Role Playing Game Resources
Role Playing Game Resources
Welcome to Geekerati Media’s Roleplaying Game Resources Page. The table top role playing game hobby is filled with creative and talented designers providing resources for games, living and dead. This page is dedicated to sharing some of these resources with Geekerati readers and the great thing is that a lot of these resources are FREE.
I will be updating this page on a regular basis and if you would like me to include your blog or website here as a resource, I would be honored to do so. Every link on this page is either to a free resource or a small independent self-published game company.
Game Master Links
Watabou’s Medieval Fantasy City Generator — This is an amazing resource for designing maps for fantasy cities. Watabou has a remarkable collection of game master mapping resources.
Goblin Punch — “The Goblin Laws of Gaming.”
Gameplaywright — Jeff Tidball and Will Hindmarch’s site dedicated to game design and game mastery advice.
General Gaming
Free Titles on DriveThruRPG — The Largest PDF Game Store on the Internet
Heroquest Links
Ye Olde Inn — Resource for the Heroquest Board Game
Independent Game Companies
Ganesha Games — Makers of Song of Blades and Heroes and much more.
Pacesetter Games — The Publishers of the BX Role Playing Game and adventures compatible with Moldvay/Cook, 5th Edition, and Old School Essentials games.
Appendix N — Publishers of Printed Versions of some Old School Essentials products.
Super Hero RPG Links
Red October — The Original Champions RPG BBS
The V&V Emporium — A wonderful resource for Villains & Vigilantes house rules that adds great depth to one of the best superhero role playing games ever designed.
Steve Kenson’s Marvel SAGA Resources — Steve Kenson is one of the most influential designers of super hero role playing games in hobby history. His talented design hand has been involved with many excellent role playing games including the Marvel SAGA role playing game. This page includes resources he designed for that game.
Free Resources for Older Versions of D&D
Threshold — The Online Source for Mystara (D&D Known World) Support
Bruce Heard’s Calidar Webpage — Heard was author of the Chronicles of the Princess Ark.
Gary Gygax’s House Rules for Original D&D — This is the original link to the collected Gygax House Rules that was posted on the Original D&D Discussion Proboards. I highly recommend becoming a member. These rules were also featured on Cyclopeatron and Robert Fisher’s old Infogami page and his CX page.
Zenopus Archives — A website dedicated to exploring Holmes Basic D&D and other early versions of D&D. Includes rules variants and adventures.
OED Games — The creator of Original Edition Delta, a system of streamlined house rules for Original D&D.
Philotomy’s OD&D Musings — Before there was the modern OSR, there was a vibrant community playing OD&D and Philotomy’s Musings was an invaluable resource for all of us.
Grey-Elf’s page dedicated to older versions of D&D, including some very interesting alternate rules sets.
Free Independent Role Playing Games
One Seven Designs — This is John Harper’s Role Playing Game studio webpage. It includes links for free games like Lasers and Feelings and Blades in the Dark. These games have broad licenses for fan and independent publishers.
Lasers and Feelings Hacks for a Variety of Genres — Lasers and Feelings is
Dragon Warriors Resources
The Cobwebbed Forest provides free adventures and sourcebooks for the Dragon Warriors Role Playing Game.
Barbarian Prince Resources
Barbarian Prince Group on Facebook
Barbarian Prince 42nd Anniversary Edition (Brent’s update of Simon Cogan’s 40th Anniversary Edition")
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3104181/42nd-anniversary-edition
YouTube Channels
Dungeon Craft — The Home of Professor Dungeon Master. I like his channel best when he provides actual gaming advice and less when he focuses on the scandal of the week.
Geekerati Media’s YouTube Channel — From time to time, and more frequently in recent times, I post videos about a wide variety of topics including role playing game reviews.
Classic Video Game Links
