Resources For Every GM: Internet Part 6

Hey everyone! I hadn't planned on doing another set of internet resources, but when I was perusing the internet the other day I managed to find a couple of things that I needed to share. So, without much preamble, are three more cool resources I found just this week!


The Same Page Tool (Deeper In The Game): This is a tool which good help out a lot of groups and concerns a topic that comes up pretty regularly within the community. The problem many groups run into is the type of game they are playing versus what they want to play and who is ok with what. What it comes down to, is everyone on the same page.  To a point things are flexible, especially long term groups, but even those can get mired down in unfulfilled expectations. The tool is much more of a guideline questionnaire. It is not something that everyone should fill out, nor is it something that the GM should decide upon himself. The tool seems best use as a group and addressing what a campaign is going to be like. Or, more appropriately, what the game / system is going to expect from you, as some of them are made for certain styles of play. All in all, this tool directly addresses questions about what will be happening that don't usually get asked so explicitly. Given the article itself, I will be absolutely sure to check out more of the site!


Learn Tabletop RPGs: I have only started diving into what is available on this site, but I already love it. From what I have seen, I think I can share enough to get you to check it out yourselves. First off is a page similar to the article from Deeper in the Game called Level Up. Where the goal of the former was to address the expectations of the game system or campaign style, this page focused on making a great game by balancing the desires of everyone at the table. In many ways, this is the opposite of what the last article about, but it is just the other side of the coin. In fact, they link you to the tool to get started and make sure everyone knows what the game is before players get involved. It goes further to discuss player agendas, rules complexities, and provide a great number of useful links. If that isn't enough to get you to visit, they also have a list that currently sits at 54 table top RPGs. Each one includes a brief overview, some reasons it stands out, and links to communities and places to buy them. The site is fantastic for exploring new games, if nothing else!


Who The Fuck Is My Character: Someone linked this on Twitter recently and I instantly fell in love. A simple random generator, that provides you with an idea for making a character. Load the page and you get a random character with race, class, and history. It is obvious this is designed for D&D, but the potential inspiration is endless. Here is just an example of what you may see: I'm going to roll the stats for a fucking...frank half-orc fighter from a sheltered upbringing who just wants their money back.  Go on, give it a try!

Resources For Every GM: Internet Part 5

Hello everyone, today I have three more resources from across the internet!  There is so much online, that it can be difficult to even track what you are using.  The resources I want to share with you today are some of the ones I have found more recently and immediately bookmarked.  Inspiration, ideas, stats, and more can be found within the pages of these sites!


Mithril & Mages:  I first happened upon this site when I clicked on a link that led me to their treasure generator page.  The tool allows you to generate the coins carried by enemies, as level appropriate, for your party to loot.  Add on top of that the ability to generate a level-appropriate hoard of gold and items and you have a great utility for running D&D games.  That is why I bookmarked the page, but in addition to that they offer quite a bit.  There are name generators like those for motels, businesses, natural terrain, and taverns.  You can also find a dice roller, job title generator, esoteric creature generator, and a bare bones adventure idea generator.  All of these tools can be useful, and while some are edition / game specific there are more than enough that are not to add this to your growing list of bookmarks.


RandomGen:  There is one major reason I am including this in resources you need, but I will get to that.  Among the other things created by Orteil, this site features a number of random generators and help in making your own as well.  Included in these generators are things like a name generator, a creature generator, and a dungeon loot generator.  What is great about these is that they are absolutely not really set with anything particular in mind (at least system-wise).  The things generated have lists or descriptions and occasionally make little sense, but they are full of ideas from which to draw if you are having a lot of trouble coming up with something.  Do take care with the insult generator.  That one is definitely rated R and should only be used if nasty verbage and word use doesn't offend you.  It is, of course, called an insult generator for a reason.  The main reason I have this page bookmarked though, is the unique fantasy generator that led me to the site: the random kobold generator.  Like I said, you can get help and make your own generator here, and someone did so for kobolds.  I included the link because it is fantastic.  If you want to feature kobolds heavily in your game and like having unique indivduals even for low level characters bookmark that generator!


A Point Of Inspiration:  I found some of this site's authors' work in the 5E Homebrew Tumblr.  Luckily I followed the sources back to their main site, because they have some great stuff.  As of right now the only download is the Grimm Dark, but it is a 44  page quality piece of work.  If they had their own art to use, they could certainly get great backing and support on these projects to put up on places like DriveThru RPG or even print editions.  I would certainly pay for a print edition.  They are currently working on their second book and have a number of ideas for down the line.  I have not yet joined their Facebook page, but certainly plan on it, and you need to go download the Grimm Dark.  Not only is it free, but it is one of the best faerie / faerie tale resources I have seen and it is for 5th Edition D&D, though it is not specified to any one setting.