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Treasure Tables is dedicated to game masters, offering GMing advice and ideas since 2005. I'm Martin Ralya, and I've been GMing since 1989 and writing for the RPG industry since 2004.
72 Links for GMs, and the GMing Q&A Forum is Here to Stay!
Sat. January 28, 2006
When I launched the Treasure Tables GMing Q&A Forum back in December, I mentioned that it was going to be up for a one-month trial period. As of today, that trial period is officially over — and the forum is here to stay!
In just one month, the GMing Q&A Forum has become a solid resource for GMs, as well as a friendly, informal place to share GMing advice.
To illustrate that, I’ve compiled 72 links to nifty GMing resources from all of the forum threads to date.
I’ve never run a forum before, but I’m thrilled with the level of response that this one has generated. 100+ members, 50+ threads and around 1,000 posts (so far!)– we’ve built up a great community in a very short time.
My goal with Treasure Tables has always been to turn this site into the #1 place to go for GMing resources, and I feel like the forum is a big step in that direction. Here are three reasons why I like it so much:
- It’s full of sharp, friendly people.
- The signal to noise ratio is very high.
- I’ve already learned a lot from it.
Here’s a sample of what the GMing Q&A Forum has to offer: 72 links to GMing resources — things that fellow GMs liked enough to share.
The forum has a lot more to offer than just links, of course, but I thought this would be a good way to showcase one of the simplest ways that GMs can help each other out: By sharing the stuff that helps them.
Resource Links from the GMing Q&A Forum
Adventure Ideas
Character Sheets
• Ema’s sheets (d20)
• Heroforge
• Mad Irishman
• RoleMaster sheet (Aki Heikkinen) (PDF, RoleMaster)
• RoleMaster sheet (Roy Altman) (ZIP, RoleMaster)
• sunrainstudios.com (D&D)
Generators
• AARG! Net
• drow’s random dungeon generator
• iG-Tools
• MapMage
• PCGen (d20)
• Redblade
• RPGInspiration
• Seventh Sanctum
GMing Tools
• Alea Tools magnetic stackable markers
• Corpse obstacle cards (PDF, d20)
• reedu21’s Excel tracking sheets
Maps
• Campaign Cartographer 2
• Dundjinni forums
• Free Online Graph Paper
• MERP maps
• Tact-Tiles (don’t miss the TT review of Tact-Tiles)
Minis and Counters
• Adjustable utlity boxes (for minis/counters)
• Fiery Dragon counters
• Games Workshop miniatures
• Organizer pack (for minis/counters)
• Rackham’s Confrontation miniatures
• Reaper Miniatures
Miscellany
• Casebook: Jack the Ripper
• d20 encounter EL & XP calculator (d20)
• d20SRD.org (d20)
• Llewellyn’s Web Tarot
• Proxemics info
• Social group theory
Music
• Diablo II soundtrack
• RPGSoundMixer
• Michikawa’s ambient soundtracks
• VGMix
• OverClockedRemix
• Live365: In Dark Faith Eternal
• Live365: DJ shugazr
NPCs
• Inspire Character Generator software
Online Play
• Bones dice roller (Mac)
• DicePro (Palm)
• Fantasy Grounds
• Maptools
Organizational Tools
• Circus Ponies Notebook (Mac)
• CrystalBall (Mac)
• DM Genie (D&D)
• ETools (d20)
• Infomapping (PDF)
• Infomapping notes (PDF)
• Infomapping software
• Initiative cards (d20)
• The Journal
• KeyNote (Mac) (PC version also available)
• Magazine boxes
• TableSmith
• 3eProfiler (D&D)
• TreeDB software
Photos
• Lonely Planet
• The Luminous Landscape
• National Geographic
Props
• Hanayama cast metal puzzles
• H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society fonts
• Tips on making props
• World of Darkness fonts
Wikis
• Free wiki hosts
• TWiki
• VoodooPad
There are too many links here to credit all of the GMs over in the forum who provided them — instead, let me say a big thank you to the TT forum community as a whole: thank you!
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