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Encyclopedia of RPGs

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Complete List of RPGs [table format]

On the Vocabulary of Role-Playing

GamerJargon.com

Museum of RPGs

Pen & Paper

War Game Reference

The Complete Wargames Handbook

Little Wars - By H.G. Wells: Rules for the world's first published war game.

Web-Grognards

The Wargames Directory

Wargame Academy

Board Game Reference

Brett & Board

Discover Games

Funagain Games

Game Industry Reference

The Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA)

The Game Publishers Association (GPA)

Game Codex

Open Gaming Foundation

Game Periodicals

Places to Go, People to Be: [Emphasis: role-playing games]

Imazine: [Emphasis: role-playing games/theory]

Critical Miss: [Emphasis: role-playing games/humor]

RoleplayingTips.com [Emphasis: role-playing games/advice]

The Escapist [Emphasis: role-playing games/advocacy]

Fudge Factor: [Emphasis: role-playing games/Fudge]

Pyramid: [Emphasis: role-playing games, board games, card games, war games]

GamingReport.com [Emphasis: games/news]

The Games Journal [Emphasis: board games]

The Game Report [Emphasis: board games]

Wunderland.com [Emphasis: tabletop games, card games]

ALARUMS & EXCURSIONS [Emphasis: role-playing games]

Free Games & Utilities

John Kim's Free RPGs on the Web: The best directory of free role-playing games on the Internet.

Free Wargames Rules

RPG Open Directory Project

Web Dice: Roll some virtual dice.

Fudge: The greatest free role-playing game in the world. [Author: Steffan O'Sullivan]

Sherpa: An ingenious role-playing game designed to be played whilst hiking. [Author: Steffan O'Sullivan]

GURPS Lite: GURPS the way it should be — short and sweet. [GURPS Author: Steve Jackson; GURPS Lite Author: Sean Punch]

Alternate Realities: A rather complex role-playing game. [Authors: Carter Butts; Karim Nassar; Brian Rayburn]

One Brain Cell Role-Playing Rules: A minimalist role-playing game.

Zozer Games: A source of excellent games. [Author: Paul Elliott]

Adept Games: A mock game company. [Author: Michael D. Mearls]

Memento Mori Theatricks: A source of many fascinating experimental games and game mechanisms. [Author: Jared A. Sorenson]

Dominion Games: A medieval fantasy role-playing game.

The Pool RPG: A brief, conceptual role-playing game. [Author: James V. West]

Game Satire

SLUG: By Steffan O'Sullivan.

The unofficial SLUG page: Includes a link to the player character sheet designed by Ann Dupuis.

Risus: The Anything RPG: By S. John Ross.

GRAPE - Generic Roleplaying All Purpose Engine: By Scott Gray.

The Drones: "A light-hearted after-dinnerish role-play game by Ian Crowther, Sheila Thomas, and Victoria Uren." Based on the works of P.G. Wodehouse.

The Skool Rools: "(Also nowen as KLASSROOMS & MATRONS, the roll-playing game of british educashun.)" By Phil Masters.

Lashings of Ginger Beer: "A role-playing game of nosey children in Idyllic England by Simon Washbourne."

GigantoCorp: Corporate satire by Jared A. Sorenson utilizing the game mechanics of Plain English Role-Playing (PERP) by Michael D. Mearls.

Pumpkin Town: Halloween game by Jared A. Sorenson utilizing the game mechanics of Plain English Role-Playing (PERP) by Michael D. Mearls.

Clown Cops: A game played with milk and cookies by Jared A. Sorenson.

Parsley: "A text-based role-playing game" by Jared A. Sorenson.

Happy-Lucky Chinese Restaurant Game: A game played in Chinese restaurants by Jared A. Sorenson.

HAND AXE: By Michael D. Mearls.

StarCadets: A single page parody of Traveller "by Donald Hosford with comments by Edward Golupski."

StickGuy the RPG: A low resolution game by Chris Gunning.

Under the Broken Moon: Thundarr RPG: By Brandon Blackmoor.

Game Companies

Ad Astra Games: Publisher of Attack Vector.

