Useful resources for running table-top role playing games
Key of icons in this list
| Icon | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 💰 | A paid product |
| 💸 | A freemium model |
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The creator has a patreon page |
| 💻 | Includes downloadable software |
| 🎲 | Random generation |
| 🐉 | Content is specific to DnD |
| 🔓 | Open source (code is public and freely available) |
- Wonderdraft - 💰 💻 A world map maker with customisable assets.
- Inkarnate - 💸 A world map maker with a large library of assets and many features.
- Watabou -
Home of many procedural generators.
- Medieval fantasy city generator - 🎲 City generator with several customization options.
- Village generator - 🎲 Simple village generator.
- Azgaar's Fantasy map generator - 🎲 🔓 Open source world map generator with a lot of customization.
- Hextml - A hex based relief map/dungeon maker with collaborative tools.
- Cartography Assets - A community driven hub of maps and map making assets.
- Town generator - 🎲 🔓 A generator for town buildings and characters with narration.
- DnD 5e / Coriolis store generator - 🎲 Generates the stock and prices of various stores based on city size.
- donjon random generators - 🎲 Generators for all sorts including landmass, names, dungeons, calendars, shops, etc.
- 5e magic shop generator - 🎲 🐉 Generates stock for magic shops with opinionated pricing. Also includes other tools such as travel time calculator and teleportation circle generator.
- Token maker - A simple tool for quickly generating tokens from images.
- Dialects archive - A library of thousands of recordings of different accents.
- Character art - A pinterest page with boards of character art organised by race.
- Fantasy art - A board of thousands of character art designs in similar styles.
- Reddit character art - A subreddit for character art designs.
- The monsters know - 🐉 A blog that explains the motivations and battle tactics of most of the DnD 5e monsters.
- World Anvil - 💸 A tool for managing your world and keeping track of things in your campaign.
- GMBinder - 💸 Create homebrew content and browse other creations in a professional format.
- Statblock builder - 🐉 A DnD custom monster stat block generator in the style of the source books.
- Character generator - 🎲 🐉 Generates random DnD 5e characters from the options in the sourcebooks with character art.
- Fantasy card generator - 🔓 A tool for generating printable cards in easy to read formats for spells, monster stats, etc.
- Fantasy calendar - 💸 🔓 Create a detailed calendar and track time with a nice interface.
- Perchance - Create your own random generators.
- Ancient quests - Short written descriptions for a number of things: worlds, rooms, paintings, factions, history, items, effects, etc.
- Holiday generator - A description of a certain holiday including the time of year and historical significance.
- Job board genertor - A graphical job board with fun little quest ideas.
- Law generator - A random list of potentially legal and illegal things along with punishments.
- Spell book generator - Generate a random level appropriate spell book.
- Party group name generator - Because sometimes it's hard coming up with a good name.
- Random book generator - A random book title and synopsis.
- Tavern generator - Random taverns with floorplan, menu, and staff.
- Not another tavern generator - More detailed tavern with some settings to tweak.
- Trap generator - Imaginative and clever trap ideas.
- Constellation generator - Generates constellation with image and star names.
- Dungeondraft - 💰 💻 A dungeon / encounter builder with customisable assets.
- DungeonFog - 💸 An online encounter map builder and partial vtt.
- Dungeon generator - 🎲 Generates random dungeons with some customization.
- Dungeon scrawl - Easy to use tool for building simple maps.
- MapForge - 💰 💻 Software for creating dungeons with lots of add-ons and other assets.
- Reddit Dungeondraft - A subreddit with submissions of maps created in Dungeondraft.
- Reddit Battlemaps - A subreddit for battle maps.
- Textures - 💸 A library of thousands of textures that can be used for terrain.
- MapTool - 💻 🔓 An advanced open source tool for running games with advanced vision blocking and macro support.
- FoundryVTT - 💰 A modern role playing platform with a large community and developer base and integrates with many other tools.
- Fantasy Grounds - 💰 💻 A role playing platform with support for many systems.
- Owlbear Rodeo - A very simple browser based platform that is easy to pick up and requires minimal setup.
- Roll20 - 💸 A popular role playing platform with lots of documentation.
- Mythic table -
- Astral Tabletop - 💸 An online platform with built in maps and assets.
- Syrinscape - 💰 💸 💻 A sound system application that allows dynamic layering of different sounds.
- Tabletop Audio - A library of 10 minute soundtracks for different ambiences and sound effects.
- Kobold fight club - 🎲 🐉 🔓 A DnD 5e encounter builder.
- Improved initiative - 🐉 A DnD 5e initiative tracker.
- DnD Beyond - 💸 🐉 The official DnD character creation and management tool.
- Printable heroes - A collection of filterable tokens that can be printed for tabletop encounters.
- Paper forge - A subscription of token artwork for online play or printing.