Tabletop & RPGs
160 sites
https://madlemmey.blogspot.com/
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.
http://aristobit.com/diaspora
A collection of fan-made playing aids for Diaspora, a FATE-based sci-fi tabletop RPG, including a fillable HTML/SVG character sheet and several cluster generator tools. The interactive cluster generators can randomly produce star system data and connection diagrams, making session prep considerably easier for game masters.
http://wfhgs.com/
WFHGS is a Utah-based miniature wargaming club that has been meeting for over 20 years, covering dozens of historical periods from ancient battles to modern air combat. The site is also home to 'Warning Order,' a free full-color downloadable wargames journal featuring battle reports, game reviews, and hobby analysis.
http://wargaming4grownups.blogspot.com/
Trebian's long-running blog covers historical miniature wargaming across a sweeping range of eras, from ancient Spartans and Successors to World War One and beyond, with battle reports, homebrew rules downloads, and musings on balancing the hobby with adult life. The site includes original rulesets like 'Not Quite Mechanised' and 'For Whom The Dice Rolls,' making it a genuine resource for miniature wargamers interested in historical scenarios.
http://fantasymaps.com/gaming/ahotw.html
Jim and Karl Musser created this fan-designed variant of the classic board game 'History of the World,' expanding it with additional civilizations, map changes, and revised rules across multiple scenarios. The site offers downloadable rule files in Word Perfect and PDF formats, covering 11 scenarios spanning from 1500 BC to 500 BC, making it a valuable resource for dedicated fans of the original game.
https://consimworld.com/
ConsimWorld is a long-running hub for the wargame community, aggregating news, videos, forum discussions, and product announcements from publishers like GMT Games, Multi-Man Publishing, and High Flying Dice Games. Active since 1996, it serves as a central gathering point for fans of conflict simulation board games, covering everything from historical wargames to new Kickstarter releases.
https://mrnizz.tripod.com/wwest.htm
Walter O'Hara's comprehensive resource for Wild West skirmish wargaming covers miniature and board games like Desperado, High Noon, Six-Gun Sound, and Gutshot, with reviews, replays, scenarios, and house rules. A dedicated labor of love for fans of Old West man-to-man combat gaming, featuring downloadable files, links to related sites, and a survey of available rules systems.
http://18xx.net/
Blackwater Station is a comprehensive reference hub for the 18xx family of railroad board games, covering hundreds of titles from 1800 to modern variants with reviews, a tile encyclopedia, and a beginner's guide. Now run by Toby Mao, the site also catalogs amateur-produced gamekits and tracks distribution orders, making it an essential stop for enthusiasts and designers alike.
https://shoogle.neocities.org/
Shoogle's personal site 'Trash Sector' takes its name from the virtual hellscape in White Wolf's Mage: The Ascension tabletop RPG, setting the tone for a lo-fi, anti-AI, DIY-spirited corner of the web. Visitors will find original graphics, shrines, a VHS catalog, and thoughts from a self-described perpetual work-in-progress creator learning HTML along the way.
https://philriley.tripod.com/ot.html
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.