Alnavco: "Specialists in miniature metal models."

Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc.: Publisher of games in the Star Fleet Universe.

Atomic Sock Monkey Press: Publisher of Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot and Truth & Justice.

BattleHex: Maker of foam game boards and miniature terrain.

Beyond Belief Games: Publisher of Lashings of Ginger Beer.

Chessex Manufacturing: Maker of vinyl game mats and dice.

Columbia Games, Inc.: Publisher of the Blocks of War series of board games and the Hârn series of games and supplements.

Cosmic Wimpout: A crazy little game played with "cosmic cubes."

Cumberland Games & Diversions: Publisher of Risus: The Anything RPG et al.

Deep7: Publisher of Red Dwarf et al.

Far Future Enterprises: Publisher of the Classic Traveller series of reprints.

Firefly Games: Publisher of Monster Island: The Game of Giant Monster Combat.

Flying Buffalo Inc.: Publisher of Tunnels & Trolls and Nuclear War: The Card Game.

GHQ Models: Maker of fine historical miniatures.

Grey Ghost Press, Inc.: Publisher of Fudge Expanded Edition and maker of Fudge Dice.

Ground Zero Games: Publisher of Full Thrust.

Guardians of Order: Publisher of Big Eyes Small Mouth, Tri-Stat dX, and Tékumel: The Empire of the Petal Throne.

Hex Games: Publisher of QAGS.

IronWind Metals: Maker of miniatures (including the Classic BattleTech line) and paints.

Kenzer & Company: Publisher of HackMaster.

KidultGame: Publisher of Diceland, Dice Run, and PolterDice.

Knuckleduster Publications: "Purveyors of Fine Western Games and Miniatures" including The Knuckleduster Cowtown Creator and The Knuckleduster Firearms Shop.

Looney Labs: Publisher of Playing with Pyramids, Cosmic Coasters, Nanofictionary, et al.

Mayfair Games, Inc.: Publisher of the Settlers of Catan series of games.

Monday Knight Productions: Maker of cloth game mats and miniatures.

Mongoose Publishing: Publisher of Paranoia XP.

9th Level Games: Publisher of Kobolds Ate My Baby!

Palladium Books: Publisher of several good reference books of interest to those who play role-playing games and war games, such as:

  • The Palladium Book of Weapons & Armour
  • The Palladium Book of Weapons & Castles
  • The Palladium Book of Weapons & Assassins
  • The Palladium Book of Contemporary Weapons
  • Weapons, Armor & Castles of the Orient

Steve Jackson Games: Publisher of Car Wars, Ogre, Frag, Munchkin, Illuminati, GURPS, et al.

Timeline Ltd.: Publisher of The Morrow Project.

Tri Tac Games: Publisher of several role-playing games and numerous mini-games.

Twilight Creations, Inc.: Publisher of Zombies!!!

U.S. Games Systems, Inc.: Publisher of interesting decks of playing cards and tarot cards.

United States Playing Card Company: Publisher of Bicycle, Bee, Aviator, and other decks of playing cards.

West End Games: Publisher of the D6 System.

Wicked Dead Brewing Company: Publisher of Necronomonopoly et al.

Wingnut Games: Publisher of Land of Og and Battle Cattle.

Game Retailers

Funagain Games: All sorts of games.

Gamefest.com: Mostly board games.

RPG Now!: Electronic book downloads: games, supplements, scenarios, articles, periodicals, printable miniatures, printable models, etc.

DriveThruRPG.com: More electronic book downloads.

Warehouse 23: Games of all sorts.

e23: "e23 offers game material, in digital form, from Steve Jackson Games, Issaries, and other selected publishers."

Game Resources

Fitz's Roleplaying Stuff

Mark Hughes: Role-Playing Games

Game Support

Piecepack: "The Flexible, Portable, Affordable Board Game System"

Dvorak: "A Nomic Card Game"

The Icehouse Rules PDF Archive: Games to play using pyramids known as Icehouse pieces.

Hypothermia Archive: The Icehouse newsletter.

