Links

Here’s some more stuff you might find helpful:

Demographics/Cities, Kingdoms, etc.

• Town Generator by Jamis Buck. This not only rolls up a town’s name and demographic stats, but it actually creates the entire population!

Dice (Random Rollers)

• Arpeegee. A chatterbot made by me. It’s still got lots of bugs but it’s especially great at rolling ability scores (using a statistically sound method) and naming taverns.
• Irony Games’ Dice Server. Not only rolls the dice, but enables you to email the results.

Help, General

• Dungeon Master Resources, from D&D Adventures. Lots and lots of stuff to make your DMing life easier.

Forums

• Rolldamage.com (no relation!) – Games the old fashion way: dice, paper and pencils! RollDamage.com is devoted to any and every aspect of dice rolling games. Come in and see what all the excitement is about.

Funny Stuff

• An 8-Bit Reenactment of Dungeons and Dragons (YouTube). Inspired by 8-bit Theater, based on the Dungeons and Dragons skit done by The Dead Ale Wives.
• DM of the Rings. Comic by Shamus Young. Imagine taking hack-n-slash players and trying to introduce them to Tolkien via a D&D campaign.
• Eric and the Gazebo. The story of a player who reads a little too much into a description, OR, a reminder to get out a little more often.
• The Evil Overlord List. What I would do differently if I were an evil overlord.
• Goblins. Comic by Tarol Hunt. Life through the eyes of the “monsters”. (Contains some scenes of excessive violence; not for young eyes)
• Order of the Stick. Comic by Rich Berlew. Hilarious adventures and one-liners surrounding a handful of stick-figure PCs.
• RPG Motivational Posters My favorite might be “Communication”.

Maps, Generators

• Random Cave Map Creator.
• Random Dungeon Map Creator.
• Random Wilderness Map Creator.

Maps, Make Your Own

• AutoREALM. A free download program that enables you to make maps of all kinds. This is what I use when I make most of my maps.

Maps, Ready-Made

• Buildings & Structures. 5 Maps including a castle and an inn.
• Cities & Kingdoms. 8 maps of cities and towns.
• Dungeons & Caves. 10 maps including “Lair of Evil” and “Caves of Tamran”.

Names, Lists

• Babynames.com. Just what it sounds like; possibly the biggest baby-naming site out there.
• Medieval Names Archive at the Academy of Saint Gabriel. So you want to be really authentic, huh? This is the site for you.

Names, Name Generators

• Everchanging Book of Names – a downoladable, customizable shareware program for 32-Bit Windows systems.
• Fantasy Name Generator at RinkWorks.
• Random Name Generator at BehindTheName. Choose which elements you want included for tons of possibilities. This is probably my favorite name generator.
• SeventhSanctum Name Generators – Elves, goblins, villains, vampires, and much much more!
• Serendipity – A pile of name generators, made using the source code from SeventhSanctum.
• Yafnag – Yet Another Fantasy NAme Generator.

NPC, generators

• NPC generator (D&D v. 3.5) by Jamis Buck. Need to roll up an angry mob of townspeople? A random party in the dungeon? A gang of thieves? The crew of a ship? This will roll up any number of NPCs, in the class you want, in the level you want, in a matter of seconds!
• NPC generator (D&D v. 3.0) by Jamis Buck. Need to roll up an angry mob of townspeople? A random party in the dungeon? A gang of thieves? The crew of a ship? This will roll up any number of NPCs, in the class you want, in the level you want, in a matter of seconds!

Shopping, Books

Shopping, Dice & Accessories

Shopping, Other Stuff

Tables

• The D&D Helper. I haven’t tried it out, but it looks great!
• Treasure Generator by Jamis Buck – Treasure by encounter level, or by item type. Your call!

Writing/Character Development Tools

• Fantasy Cliché Meter: The Bad Guys. Is your villain too cliché? Take a simple test and see.
• Fantasy Cliché Meter: The Good Guys. Is your hero too cliché? Take a simple test and see.