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"This application generates a random medieval city layout of a requested size. The generation method is rather arbitrary, the goal is to produce a nice looking map, not an accurate model of a city."

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Medieval & Renaissance Games by Justin du Coeur

http://jducoeur.org/game-hist/

*Moved to https://www.querki.net/u/jducoeur/period-games/#!period-games

"This [page] is intended to cover anything and everything pertaining to games in the Medieval and Renaissance periods."

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RPGGeek is an extension of the BoardGameGeek.com project.

http://rpggeek.com/

"BoardGameGeek is an online board gaming resource and community. The site is updated on a real-time basis by its large and still growing user base, making [us] the largest and most up-to-date place to get gaming information! There are reviews, ratings, images, play-aids, translations, and session reports from board game[rs] across the world, as well as live discussion forums.

[We are] a website dedicated to the subject of physical board games. The site provides an extensive database of boardgames as well as an active community of users who discuss, argue, buy, sell, trade and play board games. The database contains over 70,000 board games (as of June 2014) and each game has its own Game entry which gives information about a game, user ratings, forums for discussion and a great deal more."

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The Special System RPG Page

http://specialrpg.wikidot.com/the-special-system

The Special System RPG Page is a wiki style database on the mechanics used for character creation in games like Fallout.

"SPECIAL is a character creation system used by the Fallout series of games. It's named after the 7 attributes it tracks for characters: Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, and Luck."

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The Pathfinder Reference Document by Paizo Inc.

http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/

"The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is released under the Open Game License, meaning the core rules that drive the Pathfinder RPG system are available to anyone to use for free under the terms of the OGL. This compendium of rules, charts, and tables contains all of the open rules in the system, and is provided for the use of the community of gamers and publishers working with the system."

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HeroQuest Core Rules by Robin Laws

http://www.glorantha.com/product/heroquest-core-rules/

"HeroQuest is [an] innovative, dynamic, and flexible rules engine suitable for play in any genre or setting. It presents a simple and flexible system that allows Game Masters to make decisions the way authors and screenwriters do when creating novels, TV episodes and movies. HeroQuest encourages creative input from your players, resulting in an exciting, unpredictable narrative created through group collaboration. Its resolution methods and scalable character levels make it equally suited for any genre, from epic Gloranthan fantasy to gritty occult investigations.

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The Compendium of Free Role Playing Games by Chris Garrison

http://sillyhatbooks.com/about/games/

"This is a collection of games, and links to games, that I’ve collected over the past decade."

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A Diceless Roleplaying Games Listing by Lance Garthan

http://www.dyasdesigns.com/roleplay/dicelessgames.html

"Historically 'diceless' in roleplaying games has really meant free of artificial randomizers not simply dice, and such is the case of most of these games. Non-artificial randomizers are acceptable, these are generally balanced or non-transitive game choices which often map to real world choices.

Diceless gaming is far from system-less and a clearly defined environment with well defined characters reduces the perceived problem of making decisions based on solely those factors, but actual detail level can be a sliding scale. A good language for describing how actions are attempted can be the defining element of action resolution and introduce considerable variability in itself. A good decision driven gaming system should give players a lot of choices about the details of their characters actions... up to a point this can be improvised but what is really needed is some form of systematic analysis.

The trick of good diceless play seems to be making sure the players decisions are involved not just the story guides, point of fact, this can be considered an element of good roleplay of diced or diceless nature, however with the third wheel of arbitrary chance removed, its impact or 'power' must be distributed and often this means "more power" lands in the hand of the players rather than less."

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d20 Resources by Brendan Quinn

http://www.d20resources.com/

"[This site] was created with the idea of making playing d20 games easier. There are tons of incredible rpg books available for reference; I should know, I (like many of you I would assume) have shelves full of them. The problem is that with all of this reference material, sometimes it's simply too cumbersome to have every book on hand and available when I just need a quick rule fast. Short of memorizing page numbers, I needed a better way to look up rules and stats so that my players didn't have to wait for me to find something common. My solution is this website."

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The Dice Tower

http://www.dicetower.com/home.html

"The Dice Tower is dedicated to getting folks to learn about the wide world of exciting new board games. We do video reviews, and an audio show, and more."

