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Official Sites
- Wizards of the Coast — http://www.wizards.com
- Dungeons & Dragons — https://dnd.wizards.com/
- The Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Game System License — https://web.archive.org/web/20080731114456/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/welcome
- d20 System Archive — Relevant to 3rd edition: Open Gaming License, SRD, etc — http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/srdarchive
News and Forums
- Dungeons & Dragons News by WotC — https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/news
- ENWorld — http://www.enworld.org
- RED&DIT — D&D on Reddit — https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/
- Blog of Holding — Blog for D&D design — http://blogofholding.com/
Resources
Character Building Tools
- CharForge — An expansive character building genertor that helps with players fill out character sheets — https://sites.google.com/view/feyrunelabs/charforge
- PCGen Character Tool — A very detailed character building tool for multiple editions. — http://pcgen.sourceforge.net/01_overview.php
Die Rollers
- AnyDice — A powerful tool for calculating and portraying the probability of results from virtually any die rolling mechanic. Useful when writing house rules which rely on new rolling mechanics, or for dissecting the game's rules. — http://www.anydice.com
- WotC Die Roller — https://www.wizards.com/dnd/dice/dice.htm
Generic Resources
- Online
- Kassoon — A site with loads of maps, random generators, and other useful 5e and 4e tools — https://www.kassoon.com/dnd/
- WotC Online Tools — A repository for a number of 3.5e tools — http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/arch/tools
- Downloadable
- RPTools — Suite of free tools to argument a PnP game or run one online — https://www.rptools.net/
Homebrewing Tools
- CR Calculator — Tool that approximates the CR of a creature in 5e — https://iadndmn.neocities.org/CRcalc.html
- Detect Balance — Another useful rating system to used to judge the balance of races in 5th edition. — https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vq1kz6PRAbw5LHy6amH-bNb4OuB8DBXL1RsZROt03Sc/edit#gid=1232328186
- Kobold+ Fight Club — An encounter building tool for 5th edition. — https://koboldplus.club/#/encounter-builder
Map-Making Tools
- Online
- Dave's Mapper — Geotile mapper for making dungeons, caverns, villages, cities and spaceships — http://davesmapper.com/
- Dungeon Scrawl — Online map editor that let's you quickly draw old-school maps for export — https://dungeonscrawl.com/
- HexTML — A hex map editor that allows for the creation of regional maps — https://hextml.playest.net/
- Inkarnate — An HD battle and world map creator https://inkarnate.com/
- Medieval Fantasy City Generator — Procedurally generate an entire fantasy city — https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator
- Polygon Map Generation — Fun random polygon map generator, offering something to test until you get an island for your campaign! — https://www.redblobgames.com/maps/mapgen2/
- Wonderdraft — Another HD fantasy map creation tool that specializes in creating world maps — https://www.wonderdraft.net/
- WoTC Dungeon Tiles Mapper — Uses low-resolution images of the first offical dungeon tile set — http://www.wizards.com/dnd/dungeontilesmapper/
- Downloadable
- Dungeon Painter — Flash-based online map tileset, with support for custom tiles. — http://pyromancers.com/dungeon-painter-online/
- Heroscribe — Tile-based dungeon mapper based on tiles from board games like Hero Quest — http://www.heroscribe.org/heroquest.html
Maps & Tokens
- 2-Minute-Tabletop — Website with a variety of useful digital resources like maps and tokens that are free or cost money. — https://2minutetabletop.com/
- RPGMapShare Gallery — A huge repository of free maps and tokens — http://rpgmapshare.com/piwigo/gallery/
Music
- Chosic — A site that focuses on providing a variety of royalty free music, including a plethora of fantasy music — https://www.chosic.com/free-music/fantasy/
- Fesliyan Studios — Royalty free background music with tons of different categories — https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/
- myNoise — Online noise generator that can be used to create various different ambience and other background noises — https://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php
- R/MusicForRPG — A forum or subreddit on reddit dedicated to sharing background music for tabletop RPG sessions — https://www.reddit.com/r/MusicForRPG/
- Serpent Sound Studios — A site with a good collection of copyright free fantasy music among other copyright free music — https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com/royalty-free-music/celtic-fantasy
- Tabletop Audio — 100's of 10-minute-long ambiances and music for ttrpg's — https://tabletopaudio.com/
Random Generators
- 20,000+ Names From Around the World! — A random name generator that uses real-world historical and modern names — http://www.20000-names.com/
- Behind the Name — Randomizer for historical, modern and fantasy names — http://www.behindthename.com/random/
- DM Heroes — Random npc generator that comes with generated art for that npc — http://www.dmheroes.com/
- Donjon — More generators than you can shake a stick at; some specific to each edition of D&D — http://donjon.bin.sh/
- DunGen — High resolution Dungeon Generator, creates perfectly aligned maps at up to 140px per tile to import directly into your favorite virtual tabletop. https://dungen.app/
- Dungeons TOME — Random dungeon generator based on the D&D Dungeon Master's Guide random dungeon generator tables — https://www.dungeonstome.com/
- Essential Establishment Generator — A random quick town and town scenario generator — https://eigengrausgenerator.com/
- Fantasy Name Generators — A site with random name generators for pop culture names, fantasy & folklore names, real word names, place and location names, and a variety of other things — https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/
- Here Be Taverns — A collection of generators including Taverns, Characters, Items, Plot Hooks, and Landmarks — https://www.herebetaverns.com
