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Journal Short Circuit's Journal: D&D: Resources 2nd Ed. 12

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Yup, it's D&D-specific today. (Nobody emailed me any links, despite proof Monday that a lot of you play and enjoy (even prefer) other roleplaying systems. If you have them, post them below.)

Periodicals:

3rdedition.org

This is the first online resource I used. They've got a lot of interesting material, covering both the 3.0 and 3.5 editions.

Tome of Trouble

I've mentioned Justin's site in my journal sig for a while. He's got a great once-a-week newsletter, but it looks like his archives page isn't working quite right. He puts out loads of useful material every week. Too bad he doesn't have a forums.

Judges Guild

This was a link emailed to me last week by their webmaster. They've got some very thorough and neat material ranging from AD&D 2nd edition to 3.5. They've recently been resurrected as a web-based publication. Good luck!

Webcomics:

Critical Fumble

One hilarious D&D-oriented webcomic. Click on "archives" and start from the beginning.

If you know of other good humerous D&D webcomics, mention them. :)

8-bit Theater

Hosted by Nuklear Power [sic], 8-bit Theater is a mixture of Final Fantasy I and D&D. It's bit morbid in many of the episodes, but I know at least one 12-year-old who reads it without any adverse side-effects other than wanting to play Jason in the next Friday the 13th sequel. (Just kidding...he's just a bit hyper, is all.) In other words, not suitable for all ages.

Metagaming

A funny webcomic where the players are trapped in the campaign. Occasionally sexual. Also a bit morbid. Not suitable for all ages. Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated since I came across it.

Tools:

e-Tools

A decent set of tools by Code Monkey Publishing. You'll need to order one of the data sets, too.

PCGen

An excellent character generation tool. Includes game data for several RPGs, but doesn't include data for D&D. You'll need to order one of those data sets from Code Monkey Publishing.

mkcity

Relatively new to the world, mkcity generates basic statistics for cities ranging from 20 people to one million. Originally written by me in the back of a car while on a family vacation, then archived on my computer for over a year, it's now GPL'd and available for use by anyone. Special thanks go to YankeeInExile for hosting and codeveloping the current versions of the code. Wanted: Playtesters. It's written in Perl, so you'll need the runtime for your system.

Miscellaneous:

Wizards of the Coast's D&D page

Despite it being the official page, there's a lot of useful material there.

Have your own questions and subjects to talk about? Email me and I may post them.
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  • GURPS GURU. [aquariuscreations.com] Character creation tool for GURPS. Very nice, easy to use. Doesn't do custom things all that well, but it's easy enough to compensate in the notes section. The other tool (GCA) is shareware and is harder to use.

    Comics: Gaming Guardians [gamingguardians.com] and the spinoff Powergamers [gamingguardians.com] are funny and/or dark, depending on day. Cool, though.

    • Well, I just finished reading the Gaming Guardians archives...I haven't started on Powergamers yet.
      • I take it that means you liked it?
        • It offers interesting perspectives on a lot of different gaming systems I've never played. (Though I've heard of them.)

          As for the plot, it was awful corny (almost to the point of satire) in the beginning, but it matured quite nicely. I liked the frequent twists and turns. (Though I anticipated the "Greg, I am your father" line a few episodes before it happened.)
        • I just finished PowerGamers. It's lighter than GG, and the archives were significantly shorter (well, duh. :) ... All in all, I liked them both.
  • ^_^ Seriously good resource for 3rd edition D&D is RolePlayingMaster [cyberstreet.com]. It takes care of the background details of character creation, combat, and such. Best of all, the data is entirely open which means that you can see the hows and whys of the rules plus you can add your own content very easily. There's already a Yahoo forum where tons of free content are posted. They even have a lot of the supplements coded with the caveat that said files are encrypted. When you download it, you're told to find the pas
  • I know this is OT but i want to start playing the paranoia RPG in an online setting (IRC or similar). And I thought that you might be able to help.

    Thanks in advance, and keep up the brilliant "column".
    • I only have the rulebooks for D&D...maybe someone else reading this has information?

      I'll post a new JE on Monday asking about online gaming communities. It'll go into "Advertise" mode on Wednesday.

      Thanks, and keep reading! :)
      • Thankyou for your reply.

        I am also interested in D&D pen and paper play and myself and some of my friends have invested in some books, with a view to playing them, although i am tempted to use the White Box edition of Dungeons and Dragons rules as I find it a 'nicer' play environment ...
  • I liked it better, unstood it, nix that, grew UP with it. 3rd ed is weird to me, AC positive, huh? Yah yah I get it, 0 to 100, but still, in my mind the ThAC0 and the AC thing is what made AD&D more balanced than other role playing systems.

    Oh well, modern CRPGs for the PC bite so much anyways, real time, pshhah. I'll wait until Fallout 3 comes out thank you so very much, and it had better not be like Fallout Brotherhood of Steel, I couldn't play that thing, so bad, ick!

  • Sad (Score:2)

    by arakon ( 97351 )
    This used to be my favorite site for ravenloft material.

    http://www.kargatane.com/

    They still have some pretty decent downloads.

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