Resources

Useful resources, mostly from other people, mostly just the stuff I use myself.

• General Tools I Use
  • StackEdit, as a Chrome add-on, for blogging
  • LyX, a LaTeX front-end, for making PDFs
  • Pandoc, for making quick PDFs and miscellaneous other writing uses
  • Notepad++, usually with Pandoc, for general writing
  • Inkscape for mapmaking and illustration

• Maps and Mapping
  • Dyson Logos (dungeon, geomorph, and town maps.)
  • Dave’s Mapper collects geomorphs from multiple sources, including my own.
  • Donjon random dungeon generator
  • Alex Schroeder’s Gridmapper, which I especially like to use for quick dungeon examples in blog posts
  • mkhexgrid, a command-line tool for making hex sheets. Some people got more used out of the blank hex sheet with numbered hexes that I made with it, or modified the mkhexgrid hex sheet specfile I used,
• Monsters, Magic, Classes, and Races
  • Links to Wisdom pretty much collects all of these you will need.
  • D&D monster origins, for the curious.
  • Monsters Sorted By Treasure Type, a no-frills list from the LBBs and supplements I wrote up a long time ago.

• Randomizing
  • Logan Knight’s Choose Your Own Generator, for hacking together your own Javascript randomizers

• House Rules
  • Trollsmyth’s Shields Shall Be Splintered!, one of the most popular shield house rules
  • Sham’s restock roll, which I also use for first-time stocking
  • Delta’s Target 20 mechanic, which simplifies attack rolls, saves, and skills
• Miscellaneous
  • Anydice, for figuring out dice probabilities
  • OSR Acronym/Glossary
  • D&D Generations
  • OD&D Forums
  • Old School RPG Planet (only listing this here until I have a true blogroll page to put it on)
  • Sham’s Empty Room Principle