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Dice by Joe Celko

http://www.gamecabinet.com/rules/Dice.html

"Role playing and simulation games have introduced dice in non-cubic shapes, but the traditional spotted cube has endured the test of time. In fact, dice are credited by several historians as the oldest gambling device invented by man. I would like to take some time to give the humble cube another, more detailed, look. This is not so much an article as a collection of interesting facts."

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Night Witches – Bully Pulpit Games

https://bullypulpitgames.com/games/night-witches

"Night Witches is a tabletop role-playing game about women at war. As a member of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, you’ll answer the call of your Motherland in her darkest hour. Can you do your duty and strike blow after blow against the Fascists?"

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A Wizard in a Bottle

https://sites.google.com/site/wizardinabottle/

"[Nicolas Dessaux] Snorri's blog about old-school RPG and retroclones"

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Cheapass Games

https://cheapass.com/

"A game company founded and run by game designer James Ernest, based in Seattle, Washington."

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Classic Marvel Forever - MSH Classic RPG | Home Page

https://classicmarvelforever.com/cms/

"An almost complete net resource for everything related to the Marvel Super Heroes Roleplaying Game published by TSR from 1984 to the early 1990's."

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D6 System - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D6_System

https://kheperapublishing.com/

http://www.crosstimbershaven.com/games/west-end-games-open-d6.html

"The D6 System is a role-playing game system published by West End Games. The system is primarily intended for pen-and-paper role-playing games, but variations of the system have also been used in live action and miniature battle games."

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Dig a Thousand Holes Publishing | For Use With Your Imagination

https://dig1000holes.wordpress.com/

The blog of Epidiah Ravachol, creator of Dread.

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Dinky Dungeons

http://dinkydungeons.com/

If you've never heard of Dinky Dungeons, you're in for a real treat. This game is a piece of RPG history. Though it isn't widely known, it had an impact on the rules development of other games.

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Dog Eared Designs

https://www.dog-eared-designs.com/

"Dog-eared Designs is a design and publishing partnership between Meredith Reitman and Matt Wilson. In case you weren’t sure, we design, publish and sell roleplaying games."

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Doll | RPG | RPGGeek https://rpggeek.com/rpg/23733/doll

"Doll is a storytelling game for two. One person plays a child whose pet has just died. The other person plays the child's doll, puppet, or other toy. The doll knows everything that goes on in the house, but it does not always tell the truth. During the game the child will try to find out the truth about her parents from her unreliable doll."

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EABA v2.01 https://www.btrc.net/eabav2-119/eabav2core

"EABA is the self-mocking acronym for the End All Be All role-playing system, a universal system designed to work with any genre, level of realism or gamemaster style."

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Fight On! Magazine - Home Page

https://www.fightonmagazine.com/

"Fight On! is a journal of shared fantasy. We who read and write for this magazine are a community of role-playing enthusiasts unified by our love of the freewheeling, do-it-yourself approach that birthed this hobby back in the 1970's."

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Fudge Community Website

https://www.fudgerpg.com/

"Fudge is a rules-light role-playing game engine providing a common set of game mechanics that can be used to create any role-playing game you desire."

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Games – Pretendo Games

https://pretendo.games/games/

From the author, Jason Tocci: "I can’t shut up about games, so I made a website to think aloud about game design projects and share the results."

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Glorantha

https://www.glorantha.com/

"Glorantha is the mythical world that can be found on the Other Side of our consciousness. First discovered by Greg Stafford over forty years ago, Glorantha has been explored in such games as Dragon Pass, RuneQuest, HeroQuest, and King of Dragon Pass."

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HERO Games - HERO Games

https://www.herogames.com/

"Effective December 19, 2001, DOJ, Inc., a California corporation, acquired from Cybergames.com the assets of Hero Games and the right to do business under the name of "Hero Games." DOJ has been in business as Hero Games ever since, and as of January, 2008 has published over 70 books using the HERO System rules."

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Heroes Against Darkness

http://heroesagainstdarkness.blogspot.com/

"The indie d20 RPG that's free, fast, flexible and fully-featured."

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Icar - The Free Sci Fi Tabletop RPG

http://www.icar.co.uk/

"A free science fiction tabletop RPG where you zip between the stars, battle killer Droids and subvert a benevolent Imperium."

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InSpectres (PDF) — Memento Mori Theatricks

http://www.memento-mori.com/

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