Tabletop Role-Playing Game Resources
Compiled 2022-09-16 / Verified 2024-01-02
I’ve been an RPG enthusiast for 30+ years, and after a long hiatus, I’ve been lucky enough to spend the past few years playing (and running) regular games. Thanks to the explosion of content from the OSR (a “play style movement” inspired by the early days of RPGs), there are a number of great, free resources for starting and running campaigns.
Below are links to some of the sites I’ve been using for my own games, compiled as of September 17, 2022. The links were last updated and verified on January 02, 2024.
Links
- DnD Speak - Excellent collection of tools, tables, and lists to inspire your games.
- Dyson’s Dodecahedron - Some of the best maps on the interwebs.
- Fantasy Name Generators - An endless variety of names for all kinds of things.
- The Frugal GM - Tons of free gaming resources.
- A Knight at the Opera - “OSR Gaming for Tools & Reviews for GMs”.
- Kosmic Dungeon - An excellent collection of free maps.
- Old-School Essentials System Reference Document - Like classic D&D, but easier to read, and available for free.
- tenfootpole.org - Lots and lots of module reviews.
- Traverse Fantasy’s Keystones - A linked timeline of the original blog and forum posts that inspired of the OSR movement(s).