~ Early Web Links ~

Running for over 25 years, games we play is a German-language board game review site offering critical evaluations of hundreds of tabletop games organized by year from 1997 through 2026. The site covers award winners like Spiel des Jahres and Deutscher Spiele Preis, featuring top picks and detailed assessments of strategy, card, and family games.

DBMM Rankings tracks competitive standings for De Bellis Magistrorum Militum, a historical miniature wargame, using the Glicko rating system across players from dozens of countries. The site lets visitors filter rankings by country, region, and year, and includes competition history, army lists, and player statistics dating back to 2006.

WIZRING is a whimsical webring connecting sites belonging to fans of wizards, classic RPGs, dungeoncrawlers, and fantasy media, where members join under wizard titles and colors. Visitors can browse the council of member sites and find communities centered around TTRPGs, Magic: The Gathering, and all things wizardly.

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.

Kismet's World of Darkness is a free fan resource hub for tabletop roleplaying games in the World of Darkness setting, covering Vampire: the Masquerade, Chronicles of Darkness, and Changeling: the Lost. Visitors can find homebrew rules, character resources, fiction, fonts, generators, and Storytelling guides built up since 1998.

Luke Gearing's blog is a deep dive into tabletop RPG design, covering Classic Traveller, OSR gaming, and his own published works including Wolves Upon the Coast and Swyvers. Posts range from detailed adventure reviews and play reports to original mechanics for violence, NPCs, reputations, and wilderness travel.

Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog is a prolific hobby blog chronicling an avid miniature painter's work across dozens of historical periods, fantasy settings, and wargaming systems including Burrows & Badgers, X-Wing, and World War 2 games. The sprawling tag cloud reveals an impressive breadth of projects, from Winged Hussars to Xenomorphs, making it a rich reference for fellow hobbyists seeking painting inspiration.

Solitary Quest is eladnarra's project dedicated to playing and reviewing solo and journaling RPGs, a niche but growing corner of tabletop gaming. Currently a placeholder, the site points visitors to Mastodon updates and archived entries on Cohost while promising a fuller website to come.

Frothers Unite UK is a community hub for tabletop gaming enthusiasts covering miniatures, wargames, RPGs, and collectible card games, with dedicated zones for reviews, army showcases, sculpting guides, and game rules. The site features contributions from multiple hobbyists including Colonel Marbles, UnclEvl, and White Knight, making it a rich archive of old-school tabletop gaming content.

Nora Reed's homepage is packed with procedural text generators, with a heavy focus on RPG content like character classes, magic items, dwarf names, and potion descriptions. Beyond tabletop fare, the site also offers whimsical generators for horrible pizzas, cocktails, bad Kickstarters, and weed strains, making it a delightfully chaotic creative tool collection.