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Weapons of the Gods

The Bomb, a post-apocalypse fantasy RPG, using the Big Eyes, Small Mouth 2nd Edition system.

Bloodsuckers, my variant Vampire game based on Near Dark. Play a bloodsucker without all the angst!

Damage Systems

DUDE, my one-stat RPG

Freeform Campaigns

FUDGE

June 1995 rules, zipped plain text file

June 1995 rules, zipped PDF and postscript

July 1993 rules, zipped PDF and postscript

GameScroll, a program to create and play choose-your-own-adventure and solo RPG gamebooks.

G.P.A., my roleplaying game of a university campus on the edge of reality.

Hero System

House Rules

Fantasy Hero Magic System

off-site Hero resources

The Judge: my term for the person who runs an RPG

Kult Compatibility Quiz

Metaplots

Modar's Poisons List

New GM Help

NUELOW, by Steve "The One To Blame" Miller - now in beautiful full-color HTML!

Orcs

Palladium Resources

Phobos, my Role-Playing Game of the Wonders and Terrors of Technology and Magic

Post-Apocalypse Plots

Role-Playing Classifications - a taxonomy of role-playing systems.

SIX WORD RPG!

Spaceship Zero

Star Frontiers

Waste World Resources

Why I Hate Your Metaplot

The Window Resources

What's Wrong With AD&D?

Game Reviews

My reviews appear regularly in the Serendipity's Circle fanzine of horror and weird fantasy! Subscribe today!

Cyberpunk RPG Systems Rant

Deadlands Review & Information

Gamma World (Sword & Sorcery)

Heaven & Earth

Morpheus "The Roleplaying System Of The Mind's Eye"

Shadow Bindings

SLA Industries

Undiscovered

Violence: the RPG of egregious and repulsive bloodshed

Waste World

Role-Playing Games

A

Agent X - modern espionage

Albedo

Alemaron - hypnotic gaming?

All Flesh Must Be Eaten

McGuffin Group playtest

Brains 4 Zombies

Alternate Realities - a mathematically complex object-oriented free RPG. I'm not sure if it's a joke or not.

mirror site

Ars Magica

Project Redcap

B

The Babylon Project RPG

Damion Mage's TBP page (VERY cool site, even if it is a maze of twisty frames)

The Babylon Project Zone

Battlelords of the 23rd Century

Big Eyes Small Mouth

Blackmoor, Dave Arneson's classic fantasy campaign, one of the worst web pages I've ever seen.

Blackmoor: Home of the Ancients - excellent fan page aobut Blackmoor

Blood of Heroes, the Game System Formerly Known As DC Heroes

Bunnies & Burrows

The Hazelford Warren

GURPS Bunnies & Burrows (I advise you to only use it as a sourcebook)

What Every Bunny Should Know

C

Call of Cthulhu

Cinis, free Dark Fantasy RPG

Conspiracy X

CORPS

D

Dark Conspiracy - back from the dead, as it were

Demonground zine

deadEarth - a free post-holocaust RPG

Deadlands: the Weird West RPG

Discworld

L-Space - more information than you would ever want to know about Terry Pratchett's books

Dominion Rules, open-source RPG

Dr.Who, the RPG

DragonNet freeware volunteer RPG project (presumed dead)

DragonNet Resource Page

DragonRaid, the christian evangelism RPG

The Drones "Hey nonny nonny, and a hot-cha-cha!"

Dying

E

Epix, le systéme de jeu universel

F

Feng Shui

Foresight

Forgotten Futures

FUDGE, by Steffan O'Sullivan, published by Grey Ghost Press, Inc.

Steffan O'Sullivan's FUDGE page

FUDGE in HTML

FUDGE mailing list FAQ

The PSC gaming club's FUDGE page a FUDGE superheroes campaign

FUDGE: Deryni

Domibia, a non-derivative fantasy world, in GURPS and FUDGE stats

Fuzion

Fuzion Jazz (simplified, more HERO-like version of Fuzion)

G

Gamma World webring

Gamma World Appreciation

Glorantha

GRAPE - another example, like SLUG and my own SIX WORD RPG!, of the ultimate minimalist RPG.

