The * Frilond * Campaign
Links
The internet offers many exciting resources to any gamer, and has greatly inspired and influenced our own campaign. Here are some links to especially useful sites, arranged by category.
- Atlas Games. Home to Ars Magica, the Atlas site contains errata, a couple of excellent jump-start kits, as well as an online catalog stocked with many older books for the game.
- Fantasy Flight Games.
An established game studio that has offered up some solid entries to the d20 stable, including Spells and Spellcraft and Traps and Treachery. Their Monster's Handbook, a cookbook for building and altering monsters, is highly recommended.
- Fiery Dragon Productions. A d20 company that has produced several popular adventures and has a nice line in their various Counter Collections.
- Green Knight. The owner of the excellent Pendragon RPG, which has had an important influence on Frilond. Unfortunately, this site is rarely updated.
- Green Ronin Publishing. "d20 Rules Done Right" -- and how! This company was founded by Chris Pramas, and its roster includes the excellent fiend books Legions of Hell and Armies of the Abyss.
- Necromancer Games. "3rd Edition Rules, 1st Edition Feel." Another solid d20 company, their devilish Tome of Horrors is a must have for every DM.
- Pelgrane Press. The publishers of the forthcoming Dying Earth RPG, based on the works of Jack Vance.
- Steve Jackson Games. This company famed for GURPS, Car Wars, and Ogre also makes the excellent Cardboard Heroes, which we've used for many, many years.
- Wizards of the Coast. The official Wizards of the Coast website.
- Ancient Divination and Astrology on the Web. An organized, annotated set of links about ancient—primarily Greek and Roman—astrology and divination.
- The Catholic Encyclopedia. A browsable version of the 1913 edition, this reference work has a treasure-trove of information on the medieval church.
- Encyclopedia Mythica. A
very slick online reference source for mythology and folklore.
- Folk and Fairy Tales. An excellent collection of links—and check out the online folklore texts for some great story ideas.
- GodeCookery.com. "An award-winning Medieval History website dedicated to the food and feasts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance." This site also offers many other excellent (and non-culinary) resources.
- Images of Medieval Art and Architecture. An outstanding resource, with many plans, maps, and illustrations of medieval structures. Created by Alison Stones, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.
- The Labyrinth. A large and user-friendly set of links to online resources for medieval studies.
- Myths and Legends. A good selection of links.
- On-Line Reference Book For Medieval Studies. An academic site with some interesting articles and links to other medieval studies sites.
- The Acaeum: Dungeons & Dragons Knowledge Compendium. An excellent reference on old, out-of-print modules and supplements.
- About.com Guide to Role-Playing Games. A collection of occasionally good articles, with weekly additions.
- The Blue Room. This is the home page of S. John Ross, a prolific game designer. Frequently updated and always interesting, the Blue Room has a particularly good article on medieval demographics.
- Colossal Cave Adventure Page. A great site for information on the first—and highly influential—interactive fiction computer game.
- Creature Catalog. "Your #1 Source for 3e Converted Monsters." This is a great site run by Scott Greene of Tome of Horrors fame, full of monster goodness.
- Crooked Staff Productions. A nice collection of gaming aids, including dungeon tiles.
- DeWayne Agin's HeroQuest Page. A handsome tribute to this classic Milton Bradley rpg/boardgame hybrid.
- D20 System Rules Document (SRD). An online version of the D&D core rules. WotC has also released the d20 Modern SRD.
- Durenmar: Arx Peritae. An amazing Ars Magica site filled with well-done articles, including several very useful pieces on medieval life.
- EN World. The inheritor to Eric Noah's popular
3E D&D site, serving as a clearing house for news and scoops on the new
D&D system.
- The Fantasy Trip: A WWW Resource. A
nice collection of house rules and essays devoted to TFT, the simple, elegant,
and much-missed FRPG, created by Steve Jackson of GURPs fame.
- FightingFantasy.Com. A fan-run site devoted to this nifty game book series created by Steve Jackson (UK) and Ian Livingstone.
- The Golden Circle. A webring devoted to Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles. Many pages detail campaigns that use the Amber Diceless Roleplaying system from Phage Press. Frilond's XP system has borrowed elements from the Amber system. Further, these Amber campaigns tend to be very sophisticated, intelligent affairs and are well worth a look.
- The IRC Roleplaying Homepage. IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat, and is a standard format for real-time chat rooms. We've used IRC for several online Frilond games, with reasonable success.
- Irony Games. This "On-Web Support for On-Line Gamers" has many useful resources for GMs running play-by-email games.
- MonteCook.Com. The personal
site of one of the principal designers of D&D 3E, complete with rules, notes,
and advice.
- The MUD Connector. MUDs (often translated as Multi-User Dungeons) and their addictive progeny are one of the primary ways to game on the Internet. This site is an excellent guide to the astonishing number of MUDs out there.
- Out of the Box.
Kenneth Hite's fun, insightful,—and best of all—biweekly column on the
gaming industry.
- The Play-By-Mail Games Homepage. A good starting place for anyone interested in play-by-mail games.
- Project Redcap. This site
is the definitive index of Ars Magica material on the internet. Be
sure to check out some of the Covenants linked here; the intelligence and
class of an average Ars Magica campaign is astonishing.
- Ratings of TSR's D&D Products. A useful guide to consult before considering purchasing old, out-of-print modules on ebay.
- Rec.games.frp.dnd Google archive. This USENET discussion group is one of the oldest resources on the net for Dungeons & Dragons, and Google has searchable archives that stretch back to 1993. Also check out the Rec.games.frp.dnd Frequently Asked Questions. This FAQ is a handy resource, addressing many common questions about the AD&D game.
- Role-Playing Games by Daniel R. Collins. This is a nice fan-created site with some thoughtful analyses on game mechanics and other resources.
- Roleplaying Tips. This site hosts the back issues of an weekly email newsletter that is full of great ideas for both novice and veteran game masters.
- RPGnet. The self-described "Inside Scoop on Gaming," with many independent reviews and a wide variety of columns on gaming.
- SeanKReynolds.com. Sean is a former WotC game designer and his site has several insightful essays and variants on 3e rules.
- Skeletonkey Games. Features some very nice "Adventure Tiles Map of the Week."
- WebRPG. "An Online Community for Gamers," this site features chat areas and bulletin boards, a gamer registry, and a very interesting client program specifically designed for running real-time, online RPGs.
- The Absolutely Weird Bookshelf. An absolutely outstanding collection of used fantasy and science fiction books, including many hard-to-find titles.
- Ebay Role Playing. A huge number of games pass through this site, and a shrewd bidder can find some very good deals.
- Fine Games. Michael Dean has a good collection of out-of-print wargames and other goodies. Very fast service.
- Noble Knight Games. Formerly Aaron's Out-of-Print Games, Aaron Leeder has a nice selection, good turnaround, and very reasonable prices.
- rec.games.frp.marketplace. This USENET group is like a huge classified ad section for gamers. I've had very good luck buying things here, but caveat emptor: it's all unregulated.
Copyright 2003 © R. Dorman