice-roller for FFG Star Wars games.
- Online EoE dice roller – An entirely web-based EoE dice roller (useful if you’re running a game on Skype or something similar).
- Another Online EotE dice roller – A web-based dice roller, very quick and easy to read.
- Peter Thompson’s EotE NPC Generator – a useful random NPC generator for FFG Star Wars games, can output in XML format for use in Oggdudes EotE character generator.
- Begging for XP’s Star Wars talent sheets
- Edge of Empire – form fillable sheet.
- D6 Holocron – an excellent resource for WEG D6 Star Wars.
- Fan Created Stats for various beasts and monsters in FFG Star Wars.
- Oggdudes EotE Character Generator – character generation aid for FFG Edge of Empire game.
- Star Wars Art on Deviantart – user account SW-Artist-Guild.
- Star Wars Character Art on Pinterest – pinned by user Matt Graupmann.
- Star Wars Character Art on Pinterest – pinned by user Patrick Walker, has a lot of the SAGA Edition character art (that I’m a big fan of) on here.
- Star Wars Galaxy Map – a zoomable map of the Star Wars galaxy.
- Wookiepedia – great source of info on all things Star Wars.
Traveller Links