Roleplaying link roundup
Gleaned from internet wanderings after a week of absence (largely from r/rpg), to get these links out of tabs and into storage:
- Apps for playing music and sound effects during tabletop play
- Archive of free 3.5 ED adventures, including an officially updated Tomb of Horrors and White Plume Mountain
- Wandering Friendly Dungeon Encounters, a d12 list
- Grog of Substantial Whimsy – roll d1000 for random, hilarious effect(s)
- Map Fu – tips on rendering better hand-drawn dungeon maps
- A brilliant mapmaking tutorial, for giving hand-drawn continents a professional look
- An informative video that explains how most polyhedral dice are (poorly) made
- Medieval occupations – a list of jobs in a medieval city to liven the NPCs in your campaign
- An AMA with fantasy author R.A. Salvatore
- Some positive impressions from early playtesting of the new D&D
- An illustration that captures the spirit of roleplaying
- Gaming paper, a cheap alternative to hex/grid mats
- Masterplan adventure planning software tool
- A list of potential adventure hooks
- How do you start writing a campaign?
- The Unity of Rings, the “lost” Planescape online comic book – introduces the setting and cosmology of Planescape
- Third edition D&D Manual of the Planes addenda, Modrons and the World Serpent Inn
- Blog post highlights from 2010 at The Alexandrian