- Myth Weathers — Maintainer's of Jamis Buck's 3.5e generators: NPCs, Dungeons, Towns, Treasure, Point Buy Calculator
- Serendipity — A site with place and name generators — http://nine.frenchboys.net/
- The Pathology Guy — Character generators for 3.5e, Pathfinder, 4e and 5e
Sites To Look for or Play D&D
- In Person
- Meetup — A site that has meetup groups for various different things including D&D all across the world. — https://www.meetup.com/topics/dnd/
- Store & Event Locator — A tool by WotC to find local game stores, which are good places to find other ttrpg or board gaming fans. — https://locator.wizards.com/
- Online
- Owlbear Rodeo A free lightweight virtual battle map site that runs in browser. — https://www.owlbear.rodeo/
- Reddit Looking for Games — A reddit community used to help players find games. — https://www.reddit.com/r/lfg/
- Roll 20 — A virtual tabletop site that can be used to find and host games from various ttrpgs. — https://roll20.net/
- Downloadable
- Fantasy Grounds — A virtual tabletop that can host games and has a number of automated functions to quicken gameplay. — http://fantasygrounds.com
- Foundry Virtual Tabletop — A virtual tabletop that the DM hosts and players connect directly through their browser. — https://foundryvtt.com/
Publishers
- D&D
- Frog God Games — https://www.froggodgames.com/
- Green Ronin Publishing — http://www.greenronin.com/
- Kobold Press — https://koboldpress.com/
- Legendary Games — https://www.makeyourgamelegendary.com/
- Mage Hand Press — https://store.magehandpress.com/
- MCDM — https://shop.mcdmproductions.com/
- Mongoose Publishing — http://www.mongoosepublishing.com
- Paizo — http://www.paizo.com
- Troll Lord Games — https://www.trolllord.com/
Storefronts
- DM's Guild — A storefront focused primarily on the sale of D&D 5e material, though the site contains content for a variety of editions of D&D — https://www.dmsguild.com/
- Drive Thru RPG — A ttrpg storefront that sells a variety of published material from homebrew to official — https://www.drivethrurpg.com/index.php
- Roll 20 5e Compendium — A WotC licensed redistributor of official 5e content. You may buy officially published books that are not part of the SRD to use through their service. — https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/BookIndex
Wiki's
- MediaWiki.org — the website dealing with MediaWiki, which the site uses — http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Good Reading
- DND Social Issues — The DnD subreddit goes into depth about a number of social issues common to DnD and other ttrpgs — https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/wiki/social_issues
- Wikipedia:Dungeons and Dragons — The wikipedia page for info on the history of D&D — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons
- Wikipedia:Editions of D&D — The wikipedia page for info on the editions of D&D — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editions_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons
- Wikipedia:Forgotten Realms — The wikipedia page for the Forgotten Realms, a major setting in D&D for several different editions and the main setting of 5th edition — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgotten_Realms
Systems Based on D&D
3.X Variants
- Basic Fantasy — A rules light game system modeled on the 3.5e SRD — http://www.basicfantasy.org/main.html
- Pathfinder — Alternate SRD, mostly compatible with 3.5e. — http://paizo.com/pathfinder
- True20 — More generic and story-oriented game system, some d20 content can be used with it with little conversion effort. — http://true20.com/
5e Variants
- Level Up Advanced 5th Edition — A deeper, more flexible enhancement of the 5e ruleset that intends to be backward compatible with 5e. — https://www.levelup5e.com/
Previous Edition Support
- Dragonsfoot, support for all previous editions — popular web forums for pre-3e D&D and old-school simulacrum games with fan-created downloadable content — http://www.dragonsfoot.org/
- Dungeon Magazine — An archive of the Dungeon Adventures, or simply Dungeon, which was a magazine targeting consumers of role-playing games, first published by TSR in 1986 as a bimonthly periodical. — https://archive.org/details/dungeonmagazine?sort=titleSorter
- OSRIC, 1st Edition clone — OGL-licensed AD&D 1e simulacrum, intended for use as old-school SRD — http://www.knights-n-knaves.com/osric/
Social Media
- D&D Wiki Discord — D&D Wiki's discord server, (follow the rules on D&D Wiki:Social Media#Discord to join) — https://discord.gg/EnsRxSV
- D&D Wiki Facebook — D&D Wiki's facebook — http://www.facebook.com/pages/DD-Wiki/183285371725118
- Official D&D Discord — The official D&D discord server account — https://discord.com/invite/dnd
- Official D&D Facebook — The official D&D facebook account — https://www.facebook.com/dungeonsanddragons/
- Official D&D Twitter — The official D&D twitter account — https://twitter.com/Wizards_DnD
Images
You can externally link to an image, but please make sure that you are linking to the original (i.e. the artist's personal, or otherwise endorsed, page). It is courtesy to attribute the artist and provide a link. Good places to find fantasy images are:
- ArtStation https://www.artstation.com/
- DeviantArt — http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/
- Flickr — http://www.flickr.com — There is a D&D group at https://www.flickr.com/groups/dungeons_and_dragons/pool/
- Pixiv — http://www.pixiv.net/
External links are commonly too large for a wiki page, though one can resize external images through <div class="externalimage-holder" style="width:55%;float:right;"> Image Holder such as {{5e Image </div>. Flickr images sometimes provide a sharing link for different sizes; deviantArt generates thumbnails that can be linked to. While images uploaded to D&D Wiki can be resized, do not upload an image under copyright without the author's permission.
- Old Book Art — http://www.oldbookart.com/ — Public domain art from old books, scanned and released under Creative Commons.
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