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# Tabletop Roleplaying Resources
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This page is intended to collect useful free resources (be they books, scenarios, apps, or assets) for tabletop roleplaying games and others, in the manner of similar awesome and delightful lists.
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Free in that regard should be free of charge, but ideally also to use on your own.
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I think the situation about AI-generated resources is quite murky in terms of copyright, and I also plain don't like generative AI, so I will try to keep this list human-made only.
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Universal
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#### Safety Tools
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[TTRPG Safety Toolkit](https://ttrpgsafetytoolkit.com/) - free resource making TTRPG safety/support tools easy to approach and use
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[The Same Page Tool (Deeper in the Game)](https://bankuei.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/the-same-page-tool/) - putting all players on the same page, blog entry
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Scenarios
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[One Page Dungeon Contest](https://www.dungeoncontest.com) - Annual Contest asking people to write dungeons, scenarios, et al. stripped down to a single page. Contest Entries are released under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license
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[1shot Adventures](https://1shotadventures.com/adventure-index/) - collection of worked out one-shot adventures for various systems
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[Dyson's Dodehecadron Adventures](https://dysonlogos.blog/maps/adventures/) - worked out adventures (OSR-style) by the mapping master Dyson himself
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* [Challenge of the Frog Idol](https://dysonlogos.blog/2011/06/11/labyrinth-lord-challenge-of-the-frog-idol/) - hex-crawl, award-winning
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* [The Tomb of Durahn Oakenshield](https://dysonlogos.blog/2009/05/26/adventure-the-tomb-of-daruhn-oakenshield/) - one-page dungeon
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* [Dyson's Delve](https://dysonlogos.blog/maps/dysons-delve/) - a mini-mega-dungeon
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[Tomb of the Serpent Kings](https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2017/06/osr-tomb-of-serpent-kings-megapost.html?m=1) - OSR teaching dungeon by skerples
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Background
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[Blackmarsh](https://robertsconley.itch.io/blackmarsh) - sandbox setting inspired by the original fantasy campaign (Blackmoor), released as Creative Commons
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Game Systems
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#### Dungeons and Dragons
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[DnD 3.5 Hypertext SRD](https://www.d20srd.org/index.htm) - released under OGL
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[Dungeons and Dragons 5e SRD](https://www.5esrd.com/) - Released under OGL
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[Dungeons and Dragons 5e 2024 revision](https://www.dndbeyond.com/srd) - Released under ``Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License``
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[PCGen](https://github.com/PCGen/pcgen) ([link](https://github.com/PCGen/pcgen)) - character generator mostly for D&D-like games
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#### Basic Fantasy
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[Basic Fantasy RPG](https://www.basicfantasy.org/) - Retro-system that's not quite OSR, but definitely goes for the vibe. Large amount of community-generated supplements that can be used in other systems, 4th edition released under CC BY-SA, previous under SRD
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#### Iron Falcon
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[Iron Falcon](https://ironfalconrpg.com/) - aims to reproduce the rules of White Box + Supplement I Greyhawk
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#### Fantastic Medieval Campaigns
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[Fantastic Medieval Campaigns](https://traversefantasy.itch.io/fmc) - new version of the original 1974 rules
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#### Talislanta
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[Talislanta](http://talislanta.com/talislanta-library) - the classic Talislanta game has nearly all it's books available free online. Books are nonfree, but setting information is released under a CC license
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#### Eclipse Phase
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[Eclipse Phase 1e](https://giantkiller.itch.io/eclipsephase-1e-archive) - all books of the first edition of the post-cyberpunk RPG Eclipse Phase have been released under a CC license
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#### Cairn
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[Cairn Players' Guide 2nd Edition](https://yochaigal.itch.io/cairn-players-guide) - the Player's Handbook equivalent for Cairn
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[Cairn Wardens' Guide 2nd Edition](https://yochaigal.itch.io/cairn-wardens-guide) - The GM's Handbook equivalent
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[Cairn Website](https://cairnrpg.com/) (also [github](https://github.com/yochaigal/cairn)) - contains all rules texts, released under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license
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[Illustrated Bestiary](https://gourdin-konbo-club.itch.io/illustrated-bestiary) - great illustrations, and stats for various monsters in Cairn, released under CC-BY-SA 4.0
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#### Mausritter
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[Mausritter](https://losing-games.itch.io/mausritter) - you play adventurous mice in a world of giants (humans), based on Into the Odd
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* [Mausritter SRD](https://mausritter.com/srd) - released under CC-BY-4.0
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Mapping
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[Mipui](https://github.com/amishne/mipui) ([website](https://www.mipui.net/)) - free and open-source collaborative web application for creating, editing and viewing grid-based maps for tabletop or role-playing games.
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[gridmapper](https://campaignwiki.org/gridmapper.svg) ([source](https://src.alexschroeder.ch/gridmapper.git/#gridmapper)) - low-resource collaborative mapping application
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[watabou's Procgen Arcana](https://watabou.github.io/index.html#) ([github](https://github.com/watabou/)) - random map generators for cities, dungeons, dwellings, etc.