University of Catan: Resources for the Settlers of Catan series of games.

Klaus Teuber's Web site: The Web site of the creator of Settlers of Catan.

Starship Combat News: "The latest information on space games and miniatures."

PowerProjection.net: "The home of information about Power Projection, a Science Fiction miniatures space combat game set in the universe of Traveller, and published by BITS UK Ltd."

Star Fleet Universe: Star Fleet Battles, Federation & Empire, Star Fleet Battle Force, Prime Directive, et al.

Time Lord RPG: A role-playing game based on the BBC television series Doctor Who. [Authors: Ian Marsh and Peter Darvill-Evans]

Who-RPG Home Page: Resources for Doctor Who games.

Classic BattleTech: The BattleTech universe in its ORIGINAL form: a miniature war game.

Official Shadowrun Site: Shadowrun in its original form: a role-playing game.

Tékumel: The World of the Petal Throne: The ultimate (and most visually impressive) Web site of Prof. M.A.R. Barker's game setting.

Brett Slocum's Tékumel Site: The oldest Web site devoted to Prof. M.A.R. Barker's game setting.

HârnLink: Links to many Web sites concerned with the Hârn game setting.

Lýthia.com: "Your Portal to HârnWorld."

The Dying Earth: Home of The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game published by Pelgrane Press and based on the novels by Jack Vance.

Ken St. Andre's Official Tunnels & Trolls Site: The Web site of the game's creator.

Delvers' Gazette - T&T News

Metagaming Game Index & Descriptions: The company that first published The Fantasy Trip and many other games.

The Fantasy Trip: Worldwide Resource

The Fantasy Trip List

Cas' TFT Stuff

BrikWars! Rules for games played with plastic interlocking bricks.

Evil Stevie's Pirate Game: Rules for a pirate game played with plastic interlocking bricks.

Fudge Links

Steffan O'Sullivan's Home Page & Game Reviews: Web site of the author of Fudge.

Steffan O'Sullivan's Fudge Links: Links to many useful Fudge-related Web sites.

Steffan O'Sullivan's Fudge FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions answered by the author himself.

Fudge Designer's Notes: Again, by Steffan O'Sullivan.

FudgeRPG.com: Buy Fudge Expanded Edition (the hardcopy version of the greatest role-playing game in the world) and Fudge Dice from the publisher, Grey Ghost Press, Inc. Many useful links here, too.

Fudge List: Discussions with a focus on Fudge.

Fudge List Guide to Fudge: Wiki devoted to Fudge.

Fudge Factor: Online periodical published at irregular intervals.

Fudge Rules Online: View Fudge online in a hyperlinked HTML format.

www.schlaghund.de: Download the current version of Fudge for free. [Scroll down to the "Official Fudge" section and click on the link to download the PDF.]

DocBrown.net: Download an interactive character sheet for free.

TRAVELLER: Science Fiction Adventure in the Far Future

FarFuture.net - The Home of Traveller on the Web

BITS (British Isles Traveller Support)

The Zhodani Base

Downport.com - The Traveller Domain

TravellerBibliography.org

SignalGK.com - Online Traveller Resource

Traveller5

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society

Travellers' Aid Society

Traveller Library Data

The Sharakkannik Collection

The IMTU Code

IISS - Imperial Interstellar Scout Service [broken link]

TravellerMap.com

Traveller Wiki

PocketEmpires.com

The X-Boat Network in Traveller

BZAT Index

Anthony's Maps Site [broken link]

3-D Star Maps [General reference.]

Alien Planet Designer [General reference.] [broken link]

Broken Links

The Lego Fantasy War Game
http://students.ou.edu/F/John.P.Franklin-1/lwelcome.htm
 
Pedestrian: THE WALKING!!!
http://www.rpg.net/adeptgames/ped.html
 
QCarz
http://www.literati.com/~nstilwel/qcarz.html
 
SEIZE THEM, YOU FOOLS!
http://www.rpg.net/adeptgames/PERP/SEIZETHEM.html
 
Swords Against Sorcery
http://www.rpg.net/adeptgames/SAS/index.html



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