~ Early Web Links ~

The Graverobber's Guide is D.G. Chapman's tabletop RPG blog packed with creative game mastering advice, random tables, and dungeon design ideas. This particular post explores 'combo encounters,' a technique for pre-combining random encounter results to spark richer, more dynamic in-game moments without extra GM prep work.

The Hong Kong Society of Wargamers (HKSW) is a club dedicated to tabletop wargaming across a vast range of historical periods, from Ancient battles through to Vietnam and beyond, as well as fantasy and sci-fi settings. The site lists upcoming meeting schedules, member dispatches, gaming reports, and a gallery, making it a lively hub for Hong Kong's miniature and board wargaming community.

Matt Haywood's site dedicated to wargaming and military history in Eastern Europe from 1350 to 1500 AD, with a focus on the DBM/DBR ruleset and historical army lists. Visitors will find painted miniature galleries featuring Teutonic Order, Hussite, Hungarian, and other medieval armies, alongside academic research into medieval warfare.

Phillip Riley's homepage features an extensive collection of fantasy name generators covering dozens of cultures and time periods, from Anglo-Saxon and Norse to Arabic and Nahuatl, built to support tabletop RPG worldbuilding. The site also includes D&D mailing list links, an NPC quest generator, and other RPG tools making it a genuinely useful resource for dungeon masters and fantasy writers.

John Kim's detailed notes and essays on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer tabletop RPG by Eden Studios cover everything from core rulebook reviews and house rules to spell balance and adventure design guidelines. Fans of the game will find homebrew scripts for sample characters, play aids, episode guides, and write-ups for actual campaign series like Silicon Valley Slayage.

The Wargames Figure Company hosts this curated links directory connecting visitors to hundreds of wargaming-related websites, organized into categories like reference materials, manufacturers, clubs, and historical resources. A UK-based miniatures retailer by trade, the company built this resource as a community hub for tabletop wargamers interested in historical periods from Napoleonics to World War II.

OnLine of Departure is the web home of Jim Werbaneth's award-winning semi-professional wargaming magazine, published quarterly since 1991 and recognized with multiple Charles S. Roberts Awards for Best Amateur Magazine. Visitors can browse comprehensive article lists, download free board game supplements and computer game scenarios, and order issues covering strategy, analysis, reviews, and variants across the full spectrum of historical wargames.

A curated link directory focused on board games, covering chess, Go, Backgammon, Othello, Shogi, wargames, and more with connections to internet servers where you could play live. Hosted on purplefrog.com, this old-web page is a treasure trove of mid-90s gaming resources including FAQs, club pages, and telnet-accessible game servers.

Grognard.com is a sprawling community hub and archive dedicated to wargamers, collecting reviews, strategy articles, errata, variants, and historical pieces spanning board wargames, computer wargames, and miniatures. The site also features curated links to individual wargamer blogs and websites, convention listings, an opponents-wanted matchmaking tool, and spotlight articles covering the broader wargaming hobby.

Watabou's Procgen Arcana, created by Oleg Dolya, is a collection of free procedural map generators covering everything from sprawling realms and cities down to dungeons, caves, dwellings, and mansions. Built specifically for tabletop RPG players and worldbuilders, each generator produces unique, ready-to-use maps at the click of a button.