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* [City Generator](https://watabou.github.io/city-generator/)
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* [Dungeon Generator](https://watabou.github.io/dungeon.html)
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Maps
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[Greyhawk](https://www.annabmeyer.com/) - Anna B. Meyer's impressive work cartographing the Flanaess (the original DnD setting)
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[Atlas of Mystara](https://atlasofmystara.com/) - long-running website detailing the Mystara setting in exhaustive detail
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[Avesmaps](https://avesmaps.de/) - detailed route planner/map app for the main setting of Das Schwarze Auge (The Dark Eye)
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[Travellermap](https://travellermap.com) - exhaustive starmaps of the 3rd Imperium/Known Space setting for Traveller
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[The Galactic Atlas](https://star-map.app/) - Map for the Star Wars universe
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[Seattle 2072](https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1v4rEjVXWWFD3WbKUY8zw1ZJeDAZASMma&usp=sharing) - for Shadowrun
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#### Heraldry
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[Armoria](https://github.com/Azgaar/Armoria) ([link](https://azgaar.github.io/Armoria/)) - Heraldry Generator and Editor
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[Heraldicon](https://github.com/heraldry/heraldicon) ([link](https://heraldicon.org/)) - Heraldry and Flag Generator
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[Drawshield](https://github.com/drawshield/Drawshield-Code) ([link](https://drawshield.net/)) - Heraldry generator, can create from a blazon (standardized description)
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#### Tokens
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[TokenTool](https://github.com/RPTools/TokenTool) ([link](https://www.rptools.net/toolbox/token-tool/)) - simple tool to create tokens for roleplaying games or others
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#### Starships
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[Starship Geomorphs 2.0](https://travellerrpgblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/starship-geomorphs-20.html) - Starship geomorphs for your (Traveller) starship mapping pleasure, released under a CC-Attr-NC license
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* [Geomorph Shipyard](https://ivan.sanchezortega.es/geomorph-shipyard/) ([gitlab](https://gitlab.com/IvanSanchez/geomorph-shipyard))- online program for using the Starship Geomorphs to create ship plans
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#### Whiteboard
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[Excalidraw](https://github.com/excalidraw/) ([link](https://excalidraw.com/)) - free and open source whiteboard tool
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Virtual Table Top
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[MapTool](https://github.com/RPTools/maptool) ([link](https://www.rptools.net/toolbox/maptool/)) - Virtual Tabletop for playing roleplaying games with remote players or face to face, Java-application
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* [5e Framework](https://github.com/rtakehara/5e-Framework) - Framework to play 5e DnD with Maptool
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* [DSA5 Maptool](https://github.com/Lector/DSA5maptool) - Framework for Das Schwarze Auge (The Dark Eye) 5th edition, German
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* [OSRIC 1E Framework](https://github.com/RPG-Nexus-VTT-Database/MT_OSRIC_1E-WhtWulf) - for OSRIC 1st edition
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* [GURPS Framework](https://github.com/RPG-Nexus-VTT-Database/MT_GURPS-unofficial_Winter) - for playing GURPS in MapTool
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* [ADnD 2E Framework](https://github.com/eCyclops/ADnD-2e-Framework) - for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edtion
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* [Call of Cthulhu Framework](https://github.com/RPG-Nexus-VTT-Database/MT_Call_of_Cthulhu-unofficial_brad) - For Call of Cthulhu
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Ambiance
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[Tabletop Audio](https://tabletopaudio.com/) - huge library of soundscapes intended for various genres and styles, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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#### Tokens
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[Forgotten Adventures Free Token Library](https://www.forgotten-adventures.net/tokens-library/) - the free package has a rather large amount of top-down tokens to work with in your VTT. Licensed only for private use, no redistribution.
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#### Battlemaps
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[200 Battlemaps](https://www.patreon.com/AtaraxianBear/posts/collection-of-me-81735334) - freely available battlemaps created by Ataraxian Bear
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Wikis
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[Campaignwiki.org](https://campaignwiki.org/) - Wiki for roleplaying game campaigns and other RPG-related projects
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* [Links To Wisdom](https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/LinksToWisdom/HomePage) - collects cool OSR Houserules
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* [Uplinked Intelligence Wiki](https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/UplinkedIntelligence/HomePage) - collects rules for science fiction RPGs
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* [Adventures Wiki](https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/Adventures/HomePage) - collects OSR adventures
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Social Networks
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[dice.camp](https://dice.camp) - "social network not owned by a billionaire", tabletop rpg focused federated social network (Mastodon)
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[tabletop.social](https://tabletop.social) - inclusive Mastodon community for everything tabletop & more (Mastodon)
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[pnpde.social](https://pnpde.social/) - intended as an inclusive community for roleplaying games (Mastodon).
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Assets
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[Game Icons](https://game-icons.net/) - icons for games
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