Useful Links

This page contains links to useful RPG resources.

Character Sheets
Character sheets for various RPGs.

• • 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.
• D&D Cost of living expenses – also contains costs of food, etc.

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.
• 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.

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).

• Tides of Change Facebook Group – online FFG Star Wars community.

• 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.