Role-Playing Resources
Player Creation
- Guide to Character Personality and Background, by Ash. A clear and simple step-by-step guide to developing a character's personality. In the end, you have a sort of role-playing character sheet that you can bring to a game as a reference.
- Personal Code: A character
personality questionnaire by Alesia Chamness.
- The Mother of all Character Questionnaires:
A huge list of questions that will help you create a character, from Role-playing
Tips.
- Character Backgrounds: Another
useful character questionnaire, from hurva.org.
- Character Sheet: 3E Wizard: A
super-dense, three-page D&D 3E character sheet in MS-Word format
especially for wizards, by me. Includes
standard 0th level spells and a polymorph section. The most confusing parts
have been filled in with example values.
- Character Sheet: 3E Finesse Fighter: A
super-dense, one-page D&D 3E character sheet in MS-Word format
especially for finesse fighters, by me.
This can be used for any non-casting class, but the armor section is reduced
for finesse fighters. The most confusing parts have been filled in with
example values.
- Character Sheet: 2E: A
super-dense, super-ugly AD&D 2E character sheet in RTF format, by me.
World Creation
Stuff, Things and Whatnot
- Lots of Items: A big list of
items that might be bought in an AD&D game, compiled from many
sources by Vortac.
- Dragon Lady's Open Air Bazaar:
Another extensive list of items that might be bought in an
AD&D game, compiled from many sources by Dragon Lady.
- Net Book
of Poisons: A nice list of poisons, their effects, and how
they're used.
- Net Book
of Herbs: A long list of real and fantasy herbs and their
uses, by Shaun Hately.
Additional Rules
- The Normal Person: I got tired of the idea
that the king's master chef also had to be able to take on half an army
single-handed, so I wrote up this new set of rules for NPCs (revised
August 2007).
- The Psionics Handbook v1.01: Having
never seen the official Psionics Handbook, I
wrote this up in 1995-96. Comments are welcome.
- Abstract Magic System: An
interesting magic system by Michelle Bottorff, where have a
limited amount of magical energy with which you can try to create
any effect you want. Michelle was a regular poster to the FidoNet
AD&D echo.
- Magical Combat: An interesting idea on making
mages more 'magical' in the way they fight. By Bard
Valerian.
Fun Stuff
- Dice Games: Various gambling games
for various AD&D races, by Desmond Reid.
- Trolls
and Humor: Funny stuff, collected from rec.games.frp.dnd.
- Torture Story: This is a
game-segment written up by a poster to rec.games.frp.dnd. It is
truly the best-written torture scenario I have ever seen.
- Creative Spell Use: Creative
uses for spells, from posters to rec.games.frp.dnd
- Dragon For Sale: A humorous thread on
rec.games.frp.dnd started by me.
- I Refuse to Respond: A silly thread by myself
and others.
Money
Miscellaneous
- Measurements: A fairly complete
list of British units, compiled by me.
- More Measurements: A fairly
complete list of Swedish (?) measurements, compiled by Jonas
Eckerman
- Armory Costs: How much does an armory
cost? Compiled by me from posts on rec.games.frp.dnd.
- Learning Medieval: Sixty-two
tips by Jason Kuznicki on
things you can do to teach yourself more about running a good
campaign. They generally consist of things that will help you
experience aspects of the middle ages. Taken from rec.games.frp.dnd.
- Medieval Demographics: Medieval
Demographics Made Easy, an article by S. John Ross. (latest
version).
- Farming: Some useful (but very sparse)
notes on medieval farming, compiled by me from various
posts on rec.games.frp.dnd.
- Iron Swords: What's the difference
between iron, cold iron and cast iron? This will tell you.
Compiled by me from posts on rec.games.frp.dnd.
- Apprentices: An Idea for Wizard
Apprentices by J. Hawke.
- Cold Weather: Considerations for
adventuring in cold weather. Formatted and edited by me, from a rec.games.frp.dnd post by an unknown poster.
- Agriculture and Living Space:
Compiled by me from a thread on rec.games.frp.dnd.
- Farming and Weather: A useful
rec.games.frp.dnd thread on farming, written primarily by Peter
Newman.
- Miscellaneous Ideas: A bunch of
stuff I've collected, but have not yet sorted into nice files, including
level drain, level limits, living magic, NPC creation, realm defense, taxes,
torture and traps.
- Mass Combat: A system of rules for mass
combat, by The Sigil.
- Continual Spin: A new spell for tinkers
who aren't thrilled with the way physics worked out. By Drew Id.
DM Stuff
Links to External AD&D Resources
Essentials
- Wizards of the Coast: The creators of the
D&D role-playing game.
- The 3.5E SRD:
The System Resource Document for 3.5th edition D&D. WotC publishes a
free version of the Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster
Manual, Epic Handbook and Psionics Handbook. I recommend buying the books
anyway, but this is a great resource.
- The Hypertext SRD: A very-well
organized version of the SRD.
- Another
Nice SRD: Another nice SRD with a menuing system.
- The 3.0E SRD:
The System Resource Document for 3rd edition D&D.
- Wizards D&D
Boards: A great resource for players of D&D 3.5E.
- Wizards D&D
Boards: A great resource for players of D&D version 4.
- Wizards d20
Boards: d20 System Boards hosted by Wizards of the Coast.
Useful Stuff for Game Creation
Role-Playing
RPG Fiction, and Private Campaigns with a Prose Focus
Private RPG Campaigns
- Tangent AD&D Home Page: Home
of a game in which Eli was briefly a player.
- Kismet's
D&D: A campaign by Patricia Willenborg. Includes articles on D&D
and lots of other interesting stuff.
Fantasy Art
Humor
Miscellaneous Resources
- The Unofficial FidoNet AD&D Site:
Complete with the Great FidoNet Compendium, a collection of
classes, monsters, spells, magic items and whatnot else created by
the FidoNet community. I'm editor of the compendium and owner of the site.
- Roleplaying Tips: A free
online weekly magazine about roleplaying.
- Macray's Keep: A
complete gaming environment. Very well-designed site, with message
groups, private mail and chat.
- The
Great Net Campaign project: They're trying to make a communal
campaign. I figured the least I could do was link to them.
- WebRPG: A huge online
resource for gamers.
- A
whole bunch of random AD&D stuff, including worlds,
character sketches and humor.
- Some
AD&D net-novels
- A Boke of Gode
Cookery: James Matterer's collection of medieval recipes which he has
translated and adapted for the modern cook.
- The Dungeon at druidic.net: A
collection of interesting spells, feats, races and other D&D stuff. This
site also hosts the Great FidoNet Compendium and other FidoNet
D&D information.
Is D&D evil?
Personal pages
- Anthologia Dementis,
a page by one of the players in my D&D campaign, with a bunch of short stories.
- Role
Playing Games, a page by one of the players in my D&D campaign, with
descriptions and links for a bunch of games in which he is involved.
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