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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.

Roll for Fantasy is a comprehensive toolkit for tabletop roleplayers, offering dozens of generators and creators covering everything from dungeon maps and coats of arms to language generators and random tavern menus. Game masters and players alike will find an impressive library of guides on running campaigns, homebrewing content, and handling tricky in-game situations alongside DIY project tutorials for crafting physical game accessories.

EBROG (The Internet Berg's Review of Games) is the online home of the BROG zine, a game review newsletter that Richard Berg published across multiple issues from 1992 to 1995. Visitors can browse and download archived issues covering tabletop and wargaming reviews spanning conventions, seasonal releases, and holiday roundups.

The online home of the Transactions of the Royal Martian Geographical Society, a fan publication dedicated to Space 1889 and Victorian-era roleplaying games, originally published by Mark Clark in the early 1990s. Visitors can browse archived articles across four collected volumes and find information on print editions including the restored 'author's cut' of the classic adventure Canal Priests Of Mars.

Calliope.exe is a personal gaming site by a creator called Lucian, centered around tabletop RPG experiences including The Wretched, The Lighthouse at the End of the World, and Dungeons and Dragons 5e. The site has a cozy ASCII art aesthetic and is organized around solo ('singleplayer') and group ('multiplayer') game content.

Running since 1997, Spotlight on Games is a comprehensive board game reference site featuring over 1600 reviews, ludographies, interviews, errata, variants, and thematic game directories organized by topic and publication year. The site covers an impressive range of titles from classic war games to niche themed releases, making it an invaluable resource for serious tabletop enthusiasts.

A comprehensive online reference for Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Edition, hosting the complete System Reference Document that covers rules, spells, monsters, classes, and more. An essential bookmark for players and dungeon masters who need quick access to the core rules without cracking open a sourcebook.

The Game Cabinet is a monthly online magazine dedicated to board games and card games, with a strong focus on the European games scene and Eurogames. Each issue features reviews, game rules and translations, original games, convention coverage, and commentary edited by Ken Tidwell.

KORBOL is a Polish-language personal site by a graphic design student and artist who creates original characters, TTRPG materials, and digital zines, with a notable fan translation project of Mörk Borg that was ultimately shelved due to licensing restrictions. Visitors can browse selected works, find links to downloadable projects on itch.io including the NPC-focused zine 'NPC-TY I TY', and explore the creator's original TTRPG settings like KUBLAND and ZEW TIAMAT.

The Fraternity of Shadows is a long-running fan community dedicated to Ravenloft, the gothic horror campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons, offering netbooks, a wiki called Mistipedia, campaign journals, DM resources, and a lively forum. With over 500 pages of fan-created content in a single netbook issue alone, this is clearly a labor of love and the definitive hub for Ravenloft enthusiasts on the web.