Over the years I have been writing adventures for OSRIC and AD&D I have come across many useful web sites that have tools. I visit these sites regularly while I am writing adventures because they honestly make my work go faster. I discover new sites all of the time as other bloggers tend to be rather creative about making such tools. These are the sites which I use most often:
- Fantasy Name Generator – This wonderful site has names for just about anything you might need including people, monsters, places and even book names for that fantasy library
- Dragonsfoot.org – This long running web site has a ton of useful resources for players and dungeon masters alike. It is primarily an old school oriented site but in recent years 5E has made an encroachment in the site. There are few 5E resources there yet but that may change. The site has many published adventures for 1E including many of my own.
- OSRIC – This site has products and tools generated specifically for OSRIC
- OSRIC SRD – This is the system reference document for OSRIC. It is available in multiple formats as well as softcover. It is a free download as an ebook from DRTPG.
- Riddles – I love to sprinkle riddles and puzzles in my adventures. The puzzles are always a difficult thing to come up with but there really are no good sources of those on the web. Riddles, however, are abundant. This site has a ton of them.
- The Dragon – Sooner or later I come across some subject that interests me and I want to read up on it from the best source of old Dungeons and Dragons material. The Dragon magazine had stuff about just about every old school topic that might interest me. Finding it, however, was always the hard part. This index makes that easier.
- Need a map? This guy draws them daily and most are excellent for fantasy gaming. He draws far better than I ever could so I often use his maps in adventures. The best thing about these? He gives you a license to publish them in your commercial adventures (some of them) without charge. He has a Patreon thing going on and makes money from that. Give the site a visit. He has hundreds of maps there on just about every possible subject matter.
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Also highly-useful:
– OSRIC discussion at Knights & Knaves Alehouse (old-school forum with a narrower AD&D focus than Dragonsfoot): https://www.knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb3/index.php
– OSRIC wiki at https://osricwiki.presgas.name/doku.php?id=index which also includes the as-yet-unpublished Dangerous Dungeons supplement being developed at K&KA at https://osricwiki.presgas.name/doku.php?id=dangerousdungeons:index
Allan.
Awesome stuff Allen. Thanks for the links!
Hi! Just wondering- what template did you use for your website? I want to use it on my blog at https://garminexpress.global
Honestly I had no memory of it but I went back to look on my wordpress home page. Apparently I am using a Theme called Twenty Seventeen version 3.2 I believe. I think I actually selected an earlier version and it keeps getting updated because my page shows a bunch of inactive themes which appear to have been superceded by this one. I am not a WordPress expert by any means. I just bought a cheapie book on the subject and learned enough to get it started. There are lots of free themes out there and I just picked the one that seemed to meet my needs. There are also a ton of free plugins which can add certain options to your page and customize it beyond what your opening theme provides.