The Guide To Adventure

H

Haven: City of Violence

Hero Games home page

My local Hero resources

Hero/Champions FAQ

Hero system archive

Robot Warriors in 4th Ed Hero

Gold Rush Games, purveyors of Usagi Yojimbo, Sengoku, and Hero supplements

Dungeon Hero

Hero Pulp

Wasteland Hero (Gamma World conversion)

Red October BBS

Hero Wars - see Glorantha

HOL, Human Occupied Landfill, get it before you hurt somebody.

Stelio's HoL page - adventures, a complete planet guide (Manson IV, the family planet), and campaign notes

Waspinator

landfillplayground

Wastit's The HOL World

The HOL Truth

POUR TANG IN MY SKULL!!!

Welcome to HOL! Now shut up & listen!

HOL, Legless and Pissed

More fun than a cow on laxatives.

I

Interface, David Dunham's cyberpunk campaign

Into the Shadows

Ironclaw: Anthropomorphic Fantasy

J

Skyrealms of Jorune

Talewind's Jorune page

Judge Dredd

K

Kill Puppies For Satan

Kobolds Ate My Baby!

Kult:

Soon to be republished and continued by Seventh Circle Publishing

The Abyss

'Til Death do us Part (campaign log)

The Damnation Chain (adventure)

Kult Geography (find other Kult players)

L

Little Fears

Little Fears company page

Living Legends/Villains & Vigilantes

Legacy: War of Ages, the Highlanderguys-who-never-grow-old-but-run-around-cutting-each-others-heads-off RPG.

Lodoss War RPG

M

Macho Women With Guns

Spice Girls Character Profiles for MWWG. Live in fear.

Marvel Superheroes (original version) (frames hell!)

Mean Streets and Mean Villains: A free '70s police show RPG

Mechanical Dream, steam-tech fantasy in an alien world

Men Like Gods, a transumanist, post-Singularity RPG

Other transhumanist RPGs

Morrow Project

Mystara, the D+D Gazetteer Known World setting

Mythus/Dangerous Journeys - Mythus Masters Magazine

The Mythus Map - FAQ, supplements, and links to other sites

Mike's Mythus page

N

Nephilim

Nicotine Girls, "a roleplaying game of teenage, lower-income girls looking for happiness."

Nightlife, from Stellar Games

NUELOW

O

Once Upon A Time In China

Outlaws of the Water Margin - Heroic Adventure Roleplaying in Legendary China

Oroborus

Outsiders: Steeltown

Over The Edge/Atlas Games

P

Palladium Books:

All Palladium Games

Palladium Mailing List

Mad Dog's Palladium Files (nice character sheets, among other things)

Palladium Resources

Breezer's Palladium Site

Top Palladium Sites

Shawn Merrow's

Revised skill list

Rifts: Boo-Boo Sourcebook One

Kitsune's Palladium Page - Mutants in Orbit vehicles and other stuff

Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game

Palladium Fantasy Webring

Fantasy RPG

The Great Northern Wilderness - resources for PFRPG (the links are the little boxes with crosses on them)

Empires PFRPG Archive

"SDC": Heroes Unlimited, Nightbane, Beyond the Supernatural, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

SDC Webring - sites about the lower-powered modern Palladium games

Beyond The Supernatural

Necromancer Bob's Nightbane Page

Nightspawn

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Nightbane stories

Rifts-based stuff

Wormwood Netbook

Paranoia Web Ring

Plain English RPG, a very simple freeform system, and the "Pumpkin Town" setting, where every day is Halloween.

Providence, high fantasy superheroics

Pulp Era

Puppetland, a free storytelling RPG

Purgatory - angels & demons & guys with strange powers, on the trashy highways and seedy neighborhoods of America.

