72 Links for GMs, and the GMing Q&A Forum is Here to Stay!

When I launched the Treasure Tables GMing Q&A Forum ^[1] back in December, I mentioned that it was going to be up for a one-month trial period ^[2]. 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

• The 36 plots ^[3]

Character Sheets

• Ema’s sheets ^[4] (d20)
• Heroforge ^[5]
• Mad Irishman ^[6]
• RoleMaster sheet (Aki Heikkinen) ^[7] (PDF, RoleMaster)
• RoleMaster sheet (Roy Altman) ^[8] (ZIP, RoleMaster)
• sunrainstudios.com ^[9] (D&D)

Generators

• AARG! Net ^[10]
• drow’s random dungeon generator ^[11]
• iG-Tools ^[12]
• MapMage ^[13]
• PCGen ^[14] (d20)
• Redblade ^[15]
• RPGInspiration ^[16]
• Seventh Sanctum ^[17]

GMing Tools

• Alea Tools magnetic stackable markers ^[18]
• Corpse obstacle cards ^[19] (PDF, d20)
• reedu21’s Excel tracking sheets ^[20]

Maps

• Campaign Cartographer 2 ^[21]
• Dundjinni forums ^[22]
• Free Online Graph Paper ^[23]
• MERP maps ^[24]
• Tact-Tiles ^[25] (don’t miss the TT review of Tact-Tiles ^[26])

Minis and Counters

• Adjustable utlity boxes ^[27] (for minis/counters)
• Fiery Dragon counters ^[28]
• Games Workshop miniatures ^[29]
• Organizer pack ^[30] (for minis/counters)
• Rackham’s Confrontation miniatures ^[31]
• Reaper Miniatures ^[32]

Miscellany

• Casebook: Jack the Ripper ^[33]
• d20 encounter EL & XP calculator ^[34] (d20)
• d20SRD.org ^[35] (d20)
• Llewellyn’s Web Tarot ^[36]
• Proxemics info ^[37]
• Social group theory ^[38]

Music

• Diablo II soundtrack ^[39]
• RPGSoundMixer ^[40]
• Michikawa’s ambient soundtracks ^[41]
• VGMix ^[42]
• OverClockedRemix ^[43]
• Live365: In Dark Faith Eternal ^[44]
• Live365: DJ shugazr ^[45]

NPCs

• Inspire Character Generator software ^[46]

Online Play

• Bones dice roller ^[47] (Mac)
• DicePro ^[48] (Palm)
• Fantasy Grounds ^[49]
• Maptools ^[50]

Organizational Tools

• Circus Ponies Notebook ^[51] (Mac)
• CrystalBall ^[52] (Mac)
• DM Genie ^[53] (D&D)
• ETools ^[54] (d20)
• Infomapping ^[55] (PDF)
• Infomapping notes ^[56] (PDF)
• Infomapping software ^[57]
• Initiative cards ^[58] (d20)
• The Journal ^[59]
• KeyNote ^[60] (Mac) (PC version ^[61] also available)
• Magazine boxes ^[62]
• TableSmith ^[63]
• 3eProfiler ^[64] (D&D)
• TreeDB software ^[65]

Photos

• Lonely Planet ^[66]
• The Luminous Landscape ^[67]
• National Geographic ^[68]

Props

• Hanayama cast metal puzzles ^[69]
• H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society fonts ^[70]
• Tips on making props ^[71]
• World of Darkness fonts ^[72]

Wikis

• Free wiki hosts ^[73]
• TWiki ^[74]
• VoodooPad ^[75]

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!