Role-playing games
Meta
- This note is not about single-player games or MMORPGs.
Resources by game system
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D)
Fifth Edition (5e)
- D&D
- Wizards of the Coast (part of Hasbro)
- D&D Beyond
Create characters in seconds, build and run combat encounters on the fly, and start your collection of official books with D&D Beyond
- Adventurers League | Organized Play
- D&D Adventurers League Danmark - website shutting down summer 2024
- Adventurers League Danmark Facebook group
- Dicecloud
Free, Auditable, real-time character tracking for 5th edition
- Avrae
a Discord bot designed to help you and your friends play D&D online
- Casper Kirketerp-Helenius
Third Edition (3.5e)
- Dark Sun
Dark Sun is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Set on the desert world of Athas, Dark Sun is about the struggle for survival.
Pathfinder
Second Edition (2e)
- Pathfinder
- Pathbuilder 2
Pathbuilder 2e is a character builder, planner and sheet for Second Edition PFRPG.
- Pathfinder Society Danmark Facebook group
Shadowrun
The Dark Eye / Das Schwarze Auge
- Das Schwarze Auge [[tags.lang.de|🇩🇪]]
Services
Shopping
- DriveThruRPG.com
RPG Download Store
Virtual tabletop
- Roll20
Play games anywhere. Share them with anyone. With Roll20® as your virtual tabletop, your adventures are limitless.
- D20PRO
D20PRO is a multi-platform, multi-player Virtual Tabletop (VTT) that takes roleplaying games from around the table to gamers around the world. Experience all the elements of roleplaying with the powerful D20PRO rules engine — speed up combat, roll a natural 20 on integrated dice, play on gigantic gaming maps, and bring character sheets to life. D20PRO specializes in running D&D 5E, D&D 3.5, Pathfinder and Starfinder Roleplaying Game sessions, but easily handles any roleplaying game system!
- Foundry VTT
- Fantasy Grounds
Play-by-post
Communities
- Ongoing Worlds
- RPG Crossing
If you’d like to craft stories and play role playing games with thousands of people from around the world, you’ve come to the right place!
RPG Crossing is a 40,000+ member online community that focuses on play by post role playing games (PBP RPG) and features such systems as Dungeons and Dragons (2e, 3e, 3.5e, 4e, 5e), Pathfinder, GURPS, d20 Modern, Serenity, Star Wars, Storytelling (World of Darkness) and many more.
- Roleplayer Guild
Play-by-Post Role Playing Forum
- RolePlay onLine
RPoL is one of the oldest play-by-post roleplaying communities on the web, providing free membership for anyone to host and participate in any game system or communal story line.
- Freedom City: Play by Post
- Daleos
Resources
- World building ideas to use for the setting of your game
- Where The Characters Are – And What
- Why Worldbuild?
- Origins. In The Beginning
- Finding Inspiration
- Culture And Civilization
- Character Creation
- The importance of “Yes, and…”
- Reggie’s Writing Tips
- Matching Your Character Up For A Game
- Make your character fail a few times before succeeding
- Impressing the Moderators – Character creation 101
- Challenge Accepted
- 10 things that annoy other roleplayers
- 10 Ideas for a character flashback