I have, as one might expect, a considerable number of bookmarked pages. Here are some of the most useful / interesting / novel / enjoyable of those.
Game Resources
Artvee - High quality, easily-searchable public domain art.
10 Parsec Star Map - Additional maps by same creator can be found here.
2D Star Map - I like the one above better, but this one has hexes!
Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator - A gift that keeps on giving.
Moon, Minor Planet, and Constellation Symbols - Symbols for moons of the solar system all the non-zodiac constellations. Public domain!
generated.photos - Algorithm-generated human mugshots.
500 Fantasy Character Portrait Icons - All made using Artbreeder, and thus free to use.
300 OSR-ified Pathfinder monsters - Just so.
500 level-less spells - via Ten Foot Polemic
Old Book Illustrations - Public domain.
Jalopy Design: Making a Zine - David Schirduan swoops in with helpful advice for beginners.
The Phrontistery Dictionary of Unusual Words - For when you want to sound like Gene Wolfe.
Map to Globe - Takes a map, puts it on a globe
Lady of Hats' fantasy art - Public domain!
Hex-a-Day - Three huge hexmaps
Manyfold Theory of RPGs - via Levi Kornelson
Mothership Character Generator - via Tarsos' Theorem
Draw all roads in a city at once - If you are running EE, you need this.
Diagrams.net / draw.io - the most useful thing on this list, bar none.
Town and Settlement Rules - via Pilgrim's Temple
Music
Windows XP theme but it's an rpg soundtrack
LOST LULLABIES (Samurai Champloo unreleased tracks)
Miscellany
A description of the implied politics of Hell
The comedy gold of medieval mystery plays
How to Downsize a Transport Network: the Chinese Wheelbarrow
On the history of firefighting in Japan
THE GENETIC TAROT - Chargen?
Reverse Dictionary - Search for words by their definitions.
Leia Organa: A Critical Obituary
Bayeux Tapestry Generator - What it says on the tin.
Forgotten Female Fantasy - As the tagline on the site says "reviewing vintage woman-authored SFF". it's great stuff - hidden gems and horrible pitfalls alike.
Standard Ebooks - Public domain ebooks
Inexorable (Taylor Leong) - A short comic about Narnia, and the god named Tash.
Thirty Years (Taylor Leong)
Behold! The weird fucked-up cold-blooded cave goat!
Look just watch Dorohedoro already
Radiation-eating fungus as space habitat shielding
Twitter Threads
Medieval theologians were very concerned about cannibal babies
Stock photo business skeleton man
The evolution of life in an infinite McDonalds
The single most important piece of games criticism
Bloody Thursday and the Longshoreman's Union
Xu Bing's Square Word Calligraphy
Irish bhangra dancers (morale booster!)
The tale of Othin (illustrated 100 Year Old Vampire game)
Goya paintings scarier than Saturn Devouring His Son
DMC5, but with Spongebob music
The silent disco (elysium) BBQ
I am pretty sure all these links are good, if I missed any let me know.
ReplyDeleteNow there's how you make a useable slush pile, excellent
ReplyDeleteI tried to automated the Genetic Tarot a while ago. Needs more nuance, but the basics are there - https://slightadjustments.blogspot.com/p/genetic-tarot.html
ReplyDeleteHoly crap I can't wait to go through every one of these
ReplyDeleteAll of these are gold. Ironically, this post is now itself bookmarked.
ReplyDelete"Photorealistic Roman emperors," links to the Hades cast as players, but otherwise this is all fantastic. Love it.
ReplyDeleteFixed, thank you!
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