Q

Quest (free, exhaustive, detailed fantasy game)

Quest FAQ

R

Iron Crown Enterprises

Rolemaster Webring

Vesanto's House of Rules (and lots of essays)

The Felix Cafe SpaceMaster Page

Madmike's Spacemaster Campaign

Spacemaster Campaign Links

funet systems/spacemaster

Dark Space

Rolemaster

Runebearer - post-holocaust fantasy rules and Bostonia setting

Runequest - see Glorantha

S

Santas Soldiers: A Christmas RPG

Sengoku, roleplaying in samurai action movies

Official Sengoku FAQ

Unffocial Sengoku Q&A

7th Sea

7th Sea mailing lists

FASA's Shadowrun

FASA's official 3rd Ed errata sheet

Shadowrun Web Ring

The Shadowrun Archive

Deep Resonance/shadowrun.html.com - host to a bunch of Shadowrun sites

Neo-Anarchist's Guide To Everything Else

ShadowFAQ

Blackjack's Shadowrun Page "Send runners, guns, and money... the shit has hit the fan"

Deep Resonance - Paulo's archive, the Shadowrun Supplemental, and more.

El Bandit's SR archive (top ten lists and stupid player tricks, among more serious things)

Twilightrun

Studies of War & Oppression

Irony.com Shadowrun die roller

Sherpa - an RPG that can be played while hiking or doing other activities

SLA Industries by Nightfall Games

Cognate webring

tHE bIG pICTURE fanzine

White Light, White Heat fanzine (read through the fanzine, then go back to the directory and get the rest of the "haven't visited" files)

SLUG, an absolute minimum RPG system.

Sorcerer

SORD

Fantasy sourcebook

Sovereign Stone - the core is a nifty fantasy RPG, but get the (free!) quickstart rules and then wait for the hardcover edition, the initial softcover print is severely flawed.

Justin Bacon's RPGnet review of the Sovereign Stone quickstart rules

Justin Bacon's RPGnet review of the Sovereign Stone softcover

Space: 1889, science fiction roleplaying in a more civilized age.

The Heliograph

The Tony Jones Space: 1889 Page

Chris Jones Space: 1889 Page

Space/Hero 1889

Sphere Web - free RPG

Star Wars:

Michael Bennett's SW page

Star Wars Hub (blueprints, etc.)

Stuper Powers!: the first-class role-playing game for third-rate heroes

Superteens: What if all teenagers had super-powers... Terrifying!

T

Thunderscape, a rules-light SF/combat RPG

Timecube RPG, adventuring in the world of TIMECUBE.COM

TORG: Roleplaying the Possibility Wars

Nishio's TORG site (very old but good info)

Traveller

Classic Traveller Reprints from Far Future Enterprises

Traveller: The Silly Era

Imperium Games

Galactic sector viewer

Aeon/Trinity

Aeon Society fan site

Trinity Comic

Nikolaj's Trinity and Aberrant page

Tunnels & Trolls

The Blue Frog Tavern (message board)

Delvers' Gazette

The Hobbit Hole zine

U

Ray Winninger's Underground: It's 2021, and the dream is dead.

Unknown Armies

V

Valence 592

Villains & Vigilantes/Living Legends

W

War of the Worlds

Warlock: Black Spiral

Waste World, an over-the-top anime-style post-holocaust like-Gamma-World-on-speed RPG.

C.J. Carella's Witchcraft

The Window, a free freeform RPG (with a very nice web page)

My Window Resources

Wuthering Heights

X

X advanced RPG system - open-source, "elegant" roleplaying as conceived by a self-professed physics geek.

Y

You Stupid Bitch!, the (free) parody RPG of marriage. As the child of a divorce myself, it looks pretty realistic, but maybe I'm just bitter.

Ysgarth

Ysgarth 20th Anniversary Edition

Z

Zorro Adventure Games

Board Games

The Awful Green Things From Outer Space

Steffan O'Sullivan's review & summary

Car Wars

Seattle Washington Autoduel Team (SWAT)

Boneheadz Command Center

Cheapass Games

Chess variants

Chivalrous Attrition: A knights-only chess variant for 2-4 players

Cosmic Encounters

HeroQuest

Magic: the Gathering, by Wizards of the Coast

Mike's Multiplayer Magic variant

MicroTactix Games (free online games!)

Renegade Legion

Vortex RL page

Risk

RoboRally

Starfire

Axly's Starfire Utils

Star Fleet Battles

Titan

Warp War, a groovy (and free!) SF boardgame

Game Designers and Other People

Aaron Allston

Dave Arneson

Greg Costikyan

Deadlock's gaming page

Jeff Dee, author of Villains & Vigilantes and Living Legends

Gary Gygax

Sean Reynolds

S.John Ross's Blue Room (but there's no sweaty muppet sex there!)

The Stainless Steel Rat's home page

John Tynes, perpetrator of:

Puppetland

Power Kill

conspirator in Unknown Armies

Be sure to read Fear and Loathing in the Wizards of the Coast Game Center. Yes, it's an accurate description of the WotCGC - I live just a few blocks away from it.

David West aka David Lightfinger, Hero system contributor

Tom Wham

Corporations

Atlas Games

Biohazard Games

Black Gate Publishing

BTRC

Chaosium

Cheapass Games

Clockworks Games, publishers of Asylum and Spookshow

Eden Studios, publishers of Conspiracy X, Witchcraft, Armageddon, and All Flesh Must Be Eaten

Flying Buffalo

Fractal Dimensions

Gold Rush Games

Grey Ghost Press, Inc., publishers of FUDGE

Guardians of Order

Hero Games home page

Iron Crown Enterprises

Irony Games

Judges Guild

Mayfair Games

Metropolis/Kult Official WWW Page

Nightfall Games

54°40' Orphyte, Inc. - selling the old Pacesetter games (Star Ace, Chill, Time Master, Wabbit Wampage, Sandman, etc.)

Pinnacle Entertainment Group

Palladium Books

Pulsar Games

R.Talsorian

Ragnarok Press

Stellar Games, makers of Nightlife and It Came From the Late, Late, Late Show

Tri Tac Games

West End Games

White Wolf - publishers of Aeon/Trinity

Wireframe Productions, Inc.

Archives & Indices

World of Xenthenia - reviews and fantasy media. However, the color scheme, animated gifs, frames, and popup windows with fixed sizes made me mildly nauseus...

Purple Dragon - index of roleplaying games and manufacturers

New World Games (tons of free games!)

Free RPG Webring

surge's RPG archive and WWW references

Woodelf's RPG index

Uncle Bear Online Imagination's Toybox

Mozilla Open Directory: Roleplaying

Pulp RPGs

ftp.funet.fi gaming archive

Gargoyle's FantasyLand and Tulsa2020

GEAS village "Europe's most popular Roleplaying Web site?"

GMAST-L mailing list archive

Negative Space

Radio Joe's List of Free RPGs and Settings

The Roleplayer's Guide

RPGnet

SF RPG Zone

Yahoo

Magazines

Critical Miss: The Magazine for Dysfunctional Roleplayers

Cyberpunk Contraband

Death Cookie

Dwarven Tavern

Ex Libris Nocturnis - a White Wolf/Storyteller fanzine

Fantasy News Network

Games Unplugged

Guild Companion

Imazine, by Paul Mason

The Orb

Out of the Box, by Ken Hite

Places To Go, People To Be

Serendipity's Circle, my gaming group

WebRPG magazine

Meta-Gaming

Fantasy Role-Playing Gamer's Bible: History of Gaming

AD&D - The Game of Satan

Designing Your Team - the Scooby Way!

North American Gaming Club List

The Pulling Report by Mike Stackpole (refutation of Pat Pulling & BADD)

Eclipse's Gaming .sig Quotes

Women In Gaming

Humor

Something Positive: Aubrey's Guide to Con Hygiene

How to wash, shower, bathe, use soap and deodorant, etc. for convention nerds. PLEASE READ.

When I was a young sprout of a gamer, the first thing you read in each new Dragon was the comics pages at the back, because they had What's New (by Phil Foglio) and Wormy (by Dave Trampier), two of the greatest comic strips ever written.

These days, I read Knights of the Dinner Table, "Dilbert" for RPGs.

Absurd Notions

game reviewing, AN style

Campaign for the Rehabilitation of the Ontologically Challenged

The CLUE Foundation casefiles - true stories of really stupid Shadowrun players.

Dork Tower

Joe Genero archive

Hand Axe - Oh mein Gott! Ich habe eine Axt im Kopf!

Hybrid RPG by C++ If you google for author "C++" or "Hybrid" in rec.games.frp.*, you'll find out what this is about.

"The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters" and other weird stories by Roger M. Wilcox

Pokemon-Danger!, Christian hate-hysteria about Pokemon, D+D, and other "role-playing" games (obligatory atheist humor: Because like all theists, they can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy.)

Real Men, Real Roleplayers, Loonies, and Munchkins

Five Types of Gamers

GameForge: RPG Jokes

Murphy's Rules Comics

More Murphies

Niilo Paasivirta: [Roleplaying] [Satanic Roleplaying]

The Official World Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide (Vampire LARP players use this site a lot)

Shit happens in RPGs

Synnibarr Home Page (the site appears - thankfully - to be down at present)

Synnibarr, what can be said about it? Not the worst game ever made, but DAMNED close. A fetid, nauseating, wretched train-wreck horror of a game, ruining a great premise. Still, you've got to laugh, especially if you read this alleged game.

"I just bought a copy for $10 last night. I thought it was pretty cool, until I started reading it. Eugh... ITS BAD. ITS WORSE THAN I THOUGHT. An excerpt:
"Never wish to be an Immortal or God, or your character will blow up."
I laughed, then I cryed, then my eyeballs bled profusely.
-Prankster God on RPG.net

Serendipity's Circle "hatchet job" review - removed at request of the author. Wouldn't you like to know what it said, that he was so scared by?

RPGnet review

A new RPGnet review!

A fanboy's RPGnet review, and the ensuing flamewar

"D&D sucks, Synnibarr rocks!" - but it's by Niilo Paasivirta, a known hoaxer. You can tell, anyway, because it's coherently-written. And English isn't even his native language!

Emerald Downs

The Mushroom Spires - yeah, we know what he was doing with those mushrooms.

Synnibarr Central

Tiger's Lair

The World of Synnibarr (adventures and broken image links)

xarr's World of Synnibarr

"Top ten new character classes for AD&D I hope to never see" and other stuff

You Might Be A Gamer If...

Maps

   All gamers love maps!

Her Majesty's Ordnance Survey

3-D Starmaps

Astrologicus and Terralogicus

Campaign Cartographer, map-making for windoze (Warning: Lousy frames-hell HTML)

C.J. Cherryh star map viewer

Fitz's Mapping Resources - offset-square and isometric grid paper in pdf format!

Fractal World Map Generator

Jendave Allen's World Builder tools

Maelstrom Fantasy Campaign Setting - billions of maps!

Sarah's Zesty AD&D Emporium and Historical Floorplan Love Spa

U.S. Geological Survey -

I find that real-world topographical maps, 1:250,000 or smaller scale, are the best way to get maps for your fantasy world. In particular, the U.S. Pacific Northwest is really good adventuring terrain, if you just change the town names...

Vesanto's Maps

Utilities for the Overworked GM

The Routine Autopsy

Amazing Verbal Kung Fu Move Generator

fiendish buddha throw!

mongolian goldfish pounce!

dancing monkey elbow!

devastating butterfly contact!

Apocrypha: writings or statements of dubious authenticity

Archetypes Storytelling Cards

Berkeley Online Medieval and Classical Library

Blue Troll's Netbooks

Cathay Arts of Role-Playing

GM Principles

Staats' RPG Articles

GothTech, Programs for gamers

Human Body in a Vacuum - almost every science fiction and sci-fi game gets this wrong (the otherwise excellent Trinity is one of the worst offenders, where they apparently researched it by watching Outland and Red Dwarf). Here's the FACTS. Use them!

Irony Games, On-Web support for gamers

Kargatane - Ravenloft netbooks, *VERY* high quality stuff.

Logicus name synthesizer

Medieval price list

Net.plots books

Onomastikon - name dictionary

Pooh's Gaming Lore

Random name generator

Relativity and FTL Travel - put some science in your science fiction games!

Sanctuary, Maine - a modern supernatural setting

SF-Lovers Digest Resource Guide

Spiritweb - home of supernatural kookery on the Web, great source material for any tabloid or modern supernatural game.

Traps

Undead Remains "On-Ramp to Horror, Body Piercing and Cultural Subversion"

Vesanto's Networlds

Web Dice & online RPG tools

World design, Glorantha, and Runequest

Last modified: 2002Dec01
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